https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-s-ReYuVCU
Here's a collection of Ernie and Bert sketches from Sesame Street that never made it beyond the show's first season (although I do remember the cream pie one appearing in one of my Sesame Street storybooks in illustrated form). As I've previously noted, the first season Sesame Street material was along the lines of trying anything to see what worked so they'd have enough material to fill out a season, so there's lots of cheesy jokes, although I did like the punch line to the bandage sketch, and the one with the flying B was pretty creative and should've been kept - I remember a similar concept being tried on Sesame's sister program The Electric Company with a flying word "fly" aggravating a live-action human. The first season of Sesame Street was also very low budget - look carefully at the 2:37 mark for a glimpse of Frank Oz's hand operating Bert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-s-ReYuVCU "Wake up, you meatball, you're supposed to be learning something" is a quote for the ages.
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