Cookie Monster's Best Bites

Cookie Monster's Best Bites is a 1995 Sesame Street direct-to-video special collecting classic songs and sketches featuring Cookie Monster.
==Segments==
Picture	Segment 	Description
 	FRAME 1 	Cookie Monster is starting his first day as a baker and is excited to bake some cookies, even though he's never done it before. He gets out his ABC's of Baking cookbook and thumbs through some tasty recipes before landing on "cookies" in the C chapter. He can hardly control himself and devours the cookbook, now unable to make real cookies.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "C is for Cookie."
 	FRAME 2 	Cookie calls his grandma for her cookie recipe and starts applying the ingredients to a bowl, several of which start with the letter C like chocolate chips, cocoa, and a cup of flour. "Me LOVE the letter C!"
 	Muppets 	"C Drives Me Crazy"
 	FRAME 3 	Cookie has finished the cookie dough and places the tray in the oven. ("Me grandma always say, 'If you bake them, they will come.'") He then suffers the agony of waiting for them to finish, checking every few seconds. "What taking so long? This like medieval cookie torture!"
 	Muppets 	Telly Monster demonstrates "Fast" and "Slow" to Cookie Monster by using a plate of cookies. To demonstrate slow, Telly eats one of the cookies in slow bites. After finishing eating, he asks Cookie Monster to eat a cookie slowly. Cookie Monster gives it a try, but ends up gobbling all the cookies on the plate. Telly considers it to be fast rather than slow, but Cookie Monster says it was slow in his opinion.
 	FRAME 4 	Cookie distracts himself by counting to 10, hoping that the cookies will be finished when he's done counting. However, he speeds through the process and finds that the cookies are still not baked.
 	Muppets / Celebrity	Cookie Monster and Annette Bening demonstrate here and there.Edited
 	FRAME 5 	To get his mind off the cookies, Cookie tries to clean the bakery, but his round tray and sponge remind him of cookies and he eats them. ("Needs salt.")
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "If Moon Was Cookie." (underscore added to intro)
 	FRAME 6 	Cookie can't take the waiting any longer ("Me a total wreck!"). He even considers quitting the baking business, stating that he still has his health and his friends... and yet he doesn't have cookies in his tummy.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "What is Friend?"
 	FRAME 7 	The timer dings, which means the cookies are ready! However, they're still too hot for Cookie Monster to touch or even eat and he must wait for them to cool off. "It tough to be me."
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "They Can't Take That Away from Me."Closing line cut
 	FRAME 8 	The cookies are finally cool and Cookie Monster begins to lunge for them until his conscience tells him that if he eats them now, he'll have nothing to show for his hard work. He ignores the warning and eats them anyway.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "Goodbye, Little Cookie."Closing line cut
 	FRAME 9 	Now that the cookies are gone, Cookie realizes he has nothing to sell in the bakery. He comes to terms that he may never sell any cookies, but he'll still make plenty of "dough." As the credits roll, he starts hurriedly making more cookies, but by the time the credits are finished, he ends up eating the ingredients.
==Releases==
Image:CookieMonstersBestBitesVHS.jpg|1995Sony WonderLV 49704ISBN 1564063062
Image:Cookie_monster's_best_bites.jpeg|2004Sony WonderLVD 49704ISBN 0738927201
Dvdset-cookingtime.jpg|2005Sony Wonder3 disc set with Let's Eat!: Funny Food Songs and Elmo's Magic Cookbook
File:Newcookiemonstersbestbites.jpg|Genius Entertainment
Image:Noimage-big.png|2010Warner Home Video
Cookie USB.jpg|2010ATP
CM&Friends.jpg|Cookie Monster and FriendsWarner Home VideoDouble feature with C is for Cookie Monster
Image:Cookiemonstersbestbites-disney.jpg|1997Walt Disney Home VideoD610465Double feature with Play-Along Games and Songs
CookieImagine Aus VHS.jpg|1998ABC Video for KidsDouble feature with Imagine That!
Acelebrationofmegrovercookiemonstersbestbites.jpg|2006ABC Video for KidsDouble feature with A Celebration of Me, Grover
IloveCookieMon DVD Aus.jpeg|2013ABC Video for KidsDouble feature with C is for Cookie Monster
Cookiemonstersbestbiteshongkongvcd.jpg|2007Intercontinental Videocat. no 1004889804
Cookiemonstersbestbitesasianvcd.jpg|Berjaya HVNcat. no 615554
CookieMonster DVD HVN.jpg|2009Berjaya HVN
Image:Cmbestthai.jpg|DVDTIGA
==Insert==
From original VHS release.
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==Notes==
*The video originally featured the My Sesame Street Home Video opening sequence, but it was not released as part of that series.
==Cast==
*Starring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets:
**Featuring Frank Oz
**with Caroll Spinney, Jerry Nelson, Martin P. Robinson, Kevin Clash, Fran Brill, David Rudman, Joey Mazzarino, Pam Arciero, Peter Linz, Jim Martin, Cheryl Blaylock, Julianne Buescher, Alice Dinnean, John Kennedy, Brian Meehl, Ed Christie, Richard Hunt, and Jim Henson
*Cast: Annette Bening [sic]
==Credits==
*Produced by Patricia Ryan Lampl
*Directed by John Ferraro
**Jon Stone, Jim Henson (archive material)
*Written by Christine Ferraro
**Luis Santeiro, David Johnson, David Korr (archive material)
*Jim Henson's Muppet Workshop: Ed Christie with Laurent Linn, Stephen Rotandaro
*Songs by Joe Raposo, Christopher Cerf, Sarah Durkee, Tony Geiss, Luis Santeiro, Belinda Ward, Stephen Lawrence, Alan Menken
*Production Designer: Victor DiNapoli
*Graphic Designer: Mike Pantuso
*Lighting Director: Bill Berner
*Set Decorator: Nat Mongioi
*Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
*Special Thanks to Marjorie Kalins, Nan Halperin, Benedetta Campisi, Cheryl Henson, Becky Mancuso-Winding, Cher Jung
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Category:Sesame Street Video