Tell that to Miss Piggy!
Posted on 08/11/2011 8:24:58 PM PDT by dayglored
They've lived together for 42 years and share a bedroom, but the people who produce "Sesame Street" made it clear on Thursday: Bert and Ernie are not gay.
Nor are they heterosexual. They just are.
"Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves.
"Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics, they remain puppets, and do not have a sexual orientation," Sesame Workshop said in a statement posted on Facebook.
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(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.com ...
I am happy to report that according to Sesame Street, the answers to your two questions are:
1: "Yes" and 2: "No".
At least for the time being, that is. I don't expect this defeat will actually make them stop demanding, of course. But it is a significant victory in the context of a larger cultural war.
Coming up next on Sesame Street... "Ménage à trois".
Fortunately the production company disavows all the attempts to homofy their characters bu the Gay agendists.
That is just way too passive. Our children are being attacked. They are being brutalized. There are people actively trying to twist them into an unnatural pretzels.
Nor are they heterosexual. They just are.
Very good. They're two funny characters for children to enjoy without any adult baggage. Just maybe they're two funny characters for adults to enjoy without any adult baggage.
I think that may set a record for F-bombs per unit time. Whew!
And Bert's Jewish? Who knew?
Generally speaking, any fool can open a Facebook page suggesting some outrageous thing. But not many can expect to get so many laughs at watching people go absolutely hysterical because of it. He was a pretty good puppeteer too, wasn’t he.
>>> Earlier threads about the “let them marry” petition:
Then this really adds nothing to the discussion does it? The Sesame Street position is unchanged since at least the early 90s. They always have been unequivocal that Bert and Ernie are puppets, period. The gay joke isn’t their doing or their position.
>>> Can we please keep sodomy out of children’s programing at least?
You ask that about puppets operated by a man sticking his arm up the puppet’s backside?
“Generally speaking, any fool can open a Facebook page suggesting some outrageous thing. But not many can expect to get so many laughs at watching people go absolutely hysterical because of it.”
Spot on.
Good answer, although VERY surprising coming from a long-time PBS staff.
I thought about that aspect before I posted this thread.
The two earlier threads which mentioned the Sesame Street position were still focused on the controversy surrounding the petition -- the articles were playing with the "gay puppet sex/marriage" aspect of the story.
This article was the first I saw that clearly said, "Sesame Street said 'NO'. What part of 'NO' do you not understand?"
So I thought that was probably worthy of a thread, because it declared a definitive end to this nonsense.
I think Glengarry Glen Ross wins the all time f bomb award
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1AegjVIQNk
Tell that to Miss Piggy!
> Tell that to Miss Piggy!
Miss Piggy is in LOVE with Kermit the Frog.
There is no suggestion on Sesame Street that Pigs and Frogs could have sex.
LOVE is not the same as SEX.
Or so I'm told, anyway...
Oh that was funny.
I see from a footnote that the emperor Tiberius demanded answers to such questions from the "Grammarians".
... and here it is in Suetonius:
Yet his special aim was a knowledge of mythology, which he carried to a silly and laughable extreme; for he used to test even the grammarians, a class of men in whom, as I have said, he was especially interested, by questions something like this: "Who was Hecuba's mother?" "What was the name of Achilles among the maidens?" "What were the Sirens in the habit of singing?"
Totally agree.
Rated R for graphic, crude and sexual humor, violent images and strong language; all involving puppets.
F Yeah!
The messed up part about this was the fact that I thought Bert and Ernie were orginally brothers, which would be really sick implications to later say that they were homos living together, I am sorry, but my incest meter applies to homosexuality, too, and yes, I am pretty incestophobic, if such a term exists. Also, I would say that people, myself included weren’t in homosexual relationships with our own roommates, while living single, especially in our academic lives. That’s reality, and that’s also how some things should be realistically portrayed.
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