[UA] [OTish] Cookie Monster assault

[Nick Wedig]

>OK, so the situation is that a guy dressed as Cookie Monster gets the
>stuffing beaten out of him.
>What's the OU edge?

Sesame Street is the one children's show with a moral system that is anywhere close to UA's.  There's no good or evil, there's just numerous people, each with an obsession (cookies, counting, pigeons, trash, etc) and good points and bad points.  Everyone on the show is flawed in some way, at least all the puppets are.  Almost any other children's show has a division of good and evil, and no real moral doubt or examination fo character.  

At least, until Elmo showed up.  I don't know what to make of any of that, but it's been boiling around in my head.

Perhaps the attack was some sort of attack one exactly this moral ambiguity...

Perhaps the attack was aimed at the person in the suit, a high-level avatar of the imaginary friend (or perhaps a battle in the statosphere between the Father and the Imaginary Friend spilled over into reality).  Or perhaps Cookie Monster was taken as an embodiment of gluttony (and the guy was going around attacking other pop-culture embodiments of Deadly Sins... Richie Rich or Scrooge McDuck for greed, Vanity Smurf for, well, Vanity.Pride...)

Perhaps each puppet had an obsession because Henson's creations were made by summoning demons into each one, which is what gave them realistic life, but also flawed characters.  So the guy, some sort of amateur psychic/exorcist, detected the shreds of a demon in cookie monster and tried to get rid of it, through the more physically violent forms of exorcism.

Or perhaps the guy just had a lot of agression and lacked a healthy release for it.

Mr. Teapot
his own imaginary friend

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