Bert's obsession with collecting fits right in with their role as the "latency period" characters in the original cast (just as Cookie Monster appears to represent the oral stage, Oscar the anal and Big Bird, age 6, the Oedipal). Their lack of any apparent paying jobs and constant habit of playing with toys support this interpretation.
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Ironically enough, the series did eventually add an HIV-positive Muppet but only in its South African version, Takalani Sesame. Spinoff rumours include a scenario where they're going to marry to teach kids tolerance, and a horrific variant in which Ernie is then to get AIDS and die graphically, again all in the name of understanding.
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