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One-60 minutes Sesame Street special

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Fine art (commonly shortened to Don't Eat the Pictures ) is a one-hour Sesame Street special that aired on PBS on November 16, 1983. The title comes from a vocal in the special, "Don't Eat the Pictures",[1] sung by Cookie Monster.[2] It was available every bit a video tape by Random House in 1987,[3] and it was re-released on VHS by Sony Wonder in 1996 and on DVD in 2011. The special has everybody reprising their roles from the children'due south boob tube serial, Sesame Street. The story takes on getting locked in at New York Urban center'due south Metropolitan Museum of Art as they embark on an run a risk to discover their friend Big Bird,[4] who has gotten lost finding Snuffy.[five] They must stay there until the morning while avoiding a nighttime watchman. The special features the regular human cast of Sesame Street forth with several of The Muppets, including Cookie Monster, Boob tube,[6] Bert[7] & Ernie,[eight] The Count,[9] Grover,[10] and Oscar the Grouch.[xi] Snuffy also appears, fifty-fifty though his names are revealed to be Mr. Snuffleupagus and Aloysius Snuffleupagus; still, at this indicate in the evidence's history, he is notwithstanding the imaginary friend of Large Bird, never seen past the other characters on Sesame Street.

Plot [edit]

The Sesame Street gang have gone on a field trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Large Bird has arranged to come across with Snuffy at the museum but before he tin, it is closing fourth dimension. Large Bird decides to go off and look for Snuffy. Before the group can leave, they realize Big Bird is missing and run all through the museum looking for him. The chase has them going through different exhibits at loftier speed and missing, spotting, and chasing him. Afterward a bit, they surrender, only to find that they are locked in the museum overnight. They decide to become back out and look for Big Bird and look at all the exhibits while they are at information technology.

Big Bird eventually finds Snuffy and they wander the Egyptian exhibit and meet an Egyptian prince named Sahu (Aram Chowdhury) and his cat who have been cursed to remain on World until he answers the question "Where does today meet yesterday?" Through drawings, Sahu explains his dilemma. A demon appears to ask Sahu a question. If he does not know or answers incorrectly, the demon vanishes until the side by side night. If he answers correctly, he will and so exist taken to Osiris, who shall counterbalance Sahu's heart against a feather. If his heart is lighter, so he tin rejoin his parents among the stars, but if it is heavier he volition forever remain on earth. Big Bird considers all this as well daunting and instead suggests Sahu remain on Earth and become "the only 4,000 year old kid on Sesame Street". However, Snuffy thinks it is only fair they assist Sahu be reunited with his parents, and Large Bird agrees they should work on the riddle.

Meanwhile, the group has dissever up and are all in unlike exhibits. Bob and Cookie Monster find themselves looking at pictures with food in them. While Cookie Monster tries to eat the pictures, Bob points out to him a sign that says "Delight don't consume the pictures". He replies with "Oh, this going to be a long night". He later sings the song "Don't Eat the Pictures" about this. Oscar finds an exhibit of Greek and Roman statues that take been cleaved past natural disasters. He looks in and breaks into vocal on how cute they are to him. Grover finds an exhibit filled with armor from medieval times and thinks a adapt of Maximilian armour is a guy named "Max" and tries to befriend him by changing into his Super Grover costume and singing a song. Bert and Ernie view the painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware, to which Bert comments on the dedication of Washington and his men, but Ernie comments how he was very featherbrained to cross in the wintertime and should have waited until Easter or taken the George Washington Bridge.

As the night passes, Large Bird and Snuffy keep to try to figure out the reply to the question. Soon just before midnight Big Bird unknowingly figures out the answer is "a museum". When the demon appears that night, the question is answered correctly and Sahu is sent to Osiris (Fritz Weaver) to accept his heart weighed. When the feather to weigh his heart doesn't appear, Big Bird offers one of his to help. Only when Sahu's heart is too heavy, Big Bird claims that it wasn't off-white since Sahu was on Earth for 40 centuries and he was and so solitary his center would be heavy, so he tin't become a star.

Afterward this, Sahu's middle becomes lighter and he is now fix to join his parents and accept his cat. Large Bird and Snuffy then exit the museum, look up into the night heaven, and run across iv stars in a directly line (representing Sahu, his parents, and his cat), and are glad that they reunited Sahu with his parents. When morn comes, Big Bird finds the grouping and Snuffy is non there. He got up early on and left to get to "Snufflegarden". Bob commends Cookie Monster for behaving himself inside the museum and rewards him by saying he can have anything for auction on a hot dog cart. Cookie Monster, in a fit of hunger and gladness, elects to eat everything, even the cart itself!

Afterwards the credits, Big Bird pretends to be a statue. He encourages the viewers to visit their local museum, and comments on how staying perfectly notwithstanding is tiring and wonders how statues tin practise it.

