The formidable Miss Finch appeared in the first Sesame Street movie, Follow That Bird. As a social worker for the Feathered Friends Society, Miss Finch is distressed by the case of Big Bird, with no birds around him. She takes it upon herself to meet Big Bird and persuade him to leave Sesame Street for a new foster family, the Dodos, with a father, mother, sister, and brother. When Big Bird runs away from the Dodos, Miss Finch cannot fathom why he could possibly be unhappy with "his own kind." She sets out in the Feathered Friends Society van to pursue "Big", but is thwarted.