The Princess and the Pea

The Princess and the Pea is a Danish fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published in 1835.

References

• In The Sesame Street 1977 Calendar, Ernie and Bert play king and queen to Prairie Dawn's princess. The illustration was reprinted in The Sesame Street Library Volume 1.

• A Sesame Street News Flash features a princess who sleeps on things beginning with a C instead of a pea.

• Another Sesame Street News Flash stars Cookie Monster in the princess role as he eats the mattresses to get to the cookie stuffed beneath.

• "The Princess and the Mattress" is a grouch retelling of the story with Oscar the Grouch and Grundgetta.

• Rumpel, Samson and Annette imagines how the story would go if it was written by a Grouch in the Sesamstrasse episode 2417

• Samson dreams he's in the story in another episode of Sesamstrasse.

• In a Fairy Tales Today sketch, Prairie Dawn interviews the princess who can't seem to get to sleep.

• Elmo can't sleep sleep so Big Bird and Oscar tell him the story of "The Princess and the Peanut" in Elmo's Sleepytime Stories.

• Grover tells the story in The Sesame Street Fairy Tale Album (later re-issued on Grover's Greatest! in 2019).

• On Ernie & Bert Märchensongs, Finchen assumes the role of the princess, while Bert plays the prince.

• A unique book adaptation called "Prince Elmo and the Pea" features Ernie and Bert as two bored royal pals who have nobody to play with. During a storm, Elmo (as a prince) visits the castle for shelter, and the duo test if he's good at playing hide-and-seek by hiding the pea under the mattresses.

Connections

• Liza Minnelli played Princess Alecia in the Faerie Tale Theatre version (1984)

Sesame Street News Flash

Sesame Street News Flash

Fairy Tales Today

Ernie & Bert Märchensongs

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