TV Alert: Sesame Street at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

[The Count]

Trust me Dwayne, it was Billy Barkhurst performing Ernie. Maybe once we get an embedded link to the appearance from this year's parade you'll hear it better.

 

[wiley207]

Sooo there isn't gonna be a Kermit balloon like last year?

No there wasn't, from what I saw. Besides, the NBC coverage doesn't seem to care about the balloons much anymore. When announcing the parade lineup at the start, they completely ignored the balloons as if they weren't there! I guess it's a tradition that is going to die soon...

 

[MuppetSpot]

Is Herry on the float this year?
Also, I love the float with Grover in the nest

 

[WalterLinz]

No there wasn't, from what I saw. Besides, the NBC coverage doesn't seem to care about the balloons much anymore. When announcing the parade lineup at the start, they completely ignored the balloons as if they weren't there! I guess it's a tradition that is going to die soon...

What?! They're, like, my favorite part of the parade!! Lol.

I just saw the Sesame float, and it was so adorable!! I see that Mando got a haircut!! The song they sang wasn't so bad. It was cute that everybody on the float got a solo!

Sigh...if only The Muppets muppets had a float like this...lol.

 

[WalterLinz]

Peter Linz took a selfie from the inside of the float on his Facebook:

He said that he performed Cookie Monster, lip synching to David Rudman's audio!

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

Are the performances live or are they lip synched?

 

[zns]

What I especially enjoyed the most about the appearance was that just about every character had a featured solo in the musical number. It's always such a thrill to see our favorite Sesame Street Muppets live in the parade.

 

[Slackbot]

The only station in atlanta carrying the parade this morning live was CBS. They gave a lot of love to the balloons--now I know just how many cubic feet of heliim was inside Spider-Man and how long Papa Smurf's "cane" is--but I almost missed the Sesame Street float because I blinked. Didn't hear any audio for it. But, hey, we got to see a video of Taylor Swift!

 

[MJTaylor]

Too bad we don't get NBC in Australia. I'll have to see if it's on Youtube sometime.

 

[antsamthompson9]

The song they sang was amazing! Billy voicing Ernie here proves that he's Ernie from now on.