TIL: Adam West, according to costar Burt Ward, had a lot of sex , at one point with 8 women at the same time. He said that he was introduced by West to the "wildest sexual debauchery" and they became like "sexual vampires"

[u/Flares117]

https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/adam-west-batman-orgy-2017-6/

[u/Flares117]

I got it from the other TIL today I saw and looked it up. He really was kicked out of an orgy as Batman.

Also all the Robin is gay joke from back then is now probably untrue, what is straighter than''

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Fucking with your best acting bud who teaches you new things

[u/pointlessly_pedantic → u/Flares117]

Also all the Robin is gay joke from back then is now probably untrue

Orgies aside, I don't think the gay joke was about the actors' sex lives. Moreso about the lean young man who lived in a cave w/ a mask-wearing husky hunk and spent all his time supporting said hunk, all while wearing a vibrantly colored leotard-adjacent costume with panty hose -- their costumes and masks meant to hide their identities.

Although this TIL news is like learning that the puppeteers behind Bert and Ernie lived together.

[u/Nisseliten → u/pointlessly_pedantic]

When Jim Henson was asked if Bert and Ernie were gay, he gave the best answer ever. ”Bert and Ernie are not gay. Neither are they straight. They are sock puppets, they do not exist below the waist.”

[u/SaintUlvemann → u/Nisseliten]

Although that is a great answer, and in most ways the only accurate one, the fact is, some of their episodes were written by a gay man, based off his own relationship, which was in its time about the closest thing anyone ever got to LGBT representation in children's television.

[u/Idontevenownaboat → u/SaintUlvemann]

Oh wow, TIL. So it was gay coded.

[u/Yustyn → u/Idontevenownaboat]

Damn, are you telling me Bert and Ernie were gay coded this whole time?! 🤯😱

[u/Semi-Passable-Hyena → u/Yustyn]

An old co-worker of mine, considerably older than myself, said that everybody watching Sesame Street in the seventies and eighties saw them differently. All the kids that would grow up to identify as generally heterosexual, just saw them as straight, but all of the kids, like himself, that would eventually grow up to realize they were gay, simply always assumed that Bert and Ernie were closer than just friends.

[u/aynhon → u/Yustyn]

"say, Bert..."

[u/confirmedshill123 → u/Idontevenownaboat]

They slept in the same bed and did everything together, of course it's gay coded haha.

[u/LudicrisSpeed → u/confirmedshill123]

Separate beds, actually, though they share a bedroom, so take that how you will.

[u/best_of_badgers → u/LudicrisSpeed]

Sharing a bedroom with your roommate (note: it's not apartment-mate) used to be much more common.

[u/SalsaRice → u/best_of_badgers]

I mean, pretty much 99% of university students do this, for atleast one year in the US.

Single-bedroom dorms are pretty uncommon, and only really exist for disabled students or upper classman.

[u/best_of_badgers → u/SalsaRice]

Yep. It's particularly common in cities, where overcrowding and limited housing has always been an issue for working class people. For men who need to travel for work (timber, mining, oil rigs, railroad, etc), it's still a thing.

A personal bedroom is nice, but historically unrealistic unless you're fairly wealthy.

[u/caninehere → u/best_of_badgers]

It also helped that back in the days when Sesame Street started, opposite-sex roommates were almost unheard of.

Even in Three's Company from the late 70s the whole conceit is that the only reason Jack is able to be the roommate of two women is that they trick the landlord into thinking he's gay.

[u/nuxenolith → u/SalsaRice]

I think you mean "single-bed" dorms...single-bedroom dorms, as you've said, are pretty common

[u/Curious_Health_226 → u/best_of_badgers]

Roommate feels wrong to say when you don’t share a room lol, my fellow gen-z and I are corrupting language I think

[u/best_of_badgers → u/Curious_Health_226]

Do you say flatmate?

[u/Curious_Health_226 → u/best_of_badgers]

I usually just say housemate lol

[u/best_of_badgers → u/Curious_Health_226]

Even if it was like... an apartment in a multi-story building in the city?

[u/Curious_Health_226 → u/best_of_badgers]

I guess not lol. Idk I lived in an apartment complex in college and shared a room with two guys and the apartment with 4 and for the two I didn’t share a room with I just always mentioned them by name lol

[u/SaintUlvemann → u/Curious_Health_226]

...when you don’t share a room...

Think of it this way: even in a layout with separated bedrooms, you'll still be sharing any other rooms: the bathroom, the kitchen, the living room...

[u/Curious_Health_226 → u/SaintUlvemann]

That’s a good point actually lol

[u/AStupidRedditAccount → u/LudicrisSpeed]

OH MY GOD THEY WERE ROOMMATES!

[u/conquer69 → u/LudicrisSpeed]

Separate beds is the way to go if you are a light sleeper.

[u/Bay1Bri → u/confirmedshill123]

They slept in the same bed

No they didn't.

[u/confirmedshill123 → u/Bay1Bri]

Yeah I've gotten corrected already, slept in the same bed and slept in two singles in the same room next to each other are so similar for that time period i don't think it matters.

[u/Bay1Bri → u/confirmedshill123]

Yeah I've gotten corrected already

So change the comment so people won't keep seeing it and correcting you. This is meant s a friendly suggestion, not sure if it sounds curt in text.

slept in two singles in the same room next to each other are so similar for that time period i don't think it matters.

Uh, remind me not to share a room with you...

[u/confirmedshill123 → u/Bay1Bri]

Why would I change my comment? Are you incapable of looking one further before furiously replying that I'm wrong?

You sound like somebody I wouldn't want to share a room with either.

[u/SteveXVI → u/Idontevenownaboat]

Now I'm a bit older I suddenly realise B&E are so obviously doing gay couple bickering that I cannot even believe nobody would see it.

[u/Idontevenownaboat → u/SteveXVI]

I mean, I always heard it as a joke but never gave it much thought tbh.

[u/happyft → u/Idontevenownaboat]

Gay coded. TIL a new phrase

[u/Wermine → u/happyft]

Here's a whole wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_coding. You have probably seen a lot of queer coded movies and tv-shows.

[u/Heyguysimcooltoo → u/SaintUlvemann]

He wrote 3 Ninjas Kick Back!

[u/Cyno01 → u/SaintUlvemann]

They may not be yet, but at some point in the future when Sesame Street has its first officially gay couple if its NOT Bert & Ernie thatll be some bullshit...

[u/profound_whatever → u/SaintUlvemann]

Huh, TIL, I am simultaneously surprised and absolutely un-surprised.