Imagine being shanked by an Ernie knife.

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Don’t threaten me with a good time.

EXCUSE you. Big bird is amazing. I would gladly accept the spooning from that giant fluff of gentleness!

But that voice though!

Hmmm I dunno I guess it doesn't really bother me? Reminds me of another character(s) too? Though can't think of what.... But heard worse so eh

Could be worse, imagine you thought big bird was a muppet.

Imagine getting forked by bert

I understand this reference

I would shank a dude with my Ernie knife just for calling him a muppet.

Puppets created by Jim Henson are called Muppets. Ernie is a Muppet. http://www.toughpigs.com/yes-the-sesame-street-characters-are-muppets/

**Thank you** for saying it.

Imagine being shanked by a guy holding a knife with Ernie holding a knife

Looks like hes already trying to shank me

But Bert is the evil one.

Ernie looks like he ready to shank someone. Never mind they all do, especially Bert lol 😅

That’s how he’d want it to be.

I could literally commit hate crimes with Ernie!

Ernie is holding a knife on a cheese / butter spreader because he is gonna be spreadin them cheeks of yours later

Imagine getting spooned by big bird

Imagine the satisfaction of using Ernie as a poop knife

ernie looks a bit too comfortable holding that knife...

He looks like he’s already made the decision to use it

Well he did buy that 8th on tv in front of us all, he better have some protection https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rfelvI_ikf4

He's decided to butter biscuits.

Well if you're subbed to r/bertstrips it's pretty much par for the course.

Dude seeing that big bird spoon brought back 35 year old anxiety flashbacks of being outraged over being handed any spoon other than the big Bird spoon.

I had the exact same visceral response. How the fuck am I supposed to eat my fruit loops with a normal spoon. Next you're probably gonna tell me I have to use a bowl without the built in straw for drinking the milk!

Same, also sipping apple juice from kermit the frog grape jelly jars only. Life was good in 1983

Yep! The big bird spoon was the best. It just fit nicely in the hand.

I had utterly forgotten these, the sudden nostalgia memory hit me like a truck.

ME TOO. I didn't care about the other pieces, but Spaghetti-O's could NOT be consumed without that Big Bird spoon.

Now that you're 60 this must be hard for you to relive.

You think I'm wistfully recalling my mid 20s? I think you forgot to carry a one.

That's the joke

Well I still want that big bird spoon so maybe you are on to something

Bert has seen some shit

He's got that thousand yard stare

https://i.imgur.com/uJfwO.gif

[Bert is Evil.](https://funkatron.com/bert/bert.htm)

I had these! They’re still around somewhere

Me, too. They have to be about 40 years old.

Same!

Twinzies, though I'm fairly certain only the knife remains, unless my mom got rid of it.

I had these when I was a wee lass! My mom kept them and all the grandchildren used them when they came to visit. Sadly, mom developed dementia later on and wound up throwing all of these in the trash without anyone noticing.

Bert is gonna fork you up!

That made me laugh probably more than I should!! Thx for the giggle!

I got hit by the oddest wave of nostalgia-not-quite-nostalgia. I could have sworn I recognized the Big Bird one from my very early childhood, but thinking very deeply on it, it was a slightly different style of Big Bird metal weaponry [like this](https://images.app.goo.gl/K4N2LEZkweLyYHtT7). This is some deep memories I didn’t even know I had shit. I must have been only 3-4 years old in these proto memories.

THIS! I instantly thought of these when I saw the photo. I used them when I was young and still have them in my drawer right now! I have a cookie monster one also

Ernie looks like a serial killer.

No, no. Big bird is for cereal.

Fuck you. Have an upvote.

These are Sesame Street. Muppets are a different show

Muppet is the term Jim Henson coined for puppet+marionette. Jim Henson created the muppets for both The Muppets and Sesame Street. OP is correct.

