40 Years of Sunny Days

Release Date	2009
Produced by	Genius Entertainment
Catalogue no.	SS00161
Format	DVD
Discs	2
Region	1

Booklet wrap-around

Disc menu

Pop-up trivia

Vintage interviews

Rehearsal footage

In the workshop

Archive photos during scene transitions

Henson #1 Song

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Bein' Green

Bert and Ernie: Banana in Ear

Remembering Bread, Milk, Butter

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Geometry of Circles

Luxo Jr.

Monster in the Mirror

"Slimey to the Moon"

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days is a Sesame Street DVD set released on November 10, 2009, to celebrate the show's 40th Anniversary.

Guest stars featured in clips on the set include: Madeline Kahn, James Taylor, Patti Labelle, Batman, Lena Horne, Happy Days' Fonzie, the Star Wars droids, Mister Rogers, Diana Ross, Pee-wee Herman, Feist, Smokey Robinson, Destiny's Child, and Robert De Niro.

Disc 1: Seasons 1-20

A * denotes that part of that clip was also featured in the "TV Montages" in this set.

Season 1

• "Sesame Street Open" (including Gordon's opening line from Episode 0001)
• "Henson #1 Song" *
• "Rubber Duckie"
• "I Love Trash"
• Batman Around/Up/Through
• "If I Knew You Were Coming"
• "Bein' Green"

Season 2

• Bert & Ernie: Banana in Ear (part 1 only)*
• "Henson Queen of Six"
• "Mad Song"
• Sorting Song with Cookie Monster

Season 3

• Mad Painter #5
• "Bienvenido Song"
• "Lady Bug Picnic" *

Season 4

• Herry & John-John Count *
• Talking Loud / Talking Soft
• Remembering Bread, Milk, Butter
• Kermit News: Sleeping Beauty (Prince Charming falls asleep)
• Bert & Ernie: Bert's Bust

Season 5

• "Fat Cat"
• O-Orange Man
• Lena Horne: "How Do You Do?" *
• "Doin' the Pigeon"

Season 6

• Super Grover: Exit
• Typewriter: N-Nose *
• Invisible Ice Cream

Season 7

• "Pinball Animation #7" *

Season 8

• "People in Your Neighborhood" -- Elevator Operator and Pharmacist *

Season 9

• Fonzie on/off/on
• Clips From Hawaii (Snuffy lands on the island, Mr. Hooper surfs}
• I-Beam *

Season 10

• Telly Plugs in (Telly's first appearance) *

Season 11

• Star Wars: "One You Go Beep" *
• Kermit News: Foot Snuggies (with Dr. Nobel Price)
• Geometry of Circles (with music by Philip Glass)
• Monsterpiece Theater: Me Claudius
• Martians: Radio
• "Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco"

Season 12

• "Hello Hello Hello Song"
• Dancing Dog Imagines
• Two-Headed Monster: Telephone *
• Bring Your Own Can Night (with Oscar the Grouch, Bruno the Trashman, and cast)
• Mister Rogers Returns

Season 13

• Making Crayons
• Diana Ross: "Believe in Yourself"
• Bert & Ernie: Fish Call Quiet/Loud *
• Madeline Kahn: "Friendship Song" (from Episode 1576)

Season 14

• "Honker Duckie Dinger Jamboree"
• James Taylor: "Jellyman Kelly" *
• Bert & Ernie: Snowman
• "We All Sing the Same Song"

Season 15

• Teeny Little Super Guy: School
• Just Because (Big Bird comes to terms with Mr. Hooper's death) *

Season 16

• "Peanut Butter Factory Song"
• Smokey Robinson: "U Really Got a Hold on Me" *

Season 17

• Elmo's Make Believe Trip (the performance that Kevin Clash notes is the moment when he "found his voice" as Elmo)
• "Batty Bat Song"
• Snuffy Is Seen *

Season 18

• "Put Down the Duckie" (celebrity version) *
• "Sing Your Synonyms"

Season 19

• Pee-wee Herman's Alphabet
• Maria and Luis Get Married
• "African Alphabet" *

Season 20

• OOOO-Klahoma!
• Meet the Baby (Gabriela is born) *

Disc 2: Seasons 21-40

Season 21

• Monsterpiece Theater: King and I *
• AlphaQuest: Letter R
• "Monster in the Mirror"
• "Elmo's Song"
• Grover's Restaurant: Most Important Meal

Season 22

• Cecille the Ball: "I'm Gonna Get to You" *

Season 23

• Does Air Move Things?
• "What's the Name of That Song?" *

Season 24

• Ooh What a Fabulous Party *

Season 25

• Marilyn Horne: "C Is for Cookie" *

Season 26

• Arrested Development: "Pride"
• Dance Theater of Harlem: Five Birds
• Luxo Jr.: Front/Back *
• "My Name Is Zoe"
• "B Is for Bubble"