Song listing [edit]

  • "Broken and Cute"[12] — sung past Oscar when he sees things that are cleaved, or beautiful (Caroll Spinney)
  • "I Want To Be Your Friend"[xiii] — sung by Grover's modify ego, "Super Grover" while making friends at the museum (Frank Oz)
  • "Don't Consume the Pictures"[14] — sung by Cookie Monster. In the end, he loves to devour something else if possible (Oz). Also sung by three angel monsters (Ivy Austin).
  • "Y'all're Gonna Be A Star" — sung past Big Bird when he asks his friend to be a star (Spinney). Also sung by his friend, Sahu (Aram Chowdhury).
  • "Mothers and Children"[15] — sung by Olivia when she learns all about mothers and their little children (Alaina Reed Hall)

The title song from Don't Swallow the Pictures begins with Cookie Monster and his homo friend, Bob McGrath in front of Still Life with Ham, a painting by Philippe Rousseau which Cookie Monster tries to devour. Bob holds Cookie Monster back and reminds him that he promised non to consume anything in the museum. And so Cookie Monster breaks into song, with angelic choral accompaniment, about paintings, statues, and mummies, and how he understands how important it is to not devour them.[xiv]

Cast [edit]

Muppet performers [edit]

  • Caroll Spinney - Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
  • Frank Oz - Cookie Monster, Bert, and Grover
  • Jerry Nelson - Count von Count
  • Martin P. Robinson - Snuffy and Telly (DVD Version)
  • Bryant Young - Snuffy (assistant)
  • Jim Henson - Ernie
  • Brian Muehl - Boob tube (VHS Version)
  • Richard Hunt
  • Ivy Austin - Angels

Human cast [edit]

  • Linda Bove - Linda
  • Northern Calloway - David
  • Loretta Long - Susan
  • Sonia Manzano - Maria
  • Bob McGrath - Bob
  • Roscoe Orman - Gordon
  • Alaina Reed Hall - Olivia
  • Aram Chowdhury - Egyptian Prince Sahu
  • James Mason - Demon
  • Fritz Weaver - Osiris
  • Paul Dooley - Museum Nighttime Watchman
  • Li Alexander
  • Jason Paul Janzer
  • Nadia Jones
  • Mika Kakizaki
  • David Zetlin-Jones
  • Andrew Cassese
  • Jon Stone - Intercom Journalist
  • Carol Kennedy (uncredited)

Coiffure [edit]

  • Conceived and Written by: Tony Geiss
  • Produced past: Lisa Simon, Arlene Sherman, Tony Geiss
  • Music by: Joe Raposo, Tony Geiss, Stephen Lawrence, Christopher Cerf, Dick Lieb
  • Arranger and Conductor: Dick Lieb
  • Music Coordinator: Danny Epstein
  • Music Assistant: Dave Connor
  • Production Supervisor: Frieda Lipp
  • Associate Directors: Robert J. Emerick, Ted May
  • 2nd Unit Director: Emily Squires
  • Art Manager: Victor DiNapoli
  • Lighting Directors: David Thou. Clark, Jim Tetlow
  • Muppets by: Caroly Wilcox, Kermit Honey, Donald Sahlin with Ed Christie, Cheryl Blalock, Richard Termine, Noel MacNeal
  • Production Stage Manager: Chet O'Brien
  • Phase Managing director: Niles Goodsite
  • Gear up Decorator: Nat Mongioi
  • Graphic Artist: Gerri Brioso
  • Costume Designer: Nib Kellard
  • Assistant to the Producers: Cheryl Ann Jung
  • Production Assistants: Diane Mitchell, Mercedes Polanco, Thelma Moses, Danette Morganelli, Lynn Roberge, Stuart Lowery, Richard Grigonis
  • Make-Up: Lee Halls
  • Hairstylist: Karen Specht
  • Wardrobe: Grisha Mynova
  • Technical Managing director: Ralph Mensch
  • Audio: Blake Norton
  • Cameramen: Miguel Armstrong, Manny Gutierrez
  • Video: Bob Haight
  • Mobile Facilities Provided past: Reeves Teletape
  • Videotape Editor: Matty Powers
  • Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
  • Engineer In Charge: Mark Schubin
  • Executive Producer: Jim and Jane Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney, Lloyd Morrisett, Dulcy Singer
  • Directed by: Jon Rock
  • For the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • The Part of Flick & Boob tube: Karl Katz
    • Production Coordinator: Caroline Kennedy
    • With Special Cheers To: Philippe de Montebello · And To The Departments Of: American Art, Ancient Virtually Eastern Art, Artillery & Armor, Buildings, Egyptian Art, European Paintings, European Sculpture & Decorative Arts, Far Eastern Art, Greek & Roman Art, Information Desk, Operations, Public Information, Primitive Art, Photo & Slide Library, Photograph Studio, Security, Twentieth Century Fine art · Richard Morsches, Linda Sylling, Joseph Volpato, Al, Siciliano, Hiram Pabon, Tom Gaffney, & The Unabridged Staff Of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art · And To: Dr. William Gutsch - American Museum Of National History - Hayden Planetarium

Come across also [edit]

  • List of American films of 1983

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Don't Eat the Pictures".
  2. ^ "Muppet Bios: Cookie Monster".
  3. ^ "Product Details".
  4. ^ "Muppet Bios: Big Bird".
  5. ^ "Muppet Bios: Aloysius Snuffleupagus".
  6. ^ "Muppet Bios: Telly Monster".
  7. ^ "Muppet Bios: Bert".
  8. ^ "Muppet bios: Ernie".
  9. ^ "Muppet bios: Count".
  10. ^ "Muppet bios: Grover".
  11. ^ "Muppet bios: Oscar the Grouch".
  12. ^ "Don't Consume the Pictures: Cleaved and Beautiful".
  13. ^ "Super Grover Sings "I Want To Be Your Friend"".
  14. ^ a b "Sesame Street: Don't Consume the Pictures".
  15. ^ "Mothers & Children".

External links [edit]

Don't Eat the Pictures on Muppet Wiki

  • Don't Eat the Pictures at IMDb
  • Don't Eat the Pictures on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Eat_the_Pictures

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