The All New Adventures Of Mr. B

After leaving his co-dependent relationship with Ernie, Bert bulked up and broke out as his own as Mr. B. I pity the fool who doesn't love pigeons. (Mr. B by Steven Dressler, created for Planet Pulp's Saturday morning cartoons theme.)

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You're Gonna Need A Bigger Bert

Bert & Ernie & Picasso

The Bert Locker

The Look Of Love

Han & Leia

Valentine’s Day cards featuring the pop culture stylings of some iconic couples, by designer Barbara Pala. See the rest at EveryGuyed. (Thanks for card, Natasha!)

Bert & Ernie

Lily & Nina

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Will You Be My Constant?

Fear And Loathing On Sesame Street

The Star Wars Princess Bride — Inconceivable!

Angry Big Bird

Angry Sesame Street Birds is brought to you by the letter R, for Revenge. Sweet, sweet revenge. (By olechka, via Shirtoid)

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Scarface Angry Birds

Genus Aves Iratus (Angry Birds)

Angry Birds Gingerbread House

Sesame Street Fight Club

Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. I can just imagine Bert and Ernie beating the stuffing out of each other. (Lover's Quarrel by marinsstudio; link via pacalin)

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Fear And Loathing On Sesame Street

Bert & Ernie & Picasso

Sesame Street Fighter II

Cookie Monster For Saturday Night Live Host!

"Me know that many of you think of me as cookie-eating fanatic, bordering on glutton. Actually, me prefer the term cookie enthusiast."

Sesame Street's Cookie Monster wants to update his images and to do so he is campaigning to host Saturday Night Live. His audition is, by far, better than anything SNL has done recently, plus you get Monster Gaga as the musical guest playing Cookie Face. (Link via The Ampersand)

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Sesame Street Anatomy Lesson
C Is For Chewie
Three Cookie Monster Moon

Sesame Street Anatomy Lesson

I'm hoping Cookie Monster is shocked and not hungry, because if he is, this lesson will not end well. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Bird by Hillary White, based on Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. (Link via Super Punch)

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The Tragic Life Of Oscar The Grouch

The Vitruvian Big Bird

Sesame Beasts

The Tragic Life Of Oscar The Grouch

Did you really think that Oscar chose to live in a garbage can? Sesame Street is really rock bottom for Muppets. (Link via Maneggs)

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Pulp Sesame
Three Cookie Monster Moon
The Nasty, Brutish And Short Life Of Mario

Zero Big Birds, AH AH AH AH AH!

Tired of mindlessly enumerating, Count von Count eventually decided to quench his blood lust in the alleyways of Sesame Street. (One Less Bird by Augie Pagan)

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Pulp Sesame
The Vitruvian Big Bird
Sesame Street Fighter

Three Cookie Monster Moon

If moon was cookie, me think me would be
The happiest monster you've ever seen
I'd put on a spacesuit and up through the night
I'd ride in a rocket and go take a bite

Me take bite from here, me take bite from there
And pretty soon me bite everywhere
Me eat with both hands, don't need fork or spoon
I'd chew it all up, until there's no moon

Seriously, how does this meme keep turning out gold? (Cravings Cookie Monster shirt via Shirtoid)

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Three Ewok Moon
Twilight: Three Wolf Moon
Heeere's Cookie Monster!

Sesame Street Fighter II

It's nice to see Bert and Ernie find a constructive outlet for their clearly repressed anger. (Sesame Street Fighter by Matt Crane, via The Daily What)

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Sesame Street Fighter
The Bert Locker
Bert & Ernie & Picasso

The Vitruvian Big Bird

These are indeed the ideal proportions of a large, talking, flightless yellow bird. (The Vitruvian Bird by vherrera)

There are a couple dozen other entries in Worth1000's Classic Paintings with Sesame Street Characters photoshop contest.

If there was a way to make Salvador Dali more surreal, adding Elmo is the way to go. (Elmo Awakening by xxlant)

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Go Go Vitruvian Inspector Gadget
Sesame Street Fighter
Furry Happy Monsters

The Bert Locker

The upside of Muppet bomb disposal units is that, once you find all the pieces, you can just sew them back together. (Link via Savage Chickens)

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Pulp Sesame
Fear And Loathing On Sesame Street
You Have a Gingerbread Man In Your Ear

Lady Gaga Vs. Sesame Street

The Yip Yips duet with Lady Gaga on Telephone. In this version, Gaga looks suspiciously like Grover. Or is she supposed to be one of the Martians? Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip yip. (BuzzFeed via The Ampersand)

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Lady Gaga's Polka Face
Queen Of The Wild Things
Sesame Beasts

That Snuffleupagus Looks Like Rain

You might think you're using your imagination when you seen shapes in the clouds, but you'd be wrong. There are actual names for them, as seen in this lunchbreath chart. Part 2 is here.

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For Thou Art Celebrity
The Kids Aren't Alright
You're Gonna Need A Bigger Bert

Sesame Beasts

 

It was years before anyone realized the Sesame Street Zoo was built upon a toxic waste dump, but by that time it was too late. Get Hillary White's Friendly Beasts at Threadless.

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101 Sesame Street Muppets
Sesame Street Fighter
Furry Happy Monsters

Pulp Sesame

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides with the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon those with great vengeance and with furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know that my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

I do love me some Pulp Fiction mashups, so having Ernie and Bert as Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield is an instant winner for me, even if it did seem very familiar. TeeFury is selling Pulp Sesame by James Lillis, so grab it before it's gone.

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William Shakespeare's Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction vs. Google Wave
Pulp Audio Fiction

You're Gonna Need A Bigger Bert

Actually, they really need a smaller Bert. A much, much smaller Bert. What can I tell you, it's the best line of the movie. From the photoshop wizardry of Sebastian Niedlich. (Link via Super Punch)

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If You Watch Jaws Backwards...
Come as You Are: Nevermind The Parodies
You Have a Gingerbread Man In Your Ear

You Have a Gingerbread Man In Your Ear

Elmo's Christmas Countdown
Bert and Ernie manage to somehow not get whacked while giving script notes to Tony Sirico (Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri) and Steve Schirripa (Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri) during Bert and Ernie's Christmas Special.

The seventh day of the 12 Days of Popped Culture Christmas is brought to you by the word fuggedaboudit.

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Badda Bing Badda Brand
Monster Mashups
101 Sesame Street Muppets

101 Sesame Street Muppets

Oh, these are the people in your neighbourhood,
In your neighbourhood,
In your neigh-bour-hood,
Yes, these are the people in your neighbourhood,
They’re the people that you meet,
When you’re walking down the street,
They’re the people that you meet…each…day!

In honour of 40 inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational Sesame Street years, my National Post colleague Steve Murray created an EPIC illustration of 101 Muppets, quickly succumbing to carpal tunnel soon thereafter. It was well worth it.

This image doesn't do justice to the full-size interactive key. At best I can only identify a couple of dozen by name and I practically used to live on that street.

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Sesame Street Fighter
The Kids Aren't Alright
Heeere's Cookie Monster!

Sesame Street Fighter

Big Bird knocks the crumbs out of Cookie Monster in this mashup of Sesame Street and Street Fighter, from pop artist Jared Moraitis. So, you figure the bird is on 'roids? (Link via Super Punch)

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The Kids Aren't Alright
I Love Counting to the Number Four
Heeere's Cookie Monster!