All is not well behind closed doors on Sesame Street, where it seems our favourite felt-based couple have had a lover’s tiff.
As everyone knows, the iconic puppets Bert and Ernie – long-rumoured and now confirmed to be gay – have been living happily together in their apartment on 123 Sesame Street since 1969. They may sleep in separate beds but they’re fooling no one.
Even the longest relationships can feel the strain though, and it seems like the legless lovers are going through a rough patch, if their Twitter bios are anything to go by.
Yes, Bert and Ernie have their own official Twitter accounts, with 187,000 followers between them. Because how else would you know they’re writing their memoirs?
The puppet pair have mostly just been tweeting each other happy birthdays (or “Bertdays”, as the case may be), but now Bert is using his to deal a devastating blow to his best buddy Ernie.
Brutal pic.twitter.com/qiwVbp5may
— Valondar (@VK_HM) December 6, 2020
Ernie’s bio describes him as a “friend of Bert”, but Bert has laid bare his pain for all to see, listing his longtime lover as nothing more than a “roommate”. Cold. Clinical. Catastrophic.
Twitter users were shocked to see such high shade thrown at such a pure-hearted puppet, whose only crime was loving his rubber duckie too damn much.
so ur telling me they broke up ??? 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/Je3lmaIk9x
— ༺ B҉ ༻ {they/them} (@silentcurator) December 6, 2020
It’s complicated
— Ida Funkhouser 😷 (@IdaFunkhouser) December 7, 2020
Only boyfriends fight like that… pic.twitter.com/C6ftxnRLfH
— Mark (@bbbtmenw) December 7, 2020
Thats what he gets for scaring off all of Bert’s pidgeons
— Nerd Wonder (@YourNerdWonder) December 7, 2020
The real question is which one of them goes down to Oscar’s can to get what the other wont give?
— Zach (@Emperiacolypse) December 6, 2020
they on a break right now which is none of our business
— austyn (@blaqdemarco) December 6, 2020
finally reallistic gay representation
— pink (@LaDreamEnRose) December 7, 2020
Let’s hope they can get it together, for all our sakes.