Recent from talks
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (or simply Follow That Bird) is a 1985 American family musical road comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis, and written by Tony Geiss and Judy Freudberg. Based on the children's television series Sesame Street created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, it was the series' first theatrical feature-length film. It stars Muppet performers Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson and Frank Oz alongside Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, Chevy Chase, Joe Flaherty, Waylon Jennings, and Dave Thomas with Sesame Street regulars Linda Bove, Emilio Delgado, Loretta Long, Sonia Manzano, Bob McGrath, Roscoe Orman, Alaina Reed, and Kermit Love in supporting roles and the voices of Laraine Newman, Brian Hohlfeld, Cathy Silvers, Eddie Deezen, and Sally Kellerman.
Produced by Children's Television Workshop and filmed at the Cinespace Film Studios and on location in the Greater Toronto Area, Follow That Bird was theatrically released in the United States on August 2, 1985, by Warner Bros., and in the United Kingdom on November 22, 1985, by Columbia Pictures through Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors and received mostly positive reviews from critics. However, it was a box office disappointment, grossing $14 million. The film features the final acting roles for Henson and Richard Hunt in a theatrical film.
The Feathered Friends' Board of Birds, an organization whose purpose is to place stray birds with bird families discusses the case of Big Bird. A strict social worker, Miss Finch, is sent to Sesame Street to find and bring Big Bird to a worthy family of dodos in Oceanview, Illinois. However, he begins to feel uncomfortable staying with them as they all think poorly of non-birds. He reaches his breaking point when they insist he should have a bird as a best friend instead of Mr. Snuffleupagus, who is watching over his nest back on Sesame Street.
Big Bird leaves the Dodos' home to return to Sesame Street. He sees a news report where Miss Finch tells reporter Kermit the Frog that she intends to find him and bring him back to the Dodos. His friends on Sesame Street also see the news and band together to locate him before Miss Finch does, and take several vehicles on their quest after Bob instructs them to head to Toadstool, Indiana to meet up with him. While on the way home, Big Bird hitches a ride with a trucker who encourages him to persevere and later meets two kids named Ruthie and Floyd at a farm, who allow him to sleep in their barn overnight. The next morning, Miss Finch arrives and he sneaks away.
Con artist brothers Sam and Sid Sleaze operate a fraudulent carnival called The Sleaze Brothers Funfair, and plot to catch Big Bird and put him on display for profit. When he arrives in Toadstool, Miss Finch does so at the same time and chases him through a parade. After escaping, Big Bird meets the Sleazes at their carnival and asks if they have a place to hide, resulting in them putting him in their cage and deciding to paint him blue and tout him as "The Bluebird of Happiness", though he sings sadly about wishing to be back home. Despite this, he brings in plenty of customers.
After the show, two kids sneak backstage to see Big Bird, who asks them to call Sesame Street to inform his friends of his whereabouts. The next morning, his friends sneak into the circus tent and try to set him free. However, the Sleaze Brothers quietly wake up and just as Linda unlocks the cage, they drive off in their truck towing the cage with Big Bird still in it. Gordon and Susan give chase and rescue him after he jumps from the moving truck. Shortly afterwards, a state trooper pulls the Sleazes over for speeding and arrests the pair.
Upon arriving back on Sesame Street, Big Bird is happy to be back home. Miss Finch arrives to place him with another bird family, having accepted that Big Bird was not happy with the Dodos but still insists that Big Bird would be "happier with his own kind." However, Maria tells her that he is happy on Sesame Street where it does not matter that his family consists of humans, honkers, monsters, Grouches, and other species. Realizing Maria is right, and acknowledging that they traveled all that way to find Big Bird, a sympathetic Miss Finch officially declares Sesame Street to be his home and happily leaves with her job complete. Afterwards, Big Bird reunites with Mr. Snuffleupagus. As everyone celebrates Big Bird's return, Oscar the Grouch gets carried around the block in his trash can by Bruno the Trashman in order to get away from everyone's happiness.
Additional Board of Bird members performed by Bob Stutt, Nikki Tilroe, Lee Armstrong, Rob Mills, and John Pattison.
