Aren’t you some lucky Hiddlestoners! Two Tom Hiddleston posts in one day. Lucky dragonflies. As we already saw last month, Tom Hiddleston got to meet and hang out with Cookie Monster during the PBS preview/upfronts for the fall season. Tom was at the PBS event to promote PBS’s airing of The Hollow Crown. But he seemed excited to hang out with Cookie Monster, and in a wonderful turn of events, whoever operates PBS’s Instagram account is a full-fledged Hiddles-loonie, so there are some amazing Hiddleston photos posted on the account.
The Instagram pics were all a preview of Hiddleston teaching Cookie Monster a very important lesson about waiting and delayed gratification. Is “delayed gratification” a lesson children need to learn? It seems like a complicated lesson for kids, although I guess if you’re just trying to teach kids “waiting” it seems okay. So, when Hiddles met Cookie Monster, Tom made him wait for a cookie and the rest is history. Just FYI: I love this video. I love how Tom is cracking up at Cookie Monster.
Photos courtesy of PBS’s Instagram.
“Delayed gratification”? Is Mrs. Eyre getting a teacher’s credit here?
Ha, ha! I can’t wait until she shows up to reply!
That was a super cute clip.
*whispers* … maybe that’s why I said it … 😉
Screw her. Nobody puts TommyAnne in the corner.
(Especially not for a man who wears flip flops to Claridges)
You Georgian Placket-Lace! How dare you! Screw me? We tried that once, remember? Your GP said we had to wait until your tremors cease completely.
And he HAD to wear those gawd-forsaken rubberized postage stamps walking out; I had cast his real shoes aside with such force we couldn’t dislodge them from the wall.
Here’s a Naomi tip for you: when Tommyanne is delaying his gratification in the corner, it is reckless, nay, downright irresponsible to waste precious time untying laced. Don’t let the fizzy Hiddles bubble over.
Naomi’s tip would have shot that cookie out of his hand and secured it against the wall. You know she always has a bow and quiver on hand.
Why would I untie laces? That’s what he has teeth for (and, apparently, to enjoy a cookie or two)
I once bartended at a bachelor party where the “entertainment” did that – but not with cookies. It was a mess.
(blushes)
😉
Sorry, ProBeer – I would have responded sooner but I got delayed by certain ungrateful, two-cent, tassel-wearing tramp. The only thing gratifying about that experience is how much she is enjoying the Nicholas Sparks books I gave her to read.
Yes, I earned my Professor Emerita on this particular lesson and I am so proud of how well TommyAnna was able to repeat what he learned (considering he was walking the line of consciousness through most of it – bless him)
By the way – I’ve missed you, darling. Shall we have a hay-stuffed shindig soon to celebrate?
The tramp part offends me MUCH less than the implication that I would ever read a Nicholas Sparks book.
*slaps Miss Jane, Alexis Carrington Colby style*
*and maybe wrestles her into a fountain or something*
I agree with you about the Sparks comment T.Fanty. Them be fighting words!
Good, then I scored my mark.
You hit me where I hurt, I hit you where you hurt.
(well of course the tramp mark wouldn’t bother you – you have been working on that title for years)
*gasp* You question whether to wrestle me into a fountain? Why the hell do you think I insulted you in the first place? I had the sluice filled with whipped cream for that very reaction.
*Hides one more Nicholas Spark book in T.Fanty’s shelf and walks away slowly*
*whistles in glory: Don’t stop me now, I’m having such a good time…*
I spend six hours at work, and I come back to this … amazingness. Perfection. All of you! Scones, biscuits, cookies, and booze for everyone!
I miss you too, Mrs. Eyre! I miss all of you! I feel like this is going to be the story of my life for the rest of this semester, so yes, let’s have the hay-stuffed shindig while I’ve got the time!
That gave me a smile today 🙂
*claps hands in glee*
Kaiser rules!
You know, in England, we would call what Tom is munching on a biscuit. #justsayin
No, we call that biscuit here too…
oh. wait. You meant the cookie.
Ha!
BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHAA!
Probeer gets a cookie for that one. (I assume she doesn’t need another biscuit.)
And he’s munching reeeeeally slooooowly….
Do they have dippy cookies stateside? Oh no. I guess not. Because the tea’s all wrong.
*ducks*
The Dragonflies toast you, Kaiser. Only not with tea because the Stateside Dragonflies have lost the recipe. So we have invented our own concoction which is positively vile but delivers you in to a anodynic state after 4 sips so nobody care.
Miss J, I think TommyAnnE might have some competition for CHemboy’s affection….
http://imobsessedgurl.tumblr.com/post/60330501023/i-love-them-both-xx-and-omg-at-04-53-chris-i
Gah! That is to say – aack!
Between the giggling and the “best trait to woo a woman” answer – I can’t… function. Do they have a name yet? Their last names don’t work as well – Hemsuhl; Bruworth. What can we do with the firsts? Chrisniel? Danopher? Chraniel? CHannyboys?
Marty, if I have not done that thing you like me to do so much late, let me know. I always want my CHemboy p0rn supplier happy. Always.
Aww, thanks Miss J! *Muah*
It’s more of a lesson in self control/waiting/being patient methinks.
It’s adorable. But anyone with cookie monster would be adorable.
That’s what ‘delayed gratification’ is. They are teaching a specific kind of self control and patience, hence the specific term.
Somehow, I think the “delayed gratification” most parents are thinking of, seeing Tom, is entirely different than the one they want to teach their kids about.
