Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days DVD Review

Tomorrow Sesame Street will celebrate its 40th birthday. In honor of 40 fabulous years, tomorrow Sesame Workshop will release Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days (retail $29.93 or $19.99 from Amazon), a brand new two- disc set that includes over 5 hours of favorite stories, songs, celebrity segments, and classic scenes that feature the Muppets™ from Sesame Street like Kermit in It’s Not Easy Being Green

As a kid who grew up on Sesame Street, Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days brings me back to my years of watching Sesame Street with my younger brother on Sunday mornings. Waking up at 6 am, we would drag blankets and stuffed animals into the living room and camp out on our parents’ couch to watch a Sesame Street marathon of 3 back-to-back episodes.

Everything that I’ve always loved about Sesame Street is included on 40 Years of Sunny Days…Ladybug Picnic, Rubber Duckie, Grover’s Restaurant, Pinball Number Count, the purple two headed monster telephone skit, classic Bert and Ernie bickering, appearances by Fonzie and Diana Ross, and scenes with the beloved Mr. Hooper that I loved as a kid to the spoofs (Law and Order: Special Letters Unit), new characters that my kids love (like Elmo & Abby Cadabby) and the many great celebrity appearances.

Each disc also contains special never before seen footage. The first disc has behind the scenes footage from early years including Jim Henson as the voice of Ernie and Frank Oz as Bert. The second disc has more recent footage including a recording of Elmo and his handlers (3!) getting him to perform a River Dance like moves and an interview with Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, the voice of Abby Cadabby.

If you loved Sesame Street as a kid and have pass the love along to your own children, you will want to buy Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days when it comes out tomorrow so you can sit down and enjoy some of the finest and longest running children’s television programming.

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days includes a limited edition, hard cover commemorative book to compliment the set. It retails for $29.93 but is currently selling on Amazon for $19.99.

I received a copy of Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days for review purposes. No compensation was received for this post.