Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird

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really yep that movie and follow that bird I don't remember Follow

That Bird.

Like the Sesame Street Big Bird movie?

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Follow That Bird.

Anyway.

I'm not gonna argue.

If you wanna bring the Count up, it's totally fine.

Follow That Bird.

[laughs]

Uh-

And I really can't remember a time that I didn't wanna be an actor.

I really, really wanted to, and a lot of that was based off of watching, like, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, but, like, also Sesame Street movies, like Follow That Bird.

Mm-hmm.

If anyone remembers that movie, it was so good.

No scarf, I think, is also missing from here.

So, obviously, this is supposed to represent Big Bird as he appeared in Follow That Bird, where he was abducted and sold into slavery and painted blue.

That's the story.

But I think... legally, this is not from that because they don't have the rights to the film, so it's not going to just say that anywhere.

I would love it.

Just makes no sense.

So the story in Follow That Bird, and I guess the story in Falling Down are similar in that they leave home and they travel on foot and they meet characters.

I guess that's it.

Um, So I was like, okay, I got to pick a puppet movie that doesn't have, that has less of a chance of like hipster bullshit.

So I picked Follow That Bird, the Sesame Street movie, which I have a very distinct memory of watching on VHS as a child.

And it's also a movie that I weirdly find no one knows exists.

Like I feel like I bring it up to people all the time because it's deeply strange.

That's right.

Family matinee.

Ken Kwapis' Follow That Bird.

Welcome to Sesame Street Podcast.

I'm so nervous.

Follow That Bird was one of the most watched movies ever in my

house.

119 points are in the skillet.

But they often showed these Disney re-releases.

And actually, I remember seeing the last movie that they ever showed there before it became a bookstore, which was the Sesame Street film, Follow That Bird.

That's a great movie.

Yeah.

That's, oh my God, he directed all the Larry Sanders shows.

Uh-huh.

So what was that experience, seeing Follow That Bird? Did you love it?

I did love it.