Since "Sesame Street" will soon be joining a new platform, there's no better time to take a walk down muppet memory lane ... become more of a reddish-brown. Bert still has a single eyebrow.

Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna challenge Bert and Ernie over which duo are better ... Big Bird without his head while working on Sesame Street as a kid ...

but Bert and Ernie were nowhere to be found. Sometime on the afternoon of March 15, the two late-1970s-era hand puppets (Muppets to be precise) left the building and Rollins, manager of Deja Vu ...

writer Liz Hara had an idea for Bert and Ernie. The pair date back to the very beginning of “Sesame Street,” a classic comedy ...

Jim [Henson] fell into Ernie very easily, because Jim loved making jokes and Ernie loved making jokes. For me, I had Bert, and I was ... even with Sesame Street we didn’t do it for kids.

Explore Jim Henson's puppets and Muppets in the Smithsonian's collections ... Puppet National Museum of American History Bert Puppet National Museum of American History Rosita puppet used on Sesame ...

And might we add that whatever Bert and Ernie do behind closed doors is their own damn business!!! A former ‘Sesame Street’ writer dishes on the famous duo, Jim Henson, flirting with monsters ...

Sesame Place is a kid-oriented destination inspired by the "Sesame Street" TV series. It features a neighborhood constructed to resemble the show's set with recognizable locations like Hooper's ...

She left PEOPLE in 2022. Sesame Street has been on the air for 52 years, which for so many of us means that we have had the privilege of growing up with the Muppets who have become household names.