#ERNIE SESAME STREET MOVIE#

In that same special, Ernie and Bert had a conversation with Doc, making them the only Sesame Street characters (not counting Kermit the Frog) to have interacted with Doc. Ernie also narrated a Christmas pageant, ' Twas the Night Before Christmas, in A Muppet Family Christmas. Hooper gave them their things back as presents.Įrnie and Bert introduced a montage of Sesame Street clips in The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years. Hooper could tell that neither of them really wanted to give up their prized possessions, so Mr. At the same time, Bert decided to get Ernie a soap dish to put his Rubber Duckie in, so that it would not keep falling into the tub, but had to trade his paper clips for it.

However, as he did not have any money, he traded his own Rubber Duckie for it. In Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Ernie decided to buy Bert a cigar box to store his paper clips in.

#ERNIE SESAME STREET MOVIE#

Ernie also appeared in the finales of The Muppet Movie and The Muppets Take Manhattan, in the last of which he got a line. However, Bert's twin brother Bart is depicted as a traveling salesman, which would mean Bert (and probably Ernie) are both adults. Some other plotlines involved Ernie wanting to play a game with Bert who wants to do something else he continues playing until he gets Bert in, but when Bert finally wants to continue playing the game, Ernie is tired of playing, and wants to do something else. Others have also involved Ernie eating part of Bert's snack he prepares for himself, and when Bert comes back from somewhere, Ernie tries to make several attempts to cover up the crime in front of Bert, which is not successful mostly. Other sketches have involved Bert and Ernie sharing a snack by division, but finding that one of them has a bit more Ernie humorously decides to try to make it even by eating the extra piece, which goes forth until the entire snack is all eaten up. He has regularly appeared in skits with Grover, Cookie Monster, Sherlock Hemlock and Lefty the Salesman.Ī typical Bert and Ernie skit has Ernie coming up with a harebrained idea, and Bert trying to talk him out of it, ending with Bert losing his temper, while Ernie becomes oblivious to his own bad idea. Ernie makes appearances without Bert, usually within the framework of another double act. Other sketches have involved them sharing some food by dividing it equally, only for one of them to have a bit more than the other, leading Ernie to make it even by eating the extra piece.

Ernie keeps irking Bert with the game until Bert joins - and usually, by the time Bert starts enjoying the game, Ernie is tired of playing the game and wants to do something else. Many Ernie and Bert sketches involve Ernie wanting to play a game with Bert, who would much rather do something else (like read). Ernie is also known for keeping Bert awake at night, for reasons such as wanting to play the drums, wanting to count something (like sheep), to observe something like a blackout, or even because he is waiting for his upstairs neighbor to drop his shoes.Īppearances Sesame Street Additionally, Ernie has no visible eyebrows, while Bert displays a pronounced unibrow.Įrnie is known for his fondness for baths with his Rubber Duckie and for trying to learn to play the saxophone. Ernie's appearance and clothing contrast with Bert, as he is the shorter and more rotund of the pair, and he wears a shirt with horizontal stripes, whereas Bert's shirt has vertical stripes, and Bert has a tall, narrow head while Ernie's is wider than it is high. He is a friend and roommate of Bert they share an apartment on Sesame Street. Ernie has a characteristic chuckling laugh (a trait he shares with his baby cousin, Ernestine), and he also has his signature pronunciation of the word 'again' (ay-gain).

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