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In 1966, a character who would come to fame as the cookie monster burst onto the scene. He was a blue, furry creature that devoured everything initially and cookies preferentially. After forty years of delighting children, though, it was decided that our blue friend was setting a bad example. Thus in 2007 he went on Martha Stewart and explained that cookies were no longer good enough for him. They were a sometimes food. An icon of two generations of children’s television caved to public pressure, and who is to blame? Elmo.