KMP2006 They also changed his color: he was originally green, as was Grover. A real bad case of eye strain was in the early days of Sesame Street, Oscar the Grouch was yellow-orange.
Jeff Stone yeah. Ads aren’t that great anymore. This ad was fun, and funny. Nowadays ads are sometimes funny, or just shit. On The Super Bowl and the Olympics, they’re good.
@@yosefdemby8792 yes but it lasted until 1961 I believe and it was supposed to be canceled but fans loved it so much the people couldn’t cancel it early
The 'chief narrator' Muppet in this clip is obviously voiced by Jim Henson, but when you look at the shape of his head, it looks somewhere halfway in between two of the Muppets whom Henson voiced - Ernie and Guy Smiley. Just my view!
I don't know why, but the little moment where he eats the Wheel snack just makes me smile. It's how real they make it look, and I can't figure out how they did it!
I also recognized the Beautiful Day Monster, and I think the puppet used for the human guy is a variation of the Southern Colonel from the 60s Southern Bread commercials.
@raffi19791 I just noticed that-I thought it looked like Beautiful Day (even though he appeared three years later in 69). It is pretty cool to see the early versions of Cookie Monster and Beautiful Day.
Number 2 became Snake Frackle a not very well-known muppet, but number 3 appeared on season one of Sesame Street and became known as Beautiful Day Monster...
They say after General Foods discontinued making wheels, the wheel stealer went on to eat a computer and a coffee machine, but after exploding twice he lost his teeth and switch to eating cookies.
I saw a Wheel Stealer at 0:30. A Flute Snatcher got em at 0:42. When I realize that the character on the TV screen was in reality a Crown Grabber at 0:54.
No one ever though back then than Cookie Monster will become world famous and 'till this day, his cookie eatin' shenanigangs still make us ol' and new schoolers crack with laughter.
This is obviously an unaired Canadian commercial, for products General Foods didn't market in the United States [General Mills had their own successful "snacks" in the U.S. at the time: "Bugles", "Whistles", and "Daisies"].
Those 3 Muppets would soon evolve to have big roles. The Flute-Snatcher kept his name, and appeared in The Great Santa Claus Switch, and the wedding scene in The Muppets Take Manhattan. The Crown-Grabber would soon be seen ruining a Muppet girl's beautiful day on the Ed Sullivan Show. Since then, he was known as, "Beautiful Day Monster". And then there was the Wheel-Stealer, who was destined for greater things. In 1967, the Wheel-Stealer was used in an IBM training film known as, "The Coffee Break Machine". Two years later, similar puppet called "Arnold" was used in a commercial for Munchos (Not to be confused with the Mixel tribe), a Frito-Lay potato-crisp brand. But that's not even close to the cookie-loving Muppet he is now.
Note the bilingual French & English labels on the boxes. This commercial appears to have been made for the Canadian market. Bilingualism became official here in 1969, and all of our package labels are bilingual.
Three years later the wheel stealer went to sesame Street whare after stealing Ernie's Milke and Cookies he developed a taste for cookies eventually he's teeth rotted out due to the cookies
+Mc Teen He's just still the Flute Snatcher according to the Muppet wiki. Although I could have sworn that the last time I was on The Flute Snatcher's page on that wiki it said he became something else. The Flute Snatcher has just got a slightly different design since appearing in this ad.
