Season: 2
Episode: Book of Corrine
Length: 0:52
Cast: Dan Milano (Big Bird, Elmo, Grover), Seth Green (Quarantiner, Count von Count, Announcer), Tom Root (Mr. Snuffleuphagus)
Characters: Big Bird, Quarantiners, Elmo, Grover, Mr. Snuffleuphagus, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster, Count von Count, Children, Dead Kid
Segment Summary: Big Bird gets the bird flu.
Themes: Animals, Commercials, Death, Diseases, Doctors, Mashups, Television, Vomit
Allusions:
- This segment parodies TV's Sesame Street.
- There was a similar sketch on MADtv where Big Bird also got the bird flu that might have inspired this sketch.
Trivia / Info:
- Seth Green did guest-star on Sesame Street two years earlier in 2004.
- A brief parody of "One of These Things" is seen, with three dancing kids and one dead kid.
- The “letters of the day” are CDC, which is the acronym for the Center for Disease Control.
Goofs / Nitpicks:
- Sesame Street is shown as having a "Word of the Day" (Quarantine), though it traditionally only actually had a "Letter" and "Number of the Day". Interestingly a year after this sketch was made, Sesame Street episodes did start including a "Word of the Day", which would be introduced at the start of the show as the "Word on the Street". This practice was discontinued when the show was reduced to a half-hour format and moved to HBO.
- Snuffy is portrayed as an imaginary friend of Big Bird, when, in fact, he's actually a real character on the show and was only thought to be imaginary during his first few appearances.
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