40 Years of Sunny Days

Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days is a Sesame Street DVD set released on November 10, 2009, to celebrate the show's 40th Anniversary.
Guest stars featured in clips on the set include: Madeline Kahn, James Taylor, Patti Labelle, Batman, Lena Horne, Happy Days' Fonzie, the Star Wars droids, Mister Rogers, Diana Ross, Pee-wee Herman, Feist, Smokey Robinson, Destiny's Child, and Robert De Niro, in addition to the various celebrities who appear in "Put Down the Duckie" and "Sing."
Each disc begins with a TV Montage introduced by Count von Count and featuring one clip from each of the 40 seasons (all of which are presented within the main program). Each five-year period begins with a look through a scrapbook representing the time periods, and many clips begin with behind-the-scenes photos related to the clip (with the first few seconds of audio heard over the picture). The set also comes with a commemorative booklet, a shortened 24-page version of Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street. Early copies were hardcover, but when distribution switched from Genius Products to Warner Home Video the booklet was changed to paperback.
==Disc 1: Seasons 1-20==
A * denotes that part of that clip was also featured in the "TV Montages" in this set.
===Season 1===
:* "Sesame Street Open" (including Gordon's opening line from Episode 0001)
:* "Henson #1 Song" *
:* "Rubber Duckie"
:* "I Love Trash"
:* Batman Around/Up/Through
:* "If I Knew You Were Coming"
:* "Bein' Green"
===Season 2===
:* Ernie and Bert: Banana in the Ear (part 1 only)*
:* "Henson Queen of Six"
:* "Mad Song"
:* Sorting Song with Cookie Monster
===Season 3===
:* Mad Painter #5
:* "Bienvenido Song"
:* "Lady Bug Picnic" *
===Season 4===
:* Herry & John-John Count *
:* Talking Loud / Talking Soft
:* Remembering Bread, Milk, Butter
:* Sesame Street News Flash: Sleeping Beauty (Prince Charming falls asleep)
:* Bert & Ernie: Bert's Bust
===Season 5===
:* "Fat Cat"
:* O-Orange Man
:* Lena Horne: "How Do You Do?" *
:* "Doin' the Pigeon"
===Season 6===
:* Super Grover: Exit
:* Typewriter: N-Nose *
:* Invisible Ice Cream
===Season 7===
:* "Pinball Animation #7" *
===Season 8===
:* "The People in Your Neighborhood" -- Elevator Operator and Pharmacist *
===Season 9===
:* Fonzie on/off/on
:* Clips From Hawaii (Snuffy lands on the island, Mr. Hooper surfs)
:* I-Beam *
===Season 10===
:* Telly Plugs in (Telly's first appearance) *
===Season 11===
:* Star Wars: "One You Go Beep" *
:* Sesame Street News Flash: Foot Snuggies (with Dr. Nobel Price)
:* Geometry of Circles #1 "Circle with Flower" (with music by Philip Glass)
:* Monsterpiece Theater: Me Claudius
:* Martians: Radio
:* "Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco"
===Season 12===
:* "Hello Hello Hello Song" (from Episode 1530)
:* Dancing Dog Imagines
:* Two-Headed Monster: Telephone *
:* Bring Your Own Can Night (with Oscar the Grouch, Bruno the Trashman, and cast)
:* Mister Rogers Returns
===Season 13===
:* Making Crayons
:* Diana Ross: "Believe in Yourself"
:* Bert & Ernie: Fish Call Quiet/Loud *
:* Madeline Kahn: "Friendship Song" (from Episode 1576)
===Season 14===
:* "Honker Duckie Dinger Jamboree"
:* James Taylor: "Jellyman Kelly" *
:* Bert & Ernie: Snowman
:* "We All Sing the Same Song"
===Season 15===
:* Teeny Little Super Guy: School
:* Just Because (Big Bird comes to terms with Mr. Hooper's death) *
===Season 16===
:* "Peanut Butter Factory Song"
:* Smokey Robinson: "U Really Got a Hold on Me" *
===Season 17===
:* Elmo's Make Believe Trip (the performance that Kevin Clash notes is the moment when he "found his voice" as Elmo)
:* "Batty Bat Song"
:* Snuffy Is Seen *
===Season 18===
:* "Put Down the Duckie" (celebrity version) *
:* "Sing Your Synonyms"
===Season 19===
:* Pee-wee Herman's Alphabet
:* Maria and Luis Get Married
:* "African Alphabet" *
===Season 20===
:* OOOO-Klahoma!
