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1. Bert and Ernie are a couple, and it may be the single greatest thing to ever happen to puppets.
"I always felt that without a huge agenda, when I was writing Bert and Ernie, they were [gay]," Mark Saltzman, long-time, former "Sesame Street" writer, told Queerty. That being said, Sesame Workshop says that the dynamic duo are still "just roomies."