Hub AI
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird AI simulator
(@Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird_simulator)
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (or simply Follow That Bird) is a 1985 American family musical road comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis, and written by Tony Geiss and Judy Freudberg. Based on the children's television series Sesame Street created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, it was the series' first theatrical feature-length film. It stars Muppet performers Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson and Frank Oz alongside Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, Chevy Chase, Joe Flaherty, Waylon Jennings, and Dave Thomas with Sesame Street regulars Linda Bove, Emilio Delgado, Loretta Long, Sonia Manzano, Bob McGrath, Roscoe Orman, Alaina Reed, and Kermit Love in supporting roles and the voices of Laraine Newman, Brian Hohlfeld, Cathy Silvers, Eddie Deezen, and Sally Kellerman.
Produced by Children's Television Workshop and filmed at the Cinespace Film Studios and on location in the Greater Toronto Area, Follow That Bird was theatrically released in the United States on August 2, 1985, by Warner Bros., and in the United Kingdom on November 22, 1985, by Columbia Pictures through Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors and received mostly positive reviews from critics. However, it was a box office disappointment, grossing $14 million. The film features the final acting roles for Henson and Richard Hunt in a theatrical film.
The Feathered Friends' Board of Birds, an organization whose purpose is to place stray birds with bird families discusses the case of Big Bird. A strict social worker, Miss Finch, is sent to Sesame Street to find and bring Big Bird to a worthy family of dodos in Oceanview, Illinois. However, he begins to feel uncomfortable staying with them as they all think poorly of non-birds. He reaches his breaking point when they insist he should have a bird as a best friend instead of Mr. Snuffleupagus, who is watching over his nest back on Sesame Street.
Big Bird leaves the Dodos' home to return to Sesame Street. He sees a news report where Miss Finch tells reporter Kermit the Frog that she intends to find him and bring him back to the Dodos. His friends on Sesame Street also see the news and band together to locate him before Miss Finch does, and take several vehicles on their quest after Bob instructs them to head to Toadstool, Indiana to meet up with him. While on the way home, Big Bird hitches a ride with a trucker who encourages him to persevere and later meets two kids named Ruthie and Floyd at a farm, who allow him to sleep in their barn overnight. The next morning, Miss Finch arrives and he sneaks away.
Con artist brothers Sam and Sid Sleaze operate a fraudulent carnival called The Sleaze Brothers Funfair, and plot to catch Big Bird and put him on display for profit. When he arrives in Toadstool, Miss Finch does so at the same time and chases him through a parade. After escaping, Big Bird meets the Sleazes at their carnival and asks if they have a place to hide, resulting in them putting him in their cage and deciding to paint him blue and tout him as "The Bluebird of Happiness", though he sings sadly about wishing to be back home. Despite this, he brings in plenty of customers.
After the show, two kids sneak backstage to see Big Bird, who asks them to call Sesame Street to inform his friends of his whereabouts. The next morning, his friends sneak into the circus tent and try to set him free. However, the Sleaze Brothers quietly wake up and just as Linda unlocks the cage, they drive off in their truck towing the cage with Big Bird still in it. Gordon and Susan give chase and rescue him after he jumps from the moving truck. Shortly afterwards, a state trooper pulls the Sleazes over for speeding and arrests the pair.
Upon arriving back on Sesame Street, Big Bird is happy to be back home. Miss Finch arrives to place him with another bird family, having accepted that Big Bird was not happy with the Dodos but still insists that Big Bird would be "happier with his own kind." However, Maria tells her that he is happy on Sesame Street where it does not matter that his family consists of humans, honkers, monsters, Grouches, and other species. Realizing Maria is right, and acknowledging that they traveled all that way to find Big Bird, a sympathetic Miss Finch officially declares Sesame Street to be his home and happily leaves with her job complete. Afterwards, Big Bird reunites with Mr. Snuffleupagus. As everyone celebrates Big Bird's return, Oscar the Grouch gets carried around the block in his trash can by Bruno the Trashman in order to get away from everyone's happiness.
Additional Board of Bird members performed by Bob Stutt, Nikki Tilroe, Lee Armstrong, Rob Mills, and John Pattison.