Little things we've noticed

[MuppetSpot]

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.

 

[D'Snowth]

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.

 

[D'Snowth]

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.

 

[MuppetSpot]

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.

 

[cjd874]

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.

 

[D'Snowth]

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.

 

[MuppetSpot]

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?

 

[Oscarfan]

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.

 

[D'Snowth]

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

Anyway we can see this? I don't think the DVD had any deleted scenes.

 

[Oscarfan]

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