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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 ...
The first Muppet characters appeared in Sam and Friends, a Washington, D.C.–based show which was broadcast from 1955 to 1961. Kermit the Frog was one of the show's regulars, and thus was one of Henson's first Muppet creations. [1] The characters became a household name after their appearance in the children's television program Sesame Street. [1]
Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Bruno the Trashman, Granny Bird, Granny Fanny Nesselrode, Sam the Robot (occasionally), Shivers the Penguin, Lefty the Salesman (occasionally - 1970), proto-Cookie Monster (1970 sketch), proto-Grover (1970 sketch), Beautiful Day Monster, Various David Stephens: (2008) Various Andy Stone: (1999; 2003; 2007) Various
This is a list of the highest-grossing puppet films. Puppet films feature puppets as lead characters. ... Follow that Bird: $13,961,370: 1985 [16] 16: Labyrinth:
A Muppet Family Christmas – Mokey Fraggle, Additional Muppets; Billy Bunny's Animal Songs – Billy Bunny's Mother, Frog, Gopher; John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together – Additional Muppets; Labyrinth – Goblins (puppeteer) Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – Grouch Diner Patron, Anything Muppet Girl; The Christmas Toy ...
Big Bird is a Muppet character designed by Jim Henson and built by Kermit Love for the children's television show Sesame Street. An eight-foot-two-inch-tall (249 cm) bright yellow anthropomorphic bird, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] he can roller skate , ice skate , dance , swim , sing , write poetry , draw , and ride a unicycle .
Despite popular rumor, Love was not the namesake of Kermit the Frog; the character was created and named in 1955, before Henson met Love in the 1960s. [2] [5] Though he also worked on The Muppet Show and The Muppet Movie, Sesame Street was Love's domain, along with Caroly Wilcox, as one of the key supervisors.
Meehl worked on the last six shows of The Muppet Show. He then worked on Sesame Street, performing Barkley, Grundgetta, Telly Monster, and an early version of Elmo, among other characters. His work with Henson also included roles in the films, The Dark Crystal, The Muppets Take Manhattan and The Great Muppet Caper.