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Bert is intelligent but also grumpy, boring, and easily frustrated. He enjoys such dull activities as paper clip collecting, oatmeal cooking and watching pigeons. He created a song and dance called "Doin' the Pigeon".

A typical " Ernie and Bert" skit has Ernie coming up with a hare-brained idea and Bert attempting to talk him out of it, ending with Bert completely losing his temper and Ernie remaining oblivious to his own bad idea. The most famous of such routines was the Banana in my ear sketch.

Ernie and Bert share an apartment in the basement of 123 Sesame Street. Although they sleep in separate beds, this has led to the occasional rumor that they are representations of gay lovers.

A website, " Bert is Evil", hosted digitally manipulated images that depicted the muppet consorting with Adolf Hitler, Osama bin Laden, and the KKKThe Ku Klux Klan KKK originally referred to a secret and violent white-supremacist organization founded by veterans of the Confederate Army in 1865, but it was disbanded by 1880. The original group opposed the reforms enforced on the South by Federal troo. It drew worldwide attention in 2001 when a picture of Bert and Osama bin Laden was taken from the Web site and included in a Bangladesh street protest, a picture of which was distributed by the ReutersReuters is a company supplying global financial markets and news media with a range of information products and transactional solutions, including real-time and historical market data, research and analytics, financial trading platforms, investment data a news agency. The Web site owner then took down the site, but mirrors still exist.