AAO said:
It does all add up later when you see "Follow That Bird" - but oh well. But what would have been great is if Snuffy snuck away to find Big Bird and ended trapped with the Sleaze Brothers and later Big Bird went to "Snuffy's" rescue! Then they'd both be trapped!
There was a book called Big Bird Visits The Carnival (i could be wrong on the title) which is slightly based on the movie. In this book the carnival comes to town, at a walking distance from Sesame Street. Big Bird planned on going to the carnival with Snuffy, but Snuffy couldn't go because he had to practice soem tricks for soem reason. So, Big Bird went alone and ended up meeting the Sleeze brothers, who let him perform on stage at the carnival. They paint him blue and Big Bird willingly performs on-stage, but then they lock him in a cage. Later that night, Snuffy decided to go tot eh carnival to look for Big Bird (even though the carnival was probably closed) and found Big Bird in a cage. Snuffy had learned a special trick that he'd been wanting to do for awhile but hadn't gotten the opportunity. While the sleeze brothers were busy counting their money, he sneakily took the keys from the pocket of one of the brothers without getting caught, and Big Bird was freed. In this book we never got to see their reaction to losing Big Bird. Anyway, I think this book was one of the few times that it was a good thing that others didn't see Snuffy. And yes, it was mentioend a few times in this book (by oscar) that Snuffy was Big Bird's imaginary friend.
Does anybody know if Big Bird ever barely missed Snuffy in the way that the adults missed him?