the gay buzz has been around for years, but now there's an on-line petition asking "sesame street" to let burt and ernie get married. that petition was dreamed up by gay activist blair scott. >> when i was nine years old, i wondered if they were a gay couple. >> there's been a lot of purely circumstantial evidence. >> they sleep in the same room. >> they take baths together. look at the photo on their wall. oh, sure, there are also counterindications. >> let's talk about burt's eyebrow. no self-respecting homosexual would leave a unibrow like that unplucked. it's there's one thing gays do, it's pluck. >> they've been together for 41 years, and just as folks speculated tinky winky with the purse is gay, rumors have swirled around the muppets. >> burt, not gay, ernie, very gay. and no matter how hard you've tried, ernie, and i've tried,