"Cookie's Crumby Pictures" (also known as "Crumby Pictures Presents") is a recurring Sesame Street segment starring Cookie Monster that debuted in the 44th season. In Season 46, the segment was superseded by a new Cookie Monster segment, "Smart Cookies."
Each 5-minute segment is done in the style of a coming attractions trailer (with voice-over by Jonathan Cook), showing footage of Cookie in various film parodies where he uses executive functioning skills (such as patience, focusing and memorization) to solve problems.
The segment's opening parodies Universal Pictures' trademark globe logo, while its fanfare is designed to recall that of Columbia Pictures. Seven segments debuted throughout season 44, with additional features debuting in the following season. The format's initial concept was a series of game shows involving Cookie and Prairie Dawn, until Joey Mazzarino came up with the idea of film spoofs.[1][2]
Beginning in 2015, the segments began being dubbed and aired internationally for such co-productions as Sesame Amigos, Sesamstrasse, Sésamo, and Iftah Ya Simsim.
A digital compilation, Cookie's Crumby Pictures: Volume 1, was released on iTunes in 2015.
Segments[]
Posters[]
To promote the segments, Sesame Street’s official social media accounts created posters for the fictional films in the segments.
Credits[]
Brazilian title card from Sésamo
Spanish title card from Sesame Amigos
- Executive Producer: Carol-Lynn Parente
- Supervising Producer: Nadine Zylstra
- Coordinating Producer: April Chadderdon
- Production Manager: Benjamin Lehmann
- Directors: Ken Diego, Joey Mazzarino, Scott Preston, Matt Vogel, Nadine Zylstra
- Head Writer: Joey Mazzarino
- Writers: Molly Boylan, Annie Evans, Christine Ferraro, Michael J. Goldberg, Emily Perl Kingsley, Luis Santeiro, Belinda Ward, John Weidman, Ed Valentine
- Voice of Announcer: Jonathan Cook
- Muppets of Sesame Street: Pam Arciero, Fran Brill, Tyler Bunch, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Bruce Connelly, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Eric Jacobson, John Kennedy, Peter Linz, Joey Mazzarino, Carmen Osbahr, Martin P. Robinson, David Rudman, Matt Vogel
- Puppets, Costumes and Props: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
- Music Director: Bill Sherman
- Music Director (Arrangements and Orchestrations): Joe Fiedler
- Music Director (Vocals): Paul Rudolph
- Composers: Eli Bolin, Joe Fiedler, Bill Sherman, Michael Aarons
- Music Copyist: Joe Fiedler
- Sesame Street Band: Randy Cohen, Michael Croiter, Johny Deley, Doug Derryberry, Joe Fiedler, Rob Jost, Gary Meyer, Kenny Rampton, Loren Toolajian, Anja Wood, Antoine Silverman
- Vice President of Education and Research: Rosemarie Truglio
- Special Thanks: Definition 6, Magnetic Dreams
- Taped at Kaufman Astoria Studios
Sources[]
- ↑ Sesame Street: Making Learning a Funny Affair, October 17, 2014.
- ↑ Below the Frame EP#20: Joey Mazzarino/"Tall Shoes"/Not Puppets (John Kennedy) (01:07:27)