Sesame Street
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| Name: | Sesame Street |
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| Creator: | Sesame Workshop, Jim Henson |
| Date(s): | 1969–present |
| Medium: | Television |
| Country of Origin: | USA |
| External Links: | Sesame Street.org, Sesame at PBS Kids, Sesame Workshop |
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Sesame Street is an educational children's program created by Jim Henson in 1969 and airing on PBS. It introduced characters such as Big Bird, Grover, Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and, later, Elmo.
A related fandom is The Muppets.
There were 237 Sesame Street works on Archive of Our Own as of September 2019, and 427 works as of November 2022.
The "Bert and Ernie Are Gay" Trope
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Controversy
In 2018, it was revealed that a Sesame Street writer had based Bert and Ernie's interactions on his own relationship with his boyfriend. This led to fans taking it to mean Bert/Ernie was a canon gay couple, and many did not take it well when they were told that this was not the case.