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In older segments with Big Bird (I think pre mid 1990s), I noticed he typically preens himself like an actual bird in spare moments. Found that neat
Also something I noticed become less common: his trademark snoring
I believe his snoring has been used less due to Caroll not being able to use as well as he did.
 

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Here's something that just now occured to me about FTB:

- Big Bird runs away from the Dodos just as night is falling
- The breaking news bulletin about Big Bird running away from home happens after dark, as we can see, everybody who's watching the bulletin is doing so at night
- When we throw to Kermit for his live report from Ocean View, it's broad daylight

How is this even possible? I would think maybe, perhaps, Kermit's report was actually pre-recorded, but it's implied that he's there live on the scene.
 

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Another FTB one that only I can appreciate: during the newscast, the TV set in Hooper's Store shows it's set on channel 2 . . . for me, this was a nice touch, because my local PBS has always been and still is channel 2, so it always seemed like poetic justice to have a TV with channel 2 on it in a movie of a PBS show.
 

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One of my friends brought this up recently, but throughout Follow That Bird, has anyone else Cookie Monster doesn’t eat cookies throughout the entire thing. He eats a car and a hot dog.
 

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One of my friends brought this up recently, but throughout Follow That Bird, has anyone else Cookie Monster doesn’t eat cookies throughout the entire thing. He eats a car and a hot dog.
I just realized that happens in some other SS specials. In Christmas Eve, he eats a pencil, typewriter, a telephone, and Gordon's Christmas tree. In Don't Eat the Pictures, he eats a brochure and the hot dog stand. In Let Me Eat Cake, he eats ALL of Sesame Street, the titular slice of cake, and then the foam letter sponsors.
 

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One of my friends brought this up recently, but throughout Follow That Bird, has anyone else Cookie Monster doesn’t eat cookies throughout the entire thing. He eats a car and a hot dog.
He does, it just happens off-screen: remember, he swiped that box of cookies from Sid, trying hard to not wake him up in the process.
 

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He does, it just happens off-screen: remember, he swiped that box of cookies from Sid, trying hard to not wake him up in the process.
I completely forgot about that. Though in EIG, Cookie Monster doesn’t get to eat cookies correct?
 

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No, him getting run over by Telly before he can is a running gag.

There was a deleted scene where they tried escaping the jail by swiping the keys, but Cookie eats them.
 

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No. There's a photo or two on the Wiki that were in one of the tie-in books, though.
 
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