Paul Dooley in Sesame Street: Don't Eat the Pictures (1983)

[Jody Barsch*]

As part of recent attempst to recover nostalgic films from my childhood, I recently obtained a copy of Sesame Street's film at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - Don't Eat the Pictures, in which, besides Big Bird and Snuffy helping a little Egyptian Boy to become a star, and Cookie Monster dying to eat all of the still lifes, Paul Dooley plays a clueless museum guard as the residents of Sesame Street roam the Met one night after being locked in. The film was different from how I remembered it, not as erie, but is very cute, and a rare piece of Jim Henson magic.