I got into an interesting bar debate recently over pitchers and catchers. No, not the baseball kind. The gay sex kind. I was asking folks who, in the Bert & Ernie relationship, is the pitcher & who is the catcher. The answer seemed very cut & dry to me. But a vast majority of folks I chatted with about the issue disagreed with me. I've always assumed that Ernie is a top in the dark world of Sesame Street anal arts. My rationale for this is that Bert seems like the archetypal bend-over cat. You know what I mean, all uptight, no sense of humor, obsessed with his appearance, those ghastly yellow striped shirts, etc. But boy did folks not see it my way on this Bert being the catcher deal. They tended to point out that Ernie was fixated on his rubber duckie & represented the juvenile partner in the relationship (sort of the young boy role of Ancient Greece anal rape, I guess). But I really vehemently disagree with that assessment. Ernie would be the fun loving pitcher of the pair, casually tossing Bert the old high hard one after Bert had begged for it while waiting for Ernie to quit playing his X-BOX. As I said, only a few people I've spoken to see this pitcher/catcher, Bert/Ernie deal the way I do. It's very disconcerting and making me question the whole way I look at gay relationships in the Muppet world. I mean it seems so simple to me, Ernie is the bear and Bert is the twink. Right???