It's always a sunny day on Sesame Street, but for much of the week, things were not A-OK in the land of the Muppets. On January 24, Big Bird, the show's eight-foot-tall, anthropomorphic canary ...

Big Bird watched with approval, and the letter Q stood proudly behind him, anonymous no longer. On the screen flickered images of traitors to the cause. Monsters who had insisted that a sunny day ...

“We had a great time with Mr. Bird, he’s a great guy and no harm came ... include Eraserhead background noise or a plaintive piano melody. But give it time. Just as Big Bird himself will ...

Tweets followed. "I worked with Big Bird. I served with Big Bird. You, sir, are no Big Bird," The Lance Arthur, @thelancearthur, of San Francisco tweeted. "Why is there no Muppet-vision way to ...

A Reddit thread hosted by the man behind “Sesame Street”’s Big Bird took a surprisingly heartbreaking turn when he revealed details of an interaction he once had with a dying boy.

The man behind Big Bird, Caroll Spinney, is 81 — and has no plans to step out of the suit any time soon. "I see no reason to quit," Spinney tells NPR's Scott Simon. "I can't imagine walking away ...

He also puppeteers Big Bird”s next-door neighbor, Oscar the Grouch. Now 81, Spinney still works on the PBS show as both characters and has no plans for retirement. Spinney is the subject of new ...