Against Big Bird, The Gods Themselves Contend In Vain

[scott_lynch]

I was a hard-core Sesame Street viewer from about 1979 to 1984, and my memories of the show are the sort of deep nostalgic tangle you'd expect, with a great deal of idiosyncratic noise blended into the signal. So, for many years, I carried around a vague but emotionally vivid recollection of a Sesame Street episode in which Big Bird and

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[jeriendhal]

I never saw this, for which I should be grateful, since it wouldn't half as freaking awesome as you make it sound. (the only Sesame Street special I remember is the one where Big Bird goes to China and gets his head messed with by the Monkey King).

Mind if I link?

[scott_lynch]

Link to your heart's content!

[akaihyo]

Actually, I remember it as being quite fun to actually watch though I saw it many, many moons ago. The production values, not so great as the still above show.

[tinpra]

And I have now perhaps found the real reason I love Monkey so much. Thank you for reminding me of that one.

[malana]

I feel like I must have taken a hit of LSD before reading this. I'm not sure which I'm struck by more: that this exists, or that I somehow didn't know about said existence.

[joenotcharles]

Bridge of Big Birds?

[alyxyn]

[murasaki_1966]

I've always considered Big Bird to be an avatar of the Eternal Champion. This is demonstrated by his behaviour over the course of the show. He stands up for the small and marginalised (or large and marginalised in the case of Snuffy).

[tj_dragon]

Wow!
I seem to recall a snapshot of Big Bird being so sad that he actually turned blue. I have no context for this scene, just a childhood feeling of deep concern at the wrongness of this image. Your post has inspired to go and see if that actually happened and why. Big Bird is clearly a much more complex character than I realised.

[tj_dragon]

Right thanks.
I can only remember a deeply sad audio-visual snapshot of a blue Big Bird singing. I must have been very young at the time, cannot remember anything else from that special.

[alexmegami]

It's the one that starts with the Grouch Anthem!

o/~ Grouches of the world unite
Stand up for your grouchly plight
Don't let the sunshine spoil your rain
Just stand up and complain! o/~