08-04-2003, 02:38 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: near Chicago
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Originally posted by Nubian
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The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life."
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Jim Henson Productions, and the Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop) deny this one to this day. But lots of other interesting stories are recounted in their 30th anniversary book Sesame Street Unpaved
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