San Francisco

Cookie Monster at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2014.

The Electric Mayhem performing at San Francisco's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in 2016.

Ernie rides a cable car.

Flying above the city (1978 Sesame Street Calendar).

San Francisco is both a city and county in California. It is the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City, and is one of the top tourist destinations in the world.

References

• In the Sesame Street coloring book Let's Take a Trip!, Ernie rides one of the city's famous cable cars.

• San Francisco has had many famous earthquakes, including a large one in 1906. Those quakes were referenced by the wrestler The San Francisco Earthquake in The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence.

• The second half of the 1997 film George of the Jungle, which includes animatronic effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, takes place in San Francisco. George makes a daring rescue of a worker stranded at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge.

• The 1979 Sesame Street Calendar feature San Francisco for the month of October.

• In a Sesame Street filmed insert, college students volunteer at the San Francisco Children's Zoo, which has such animals as ferrets, opossums, and chinchillas. (EKA: Episode 2227)

• Grover and Abby Cadabby appeared at BlogHer08 in San Francisco, on July 18 & 19, 2008.

• In 1980, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy hosted an episode of Great Performances in which they watched the San Francisco Ballet's production of Prokofiev's Cinderella.

• Muppets, Music & Magic was featured at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which is housed in San Francisco, June 21 - July 1, 2007.

• Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? was an exhibition at the Bay Area Discovery Museum in San Francisco, May 8 - September 19, 2004.

• The Art of the Muppets was featured at the de Young Museum Hall of Flowers in San Francisco, June 27 - August 2, 1981.

• The Sesame Street Cast Tour started its national tour in September 1970 before a crowd of 15,000 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park (where a reporter described the event as a "preschooler's Woodstock").

• An episode of Wilson & Ditch: Digging America features the city of San Francisco.

• Cookie Monster made a round of live appearances in the San Francisco bay area on May 13, 2014, when he attended the PBS Annual Meeting, also swinging by a SF Giants game and an Off the Grid gathering in Daly City. In the meantime, Maker Faire in the bay area's San Mateo debuted a Snuffy 3D-print to announce the partnership between Sesame Workshop and 3-D printer maker MakerBot.

• On August 7, 2016, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem appeared at their first ever live concert taking place at a music festival, San Francisco's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park.