Answer: sub-basement
They have a sub-basement apartment in the 123 Sesame Street building. You can see their criss-cross windows at ground level.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street" - Bert and Ernie
Answer: Sing
The song "Sing" was performed several times on "Sesame Street" and its anniversary specials, famously in 1975 with Lily Tomlin singing and signing the song to deaf children. Lena Horne also sang the song in 1976 on the eleventh episode of "The Muppet Show".
The Carpenters took the song to number three on the United States Billboard Hot 100 in 1973. Karen Carpenter and Richard Carpenter were appearing on the ABC television special "Robert Young with the Young" when they heard the song for the first time and immediately fell in love with it.
From Quiz: Sing a Song of Sesame Street!
Answer: Grover
All the others may be lovable (or not--up to you), but this was one of Grover's tag-lines. Elmo did not even join the show until much later. I have not seen Herry in a long time, except in old clips. According to Wikipedia, he appeared as late as 2003.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"--40 Years and Counting
Answer: W
Bert is President of the National Association of W Lovers. "It's not any trouble, you know it's a double-u when you hear w-w-w-w!"
From Quiz: Bert Rocks
Answer: Dorothy
Elmo's goldfish is named Dorothy and she lives with him in "Elmo's World" on "Sesame Street".
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"
Answer: Rosita
Rosita is the good-natured turquoise muppet who speaks both English and her native Spanish. Her full name is Rosita, La Monstrua de las Cuevas (the Monster of the Caves). If you look at her closely, you can see that she has wings!
From Quiz: More Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: 1969
The first episode of "Sesame Street" aired on November 10, 1969, making it one of the longest-running tv shows in history!
From Quiz: Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: same bedroom, two beds
Bert and Ernie share the same bedroom, but each have their own beds with their first initials carved into the headboards. They have a night stand between them, often with a lamp on it.
There are skits out there where Ernie is in his own room, but the backstory there is it's so messy that he sleeps in Bert's room.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street" - Bert and Ernie
Answer: Ernie
Interestingly, "Rubber Duckie" climbed to number 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart in 1970 and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children. Quite oddly, it lost (in a manner of speaking) to itself, for it was on the recording "Sesame Street Song and Book", which won the Grammy.
Ernie (formerly performed by Jim Henson himself) is the roommate of Bert, and they both live in a basement apartment at 123 Sesame Street. They hold the distinction of being the very first Muppets to air on "Sesame Street" and were on the pilot episode. Despite rumors to the contrary, Sesame Workshop insists Bert and Ernie (or Ernie and Bert) are not gay and they were not named after the Bert and Ernie from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life".
From Quiz: Sing a Song of Sesame Street!
Answer: Ernie's is marked with 'E' and Bert's with 'B'.
Ernie and Bert were like the "Odd Couple" of Sesame Street. Ernie liked active games, childlike fun, telling jokes and teasing Bert. Bert preferred board games, pigeon taming and collecting things.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"--40 Years and Counting
Answer: Oatmeal
It's the perfect way to start the day, according to Bert, who even likes to paint pictures of oatmeal.
From Quiz: Bert Rocks
Answer: Radar
Radar is the name of Big Bird's teddy bear. Snuffy is his friend.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"
Answer: twiddlebugs
The Twiddlebug family live in Ernie's flower box, and make all of their belongings out of tiny everyday objects that they find.
From Quiz: More Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: Luis
Maria and Luis (Sonia Manzano and Emilio Delgado), are not married in real life, as many people think.
From Quiz: Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: pigeon
Bert loves pigeons and has a few of them as pets. His favorite one is Bernice, which he often talks about and is often seen in skits.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street" - Bert and Ernie
Answer: Oscar the Grouch
"I Love Trash", written by Jeff Moss, was first performed during 1970 of the first season. It has later been performed by k. d. lang and Steven Tyler.
On the first few episodes, Oscar the Grouch is orange instead of green. He is peformed by Caroll Spinney, who also peforms Big Bird. Oscar lives in his garbage can, which defies scientific explanation. The inside of the trash can is infinitely larger than the outside, for it contains multiple rooms, a swimming pool, a bowling alley, an ice rink, a farm, a piano, a pet elephant, and every piece of junk imaginable.
