Ernie and Bert Sketches: Expeditions
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Sketches with Ernie and Bert venturing outside of their normal terrain such as their vacations, going to the beach or going to the movies, etc.
1969-1990
| Picture | Summary | Earliest Known Appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rock Hunting | Episode 0034 | Ernie is going on a hunt for big rocks, and when he tries to pick a really big rock, the rock turns out to be the dome of a large monster. |
 | Ice Cream Truck | Episode 0193 | Ernie wants to buy a chocolate - strawberry - peach - vanilla - banana - pistachio - peppermint - lemon - orange - butterscotch ice cream cone, but the ice cream vendor instead gives him a butterscotch - orange - lemon - peppermint - pistachio - banana - vanilla - peach - strawberry - chocolate ice cream cone. |
 | Feelings In the Rain | Episode 0199 | Ernie and Bert demonstrate happy, sad and mad when it's raining. |
 | Soda straw | Episode 0276 | Mr. Hooper and Tom serve sodas to Ernie and Bert. Ernie doesn't know how to drink with a straw, so the others encourage him. Ernie gets so good at drinking with a straw that he drinks Bert's soda, too. |
 | The Beach: Planning ahead | Episode 0334 | It's a sunny day at the beach, and Bert remembered to bring everything. Ernie, however, only brought an umbrella in case it rains... which it does.
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 | At the movies: Loud Noises | Episode 0536 | At the theater, Ernie makes some loud noises while he eats his popcorn and drinks his soda. Bert loses his temper and shouts at Ernie to be quiet, at which point the usher enters and throws Bert out.
Video: Old School: Volume 1 |
 | At The Movies: Ernie gets emotional | Episode 0666 | Ernie gets emotional during a movie: first he's sad, then scared, then happy. His reactions bother the other moviegoers, and the scene ends in chaos.
Video: Old School: Volume 2 |
 | At the movies: Lady with Tall Hat | Episode 0677 | A lady with a very tall hat sits in front of Ernie, blocking his view of the movie. |
 | Robin Hood's Merry Men Audition | Episode 0729 | Ernie portrays Robin Hood, who is setting up an audition trying to find some merry men. |
 | Ernie works for The Count | Episode 0746 | The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. However, when the phone rings, the Count wants to count the rings, and won't let Ernie pick up the phone until it's too late. "I told you it wasn't going to be easy," the Count explains.
Video: Learning About Numbers (edited), Online: Web Video Player |
 | Ice cream soda | Episode 0750 | While Ernie looks after Hooper's Store, Bert asks him for something to drink. Ernie starts out with a glass of unflavored soda water, tastes it, and decides it's too dull for his ol' buddy Bert. To Bert's dismay, Ernie then adds some strawberry syrup to the soda water, then a scoop of ice cream. Now it's an ice cream soda, which Bert doesn't want... but Ernie does.
Online: Web Video Player (untitled) |
 | The Beach: Tough Eddie | Episode 0774 | A tough guy named Tough Eddie accidentally knocks over Bert's sand castle while he's sleeping. Ernie points that out to Eddie, and Eddie tells Ernie, in a threatening tone of voice, that he's "got something" for Bert. It turns out to be an ice cream cone. |
 | The Beach: Bert is Missing | Episode 0933 | At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, it turns out that Ernie accidentally buried Bert under the sand. |
 | Ernie Knocks Down Bottles | Episode 0935 | At the carnival , Herry asks Ernie to participate in a game. Ernie has three chances to win a prize by knocking down a pile of bottles with a baseball. Ernie only manages to knock down some, then most of the bottles, but not all of them, so he doesn't win the prize. Herry, on the other hand, can knock the bottles down not with a baseball, but with his loud voice. |
 | Ernie buys a newspaper | Episode 1186 | Ernie buys a newspaper after hearing the newsboy yell out the headline: "Four People Fooled!" Ernie reads the paper, but finds no such news in the paper, making him the fifth fool. |
 | Egyptian Mummies | Episode 1706 | Ernie and Bert explore an Egyptian pyramid. Bert is excited but Ernie is afraid. They see statues that look like them. Bert decides to explore a tunnel while Ernie looks at the statues, and then the Ernie statue starts tapping and talking to Ernie. But when Ernie calls Bert back to the room, the statue doesn't move. Ernie is scared until the statue starts singing Rubber Duckie with him. Bert doesn't believe Ernie, until he says "Bye-bye, statue," and the statue replies "Bye-bye!" and laughs... just like Ernie.
