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Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a one-hour Sesame Street special that aired on PBS on November 16, 1983. The title comes from a song in the special, "Don't Eat the Pictures", sung by Cookie Monster. It was available as a video tape by Random House in 1987, and it was re-released on VHS by Sony Wonder in 1996 and on DVD in 2011. It has everybody reprising their roles from the children's television series, Sesame Street. The story takes on them getting locked in the Metropolitan Museum of Art overnight as they embark on an adventure to find their friend, Big Bird, who has gotten lost looking for Snuffy. They must stay there until the morning while avoiding a night watchman. The special features the regular human cast of Sesame Street along with several Muppet characters, including Cookie Monster, Telly, Bert & Ernie, The Count, Grover, and Oscar the Grouch. Snuffy also appears, even though his names are revealed to be Mr. Snuffleupagus and Aloysius Snuffleupagus, however, at this point in the show's history, he is still Big Bird's imaginary friend, never seen by the other characters on Sesame Street.