@DAZ0273 said:
Burt and Ernie and they will have a rubber ducky support.
Bert and Ernie won’t be till Pride month.
KGB
Explain yourself?!
From a certain point of view, they represented a gay couple.
Sesame Street was the OG in terms of highlighting diversity in a community, featuring different races and cultures working and living together. To further reflect our society as a whole, they also injected all sorts of things into the non-human characters.
The Count appeared to struggle with OCD (being compelled to count things in his environment).
Grover might have had Dissociative Identity Disorder (given his alter ego, Super Grover).
Oscar the Grouch was a hoarder with anger management issues.
Big Bird was likely a schizophrenic (since only he saw/heard Snuffleupagus).
There’s probably more, but those were just the ones off the top of my head. The point is that regardless of their background, lifestyle, or circumstance, all were welcome and accepted.
So Bert and Ernie possibly being a gay couple isn’t that much of a stretch, considering the colorful community they lived in.
@DAZ0273 said:
Burt and Ernie and they will have a rubber ducky support.
Bert and Ernie won’t be till Pride month.
KGB
Explain yourself?!
From a certain point of view, they represented a gay couple.
Sesame Street was the OG in terms of highlighting diversity in a community, featuring different races and cultures working and living together. To further reflect our society as a whole, they also injected all sorts of things into the non-human characters.
The Count appeared to struggle with OCD (being compelled to count things in his environment).
Grover might have had Dissociative Identity Disorder (given his alter ego, Super Grover).
Oscar the Grouch was a hoarder with anger management issues.
Big Bird was likely a schizophrenic (since only he saw/heard Snuffleupagus).
There’s probably more, but those were just the ones off the top of my head. The point is that regardless of their background, lifestyle, or circumstance, all were welcome and accepted.
So Bert and Ernie possibly being a gay couple isn’t that much of a stretch, considering the colorful community they lived in.
From a certain point of view.
Close. You have remember it was originally filmed in Queens, NY starting in 1969. New York, especially the boroughs, were not great places to live in the 70s (crime, drugs, prostitution, porn etc even in Times Square).
So the creators of Sesame Street literally filmed it for kids through the the eyes of a naive child who would be walking the streets of Queens/Manhattan/Bronx and the denizens of the neighborhood they would encounter.
Big Bird - The naive child (the narrator of most skits, he represents the children who watch the show as he asks questions they’d ask). Snuffleupagus was his imaginary friend that many kids have.
Bert and Ernie - Represents LGBTQ community (as you noted) as it’s 2 grown men living in the same room.
Oscar - Represents the homeless since he lived in a trash can (on the streets) and was angry with the situation.
Cookie Monster - Represents the drug addicts since he’s hopelessly addicted to cookies (similar to how heroin addicts are when they need a fix).
The Count - Represents the mentally ill via his OCD (as you noted) that forces him to count everything.
In a way Sesame Street was normalizing Gen-X kids and beyond to those situations and types of people.
@DAZ0273 said:
Burt and Ernie and they will have a rubber ducky support.
Bert and Ernie won’t be till Pride month.
KGB
Explain yourself?!
From a certain point of view, they represented a gay couple.
Sesame Street was the OG in terms of highlighting diversity in a community, featuring different races and cultures working and living together. To further reflect our society as a whole, they also injected all sorts of things into the non-human characters.
The Count appeared to struggle with OCD (being compelled to count things in his environment).
Grover might have had Dissociative Identity Disorder (given his alter ego, Super Grover).
Oscar the Grouch was a hoarder with anger management issues.
Big Bird was likely a schizophrenic (since only he saw/heard Snuffleupagus).
There’s probably more, but those were just the ones off the top of my head. The point is that regardless of their background, lifestyle, or circumstance, all were welcome and accepted.
So Bert and Ernie possibly being a gay couple isn’t that much of a stretch, considering the colorful community they lived in.
From a certain point of view.
Lol, yeah I know, I was only joking around. We had a similar situation on the UK children’s TV show Rainbow with George who was a shy pink Hippo who was quite camp and whatever was going on with Rod, Jane and Freddie…
@DAZ0273 said:
Burt and Ernie and they will have a rubber ducky support.
Bert and Ernie won’t be till Pride month.
KGB
Explain yourself?!
From a certain point of view, they represented a gay couple.
Sesame Street was the OG in terms of highlighting diversity in a community, featuring different races and cultures working and living together. To further reflect our society as a whole, they also injected all sorts of things into the non-human characters.
The Count appeared to struggle with OCD (being compelled to count things in his environment).
Grover might have had Dissociative Identity Disorder (given his alter ego, Super Grover).
Oscar the Grouch was a hoarder with anger management issues.
Big Bird was likely a schizophrenic (since only he saw/heard Snuffleupagus).
There’s probably more, but those were just the ones off the top of my head. The point is that regardless of their background, lifestyle, or circumstance, all were welcome and accepted.
So Bert and Ernie possibly being a gay couple isn’t that much of a stretch, considering the colorful community they lived in.
From a certain point of view.
Close. You have remember it was originally filmed in Queens, NY starting in 1969. New York, especially the boroughs, were not great places to live in the 70s (crime, drugs, prostitution, porn etc even in Times Square).
So the creators of Sesame Street literally filmed it for kids through the the eyes of a naive child who would be walking the streets of Queens/Manhattan/Bronx and the denizens of the neighborhood they would encounter.
Big Bird - The naive child (the narrator of most skits, he represents the children who watch the show as he asks questions they’d ask). Snuffleupagus was his imaginary friend that many kids have.
Bert and Ernie - Represents LGBTQ community (as you noted) as it’s 2 grown men living in the same room.
Oscar - Represents the homeless since he lived in a trash can (on the streets) and was angry with the situation.
Cookie Monster - Represents the drug addicts since he’s hopelessly addicted to cookies (similar to how heroin addicts are when they need a fix).
The Count - Represents the mentally ill via his OCD (as you noted) that forces him to count everything.
In a way Sesame Street was normalizing Gen-X kids and beyond to those situations and types of people.
KGB
Right on, thanks for sharpening the point (and expressing it much better than I did). I knew there was a relevant connection to NYC and the time period, but couldn’t quite nail it down.