Later airings of this sketch (including on Elmo Says BOO!) trimmed some material and added music to underscore the mood. The Best of Ernie and Bert included the sketch uncut and unaltered. The sketch was also recreated in clay for the book Where's the Duckie?. |
 | Fish Call | Episode 1707 | Bert and Ernie go fishing. Ernie catches fish by yelling "Here fishy, fishy, fishy," and fish come flying to his boat. Bert tries it, but only catches a shark.
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 | Ernie and Bert go to the jungle | Episode 1736 | Ernie and Bert go to the jungle to find Dr. Livingstone, because Ernie has a very important question to ask him, but they keep running into other people, including a fire fighter and a taxi driver.
Online: Web Video Player |
 | Ernie and Bert go camping | Episode 2366 | Ernie and Bert are camping. It's time for them to sleep, but Ernie keeps distracting Bert by pointing out the various sounds that they hear. |
 | Bert's Tuba Sound | Episode 2404 | In the park, Bert overhears the sound of a tuba - his favorite instrument. It's actually Simon Soundman, who's "just practicing." Bert begs Simon to teach him how to make that sound by himself, but Bert ends up attracting Gladys the Cow, who thinks she heard the romantic call of a bull.
Video: Let's Make Music,Online: Web Video Player |
 | Apple Stand | Episode 2477 | Ernie has set up an apple stand to sell apples. He shows Bert that he's got everything he needs including the stand, a stool for his customers to sit on, a cash register and napkins. When Bert asks to buy an apple, Ernie realizes that the apples are the one thing he's forgotten. |
 | The Love Boat parody | Episode 2485 | Ernie and the crew of a boat all really love the boat that they are on. "WE LOVE THIS BOAT!" |
 | Bert reads from his pigeon joke book | Episode 2773 | Ernie doesn't think pigeons are able to laugh at Bert's jokes, but he's wrong ... |
 | Ernie and Bert at the movies: The Picnic | Episode 2926 | Ernie and Bert go to the movies to see a silent movie, "The Picnic," starring Charlie Chaplin (played by Sonia Manzano) and his date (played by Linda Bove). |
 | Dressing a snowman | Episode 4077 | Ernie and Bert build a snowman, but Ernie fears that the snowman will be cold if they don't dress him. Even though Bert tries to tell him that snowmen can't feel the cold, that doesn't stop Ernie from dressing the snowman in Bert's clothing. Later airings of the sketch include an added underscore that was not in the original version. |
 | Borrowing a Vacuum | Ernie thinks that borrowing Herbert Birdsfoot's vacuum cleaner is not what he's going to do.
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 | Old King Cole | Ernie plays Old King Cole and calls for his pipe and bowl. When he calls for his fiddlers three, they each appear one at a time allowing Ernie to practice his addition. The introduction to the story is narrated by Sonia Manzano. |
Post-1990
| Picture | Summary | Earliest Known Appearance | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Bert practices his pigeon calls | Episode 3021 | Bert goes to the park to practice his pigeon calls, but instead of attracting a pigeon that says coo, he gets a cow that says moo, an owl that says hoo, a number two, and an entire zoo. |
 | Ernie and Bert go fishing | Episode 4001 | Ernie keeps catching fish, and Bert doesn't, so Ernie tries moving to a different place on the boat, then not using bait, then just quitting. When Bert finally catches something, it is only a note that reads: "What happened to your friend?" (Note: this was one of Steve Whitmire's earliest performances as Ernie.).
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 | Fruit Friends | In the park, Ernie wonders if his banana can make friends with Bert's orange. Bert thinks fruits can't make friends, but Ernie tries to convince Bert that the difference between the two doesn't matter. |
