Ernie is a favorite.
Roy was behind the chair with Ernie doing some puppeteering.
Then they looked out the window.
Ernie sings a Sesame Street favorite in this video I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon
My sister stitched Bert and Ernie in this crewel embroidery in the late 70’s which is now a pillow.
My sister Mary embroidered this Bert and Ernie pillow when Mark was little. So at least forty some years ago. I found it while going through a big basket of pillows on the third floor. Their faces make me think of Rubber Ducky and Doing the Pigeon.
I’m partial to Ernie. Do you have a favorite? I’ve a knitting pattern for an Ernie sweater but who would wear it?
“Their names are believed to have been drawn from those of two minor characters in the Frank Capra film It’s A Wonderful Life.
According to A&E’s Biography, Bert and Ernie were… the only Muppets to appear in the Sesame Street pilot episode,screen tested to a number of families in July 1969.” -Wikipedia
We went to COSI- Center of Science and Industry in Downtown Columbus Ohio and saw the exhibit Jim Henson Imagination Unlimited
I couldn’t believe The Muppet Show started in 1976, Where does the time go? I remembered my son Mark had Ernie bedsheets in 1978.
Bert and Ernie and Rubber Ducky with Laura and Charlie peeking from behind their display
and for more information here’s an article in the Columbus Dispatch by Eric Lagatta
My friend Amy ( mother of Mikey) brought in the leftover cupcakes her friend Jackie made for Mikey’s first birthday. Here they are on the counter at school for everyone to share
