TIL that when the CEO of the Sesame Street Workshop was asked if Bert and Ernie are gay, he replied, "They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets. They don’t exist below the waist."

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/11/07/bert-ernie-are-they-or-arent-they-kurt-andersen-expounds/