"well as a mixed choir of children, to record the opening and closing themes. The song's arrangement has changed about six times, but the words have remained the same throughout the years. ""Sunny Day"" has since become what Davis called a ""siren song for preschoolers"". Epstein called Moss ""a true gentleman"", and Cooney called him ""a true music visionary"". He wrote ""I Love Trash"" for Oscar the Grouch, which was included on the first album of ""Sesame Street"" songs. One of Moss' best-known compositions for the show was ""Rubber Duckie""; it was performed by Henson for the Muppet Ernie and"
"tries his best Oscar impression by saying ""I live in the trash."" Oscar can also be seen at the end when Buddy reveals his cake, but then goes back in his trash can, ostensibly to get away from the laughing and cheering. Oscar also made appearances in episodes of the Cartoon Network show ""MAD"". Oscar the Grouch Oscar the Grouch is a character on the television program ""Sesame Street"". He has a green body, no visible nose, and lives in a trash can starred by Riley Murphy. His favorite thing is trash, as evidenced by the song ""I Love Trash"","
"of every episode from Season 35 until Season 37. Trash is portrayed as an intergalactic traveler who encounters odd creatures on each planet he visits. In each adventure Trash Gordon escapes peril with nonviolent and improvisational solutions, thanks to his quick thinking; for instance, when a living pile of rotten bananas confronts Trash, it is soon chased away by an ""Intergalactical Monkey"" he happens to have with him. Trash Gordon Trash Gordon is the name of a fictitious character on the long-running PBS children's television show ""Sesame Street"". Played by Roscoe Orman, who also plays the character of Gordon on"
"convinced the inhabitants that even though Grouches hate working together, they had to cooperate just this once in order to take a stand against Huxley. Grouches The Grouches are a race of creatures in ""Sesame Street"". Grouches are an eccentric race of pessimistic, argumentative, and unhygienic furry creatures who prefer to live wherever trash can be found: trash cans, city dumps, even the occasional landfill (although, some Grouches live in crummy houses, broken cars, and some live in ""yucky beautiful houses""). Grouches are a distinct species from the Sesame Street Monsters (including the Anything Monsters). Being as grouchy and miserable"
"staircase. Other items include Slimey, Oscar's pet worm (who has a baby sister named Sloppy); Fluffy, Oscar's pet elephant; Oscar's shoes; and a dimension gate to Grouchland USA, Oscar's hometown. It also contains, most likely, many boatloads of trash. As stated on multiple occasions, the trash can also has a back door. While Oscar receives new names in international dubs, ""Sesame Street"" international co-productions have often created their own version of the character. In their second season, Germany's ""Sesamstrasse"" created an antagonistic character named Uli von Bödefeld. While not a Grouch, he served the same role in plots as Oscar."
"Grouches The Grouches are a race of creatures in ""Sesame Street"". Grouches are an eccentric race of pessimistic, argumentative, and unhygienic furry creatures who prefer to live wherever trash can be found: trash cans, city dumps, even the occasional landfill (although, some Grouches live in crummy houses, broken cars, and some live in ""yucky beautiful houses""). Grouches are a distinct species from the Sesame Street Monsters (including the Anything Monsters). Being as grouchy and miserable as they possibly can be is any Grouch's main mission in life. They also feel that they have to make everyone else feel the same"
"elephants, a puppy, a rhino, a goat, and a worm."" The only time when the interior of Oscar's Trash Can was explored as a setting was in the 1999 film ""The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland"", when Elmo impatiently enters the Trash Can in search of his blanket. In Season 46, as part of the set redesign, the Trash Can was moved to the other end of the front of 123 Sesame Street, along with a recycling center and a compost bin. Behind the doors is where Big Bird's Nest is which is where Big Bird lives. One of the"
