Back when the 25th anniversary release was announced, I thought it would be cool to include bonus clips, though at the time Warner Home Video didn't have the video rights to Sesame Street, just Follow That Bird (and then they got the rights a year later). I can't remember what clips I thought should be included then (but I probably made a wishlist back then, in the thread announcing that release).
But today, after thinking about that for a blu-ray release, I was thinking maybe include eight clips from the 1980s, featuring main characters from that era. The only clip I had in mind that I felt had any relevence to the movie was "Fuzzy and Blue (and Orange)", since it's about the color blue and Big Bird gets painted blue in the movie. Other clips that I thought would be great for inclusion: "A grown-ups hand: don't cross the street without it!" with Big Bird, "Snuffy jumps on trampoline", "The Count's counting poem", "Bert and Ernie: Surprise", "Kermit News: Elmo's ideas", "Alone in the Swamp with You", and "Snuffy and Barkley at the park". Maybe I should have taken out "Snuffy jumps on trampoline" since it has Big Bird, Snuffy, and The Count, who all appear in other clips in that wishlist, and replace it with something with Telly (maybe "Food We Eat").
But after you asked this (and I wasn't able to reply then, so I had plenty of time to think about this), I thought, what IF a Blu-ray release of FTB had bonus clips that somehow relate to things in the movie? Here's what I thought up:
- "Fuzzy and Blue" or "Me Gotta Be Blue" (since Big Bird gets painted blue, and these songs are about being blue)
- "We're All Monsters" (teaches diversity, the lesson seems similar to this movies lesson that people don't need to be the same species or race to live in harmony)
- Kermit News: The Bird Family Song (it's about a bird family, though the song title's not in the lyrics)
- Seatbelt cartoon (since it includes a scene with an airplane pilot flying his plane upside-down, like Ernie and Bert do)
- Yosh Smengie gives Slimey clarinet lessons (since John Candy makes a cameo in the movie... have any of the movie's other cameo guests appear on the show? I think I've seen Waylon Jennings listed among the shows guests in Sesame Street Unpaved, but I don't know if he actually appeared on the show or if the book listed him because he was in the movie)
- "City-Country Song" (since Big Bird lives in the city but a lot of the movie takes place in the country)
- Bert and Ernie: Purple Hand (since the movie has Big Bird painted blue and this skit has Bert's hand painted a different color)
Though Warner would most likely only include one or two bonus clips if any.
Wow, and although there's no news or rumors of a Blu-ray release, it would be great if they could include the full audio tracks of the songs "Working on my Attitude" and "All Together Now". I heard those songs on YouTube a few years ago, and they were great-sounding (especially All Together Now), and yet in the movie you can barely hear those songs (they're heard quietly on radios). They went through the trouble of getting known singers to record those songs, and barely have them in the movie ("All Together Now" especially sounds like it should have played during the end credits)? Were those recorded with the soundtrack in mind (nevermind the fact that, as far as I know, Sesame Street albums have a hard time not selling)?