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Have any of these sketches starring Ernie and/or Bert appeared on YouTube?
-- Pumpkin seed candy
E divides up the candy, presumably in his favor.
-- Get the newspaper
B asks E to buy a newspaper at Hooper's store. He brings a flashlight in case it gets dark (it's morning), an umbrella (no clouds to speak of), and other things to travel the half-block to Hooper's. E then asks for some bubble gum in case he encounters a bear on the way.
-- "Help"
B is reading a newspaper, and E asks him how to spell "Help" to make a sign. After that, B realizes E must be in trouble, and he's just reading the paper, not getting involved. In a panic, B runs over to help E, but the sign actually read "Help Yourself"
-- Library book
B brings home a book from the library. E cannot read it because "the words look funny" (it's upside-down)
-- Bottle cap collection
B shows it off, whereupon E completes it with "Figgy Fizz"
-- Peppermint stick
Another sketch where there's an uneven amount of food product, but this time, E is the victim. E and another Muppet (Farley"?) each have candy sticks. But Cookie Monster notices that they are unevenly sized, so he eats each one down, alternately, ("You're eating my peppermint stick!") until each has about 2 inches left.
-- Time for our checker game! I'm here!
After E startles B about a scheduled checker game, B inadvertently makes E think he's "not here", and E desperately searches for himself. This one ends in a snare-drum march.
-- No pigeons?
B is about to watch his favorite TV show. He turns on the telly, and a voice says "The Wonderful World of Pigeons will not be seen today...", making B sad.
-- TV routine
Not sure of this one, but in this case we actually saw the TV screen on (it was usually faced away from us), then turned off with that "little white dot" disappearing in the center of the screen, as was common in 60s-early 70s TV sets.
-- Paper clip collection
E asks B to imagine if, hypothetically of course, E was playing with his favorite paper clip collection, and lost it down a sewer/storm drain. We saw B's trademark "mrrr-ehhhh" mad routine.
-- A present for me?
B gift wraps a present, but E mistakenly thinks it's for him. He tries to guess its contents.
-- Tall, taller, and tallest
After E and B represent tall and taller respectively, Big Bird enters the apartment for tallest, but not without knocking over a coffee table and gouging a hole in the ceiling.
-- Ice cube collection
E is about to show off his ice cube collection (which he put in a box under an electric blanket), but E is unpleasantly surprised at their current condition) This one is/was on YouTube, in Hebrew.
-- Milk and cookie
E fixes a milk and cookie snack, but Cookie Monster keeps absconding with the goods.
-- Ernie cleans up
This is 2 part skit. Part 1, B asks E to clean up the apartment, which he begins. Part 2 starts with the place clean, but E has one more item to clean: his toybox. He opens it and cleans it by throwing the contents hither and thither, much to B's chagrin.
-- The Ernie chain
E makes a chain into all kinds of different shapes. B, who's ready for lunch, asks E to make it into a bologna sandwich.
-- Ernie's Barber Shop (3 parts)
Part 1: E has a barber shop, and takes B as his first customer. E crops off all of B's hair.
Part 2: E puts a hat on B (which keeps him from seeing straight), and at some point gives him a book (to read while waiting for hair to regrow). Finally E applies a huge wig and a beard, causing a passing monster to think B is his father, and pulls B home with him.
Part 3: B returns to the shop, with hair regrown! But B answers only in nods and head-shakes. When pressed to say something B says "Coo-kie" in CM's voice.
-- Baseball in the rain
E is sobbing because his baseball game was called off due to rain. B suggests he imagine the game instead, which E does. In said game, E hits a long homer that lands in the ocean.
-- Ernie fingers
This takes place in "Ernie's room", same place as the laundry skit. E bets B a banana that he can't do 10 different things with his fingers. He can only think of 9, B takes the banana, and E waves goodbye; wait, that's ten!
-- Ernie "buys" air
E buys a bottle of air from Lefty, who pours the contents into E's hand. When E shows it to B, E "lost" it, and B says it couldn't have vanished into thin air. "Yes, it could" says E.
-- Share the cookie
B is about to eat a cookie, when E arrives and wheedles B into sharing it with him.
-- What happened here?
E shows B some drawings, to ask "what happened here". After some gimmes like an open bird cage (bird flew out). E shows a blank picture. It was a cow eating grass. No grass (cow ate it), no cow (went home afterwards). "Why should SHE stay around"
-- What happens next?
In a similar manner, B shows E some drawings. But E instead concocts an impromptu story around the contents of each one. He is sad about the first story, laughing about the second, and proud about the third. B asks E to judge each picture by "what YOU see" The last pic has a car about to drive over a nail. What happens next is "a monster is going to say 'cookie'"; What "he saw" was Cookie Monster standing behind Bert.
-- Just say NO, Herry
Herry Monster shows E a sign and bets him he can't make him say the word on it. E replies "No you can't" (the sign read "NO"). E asks for the sign to try it on B, but not only does B not fall for it, but instead turns the tables on E. ("No, that doesn't count...")
-- Everything's coming up noses
B feels a sneeze coming on, but E gets a hanky. B sneezes his nose off.
