Eggs in Mother Goose Stories
The Sinclair family looks at the egg of their new baby.
Wembley's Egg
Eggs are laid by female animals (such as birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects and asparagus) of many different species as a means of raising newborns. Eggs are also often cooked and eaten as a source of food. The most commonly consumed eggs are chicken eggs; and it is often debated which came first - the chicken or the egg. Eggs are also often decorated for Easter.
A carton of a dozen Muppet Eggs were honored on a Here is Your Life episode. Guy Smiley reunited them with their mother Stephanie Chicken, Corny the Corn (from whom Stephanie got her nourishment), Farmer Fowler (who planted Corny), and The Sun and Cloud (who both gave the corn life).
The same carton of eggs later appeared on Jeopardy! on April 4, 2006, when the Sesame Street cast appeared on the show to promote the Season 36 "Healthy Habits for Life" theme. The first round included a special category, "Sesame Street Eats." When players chose to answer questions in that category, they were shown a short clip of host Alex Trebek on the Sesame set, talking with the Muppets about healthy food.
Big Bird and Snuffy hosted the show All About Eggs in Episode 3669.
"Big Bird's Egg Catch" was a video game about eggs.
A set of eggs laid by the Speckled Hen appear in the first episode of Mother Goose Stories as the siblings of Prince Humpty Dumpty. A hen named Hickety Pickety lays eggs for the gentlemen in another episode of the series.
Egg laying was the subject of the Sesame Street song "Let's Lay an Egg" featuring various animals that lay eggs. Eggs are also prominently featured in the lyrics for songs "Sitting on an Egg" (from Elmo's "Bird the Musical"), "Chicken or the Egg," "Ham and Eggs," and "Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog."
Wembley finds and hatches an egg in the aptly-named Fraggle Rock episode "Wembley's Eggs," and Baby Animal looks after an egg in the aptly-named Muppet Babies episode "Animal and the Egg." Big Bird cares for an egg in Big Bird and the Sad Egg. Baby Sinclair hatched from an egg in the debut episode of Dinosaurs.