Sesame Street: 10 Hilarious (& Adorable) Bert And Ernie Memes

Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie have been best friends for five decades. Here, we take a look at some memes that highlight their adorable bond.

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As hard as it may be to believe, it’s now officially been 50 years since the beloved furry little friends of Sesame Street entered our lives. Over the last five decades, adorable Muppet characters such as Big Bird, Grover, Elmo, Baby Bear, The Count, Zoe, Oscar the Grouch, Telly, Slimy, Murray, Snuffy, Julia, and many more have educated generations after generations about important life skills children need to learn.

Bert and Ernie have remained the series’ constant. Their friendship is as strong as it has ever been, and it remains one of the series’ most reliable sources of humor and heart in equal measure. Here, we’re reviewing some of the most adorable and hilarious memes the internet has come up with that perfectly highlight the comedic duo’s bromance.

10 Bert’s banana phone

Generally speaking, Ernie can frustrate Bert far more often than not. The hilarity of their friendship is created by their Odd Couple like personalities, and in particular Ernie’s childish behaviors and Bert’s stuffy personality.

In this meme, however, things are momentarily flipped on their head. Bert is clearly trying to avoid dealing with yet another of Ernie’s ridiculous antics, and if that means he’ll have to put a banana in his ear, then so be it. Then again, maybe he just wants a phone that matches his own complexion.

9 Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Sleep?

In addition to being Sesame Street’s own version of The Odd Couple, Bert and Ernie clearly often struggle with understanding each other’s language, so to speak. Something that exacerbates that fact is Ernie’s unflagging innocence and cheeriness, and Bert’s far more world weary and sarcastic demeanor.

Take, for example, this hilarious interaction between the duo. As Ernie sings the praises of the amazing powers of sleep, an exhausted Bert is forced to indulge his enthusiastic best buddy for far longer than he would clearly like to be awake.

8 Muppet math

Sesame Street has done a lot when it comes to teaching kids basic life skills and kindergarten essentials. One of the recurring features of the series is the fact that each episode is brought to you by a certain letter and a certain number, which then go on to feature in skits and storylines.

This meme seems like it’s brought to you by the number 4, and also the number 1. The design of Muppets is a large part of what makes these characters so vibrant and adorably lovable, and it’s amazing how much personality can be conveyed by four round Muppet eyes and a very, very bushy unibrow.

7 Gone fishin’

Sometimes, the simplest memes are the funniest. And sometimes, there are some memes you can just hear practically in a nanosecond. Bert and Ernie’s voices are incredibly distinctive, instantly recognizable among the vast catalog of Muppets that reside on Sesame Street.

But besides Ernie’s beloved rubber duckie song, and his distinct laugh, there’s one particular phrase from a 1980s skit that is undoubtedly familiar to every dedicated Sesame Street fan everywhere: Ernie’s adorable, hopeful attempt at calling fish.

6 Hey, those guys look familiar… kind of

We’ve already talked about the key role that the unique designs of Muppet puppets play into the realization of the many, many distinct characters on Sesame Street. But as this honestly jarring meme shows us, the role that design plays in creating characters really can’t be overstated.

Because honestly, these guys are kind of terrifying. For some reason, the duo don’t work together with their felt colors flipped, and somehow, the designs no longer match their character’s personalities. Sorry, Eert and Bernie. We’re sticking with Bert and Ernie.

5 Who, me?

Sesame Street might be a show designed for preschool and kindergarten audiences, but sometimes, the words of encouragement offered by the beloved citizens of the Street are even more valuable to adults. Motivational memes are a real highlight of meme culture on the internet, even if most memes are far more frequently judgmental and dark.

And in this particular meme, Bert and Ernie’s lessons about the letter U suddenly become turned toward the viewer as a sweet message of encouragement from everyone’s favorite roommates.

4 Be honest: are you Bert or Ernie?

As we’ve already said, the differences in Bert and Ernie’s levels of maturity and personalities are precisely what make this duo so reliably hilarious. And nowadays, in the heyday of memes being used as expressions of relatable experiences, it’s not hard to see how this particular exchange became a meme.

Sometimes, it’s easy to be oblivious and cheerful like Ernie, even when you’re staring the answer right in the face. And sometimes, it’s easy to be fed up and tired just like Bert – all while kind of feeling like, to borrow Forky from Toy Story 4’s self-identifying refrain, trash.

3 I scream, you scream, we all scream for…

Sometimes, the best memes are born of puns that would normally make you roll your eyes or sigh. We like to think of these as the “dad joke” memes – memes that use humor that would never really work in any true sense of comedy, but are so endearingly stupid that they wind up getting a chuckle or two out of you.

The example of the exchange in the meme above – “Say, Ernie, would you like some ice cream?” “Sherbert.” – is a perfect instance of this. And honestly, whether you’d rather have some ice cream or sherbet after reading it, you have to at least laugh a little at the cheerful look on their faces.

2 If he just ignores it long enough…

How many ways can we restate the fact that Bert and Ernie are polar opposites, and that’s what makes them so wonderful together? We’re not sure. But once again, that key part of their relationship is what makes this meme such a hilarious and adorable reminder of their bond.

There’s no telling what antics Ernie will get up to at any given time, including showing up wearing a hat filled with fruit. But you can always count on Bert to want absolutely nothing to do with it, even if he winds up getting pulled into the adventure in the end. The look on his face here says it all, really.

1 Bert and Ernie: inventors of sarcasm

Normally, Bert is the one of the duo who could best be described as deadpan and snarky. But sometimes, Ernie’s idealistic innocence winds up leading to moments that are just so wonderfully filled with sarcasm, it’s impossible to not burst out laughing at them.

Take, for example, this apparent generation-defining interaction between the longtime best friends. A nicely dressed Bert genuinely asks Ernie how he looks in his suit, only for Ernie to be literal as always and inform Bert that he looks with his eyes. Ernie’s right, of course, but not necessarily helpful. And even Bert’s expression as he awaits the answer makes it seem like he knows what kind of outcome he’s going to get, before it happens.

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