With a lucrative HBO deal ending, the show tackles emotional well-being and remakes itself to win over a new generation. Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript ...

UPDATE: Sept. 18, 2018, 2:55 p.m. EDT Sesame Workshop has since released a statement denying that Bert and Ernie have any sexual orientation at all on the grounds that they are puppets.

Are Bert and Ernie ... presented Bert and Ernie going over their test results, looking for all the world like a loving — and safe — couple. Sesame Street was none too happy with this, and ...

I learned watching Sesame Street how to speak English, and Bert and Ernie were my best friends. I believed in them and I learned from them, how to have a healthy and happy relationship,” she said.

"I created Bert. I know what and who he is," Oz wrote, squashing the idea that Bert and Ernie were a couple ... He also wrote he was happy that people — regardless of their sexual orientation ...

As they grow older, children behave less like Ernie and more like Bert -- although they are not always happy when others get more, they would much rather give the bigger piece of pie to others ...

It has long been whispered that Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie are gay. At various times the rumor has escalated into their actually getting married on the show, this event either being planned ...