Abby Cadabby

Abby Cadabby,[2] mostly referred to as just Abby, is a 4-year-old Muppet character on the PBS/HBO children's television show Sesame Street. In 2006, Abby made her debut in the first episode of Sesame Street’s 37th season, when she moved into the neighborhood and met some of the Street's residents. On the day of her debut, her wand broke; Big Bird told her to take her wand to the Fix-It Shop where Maria would fix it. Season 40 features her CGI animated recurring segments titled Abby's Flying Fairy School which were adapted into a proper spin-off. She is also, currently the host of Abby's Amazing Adventures, with her stepbrother Rudy. The first episode aired November 17, 2018, on HBO and September 2, 2019 on PBS.

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First appearance	Episode 4109 August 14, 2006
Created by	Tony Geiss[1] Ed Christie Rollie Krewson
Voiced by	Leslie Carrara-Rudolph2006-2020
Performed by	Leslie Carrara-Rudolph2006-2020
Birthday	October 21
In-universe information
Full name	Abigail Cadabby[2]
Alias	Abby
Species	Fairy
Gender	Female
Family	Maggie Cadabby (Mother), Freddy (Stepfather), Rudy (Stepbrother)
Origin	Fairyland (past) Sesame Street (present)

Her name is a play on words of the magic word Abracadabra. Abby's magical powers are limited to popping in and out of thin air, floating when she's happy, and turning things into pumpkins. Although familiar with the world of fairy tales, Abby is astounded by such basic learning skills as drawing letters or counting, prompting her catchphrase "That's so magic!" She frequently uses her wand cell phone to call her mommy. When she's asked to return home, she says that she's "gotta poof." She can speak Dragonfly and Butterfly and is teaching Rosita the languages, while Rosita teaches her Spanish. Along with Baby Bear, Abby begins attending school in a 2006 episode at the Storybook Community School, where Mrs. Goose is the teacher and other fairy tale characters like Hansel and Gretel are her classmates. Her mother being the fairy godmother, went to that school and had the same teacher. In 2020 on Sesame Street in Communities, Abby was shown going to online Pre-School, but it obviously a different school as she has a different teacher and Elmo is now one of her classmates.

Tony Geiss conceptualized Abby as a way to simultaneously introduce a major female character to the show and add someone from a different culture, without "having consciously to introduce somebody from Indonesia or India." Abby's design is an intentional departure from the typical Muppet look because she's not originally from Sesame Street. The implication is that the fairies in her old neighborhood look like her.

Abby's likeness has been adapted for a 43-foot balloon which premiered in the 2007 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a full-body costume character for stage appearances and several merchandise items.

In 2008, Abby was added to the cast of Plaza Sésamo, the Mexican co-production of Sesame Street, appearing in new segments where she tries to perform magic tricks with various ordinary objects. She also has a segment with Lola where they solve everyday problems with simple science and sometimes art. In 2009, she became the host of 3, 2, 1 Vamos!, a Latin American pre-school programming block, which first aired in English in 2010, on Canadian television.