100 days of enemy recs: 67. Bert/Ernie

[melannen]

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.

Comments

[hannah]

There's also that one cover for The New Yorker that celebrated the pairing.

[kore]

When that cover came out I did a fistpump YES!!! I still remember my mother trying to convince me they were brothers. I was just like "Why would you live with your brother?"