Cookie Puss

Cookie Pussis anice cream cakecharacter created byCarvelin the 1970s as an expansion of its line of freshly made exclusive products, along with Hug Me the Bear andFudgie the Whale. The cake is fashioned with a space alien that uses cookies for eyes and an ice cream cone for the nose.According to Carvel's backstory for the character, Cookie Puss is a space alien who was born on planet Birthday.His original name was "Celestial Person", but the initials "C.P." later came to stand for "Cookie Puss".In his television commercials, Cookie Puss has the ability to fly, though he requires a saucer-shaped spacecraft for interplanetary travel. During the 1980s, Cookie Puss was repurposed to serve as a cake forSt. Patrick's Day, dubbed "Cookie O'Puss", which continues to be sold annually.
Since its introduction in 1972, the Cookie Puss design developed by Carvel corporate chef Andrew Bianchi has evolved into the version that is sold today.The initial design introduced the general pear shape of the cake, but all ornamentation was frosting applied by the stores. The first effort to achieve a consistent look was a face printed on a large cookie wafer using edible inks.
A group of franchisees led by Liam Gray ofSchenectady, New York, rallied against the corporate requirement for stores to purchase the pre-printed wafers. Gray created a new variation using items already stocked in Carvel shops—sugar cones and Flying Saucer ice cream sandwiches. The other franchisees in the (now defunct) North East Carvel Franchisee Group followed suit, and by May 1974, the Carvel corporation had adopted this as the official design of the Cookie Puss product.
Cookie Puss was a frequent topic used for comic effect onThe Howard Stern Show.Typically, the cast of the show would tormentFred Norrisfor having purchased Cookie Puss as a gift for his mother onMother's Day.Howard Sternwould use voice enhancements to impersonate the voice of Cookie Puss from the Carvel commercials, often excusing his inappropriate comments because he could "speak his mind, now thatTom Carvelis dead".
Cookie Puss was the focus of theBeastie Boys' debut single, "Cooky Puss". The song was inspired by a series ofprank callsthe group's members made to a Carvel location,in which they jokingly requested to speak to Cookie Puss.
It was also referred to byKenneth Parcellin30 Rock's "Reaganing" (Season 5, Episode 5), in whichJenna, Kenneth andKelsey Grammerconspire to pull a short grift, then along conon a Carvel store.
In one episode of theFOXseriesThe Critic, "A Night at the Opera and a Day at the Races", the character Satoshi, Eater of Souls, holds up a Cookie Puss and declares, "Cookie Puss, I will eat your soul!"
In theFXseriesArcher, title characterSterling Archerrefers to Cookie Puss andFudgie the Whalein "Drift Problem" (Season 3, Episode 7), wondering aloud to himself if either will be present at the surprise birthday party he assumes is being held for him: "I wonder what the guys in the office have planned for my birthday. Wonder if Fudgie the Whale will be there or Cookie Puss. Cookie Puss. Those guys at Carvel know what they're doing".Additionally, in "Heart of Archness: Part 1" (Season 3, Episode 1),Ray Gillettemoans "Cookie Puss" after he is informed there will be no Carvel.