'O sole Ernie ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

I'm glad to find this classic Ernie and Bert sketch after all these years!

I recall this skit fondly from the '70s (the greatest decade in the history of the universe). It's another hilarious scene in which Ernie wakes up Bert in the middle of the night for some dubious reason:



"It's too dark to see the clock, Bert."

"Well, for fuck's sake, Ernie, if you weren't too cheap to buy a clock with an LED digital display, you'd be able to see it!"

"It doesn't matter anyway because I can't count past 6, Bert."

The real high point of this skit is Ernie's loud singing out the window that wakes up the neighborhood. You can hear a neighbor complaining, "It sounds like Ernie again!" So obviously Ernie has done this before!

You can clearly hear an angry man yell, "It's 3:00 in the morning!" I have always assumed this to be Mr. Hooper, because it sounds like his voice.

Also, at the very beginning of this clip, you can detect a very brief fart sound, which seems to be emanating from Ernie. At the very end, there seems to be another fart, which is even quieter than the first one. Bert seems to be the source of the bunker blast at the end.

What characters Bert, Ernie, and Mr. Blooper are!