From Quiz: Sing a Song of Sesame Street!
Answer: Oscar
Oscar lived in what looked like an ordinary-sized trash can, but must have been a passage to an enormous underground lair. Besides his enormous collection of trash, Oscar had a pet worm, and even a pet elephant!
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"--40 Years and Counting
Answer: Ate it
"I one the sandbox," begins Ernie. After prompting from Ernie, Bert continues with, "I two the sandbox." They continue counting this way, until eventually, Bert is obliged to say, "I eight the sandbox." "How'd it taste?" giggles Ernie.
From Quiz: Bert Rocks
Answer: Bruno
Bruno, the silent trash man, is played by Caroll Spinney, who also plays Oscar. Caroll invented Bruno as a way to make Oscar mobile.
From Quiz: More Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: seven
"Said the Alligator King to his seven sons, 'I'm feeling mighy down. Whichever one of you can cheer me up will get to wear my crown'." This was always one of my favorite spots on "Sesame Street."
From Quiz: Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: oatmeal
Plain oatmeal is his all time favorite. In fact it's the only thing he loves as much or more than pigeons.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street" - Bert and Ernie
Answer: Cookie Monster
While Cookie Monster sings his trademark song against a black background, this eventually lightens to reveal a chorus of singing monsters behind him, to include Grover, Herry, Fenwick, Oscar the Grouch, and Billy.
The song was composed by Joe Raposo and was later, in a 1990's episode, lip-synched by Candice Bergen, who was testing out her radio after she took it to the Fix-It-Shop. Also, in the 1990's Marilyn Horne performed a new operatic version of the song. She played Cleopatra with an Egyptian background that included a pyramid made out of cookies. At the end of the song, Cookie Monster takes a a cookie from the pyramid, causing it to crumble.
From Quiz: Sing a Song of Sesame Street!
Answer: Gordon
These characters were all played by live actors, as were Mr. Hooper, Maria and Luis. Bob was a music teacher, though I think he was a private instructor, not a schoolteacher. Linda was the deaf cast member who appeared somewhat frequently, and introduced us to American Sign Language. The "Fred" I am thinking of is Mr. Rogers from "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood"; right era, wrong show.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"--40 Years and Counting
Answer: Pigeons in the News
Bert is always missing Pigeons in the News because of Ernie's misadventures. He does love bottle caps and paper clips as well, but there are no TV shows about them that we know of.
From Quiz: Bert Rocks
Answer: Fluffy
Slimy lives with Oscar too, but he is a worm. Fluffy often wears a tutu and likes to dance.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"
Answer: Mr. Hooper
Harold Hooper (played by Will Lee), owned Hooper's Store. Big Bird could never get his name quite right, and all of the wrong answers above are some of Big Birds attempts. Will Lee died in 1982, but the store is still known as Hooper's as a tribute to him.
From Quiz: More Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: Cookie Monster
Cookie Monster hosts "Monsterpiece Theater", in the guise of Alistair Cookie.
From Quiz: Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: eats the excessive amount
There are two famous skits showing this:
The time they are to have a lunch of, specifically, "cheese, sausage, anchovy, and pepperoni pizza" and a glass of grape juice, but Ernie clearly had more of each than Bert, so he solved it by eating and drinking his portion until he had less, then he started eating and drinking Bert's portion until Bert walked away disgusted.
The other time was similar. Ernie and Bert were to have an afternoon snack of cherries, of which Ernie had each portion on either end of a balance scale. But rather than move the excess cherries over to the other side, he kept eating the cherries until they were down to just one each, at this point Bert screamed and fainted, so Ernie just assumed he wasn't hungry and ate the last two.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street" - Bert and Ernie
Answer: Captain Vegetable
Jim Henson was the original performer of Captain Vegetable, and later the role was taken on by Richard Hunt. However, John Leguizamo later played a human version of the hero with the same name.
