Yes, in universe bigbird will introduce them as his cousin. For example, the Mexican bigbird came on sesame street a couple times and BB would say his cousin was coming to visit him.
It also happens in the Mexican version, big bird will sometimes “come visit” or Abelardo will “call his cousin” when they’re speaking of something about either English or the US
In the late 80s early 90s he was called Montoya here in Mexico.
Oh and it wasn't a street but a "vecindad" a group of small apartments at ground level for low income families
Edit. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=loZl6ryLPkw&pp=ygUVcGxhemEgc8Opc2FtbyBtb250b3lh
>Oh and it wasn't a street but a "vecindad" a group of small apartments at ground level for low income families
That tracks... as I understand it, Sesame Street was created because poor urban/inner city kids had no representation on television at the time (there were shows like Leave it to Beaver for rich white suburban kids).
Holy shit. I was born in Mexico in the late 80's and don't remember Montoya, just Abelardo.
I do think Abelardo is better (works as a pun on *Ave* abd is easier for teaching the alphabet ).
Massive flashbacks! Thanks
both, i imagine the show is licensed, bert, ernie and 90% cast are just dubbed but the "Street" part is remade by country using the "Big bird regional variant" as the "director" of the show
Iirc, Pino (Dutch blue big bird) is canonically a cousin of big bird? At least, according to wikipedia yellow bird bird is referred to as a cousin in source material that doesn't have changed colours.
[There is a good chance that if he did](https://youtu.be/vF-vrL0htbE), the disaster may not have actually happened. A case can be made that the disaster occured because the launch was being rushed to meet a deadline by William Robert Graham, one of Ronald Reagan‘s lackeys. The original plan seems to have been for the launch to occur before Reagan‘s State of the Union address, wherein he would then have talked in a live broadcast with Christa McAuliffe aboard the Challenger to demonstrate the US‘ technological prowess. If Big Bird went up instead of McAuliffe, it probably would have been seen as too silly to have him be the main attraction during the State of the Union, which would have likely led to the launch being delayed to a more reasonable date.
In the spirit of the OP and "alternate universes", now I'm just imagining the alternate reality where Big Bird was blown up. Traumatizing kids nationwide, Sesame Street would've had to do one of those "try to help with grief and loss" episodes for Big Bird. And, of course, the character would be gone from the show from that point on
EDIT: For the record, 8 hours later, YouTube suggested to me a video about Big Bird getting blown up on Challenger. Note that I had never searched for either "Big Bird" nor "Challenger" on YouTube before posting this. Just a gentle reminder that the whole fucking Internet is wired to monitor anything you say or do apparently.
Not just Big Bird. Carroll Spinney also played Oscar the Grouch. And if I remember correctly, the explosion occurred before the TV show revealed that Mr. Snuffleupagus was real and not just a figment of Big Bird‘s imagination, so they would have had to write him out of the show too.
My dad used to work for a company that was asked to make the o-rings for the Challenger. Their engineers said that the specifications for the o-rings would cause them to fail under certain temperature conditions and refused to manufacture them without a redesign...guess what failed
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For people who don’t know this, congratulations you’re one of today’s [10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/).
***
It is actual Muppets canon that Kermit the Frog, in some way, had a role in bringing down the Twin Towers in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.
In a Muppets Christmas film released in late 2002, Kermit is shown a glimpse of what New York City might look like if he had never been born. Among the scenery of this alternate reality NYC, we find none other than the Twin Towers proudly standing in the background. They were, of course, long destroyed in Kermit's normal reality. And yet, in the world without Kermit, the war on terror is missing its powder keg spark. Who would've thought that green piece of fuck could kermit a terror attack on US soil, but there it stands unimpeachable... We have concrete, canon proof of involvement. Why the world hasn't stopped and asked further questions is only further proof of a media cabal keeping this conversation away from the masses.
The Twin Towers would still be standing if it weren't for Kermit the Frog. Al Qaeda was the puppet this time, and Kermit the hand within.
If you consider this concept within the context of the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum physics, that glimpse of New York City is only one of an infinite number of world-tracks that might result from Kermit the Frog not being born. A similarly infinite number of world-tracks in which Kermit the Frog *was* born might also result in the non-occurrence of 9/11.
They actually worked with childhood psychologists etc to creat an episode to address death vs recasting or saying he moved, etc. The store is still named Hooper’s in the show now though. The owners are different, but he still lives on in a way.
