What street do Bert and Ernie live on?
Bert and Ernie ice cubes to Bert, he finds out that they have melted into water. Bert knows what has happened, and tries to tell Ernie that his ice cubes melted because of the electric blanket, but Ernie takes this to mean that a fish from the ocean came into the apartment and melted his ice cubes, and vows to find the (non-existent) fish that melted them, leading Bert, just after Ernie has run out of their apartment after the fish, to murmur sardonically, "Go get him, Ernie." The age of the characters is unclear. "Sesame Street Live" performer Taylor Morgan said in
Bert and Ernie no sexual orientations because they are both puppets. Frank Oz, who previously performed as Bert, stated Bert and Ernie were not gay, saying, "They're not, of course [a gay couple]. But why that question? Does it really matter? Why the need to define people as only gay? There's much more to a human being than just straightness or gayness." But despite Sesame Workshop's repeated denials and disclaimers of the notion, the idea of Bert and Ernie as a gay couple is sufficiently widespread that it has been used as the basis of jokes on the shows "Saturday Night Live," "American