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]

07:52 AM on 11/05/2009

Long live Sesame Street!

[p2bpinoy]

04:53 AM on 11/07/2009

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

[Kuramasan]

09:49 AM on 11/04/2009

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

[Pinoy Tutorial]

09:33 AM on 11/04/2009

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]

09:23 AM on 11/04/2009

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

[nisha]

04:14 PM on 11/05/2009

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

[kschmeltzer]

09:17 AM on 11/04/2009

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]

09:04 AM on 11/04/2009

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

[Benjamin Merrill]

09:00 AM on 11/04/2009

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

[jambiddle]

08:47 AM on 11/04/2009

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."