today you'll be taking a lie detector test.

- Oh great, what's a lie detector test?

- [Interviewer] I'll be asking you a series of questions

and we have a few guest interviewers here to help.

- What, what is this? - Oh, oh,

hi, Elmo. - Hi,

Cookie Monster. - Hi, hi.

- Hi, Big Bird. - Hi, Abby.

- Good luck.

- [Abby] Okay.

- Gee, thank you. - The truth will set you free.

- Okay, I don't know what that means, but all right.

[plugs clicking] [electricity zapping]

[electronics boom]

- [Interviewer] Is your real name Big Bird?

- Me, I thought you were talking to Barry.

Yes, my name's Big Bird.

- [Interviewer] Do you live on Sesame Street?

- Yes, I do.

- [Interviewer] Are you ready to take

this lie detector test?

- Sure, yeah, mm-hmm.

- [Interviewer] Let's get started.

[screen booms]

How's he doing so far, Barry?

- Perfect, just perfect.

- [Interviewer] Eight-foot two.

Pretty tall, wouldn't you say?

- Yes.

- [Interviewer] You ever been asked to model?

- No, but I've been asked to reach things on high shelves.

- [Interviewer] Do you often get asked to play basketball?

- No, not really.

- [Interviewer] Do you think you'd be good at basketball

if you played?

- Oh, gee, I guess if I practice a lot,

I might get better at it.

I might get good, yeah.

- [Interviewer] Do you think you'd be better at basketball

than this man, Barry Bird?

- I don't know.

Looks like he's actually maybe a basketball player

so I'm gonna go with, this Bird's better.

- [Interviewer] Do you ever Google yourself, Big Bird?

- No, I don't even know what that means.

- [Interviewer] But you do have a Twitter, right?

- Oh, yeah, I like to tweet.

- [Interviewer] Do you ever check your Twitter DMs?

- Oh, what's that?

- [Interviewer] I guess that's a no.

- No, I guess not, maybe I'm not doing it right.

- [Interviewer] You were named a living legend

by the United States Library of Congress.

Are there any perks to being a living legend?

- Hmm, gee, if there are, I haven't gotten any.

- [Interviewer] Do you ever get to hang out

with this living legend, John Legend?

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know John.

Sure, we've done a song together.

- [Interviewer] What song?

- Gee, I don't remember the name.

Barry, do you know the name of the song?

- I listen to the answers.

I don't answer questions.

- I'm not sure I believe him.

Maybe we should do the lie detector test

on Barry. [Barry laughs]

- [Interviewer] When Ariana Grande's song,

"Thank U, Next," came out, you tweeted, thank u, nest.

- Oh, yes, I think that was a typo.

- [Interviewer] So are you an Ariana Grande fan?

- Oh, sure, she seems really nice.

- [Interviewer] Is that true, Barry?

- Everything so far is true.

- [Interviewer] Do you wish Ariana

would visit Sesame Street?

- Oh, she's welcome anytime.

- [Interviewer] You interned at Funny or Die in 2015?

- Mm-hmm.

- [Interviewer] Would you ever consider interning

at Vanity Fair?

- Oh, sure, what do you have?

- [Interviewer] There's a couple openings.

- Well good, like what?

- [Interviewer] For example, writing about the White House.

- Oh, I like colors,

so I could write about any color house you'd like.

- [Interviewer] Sesame Street's in New York City, right?

- Mm-hmm, that's right.

- [Interviewer] So you ever take the subway?

- I have, but I have to really duck.

I have to duck really low and I sit in the subway like this.

You too, huh, Barry?

- [Barry] Oh, yes.

- [Interviewer] You've been six years old

for 50 years, right?

- Well, I'm not very good at math,

but I guess that's right, yes.

- [Interviewer] Do you have any skincare secrets or?

- Any skincare secrets?

Well, I mean, I'm a bird so I molt.

But I don't know, it just kinda happens.

- [Interviewer] Well thanks for your honesty.

Now we're gonna have some of your friends

ask you some questions.

- Oh, goody.

[papers rustle]

[text slams]

- Hi, Bird.

- [Big Bird] Oh hi, Cookie Monster.

- What you doing?

- [chuckles] I'm good, how are you?

- [Cookie] Me good, what you got on there?

- I have no idea.

But Barry put it on me and he's very nice

so I guess it's okay.

- Hi, Barry.

- Barry, that's Cookie Monster.

- Yeah, hi. - So nice to meet you.

- Good to see you.

- [Barry] Good to see you.

- [Cookie] Me going to ask you some questions.

- Oh, goody.

- Okay, um.

Boy, me got to think of question.

Oh, oh, you live in big nest, right?

- I do.

- Did you make said nest, yourself?

- Yes, I did make my nest, yes.

- Wow, me always wondered about that.

Uh. - Oh, Cookie Monster?

