YouTube is a video sharing website that launched in 2005 as host to a wide variety of user-generated video content. It has since evolved to include media generated by major studios and also functions as a streaming platform for movies and TV shows.

The three major owners of Muppet and Henson related franchises have created content for YouTube as covered in the following articles:

• YouTube: The Muppets
• YouTube: Sesame Street
• YouTube: The Jim Henson Company

Appearances

• Youtube Rewind's Video of 2013 features cameos from various Sesame Street Muppets. Cookie Monster appears following a "Harlem Shake" scene, devouring the YouTube Rewind logo. Grover and a camel appear during a short scene with Macklemore, filmed during his time on the Sesame Street set. The Two-Headed Monster also appear during the credits, referred to as "Horn and Hardart."

• The 2014 Rewind video featured Big Bird on the set of The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert.

• Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Elmo appeared at YouTube's annual Brandcast presentation in New York City on May 5, 2016. Big Bird appeared alongside event host Lilly Singh to promote the Sesame Studios channel, and the three Muppets later participated in a performance of Silentó's "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)."^[1]

References

• In a 2009 promotional video for Sesamestreet.org, Makeda mentions the site's breakthrough features, which, despite Grover's insistence, does not feature kitty cat sitting on the potty. Grover hypes how many hits it gets on YouTube.

• The viral video "Beaker's Ballad", lampoons the site's video annotations.

• In the viral video "American Woman", Sam the Eagle prepares a pie chart to show the current content of YouTube: videos of ninjas, sleeping puppies and pirated music videos.

• In an insert for Season 41 of Sesame Street, Elmo appears in a video in "U Tube" doing "The Elmo Slide."

• In Tales of a Sixth-Grade Muppet, an allusion is made to "YouTood", a spoof of YouTube.

• Episode 4305 of Sesame Street features a spoof of the website, "Me Tube."

• In a 2014 Toyota Super Bowl spot featuring the Muppets, Gonzo says that he learned how to fix the car’s radio via a Russian YouTube video.

• When Telly Monster guest-starred on the webshow 5Facts in April 2014, he is shocked to learn that he's going to be on YouTube, blurting out, "Do you know the kind of stuff they have on YouTube? Ahhhhhhhh!"

• In The Muppets episode "Too Hot to Handler", Scooter says he shot a YouTube video on how to make a Spartan helmet out of a cereal box.

• In The Muppets episode "Swine Song", Pache says he wants to replace Fozzie with a YouTube kid.

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