This Country Music Legend Once Set Big Bird From 'Sesame Street' on Fire

Big Bird barely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street' s biggest star in talks to ride aboard the Challenger space shuttle, but apparently, he nearly went up in smoke while ...
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Waylon Jennings Once Accidentally Lit Big Bird On Fire While Filming The 1985 Sesame Street Film, ‘Follow That Bird’

Classic Waylon... The country icon has so many iconic songs, and stories, to his name, and recently, we got to hear some brand new Waylon music on the album Songbird, which is a tracklist full of ...
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Flick Fact: Shock of all shocks: The Muppets’ Big Bird went WHERE?

Question: In the popular 1985 Muppets movie “Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird,” at a pivotal point, Big Bird stands next to a huge map of the United States to chart his travels and there are ...
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Super7 Is Sweepin' the Clouds Away With These New 'Sesame Street' Collectibles [Exclusive]

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...
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Sculptor Alex Da Corte Brought a Bright Blue Big Bird to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Rooftop—See Images Here

In the 1985 film Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, Big Bird gets kidnapped by a traveling circus. Its owners paint him blue, cage him, and force him to sing the song “I’m So Blue” for their ...