Were the odd couple gay

Bert and Ernie are just friends CNN. Sesame street started a year after the odd couple movie and a year before the odd couple TV show. Sorry to thread-jack, but while the iron is hot:. So, working with the premise that Bert and Ernie are a parody of the play and TV Show The Odd Coupleand Bert and Ernie are totally not gay even though everyone makes that comparison — was the play meant to be a tongue in cheek depiction of a gay couple?

Was there a gay subtext, in the TV show, that I missed? There have been muppet characters portrayed as being in relationships that are implicitly heterosexual. In most countries, two friends living together is extremely common without any sexual element involved at all.

You may as well ask if Chandler and Joey were gay. The problem is that Sesame Street keeps freaking out about the possibility of them being gay. Instead, they constantly need to make it abundantly clear that anyone who thinks they are gay is wrong.

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Why would them being puppet characters mean they have no sexual orientation? It just seems stupid in an era where people are upset about gay erasure to go out of your way to say that anyone who thinks they are gay is wrong. A writer says he based them on a gay couple.

Why does it bother Sesame Street so if people think they are gay? I would guess Sesame Street wants to avoid offending people who donate money to PBSnot all of whom are liberal. All the pre episodes are still on PBS. That point is made here: Are Muppets Sexual? And that to say that they are would be to sexualize something that is not sexual.

When I read that some writer who started on the show in made a claim about characters devised in it was time to close the page and move on. Bert and Ernie still not gay Cafe Society. Everybody knows that Bert is closeted and Ernie is straight. Arkcon September 19,am 5. Sorry to thread-jack, but while the iron is hot: So, working with the premise that Bert and Ernie are a parody of the play and TV Show The Odd Coupleand Bert and Ernie are totally not gay even though everyone makes that comparison — was the play meant to be a tongue in cheek depiction of a gay couple?

Isamu Were the odd couple gay 19,am 8. AK84 September 19,am GuanoLad September 19,am BigT September 19,am Is that really an accurate description of their reaction? Borborygmi September 19,pm JKellyMap September 19,pm Slash September 19,pm Of course they were.

They were also heavy into beastiality. You gotta read between the lines on some shows. Annie-Xmas September 19,pm