Bert and Ernie of “Sesame Street” have always had a little something-something going on. Like Spongebob and Patrick, Ren and Stimpy, Betty Rubble and Wilma Flintstone, possibly Timone and Pumbaa, this famous duo capture the sexual imagination of TV audiences everywhere.

Or not. In fact, there are only a slim number of viewers out there contemplating these things, and they can all be found on Twitter. Are Bert and Ernie actually a couple and not just asexual roommates living in a cardboard apartment at 123 Sesame Street?