--- title: Michelle Obama on Billy on the Street description: The First Lady gets yelled at by Billy Eichner for a good cause canonical: https://time.com/3711825/michelle-obama-big-bird-billy-on-the-street/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-17T15:55:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:01.435Z og:title: Watch Michelle Obama Slow Dance With Big Bird og:description: The First Lady gets yelled at by Billy Eichner for a good cause og:url: https://time.com/3711825/michelle-obama-big-bird-billy-on-the-street/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Michelle Obama Slow Dance With Big Bird twitter:description: The First Lady gets yelled at by Billy Eichner for a good cause twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Michelle Obama Slow Dance With Big Bird by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 17, 2015 3:55 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 17, 2015 3:55 PM UTC [Billy On The Street with First Lady Michelle Obama, Big Bird, And Elena!!!](http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/3ea0a43d3d/billy-on-the-street-with-first-lady-michelle-obama-big-bird-and-elena) from [Funny Or Die](http://www.funnyordie.com/funnyordie) Michelle Obama slow danced with Big Bird in a grocery store because comedian Billy Eichner told her to do it. The First Lady is trying to get the word out about the [Eat Bright campaign](http://sesamestreet.pma.com/learn-about-our-movement.htm) that puts [_Sesame Street_](http://thepage.time.com/2009/11/10/first-lady-of-sesame-street/) characters on fruits and vegetables to [encourage young children](http://entertainment.time.com/2009/09/30/elmo-michelle-obama-to-indoctrinate-your-kids-with-veggies/) to make healthier food choices. For some reason this publicity push lead to FLOTUS standing in the produce section of a supermarket next to Big Bird and _Billy on the Street_ fan favorite, [Elena](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiXC14gllgw), playing a rapid-fire round of a game called “Ariana Grande or a Carrot?” while Eichner screamed at them. (The answer by the way, is carrot.) It’s an impressively odd video that is incredibly fun to watch, if slightly hard to process. That said, it’s sad to know that their is now video evidence that the First Lady can’t name all the characters from the _Facts of Life_. _Read next:_ [_Michelle Obama: ‘Turnip for What?’_](http://time.com/3508424/michelle-obama-turnip-for-what-vine/?xid=time%5Freadnext) ### See the Evolution of Michelle Obama in Magazine Covers  September, 2008 Radar  September, 2008 Ebony  March, 2009 Vogue  April, 2009 New York Magazine  June 1, 2009 TIME  December, 2009 Glamour  March 22, 2010 Newsweek  August, 2011 Better Homes and Gardens  February, 2012 More  September, 2012 Journal  April, 2013 Vogue  December, 2013 Journal  August, 2014 Essence  November, 2014 Redbook  March, 2015 Cooking Light ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3711825/michelle-obama-big-bird-billy-on-the-street/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3711825/michelle-obama-big-bird-billy-on-the-street/"},"headline":"Watch Michelle Obama Slow Dance With Big Bird","datePublished":"2015-02-17T15:55:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:01.435Z","description":"The First Lady gets yelled at by Billy Eichner for a good cause","url":"https://time.com/3711825/michelle-obama-big-bird-billy-on-the-street/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Michelle Obama","Sesame Street","Funny or Die","billy eichner"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3711825/michelle-obama-big-bird-billy-on-the-street/","name":"Watch Michelle Obama Slow Dance With Big Bird"}}]}] ```