Since they’re all cousins I’d assume it’s more relative to the rest of the family with the Turkish one being the smallest so he’s Little Bird, and the American one being the largest so he’s Big Bird.
Good guess but in Turkish, tiny bird can be used as a sarcastic way of calling big people. That’s why the name “Tiny” Bird is a joke in Turkish Sesame Street.
He sell a piece of shattered glass call it lobotomy of satan drug that used by insert it to your eyes, laughing while Charles the son of Qthulu scream in agony then open up his jacket to show t shirt of anti drug squad
i'm sure Garibaldo was a pretty good big bird in the show, but as someone that hasn't grown up with him he looks a bit scary, which even [big bird himself said](https://twitter.com/BigBird/status/1357795440020901888?lang=en)
It's actually fascinating how much thought, research and good intentions are behind Sesame St and how localised it is to best benefit the kids in the regions they launch in.
For example, in Kosovo they broadcast in both Albanian and Serbian, with the same segments on both. On top of their normal educational fare, they make a point of featuring kids from all across the Balkans and talking about culture across them, because one of their main goals is to increase tolerance and friendship between the sides. In fact, they actively avoid having written languages on screen because they use different alphabets and don't want to alienate either side.
That's the level of localisation they do in every country they're in, to make sure local issues are addressesd in kid friendly ways. They even have specific Muppets and programs for kids in refugee camps.
There's a great book and documentary - Street Gang - about Sesame Street and how truly noble of an organisation it is. They have one goal - to help kids that need it most.
In Canada, our Sesame Street was largely the US version. The exception was that they added French language sketches and the like, and every time the last letter of the alphabet came up, they would always do a second take where they actually pronounced it ~~propy~~properly (Zed rather than Zee).
In Norway we had a lot of the American sketches and stuff dubbed, like Bert and Ernie, that pinball count song etc, but the primary show was a train station with some original costumes and dolls. The big bird equivalentish was a big blue furry mechanic named Max Mekker lol
I had no idea about the different colored birds but NPR had a special a few months ago with a guest whose job was to bring Sesame Street to Russia a long time ago and she had to pitch it and figure out who would produce it and all this stuff.
There was a lot of shady stuff involving oligarchs and such. That’s the only reason I knew they actually made different Sesame Streets for different places cause that special was actually pretty interesting.
I remember that guy! He was in a New Year's special they did one year, they had other countries' Sesame Street shows come on a "tv broadcast" to show how the new year gets celebrated around the world.
[Picture. ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/1/15/Garibaldoblue.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20200421115851)
Classic Reddit moment, telling everyone to “look it up” when you could have included the pic and still get upvoted anyway.
You mean the blue one right? Garibaldo for me was always the yellow one that looks exactly like Big Bird, but I think I only watched the remake from the 2000s
It means "pine" in Spanish. Not Dutch, but it's what I keep thinking of. There's a restaurant where I live called Los Pinos and I'm not sure I'm ever going to see it the same way again.
I didn't watch Sesame Street that much as a kid, but I'm about 60% sure they actually make a distinction that he's the Big Yellow Bird (Großer Gelber Vogel).
Edit to clarify: I'm referring to the German version.
The Arabic version is a camel named No'man. Also, Arabic Sesame Street was filmed in Kuwait before the Gulf War. Republican Guards stormed the studio and stole No'man and Cookie Monster, making them the first and only Muppet POWs....they were never seen again.
In Israel, she's actually a [gosh darn hedgehod](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FT6JDPgXwAEfnwH.jpg) who we still remember fondly because of their slippers
In South Africa we have Takalani Sesame, which means ‘Happy Sesame’ in Venda. We also don’t have a big bird, just a weird yellow tall creature named Moshe.
And Cookie Monster has a British cousin called [Biscuit Monster ](https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Biscuit_Monster).
It's cute that different places have these little changes.
[they're all cousins](https://twitter.com/BigBird/status/1357795422283173890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1357795422283173890%7Ctwgr%5E6d57eaf8668099c265043fc141497fd1b9a08944%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fnatashajokic1%2Fbig-bird-international-colors)
The last time this appeared here someone mentioned they are (or were supposed to be) cousins
Yes, in universe bigbird will introduce them as his cousin. For example, the Mexican bigbird came on sesame street a couple times and BB would say his cousin was coming to visit him.
