Het Ei (The Egg) is the 30-minute 25th anniversary episode of Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street. It aired on January 4th, 2001. Hakim tells a special story about the day Sesamstraat's 25th birthday and the show was almost cancelled. This proves to be very difficult, because the egg seems to be growing so big that Pino can't hide it anymore. Luckily, Tommie and Ieniemienie find out about his problems, and they offer help. But Aart, who is in charge of the feast, takes the egg away for his boiled egg recipe!