The eccentric and lovable Big Bird lives a very carefree life with his friends on Sesame Street. But his happiness is cut short when a strictly social worker named Miss Finch sends him off to live with a crazy family of Dodos. After a long week and feeling homesick, he decides he's had enough and sets out to head back to Sesame Street. Word spreads and he doesn't realize that his friends are looking for him. But he better watch out because both Miss Finch and the Sleaze Brothers are after him for their own tickets, too.