*dirty chuckle*
LOL! Could be. The title of this thread could be taken in a different (rather horrifying) way!
Why ‘delayed gratification’? Shouldn’t it be more about ‘self control’, based on that clip?
I lost count of how many times I saw that video last night on Buzzfeed. Oh well I guess I have to watch it AGAIN since it’s on this site now…
Delayed gratification is a psych phrase, from the Stanford marshmallow experiment. It means self control, patience, waiting for a reward. Pretty much exactly what is in the video.
You’re not the only one questioning the term, so I’m wondering what everyone else thought it meant?
Yeah, I’m rather shocked that there is confusion about what “delayed gratification” is. I thought it was a pretty easy term to understand.
Oddly- my brother and I were part of those Stanford experiments. They still track him and I was tested as a sibling for comparison. Apparently the ability to delay gratification is an indicator for how well you do later in life – and you know what – they were spot on for us as we tested differently, and, um, well, as the one who was able to delay, not to slight my brother who couldn’t, But i definitely am more successful that he is. By the way, he is in his late forties and Stanford still call him every five years.
@ Sugarskulls: whoa really? I have an urge to fangirl at you now. You’re famous! (I live in the middle of nowhere … you’ll have to do as my “celebrity encounter” until some Z-lister gets lost and ends up in my town.)
Was the marshmallow actually any good, or was it of the disappointing, smells-better-than-it-tastes variety? 😛
No actual marshmallow for me, mine was an Oreo cookie!
Delaying gratification is a form of self control, and they are talking about that form specifically, so “delayed gratification” is correct.
Delayed gratification = waiting for Thor The Dark World and Only Lovers Left Alive, waiting for Tom’s next red carpet, waiting for Kaiser’s next post about TH. With DataLounge and Tumblr, I really am trying cut down to less than once a day.
I’m with Carrie Fisher: Instant gratification takes too long.
Actually waiting for Tom’s next Red Carpet isn’t really delayed gratification. He goes to ALL of them.
Sheesh. Delayed Gratification… my ass.
I’m totally sold with this 🙂
And yes, I admit that suddenly I got this slightly perverted feeling that I wouldn’t tease Tom with my very own cookie in this way…
Tom… delayed gratification… cookie… even better – biscuit… lovely post Kaiser but for this one I’ll think I’ll be back for the comments. 🙂
Two thoughts:
1. That video is adorable;
2. That man has the longest fingers I’ve ever seen.
yes and yes – both smile-inducing, yes?
I cannot fault him for this. Its adorable and made me smile so much.
His Muppet love is charming.
You actually like something he has done?!
This is a great lesson for children to learn. I wish more people learned it when they were young.
I. Am. Dying. Of. Cuteness. Overload. I want to hug them both!
Leave it to him to turn an episode with a puppet and a cookie into something perverted. Lol. Never change you horny man.
Tom likes to munch biscuits. Tom likes to tease himself with the biscuit and then eat the biscuit. *sound of ovaries exploding*
Oh please stop it with the exploding ovaries. This is not Tumblr. It such a tiresome meme.
@ Miss J, to be fair, it’s not just Tumblr:
http://kaogasm.tumblr.com/post/60384969386/wikatiepedia-amazing-camera-shots-with-tom
The cameramen are either enablers, or they have a mancrush on Hiddles.
And here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyBQHljeb9o you can see the two interviewers completely fangirling over him, and trying to get him to show them some of his *ahem* moves.
That said, I think we could all imagine some biscuits he could munch…..
I saw all this on tumblr months ago…
That is ADORABLE.
When I first saw it I thought it was fan made. Me want Tom’s cookie too. TomNomNom. Hey don’t mess up the blue suit, we need that.
I want to share Tom’s cookies too! Not fair
I usually don’t care about Tom Hiddlestone, but Cookie Monster… WAAAA!!!!! Love me some Cookie Monster!
Do you have a lot of experience with delayed gratification, Tom? I doubt he delays any of his gratification. But the whole clip is really, really cute! I love how he’s a jerk to Cookie Monster and taunting him with the “here, smell, smell” while telling him to practice self-control.
Cookie Monster is so damn adorable at the end when he goes, do you need to ask. I had to rewind and watch those last seconds a few times.
I love the part of the video where Cookie Monster starts finally eating, part of one cookie flies up and hits Tom in the face hahah
Oh Tom….I’ll have your cookies any day… if you know what I mean 😉
Win!
TommyAnne needs to learn self gratification himself before he teaches anybody else. If What DL is going by (and only them) , he’d had fifty shades of Grey in the bag the way he’s going ! Haha
Wow! Sesame Street was great because there was always in jokes for the adults aswell.
Screw self-control. Me want cookie, too!
I love his new suit at the OLLA premier. That suit on him makes me want to share cookies with him….
Heh tell me he doesn’t read his fans sites. He fixed his hair color literally overnight hahahhahaha!
But yes that suit is nicer than what he wore last night.
Omg please stop covering this guy every day. I have seen one (1) movie he was in and he wasnt even the lead or that amazing. The way he is being covered on this site you should think he is the hottest new actor for generations. And he doesnt even have much of a body of work to speak of. The whole thing is so over the top. How about some love for some actors who are actually working consistently and not just doing publicity stunts and interviews for their lame tumblr fangirls.
Adorable.
nom nom nom nom nom nom nom…. hilarious