Are Ernie and Bert gay?

[mikealan]

Ernie and Bert have been along together in their basement room in the 123 Sesame Street apartment house. They slept together and Bert's trying to read while Ernie jokes around him. Are they GAY?

Moderator's Note: 12/18/2007

This was from Hays' post in 2003:

This one talks about how these ideas got started, and SS's response: http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/gaymupp.htm

This is another interesting article that mentions how nobody gets upset about the possible union of a pig and a frog, but the suggestion of homosexuality gets everybody uptight. Good point: http://www.umanitoba.ca/manitoban/20010926/arts_6.shtml

And this is the standard: http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/...uppet-faq.html

Urban legends debunked:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/gaymupp.htm

Here's the Toughpigs article: http://toughpigs.com/extrasesamesexuality.htm

A really good FAQ that has lots of other good stuff on it: http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/VR/BS/M...a/faq_3.2.html

Who's who of Ernie & Bert: http://www.who2.com/bertandernie.html

And here's another article on ABC news: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Wo...ffiles215.html

 

[Hays]

AGAIN?

ERNIE AND BERT ARE BARELY SCHOOL-AGE! CHECK THE FAQ!

That being said, it's interesting to note that on today's episode Bert mentions his brother Bart, whom I've never heard of before...and he has only one candle on his birthday cake. Does blow my theory that they're brothers all to heck, though...

 

[Boober_Gorg]

They also had separate beds.

Oh, and mikealan ... SHAME ON YOU!!

 

[mikealan]

Uh-oh..I'm afraid you're going to fire me!

 

[HeraLirambar]

Apparently there's no such thing as a stupid question, but there is a such thing as a shameful question. Honestly, mikealan was just asking, what's wrong with that? It's better than doing something like actually accusing them of being gay. (Which I wouldn't see a problem with anyway if they were.) I'm sorry, but that's the way I feel.

*Something dawns on her*

Wait... Boober_Gorg, why shame on mikealan exactly?

Shiznit, now I'm all cornfused. Bah. Forget I said anything.

WoOoOoOoOt!



BWAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm crazyyyyyy, crazy for feelin' so... crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyy! I'd like to be under the sea... *Creeps away muttering to self*

What? Stop looking at me.

 

[Hays]

Hey, just teasing...

I think Ol' Boober was not reacting to the content of the question, but the number of times it's come up - look through past posts.

Right about there not being any stupid questions, tho...

 

[HeraLirambar]

Ah. Thanks fer clearin' that up! Yesh... it has come up mucho times, hasn't it?

 

[Gonzo]

 

[Boober_Gorg]

Hays, in a way you're right. I think it's a tragedy that society has given homosexuality a bad name, and when the Muppets are associated with traits that are given a bad name in society (but are not necessarily bad traits in my opinion), it means the Muppets are being dissed in the most demeaning way possible ... and if you do such a thing on this board, then that can't be good. I mean, it was okay when Family Guy did it, but that staff was full of Muppet haters, which was okay, 'cause that's their sense of humor, which I don't have to agree with. Plus none of them are on this board.

One time during this meaningless high school electoral debate which I was forced to sit through (unfortunately), it upset me when one of the announcers said something like "the most (adjective) gay couple since Ernie and Bert." It also upset me when I overheard some 8th graders talking about SS, and someone said "Big Bird's so gay ... " Throughout my immaturity-populated high school years, I still secretly watched SS in my room ... until our PBS reception got worse, which was when I stopped.

 

[Gonzo]

I think another side of the issue (that some of you have touched on) is that the Muppet characters on Sesame Street are supposed to represent children and their predicaments....if B & E were an established gay couple, living together, it would be as disturbing as if...say...Grover and Prairie Dawn were living together.

They're Muppets, and they're children on top of that. I think issues of their sexuality should be non-existent or non-applicable to what SS is teaching children.

But that's just my opinion.



And I LOVE Bert and Ernie. Especially Bert.

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