I grew up watching it, like so many other people, and although it's not as if I still occasionally dip in on a regular basis - I just can't deal with Elmo's World, I'm sorry - I still have a remarkable amount of respect and affection for the show and its characters because they were so well drawn, and yet so vague that you could project whatever you needed to onto them. I'm a fan of Sesame Street, even now, three decades past the intended age of its viewership. There are countless problems with this, not least of which that this idea needed more than one petition, but the one that actually bothers me is: Why do fans always seem to feel that ambiguity should always be replaced with some particular definition of certainty?
The announcement was made in response to a number of online fan petitions demanding that Bert and Ernie be allowed to marry.
