cookie bear

Original term, pre-Sesame-Street, for what is now universally called a cookie monster. A correspondent observes “In those days, hackers were actually getting their yucks from...sit down now...Andy Williams. Yes, that Andy Williams. Seems he had a rather hip (by the standards of the day) TV variety show. One of the best parts of the show was the recurring ‘cookie bear’ sketch. In these sketches, a guy in a bear suit tried all sorts of tricks to get a cookie out of Williams. The sketches would always end with Williams shrieking (and I don't mean figuratively), ‘No cookies! Not now, not ever...NEVER!!!’ And the bear would fall down. Great stuff.”

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Cookie bear is the original term, before the children's television show Sesame Street, for what is now universally called the cookie monster.

Apparently the term comes from The Andy Williams Show's "Williams' Weirdos" sketches which had a character called "Cookie Bear". In these sketches, a man in a bear suit tried all sorts of tricks to get a cookie out of Williams. The sketches would always end with Williams shrieking, "No cookies! Not now, not ever...NEVER!!!", and the bear sadly wandering offstage.

From the Jargon File 2.4.2 (used by permission)

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