Bert is the short-fused, uni-browed character from Sesame Street that you always see with his Trickster mate Ernie. Bert is a highly responsible fellow who enjoys playing checkers with his pet pigeon, Bernice, and collecting bottle caps and paper clips. Bert loves brass band music, oatmeal, weather forecasts and playing the tuba. Are you surprised to learn that Bert’s favorite color is gray?

Bert is often the butt of his roommate Ernie’s jokes, and Ernie frequently pesters him and plays the clown to his straight-laced personality. Ernie often manages to dupe Bert into getting the smallest pizza slice or the shortest licorice string, but kindhearted Bert always manages to forgive him.

Talk like Bert

To become the character of Bert in your Bert Fancy Dress Costume you need to remember the following tips:

1. Bert was always frustrated with outcomes
2. Bert was always slightly cranky with Ernie
3. Bert was always Serious.

Some expressions to use when wearing a Bert Fancy Dress Costume:

• I don't get it.
• Oh, I love pigeons more then anything else in this world... besides oatmeal.
• Why me?
• Hey uh...Hey Ern....Ernie?
• Hey Ernie, I can't sleep with the sound of water dripping.
• Ernie? Ernie you're snoring.
• Ernie!! *sigh* It's not fair, it's just not fair.
• Cut that out!
• Ernie, why must you always humiliate me?
• Ernie, that is not funny.