Bert likes Figgy Fizz ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

Bert is a lean, mean, bottle cap collectin' machine!

As a youth, I was so inspired by Bert (of 'Sesame Street' fame) that I launched a bottle cap collection of my own. This was back when Barq's still made orange, grape, and lime green sodas, so just think how much those lids would be worth today if they haven't become lost!

Figgy Fizz is like the green Barq's of the ol' Ses. Bert seems to love the stuff, but it seems to be in such short supply that he can never find a bottle cap for it.

That is, until his ol' pal Ernie saves the day in this sketch (believed to be from 1970 but still in circulation as late as 1992):



Notice that, mixed in there with all those rare sodas, Bert has a Diet Pepsi cap.

Bert's joyous reaction when he finally gets his Figgy Fizz cap he's wanted for years and years is priceless. It's sort of like the cheerful mood here when the Republicans lost control of Congress. Or what my reaction is going to be when I finally find the long-lost 'Sesame Street' sketch in which the blue Anything Muppet sings the "bawm bawm bawm" song.

This is also one of few Ernie and Bert skits in which Bert wins and Ernie loses. That is, if you consider making a complete ass of yourself over a Figgy Fizz lid to be "winning."