"normal Grouchy way (Oscar: ""Rotten to see ya, Ma."" Mrs. Grouch: ""Ah, rotten to see you too, son. Heh heh heh!""), which is how Grouch families tell each other that they really are happy to see each other. Mrs. Grouch lives in Illinois. Oscar remembers her gift of a tattered sneaker to him as a baby fondly enough to sing about it in his signature song, ""I Love Trash"". Her name is mentioned in ""Sesame Street Magazine"" issue 249 (November 1995). According to an interview on ""Q"", Oscar explained that his father is from Saint David Ridge, New Brunswick, and"
"week as he planned to finish his final recordings on the following day. His final performance as Oscar the Grouch (and Big Bird) will air the following year for the series' landmark 50th anniversary. Oscar can also become mobile with the help of his friend Bruno the Trashman, who carries Oscar around in his trash can. Bruno is a full-body costume which allows Oscar's puppeteer to manipulate Oscar while remaining hidden by the Bruno costume. (While Bruno was seen fairly regularly in Sesame Street's early days, he hasn't appeared on the show in over a decade.) Also, as seen in"
"when a living pile of rotten bananas confronts Trash, for example, it is soon chased away by an ""Intergalactical Monkey"" he happened to have with him. Looking back on his role, over the last 33 years, Orman commented ""If I could boast of no other major career accomplishment, having played a central role as I have in the development and continuation of this landmark series would alone have made my life sufficiently meaningful. The historical significance of Sesame Street and its surprising longevity have made my association with the show, in many regards, my life's crowning achievement."" However, Orman doesn't"
"Digger. He belongs to Slimey as of Episode 4157. Oscar takes Slimey to Bug-a-Wee-Bug Shelter to adopt his first pet. Slimey chooses Dirty. After bringing him home Dirty is scared. Oscar and Slimey eventually calm Dirty down by wearing bug hats and singing ""Welcome Bug Song"". Dirty can write in the dirt. Here are listed all episodes which revolved around Slimey: Slimey the Worm Slimey the Worm is a light and dark orange striped worm that is the pet of Oscar the Grouch on Jim Henson's Muppet show ""Sesame Street"". Introduced in Season 2 (1970–1971), he is played by Martin"
"the ""Elmo's World"" episode ""Dance"", Oscar's legs can protrude from the bottom of his trash can to allow him to walk around. Similarly, in ""Christmas Eve on Sesame Street"" (1978), Oscar is seen ice skating. For several seasons, Oscar was frequently shown with his friend and pet Slimey, an orange worm. On occasional episodes he has mentioned leaving Sesame Street to attend ""the annual Grouch convention in Syracuse, New York"". Oscar openly admits that he does not like anything or anybody that is nice, except young human children (the only people that he can actually act nice to without facing"
"a trash can to be a spaceship and the garbage man takes him to the town dump instead of Mars as he puts it in the garbage truck. Mr. Martian returns as Spotty. Danny says that a punishment while Dennis' school teacher is making the kids paint the ceiling. Next, in Pink Glove, Dennis and Gnasher are charging at the house. Unfortunately, there's a bath full of sweet smelling water and a bucket full of rose petals outside his door. The Pink Glove makes his escape where Dennis says that he's not going to let any softie pink glove get"
"petty, egomancial, lazy, cruel, greedy, jealous, vain, and cheats at hopscotch. He operates out of an old Ice Cream Truck he refers to as The Lair. (Or the Evil Pizzeriea of Doom, depending on when you call.) It's not easy being the King. So many dumpsters to pillage. So little time! No-Neck is a dirty rat serving as the Colonel of the Rat Army. Although he runs a tight ship, he likes playing the harp, collecting cocktail umbrellas, and singing karaoke. Zitzy is a Team Tryanny's Resident Evil Scientist. Zitzy is a possum. He faints a lot, even when he's"
"Mr. Snuffleupagus Aloysius Snuffleupagus (), more commonly known as Mr. Snuffleupagus, Snuffleupagus or Snuffy for short, is one of the characters on ""Sesame Street"", an educational television program for young children. He is a woolly mammoth-like creature, without tusks or (visible) ears, and has a long thick pointed tail, similar in shape to that of a dinosaur (like a sauropod; in particular an Apatosaurus) or other reptile. He has long thick brown hair and a trunk, or ""snuffle"", that drags along the ground. He is Big Bird's best friend and has a baby sister named Alice. He also attends ""Snufflegarten""."
