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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
@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.
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.
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
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"].
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.
+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.
Holy sh*t. First off, I didn’t know Cookie Monster was originally part of the muppets. Second, those creepy teeth give a whole new meaning to the name Cookie Monster😂
Cookie Monster sounds pretty different in his first appearance if you couldn’t see the video and only heard it you would’ve never guessed it was cookie monster
The sweets he's eaten over the years must have caught up to him as he has "no teeth" in the current cookie monster we see
Not to mention probably a diabetic.
Thank God they got rid of the teeth...
IKR
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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.
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@@zarachastellaris9016 I Know Right
Why are ads not this good any more?
Jeff believe me. I wish that I had the answer, but I don't.
Thanks Zoot. Say hi to Janice and Floyd for me. LOL!
There's still good ads....problem is they only have 'em during the super bowl.
Thanks Buddy.
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.
Oh Jesus, Cookie Monster with sharp teeth looks terrifying!
Kinda why I think they didn't let him keep those things. And probably why the other two puppets didn't caught on.
I agree!
If elmo have teeth i out
Latasha Dudes I Same!
@@supervideomanic2 Calm down guys
Even back then I’m amazed how they made the puppet so real when he took a bite out of that wheel as if he really swallowed that bite.
1966: IM A WHEEL STEELER....HEHEHEHHEEEE.....
2020: COOKIES!!!!
Actor: Jim Henson (1936-1990)
“You know these wheel-shaped cheese flavored snacks that taste so....mmm, cheese flavored!”
_*hmm
yes
the flavor here is made out of flavor*_
Creative writing 😏 but not even I can do it better.
I AM A WHEEL STEALER! HEHEHEHE!
He's eating up all my wheels
Call the police!
And look the Flute Snatcher is coming
“The Flute Snatcher strikes again!”
@@yahirpuga3513 CROWNS
I love this commercial. Why can't commercials these days be as good as commercials back in the day?
Humor was outlawed 10 years ago for not being politically correct...
Geico and progressive try
Fraser and why can't they have fun snacks like these nowadays?
Because everything today sucks.
Waldorf: Those monsters stole that man's food.
Statler: Kind of like how this video stole our time.
Both: HO HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!
BuddhaBot that’s Santa Claus 🎅
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! NOW THAT'S A TRULY GOOD ONE!!!!
Yeah, that sounds like something those 2 would say.
Underrated comment... should have 1k likes by now.
That's definitely Jim Henson and Frank Oz doing the voices. I guess their puppetry was getting noticed in 1966. Sesame Street didn't begin till '69.
@GUiLHeRMe ROcHA It was only five minutes long. Four if you don't count the sponsor plug.
@@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
@@KiloCreates0_0 Correct.
Aww, Nightmare Fuel from the past, ain't it just precious?
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!
Wow! This was actually Cookie Monster's first ever appearance and three years before Sesame Street made its debut?
Thank You Lacie.
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Thank You Curt.
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Josh Berman Thank you Kanye, very cool!
Ive always loved Cookie Monster as a kid and i still love him as a young adult
Before he was the Cookie Monster he was the Wheel Stealer.
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!
WS: I'm a wheel stealer. Lol
FS: haha! Once again, the flute snatcher is victorious!
Crown grabber: *C R O W N S !*
Man : *so that’s it friends*
Wow, I can't believe that that was the first appearance of the Cookie Monster we know and love.
Anybody else get a chill down their spine at 0:31 with that dissonant chord and surprise teeth on the beloved Cookie Monster?
im genuinely shocked theres no memes of this
That's gonna change
Get started
Then you do it
I'll do it
I really want the crown grabber coming out of the tv to be a meme.
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.
Those snacks actually look pretty good.
"I'm a Wheel stealer, and YOU'RE stuck in the middle with ME!"
I guess being obsessed with one particular food is hereditary in Cookie Monster’s family
This is probably where Stealer's Wheel got their name.
the announcer bears a slight resemblance to guy smiley, but has has ernie's voice - - a shared ancestor of both muppets, i reckon.
That's becuase jim Henson was the voice of the dude in this commercial
Flute Snatcher: Numerosity/Baker/Song of 5.
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.
That TV looked just like the crazy one I saw in the Wilkins and Wontkins Wilkins coffee ad. Must be the same prop. :)
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.
1:13 the guy eating the flutes has this face like " MMMMM these flutes are pretty good, might have to get a box on the way home".
The twist at the end pulled everything together and it all makes sense now
If "Wheels" are brought back, I'd buy lots. I would also stick a "No Wheel Stealers Allowed" sign in my room.
I would do that too
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...
0:32 Wheel Stealer
0:45 Flute Snatcher
0:59 Crown Grabber
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.
