Angry Birds

Sesame Street Elmo's Alphabet Challenge Preview - Happy Words

Angry Birds is a popular video game released by Rovio Entertainment in 2009. In the game, the player uses a slingshot to launch birds at pigs that are often sheltered by structures, with the advantage to attack the pigs on the playing field.

References

• The 2012 direct-to-video special Elmo's Alphabet Challenge features a spoof of the game series called "Angry Words" (though Elmo prefers to call it "Happy Words").
• In a Sesame Bits comic released in promotion of the DVD release for Elmo's Alphabet Challenge, Ernie imagines what it would be like to be in his favorite video games, with Bert taking on roles in "Super Mustachio Bros.", "Elf Craft" and "Angry Words."
• Bert plays a game on his phone called "Angry Pigeons" in a season 45 episode of Sesame Street.
• Fozzie Bear ends up going to "Angry Birds" while trying to hang up the phone in Episode 103: Bear Left Then Bear Write.

Connections

• Peter Dinklage voiced the Mighty Eagle in The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Josh Gad voiced Chuck in The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Bill Hader voiced Leonard in The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Imagine Dragons' song On Top of the World was heard in The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Keegan-Michael Key voiced Judge Peckinah in The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Demi Lovato covered "I Will Survive" for the soundtrack of The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Kate McKinnon voiced Stella in The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Maya Rudolph voiced Matilda in The Angry Birds Movie (2016)