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The opening theme music was also re-recorded to sound more full and orchestral, heard in its entirety over audio of Cookie Monster eating cookies (mostly lines taken from a sketch involving eating cookies of various shapes, along with a belch and 'Excuse me' from Christmas Eve on Sesame Street). Some time in Season 23, this opening was replaced with a longer opening, which panned around a room, showing pictures and books referencing past and then-current segments. 'Upstairs, Downstairs' is the only known instance (so far) of the title card zooming back into the 'P' to close the segment.

A handful of sketches that originally featured this opening ('Upstairs, Downstairs', 'Chariots of Fur', 'The King and I,' 'Gone With the Wind') also ended with a shot of the title card.

The first regular opening sequence had the title on a blue background, with a Union Jack flag as the P in 'Monsterpiece', with the camera zooming out on the flag. One early skit, 'Me, Claudius,' featured no title card and opened on the camera panning across various statues before trucking over to Alistair Cookie as the theme was heard. Each opening change effectively replaced the previous title format on all sketches in most cases (old and new, though a 1998 airing of 'The 39 Stairs' used the 1992 intro rather than the 1995 intro, possibly due to an editing mistake.) This segment has had at least three different openings, the first two of which specifically reflected the then-current Masterpiece Theater intros.

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Because it's the crack of dawn, he must shout softly up to the window so that Stella may let him in. The Sesame Street CD-ROM games Grover's Travels, Elmo Through the Looking-Glass, and The Three Grouchketeers are presented as 'Monsterpiece Theater' episodes.Ĭookie Monster introduces a spoof of A Streetcar Named Desire in which Grover has left his keys at the bowling alley. The following year in Season 38, Cookie Monster bookended a sketch he describes as an 'American Monster Classic.' In it, Grover plays a monster who has forgotten his keys, in a take on A Streetcar Named Desire. In Season 37, ' Dinner Theatre' premiered in which food themes are used to parody classic plays and musicals. Similar segments appeared in later years sharing certain elements with the 'Monsterpiece Theater' segments. The stirring theme music was composed by Sam Pottle. A few (notably 'Me, Claudius' and 'Upstairs, Downstairs') spoofed specific Masterpiece Theater series. As befits the title, many of the stars were indeed monsters, most notably Grover (who starred in more than a dozen skits).

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The segment brings a cultural element to the series by presenting stirring dramas based on classic literature, plays, or movies. The segment premiered in season 9 and continued to appear on the show through season 33. Due to concerns over even the appearance of smoking, the pipe was later dropped, and scenes in earlier skits were re-taped without the prop. In his earliest introductions, the urbane Alistair Cookie held an unlit pipe (which he usually ate by the end). The sketch parodies the PBS anthology series Masterpiece Theater, originally hosted by Alistair Cooke. Monsterpiece Theater is a recurring Sesame Street sketch hosted by Cookie Monster as Alistair Cookie.