Muppet Wiki

READ MORE

Muppet Wiki
Muppet Wiki
49,280
pages
Release Date 2009
Produced by Genius Entertainment
Catalogue no. SS00161
Format DVD
Discs 2
Region 1
ASIN
40YearsofSunnyDaysbackcover

Back cover

40th-dvd-booklet

Booklet wrap-around

40years-menu

Disc menu

40years-popuptrivia

Pop-up trivia

40years-interviews

Vintage interviews

40years-rehearsals

Rehearsal footage

40years-workshop

In the workshop

Perform-supergrover2

Archive photos during scene transitions

1weddingcake

Henson #1 Song

BeinGreen-1970

Bein' Green

ErnieBertBananaEarPart1

Bert and Ernie: Banana in Ear

2963-A6
BreadMilkButter

"I Can Remember": Bread, Milk, Butter

Geometry of Circles 1 - Circle with Flower

Geometry of Circles

Luxo Jr

Luxo Jr.

Song.monsterinthemirror

Monster in the Mirror

Song.slimeytothemoon

"Slimey to the Moon"

3978k
3984d

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, in addition to the various celebrities who appear in "Put Down the Duckie" and "Sing."

Each disc begins with a TV Montage introduced by Count von Count and featuring one clip from each of the 40 seasons (all of which are presented within the main program). Each five-year period begins with a look through a scrapbook representing the time periods, and many clips begin with behind-the-scenes photos related to the clip (with the first few seconds of audio heard over the picture). The set also comes with a commemorative booklet, a shortened 24-page version of Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street. Early copies were hardcover, but when distribution switched from Genius Products to Warner Home Video the booklet was changed to paperback.

Disc 1: Seasons 1-20[]

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

Season 1[]

Season 2[]

Season 3[]

Season 4[]

Season 5[]

Season 6[]

Season 7[]

Season 8[]

Season 9[]

Season 10[]

Season 11[]

Season 12[]

Season 13[]

Season 14[]

Season 15[]

Season 16[]

Season 17[]

Season 18[]

Season 19[]

Season 20[]

Disc 1 Bonus Features[]

Disc 2: Seasons 21-40[]

Season 21[]

Season 22[]

Season 23[]

Season 24[]

Season 25[]

Season 26[]

Season 27[]

Season 28[]

Season 29[]

Season 30[]

Season 31[]

Season 32[]

Season 33[]

Season 34[]

Season 35[]

Season 36[]

Season 37[]

Season 38[]

Season 39[]

Season 40[]

Disc 2 Bonus features[]

  • Behind the Street featurette, including:
  • Bonus Behind-the-Street featurette, including:
  • An on-screen pop-up feature with facts about Sesame Street.
  • Sneak Peek: Abby's Flying Fairy School -- "Cinderella" episode
  • TV Montage
  • 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.

Fan Favorite 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:

Edits[]

  • "I Love Trash" is edited as it was before on Old School: Volume 1.
  • "Kermit News: Sleeping Beauty" is presented with the late-1980s title card instead of the original.
  • Herry's closing line "Right!" 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 Martian sketch is edited at the end to omit them going extra crazy with their dancing and chanting "happy happy, boing boing!," etc.
  • The last 10 seconds of "Me Lost Me Cookie."
  • The opening wide shot in "Put Down the Duckie."

Notes[]

  • In the behind the scenes footage, certain graphics on clothing are blurred out. These include Caroll Spinney's Muppet Show logo shirt in the rehearsal of "Hello Hello Hello Song," Frank Oz's headband with his Muppet Show characters in the footage of the snowman sketch, and Spinney's Mickey Mouse in the rehearsals for Episode 1576. A parody of the Birth of Venus from the Kermitage Collection, seen on a wall in the bonus feature on the making of Abby Cadabby, is blurred as well.
  • In December 2010, Amazon.com released an online exclusive version of the set with a bonus disc containing Episode 4228.
  • The behind-the-scenes footage was later released in The iTunes Store as a part of the first wave of "Sesame Street Classics" as a full, half-hour compilation with onscreen pop-up facts. The behind-the scenes of "The Friendship Song" was also later included on Old School: Volume 3.

Errata[]

  • The season 2 version of "Rubber Duckie" is listed as a season 1 segment.
  • "Ladybugs' Picnic" is listed as a season 3 segment, even though it would not air on the show until the following season.
  • Three segments listed as from season 11 - "Kermit News: Foot Snuggies," "Monsterpiece Theater: Me, Claudius," and "Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco" - actually premiered in season 12.
  • The celebrity version of "Put Down the Duckie" is listed as a season 18 segment. Although the song did debut in season 18, the celebrity version debuted later.
  • The back cover of the DVD case for Disc 1 mentions Caroll Spinney performing Bruno the Trashman, who is incorrectly identified as "Biff."

Other releases[]

International releases[]

Promotions[]

See also[]

External links[]