2013

40 years of Sesamstrasse.

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Armando, Sesame Street's new neighbor

Television & Movies

• Sesame Street season 44, September 16
• Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular, November 28

Appearances

• The Swedish Chef in SportsCenter commercials on ESPN, January
• Big Bird with Michelle Obama in "Let's Move!" PSAs, February
• Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and Animal on Good Luck Charlie, April 28
• Gobo and Red Fraggle host the Fraggle Rock-athon on The Hub, April 21
• Rosita, Oscar the Grouch, Telly, and Ismael Crúz Cordova on Good Morning America, May 10
• Rosita and Mando, ¡Despierta América!, May 13
• Eric Jacobson and the Muppet Workshop on CNN, July 7
• Rosita, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, and Lola, with Mando, ¡Despierta América!, July 12, first televised performance by Ryan Dillon
• Kermit the Frog and Steve Martin on Funny or Die, August 21
• Elmo, Grover, Abby Cadabby, Rosita, Cookie Monster, Murray, The Count, and Big Bird on Good Morning America, September 13
• Cookie Monster on The Wendy Williams Show, September 25
• Elmo, Grover, Zoe, Abby, Cookie Monster, Murray, The Count, Big Bird and Snuffy on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, September 25
• Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on The Colbert Report, September 26
• Grover and Bert on #5Facts, October 9
• Frank Oz and Brian Jay Jones promoting Jim Henson: The Biography on Today, October 15
• Count von Count on Katie, October 31
• Kermit and Pepe on The View, November 13

Live Appearances

• Big Bird at Qualcomm's CES 2013, January 7
• Alan, Bob, Gordon, Maria, Gina, Rosita, Grundgetta, and Herry Monster at From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook, January 28
• Sonia Manzano, Joey Mazzarino, supervising producer Nadine Zylstra and researcher Autumn Zitani, "Master Class with Sesame Workshop: Inspiring the Global Child", TIFF Kids International Film Festival, April 19 (full event April 18 to 21)
• Miss Piggy, Gobo Fraggle, Oscar the Grouch, Caroll Spinney, Eric Jacobson and John Tartaglia at MOMI, May 21
• Rosita and Abby Cadabby, with a walkaround Cookie Monster, Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration event
• Maria (Sonia Manzano) and Cookie Monster (David Rudman), and walk-around characters of Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Grover, 10th Annual WTTW Kids Fun and Run, August 25
• Red Fraggle, Mokey Fraggle, Karen Prell, Kathryn Mullen, and Michael Frith at Dragon Con, September
• The cast of Sesame Street on a float for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, November 28.

International Appearances

• Ernie on DAS!, January 2
• Pferd & Wolle on DAS!, January 3
• Ernie and Bert on DAS!, January 4
• Elmo on DAS!, January 5
• Finchen and Wolf on DAS!, January 6
• Ernie & Bert on German NDR Info radio (video available), January 6
• H. Melvin Ming, Cookie Monster (David Rudman), Pferd, Wolle, Finchen, Elmo, Ernie & Bert at Sesamstrasse's 40th anniversary press conference birthday party, Samson, Ernie & Bert at the 40th anniversary live concert (Hamburg, Germany), January 7 (live appearances)
• Ernie, Bert & Elmo on Hamburg Journal, January 7
• Ernie & Bert on German N-JOY radio (video available), January 8
• Ernie & Bert on TV Total, January 31
• Miss Piggy on Red Nose Day (Pepe in promos), March 15
• Ernie & Bert on SWR3 latenight (Germany), April 12
• Oscar the Grouch on Sunrise, April 26
• Ernie on Hamburg Journal, May 14
• Ernie at 40 Jahre Sesamstrasse exhibition opening night launch party in Hamburg, Germany, May 14 (live appearance)
• Samson, Ernie and Bert on Wer hat's gesehen?, June 16
• Ernie at the 10th annual Hamburg Animation Awards, August 6 (live appearance)
• Ernie, Bert, Elmo, Wolf & Preston Rabbit on Das Herbstfest der Träume, October 12 (live TV appearance)
• Elmo on Sunrise, October 15
• Ernie, Bert, Elmo, Wolf & Preston Rabbit on Das Magazin zum Herbstfest, October 18
• Kermit and Miss Piggy at Robbie Williams: One Night at the Palladium in London, November 8 (live appearance)

