Ernie and Bert: Still subversive after all these years
Secret in plain sight
It's no secret that, despite the official denials, most of us suspect there has been a lot more than innocent sleeping going on in the bedroom of Sesame Street's Ernie and Bert.
The odd couple of American children's television were clearly part of the broader movement for personal liberation that has swept the globe since the 1960s, and kudos to the former Children's Television Workshop for daring to portray the love of one man-puppet for another.
Yet somehow, another revolutionary transgression has, to my knowledge, gone completely unnoticed. You know you're curious. Click - click, I tells ya!
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It's no secret that, despite the official denials, most of us suspect there has been a lot more than innocent sleeping going on in the bedroom of Sesame Street's Ernie and Bert.
The odd couple of American children's television were clearly part of the broader movement for personal liberation that has swept the globe since the 1960s, and kudos to the former Children's Television Workshop for daring to portray the love of one man-puppet for another.
Yet somehow, another revolutionary transgression has, to my knowledge, gone completely unnoticed. You know you're curious. Click - click, I tells ya!
This entry was originally posted at http://ed-rex.dreamwidth.org/223116.html. Comment there using OpenID, or here as per normal.