-- Department store
Obscure, and I forgot most of the details. A salesman in a department store tries pitching a product to E. E isn't buying, though, since B was the one in the market for it. When B comes into the picture, he says "Ernie? Oh there you are."
-- Blowin in the fuse
E and B try to one up each other with noisy appliances such as a TV and record player, and even turn on a blender (mixer?) for the noise. A loud cacophony ensues, then they blow a fuse.
-- I feel a draft
B feels a draft, so E puts grandma's shawl on B's shoulder. That's sufficient, but E continues against B's will by putting a hat, scarf, gloves, etc., until B is "broiling hot". So E brings an ice pack, opens a window, and turns on a fan.
-- Happy and mad
E, B, and a live kid have a casual discussion about how they each express their emotions. For laughing, the kid just laughs, E does his "ke-he-he..", and B does his patented machine-gun laugh. Then for mad, B does his trademarked "mrrr-ehhh" sound, while the kid and E can't quite produce a convincing effect.
-- A day at the zoo
E returns from the zoo, and B wants to know what happened there. E says nothing really happened, save a teeny-weeny scrape that he got on his finger. When B presses him for more info, E describes somewhat dispassionately the utter chaos that took place at the zoo that day.
-- Emotions in the rain
Outside in the rain somewhere, E is under an umbrella and runs into B. E describes 3 different emotions about the rain: happy (it waters the plants and flowers), sad (cancelled ball games and such), and mad (can't take his bike to the zoo, as planned). B has a different emotion: E has his umbrella.
-- Ernie's team
For as often as E talks about playing contact sports, for once we see him with a baseball team.
Ernie is outfitting a team with caps, but keeps putting the wrong size caps on the players. Once his team is outfitted, We see the rough-looking captain of the opposing team. E thinks it looks like rain and/or wants to postpone the game.
-- Loud and quiet
E asks B to demonstrate the difference between loud and quiet. B whispers "This is very quiet" E can't hear, asks B to repeat. B whispers "This is very quiet". E still can't hear. Then B angrily yells "THIS IS VERY QUIET!" Not quite quiet, that was.
-- Sorry, wrong number
E takes a phone call as B listens on. A multi-emotional drama follows involving a picnic, a sudden rainstorm, and a gorilla stealing a bologna sandwich and carrying the caller home on his shoulders.
-- Truckers onion
B shows E his new toy dump truck. B makes it clear he will not let E play with it since he's prone to breaking his new toys. But then B notices E crying, and thinks it's for that reason, but it's actually because all along E was slicing up some onions.
All summaries are to the best of my recollection.
-- Pumpkin seed candy
E divides up the candy, presumably in his favor.
-- Get the newspaper
B asks E to buy a newspaper at Hooper's store. He brings a flashlight in case it gets dark (it's morning), an umbrella (no clouds to speak of), and other things to travel the half-block to Hooper's. E then asks for some bubble gum in case he encounters a bear on the way.
-- "Help"
B is reading a newspaper, and E asks him how to spell "Help" to make a sign. After that, B realizes E must be in trouble, and he's just reading the paper, not getting involved. In a panic, B runs over to help E, but the sign actually read "Help Yourself"
-- Library book
B brings home a book from the library. E cannot read it because "the words look funny" (it's upside-down)
-- Bottle cap collection
B shows it off, whereupon E completes it with "Figgy Fizz"
-- Peppermint stick
Another sketch where there's an uneven amount of food product, but this time, E is the victim. E and another Muppet (Farley"?) each have candy sticks. But Cookie Monster notices that they are unevenly sized, so he eats each one down, alternately, ("You're eating my peppermint stick!") until each has about 2 inches left.
-- Time for our checker game! I'm here!
After E startles B about a scheduled checker game, B inadvertently makes E think he's "not here", and E desperately searches for himself. This one ends in a snare-drum march.
-- No pigeons?
B is about to watch his favorite TV show. He turns on the telly, and a voice says "The Wonderful World of Pigeons will not be seen today...", making B sad.
-- TV routine
Not sure of this one, but in this case we actually saw the TV screen on (it was usually faced away from us), then turned off with that "little white dot" disappearing in the center of the screen, as was common in 60s-early 70s TV sets.
-- Paper clip collection
E asks B to imagine if, hypothetically of course, E was playing with his favorite paper clip collection, and lost it down a sewer/storm drain. We saw B's trademark "mrrr-ehhhh" mad routine.
-- A present for me?
B gift wraps a present, but E mistakenly thinks it's for him. He tries to guess its contents.
-- Tall, taller, and tallest
After E and B represent tall and taller respectively, Big Bird enters the apartment for tallest, but not without knocking over a coffee table and gouging a hole in the ceiling.
-- Ice cube collection
E is about to show off his ice cube collection (which he put in a box under an electric blanket), but E is unpleasantly surprised at their current condition) This one is/was on YouTube, in Hebrew.
-- Milk and cookie
E fixes a milk and cookie snack, but Cookie Monster keeps absconding with the goods.
