--- title: Watch: Sesame Street Mashup With Beastie Boys 'Sabotage' description: The parody recreates the Spike Jonze-directed music video for Beastie Boys' song "Sabotage" with footage from a Sesame Street film. canonical: https://time.com/4848929/sesame-street-beastie-boys-sabotage-mashup/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-07T16:54:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:22:16.412Z og:title: Big Bird Outruns Cops in a Sesame Street-Beastie Boys Mashup og:description: The parody features all your favorite Sesame Street characters og:url: https://time.com/4848929/sesame-street-beastie-boys-sabotage-mashup/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a3b91a038d12b24/6988d4d00b72e3810c6ee896/screen-shot-2017-07-07-at-10-17-48-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1281 og:image:height: 721 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2017-07-07 at 10.17.48 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Big Bird Outruns Cops in a Sesame Street-Beastie Boys Mashup twitter:description: The parody features all your favorite Sesame Street characters twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0a3b91a038d12b24/6988d4d00b72e3810c6ee896/screen-shot-2017-07-07-at-10-17-48-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Big Bird Outrun the Cops in This _Sesame Street_ Mashup of Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage' > Sponsored content. 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Sesame Street will introduce Julia, a muppet character who has autism, onscreen in April_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 7, 2017 4:54 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 7, 2017 4:54 PM UTC [Blue Ivy](http://time.com/4691974/beyonce-and-blue-ivy-beauty-and-the-beast/) may have thrown down an [iconic freestyle](http://people.com/babies/blue-ivy-raps-jay-z-444/) on [JAY-Z’s _4:44_](http://time.com/4840844/jay-z-444-album/), but with the debut of this new Beastie Boys mashup, the [_Sesame Street_](http://time.com/4706631/sesame-street-julia-autism-diversity/) cast could become the latest stars to take the music world by storm. Dubbed “Sesametage” by creator [Adam Schleichkorn](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMBXNGU6PwSUcn7y-%5Fyeg), the parody recreates the Spike Jonze-directed music video for the band’s 1994 hit single “Sabotage” with footage from the vintage _Sesame Street_ film _Follow That Bird_. Featuring Big Bird as Sir Stewart Wallace, the Count as Cochese, Oscar the Grouch as “The Rookie,” Super Grover as “The Chief,” and Ms. Finch as Bunny, the three-minute spoof tells the story of Big Bird’s attempt to outrun authorities in the same 1970s crime drama style as the original. Of course, this isn’t Schleichkorn’s first Muppets rodeo. The YouTube user’s previous mashups have included versions of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s [“Tha Crossroads,”](http://time.com/4255953/sesame-street-rap-bone-thugs-n-harmony-tha-crossroads/) [Beastie Boys’ “So What’cha Want”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq-VNCGBDRU) and [Digital Underground’s “The Humpty Dance.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whFc4xtSD3w) Watch the full video below. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] I know that song Julia. [ LAUGH ] Sunny day, sweeping the Clouds away. Yeah. On my way To where the air is sweet. Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street? [ MUSIC ] Hm hm hm. Everything's a- ok. Friendly neighbors there. That's where we meet. 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