- Yeah. - Where do you live?

- Me live in apartment.

- [Big Bird] Oh, did you make the apartment yourself?

- No, me just moved in years ago, but it rent-controlled.

- Oh, that's nice. - And the old me

not going anywhere.

- That's pretty good.

- Me been there since the '60s.

- Really?

- Me look at sublet it.

- No, I wouldn't do that. - Me would get kicked out.

- I don't know what it means,

but I wouldn't do it. - Oh, you have to be careful.

Just checking that camera.

Hi. - Hi.

- Oh, me got question.

- [Big Bird] Okay.

- [Cookie] You live near Oscar the Grouch, right?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay, so would you say he a good neighbor?

- Well, he's a grouchy neighbor, does that count?

- Me like it, Barry, we good?

- Truthful, truthful answer.

- Terrific.

Um, have you ever thought of asking Oscar

to clean up the garbage can?

- No, not really, I mean, that's what Oscar likes.

He likes his trash, I mean, he loves his trash.

I would never ask him to clean it up.

- Big Bird.

- [Big Bird] Yes, Cookie Monster.

- Would you say that you love birdseed

more than me love cookies?

- Hmm, that's hard to say.

I mean, I sure do love birdseed

and I know that you love cookies.

Oh, oh, hey, Cookie Monster.

- Yeah.

- Have you ever tried a birdseed cookie?

- Me have.

- They're good, right? - Me love, you like them?

- I do, I like them a lot.

- Let's go get one of them.

- Okay, let's.

- [Cookie] Oh, you strapped in there.

- Maybe get one for me. - You know what,

Barry, whenever he go, maybe all three of us.

You like birdseed cookies?

- Oh, I love 'em.

- They're really good. - Let's do it.

The three of us.

Then we get crazy.

[papers rustle]

[text booms]

- Hi, Big Bird.

- Hi. - Hi Elmo, hi Abby.

This is Barry.

- [Elmo] Hi, Barry.

- Oh, hi Barry. - Barry, this is,

this is Elmo

- Hello. - Barry, what,

what in the world - and Abby.

- is going on here?

What is this?

- Yeah, what's happening?

- I like your tie, Barry.

- Oh, thank you so much.

- It's very fashionable. - Yeah,

it's nice. - That was true, by the way.

[Abby laughs]

- So what is this, a lie detector test?

- What should we do, Barry?

- You are gonna ask the questions.

- Ask the questions. - Ask, yeah.

- Yeah, I'm gonna

- At Big Bird. - answer the questions.

Do you have any questions for me?

- Questions. - Okay, okay,

who's your best friend?

- Snuffy.

- Oh, thought he was gonna say Elmo.

Okay, who really is your best friend?

- Snuffy.

- Oh. - Mr. Snuffleupagus

is my best friend

- Oh. - Is that right?

- That's a little awkward.

- Abby, your turn. - Is it?

- Okay, Big Bird.

- Yes, Abby? - Other than Snuffy,

who are your other best friends?

- Oh, Elmo and Abby.

[Elmo and Abby laugh]

That's easy, oh, Barry?

- [Barry] That's true,

very, very true. - Yeah, you're my friend too,

right? - Oh, we can be friends.

Yes. - And Barry's, Barry's,

you know what, maybe we should do a playdate with Barry.

- Oh, that's a good idea. - Sure.

- Barry. - Love it.

Absolutely. - Do you know the alphabet?

- Hey, Big Bird?

- Hmm, what? - Would you say

hopscotch is your favorite game?

- No, I don't think hopscotch is my favorte game, no?

- [gasps] Barry, is that true?

- Everything he has said so far is absolutely true.

- Wow. - Ooh, ooh,

okay, I got another question. - Okay, go ahead then.

- Okay, go ahead. - It's kinda rippin' off

the other one. - Okay.

- Rippin'. - Okay.

- What is your favorite game?

- Oh, I love tag.

[Abby squeals] - Oh, that's good.

That's a good, that's true.

- Yeah, and now we know.

- Okay, so Elmo has a question.

- Okay Elmo.

- You performed "Feeling Good" by Michael Buble

on Lip Sync Batter. - Yes.

- Is that a question? - So is it a question?

- Is that true?

- I did.

- Okay, very good.

That's Elmo's question. - He concurred it.

- He what? - It's called concur.

- You were there with me, Elmo.

Remember, we did "I Gotta Feeling".

- That is true.

Correct, it's right.

- Would you say you have lots of feelings, Big Bird?

- Sure, don't we all have lots of feelings?

- [Abby] Would you say that you're emotional?

- Emotional?

- Are you an emotional bird? - Yeah.

- Well, I mean, I have feelings.

Sometimes I feel happy.

Sometimes I feel sad.

That's just what being a bird is all about, right?

- Beautiful.

- I love it. - That was beautiful.