Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1983) (TV)

User Rating:

8.7/10   

Director:

Jon Stone

Writer:

Tony Geiss (writer)

Release Date:

16 November 1983 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Fantasy

Plot:

Getting locked in the Metropolitan Museum over night, Big Bird and Snuffy try to get a little boy, and...

Plot Keywords:

Art Gallery | Educational | Puppet | The Muppets | Art

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy.

Cast

Jim Henson	...	Ernie (voice)
Frank Oz	...	Bert / Cookie Monster / Grover (voice)
Jerry Nelson	...	The Count (voice)
Martin P. Robinson	...	Aloysius Snuffleupagus (voice)
Caroll Spinney	...	Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Linda Bove	...	Linda
Northern Calloway	...	David
Andrew Cassese
Aram Chowdhury	...	Prince Sahu
Paul Dooley	...	Museum Security Guard
Alaina Reed Hall	...	Olivia
Richard Hunt	...	(voice)
Loretta Long	...	Susan
Sonia Manzano	...	Maria
James Mason	...	Demon
Bob McGrath	...	Bob
Brian Muehl	...	Telly Monster (voice)
Roscoe Orman	...	Gordon
Fritz Weaver	...	Osiris
Bryant Young	...	Mr. Snuffleupagus (assistant)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Children's Television Workshop (CTW)

Trivia:

Cameo: ['Caroline Kennedy'] [walking past a guard]

Quotes:

Big Bird: Hi. Do you guard this museum?
Museum Security Guard: Yeah.
Big Bird: Well, good work! We were here all night, and nobody bothered us. Ta-ta.
[exits]
Museum Security Guard: No you weren't. No.
Big Bird: [off screen] We were too.

Movie Connections:

Spin off from "Sesame Street" (1969)

Soundtrack:

Broken and Beautiful

A Wonderfully Weird Sesame Street Movie

I very highly recommend this Sesame Street film for you and your children to watch. It is supposed to guide viewers through the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, but it is done through the memorable characters of Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie, and Big Bird. Kids can also get to learn a little bit (albeit filtered through the lenses of Jim Henson productions) about Egyptian mythology. Older viewers(those between the ages of eighteen and about thirty) will thoroughly enjoy this as a piece of nostalgia and camp, especially as relived through memorable characters of their childhood. One can't help but to laugh at the weird juxtaposition between Big Bird and the ominous Egyptian god of the dead, Osiris. Cookie Monster's song, which helps him remembers not to eat pictures of fruit and other food products, is hilarious and the most memorable part of the film.

Viewers of all ages will love this movie, so sayeth Osiris.