The Official Sesame Street Children In Need Medley (2023)

The Official Sesame Street Children In Need Medley is a short film by the Animated All Star Band and Sesame Workshop, as well as a lot of other companies. It was released on 9 November 2023. The cover art is also a parody of the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles.

Plot
The film depicts Alex Bratten at night, talking to Kermit the Frog on his telephone, saying that he wants to get everyone together for the recording. Elmo sings "Can You Feel It", joined by Spongebob, Eric Cartman, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Peter Griffin, and other characters. Next, Grover and other characters sing "Don't Stop", such as Mario, Luigi, Ash Ketchum and Pikachu, PB&J Otter, Yakko, Wakko and Dot, Duggee, the Squirrels, Bowser, Handy Manny, Special Agent Oso and Thomas the Tank Engine. Stephanie sings "Jai Ho", accompanied by the Mythicals, the 20 Numberblocks, Daniel Tiger and his friends, and Toodles. Bobgoblin joins their flash mob too, much to the disapproval of Wally, Norville, Doug, Gina, Libby, the Sensational Six, the Rugrats and Pete. Bobgoblin then realizes his mistake and joins his friends and the others for their new rendition of "Tubthumping", and then the entire cast sing a montage of "Never Forget", "Hey Jude", and "One Day Like This". At the end of the film, D.W. appears, only to be informed by Alex Bratten that they have just finished.

Cast
To see the cast, click here -> Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration! (Featuring The Whole Characters and Alex Bratten)

Production
Production began at Sesame Workshop on 28 April, 2023. The project took 132 hours to mix the vocals of the seven songs, eight months to animate, and around two years in total.

The film shows the Animated All Star Band meeting and recording the song in a studio, spoofing other charity songs in the style of Band Aid’s "Do They Know It’s Christmas?”, with Alex Bratten first arranging the recording session and then leading the singing. The film features cartoon characters from over 100 different production companies, and if you add all the different non-Sesame Street characters (including the Sesame Street gang), there are over 11268 different characters. All the animated characters are voiced by their respective actors and actresses, with a few new ones replacing ones that have passed away. About almost all of the contributions are characters from Battle For Dream Island, Inanimate Insanity and other object shows, as well as characters from Plants vs. Zombies and Super Mario, whilst others are from misc. video games, books and TV series. Harry Potter and his friends and a few of the Celestials make cameos on Louie's smartphone, and on a TV in the background, the Minecraft mobs and the Numberjacks also appear briefly.