#behind the scenes for

[citystompers1]

Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)

[hattersarts]

the midnight visits of wicked part 2

[theautisticjedi]

THIS IS THE FUNNIEST PHOTO HE LOOKS PISSED

[rosered-schneeweisschens-sis]

i never knew there were men in the room for this, “that was tough” oh man they were not prepared XD

[bretzkysbs]

It turns out the cookies are real — sort of.

They are baked at the home of Lara MacLean, who has been a “puppet wrangler” for the Jim Henson Company for almost three decades. MacLean started as an intern for Sesame Workshop in 1992 and has been working for the team ever since.

The recipe, roughly: Pancake mix, puffed rice, Grape-Nuts and instant coffee, with water in the mixture. The chocolate chips are made using hot glue sticks — essentially colored gobs of glue.

The cookies do not have oils, fats or sugars. Those would stain Cookie Monster. They’re edible, but barely. “Kind of like a dog treat,” MacLean says.

Before she reinvented the recipe in the 2000s, the creative team behind “Sesame Street” used versions of rice crackers and foams to make the cookies. The challenge was that the rice crackers would make more of a mess and get stuck in Cookie’s fur. And the foams didn’t look like cookies once they broke apart.

Cookie has been portrayed since 2001 by David Rudman, who took over the role from Frank Oz. Rudman’s right hand moves the mouth, which is eating, and his left hand holds the cookies. Both work in concert to break the cookies, which means they have to be soft enough to fall apart.

Rudman said soft cookies are best, adding, “The more crumbs, the funnier it is. If he eats the cookie, and it only breaks into two pieces if it’s too hard, it’s just not funny,” he said. “It looks almost painful. But if he eats a cookie and it explodes into a hundred crumbs, that’s where the comedy comes from.”

MacLean has perfected a recipe that is “thin enough that it’ll explode into a hundred crumbs,” Rudman said. “But it’s not too thin that it’ll break in my hand when I’m holding it.”

Not every (human) guest realizes that the cookies aren’t meant to be eaten. Adam Sandler appeared on an episode and decided to share in the muppet's delight by spontaneously eating a cookie with him on set.

“As soon as the cameras cut, he was like, ‘Blech!' ” MacLean said.

[melomancy]

Kate Bush as the Sound Monster in Experiment IV (1986)

[gastronauts]

Bad food 🍔 > "Good" food 🥗

Do you agree or disagree?

[evilvvithin]

ALIEN: ROMULUS behind the scenes •

[389]

Speed Ratliff as the Boom Operator for SAW (2004)

[sonofcelluloid]

darling, wake up— stop screaming, it’s me. darling, what does “ratioed” mean in the context of this internet communication I’ve just received? is it a taunt

[rocktheholygrail]

Fucked up deer - Hannibal behind the scenes

[filibusterfrog]

some tieflings :) (second sheet is based on 2e tiefling traits sheet, some of them are my ideas, most of them arent)

[madeleineengland]

Winona Ryder on the set of Bram Stoker's Dracula

[ueinra]

Russell Crowe behind the scenes LES MISÉRABLES (2012)

[chernobog13]

Waiting to see the marriage counselor.