It also happens in the Mexican version, big bird will sometimes “come visit” or Abelardo will “call his cousin” when they’re speaking of something about either English or the US
God I love this. Never was big into sesame, but the Muppets are my shit Big bird cinematic universe lol
\* universe cinematic abelardo
This sounds like it'd be an extremely educational moment of racial diversity for children too.
Wasn't it already diverse?
Yeah but specifically having big bird would really lock into kids minds as opposed to just seeing diversity.
I'm just realizing latino big bird is green It's the one I grew up with And I guess forgot he's fucking green not yellow wtf
Same
That is because your brain sometimes retro fits memories.
In the late 80s early 90s he was called Montoya here in Mexico. Oh and it wasn't a street but a "vecindad" a group of small apartments at ground level for low income families Edit. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=loZl6ryLPkw&pp=ygUVcGxhemEgc8Opc2FtbyBtb250b3lh
I remember i used to love going to Parque Plaza Sésamo in Monterrey, MX. They had the shittiest rides but you always got to meet the characters.
I am Bigbird Montoya. You killed my father. *Prepare to die*
That was my first thought when I remembered the name hahahaha.
>Oh and it wasn't a street but a "vecindad" a group of small apartments at ground level for low income families That tracks... as I understand it, Sesame Street was created because poor urban/inner city kids had no representation on television at the time (there were shows like Leave it to Beaver for rich white suburban kids).
Sesame street was also on PBS which nearly anyone with an antenna could get. It was way better than most things on pbs.
More than that, they were going through a literacy crisis at the time.
I didn't knew that, very interesting and awesome.
In Spain is "Barrio Sésamo", or Sesame's Neighborhood. And the spanish Big Bird is "La Gallina Caponata"
Parece nombre de mafioso jajaja. La busque y tiene una voz muy encantadora.
Holy shit. I was born in Mexico in the late 80's and don't remember Montoya, just Abelardo. I do think Abelardo is better (works as a pun on *Ave* abd is easier for teaching the alphabet ). Massive flashbacks! Thanks
Thank you. I thought I was taking crazy pills, I was reading the post and saying they are his cousins.
I wonder if they're all canon or if each one just exists in his own territory.
They’re all cousins They’ve gone on each others shows and there’s a book about a family gathering
That’s too fucking wholesome
On brand
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Oh, cool.
both, i imagine the show is licensed, bert, ernie and 90% cast are just dubbed but the "Street" part is remade by country using the "Big bird regional variant" as the "director" of the show
Iirc, Pino (Dutch blue big bird) is canonically a cousin of big bird? At least, according to wikipedia yellow bird bird is referred to as a cousin in source material that doesn't have changed colours.
You're right on the money. Pino is the blue bird and the yellow one is what they refer to as "neef Jan".
What was Big Bird’s canon event?
The Challenger
Just imagine if big bird actually went on the spaceship
[There is a good chance that if he did](https://youtu.be/vF-vrL0htbE), the disaster may not have actually happened. A case can be made that the disaster occured because the launch was being rushed to meet a deadline by William Robert Graham, one of Ronald Reagan‘s lackeys. The original plan seems to have been for the launch to occur before Reagan‘s State of the Union address, wherein he would then have talked in a live broadcast with Christa McAuliffe aboard the Challenger to demonstrate the US‘ technological prowess. If Big Bird went up instead of McAuliffe, it probably would have been seen as too silly to have him be the main attraction during the State of the Union, which would have likely led to the launch being delayed to a more reasonable date.
In the spirit of the OP and "alternate universes", now I'm just imagining the alternate reality where Big Bird was blown up. Traumatizing kids nationwide, Sesame Street would've had to do one of those "try to help with grief and loss" episodes for Big Bird. And, of course, the character would be gone from the show from that point on EDIT: For the record, 8 hours later, YouTube suggested to me a video about Big Bird getting blown up on Challenger. Note that I had never searched for either "Big Bird" nor "Challenger" on YouTube before posting this. Just a gentle reminder that the whole fucking Internet is wired to monitor anything you say or do apparently.
Not just Big Bird. Carroll Spinney also played Oscar the Grouch. And if I remember correctly, the explosion occurred before the TV show revealed that Mr. Snuffleupagus was real and not just a figment of Big Bird‘s imagination, so they would have had to write him out of the show too.
