Sesame Street (1969– )

Eric Jacobson: Grover, Bert, Muppet, Oscar the Grouch, Guy Smiley, Oscar, Additional Performers, Cap-ten Kirk, Chicken, Doctor Two, Dusty, Ed, Frankie, G, Giant Boulder, Hammy, Horse, Jitterbug, Kingsman, Lion, Penguin Guard, Rabbit, Sheep, Sheep #4, Short Orange Monster, Swan, Triangle Lover, Two Headed Monster

Photos 

Quotes 

• [repeated line] 

  Bert : I don't get it.

• Bert : Oh, I love pigeons more then anything else in this world... besides oatmeal.

• [repeated question] 

  Bert : Why me?

• Bert : Hey, Ernie, Ernie! Oh, Ernie, oh, Ernie! It's terrible. It's just awful what just happened to me.

  Ernie : Well, what's the matter, Bert?

  Bert : Oh, see, I was - I was in the kitchen making some bacon...

  Ernie : Yeah...

  Bert : And this monster appeared. This huge monster appeared.

  [we Cookie Monster right by Ernie's side] 

  Ernie : A monster?

  Bert : And, he ate all my bacon. Every strip of my bacon he ate. Oh, it's awful.

  [Cookie Monster ducks off-screen] 

  Ernie : Oh, th-th-that's terrible, Bert.

  Bert : Yeah.

  Ernie : I mean, we just can't sit still while a monster comes and eats all your bacon.

  [Cookie Monster reappears eating a letter "X" Ernie's holding] 

  Bert : No.

  Ernie : I mean, what are we going to do about it? I mean, it's...

  [they notice Cookie Monster eating the X] 

  Ernie : Oh, no! What are you doing, monster? Oh! My very own X! Uh, why do you do that monster?

  Cookie Monster : I always like to eat bacon and X.

  [laughs maniacally, then leaves] 

  Ernie : Stupid monster. He doesn't even know that eggs begin with "E."