:* Meet the Baby (Gabriela is born) *
==Disc 1 Bonus Features==
* "Behind the Street" featurettes, which play when clicking the "enter" button when the Sesame Street logo appears on-screen, or can all be viewed all together by selecting "Play All."
** An interview with Jon Stone on research and curriculum, and the barriers the show broke.
** An interview with legendary puppeteer Caroll Spinney on Oscar the Grouch.
** Behind-the-Scenes footage of Cheryl Blaylock transforming a Large Lavender Live Hand Anything Muppet from Dominique into Dr. Nobel Price.
** Behind-the-Scenes rehearsal footage on "The Hello Hello Hello Song," "Two-Headed Monster: Telephone," "Bring Your Own Can Night," "The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree," "Friendship Song," and "Bert and Ernie: Snowman."
** An interview with Kevin Clash on the creation of Elmo.
* Easter Egg: One minute panning shot of the Street set from Big Bird's nest to the Fix-It Shop.
* Fan Favorite Clip - Bert and Ernie: String Tied
* TV Montage
* On-screen pop-up facts
* DVD Rom Feature: 189 pages of 40 years of credits in PDF format.
==Disc 2: Seasons 21-40==
===Season 21===
:* Monsterpiece Theater: King and I *
:* AlphaQuest: Letter R
:* "Monster in the Mirror"
:* "Elmo's Song"
:* Grover's Restaurant: Most Important Meal
===Season 22===
:* Cecille the Ball: "I'm Gonna Get to You" *
===Season 23===
:* Does Air Move Things?
:* "What's the Name of That Song?" *
===Season 24===
:* Ooh What a Fabulous Party *
===Season 25===
:* Marilyn Horne: "C Is for Cookie" *
===Season 26===
:* Arrested Development: "Pride"
:* Dance Theater of Harlem: Five Birds
:* Luxo Jr.: Front/Back *
:* "My Name Is Zoe"
:* "B Is for Bubble"
===Season 27===
:* The Spin Doctors: "Two Princes" *
===Season 28===
:* Fay Family: To Market *
===Season 29===
:* Tony Bennett: "Slimey to the Moon" *
:* "Count Me In"
===Season 30===
:* Patti LaBelle: "Gospel Alphabet" *
===Season 31===
:* The Goo Goo Dolls: "Pride" *
:* Celebrity "Sing"
===Season 32===
:* Robert De Niro: The Actor Prepares
:* My Nest, My Home *
:* Elmo's World Games: Mr. Noodle (includes "Elmo's World" opening)
===Season 33===
:* "Bird on Me"
:* Destiny's Child: "A New Way to Walk" *
:* Fire on the Street
===Season 34===
:* "ABC Hip Hop" *
===Season 35===
:* TJ: "Me and My Chair" Song *
:* Elmo's World: Lord of the Feet
:* Six Feet Under
===Season 36===
:* Alicia Keys: "Dancin'" *
:* "A Cookie is a Sometime Food"
===Season 37===
:* Abby's Arrival *
:* Matt Lauer Interviews Cookie Monster
:* Law & Order Special Letters Unit
===Season 38===
:* Can't Say the Alphabet Enough *
:* I Love Every Part of You
===Season 39===
:* Feist: "1234" *
:* The Golden Triangle of Destiny (giant boulder and laundromat trap sequences)
:* David Beckham: Persistent
:* Plain White T's
:* Neil Patrick Harris: The Shoe Fairy
:* Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Penguin
===Season 40===
:* "Guess the Seasons Song"
:* D-Dance *
==Disc 2 Bonus features==
* Behind the Street featurette, including:
** Leslie Carrara-Rudolph and Jason Weber talk about the creation of Abby Cadabby.
** Behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage of "Guess The Seasons" and "D-Dance."
** Green screen passes of Elmo and other characters, for "Lord of the Feet" and "D-Dance."
* Bonus Behind-the-Street featurette, including:
** Production meeting discussion and rehearsal for Episode 1570, featuring Oscar and Othmar the Grouch.
** Interviews with Roscoe Orman and Jim Henson.
* An on-screen pop-up feature with facts about Sesame Street.
