Talk:Bert (Sesame Street)

Dull

If one calls an activity "dull", it that still considered NPOV? RedWolf 05:26, Nov 19, 2003 (UTC)

The dullness of the activities in question is part of the premise of the character...so yes. Philwelch 00:12, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

no homage

I removed the It's a Wonderful Life reference, as Henson said specifically that the names are not from the two supporting characters in that movie. It says this in Bert and Ernie - DavidWBrooks 11:56, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

That was just "preemptive lawyering" on Henson's part; whether he inended it deliberately or it just happened as a result of his earlier memories of "It's a Wonderful Life", most reasonable observers would conclude that Bert and Ernie are based on Bert and Ernie.

Atlant 09:55, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

I agree that that was the actual source. For one, the common American spelling of the name is "Burt", not "Bert". It is rather ironic that one of the few cases of the spelling being "Bert" in an American movie was was also the same movie where another character was named Ernie. Since IAWL is not in the "Public Domain", this was probably done to prevent lawyers from trying to grab money.

Mushrom 3 April 2006

Link to Beaker

The current link to Beaker leads to the scientific apparatus, whereas I assume the link should be to the muppet character named Beaker.

Fixed.

Atlant 09:55, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

YouTube links

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Squidward?

I always thought that Bert was like Squidward from Sponge Bob. Like, how he is smart but easily aggrovated.

Can anyone explain this sentence?

From the discography section: He has it in "Bert's Tales of SCARY STUFF! in 'Bert's House'". This means nothing to me. If no one knows what it means, I will remove it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Angrymansr (talk • contribs) 01:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC).

Age of Bert and Ernie

The article erroneously states that no age has ever been given for Bert and Ernie. There was a sketch that presented them as clerly in the preschool age group. Ernie was dressed as a doctor, and Bert wanted a diagnosis. Ernie said he couldn't do that until he was a doctor, and that would take going all the way through school, starting with kindergarten, which presumably he wasn't even in yet. Of course that was many years ago, and characters on Sesame Street do seem to age, so many they're adults now. But they were very clearly very young kids in the early days. Parableman 16:46, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:26, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Merge

There is an article for Bert, an article for Ernie, and an article for Bert and Ernie. At least one of those three needs to go. I'd merge the first two into the third. Vidor (talk)

Support Merge into the B&E article and redirect the solo articles. DP76764 (Talk) 19:58, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

I agree. I think that it's sufficient to have a Bert & Ernie article -- there's a lot of duplicated effort here. --Elegantelbow (talk) 02:03, 30 July 2009 (UTC)

16:08, 16 September 2010 (UTC)~ then for (whaever) sake, please make it clear which character goes by which name. Currently pictures in both articles show the duo, so it does not explain which one is Bert and which one is Ernie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.73.49.65 (talk)

Homosexuality

Why is the part on homosexuality in there? Kids read this stuff! Cmon! Why should someones sexuality be an issue especially of a puppet? He is not real. He cannot have sex. I find it sick that this is even an issue. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.205.54.4 (talk) 21:10, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Dude, Wikipedia is not censord. Ernie and Bert's supposed gayness has been extensively covered and is this subject of a lot of controversy. Basically, shut your piehole and if you can't find a website covering Bert and Ernie that doesn't cover their supposed gayness (which might be hard since it's so well known) make your own damned wiki. If you don't want your kids to read this article, have them read the article on your wiki. Cheers, Hop on Bananas (talk) 04:24, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

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Change the page image to one of only Bert

I have noticed that the page images on the pages for both Ernie and Bert are the same photograph, showing the two side-by-side. I think each article should gets its own photo showing only Bert or Ernie, rather than the two of them together. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:569:FC9C:E700:7D8E:4E5E:16B7:4045 (talk) 16:25, 7 August 2023 (UTC)