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Cookie Monster helps train IBM sales staff (1967)
Apparently, Cookie Monster loves cookies and IBM.
From Technologizer:
IBM. The Muppets. Two venerable institutions-but not ones we tend to associate with each other. Yet in the late 1960s, before most people had ever seen a computer in person or could identify a Muppet on sight, the two teamed up when IBM contracted with Jim Henson for a series of short films designed to help its sales staff. Little known today, these remain fresh, funny, and surprisingly irreverent. Henson would return to their gags and situations in his famous later works–and he plucked the Cookie Monster from one of them when assembling the Muppet cast for Sesame Street in 1969.
Previously on Dangerous Minds:
The Muppets Wanna Start Nuclear War in a Gay Bar
(via Nerdcore)