"friend. He then convinces the police officer as well as all of the Grouches of Grouchland that even though Grouches hate to cooperate, the only way they can finally stop Huxley from stealing any more of their trash once and for all, is if they swallow their pride and work together just once. The police officer releases the Sesame Street residents and the Grouches aid them to go to Huxley's house to fight for their trash and rescue Elmo. A caterpillar wakes up Elmo the next morning on the rock. He gives Elmo advice to look inside himself and he'll"
"see that he has what it takes to be brave. Taking the caterpillar's advice, Elmo makes it to Huxley's house before Huxley has the chance to make Elmo's Blanket ""his"" blanket. However, Huxley sends the Pesties to stop Elmo from making his getaway, but Elmo evades the Pesties by jumping into a nearby laundry basket, and Huxley foils Elmo's getaway himself, by grabbing the basket with a remote controlled claw while Elmo is in it, intending to rubber stamp ""MINE"" on him. Just as Elmo is about to face the fate of never seeing his friends again, the Sesame Street"
"the holidays, in the film he befriends Rizzo the Rat (whose name parodies that of the ""Midnight Cowboy"" character Ratso Rizzo) who asks the Grouch if he could stay in his trash can for the night. Oscar agreed saying that he'd never had a rat in his trash can before. Oscar could be seen among many villains in the ""South Park"" episode ""Imagination Land III"". Oscar appears in the episode ""Fashion"" of the IFC show Portlandia. Oscar was on an episode of ""Scrubs"", imagined as the new chief of medicine. Oscar is one of numerous PBS personalities chasing after Homer"
"convinces her that he can be, and ""is"", happy there on Sesame Street where that it does not make any difference that his family consists of humans, monsters, cows, Grouches, Honkers, and the other varieties of eclectic species there. What matters is that they are family. After considering what she has heard and realizing how far his friends went to try to bring him back, Miss Finch declares that Sesame Street is his home and leaves satisfied. Big Bird is then reunited with Snuffy. Gordon, Olivia, Linda, and Grover bring the Volkswagen (which was mostly eaten by Cookie Monster) to"
"Dad!"" as the voice of a meter maid. Rowe appeared on an episode of ""Sesame Street"" (Season 39) in a segment called ""Dirtiest Jobs With Mike Rowe"", which aired on October 13, 2008. Rowe visits Sesame Street to find the dirtiest job, which happens to belong to Oscar. Rowe must do all the things Oscar does. His tasks include finding and counting stinky cheese, sorting trash, and giving his pet pig, Spot, a mud bath. To Oscar's chagrin, Rowe does not want to stop, as he is having too much fun. Mike Rowe spoke to more than 70,000 scouts, leaders,"
"place got a bit distracted, until with the help of Tom, he had a new one. Rev - A large purple pick-up truck belonging to Matt the farmhand that often boasts and his least favourite thing is coming second or last in a race. Not a villain-like character, but sometimes disagreeable. A good friend of Tom's. He seems to tell Wheezy to challenge Roly to a race in a field in ""Two Harvesters"". Also, he hates getting dirty (only when he said that in ""Come Back Dusty"" when he was carrying manure for Mr. Aziz's roses). Rora - She was"
"demon (James Mason) appears to ask Sahu that and he has answered wrong every night. Big Bird suggests Sahu remain on Earth and become ""the only 4,000 year old kid on Sesame Street"", but later agrees with Snuffy that they should work together to get the answer right. Meanwhile, the group has split up and are all in different exhibits. Bob and Cookie Monster find themselves looking at pictures with food in them. While Cookie Monster tries to eat the pictures, Bob points out to him a sign that says ""Please don't eat the pictures."" He replies with ""Oh, this"
"the postcards from his uncle Matt from the wastebasket where Doc throws them, assuming they are misdelivered. Traveling Matt (a pun on travelling matte, the technique used in his segments) is exploring the wider world, observing humans and reporting humorously false conclusions about their everyday behaviour. Sprocket often sees and chases Gobo, but can't convince Doc anything lives beyond the wall. Sprocket and Doc have many similar miscommunications throughout the series, given the language barrier, but overall, they understand each other quite well. In the final episode, Gobo tells Doc that Fraggles refer to humans as ""silly creatures"", and apologizes."