* Sneak Peek: Abby's Flying Fairy School -- "Cinderella" episode
* TV Montage
* Easter Egg: Four and a half minute high speed montage of building the Sesame Street set.
* Link to sesamestreet.org/moresunnydays online DVD bonus.
* DVD-ROM: 189 pages of credits of 40 seasons of Sesame Street in PDF format.
==Fan Favorite Vote==
Genius Entertainment partnered with Amazon.com to allow fans to vote for one moment from a list of 10 clips to appear on the release. Voting was open from April 1st to April 28, 2009. The winning clip, with 27% of the vote, was "Bert and Ernie String Tied."
The nominees and results were as follows:
* "Alligator King" (10%)
* "Bert and Ernie String Tied" (27%)
* "King of Eight" (5%)
* "Henson Ball" (3%)
* "Martian Beauty" (1%)
* "What's the Name of that Song" (9%)
* "I Just Adore Four" (1%)
* "Pinball Machine 12" (24%)
* "Caribbean Amphibian" (10%)
* "Elmo's Debut" (6%)
==Edits==
* "I Love Trash" is edited as it was before on Old School: Volume 1.
* "Kermit News: Sleeping Beauty" is presented with the late-1980s title card instead of the original.
* Herry's closing line "Right!" in "Herry and John-John Count."
* Smart Tina's line "Do it, Roosevelt!" at the end of "Talking Loud/Talking Soft."
* Lefty the Salesman's line "I didn't see nothing" at the end of "Invisible Ice Cream."
* The Martian sketch is edited at the end to omit them going extra crazy with their dancing and chanting "happy happy, boing boing!," etc.
* The last 10 seconds of "Me Lost Me Cookie."
* The opening wide shot in "Put Down the Duckie."
==Notes==
* Caroll Spinney wears a t-shirt with the Muppet Show logo on the back during behind-the-scenes footage of rehearsal of the "Hello Hello Hello Song" which is blurred out for the DVD release.
* Frank Oz is wearing a headband with his Muppet Show characters on it in behind-the-scenes footage of the snowman sketch. The images have been blurred out for this presentation.
* Caroll Spinney wears a Mickey Mouse t-shirt while rehearsing scenes from Episode 1576 which has been blurred out for the DVD release.
*A parody of the Birth of Venus from the Kermitage Collection can be seen on a wall in the bonus feature on the making of Abby Cadabby. The painting was blurred out for the DVD release.
*In December 2010, Amazon.com released an online exclusive version of the set with a bonus disc containing Episode 4228.
*The behind-the-scenes footage was later released in The iTunes Store as a full, half-hour segment with new pop-up facts. The behind-the scenes of "The Friendship Song" was also later included on Old School: Volume 3.
==Errata==
*The season 2 version of "Rubber Duckie" is listed as a season 1 segment. 
*"Ladybugs' Picnic" is listed as a season 3 segment, even though it would not air on the show until the following season. 
*Three segments listed as from season 11 - "Kermit News: Foot Snuggies," "Monsterpiece Theater: Me, Claudius," and "Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco" - actually premiered in season 12. 
*The celebrity version of "Put Down the Duckie" is listed as a season 18 segment. Although the song did debut in season 18, the celebrity version debuted later.
*The back cover of the DVD case for Disc 1 mentions Caroll Spinney performing Bruno the Trashman, who is incorrectly identified as "Biff."
==Other releases==
DVD-40yearsBonusDisc.jpg|2010Warner Home Video
==International releases==
Image:DVD-40years.png |2010Abbey Home Media Group
Sesamestreet40yearsofsunnydaysaustraliandvd.jpg|2010Madman EntertainmentSpecial edition
Sesamestreet40yearsofsunnydaysstandardeditiondvd.jpg|2010Madman EntertainmentStandard edition
==Promotions==
Tworld22.jpg|2010T-World's Artist Collaboration with Sesame Street
==See also==
* Sesame Street: 40th Anniversary
==External links==
* Muppet Central review
* Valley Courrier review
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