Seems like they were on Sesame Street. Kermit was on Both. I think Miss Piggy was on both. Why wasn't Bert and Ernie?
2006-09-17 16:51:57 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television
Interestingly enough, they were in "Muppets Take Manhatten." Sesame Street and the Muppet Show were both Jim Hensen productions. Steve Whitmire did the voice of both Kermit and Ernie. Kermit was a muppet. Bert and Ernie were puppets, so never made it on the Muppet Show.
2006-09-17 17:03:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bert and Ernie are homebodies living on Sesame Street...Im sure the other muppets invited the two now and then to the show, but those two lazy burnouts rarely ever leave the apartment....too busy having bubble baths with rubber ducky and counting pigions....
2006-09-18 00:30:57 · answer #2 · answered by pritty_princess_c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bert & Ernie had an exclusive, long-term contract with Sesame Street that precluded them from appearing in any other production without written permission. They were routinely denied permission to do so after they were caught en flagrante dilecto with Miss Piggy, but the Pigster got out of it by blackmailing the producers with photos of them and Big Bird doing the nasty. (Ironic, eh?) Apparently she thought little enough of Bert & Ernie's performance that she didn't include them in her little scheme. It was all very hush-hush.
2006-09-17 23:57:56 · answer #3 · answered by My Evil Twin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are on Sesame Street. They aren't Muppets. Miss Piggy was never on Sesame Street. It was completely seperate. Both are great!!!
2006-09-17 23:56:41 · answer #4 · answered by Meow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The muppet show was so commercial. Ernie and Bert had artist integrity they wouldnt compromise.
2006-09-17 23:54:22 · answer #5 · answered by Phil S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe bert and ernie didnt want to go into showbiz they just like their simple life on seasame street and wanted to stay there
2006-09-18 10:06:51 · answer #6 · answered by cozjeanda 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contract disputes.
2006-09-17 23:54:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't muppets.
2006-09-17 23:53:29 · answer #8 · answered by Untitled 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they got greedy with their contracts & tried to negotiate higher pay but Jim told them he didn't think they were as essential to the show as they thought themselves to be....
actually, i used to wonder that too...
2006-09-17 23:53:49 · answer #9 · answered by Hot Lips 4077 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were breakdowns in the contractual negotiations.
2006-09-17 23:53:06 · answer #10 · answered by c.arsenault 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