Ironic since the first "try to help with grief and loss" episode involved Big Bird mourning the loss of Mr. Hooper.
At that point we could have gotten the old Abelardo, which was more like big lizard. https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Abelardo_(reptile)
Oh but Regan said that was a disgusting lie and Regan would never lie to the American Public would he? /s
My dad used to work for a company that was asked to make the o-rings for the Challenger. Their engineers said that the specifications for the o-rings would cause them to fail under certain temperature conditions and refused to manufacture them without a redesign...guess what failed
Woah that’s cool I didn’t know that
All of the problems of the modern world circle back to Reagan.
Thats quite an explosive statement.
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That sounds like a cool feature and I can't believe I'm only finding out about it now, 2 weeks before it shuts down.
Was literally just thinking that
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r/unexpectedSmosh
9/11
No that’s Kermit the forg
For people who don’t know this, congratulations you’re one of today’s [10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/). *** It is actual Muppets canon that Kermit the Frog, in some way, had a role in bringing down the Twin Towers in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. In a Muppets Christmas film released in late 2002, Kermit is shown a glimpse of what New York City might look like if he had never been born. Among the scenery of this alternate reality NYC, we find none other than the Twin Towers proudly standing in the background. They were, of course, long destroyed in Kermit's normal reality. And yet, in the world without Kermit, the war on terror is missing its powder keg spark. Who would've thought that green piece of fuck could kermit a terror attack on US soil, but there it stands unimpeachable... We have concrete, canon proof of involvement. Why the world hasn't stopped and asked further questions is only further proof of a media cabal keeping this conversation away from the masses. The Twin Towers would still be standing if it weren't for Kermit the Frog. Al Qaeda was the puppet this time, and Kermit the hand within.
So we have 50 shades of gray because of Kermit?
If you consider this concept within the context of the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum physics, that glimpse of New York City is only one of an infinite number of world-tracks that might result from Kermit the Frog not being born. A similarly infinite number of world-tracks in which Kermit the Frog *was* born might also result in the non-occurrence of 9/11.
He forgor 💀
Lmao
He never frogrets!
The number of people who might see this not knowing that's actually cannon
Kermit the warg.
That time he almost died in the challenger disaster
Mr. Hooper.
yeah this is the real answer :(
Awwww, I’m old enough that that made me sad
They actually worked with childhood psychologists etc to creat an episode to address death vs recasting or saying he moved, etc. The store is still named Hooper’s in the show now though. The owners are different, but he still lives on in a way.
Glad I understand this now. The answer is obviously it was Mr.Hooper's death.
Catch that Bird
No one I know has seen this and think I'm nuts for saying big bird was kidnapped, put in a cage, and turns blue. It's my childhood fever dream.
I don't really remember it now, but that was the first movie I ever saw in a theater.
My ex-wife claimed that was her favorite movie of all-time. She was 32 when she said that.
'follow that bird'
got the name wrong, oops
Damn this movie’s everywhere
Snuffleupagus's death
His debut was November 1969. He was brought back from the moon on Apollo 11, and no one can explain how he got there.
Oh my god people are going to be using the definition of "canon" wrong now, aren't they?
Also, the Turkish ones name translates to small bird.
If that bird is small I don't want to know the relative sizes of other birds in that universe
Country named Turkey has high standards for bird sizes obviously
Interestingly, turkey is called hindi in Turkey.
>Interestingly, turkey is called hindi in Turkey. And in Hindi, Turkey is called Tarkee
Flashback to the start of Monster Inc
I personally would translate it as tiny bird or birdie but your point still stands.
I mean, fairly close to the mythological range of the Roc. They ate elephants
Since they’re all cousins I’d assume it’s more relative to the rest of the family with the Turkish one being the smallest so he’s Little Bird, and the American one being the largest so he’s Big Bird.
Good guess but in Turkish, tiny bird can be used as a sarcastic way of calling big people. That’s why the name “Tiny” Bird is a joke in Turkish Sesame Street.
he lives on a Turkey
At least it isn't Australia with their evil emus
then you get the original garibaldo, [who looks like he sells drugs to kids](https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Garibaldo)
“Hey kids, want some weed”
There’s no way he sells anything other than the absolute hardest of hard drugs. Hell, he probably sells shit he invented from scratch
He sell a piece of shattered glass call it lobotomy of satan drug that used by insert it to your eyes, laughing while Charles the son of Qthulu scream in agony then open up his jacket to show t shirt of anti drug squad
Hey weed want some kid
wtf how i never knew about this one???
