The Best of Ernie and Bert is a direct-to-video Sesame Street compilation in the My Sesame Street Home Video series, collecting sketches starring Ernie and Bert. Released on VHS in 1988, this was the first "Best of" video from Sesame Street to focus on specific characters.
The framing sequence involves Gina and Big Bird babysitting Ernie's cousin Ernestine, while they go through Ernie and Bert's photo album.
Segments[]
Image | First Appearance | Segment |
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Framing material | Gina babysits Ernestine with help from Big Bird. | |
Episode 0538 | Ernie and Bert go to the movies, where the lady who sits in front of Ernie wears a hat so tall that it blocks his vision. | |
Episode 1808 | 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. (Beginning edited) | |
Episode 0137 | Ernie's doctor comes over. Ernie keeps trying to tell the doctor why he called him, but the doctor is too occupied with checking on Ernie, hardly allowing him to get a word in edgewise. | |
Episode 1910 | "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" | |
Episode 1621 | 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 and dancing "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, scaring Bert. | |
Episode 0366 | "The National Association of W Lovers" | |
Episode 1227 | Bert teaches his pigeon, Bernice, how to play checkers. Ernie thinks it's amazing that a pigeon can play checkers, but Bert thinks it is no big deal, because Bernice has only beaten Bert in two out of ten games. | |
Episode 1814 | "That's What Friends are For" |
Notes[]
- Non-English-language international releases typically omit "The National Association of W Lovers."
Releases[]
International releases[]
Booklet[]
Cast[]
- Starring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets:
Credits[]
- Executive Producer: Jon Stone
- Producer: Sonia Rosario
- Directed by Jon Stone
- Jim Henson, David Heeley, Lisa Simon (archive material)
- Written by Jon Stone
- Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss, Jerry Juhl, Emily Kingsley, Jeff Moss (archive material)
- Songs by Dave Conner, Tony Geiss, Jeff Moss, Sam Pottle, Joe Raposo
See also[]
- Bert and Ernie's Greatest Hits
- Page through our real "Ernie and Bert book."