''Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures'' (originally promoted as ''The Adventures of Bert and Ernie'') is a stop-motion animated children's television series developed by Sesame Workshop in which clay animated versions of

Bert Bert or BERT may refer to: Persons, characters, or animals known as Bert *Bert (name), commonly an abbreviated forename and sometimes a surname *Bert, a character in the poem "Bert the Wombat" by The Wiggles; from their 1992 album Here Comes a Son ...

and

Ernie Ernie is a masculine given name, frequently a short form (hypocorism) of Ernest, Ernald, Ernesto, or Verner. It may refer to: People * Ernie Accorsi (born 1941), American football executive * Ernie Adams (disambiguation) * Ernie Afaganis (born c ...

use their imaginations to travel to strange places and into entertaining situations. The shorts are shown in the United States as inserts on ''

Sesame Street ''Sesame Street'' is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) ...

'' (first appearing in season 39). Internationally, the shorts are shown as a stand-alone series in various overseas markets (the first season debuting in September 2008). The animation for the series was produced by Italy's Misseri Studio. Two seasons of 26 five-minute episodes each had been produced. The "Secret Agents" episode has received the Gold Award for the Children's Animation category at the 2009 World Media Festival, as well as being a selection at the 2009

Annecy Animation Festival The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (french: Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy, officially abbreviated in English as the Annecy Festival, or simply Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of J ...

. Production of these segments began on December 11, 2006 before their official airing in 2008.

Format

Each episode begins with

Bert and Ernie Bert and Ernie are two Muppet characters who appear together in numerous skits on the long-running PBS/HBO children's television show, ''Sesame Street''. Originated by Frank Oz and Jim Henson, the characters are currently performed by puppeteer ...

climbing into their beds for a good night's sleep. Suddenly, Bert's bed starts shaking and tapping, and Ernie hops aboard as the bed flies out of their apartment and into their next great adventure. Each adventure has Bert and Ernie in a new location and a new situation. Sometimes they're accompanied by Bert's trusted pigeon-friend Bernice, or Ernie's toy Rubber Duckie. Often they encounter new and old friends, and also adversaries, along the way.

Voices

Eric Jacobson Eric Jacobson is an American puppeteer. He is best known for performing Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and Sam Eagle for The Muppets Studio, as well as ''Sesame Street'' characters Bert, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, and Guy Smiley—all role ...

Steve Whitmire Steven Lawrence Whitmire (born September 24, 1959) is an American puppeteer, known primarily for his work on ''The Muppets'' and ''Sesame Street''. Beginning his involvement with the Muppets in 1978, Whitmire inherited the roles of Ernie and Kerm ...

Stephanie D'Abruzzo Stephanie Ann D'Abruzzo (; born December 7, 1971) is an American actress, puppeteer and singer. She has performed various Muppets in the TV program ''Sesame Street''. She held starring roles on '' Oobi'' and ''The Book of Pooh''. She was one of ...

as various characters *

Joey Mazzarino Joseph Mazzarino (; born June 4, 1968) is an American actor, puppeteer, writer and director. He is best known for his roles on ''Sesame Street'' as Murray Monster, Stinky the Stinkweed and other Muppets, and being Head Writer and Director on ' ...

as various characters *

Tyler Bunch Tyler Bunch, also known as H.D. Quinn, is an American puppeteer, puppet designer, director, and actor. Career In addition to his work for the Jim Henson Company, Bunch has created and performed puppets for PBS, Nickelodeon and Disney's Th ...

as various characters *

Kevin Clash Kevin Jeffrey Clash (born September 17, 1960) is an American puppeteer, director and producer known for puppeteering Elmo on ''Sesame Street'' from 1984 to 2012. He also performed puppets for ''Labyrinth'', ''Dinosaurs'', '' Oobi'', and various ...

Elmo Elmo is a red Muppet monster character on the long-running PBS/ HBO children's television show ''Sesame Street''. A furry red monster who has a falsetto voice and illeism, he hosts the last full five-minute segment (fifteen minutes prio ...

Episodes

Season 1

# "Tiny Town" (August 11, 2008) # "Pirates" (August 13, 2008) # "Planet Bert" (August 18, 2008) # "Bakers" (September 24, 2008) # "Cavemen" (October 2, 2008) # "Rainforest" (October 10, 2008) # "Penguin" (October 20, 2008) # "Wild West" (October 30, 2008) # "Three Wishes" (November 3, 2008) # "Inventors" (November 5, 2008) # "Museum Guards" (February 16, 2015) # "Mountain Climbers" # "Deep Sea" # "Pigeonia" # "Ernlock Holmes" # "Superheroes" # "Kung Fu" # "Wizards With Elmo" # "Beach" # "Invisible" # "Piano Movers" # "Cliptecs" # "Knights" # "Secret Agents" # "Rodeo" # "Chariot"

Season 2

# "Maltese Ducky" (November 10, 2009) # "Flower Shop" (November 12, 2009) # "Gopher Broke" (November 18, 2009) # "Dr. Bird Whistle" (November 20, 2009) # "Raiders Lost Duckies" (November 27, 2009) # "Raincloud" (December 11, 2009) # "Car Mechanics" (December 28, 2009) # "Under the Sea" (January 1, 2010) # "Lost Elephant" (February 18, 2010) # "The Three Ducketeers" (September 28, 2010) # "Loch Ness" (September 29, 2010) # "Super-Frog" (September 30, 2010) # "The Dogsitters" (October 4, 2010) # "The Bird Olympics" (October 12, 2010) # "Dustbusters" (November 1, 2010) # "Magicians" (November 5, 2010) # "The Platypus" (October 29, 2010) # "Rocks" (December 27, 2010) # "Deserted Island" (December 30, 2010) # "Donnie Quixote" (July 15, 2017) # "Butterfinger (2011) # "The Computer Bug (2011) # "The Extraterrestrials (2011) # "The Quiz Show Planet (2011) # "The Yeti (2011) # "Bert the Pigeon (2011)

Video releases

In the United States, six episodes were released on ''Sesame Street: Count on Sports'' (''Tiny Town'', ''Inventors'', ''Mountain Climbers'' and ''Cavemen''), ''Pirates: Elmo and the Bookaneers'' (''Pirates'') and ''Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days'' (''Penguin''). On April 6, 2010, ''Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures'' was released for the first time on DVD in the United States by

Warner Home Video Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. (formerly known as Warner Home Video and WCI Home Video and sometimes credited as Warner Home Entertainment) is the home video distribution division of Warner Bros. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Vide ...

. The episodes on the 2010 DVD release of ''Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures'' includes "Pirates", "Deep Sea", "Tiny Town", "Planet Bert", "Cavemen", "Mountain Climbers", "Penguins", "Ernlock Holmes", "Rainforest", "Bakers", "Wizards", "Three Wishes" and "Kung Fu". If "Play All" is selected, the opening only appears at the beginning of the program, but the opening appears before each sketch if selected individually. Each segment also begins with the segment's title appearing. In the United Kingdom and Australia, thirteen episodes were released on ''Bert & Ernie's Great Adventures: Pirates'' (''Pirates'', ''Mountain Climbers'', ''Wizards'' with Elmo, ''Penguins'', ''3 Wishes'', ''Wild West'', ''Rainforest'', ''Deep Sea'', ''Ernlock Holmes'', ''Cavemen'', ''Bakers'', ''Pigeonia'' and ''Cliptecs''). The DVD was distributed in the United Kingdom by Abbey Home Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment.

External links

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