International Television & Movies

• Treehouse TV will give up the rights to Sesame Street and its spin-offs

Books

• Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet: Where No Muppet Has Gone Before, May 14
• Jim Henson: The Biography, September 24

Storybooks

• The Muppets: For the Love of Miss Piggy, January 2
• Elmo's Daddy, January 8
• Sesame Beginnings: It's Time!, January 8
• Tuck Me In, Elmo!, January 8
• The Muppets: Easter Eggstravaganza!, February 5
• Elmo at the Zoo, February 5
• The Muppets: Fozzie's Funny Business, April 2
• The Muppets: Bunsen and Beaker Save the Show, September 3

Home Video

• Elmo's World: All Day With Elmo, February 5
• Fraggle Rock: The Complete First Season (re-release), March 12
• Fraggle Rock: The Complete Second Season (re-release), April 16
• Elmo the Musical, May 7
• Fraggle Rock: Meet The Fraggles, May 14
• Fraggle Rock: The Complete Third Season (re-release), May 14
• Fraggle Rock: 30th Anniversary Complete Series Collection, May 14
• Fraggle Rock: The Complete Fourth Season (re-release), June 11
• The Jim Henson Collection, June 11
• Arts and Crafts Playdate, July 9
• The Muppet Movie: The Nearly 35th Anniversary Edition, Blu-ray, August 13
• C is for Cooking, September 10
• Being Brave, October 1
• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas and The Christmas Toy, October 8
• Fairytale Fun, November 5
• Muppet Treasure Island & The Great Muppet Caper: Of Pirates & Pigs Collection, Blu-ray, December 10

International Home Video

• Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 7: Die neue Brille, February 8
• Eine Möhre für Zwei DVD 8: Alles Schrott?, February 8
• Sesamstrasse - Classics: Die 70er Jahre, November 29

Video games

• Kinect Sesame Street TV, season 2, January 7
• My Muppets Show app, June 17 (in Australia), August 1 (worldwide release)

Comics

• Sesame Street Issue #1 - I is for Imagination, May 1

Merchandise

• Muppet Wacky Wobblers
• Muppet Vinylmation, series 3, July 26
• Plushy Pencil Pals

Albums

• The Muppet Movie (CD reissue), August 13
• Dream a Dream and See, September

Theme park

• Spaghetti Space Chase, indoor Sesame Street ride at Universal Studios Singapore, March 1

Web content

• "Can You Tell-y Me How to Get to a Billion?", February 14
• "Ricky Gervais and Pepe the King Prawn on the Set of Muppets Most Wanted", February 25
• "Counting the "You"s in YouTube", March 6
• "Sesame Street Explores National Parks", June 4
• "Royal Baby Congratulations from Miss Piggy & Kermit the Frog!", July 22
• "Me Want It (But Me Wait)", August 5
• "Sesame Street: Little Discoverers: Big Fun With Science, Math and More", September
• Muppisode, December 5

People

• Jane Henson dies, April 2
• Faz Fazakas dies, September 30
• Leonard Jackson dies, December 22

Events

• 40 Jahre Sesamstrasse anniversary exhibition
  • Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen (Berlin, Germany),
    December 13, 2012 - April 7 May 5, 2013 (extended)
  • Altonaer Museum (Hamburg, Germany), May 15, 2013 - March 16, 2014
    (as Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 40.! Ein Ausflug in die Welt der Sesamstraße)
• Sesamstrasse 40th anniversary birthday party & concert (Hamburg, Germany), January 7
• Original National Children's Museum opening; the museum and its Sesame display were bumped up to December 2012.
• Fraggle Rock 30th Anniversary boutique at FAO Schwarz in New York City, April

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