Sing Yourself Silly! (1990 Video)

Caroll Spinney: Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Big Bird : Know what silly is?

  [his bowtie starts spinning] 

  Big Bird : [laughs]  That's silly!

  [various clips play] 

  Big Bird : Here come the silly songs! If you think that they are silly, let me hear you say, "Now, that was silly!" Then you can join in, and... SING... YOURSELF... SILLY!

• Big Bird : [as the Honkers honk their noses in rapid succession]  Yes, gang! That song was silly.

  [the Honkers nod their heads yes] 

  Big Bird : But, silly songs are no laughing matter.

  [the Honkers shake their heads no] 

  Big Bird : To write them, it takes a genius... or Don Music.

• Oscar the Grouch : Now that was yucky! I'm not gonna say silly.

  Elmo : Oh! You said it, Oscar! You said "silly!"

  Oscar the Grouch : Who asked ya, pink-face?

  [groans as he recedes back into his trash can] 

  Elmo : [laughs, then turns toward screen]  He said "silly."

  [peers into trash can] 

  Elmo : You said "silly," Oscar!

• Big Bird : What was that, kids?

  The Kids : Now that was silly!

• Big Bird : You know? That song was silly. But, Silly doesn't take any matter. It takes a genus. Like Don Music.