fantastic

the real beauty is Ernie's first rhyme "maybe not bert but will do it all the same"- and then he pokes bert and explains

it is a perfect example of master puppetering... ernie snapping and drumming and his hand to his mouth on his rhymes... and bert's eyebrows and his dancing.
They maintain the idea that it is improv when bert says "I don't want to do it any more" it's like ernie didn't hear it so he puts his finger up and asks him to repeat.

an odd ending happens when ernie stops to go read the book he just leaves.. he doesn't give the classic laugh but yet we get bert trying to rhyme with a lamp.

Classic