We're picking vegetables from my garden.

Like...

- [Two-Headed Monster] Broccoli!

- Whoa! (speaking gibberish) - Yeah. (chuckling)

- Broccoli. And?

- Yeah. Carrot.

- Vegetabal!

- Carrots. And?

(Two-Headed Monster grunting)

- Beets!

- [Abby] Beets. (Abby laughs)

- Vegetabal. - Vegetabal.

- Look for more vegetabals on Sesame Street.

Oops! I mean vegetables.

(all speaking gibberish)

- Vegetabal.

- Vegetabal.

- Vegetabal.

♪ Ooh ooh ♪

♪ Ooh ooh ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Yeah ♪

♪ Sunny days ♪

♪ Sweepin' the clouds away ♪

♪ On my way to where the air is sweet ♪

Where the air is sweet!

♪ Can you tell me how to get ♪

♪ How to get to Sesame Street ♪ ♪ Bum-Bum-Bum-Bum-Bum-bum ♪

♪ How to get to Sesame Street ♪

Sesame Street!

♪ - [Cookie Monster] Another reason ♪

♪ - [Both] Another season ♪

♪ For making cookies ♪

(both laughing)

- [Chris] Oh hi.

Hey Cookie, check it out. Look who's here.

- Yeah. Hi hi hi hi hi hi.

- Hey, welcome to Sesame Street.

- Okay enough chit chat Chris. - Yeah.

- Cookies ready yet?

- No. Not ready yet, Cookie.

- How about now?

- Uh, no.

- But me so hungry for cookie, Chris.

Me no can wait!

Me Cookie Monster, remember?

- Yes, Cookie. How could I forget?

Um. I'll tell you what,

why don't you have some of these tasty carrots

while you wait?

- Okay.

(carrots crunching) - Om nom nom om nom nom. Mm.

Oh nom nom nom.

Me love carrots!

Mm. Om nom nom.

(dramatic news music)

- [Mario] This is Mario Lopez for Extra Sesame Street

with an Extra Sesame Street exclusive.

The Cookie Monster is now the Veggie Monster.

- What he say?

What you say!?

- I said the Cookie Monster is now the Veggie Monster.

- Oh. The Veggie Monster?

No, no, no, no.

Me Cookie Monster.

- Oh, no, no, no.

Don't try to hide it Veggie Monster.

Our Extra Sesame Street cameras caught the whole thing.

Watch.

- Nom nom nom. Me love carrots mm.

(electronic beeping sound)

- Care to comment, Veggie Monster?

- Oh. Well of course me love carrots.

They crunchy and delicious and good for me googly eyes.

But that not mean...

- Then the rumors are true,

he is the Veggie Monster.

- Uh no, me not Veggie Monster.

Me Cookie Monster.

Yeah, ask Chris.

- Yeah definitely.

- He is the Cookie Monster. - Yeah

- He loves cookies!

In fact, I'm baking him cookies right now.

- Yeah.

- Now of course he does love his veggies too-

- Ah ha! Then he is the Veggie Monster.

- Nice going, Chris!

- Sorry.

- We'll be back with our exclusive Veggie Monster coverage

when Extra Sesame Street returns.

Mind if I have a carrot?

- Oh, well. Actually, I need-

- Thank you.

(sad trombone)

- Oh no. Now everyone think me Veggie Monster.

There only one way to prove me still Cookie Monster.

Chri- Chris, Chris, Chris.

Gimme cookie. Please, gimme cookie.

Me got to have Cookie.

- Cookie, I'm not done making them.

- Well are there any other cookies around here?

- No, no. You ate them all buddy.

Look Cookie, just relax okay?

Just be patient.

- Okay. Hurry, Chris. - They'll be done it no time.

- Hurry, Chris.

We got to stop this Veggie Monster rumor

before me reputation ruined.

- Okay, Cookie. Okay. - Okay. Okay.

(spoon tapping)

- Cookie? - Yeah?

- I will let you know when they're ready. Okay?

- You promise?

- I promise.

- Okay. In meantime, me going to go look for cookies.

Bye bye.

(upbeat jazz music)

- Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.

- [Big Bird] Oh, hi Cookie Monster.

- [Snuffy] Hey there Cookie Monster.

(Snuffy chuckles)

- Oh. You no hear the rumors?

- What rumors?

- Nevermind. Got any cookie?

- Uh, no, sorry. Just the bird seed.

- Yeah. And I have cabbage and spaghetti here.

(cookie sniffing)

- Oh boy. Cabbage.

Wow. That look good.

Me never had cabbage.

- It's all full of vitamins.

Hey, you wanna try some?

- Sure. Why not?

Take me mind off cookies.

Om nom nom om nom nom. (cabbage crunching)

Oh, delicious!

Oh. Cabbage. Om nom nom. (dramatic news music)

- This is Mario Lopez for Extra Sesame Street.

