![]() ![]() Alistair Cookie introduced viewers to a spot of culture while relaxing in a well-stuffed armchair. Created as a spoof of the original Masterpiece Theatre host Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cookie is basically Cookie Monster in an English smoking jacket and ascot tie, although Cooke was neither a pipe smoker nor did he wear a smoking jacket on Masterpiece Theatre. Similar segments, titled Mysterious Theater and parodying fellow PBS anthology Mystery!, are hosted by "Vincent Twice Vincent Twice," a parody of Vincent Price.Īlistair Cookie is Cookie Monster's alter ego when hosting Monsterpiece Theater. ![]() The segments are loosely based on classic literature, plays, films, and TV shows. He wears a smoking jacket and holds a pipe which he usually ends up eating. Monsterpiece Theater is hosted by Alistair Cookie, a play on the journalist and television personality Alistair Cooke, portrayed by Cookie Monster. The theme song is also a modified version of Fanfare-Rondeau, the Masterpiece theme song, only with trumpets and a much more upbeat tempo. While using Muppet characters to act out educational principles, primarily Grover and other Muppet monsters, Monsterpiece Theater is also a parody of the similarly acclaimed PBS show Masterpiece Theatre, now known simply as Masterpiece. Monsterpiece Theater (later called Monsterpiece Theatre) is a recurring segment on the popular children's television series Sesame Street, a parody of Masterpiece Theatre. ![]()
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