San Francisco

thumb|300px|Ernie rides a cable car.
San Francisco is both a city and county in California. It is the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City, and is one of the top tourist destinations in the world.
==References==
* In the Sesame Street coloring book Let's Take a Trip! Ernie rides one of the city's famous cable cars.
* San Francisco has had many famous earthquakes, including a large one in 1906. Those quakes were referenced by the wrestler The San Francisco Earthquake in The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence.
* The second half of the 1997 film George of the Jungle, which includes animatronic effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, takes place in San Francisco. George makes a daring rescue of a worker stranded at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge.
* The 1979 Sesame Street Calendar feature San Francisco for the month of October.
* In a Sesame Street filmed insert, college students volunteer at the San Francisco Children's Zoo, which has such animals as ferrets, opossums, and chinchillas. 
* Uncle Traveling Matt appeared on location in San Francisco in various episodes of Fraggle Rock. In "Wembley and the Gorgs," Matt goes to Marina Green and sees kites and helium balloons. In "The Terrible Tunnel," Matt sees fishermen making nets at Fisherman's Wharf. In "New Trash Heap in Town," Matt discovers marionettes at Fisherman's Wharf.Jim's Red Book - 5/26-30/1982 – ‘VTR Travelling Matt in San Francisco and LA – much fun.’
* Grover and Abby Cadabby appeared at BlogHer08 in San Francisco, on July 18 & 19, 2008.
* In 1980, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy hosted an episode of Great Performances in which they watched the San Francisco Ballet's production of Prokofiev's Cinderella.
*Muppets, Music & Magic was featured at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which is housed in San Francisco, June 21 - July 1, 2007.
* Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? was an exhibition at the Bay Area Discovery Museum in San Francisco, May 8 - September 19, 2004.
* The Art of the Muppets was featured at the de Young Museum Hall of Flowers in San Francisco, June 27 - August 2, 1981.
* The Sesame Street Cast Tour started its national tour in September 1970 before a crowd of 15,000 at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park (where a reporter described the event as a "preschooler's Woodstock").
* An episode of Wilson & Ditch: Digging America features the city of San Francisco.
* Cookie Monster made a round of live appearances in the San Francisco bay area on May 13, 2014, when he attended the PBS Annual Meeting,Cookie Monster at PBS Annual Meeting in San Francisco (2014-05-13) also swinging by a San Francisco Giants game and an Off the Grid gathering in Daly City.MLB - Cookie Monster chats in the Bay Area (2014-05-13) In the meantime, Maker Faire in the bay area's San Mateo debuted a Snuffy 3D-print to announce the partnership between Sesame Workshop and 3-D printer maker MakerBot.recode.net - Sesame Street Muppets Swing Through Bay Area (2014-05-14)
* On August 7, 2016, Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem appeared at their first ever live concert taking place at a music festival, San Francisco's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival at Golden Gate Park.
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