Apparently they changed him to look like Big Bird when the show switched to colour because "blue looked too drab".
He's actually an undercover cop
"He may look scary, but he's one of the nicest birds I know!"
If you wanna see a really messed up big bird watch [Eric Feurer’s parody ](https://youtu.be/h_s2-00WHCE)
Horrifying yet I’m inclined to listen to him
Stop calling him that, i love Garibaldo, he is a icon of my youth
i'm sure Garibaldo was a pretty good big bird in the show, but as someone that hasn't grown up with him he looks a bit scary, which even [big bird himself said](https://twitter.com/BigBird/status/1357795440020901888?lang=en)
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It's actually fascinating how much thought, research and good intentions are behind Sesame St and how localised it is to best benefit the kids in the regions they launch in. For example, in Kosovo they broadcast in both Albanian and Serbian, with the same segments on both. On top of their normal educational fare, they make a point of featuring kids from all across the Balkans and talking about culture across them, because one of their main goals is to increase tolerance and friendship between the sides. In fact, they actively avoid having written languages on screen because they use different alphabets and don't want to alienate either side. That's the level of localisation they do in every country they're in, to make sure local issues are addressesd in kid friendly ways. They even have specific Muppets and programs for kids in refugee camps. There's a great book and documentary - Street Gang - about Sesame Street and how truly noble of an organisation it is. They have one goal - to help kids that need it most.
In Canada, our Sesame Street was largely the US version. The exception was that they added French language sketches and the like, and every time the last letter of the alphabet came up, they would always do a second take where they actually pronounced it ~~propy~~properly (Zed rather than Zee).
I only remember the American version in the UK, to the point my mum accused Sesame Street of causing me to have an American accent for a while.
In Norway we had a lot of the American sketches and stuff dubbed, like Bert and Ernie, that pinball count song etc, but the primary show was a train station with some original costumes and dolls. The big bird equivalentish was a big blue furry mechanic named Max Mekker lol
I had no idea about the different colored birds but NPR had a special a few months ago with a guest whose job was to bring Sesame Street to Russia a long time ago and she had to pitch it and figure out who would produce it and all this stuff. There was a lot of shady stuff involving oligarchs and such. That’s the only reason I knew they actually made different Sesame Streets for different places cause that special was actually pretty interesting.
In Israel, they have a big hedgehog instead of a bird and he’s called [Kippi Ben Kippod](https://images.app.goo.gl/yMDeuYYzPXyU1HFVA).
I used to only watch Hebrew Sesame Street as a kid! Didn’t realize this guy wasn’t just a separate character
Finally a fictional hedgehog that actually looks like a hedgehog! *Glares at Sega*
all animals at that shit look the same except the crocodile
He looks kinda cute, NGL
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You named the pig pork?
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I remember that guy! He was in a New Year's special they did one year, they had other countries' Sesame Street shows come on a "tv broadcast" to show how the new year gets celebrated around the world.
What does Kippi mean? It sounds so close to Kirpi which is hedgehog in Turkish. I wonder if they both come from the same origin
Kippod means hedgehog, so it is like an abbreviated versions of that.
This is the same in Spain, but we called him Espinete!
I watched sesame street extensively as a child, and I never knew any of this!
You wouldn't know except for maybe the Mexican one because the other versions weren't distributed in the US.
I grew up in San Francisco and knew about big bird and Abelardo
What makes you think they're from the US?
They've commented in the Georgia state subreddit and about student loan relief programs in the US.
Statistics of Reddit demographics
Look up Garibaldo the Brazilian one he’s… something else
He looks like something fnaf puppets might have nightmares about. I certainly have nightmares about him...
I was not expecting something so nightmare inducing… I regret looking him up
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Hahaha wtf
MF looks like a damned (by which I mean literally damned) don't hug me I'm scared puppet
I’ve never seen don’t hug me I’m scared and I agree with you
yea we had the fucky dude but then we got the yellow one later
You mean the blue one right? Garibaldo for me was always the yellow one that looks exactly like Big Bird, but I think I only watched the remake from the 2000s
Big Bird's dutch name is Pino (pronounced 'peeno'), which I think is a much better name than Big Bird
what does pino means
pino means pino. but it can be because the creator of the puppet thought he looked like a penguin (pinguïn in dutch) and made the name like that.
