Monsters on the Loose!

The cover of the October 1976 issue of *Sesame Street Magazine*, themed "Monsters on the Loose!," features a giant, King Kong-style Cookie Monster towering over New York City. In a playful parody of classic monster movies, the illustration depicts him taking large bites out of the World Trade Center Twin Towers as if they were giant cookies. Decades later, this innocent piece of 1970s pop-culture artwork gained widespread viral attention online due to its unintended, eerie visual connection to the events of September 11.