Season 27

• The Spin Doctors: "Two Princes" *

Season 28

• Fay Family: To Market *

Season 29

• Tony Bennett: "Slimey to the Moon" *
• "Count Me In"

Season 30

• Patti LaBelle: "Gospel Alphabet" *

Season 31

• The Goo Goo Dolls: "Pride" *
• Celebrity "Sing"

Season 32

• Robert De Niro: The Actor Prepares
• My Nest, My Home *
• Elmo's World Games: Mr. Noodle (includes "Elmo's World" opening)

Season 33

• "Bird on Me"
• Destiny's Child: "A New Way to Walk" *
• Fire on the Street

Season 34

• "ABC Hip Hop" *

Season 35

• TJ: "Me and My Chair" Song *
• Elmo's World: Lord of the Feet
• Six Feet Under

Season 36

• Alicia Keys: "Dancin'" *
• "A Cookie is a Sometime Food"

Season 37

• Abby's Arrival *
• Matt Lauer Interviews Cookie Monster
• Law & Order Special Letters Unit

Season 38

• Can't Say the Alphabet Enough *
• I Love Every Part of You

Season 39

• Feist: "1234" *
• The Golden Triangle of Destiny
• David Beckham: Persistent
• Plain White T's
• Neil Patrick Harris: The Shoe Fairy
• Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Penguin

Season 40

• "Guess the Seasons Song"
• D-Dance *

Bonus Features

• "Behind the Street" featurettes, which play when clicking the "enter" button when the Sesame Street logo appears on-screen.
  • An interview with Jon Stone on research and curriculum, and the barriers the show broke.
  • An interview with legendary puppeteer Caroll Spinney on Oscar the Grouch.
  • Leslie Carrara-Rudolph and Jason Weber talk about the creation of Abby Cadabby.
  • Behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage of several songs including "Guess The Seasons," "Hello, Hello," and "Friendship Song"
  • Exclusive archival footage featuring behind-the-scenes studio rehearsals with cast, puppeteers and crew including the making of Dr. Nobel Price, green screen passes of Elmo and other characters, and a production meeting discussion.
  • An interview with Kevin Clash about the origin of Elmo.
• Archive photos during scene and menu transitions.
• An on-screen pop-up feature with facts about Sesame Street.
• A limited edition, hard cover commemorative book (a small, 24-page version of Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street) complements the set.
• Fan Favorite Clip - Bert and Ernie: String Tied
• Sneak Peek: Abby's Flying Fairy School -- "Cinderella" episode
• TV Montage on both discs.
• Disc 1 Easter Egg: One minute panning shot of the Street set from Big Bird's nest to the Fix-It Shop.
• Disc 2 Easter Egg: Four and a half minute high speed montage of building the Sesame Street set.
• Link to sesamestreet.org/moresunnydays online DVD bonus.
• DVD-ROM: 189 pages of credits of 40 seasons of Sesame Street in PDF format.

Other releases

DVD2010
Warner Home Video

Vote

Genius Entertainment partnered with Amazon.com to allow fans to vote for one moment from a list of 10 clips to appear on the release. Voting was open from April 1st to April 28, 2009. The winning clip, with 27% of the vote, was "Bert and Ernie String Tied."

The nominees and results were as follows:

• "Alligator King" (10%)
• "Bert and Ernie String Tied" (27%)
• "King of Eight" (5%)
• "Henson Ball" (3%)
• "Martian Beauty" (1%)
• "What's the Name of that Song" (9%)
• "I Just Adore Four" (1%)
• "Pinball Machine 12" (24%)
• "Caribbean Amphibian" (10%)
• "Elmo's Debut" (6%)

Notes

• Kermit News: Sleeping Beauty is presented with the late-1980s title card instead of the original.
• Caroll Spinney wears a t-shirt with the Muppet Show logo on the back during behind-the-scenes footage of rehearsal of the "Hello Hello Hello Song" which is blurred out for the DVD release.
• Frank Oz is wearing a headband with his Muppet Show characters on it in behind-the-scenes footage of the snowman sketch. The images have been blurred out for this presentation.
• Caroll Spinney wears a Mickey Mouse t-shirt while rehearsing scenes from Episode 1576 which has been blurred out for the DVD release.
• A parody of the Birth of Venus from the Kermitage Collection can be seen on a wall in the bonus feature on the making of Abby Cadabby. The painting was blurred out for the DVD release.
• A number of inserts are edited. These include:
  • Herry's closing line, "Good!", in "Herry and John-John Count".
  • Smart Tina's line "Do it, Roosevelt!", at the end of "Talking Loud/ Talking Soft".
  • Lefty the Salesman's line "I didn't see nothing" at the end of "Invisible Ice Cream".
  • The opening wide shot in "Put Down the Duckie".
  • The last 10 seconds of "Me Lost Me Cookie".

See also

• Sesame Street: 40th Anniversary

External links

• Muppet Central review
• Valley Courrier review