Sesame Street - Ernie and Bert "What happened here?"

[TheSubi86]

Absolutely BLANK!!!!

[Stephen10528]

I'm familiar w/ this joke.

[toastichedu]

Why should she stay around?

[eagle152f]

ROFL

[MsPandaRosa]

"I bet you peeked at these!"

[MIKECNW]

After eating graas she went to market.

[MrTornado300]

Season 1 (1969-1970) Judged by Ernie's shirt

[powerpup97]

No. The reason there's no cow is for another reason! What is that reason? I think it's best we don't know!

[TheMKEWERBY]

Ridiculous!

[SchizoidMan100]

"Why should she stay around?"

[menslady125]

Nice one, Ernie!

[ThirdEyeLight]

Is ernie black?

[shethewriter]

@ThirdEyeLight he's orange

[timrob12]

@ThirdEyeLight Ask the creator's of Sesame Street!

[Vatch1966]

LMAO I forgot about this one..Jim Henson and Frank Oz were a great team.

[TelephoneRock4ever]

This is easy:

Picture #1: a bird has flown out of the birdcage.

Picture #2: a man has slipped on a banana peel.

Picture #3: completely blank, because the cow has eaten grass, and that's gone; and after the cow ate, she left. Why should she stay around!

Just simply classic!

[slapshot68]

ernie got bert good

[atfatw]

what a lot of sinister weird looking crummy puppets they show to kids on sesame street. the puppets like the shirts on Star Trek were probabbly rarely if ever cleaned

[RabbitDance]

What do you mean? These were the best puppets there were, and when they got better it is because the company was improving them, but they were pioneering the whole process. Remember a lot of materials that we have today, were new or just coming out then. Also, they were meticulously taken care of and rebuilt. This was not just some crummy show. It was the juxtaposition of a lot of people's hopes and dreams to make something that would make, not just America, but the world a better place.

[atfatw]

rabbitdance,

are you crazy??!!! childrens's tv programming sucks the sleazy hacks like jim henson could easily pull the wool over their eyes with those crummy miserable poor quality felt. sesame street is probably in real life some sleazy dangerous boarded up drug and gang ridden ghetto

[RabbitDance]

I think maybe you got some bad information somewhere a long the line. I have lots of books on the history of Jim Henson and Sesame Street. If you would like I could mail one to you. really, I think if you watch something like, Muppet Christmas Carol, you could see how much love and care there is in these fictional worlds that Jim Henson & company created.

[RabbitDance]

If you want so see something funny and more adult, look up the Wilkins Coffee commercials. Honestly, I've met Mr. Jim Henson's son, Brian and I can tell you that they really are good people. I encourage you to check put some more of the videos, you might really like them and see in them what I see. Or they may not be your cup of tea, and that's ok, everyone is different and has their own tastes.

[atfatw]

rabbitdance,

it appears regretably, that you are right.

dojn't ever lend anything of great value books and tools and antiques to anyione else they become 'lost in the mail'

[kris10bridgettelol]

you're just a sinister weird looking crummy miserable person who probably shouldn't be around children as to avoid sucking the joy from their hearts, cheer up buzz killington

[kris10bridgettelol]

@atfatw ^ btw

[playmates101]

"Why should she stay around!" classic!

[tifahentai]

I know there is another version of this which Ernie in the end had a man drawn sitting on the bed and Bert said he's gonna go to sleep, while Ernie replied Bert you're wrong! He just woke up!

[Kryer98]

I've seen the "cow eating grass" joke in a couple of joke books. Perhaps this is where they came up with it.

[kungfujiapple]

From 1969.

[yaziyo]

Is it me or did ernie put on some weight in this one?

[finnishminnow]

Bert & Ernie certainly did a great job of playing the "What Happened Here?" Game by using some pictures.

[PandaMishima]

"I bet you peeked at these, Bert." I still like that line!

[kll510]

LOL another great classic.

[TnseWlms]

So Ernie is giving Bert the Thematic Apperception Test. Is he a licensed psychologist?

[dbnydnvn]

My guess is no. That last one isn't a cow eating grass. It's tonight's episode of Monday Night Raw; Hasn't started yet because it's only 7pm as I type this!! :)

[gopconservative78]

See Ernie wanted to have a gang bang with Bert

[MatthewTie]

The last image is what happens when you don't have 404 page in place and your site goes down.

[lambofgodpunk]

No i think is a ERROR 404 page not found

[70Kenny]

Picture 1: A cage just before a new bird was but in it.

Picture 2: Man just ate cyanide-laced banana and has gone into convulsions.

Picture 3: Hooker and client in white BMW during whiteout in Duluth, Minnesota.

These are just too easy!

[Teankun]

"why should she stay around"

LOL

true clasic

[noahf67]

These bits are so perennial, and so well delivered.  This stuff outranks most of everything on all the kid networks today...

[66zebulon]

@noahf67 ...Not only does it outrank EVERYTHING on all the kid networks today, it also happens to be funnier and more well-delivered than most of what passes as comedy in this day and age, by ANY age group, for any age group!! Jim Henson and Frank Oz have done SO MANY great characters, but if all they were known for were Ernie and Bert, they would rightfully be immortalized. The director of the show, Jon Stone, insisted on directing all of the E&B skits for free. We all can see why.

[gavrilo2007]

Ernie is such an asshole!

[MarshalGrover]

I saw Ernie's last picture on Animaiacs

[brithgob]

Forgot all about this one... until they say that last line in unison, and it clicked in my brain!

[dorourke105]

They did this same joke on Animaniacs,with the cow and grass. Ernie and Bert executed it better here though in my opinion.

[DiAnno13]

What happened here? Lazy artist, that's what.

[DiAnno13]

She went home? At long last!!!

[acvflickr]

Yes, that last picture was a tough one. My guess would have been that it was a picture of 3 polar bears, and after a long hard day of playing in the snow they closed their eyes, went to sleep and became completely camouflaged. Silly me!

[setheurovision94]

No, I like that one! But why not just a single polar bear?

[StoogeAtHeart]

I thought Ernie was going to say it was a polar bear drinking a glass of milk in a snowstorm.

Great clip

[samsticka]

The funniest part of this was Bert and Ernie saying "Why should she stay around?"

[MeAndMyRC]

'Absolutely Blank' describes some people I know, hehe!

[amybeth68]

How is it that I can barely remember what I had for lunch today, but thirty-five years after the fact I am saying in unison with B&E "Why should she stay around? Sure!!" :)

[qbeam]

YES!!!!! I KNEW I wasn't alone in this!!!

[ThirdEyeLight]

@amybeth68

Marijuana affects short term memory not long term... :P

[Ziffel67]

And just as I've utilized Ernie's "TenQ" in real life, I've also enjoyed over the years showing someone a blank piece of paper and saying it's a cow eating grass.

Good to see this again, been so long.

[Rltpage]

Very funny skit, but that was insane! How could there possibly be a cow who finished eating grass when that page is absolutely blank?! The page has nothing on it! It just doesn't make sense!

[loveutoto]

I know what you mean. That's not a picture of a cow eating grass. That's a picture of a cow who has eaten the grass...and then gone home!

[Paulywint]

This brings back memories.

[coffeegirlbelinda]

And just what happens NEXT? I throw this clip into my favorites list (!)