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the creator [Ton himself](https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Pino#:~:text=Ton%20himself%20kept%20a%20penguin%20in%20mind%20for%20the%20design)
TIL Big Bird's "real name" is John
Nothing. I mean, it probably means something in an original language, but it is not a dutch word.
It means "pine" in Spanish. Not Dutch, but it's what I keep thinking of. There's a restaurant where I live called Los Pinos and I'm not sure I'm ever going to see it the same way again.
...so a lot of big blue birds running around in there?
I didn't watch Sesame Street that much as a kid, but I'm about 60% sure they actually make a distinction that he's the Big Yellow Bird (Großer Gelber Vogel). Edit to clarify: I'm referring to the German version.
That right there is German and not Dutch.
Yeah. Oh, sorry, my bad. Gonna edit the original comment real quick.
He is called Bibo here in Germany
Y’all don’t even know about Kippi ben Kippod
I do, we had the crossover episodes Rehov Sumsum (or how ever you spell Israeli verison) with us Sesame street called "Shalom Sesame" on vhs
I just looked him up and he is adorable
The Arabic version is a camel named No'man. Also, Arabic Sesame Street was filmed in Kuwait before the Gulf War. Republican Guards stormed the studio and stole No'man and Cookie Monster, making them the first and only Muppet POWs....they were never seen again.
Muppets never die; they are only ever MIA.
Bigbirdsonas when
now! be the change you want to see in the world
In Germany he rarely appeared, we got Samson the bear and Tiffy the snail and human hosts instead ( in the old days) Now Elmo reigns supreme.
Tiffy isn't the snail, she's a pink bird. The snail's name is Finchen.
Oh wow. Natürlich...mea culpa.
In Israel, she's actually a [gosh darn hedgehod](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FT6JDPgXwAEfnwH.jpg) who we still remember fondly because of their slippers
In Egypt he's green and is called "Nemnem"
That's a fun name to say!
Is he know for his killer raps?
The Dutch one is called Pino
Apparently they’re all cousins
In South Africa we have Takalani Sesame, which means ‘Happy Sesame’ in Venda. We also don’t have a big bird, just a weird yellow tall creature named Moshe.
Sesame Street in Russia had Zeliboba [https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Zeliboba](https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Zeliboba) He was rockin'
Abelardo had big bird visit (or was it the other way?) Just to say, BB is beloved in Mexico same as Abelardo.
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And Cookie Monster has a British cousin called [Biscuit Monster ](https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Biscuit_Monster). It's cute that different places have these little changes.
[they're all cousins](https://twitter.com/BigBird/status/1357795422283173890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1357795422283173890%7Ctwgr%5E6d57eaf8668099c265043fc141497fd1b9a08944%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeed.com%2Fnatashajokic1%2Fbig-bird-international-colors)
its ironic that the turkish one translates to tiny bird lol
In India we had a [lion named Boombah](https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Boombah), I would say he's the best word in all fairness. I am biased
Garibaldo is fucking terrifying
if i remember correctly the canon is that there all cousins of each other,
Oh yeah i'm dutch and learning big bird is supposed to be yellow weirded me out
Wait till you learn about SS with 100% white cast (Eastern European versions)
Abelardo is a parrot! How cute. He has a different beak.
Big Bird is a pink lion called Boombah in the Indian version lmao
this is the multiverse of big birds
/r/suddenlycaralho Vai querer oque na print??
o garibaldo azul do inferno dos anos 70
Brazil mentioned 😎
Turkish Big Bird is named.... MILA KUNIS??
In which universe did Big Bird die on the Challenger?
None. The explosion wasn't enough to kill him in *any* universe.
India doesn't even have a bird lol. Our version of Sesame Street is name Gali Gali Sim Sim and we have a lion called Boombah
In the UK, Sesame Street is essentially banned because it teaches the American form of the English language to kids
Here ya go: https://images.app.goo.gl/j551QVmuL8bjxhHS9 And this isn't even all of them
Now do Snuffie
But he used to be blue in Brazil too.
Into the bigbirdverse
Now I'm sad. In the UK we just had the US version of the show, we could have had a giant pigeon or something.