Goodnight Moon

Sesame Street Episode 3160

Trash Gordon prologue in Episode 4091

A copy of Goodnight, Pigeon is seen amongst the items in the "classroom."

Goodnight Moon is a 1947 children's book by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. The book has remained in print and is recognized as a classic, describing a bunny child's bedtime routine of saying goodnight to every object he can see.

Appearances

• Kathleen Turner reads the book to Alice Snuffleupagus in a Season 20 Sesame Street sketch. (First: Episode 2544)

• Gina reads the book to Miles and Elmo in Sesame Street Episode 2625.

• Luis tells it to "baby" Elmo from memory in Episode 3160. He memorized it because it was the book he'd read to put Gabi to sleep.

• Ruthie shows Goodnight Moon to Zoe in Episode 3267 as one of the books she might like to read in addition to The Very Quiet Cricket.

• In Episode 3652, Ruthie reads the story to Big Bird and Elmo during their sleepover at his nest.

References

• Gordon reads "Goodnight, Earth" to Elmo, Big Bird, and Miles in Episode 2689. It features the three of them as astronauts traveling back to Earth from Mars, the ending of which references the cadence of the Brown book.

• Ethyl reads Goodnight Rock to Baby Sinclair in the Dinosaurs episode "If I Were a Tree."

• Telly names Goodnight Triangle as a book about triangles in Episode 3375 of Sesame Street.

• Granny Snuffle reads a variation of Goodnight Moon in Episode 3743.

• In Episode 3785 (1998), Oscar reads Slimey a different version of the book, which includes the phrase, "Goodnight, mud."

• The Trash Gordon segment in Episode 4091 features Oscar offering Slimey Get Lost Moon as a book to read for bedtime.

• For the closing sponsor tag in Episode 4137, Oscar reads Scram Moon to Slimey. Gordon voices the Moon (who has his trademark mustache).

• A copy of Goodnight, Pigeon can be seen in a stock photo of a make believe classroom with Bert, Ernie, Prairie Dawn, and Big Bird.

• Goodnight Pigeon can also be seen in All Aboard! The Sesame Street Subway with a picture of the moon on the spine.