Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures



Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures (originally promoted as The Adventures of Bert and Ernie) is an animated series developed by Sesame Workshop in which clay-animated versions of Bert and Ernie use their imaginations to travel to strange places and into entertaining situations. The shorts are shown in the United States as inserts on Sesame Street (first appearing in season 39). Internationally, the shorts are shown as a stand-alone series in various overseas markets (the first season debuting in September 2008). The animation for the series was produced by Italy's Misseri Studio. Two seasons of 26 five-minute episodes each are being produced.

The "Secret Agents" episode has received the Gold Award for the Children's Animation category at the 2009 World Media Festival, as well as being a selection at the 2009 Annecy Animation Festival.

Format
Each episode begins with Bert and Ernie climbing into their beds for a night's sleep. Suddenly, Bert's bed starts shaking and tapping, and Ernie hops aboard as the bed flies out of their apartment and into their next great adventure. Each adventure has Bert and Ernie in a new location and a new situation. Sometimes they're accompanied by Bert's trusted pigeon-friend Bernice, or Ernie's toy Rubber Duckie. Often they encounter new and old friends, and also adversaries, along the way.

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

Trivia

 * The lyrics for the opening song were changed in Season 40. In Bert's line "This is kinda kicky," "kicky" was changed to "catchy."

United Kingdom

 * Bert & Ernie's Great Adventures: Pirates and Other Stories DVD

International Stations

 * Germany (Ernie und Bert im Land der Träume‎): NDR, the show airs on the ARD and ZDF owned KIKA.
 * UK: Five's Milkshake preschool block
 * Disney Channel Asia
 * Australia: ABC
 * India: Cartoon Network
 * Israel: HOP
 * The Netherlands: NPS/Zeppelin
 * Norway (Bernt og Erling på nye eventyr): NRK the show airs on both NRK1 and NRK Super.
 * Spain: Disney Channel Spain
 * Sweden (Bert och Ernie på äventyr): Airing on SVT's Barnkanalen
 * Canada: Treehouse

Trivia

 * Ernie and Bert were previously seen molded in clay form by Stef de Reuver for the book Where's the Duckie?.
 * Billy Aronson scripted four segments: "Pirates," "Cavemen," "Scuba Divers" and "Bakers."