Trekkie Monster
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Trekkie Monster is a fictional character in the Broadway musical Avenue Q.
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[edit] Character overview
In the play, he lives in a second-floor apartment in a building on Avenue Q, a run-down street situated somewhere in a borough of New York City outside Manhattan. His name refers to Cookie Monster on Sesame Street, and, ostensibly, to Trekkies, though no formal mention of Trekkies is made in the play.[1]
Trekkie Monster is obsessed with watching and collecting porn on the Internet, just as Cookie Monster is obsessive about cookies. He also has made millions of dollars investing in pornography on the stock market ("Here! Me give you ten million dollars!" "Trekkie! Where'd you get all that money?" "In volatile market, only stable investment is porn!"), which he ultimately donates to the play's protagonist in order to start a school for young monsters. He sings a duet called "The Internet is for Porn," with Kate Monster, which has since become a popular Internet meme.
[edit] Performers
In the original Broadway production, Trekkie Monster was performed by Rick Lyon.
In the West End production the role was performed by Simon Lipkin.
When the London production of Avenue Q opened, small hand-puppet versions of Trekkie Monster were sold for two days only.
[edit] References
- ^ Pincus-Roth, Zachary. Avenue Q: The Book. Hyperion. pp. 84. ISBN 140130298X. "Trekkie Monster is much like the Sesame Street character Cookie Monster but with a more adult weakness . . . Marx: We wanted his name to indicate that he was obsessed, like Cookie Monster is obsessed with cookies, so we used 'Trekkie' both because it sounded like 'cookie' and because Trekkies are, by definition, obsessive fanatics."
