Follow That Bird (1985)

Jim Henson: Kermit the Frog, Ernie

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Quotes 

• Newscaster : This news just in, concerning a 6-year-old runaway. The runaway is an eight-foot yellow bird who answers to the name Big Bird.

  Grover : Did you say Big Bird?

  Newscaster : That's right, Big Bird. He left his nest in Ocean View, Illinois last night, and is reportedly heading east for a place called Sasaim Street.

  Grover : Sasaim Street?

  Newscaster : [after hearing corrections from someone off-camera]  Sesame Street. Sorry.

  Grover : Oh!

  Newscaster : Here now with the report is our correspondent, Kermit the Frog.

  Kermit the Frog : [to someone else]  Okay. Here's one. Why does the chicken NOT cross the road? 'Cause it's chicken. Get it?

  [he laughs, then turns to the camera, as he's on] 

  Kermit the Frog : Oh, hi-ho! Kermit the Frog here in Ocean View, Illinois, with the thank you note Big Bird left saying he was running back to Sesame Street. The note reads: "Dear Dodos, you are a very nice family. Thanks for everything, but I'm walking back to Sesame Street. I should be there in three hours, since it took two hours to fly here. So if anyone calls, you know where to reach me. Love, Big Bird." And here is the family that he left, the Dodos.

  Daddy Dodo : Oh, are we on television?

  Kermit the Frog : Um, yes, you are.

  Mommy Dodo : Let's go inside and watch!

  Kermit the Frog : Uh, now who'd run away from a family like that?

• Bert : Whattaya see, Ernie?

  Ernie : [points his binoculars at Bert's nose]  Your nose, Bert.

  [he laughs] 

  Bert : Ernie! Get serious, will ya? We're supposed to be looking for Big Bird.

  Ernie : Right!

• Kermit the Frog : You think maybe he didn't like it here or something?

  Miss Finch : Impossible!

  Kermit the Frog : Well, what are you going to do about it, Miss Finch?

  Miss Finch : I'm going to find Big Bird, wherever he is, and bring him back to the Dodos.

• Bert : Ernie, I see him!

  Ernie : See who, Bert?

  Bert : See that yellow spot down there? It's Big Bird!

  Ernie : Oh, yeah. That sure looks like a yellow spot, all right.

• [lookout] 

  Bert : What do you see?

  Ernie : Your nose, Bert.