Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures, originally promoted as The Adventures of Bert and Ernie, is a claymation animated children's television series and segment on Sesame Street in which Bert and Ernie used their imaginations to travel to faraway places. The series was produced by Sesame Workshop in co-production with Misseri Studio, Norddeutscher Rundfunk and Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, and aired from August 2008 to December 2010, with two seasons and 52 episodes.
The shorts aired in the United States as inserts on Sesame Street beginning with season 39 and internationally as a standalone series in various overseas markets, with the first season debuting in September 2008. The episode "Secret Agents" won the Gold Award in the Children's Animation category at the 2009 World Media Festival, and the series was a nominee at the 2009 Annecy Animation Festival.
Contents
Format
Each episode begins with Bert and Ernie getting ready for bed when Bert's bed comes to life and flies out of their apartment, taking them on a new adventure. Sometimes accompanied by Bert's pigeon friend Bernice or Ernie's toy rubber duck, they also make new friends and enemies during their adventures.
Voices
Eric Jacobson as Bert
Steve Whitmire as Ernie
Stephanie D'Abruzzo as various characters
Joey Mazzarino as various characters
Tyler Bunch as various characters
Kevin Clash as Elmo
Episodes
Season 1 (2008)
"Tiny Town" (August 11, 2008): Bert and Ernie end up in Tiny Town, where they are tiny and everything around them is humongous. They have fun with a remote control car and a frisky puppy.
"Pirates" (August 13, 2008): Bert and Ernie are pirates looking for treasure. They land on an island with a monkey that steals Bert's map. The only way they had to get it back is to swap clothes.
"Planet Bert" (August 18, 2008): Bert and Ernie are astronauts and land on Planet Bert, a planet where it's inhabited by Bert-looking creatures that like pigeons like Bert.
"Bakers" (September 24, 2008): Bert and Ernie are bakers and a mouse named Big Bob orders a chocolate surprise. Bert and Ernie had to work together in order to make it.
"Cavemen" (October 2, 2008): Bert and Ernie are cavemen, searching for food, they find an egg and try to cook it, but soon regrets it when it's a dinosaur egg.
"Rainforest" (October 10, 2008): Bert and Ernie are ecologists to help animals' lives. They come across a beaver trying to build a grand opera house by gnawing all the trees.
"Penguin" (October 20, 2008): Bert and Ernie are in Antarctica and come across a bossy penguin who insists Bert to be a papa penguin.
"Wild West" (October 30, 2008): Bert and Ernie are cowboys in the old west trying to convince a cow and bull to not leave so there can be milk in the town.
"Three Wishes" (November 3, 2008): Bert and Ernie are in an Arabian town. When Bert finds a dusty old lamp, he cleans it and a genie waitress comes out and grants people's wishes. Ernie wishes for a "Duckie Touch" where everything he touches turns into rubber duckies.
"Inventors" (November 5, 2008): Bert and Ernie are inventors building a robot named Frankie. However, the only problem about the robot is he can't stop while Bert and Ernie say stop.
Season 2 (2009–11)
"Maltese Ducky" (November 10, 2009): Bert and Ernie are detectives trying to figure out a sheep's friend who seems to be a Maltese duck.
"Flower Shop" (November 12, 2009): Bert and Ernie work at an exotic flower shop while the owner is away, but when Ernie feeds a flower too much food, it's up to Bert and Ernie to get her back to size.
"Gopher Broke" (November 18, 2009): Bert and Ernie relax in a forest, but when a gopher digs and takes Rubber Duckie, it's up to Ernie to get it back.
"Dr. Bird Whistle" (November 20, 2009): Bert and Ernie are secret agents to stop Dr. Birdwhistle, a villain who traps birds to take them home to look at.
"Raiders of the Lost Duckies" (November 27, 2009): Bert and Ernie travel through the treacherous duck cave to find the Wise Old Duck who can answer every duck question.
"Raincloud" (December 11, 2009): Bert and Ernie are farmers, the only problem is they can't grow food because there's no rain. But when Ernie talks to a cloud, he helps the duo by giving rain to the plants.
"Car Mechanics" (December 28, 2009): Bert and Ernie are car mechanics. They have to fix a car that runs on singing. Bert and Ernie take it for a test drive, and Ernie takes it on a treacherous trail.
"Under the Sea" (January 1, 2010): Bert and Ernie are enjoying a day at the sea, Ernie then sees a mermaid and tells Bert, but he doesn't believe Ernie. A nasty rat comes and throws trash in the ocean, which causes the mermaid to be stuck. It's up to Bert and Ernie to save the mermaid.
"Lost Elephant" (February 18, 2010): Bert and Ernie are in East Africa in search of a herd of elephants, but they encounter a sad elephant who lost his mother. It's up to Bert and Ernie to find her.
Video releases
In the United States, the DVD Sesame Street: Count on Sports included the episodes "Tiny Town", "Inventors", and "Mountain Climbers", the DVD Pirates: Elmo and the Bookaneers included the episode "Pirates", and the DVD Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days included the episode "Penguin". On April 6, 2010, the series was released for the first time on DVD in the United States by Warner Home Video, with the episodes "Pirates", "Deep Sea", "Tiny Town", "Planet Bert", "Cavemen", "Mountain Climbers", "Penguins", "Ernlock Holmes", "Rainforest", "Bakers", "Wizards", "Three Wishes", and "Kung Fu".
In the United Kingdom and Australia, thirteen episodes were released on the DVD Bert & Ernie's Great Adventures: "Pirates", "Mountain Climbers", "Wizards With Elmo", "Penguin", "Three Wishes", "Wild West", "Rainforest", "Deep Sea", "Ernlock Holmes", "Cavemen", "Bakers", "Pigeonia", and "Cliptecs". The DVD was distributed in the United Kingdom by Abbey Home Media and in Australia by Madman Entertainment.