Cookie Puss
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Cookie Puss is a character created by Carvel in the 1970s as an expansion of its line of ice cream cake characters freshly made and sold only in its stores, which also includes Hug-Me Bear and Fudgie the Whale. According to Carvel lore, Cookie Puss is a space alien who was born on planet Birthday. In his television commercials, Cookie Puss has the ability to fly, though he requires a saucer-shaped spacecraft for interplanetary travel.
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[edit] Cookie Puss' appearance
Although the exact design and composition of Cookie Puss has varied over the years and even from store to store, his basic attributes have remained consistent. He is roughly pear-shaped and flat, with an ice cream cone nose and two round, bulging brown eyes. He sometimes has arms and legs, but these are just icing decorations, not additional parts.
[edit] Cookie O'Puss
There was a holiday version of Cookie Puss specific to Saint Patrick's Day, called Cookie O'Puss. It was similar to the original but with green icing accents and a leprechaun-style hat.
[edit] Cookie Puss in popular culture
- New York-based rappers the Beastie Boys recorded an EP called Cooky Puss in 1983. The title track includes a prank phone call to Carvel about Cookie Puss. The record also includes a toned-down censored version. Both versions also appear on the Some Old Bullshit compilation album.
- The sixth Leisure Suit Larry computer game, Love For Sail, has a Cookie Puss as one of the items in the ship's kitchen. When told to examine it, the game's voice-over responds, "Mmm... Cookie Puss!"
- Cookie Puss was featured on an episode of the Jon Lovitz animated TV show The Critic. When the title character, film critic Jay Sherman, signs his son up for judo lessons, he gets a free Cookie Puss for each class. Later, Marty's (Jay Sherman's son) judo sparring partner (a demonic trident-wielding samurai named Satoshi, Eater of Souls) holds up a Cookie Puss cake and threatens, "Cookie Puss, I will eat your soul!", the same thing he told Martie before their match.
- Cookie Puss is the name of the collectively raised and cared-for cat who lives at the New York City community center ABC No Rio. Cookie Puss is known for being an especially social cat who will occasionally wander downstairs to check out the weekly Hardcore Matinees.
- Chris Griffin mentions both Cookie Puss and Cookie O'Puss (along with Fudgie the Whale and Nutty the Chocolate Ghost) in an episode of the animated series Family Guy.
- Jim Hanley, famous comic book baron of New York City's Jim Hanley's Universe, ate 2 of these cakes in a single sitting on a dare from cartoonist Evan Dorkin in 1987.
- One of the most memorable and beloved moments on the Howard Stern Show was when Fred Norris bought his mother a Cookie Puss for Mother's Day and Howard Stern mocked him in a Cookie Puss-like voice over the following two days. This was voted the #1 favorite moment by fans during the 2006 Labor Day All-Request Weekend.
