![]() ![]() Shortly afterwards, a police officer pulls the Sleaze Brothers over for speeding and arrests the pair on various charges. Gordon and Olivia give chase in Gordon's Volkswagen Beetle and successfully rescue him after he jumps from the moving truck. However, the Sleaze Brothers quietly wake up and just as Linda unlocks the cage, they drive off in their truck, and Big Bird is still in it. The next morning, his friends sneak into the circus tent and try to set him free. Despite this, he brings in plenty of customers.Īfter the show, two kids sneak backstage to see Big Bird, who asks them to call Sesame Street to inform his friends of his whereabouts. After escaping her, Big Bird meets the Sleaze Brothers at their carnival and asks if they have a place to hide, resulting in them putting him in their cage and deciding to paint him blue and tout him as "The Bluebird of Happiness", though he sings sadly about wishing to be back home. When he arrives in Toadstool, Miss Finch does so at the same time and chases him there. Two con artist brothers named Sid and Sam Sleaze, who operate a fraudulent carnival called The Sleaze Brothers Funfair, plot to catch Big Bird and put him on display for profit. The next morning, Miss Finch arrives and he sneaks away in a haystack. ![]() ![]() While on the way home, he hitches a ride with a trucker who encourages him to persevere and later meets two kids named Ruthie and Floyd at a farm, who allow him to sleep in their barn overnight. His friends on Sesame Street also see the news and band together to locate him before Miss Finch does, and take several vehicles on their quest after Bob instructs them to head to Toadstool, Indiana to meet up with him. When Big Bird leaves the Dodos' home to return to Sesame Street, he ends up on the news where Miss Finch tells reporter Kermit the Frog that she intends to find him and bring him back to the Dodos. Snuffleupagus, who is watching over his nest back on Sesame Street. However, he begins to feel uncomfortable with them as they all think poorly of non-birds, and reaches his breaking point when they suggest he should have a bird as a best friend instead of Mr. The social worker, Miss Finch, is sent to Sesame Street to find and bring Big Bird to a worthy family of dodos in Ocean View, Illinois. The Feathered Friends' Board of Birds - an organization whose purpose is to place stray birds with nice bird families - discusses the case of Big Bird. ![]() This is the only Sesame Street feature film to star both Henson (as Kermit the Frog and Ernie) and Richard Hunt and the last Muppet film to involve them in before their deaths in 19. However, it was a box office disappointment, grossing $13.9 million ($36 million when adjusted for inflation) and resulting in a slight loss for the Children's Television Workshop. and received mostly positive reviews from critics. Produced by Children's Television Workshop and Warner Bros, and filmed at the Cinespace Film Studios and on location in the Greater Toronto Area, the film was released in the United States on Augby Warner Bros. It stars Muppet performers Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson and Frank Oz alongside Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, Chevy Chase, Joe Flaherty, Waylon Jennings, and Dave Thomas. Based on the long-running popular children's television series Sesame Street created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, it was the first theatrical feature-length Sesame Street film. Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (or simply Follow That Bird) is a 1985 American musical road comedy film directed by Ken Kwapis and written by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss. ![]()
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