The question of their relationship has become a Berserk Button for practically all points-of-view on the topic.Lewis cites the characters in The Wind in the Willows as an example of a similar trope, using animals instead of people to let them have the freedoms of both children and adults at the same time likewise, Sesame Street uses puppets to get away with the same fantasy. Bert's obsession with collecting fits right in with their role as the "latency period" characters in the original cast (just as Cookie Monster appears to represent the oral stage, Oscar the anal and Big Bird, age 6, the Oedipal).
Their lack of any apparent paying jobs and constant habit of playing with toys support this interpretation.
Bert and Ernie aren't adults, but a pair of preadolescent boys living an ideal boy's fantasy life, with the freedoms of adulthood but none (or few - they occasionally clean the apartment, buy groceries and do laundry) of the adult responsibilities.The writers eventually kept their ages vague, to allow more kinds of plots between the two. More specifically, Bert is an older brother as perceived by his kid sibling (kind but boring), while Ernie is a younger brother (affectionate but annoying) from the elder's perspective. There were concerns that this would encourage kids to talk back to their parents, so the relationship was changed to make them friends who act like brothers. Word of God says that originally Bert was going to be the father and Ernie his son, which is why they live together.
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Ironically enough, the series did eventually add an HIV-positive Muppet - but only in its South African version, Takalani Sesame. Spinoff rumours include a scenario where they're going to marry to teach kids tolerance, and a horrific variant in which Ernie is then to get AIDS and die graphically, again all in the name of understanding.
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