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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsCookie Monster has an eating disorder
I think it's because he can't eat the cookies. He smashes them against his mouth, but cannot actually eat them.
I think it's metaphor about life.

And though he looks happy, an eternal unquenched desire lurks within him.
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Cookie Monster has an eating disorder (Original Post)
CreekDog
Mar 2012
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kentauros
(29,414 posts)1. At least he doesn't have the messier "drinking problem"
zanana1
(6,488 posts)2. He does suffer, as Sisyphus did. nt
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)3. That was my second thought
Tartarus was first
Dr. Strange
(26,058 posts)4. Along the same lines, I think the Count has OCD.
He can't seem to stop counting stuff.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)5. Obsessive Counting Disorder
or maybe he's just typecast.

Bruce Wayne
(692 posts)7. This post made me sad