The following year the monster was featured in an IBM training film that included a self-destructing "coffee break machine." On October 8, 1967, this skit appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show.

The CHiP Smart Cookie Oven is like Keurig--the popular machine that quickly produces coffee via pods-- for baked goods.

Prior to his eventual debut on “Sesame Street,” the same voracious monster (albeit slightly modified) appeared in a short promotional film for IBM eating a computerized coffee machine, and ...