DON'T FORGET #3 "CROWN GRABBER" HE WAS ON THE MUPPET'S
Mary T
We now know him as, "Beautiful Day Monster".
All jokes aside I’d like to try all three of these snacks if they still existed (then again I kinda wonder if the “butternut” flutes taste good)
@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.
Sad that he lost his teeth though.
It's a Good notice, with that vampire teeth looks scary
he ate too much cookies so his teeth decayed
This makes me want wheels, flutes and crowns.
If Cookie Monster still had those teeth today, I think he would’ve been too terrifying!😆🤣😂😖😣
That “Hahaha, hahaha” kills me every time
I love how this basically was cookie monsters introduction to the Muppet universe
Plot twist: The WheelStealer is Squidward in disguise! (Just hear his voice!)
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.
The Crown grabber looks like sam the eagle
This had to have been scary as heck without color! It reminds me of that "Hidden Sugar" ad from Nickelodeon.
Crown grabber kinda looks like Sam Eagle. Damnit Sam, America trusted you!
Cookie Monster still was cute back then.
When he said: “I am a wheel stealer hehehehehe.” It reminded me of Miss. Labons from Bobs Burgers, you know the teacher that smokes. Her.
Lmao the "wheel stealer" is meant to look so intimidating.... then he speaks and sounds like Bert 🤣 they could've had him roar a bit or something lol
Then you have Crown Grabber, who DOES growl...
"... CROWwwns!"
"I M A W H E E L S T E A L E R"
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
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"].
I have never heard of Whistles or Daisies
Also another hint it’s Canadian is because the boxes have French translations
Thank you pbs kids and Jim Henson for making cookie monster better
Actually, it's Beautiful Day Monster from Sesame Street. The one who scared the hell out of me making the sound of the letter B with Kermit.
*BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHH!*
Ernie’s dad and Cookie Monster’s dad are in this commercial!
Yes Cookie Monster looks more civilized without teeth than he does here with teeth he looks uncivilized with teeth
All of these snacks sound enticing
The moral of the story is always to watch your wheels flutes and crowns
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.
This would make a great SCP
"I am a Wheel stealer ha ha ha ha" pls *ha ha ha* ;--;
Pennywise?!? What are you doing on RUclips? I thought you were dead!
MC TEEN I can't die
oh
cookie monster: *has teeth here*
Me: *looks how they massacred my boy*
But this was the first version. That's how "your boy" was built.
So glad they got rid of those teeth omg, imagine toddlers seeing that on Sesame Street, lol.
Doesn’t look THAT scary
If advertisers tried to entertain viewers in such a fun way, it would be much easier to watch them.
*looks at family suspiciously*
The only shaped cracker snack that survived was Bugles( bugle shaped corn chips ) . I was a little tot and I think I remember these commercials .
Cookie monster robs Ernie's father.
Now I see why they call him Cookie MONSTER, he had actual TEETH!
The last monster has creeped me the frack out since I was a little kid
Someone: How are cars invented?
That one caveman: It all started when I discovered wheels
Like: wheel stealer
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So Cookie Monster's a wheel stealer but who's the flute snatcher and the crown grabber? :|
+Cole Plume crown grabber became "the beautiful day monster".
+Jaz Edwards and the flute snatcher?
+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.
He became a background monster in many Jim Henson projects.
How can you dislike this?
He definitely matches Cookie Monster today, unlike Elmo, who did a 180 from his original characterization.
Can we please invent time travel so that this commercial is accepted?
1966: Wheels
1969: Munchos and Cookies
the crown snatcher looks like Sam the Eagle
gee Guess from Sesame Street Cookie Monster as now a Wheel Steater so cookie has teeth on it.
This is great, thanks for posting!
Wheel stealer lost all his teeth,converted to a cookie diet and changed his name to cookie monster
Beware, the wheel stealers, flute snatchers, and crown grabbers!
i've never heard of this cereal if that's what it is!
Cookie Monster: Guess who will be under your bed tonight!?!
*_i never wanna see cookie monster with teeth like that again_*
Turns out he was just a kid this whole time.
actual title "cookie monster nightmare fuel"
Holy sh*t. First off, I didn’t know Cookie Monster was originally part of the muppets. Second, those creepy teeth give a whole new meaning to the name Cookie Monster😂
The main Muppet Jim plays as reminds me of Guy Smiley.
This commercial featured Cookie Monster before he appeared on Sesame Street.
Flutes would probably become bugles!
Cookie Monster sounds pretty different in his first appearance if you couldn’t see the video and only heard it you would’ve never guessed it was cookie monster
The flute snatcher strikes again!
i’m a wheel stealer hehe hehe *munches*
He sounds like Harold Ramis lol
Mmm it's just me or the Jim Hedson's puppet locks like a handsome and less fat version of Ernie (you know the partner of bert from sesame street)