melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote2021-10-19 10:48 pm

100 days of enemy recs: 67. Bert/Ernie

Look if we're doing all of my fannish history here we've gotta start somewhere!

Bert and Ernie are actually possibly the best example we've had on here so far of the classic "odd couple" trope, which is one of the purest expressions of enemyship! One of them's messy, one of them's neat. One of them's quiet, one of them's loud. One of them's repressed, one of them's emotional. One of them goes to bed early, one of them gets up late. One of them's annoying, one of them's annoyed. And they were roommates!!!

And Sesame Street took it on themselves to carefully teach generations of children that if you are roommates with someone who gets on your nerves, it definitely means that actually you like them a lot and you are perfect together!

There is a sad shortage of actually good fic for this pairing, for some reason people tend to write a lot of deliberate badfic as if it's not a real canon pairing in a real fandom, so here is a vid to start us off.


  • What's the Distinction? (1599 words) by MortalAnonymous
    Chapters: 2/2
    Fandom: Sesame Street (TV)
    Rating: General Audiences
    Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
    Relationships: Bert/Ernie (Sesame Street)
    Additional Tags: Originally Posted on FanFiction.Net

    Ernie learns about different kinds of love.

Post a comment in response:

If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting

If you are unable to use this captcha for any reason, please contact us by email at support@dreamwidth.org