-- Ernie cleans up
This is 2 part skit. Part 1, B asks E to clean up the apartment, which he begins. Part 2 starts with the place clean, but E has one more item to clean: his toybox. He opens it and cleans it by throwing the contents hither and thither, much to B's chagrin.
-- The Ernie chain
E makes a chain into all kinds of different shapes. B, who's ready for lunch, asks E to make it into a bologna sandwich.
-- Ernie's Barber Shop (3 parts)
Part 1: E has a barber shop, and takes B as his first customer. E crops off all of B's hair.
Part 2: E puts a hat on B (which keeps him from seeing straight), and at some point gives him a book (to read while waiting for hair to regrow). Finally E applies a huge wig and a beard, causing a passing monster to think B is his father, and pulls B home with him.
Part 3: B returns to the shop, with hair regrown! But B answers only in nods and head-shakes. When pressed to say something B says "Coo-kie" in CM's voice.
-- Baseball in the rain
E is sobbing because his baseball game was called off due to rain. B suggests he imagine the game instead, which E does. In said game, E hits a long homer that lands in the ocean.
-- Ernie fingers
This takes place in "Ernie's room", same place as the laundry skit. E bets B a banana that he can't do 10 different things with his fingers. He can only think of 9, B takes the banana, and E waves goodbye; wait, that's ten!
-- Ernie "buys" air
E buys a bottle of air from Lefty, who pours the contents into E's hand. When E shows it to B, E "lost" it, and B says it couldn't have vanished into thin air. "Yes, it could" says E.
-- Share the cookie
B is about to eat a cookie, when E arrives and wheedles B into sharing it with him.
-- What happened here?
E shows B some drawings, to ask "what happened here". After some gimmes like an open bird cage (bird flew out). E shows a blank picture. It was a cow eating grass. No grass (cow ate it), no cow (went home afterwards). "Why should SHE stay around"
-- What happens next?
In a similar manner, B shows E some drawings. But E instead concocts an impromptu story around the contents of each one. He is sad about the first story, laughing about the second, and proud about the third. B asks E to judge each picture by "what YOU see" The last pic has a car about to drive over a nail. What happens next is "a monster is going to say 'cookie'"; What "he saw" was Cookie Monster standing behind Bert.
-- Just say NO, Herry
Herry Monster shows E a sign and bets him he can't make him say the word on it. E replies "No you can't" (the sign read "NO"). E asks for the sign to try it on B, but not only does B not fall for it, but instead turns the tables on E. ("No, that doesn't count...")
-- Everything's coming up noses
B feels a sneeze coming on, but E gets a hanky. B sneezes his nose off.
-- Department store
Obscure, and I forgot most of the details. A salesman in a department store tries pitching a product to E. E isn't buying, though, since B was the one in the market for it. When B comes into the picture, he says "Ernie? Oh there you are."
-- Blowin in the fuse
E and B try to one up each other with noisy appliances such as a TV and record player, and even turn on a blender (mixer?) for the noise. A loud cacophony ensues, then they blow a fuse.
-- I feel a draft
B feels a draft, so E puts grandma's shawl on B's shoulder. That's sufficient, but E continues against B's will by putting a hat, scarf, gloves, etc., until B is "broiling hot". So E brings an ice pack, opens a window, and turns on a fan.
-- Happy and mad
E, B, and a live kid have a casual discussion about how they each express their emotions. For laughing, the kid just laughs, E does his "ke-he-he..", and B does his patented machine-gun laugh. Then for mad, B does his trademarked "mrrr-ehhh" sound, while the kid and E can't quite produce a convincing effect.
-- A day at the zoo
E returns from the zoo, and B wants to know what happened there. E says nothing really happened, save a teeny-weeny scrape that he got on his finger. When B presses him for more info, E describes somewhat dispassionately the utter chaos that took place at the zoo that day.
-- Emotions in the rain
Outside in the rain somewhere, E is under an umbrella and runs into B. E describes 3 different emotions about the rain: happy (it waters the plants and flowers), sad (cancelled ball games and such), and mad (can't take his bike to the zoo, as planned). B has a different emotion: E has his umbrella.
-- Ernie's team
For as often as E talks about playing contact sports, for once we see him with a baseball team.
Ernie is outfitting a team with caps, but keeps putting the wrong size caps on the players. Once his team is outfitted, We see the rough-looking captain of the opposing team. E thinks it looks like rain and/or wants to postpone the game.
-- Loud and quiet
E asks B to demonstrate the difference between loud and quiet. B whispers "This is very quiet" E can't hear, asks B to repeat. B whispers "This is very quiet". E still can't hear. Then B angrily yells "THIS IS VERY QUIET!" Not quite quiet, that was.
-- Sorry, wrong number
E takes a phone call as B listens on. A multi-emotional drama follows involving a picnic, a sudden rainstorm, and a gorilla stealing a bologna sandwich and carrying the caller home on his shoulders.
-- Truckers onion
B shows E his new toy dump truck. B makes it clear he will not let E play with it since he's prone to breaking his new toys. But then B notices E crying, and thinks it's for that reason, but it's actually because all along E was slicing up some onions.
All summaries are to the best of my recollection.
