In 2005, rumorssurfaced that the popularchildren'sTV showSesameStreetwasgoing to turn one of its most belovedMuppetcharacters, CookieMonster, intoVeggieMonster.
Yesterday, Mark Toner of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that it was cancelling funding for the Pakistani version of SesameStreet.
Quiroz-Lopez was dressed as the Cookie Monster character to make money by posing for photos with passersby, according to police, who added that there was no connection between the man and the TV series "Sesame Street, " which counts Cookie Monster among its characters.