"Egg on my face. I'm a puppeteer and familiar with Folkmanis puppets. I cannot belive that I didn't realize until this evening that Bert is one. I guess I was sooo amused by the flatulence that I missed the puppety aspect. Shame on me."

No shame in that! The farting aspect is a bit distracting. <G> I know that Pauley said in an interview that Bert was a hand puppet and that they added the flatulence sounds in later. I'm not a puppeteer, but our library buys a lot of puppets from Folkmanis for our childrens librarian's story times. I though Bert looked like he could be one of their puppets. Now I might have to buy one for myself :) Thanks for that information!

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