Today’s The Boondocks:

I’m really glad that I’m not the only person who has ever been bothered by this. I suppose it comes from watching Sesame Street as an adult. As a kid, I always just thought that Cookie Monster ate a lot of cookies. It wasn’t until I was much older that I realized that he suffered the same fate as Tantalus, though not quite so bad because he could (presumably) taste the cookies (though come to think of it, he doesn’t have a tongue).

HMM.