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amberglow — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:49:52 -0800

Ernest and Bertram --short film, formerly one of the best films you can't see after debuting at Sundance in 2002, with Sesame's lawyers then cracking down and forcing it to be pulled--now on youtube.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:54:12 -0800

another news story from back then from ABC: ...Even before this incident, Ernie and Bert have been under constant attack. ...

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:09:48 -0800

Buncha hypocrites at CTW. They just brought in a new Muppet who's an unabashed fairy. Things just haven't been the same since Jim died.

By: briank

briank — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:18:00 -0800

Can I just say that the "Ernie and Bert are gay" meme is so worn out that nothing, NOTHING, makes it worth wasting your time on it? Thank you.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:22:44 -0800

youtube link no worky for me.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:30:05 -0800

NOTHING, makes it worth wasting your time Perhaps, but the mere mention of Bert recalls his contribution to that famous Bin Laden Poster, and how it reinvented irony for the 21st century. That alone makes it worthwhile to me.

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:31:09 -0800

Friends, YouTube has left the building.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:33:39 -0800

youtube link no worky for me. Same here - youtube appears to be broken in some way.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:35:09 -0800

amberglow and his magic gay puppets broke youtube!1!!

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:37:38 -0800

For what it's worth, the link worked for me. I liked the production values, but the premise seemed a little too facile.

By: klarck

klarck — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:37:50 -0800

I don't find it too unreasonable for CTW to object to someone else's hands up Bert and Ernie's butts...so to speak.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:48:55 -0800

see if you can see it thru here (it's embedded there)

By: empath

empath — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:57:28 -0800

nope, youtube is teh broke everywhere.

By: shownomercy

shownomercy — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:02:38 -0800

I have seen this video before and I actually think it's quite well done. The premise may be "Burt and Ernie are gay" but the punchline is a lot better than "Burt and Ernie are gay!"

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:02:52 -0800

Same here - youtube appears to be broken in some way. wait ... what'll we do for links?

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:31:51 -0800

We can always go back to linking to interesting blogs. ;-P

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:41:12 -0800

It looks like metafilter's collective hate of youtube links has finally become palpable, lashing out in the physical and striking its victim with lethal force. Well done, mefites.

By: Sailor Martin

Sailor Martin — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:46:37 -0800

Hm. Eight minute movie, first minute and a half is interior shots of a car driving. Not very economical filmmaking.

By: OverlappingElvis

OverlappingElvis — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:51:46 -0800

One thing I actually wanted to see on youtube and the whole godforsaken site goes down. Go figure.

By: sandking

sandking — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:24:27 -0800

From the YouTube Comments: Sadly I think most people who watch this video have no clue it's almost word for word from Lillian Hellman's "The Children's Hour" and THAT's why it's funny, not because "bert and ernie r gay lol." It was previously (poorly?) adapted as These Three

By: needs more cowbell

needs more cowbell — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:33:39 -0800

It's an interesting idea, but I didn't really like The Children's Hour that much in its original form. Okay, that's a lie, I hated The Children's Hour. And I hated this once I realized it was the same story.

By: urlnotfound

urlnotfound — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:22:15 -0800

An alternate link if Youtube.com does not work: http://www1.youtube.com/watch?v=8TeNdsoCIgc

By: JDC8

JDC8 — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:31:48 -0800

The ABC article revealed that Cookie Monster's name is Sid! How will this affect the fuzzy speed metal scene?!

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:58:59 -0800

aw....The video-sharing site YouTube.com suffered an outage Tuesday, the same day a Web measurement company said the site had broken into its list of the Internet's top 50 for the first time. Few details on the outage were available. ... Watch it tonight---it's worth it.

By: kyleg

kyleg — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:10:29 -0800

I thought it was mostly good, though stretching five minutes into eight was a bit much.

By: maryh

maryh — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:22:57 -0800

That was great, and despite the (sort of crummy looking) muppets it still managed to be moving. Thanks amberglow!

By: scrump

scrump — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:40:38 -0800

Call me a curmudgeonly old bastard, but I couldn't get past the crappy voices and really wretched costuming: I stopped watching a couple of minutes in with no sense of regret.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:59:29 -0800

ok., you're a curmudgeonly old bastard. ; > I think it's what you see as he's driving in the beginning that sorta gets missed by people--the whole cruising/gayporn theaters thing.