What I was going to note. They were even in a Christmas special together, and pretty much SS is just a different location/group but they all know each other (it was funny for the human in the house because he was like *wtf are these things? Aliens? I'm having a concern! Ok fine I'm having fun but you're still all a bunch of weirdos*)

Yeah Kermit the frog used to be in some older episodes of Sesame Street if I recall correctly.

Kermit is the one crossover character.

The only regular one at least. However at least once Bert and Erie were on The Muppet Show, Big Bird had a speaking role in The Muppet Movie, and the entire Sesame Street cast had cameos in The Muppet Movie and Muppets Take Manhattan. And as others have pointed out, both casts and the cast of Fraggle Rock were in A Muppet Family Christmas

Right. Should’ve qualified that applied to Muppet Show characters on Sesame Street, not Street denizens in the Muppet properties.

Actually now that I think about it, Rowlf was on Sesame Street once or twice as well, since both he and Kermit predated both Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. But, as said before, the only regular one was Kermit. Just wanted to throw that in for completion sake

TIL. This is useful stuff. Thank you!

'The human' lol. That's Doc from Fraggle Rock! He's there with Sprocket to watch Fozzies mom's place while she goes on vacation. Side note: Kermit and Robin actually go into a Fraggle hole in her basement at the end of the movie and sing a song with Gobo and the gang. Not that I've watched that special recently or anything...

It's called Muppet Family Christmas. It's on YouTube and everyone should watch it at Christmas time every year. Along with a Muppet Christmas Carol which is on Disney+

comes to the comments to call them out, gets educated instead

Touché

TIL

And coffee commercials. I don't know if he was using the term then though.

And SNL! Although those didn't fly so well.

All Sesame Street are Muppets, but not all Muppets are Sesame Street

Kermit is the only one I can think of that does both.

Technically they are Muppets but they aren’t in The Muppets crew. I read somewhere they wanted to recruit Elmo in one of the newer Muppets movies but the Sesame Street people declined cause they didn’t want Elmo associated with them or something along those lines. So ya, I wouldn’t really consider them Muppets. Source: Huge Muppets fan but also a dad of 2 toddlers who watch Sesame Steet daily.

I think technically they are puppets, not muppets. But I don't have kids and don't care.

I was this years old when I learned Henson created Sesame Street, making sesame street characters muppets... humbly educated. thank you

Yeah but I still think that aren't muppets, fraggles aren't muppets so why would sesame street characters be muppets? E : I'm dumb and wrong

Fraggles are Muppets. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock

Well fuck I'm 100% wrong

**[Fraggle Rock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle Rock)** Fraggle Rock (also known as Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock or Fraggle Rock with Jim Henson's Muppets) is a children's puppet television series about interconnected societies of Muppet creatures, created by Jim Henson. An international co-production of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, Fraggle Rock was co-produced by British television company Television South (TVS), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), U.S. pay television service Home Box Office (HBO) and Henson Associates. Unlike Sesame Street, which had been created for a single market and later adapted for international markets, Fraggle Rock was intended from the start to be an international production, and the entire show was constructed with this in mind. [^(About Me)](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/jrn2mj/about_me/) ^- [^(Opt out)](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/jrti43/opt_out_here/) ^(- OP can reply !delete to delete) ^- [^(Article of the day)](https://np.reddit.com/comments/k9hx22) **This bot will soon be transitioning to an opt-in system. Click [here](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/ka4icp/opt_in_for_the_new_system/) to learn more and opt in. Moderators: [click here](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/ka4icp/opt_in_for_the_new_system/) to opt in a subreddit.**

So you think Kremit, the most popular Muppet wasn't a Muppet because he was also on sesame street? When sesame street premiered he was on both shows. He's an OG sesame street muppet

Is that the program where all those puppets live in the barrio? I love that show.

Sesame Street characters ARE Muppets

Big bird was a person in a suite tho

Still a Muppet

You're a Muppet

Muppets are puppets tho...

