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More trivia: Ernie the cab driver also had a prominent TV role. What was it?

Ernie, the cab driver, later played Herbert T. Gillis (Dobie's dad)

Thank goodness it‘s Thursday. Long week of work, household projects (had our ceilings done), family squabbles and floods, so I‘m looking forward to more meta escapism.

I hope our gulf coast contingent, Abide, LimerickSavant and many others, and our NY/NJ/CT/RI confreres made it through Ida safe and sound.

Even more trivia: Two of the characters on Sesame Street are named after characters in IAWL. Which two, and who are they named after?

TeaJenny wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:29 am Even more trivia: Two of the characters on Sesame Street are named after characters in IAWL. Which two, and who are they named after?

Isn’t there a Zuzu on Sesame Street?

SReh26 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:46 am

TeaJenny wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:29 am Even more trivia: Two of the characters on Sesame Street are named after characters in IAWL. Which two, and who are they named after?

Isn’t there a Zuzu on Sesame Street?

There's a Zuzu on Takalani Street, the South African version of Sesame Street. She's made guest appearances on Sesame Street, but she's not a regular character.

TeaJenny wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 9:29 am Even more trivia: Two of the characters on Sesame Street are named after characters in IAWL. Which two, and who are they named after?

Bert and Ernie

Bert was the local policeman.

SReh26 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 11:23 am Bert was the local policeman.

And Ernie was the taxi driver, iirc

Dplass wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 11:42 am

SReh26 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 11:23 am Bert was the local policeman.

And Ernie was the taxi driver, iirc

.... who famously uttered those immortal words, as George hailed him in Pottersville, You seen my wife?