The song was written by Jeff Moss. During its original performance, the rabbit superhero has one huge black eyebrow for eyes, two very tall pink and purple ears, a mop of shaggy fire-red hair, and long, thick, curly white whiskers. As he approaches Andy and Eddie, each one respectively asks, "Who are you? Some kind of bad dream?" and "What are you? Are you some kind of weirdo?" Captain Vegetable, completely oblivious to how odd he appears, responds each time with "Do I look like a bad dream?" and "Do I look like a weirdo?" While Andy and Eddie roll their eyes, Captain Vegetable explains, "It is I, Captain Vegetable / With my carrot and my celery. / Eating crunchy vegetables is good for me, / And they're good for you, so eat them too . . . "
From Quiz: Sing a Song of Sesame Street!
Answer: Mr. Hooper
Poor Mr. Hooper. Big Bird honestly tried to be polite, but could never get his name right. More often than not, he called the bald, glasses-wearing gentleman "Mr. Looper", but there was some variation.
In 1976, the Mr. Hooper character received his GED (episode #871), and when the lady reading the names got to him, she said, "Mr. Harold Cooper".
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"--40 Years and Counting
Answer: Licorice
Licorice is one of Ernie's words. Linoleum is the wonderful climactic word of the song.
From Quiz: Bert Rocks
Answer: Monster
Zoe and Telly both have the last name of Monster.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"
Answer: the air is sweet
"Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?"
From Quiz: More Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: Zoe
If you look closely, the red in Zoe's mouth is the same color as Elmo's fur, and Elmo's nose matches Zoe's fur. I love Zoe's laugh. It is too cute!
From Quiz: Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: Doin' the Pigeon
The 1973 skit actually begins with Bert asking Ernie to start up a film, and the audience watches black and white home footage of pigeons strutting around various areas. However, we never see or hear Ernie. Eventually, we see Bert again who wears a brown hat with a feather in it, tells his feet to "do their stuff", and kicks one foot backwards while a pigeon's cooing is heard. In a later version of the song, Bert is on stage at a pigeon convention in Peoria. There is no pigeon footage, so there is no reference to Ernie to start any film projector. However, the song and dance remain the same.
Bert has traditionally been performed by Frank Oz, the same individual who does the voice for Yoda in the "Star Wars" films.
From Quiz: Sing a Song of Sesame Street!
Answer: No one else in all of Sesame Street had ever seen him, so they assumed Big Bird's "friend" was imaginary.
It used to provide an interesting tension to the framework story to see if Big Bird would be able to introduce his friend to someone *this* time. Eventually, the rest of the neighbors on Sesame Street got to meet Snuffy. The other, mostly adult, characters had thought that Big Bird was unreliable, i.e. telling fibs, or unable to distinguish reality from fantasy, as is sometimes the case with young children who come to believe their pretend games. After Snuffy was revealed to them, they had to apologize to Big Bird, and promise to believe him in the future.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"--40 Years and Counting
Answer: Nose
Ernie often takes Bert's nose off for obscure reasons. In one sketch, he makes a sculpture of Bert, but runs out of clay for the nose, so borrows Bert's real nose to complete his work of art.
From Quiz: Bert Rocks
Answer: Linda
Linda, the deaf cast member, owned Barkley. Linda Bove played Linda from 1971-2003.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street"
Answer: Kermit
Kermit the Frog hosted "News Flash". He was always on the scene of a famous nursery rhyme as it was "about to happen". Unfortunately for poor Kermit, things just never went quite like they should!
From Quiz: More Sunny Days on "Sesame Street"
Answer: 3
The three relatives Bert often spoke of or we saw were as follows:
His twin brother Bart, who had a very opposite personality to Bert, as shown when he came to visit Bert and Ernie in one skit.
His nephew Brad (presumably Bart's son) who was over at the house and Bert was about to give a bath to when Ernie chastised him for not having any bath toys, then proceeded to put too many toys in the bathtub.
His Aunt Matilda, whom has never been seen, but Bert is often speaking of for various things, like what to get for her birthday or when Ernie opened a present that was hers thinking it was for him.
From Quiz: "Sesame Street" - Bert and Ernie
