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    Question #3435. babs asks:

    Who are the characters Bert and Ernie on "Sesame Street" named after?


    Roxanne33

    		The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'It's A Wonderful Life.'

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lones/facts.html

    http://xray.bmc.uu.se/dombo/archive/Vol9/dombo_v9_n2.pdf

    Note: Both links are from similar sites that mass produce "factoids" which can end up being non-verified or inaccurate "facts."

    [Note & Link added Feb. 23, 2008 by Zbeckabee]

    Jun 22 00, 5:26 PM
    zbeckabee

    		"Characters named Bert and Ernie appear in the film "It's a Wonderful Life" as a policeman and a taxi driver, respectively, though the use of the names by Henson is said to be a coincidence. In the movie Elmo Saves Christmas, Sesame pokes fun at this."

    "No, Sesame Street's Ernie and Bert were not named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver from the 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life". Even though many people believe they were named after these characters, Sesame Street writer Jon Stone has attested that this similarity is purely a coincidence."


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_and_Ernie

    http://www.muppetcentral.com/help/faq/muppets.shtml

    Feb 23 08, 11:41 AM
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