When TIME set out to tackle the debate over children’s TV in late 1970, a year after Sesame Street premiered, correspondent Mary Cronin was sent to interview one of the show’s puppeteers—and ended up ...

In the clip, a health clinic had been set up in the store, and Big Bird notices the children lined up along with a sign, “DON’T WAIT — VACCINATE.” And they’re also giving away balloons to the boys and ...

Woodstock may be the name of the bird in the “Peanuts” comic strip, but the big bird in Woodstock, Connecticut is Caroll Spinney. Spinney was the gentle, expressive puppeteer who embodied Big Bird on ...

Big Bird is a national treasure. And yet right-wing attention seekers are the ones getting their feathers ruffled, accusing the “Sesame Street” star of being brought to you by the letter “P” — for ...

It’s hard to imagine how we all missed it. After all, an 8-foot, 2-inch yellow bird is sort of hard to miss. But, lucky for all of us, Ted Cruz is on the case! See, after Big Bird, beloved face of ...

“Uh oh! Does anyone know how to make me big Big Bird again?” the official Twitter/X account of Sesame Street’s Big Bird posted on January 24. Thus began Big Bird’s own Metamorphosis, in which the ...

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 ...