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BestofE&B-Title

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
Vlcsnap-00156
Framing material Gina babysits Ernestine with help from Big Bird.
Bae9
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.
Bae2
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)
The.wrong.patient
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.
Ernieonthemoon
Episode 1910 "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon"
Bae21
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.
WLovers
Episode 0366 "The National Association of W Lovers"
2485v
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.
Song.thatswhatfriendsarefor
Episode 1814 "That's What Friends are For"

Notes[]

  • Non-English-language international releases typically omit "The National Association of W Lovers."

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