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 * Sesame Street parody: Big Bird gets the bird flu

The sketch starts with clips of children crossing a bridge and in a playground accompanied with a theme tune similar to the Sesame Street theme. Big Bird is in his nest area, feeling sick. Two kids, played by MAD TV cast members Crista Flanagan and Bobby Lee walk up to him and ask what's wrong. Big Bird tells them that he's sick. The girl(Flanagan)says he should feel relaxed since he's gotten back from a long vacation. Gordon(played by Keegan-Michael Key)walks in and asks what's going on. The boy(Lee)tells him that "Bird"(as they refer to Big Bird in the entire sketch)is sick after returning from a vacation. Gordon asks Big Bird where he went, and it turns out that he was with his relatives in South East Asia. Gordon realises that Big Bird had gotten the bird flu. Big Bird asks Gordon what the bird flu and it leads to a song which has a similar tune to Big Bird's "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" song about the symptons of the disease. After the song has ended, a sketch starts with shadows of a man and woman in a blue background sounding out and forming words while the letters are seen(a reference to The Electric Company). The words they form are "flu", "fever" and "fatal". Then it cuts back to the nest area. The girl decides that a big hug will cheer up Big Bird. Gordon stops her because she will get infected. Big Bird sneezes at the two kids, and they both start sneezing. Gordon runs off screaming "This is bad! This is bad!" This cuts to another sketch, with Cookie Monster(with a flat head, big mouth and yellow nose) behind a brickwall and in front of him is a plate of chicken. Cookie starts to notice the chicken but says that he's not called "Chicken Monster". He changes his mind and goes ahead with eating the chicken(COOKIE: Who me kidding? Me eat anything. Me compulsive eater!)He starts feeling cold until he faints. Back at the nest area, the girl notices Bob](played by Frank Caeti)pushing a wheelbarrow full of dead puppets-two humanoids(a girl who looks similar to [[Betty Lou and a boy), a noseless Elmo and two anonymous gray and brown monsters. The kids walk up to him. Bob tells the kids that they have to leave right now. The boy asks him what's going on, and Bob says that he doesn't want the kids to see what's in the wheelbarrow. The girl notices the dead puppets and starts freaking out that Bert, Ernie and Grover(not seen)have died. Elmo, standing in the cart, is giggling and saying "Tickle me!" until he coughs and dies. Big Bird asks Bob if he's the one who's responsible of what had happened. Bob tells him that he is, and starts opening a nearby trashcan(probably Oscar's)to dump the dead puppets into and at the same time sings "Everyone's Infected in the Neighborhood"(to the tune of "The People in Your Neighborhood". Gordon comes back with a can of gasoline, which he pours onto Big Bird. Gordon asks if anyone has a lighter, and the boy says he does and hands it to him. Gordon is about to set Big Bird on fire but before he does, he tells him that he's sorry about what is about to happen, to which Big Bird responds: "Well, I guess that's it for me. Gooodbyyeee friends!" Then it cuts to a blue background with the letter P coming towards the screen and Grover's voiceover is heard.

Grover: Sesame Street is brought to you by the letter P...for Pandemic!(the word "Pandemic" appears on screen)

Cuts to the same red curtain seen on The Muppet Show. Statler and Waldorf appear.

WALDORF: We're gonna get letters on that one!

STATLER: Is it if anyone who watches this show can write!

(Statler and Waldorf laugh)

MasterYoshi 14:40, 20 February 2006 (UTC)