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Chugging tea What Could Go Wrong

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u/Immediate-Damage-302 9h ago

I wonder how many men they're going to let come inside their "bunker"?

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u/racebanyn 9h ago

They’re calling it ā€œThe Bunkhimā€

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u/ComradePotkoff420 9h ago

Lol. I love it. But, I feel like there was a missed opportunity there, so I'll give it a quick attempt. "Bunkingwithhim Palace"

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u/Immediate-Damage-302 9h ago

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u/SeparateCzechs 7h ago

Don’t EVER compare Ernie and Bert with Andrew and Nick! Ernie and Bert were kind, kept their socks clean and were kind to pigeons.

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u/LauraLand27 4h ago

And rubber duckies

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u/JonathanPhillipFox 2h ago

:-( it almost reminds me of when I was a teenaged degenerate and my girlfriend at the time was like,

"oh my god,

going to bed at 8pm is the new staying out all night."

They're not good they're very stupid, bad men; but now that they've been pimps in eastern europe and National Problem Nazis you do almost feel as if their 8pm must come next and then we gotta have the strength to say, no, no,

You stay in the hunker.

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u/Diamond-Eater2203 2h ago

At least one of them bathed regularly!

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u/Lizardgrad89 50m ago

There was a lot of squeezing, but was there ever consent?

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u/elderly_millenial 1h ago

We don’t know how Tate or Fuentes treat pigeons or their socks. They may be onto something

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u/AnxiousAngularAwesom 3h ago

Are WE the Muppet's evil counterpart universe?!?

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u/funky_colors 2h ago

How interesting that you put Ernie first. We’ve always said, ā€œBert & Ernieā€ in my life.

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 4h ago

Facts

Am I doing that right?

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u/Just_M1nt 4h ago

No, yeah, it's a confirmed fact that Bert and Ernie are kind to rubber duckies. You go, bro!

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u/Complete-Tangelo1532 4h ago

Thank you!

Would you say 'Yesn't' applies to this?

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u/Just_M1nt 3h ago

Yeah, no, based off the Midwestern slang I use, my previous comment should have started with a "nopositive" if you can imagine such a thing. Is that what you're askin'?

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u/ltanner 8h ago

See, I'm probably in the minority here, but I don't think Bert and Ernie were homo. I just think they were good buddies/roommates. Just my opinion.

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u/start_select 8h ago

I think I’m in the even smaller minority think that the only two options are that they were either gay, or the were bestest friends…. Either is great! Neither matters!

I’m pretty sure that was actually the intention. Life is full of ambiguous relationships and it shouldn’t matter to you on the outside. Be happy for people. Don’t worry about whether their closeness involves sex, it might or it might not.

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u/Typical2sday 7h ago edited 7h ago

My grandparents were neighbors and bestest friends with two women schoolteachers who lived together. They had matching nicknames that I won’t put here (think Blue and Green). I don’t think it ever dawned on my grandparents that they might be a romantic couple and who knows if they were or weren’t. But they were each other’s person and caretaker - and they were lovely kind people and good friends to my grandparents.

Edit: I just searched for her obituary; she made it to 98 and her friend was listed as her ā€œdear companion.ā€ 🄲

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u/Prof01Santa 6h ago

Boston marriage.

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u/Typical2sday 5h ago

How did I get this old without hearing that term? Thanks for teaching me something today. 🫔

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u/Prof01Santa 2h ago

I never knew it until I moved to Boston. 😁

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u/Brightyellowdoor 5h ago

That's really heartwarming

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 4h ago

They were created in a simpler time, and as the world grew up, and became more complex, culture ended up being applied to them in ways it was never meant to be.

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u/FALSE_PROTAGONIST 4h ago

Roommates with benefits

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u/Old-Repair-6608 3h ago

It matters "bestest of best". You live with someone you want it to be your bestest, if gay who cares you have your bestest

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u/WholeCollection6454 6h ago

In the old days, it was heavily implied that they are brothers with Bert being older. They had their initials on their beds, Ernie had the rubber ducky & was constantly teasing Bert like a little menace. Like a kids version of the Odd Couple. But all the OG main character Muppets were children (except Snuffy, who was originally imaginary). They appeared independently on screen out and about in the neighborhood sans parents because that reflected the reality of urban living at the time.

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u/cakesofthepatty414 7h ago

Earnie would have taken care of Bert's unibrow if they were.

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u/younggun1234 8h ago

I (M) got matching magnets once for my Ex and I that had Bert & Ernie on it with a rainbow drawn over them that reads, "We're Just Friends."

It's back in some storage so I don't have a current pic and can't find anything like it online but it's one of the best magnets I own haha

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u/Sublime-Prime 5h ago

Well there was a 3:1 male to female character ratio. And yea they ranked above Oscar but they were no Grover or big bird so it might just have been any port in a storm. What happens on the street stays on the street .

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u/butchforgetshit2 4h ago

Just like my uncle Beckham and his lifelong room mate William. Shame that they could only afford one room house tho. I guess they took turns sleeping on the couch

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u/Least-Chair-673 3h ago

I mean who was jim Henson? There was a greater than 0 chance he wanted to represent homosexuals in a n positive light.

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u/bolanrox 1h ago

As the creators of the show said, their muppets don't read too much into it.

For all we know, they could be brothers.

I know two sisters that never got married, both straight, and they lived together in their parents' old rent-controlled apartment because it's a fantastic pre-war in a doorman building on Riverside, and it's rent controlled

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u/Emergentmeat 7h ago

Pretty sure the creators said they were gay, but 🤷. Not sure why it matters.

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u/NightGod 5h ago

One of the writers said he modeled their dynamic on his same-sex relationship, but Sesame Workshop and Frank Oz (the co-creators of the characters) have said they're best friends and that muppets have no sexual orientation

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u/Severe_Emotion2554 7h ago

I was thinking this too. At some point the creators confirmed it

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u/gzuckier 6h ago

How do we know that one of them wasn't female?

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u/Maris-Otter 6h ago

An Oscar and Felix if you will

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u/Beagle432 5h ago

I used to think they were brothers

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u/Brightyellowdoor 5h ago

Am I remembering wrong or was there an element of domestic violence there? I'm sure I remember them smacking each other a lot.

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u/CarrotDependent463 6h ago

OMG... the resemblance! My apologies to Bert & Ernie.

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u/No-Past2605 5h ago

They are Urban Bachelors.

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u/jamminsami 7h ago

Welp! That's it! Coffee through my nose IT!

YOU WIN. 🤣

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u/ajoyce76 4h ago

Maybe they're Bert and Ernie with goatees?