Right here, right now,

Veggie Monster is eating another vegetable.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Hold on second. Me not eating vegetable,

me eating cabbage.

- Uh, Cookie Monster? - Yeah yeah, what what?

- Cabbage is a vegetable.

Yeah.

- No!

- Oh yeah, it's a vegetable alright.

- Okay. Me...

me not know that. Honest!

- He's eating vegetables and he doesn't even know it.

Oh yeah. He's the Veggie Monster alright.

- Okay. Just cause me love cabbage

doesn't mean me Veggie Monster.

- Oh, did you hear that?

The Veggie Monster loves Cabbage.

- Okay. That not what me said.

- Oh really?

- Yeah.

- Watch... - Wha-

(electronic beeping)

- Me love cabbage.

(electronic beeping)

- Okay, that taken out of context.

- Up next on Extra Sesame Street,

more on this Veggie Monster scandal.

Plus, why did the Cookie Monster

give up cookies for vegetables?

- What? What? Come back!

Oh. Oh, you believe me not Veggie Monster, right?

- We don't care if you're a Veggie Monster.

- We're still your friends.

- But me not Veggie Monster.

Me Cookie Monster!

- Yeah. Yeah, right. (Snuffy chuckling)

- Me prove it. Yeah.

Me still love to eat cookies.

Chris! Cookies ready?

- Not yet, Cookie.

(Cookie groaning)

- Oh, that's okay.

You can show us later. - Mm hm.

- Come on Snuff, Let's go to the park.

- Bye-bye Veggie Monster.

- Bye Veggie Monster. - See ya later.

(Cookie groans)

- Hey! Here.

Thought you might like some celery

while you're waiting for your cookies.

- Celery?

Well, me no can eat celery, Chris.

- Why not?

You always say, "Me love celery, it good for my digestion."

- Oh boy. But me so hungry.

(panting)

Wait, me have idea.

(playful music)

♪ La la, la la la la, la. ♪

Hello there!

- Cookie Monster?

- No, me just someone who love celery.

Yeah, me name Rose-Marie.

- Rose-Marie? - Yeah.

- Okay, Rose-Marie, here's some celery for you.

- Oh, celery. Delicious!

(celery crunching) Oh nom nom nom.

(wig whistles)

Veggie-bunga!

(dramatic news music)

Om nom nom nom om nom. (celery crunching)

- The Veggie Monster is at it again,

and only Extra Sesame Street has the story.

- Whoa. Me not Veggie Monste- oh.

(clearing throat)

Me not Veggie Monster. Me name Rose-Marie.

- Oh, I believe your exact words were "Veggie-bunga!".

- Hey everybody. Look what I just saw on MeTube.

- What? What what what? - What is it?

- What is it? Show us. (computer beeping)

- Oh nom nom om nom nom. Veggie-bunga!

- It's gotten over a million hits.

- [Group] Whoa!

- Me doomed!

Now everyone in world think me Veggie Monster.

Me starting to think me Veggie Monster, too.

(dramatic news music)

- He finally admitted it.

The Cookie Monster is the Veggie Monster.

- Me just being ironic.

- Can you tell Extra Sesame Street

how you're feeling right now, Veggie Monster?

- Frustrated.

No one believe me Cookie Monster,

not Veggie Monster.

- What's wrong with being the Veggie Monster?

Vegetables are healthy and they're delicious.

You even said so yourself.

- It just not

what me

am.

(Cookie sighs)

(melancholy piano music)

♪ Me am what me am ♪

♪ Me Cookie Monster ♪

♪ That all there is to it ♪

♪ Me love to eat Cookie sometimes eat whole ♪

♪ Sometimes me chew it ♪

Who care!

♪ If me eat carrot or collard greens ♪

♪ Me also like broccoli ♪

♪ And lettuce ♪

♪ And Lima beans ♪

♪ Me still Cookie Monster ♪

♪ That not a sham ♪

♪ Hey me am what me am ♪

♪ Me am what me am ♪

♪ Not Veggie Monster ♪

♪ Not one scentella ♪

♪ Me love to eat cookie ♪

♪ Chocolaty fudge ♪

♪ Or lemon vanilla ♪

♪ So what if me like old raw ♪

♪ Eggplant or zucchini ♪

♪ So what if me munch mushroom, ♪

♪ Pea pod, or green bean-y ♪

♪ Oh... ♪

♪ Life! ♪

♪ Not worth a yam till me can say ♪

♪ Hey! ♪

♪ Me am what me am! ♪

(Cookie sighs)

(piano music ends)

- Sorry, Cookie Monster. I should have known.

No matter how much you like vegetables,

you'll always be the Cookie Monster.

- [Chris] Here you go, Cookie Monster. Cookies!

- Cowabunga!

Om nom nom om nom nom.

(all laughing)

- And now a story you won't find anywhere else.

Don't believe what you've heard,

the Cookie Monster really is the Cookie Monster.

This is Mario Lopez for Extra Sesame Street.