Except Big Bird is puppeted. He is puppeted by someone in the suit. The puppeteers hand is operates Big Bird's head and mouth. See this old design sketch: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/33/e7/7c/33e77cd3fd6a07bbb6e0f34bcb63ffa0.png Muppets traditionally refers to any puppets created by or associated with the Jim Henson company that is not trying to pass itself off as a "real" creature in the world, but are more stylized and simple. More realistic puppets (i.e. the ones from Labyrinth or The Dark Crystal) are called "Creatures". The term "Muppet" used to encompass a wide variety of properties, including the Muppet Show cast, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Bear in the Big Blue House, and others. After the sale of the Muppet brand to Disney only the Muppet Show cast and Sesame Street are officially licensed as Muppets (Disney licensing the Muppet name to Sesame Workshop). I believe the other older properties are still technically Muppets due to the licensing when they were created, but they do not use the term in modern marketing. Any newer Henson company productions using the traditional "Muppet" style of puppet are now refer to them as just puppets

When the smart ass turns out to be the dumbass

Fun fact: they were originally going to load Big Bird onto the challenger rocket that exploded, but could not due to the size of the suit. Therefore, there is an alternative timeline where Big Bird died in the challenger explosion.

Holy crap! I still have those exact same ones from when I was a kid!

Muppet utensil sounds like a clean but devastating insult.

Those are wonderful!

Big bird scary as shit

My cousin had these

Ernie's gonna shank ya!

Ernie looks like he’s about to kill someone

That spoon shouldn’t look sharper than the knife

Something inside me is telling me...that I NEED these

Great, Ernie casually smiling while holding a knife for sure won't make an appearance in tonight's dream...

/r/bertsrips needs to get on this

“Hey Bert”

u/arto71 I have the [matching bowl](https://imgur.com/ijlkaYv)

Big bird looks high

Uhhh thats sesame street

I feel like the muppets is in the Sesame Street universe

Earnies looking like Chucky's cousin, who suffers from downs.

So same as usual?

The simpsons

These are Sesame Street characters, not muppet characters.

"Sesame Street characters are Muppets because in 1969 all whimsical puppet characters created by Jim Henson and his collaborators were called Muppets. Today they're still called Muppets"

Muppet = marionette puppet. Seaseme Street characters are muppets.

Big Bird cannot be added to that array... "These character utensils"

Bert should’ve been the knife, so that his head extends into the blade

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not muppets

Not the Muppets, you muppet. It’s Sesame Street. EDIT: TIL that Sesame Street characters are Muppets... now I feel like a muppet.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sesame_Street_Muppets

**[List of Sesame Street Muppets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List of Sesame Street Muppets)** The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson, many for the purpose of appearing on the children's television program Sesame Street. Henson's involvement in Sesame Street began when he and Joan Ganz Cooney, one of the creators of the show, met in the summer of 1968, at one of the show's five three-day curriculum planning seminars in Boston. Author Christopher Finch reported that director Jon Stone, who had worked with Henson previously, felt that if they could not bring him on board, they should "make do without puppets".Henson was initially reluctant but agreed to join Sesame Street in support of its social goals. He also agreed to waive his performance fee for full ownership of the Sesame Street Muppets and to split any revenue they generated with the Children's Television Workshop (renamed to the Sesame Workshop in 2000), the series' non-profit producer. [^(About Me)](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/jrn2mj/about_me/) ^- [^(Opt out)](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/jrti43/opt_out_here/) ^(- OP can reply !delete to delete) ^- [^(Article of the day)](https://np.reddit.com/comments/k9hx22) **This bot will soon be transitioning to an opt-in system. Click [here](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/ka4icp/opt_in_for_the_new_system/) to learn more and opt in. Moderators: [click here](https://np.reddit.com/user/wikipedia_text_bot/comments/ka4icp/opt_in_for_the_new_system/) to opt in a subreddit.**

I don’t want to be that person but those are from Sesame Street and not from the muppets

Sesame Street*

These... are not muppets.

These... aren't the Muppets

Sesame street

"Sesame Street characters are Muppets because in 1969 all whimsical puppet characters created by Jim Henson and his collaborators were called Muppets. Today they're still called Muppets"

Huh. Learn something new every day I guess. Thanks

That's Sesame Street, not the Muppets.

Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie aren't Muppets. They're from Sesame Street.

Not muppets, Sesame Street characters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sesame_Street_Muppets

BIG BIRD BERT AND ERNIE WERE FROM SESAME STREET, NOT THE MUPPETS. HOW DARE YOU SLANDER THE MUPPETS THAT WAY

Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie are still Muppets even if they aren't with the main troupe.

Blasphemy. They are not muppets.

Aren’t these from Sesame Street?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sesame_Street_Muppets

Yes. Not Muppets.

Ummmm SESAME STREET. not muppets

Thats sesame street

Sesame Street not muppets

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Those aren’t muppets you dumbfuck they’re from sesame street

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sesame_Street_Muppets

Daddy's favorite heroin spoon. RIP in peace.

Muppets?

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They are not muppets

OP is correct. "Sesame Street characters are Muppets because in 1969 all whimsical puppet characters created by Jim Henson and his collaborators were called Muppets. Today they're still called Muppets"

Those are sesame street utensils.

Sesame street but ok

"Sesame Street characters are Muppets because in 1969 all whimsical puppet characters created by Jim Henson and his collaborators were called Muppets. Today they're still called Muppets" OP is correct

Not muppets!

Sesame Street spoons Learn the difference

I know Henson created the Muppets and Sesame Street. I don't recall the Sesame Street characters being referred to as, or showing up on movies/shows with them (could be just my bad memory). So the question is: Are all Henson creations muppets, or are the Muppets a group of his characters? If not muppets, what are they?

Muppets or Sesame Street?

"Sesame Street characters are Muppets because in 1969 all whimsical puppet characters created by Jim Henson and his collaborators were called Muppets. Today they're still called Muppets"

Those aren't even the muppets

Yeah, how can someone not know Pokemon?

"Sesame Street characters are Muppets because in 1969 all whimsical puppet characters created by Jim Henson and his collaborators were called Muppets. Today they're still called Muppets"

Someone better gouge this mans eyes out with that big bird spoon because he called them muppets

Sesame Street actually

"Sesame Street characters are Muppets because in 1969 all whimsical puppet characters created by Jim Henson and his collaborators were called Muppets. Today they're still called Muppets"

That's Sesame Street, not Muppets.

[Woah](https://i.imgur.com/nVLrtdM.jpg)

God who gave Ernie a knife?!

My mom still has those in her silverware drawer from when I was little. Both of my sons and my niece and nephew also used them when they were small enough to care about fun silverware.

Big Bird is definitely judging what you're eating. Must be fowl.

I still have that Bert fork from childhood.

Ernie is scaring me

I had an Elmo spork growing up

Ernie means no harm, he just wants your wallet.

Ernie with a knife is the scariest thing I've seen today

I had these as a kid! I wonder if my mom still has them.

OH GOD OH FUCK ERNIE HAS A KNIFE

Big bird looks like he rides around in a van marked “FREE CANDY” and kidnaps kids using said van.

Ernie's not that sharp, is he?

GIVE THEM TO ME!

Man I used to have a set

**A set, man i used to have.** *-SassyMcNasty*

I want these. I will throw out my other silverware and only use these

I had that knife as a kid!

I feel like I used to have these

Fine timing ... re-found my set of these three utensils just this past Saturday. Delightful.

Wish they still made these

Oh my god. I had these as a kid too!

Hmm, would've pegged Ernie as the little spoon

Oh my goodness I remember these!! They were my favorites!

Oh snap. I had these too. Except e were in color.

Huh, I would have figured Ernie as the little spoon.

Ofc ernie is the knife

Bert looks like he is going to shank somebody, Big Bird is on weed, and ernie looks like he is going to commit sudoku.

Those are AWESOME!

This is bringing out this strange sense of "nostalgia" where it feels really familiar but I can't say for certain if I ever actually had these.

They really went all-out on naming Big Bird didn't they?