Big Bird Google Doodle Celebrates Sesame Street's 40th Anniversary (UPDATED, PHOTO, VIDEO)

Google's doodle looks a bit different: instead of the regular primary-colored G-O-O-G-L-E, Big Bird, the giant yellow bird character from the children's television show Sesame Street, is featured front and center.

See the screenshot below of Google's Big Bird doodle:

Why the switch? Sesame Street, brought to you by Sesame Workshop, is celebrating its 40th anniversary!

UPDATED: It turns out that the British Google featured a different Doodle altogether (see screenshot below).

Big Bird's Google Doodle was followed by a Cookie Monster Doodle, and a Bert and Ernie Doodle. See screenshots below and read more about these Sesame Street Doodles here and here.

The UK Google Doodle celebrates the 20th anniversary of the cartoon Wallace and Gromit. Read more about it here.

Celebrate Big Bird's birthday by watching some of the Sesame Street classics below:
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Comments

[Mystic01]

Long live Sesame Street!

[p2bpinoy]

Here's a complete collection of cool Sesame Street characters on Google doodle.

[Kuramasan]

Burt an Ernie! I've loved them from before I can remember! ^_^

[Pinoy Tutorial]

This indeed brings the nostalgia to a lot of people world wide, not sure if kids nowadays would appreciate the good ole sesame street gang if they are always tune to Youtube or facebook playing mafia wars. =)
http://bit.ly/my-sesame-street

[OMgosh]

Hi - I love Sesame Street. Where's the Count? Cookie Monster and Snuffleupagus - I love these guys.
Happy Birthday with major shout outs!! :-)

[nisha]

Isn't it Cookie Monster in the US?
see http://www.google.com/

[kschmeltzer]

I love it!

Google blog says they'll be featuring a different character for the next 7 days as the actual anniversary is November 10th.

[Alexis789]

I watched this show growing up and still do with my kids today. Big bird rocks..

[Benjamin Merrill]

My favorite character has always been Ernie. In fact, Ernie is one of my wife's nicknames.

[jambiddle]

ERROR: "Sesame Street, brought to you by the Children's Television Workshop, is celebrating its 40th anniversary!" Children's Television Workshop is not the name. That name was changed many years ago to "Sesame Workshop."