Big Bird is a character from the PBS television series Sesame Street. As his name suggests, he is an 8-foot, 2-inch friendly yellow bird who lives in a nest on Sesame Street with a slightly quirky and naive outlook on the world. He can roller skate, ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw, and even ride a unicycle. In spite of this wide array of talents, he is also prone to frequent misunderstandings, like thinking that the alphabet is one long word. As one of the main characters from the show, he has managed to appear in all of the Christmas specials spun off from it.
Appearances[]
Sesame Street[]
- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street - Big Bird stars in one of the subplots of this 1978 special. When Oscar the Grouch questions how exactly a big guy like Santa Claus is able to fit inside a chimney, Big Bird spends Christmas Eve trying to figure out how.
- A Special Sesame Street Christmas - Big Bird was one of the only Muppets to actually appear in this special that aired just a few days after Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.
- Elmo Saves Christmas - Big Bird's subplot in this 1996 special begins with him seeing his best friend, Mr. Snuffleupagus, off, when he travels to Cincinnati to spend for Christmas with his grandmother. However, when Elmo wishes that it was Christmas every day, he is unable to come home, and Big Bird becomes depressed about not being able to see him again. After Elmo's wish is successfully undone, Big Bird gets a surprise on Christmas morning - just as Snuffy was about to leave, his grandmother came to spend Christmas with him instead! He and Snuffy then join Elmo and his friends around the big Christmas tree in [[w:c:muppet:The yard|the yard] to sing "Keep Christmas With You (All Through the Year)".
- Elmo's World: Happy Holidays!
- Elmo's Christmas Countdown - In box #8 on the Christmas Counter-Downer, Big Bird and Anne Hathaway participate in a music video parody of "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas".
- Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas - Big Bird's lookalike ancestor appears in the story in which Elmo's spreads cheer to a once-terminally grouchy Sesame Street.
- "A Furchester Christmas"
- Sesame Street: The Nutcracker Starring Elmo & Tango
Other Christmas productions[]
- A Muppet Family Christmas - Big Bird and his fellow Sesame Street costars join Kermit and his Muppet Show ones at Fozzie's mother's farmhouse for Christmas. The Christmas Turkey, in an attempt to avoid being cooked, convinces The Swedish Chef that Big Bird would make an even better Christmas dinner, so the Chef invites him into the kitchen. He, naively unaware of the Chef's intention to cook him, gives him a handful of homemade chocolate-covered birdseed; he is touched by it, and after they sing "The Christmas Song", the Chef decides to serve shredded wheat and cranberry sauce (which Big Bird remarks is his favorite dish) for dinner instead.
- Miracle on 34th Street - The Big Bird balloon from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade appears in this 1994 film.
- Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Big Bird and several of his costars made a special guest appearance at the 2014 concert.