"Galli Sim Sim"". Filipino adaptation ""Sesame!"" featured Kiko Matsing, basically a gorilla. Some Grouches differ from the mostly antagonistic mold. France's ""1, Rue Sésame"" featured Mordicus, who, like Oscar, lives in a trash can, and is slightly cynical, but is also described as lively and enthusiastic, and participated in the neighborhood band. In Pakistan, he is named Akhtar and lives in a rusty oil barrel. A hybrid of Oscar the Grouch, Ernie, and the Cookie Monster appears in ""The Goodies"" episode ""The Goodies Rule – O.K.?"", where it attacked Tim Brooke-Taylor whilst in a bin, only for Tim to eat"
"ice cream, but when he finds that Ernie has eaten it, he charges, but then Ernie tries his best to cover up his crime by making a disgusting dish; mashed bananas with ice cubes and cold beef gravy. At the same time, Bert is shouting at him that he knows better. Ernie only gets away with his crime because Oscar the Grouch, their good friend, comes in their apartment and offers them chocolate ice cream cones in exchange for the disgusting dish. Bert's age is unclear, but a ""Sesame Street Live"" performer, Taylor Morgan, has said that ""I just kind"
"Slimey the Worm Slimey the Worm is a light and dark orange striped worm that is the pet of Oscar the Grouch on Jim Henson's Muppet show ""Sesame Street"". Introduced in Season 2 (1970–1971), he is played by Martin P. Robinson and is the smallest of all characters on ""Sesame Street"", being only 7 cm (2¾in). His small size does not affect his attitude of being one not to wince at the sight of extreme activities. As Lou Berger, head writer for ""Sesame Street"", put it, ""Slimey shows viewers that even the smallest creature can be the most heroic, and"
"you, that's a healthy piece of real estate!"" The Houghton Mifflin company's Power Proofreading online game parodied ""Sesame Street"" as ""Cinnamon Street"" as one of the programs on HME-TV. The description for the show is ""Big Baby doesn't like sharing his toys. Miss Wiggy teaches him a lesson."" The FOX show ""Family Guy"" has made reference to ""Sesame Street"" on some occasions. In the episode ""The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz"", it showed a short clip of Stewie, who is in a plastic bubble, taking on the role of the pinball from the Pinball Number Count sketch. Other"
"house is often the setting for protracted drinking sessions. Puca, in the narration, describes him as ""our oddball friend"", and Oscar certainly holds some strange ideas. He seems resentful of his home, calling it a ""dirty rotten town"", and wants to journey through space in a space rocket he rather impressively built over the course of five years. He wants to bring the right woman along with him. As Oscar points out himself, ""space can be a lonely oul place, too."" Other minor characters introduced in the episodes include Billy McFlurry, a deceitful leprechaun who longs for a customized tractor"
"Marge tells him to safely dispose of the waste. Homer initially intends to take his silo to the waste management plant, but after Lenny calls to tell him that Lard Lad Donuts has been shut down due to health violations and is giving away free donuts, Homer impatiently dumps the silo straight into the lake, polluting it much worse than before. Moments later, a squirrel jumps into the lake and becomes severely mutated; Flanders and Bart (who bond after Homer humiliates Bart) discover the creature before the EPA captures it. Russ Cargill, head of the EPA, presents five ""unthinkable"" options"
"with the phrase, ""If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."" Red owns what is known as ""the Possum Van"", a 1979–1993 Dodge Ram cargo van, painted as a grey 'possum on a pale blue background, and with a license plate reading simply ""POSSUM"". It is one of Red's few vehicles that actually runs. It has played (and donated) many parts in Handyman's Corner projects. After the series ended, the van was scrapped. Red's dry, often sarcastic wit is balanced by a strong sense of camaraderie with his fellow lodge members, partly because he"
"doin someone in and feedin on em"". The Count also appeared in another episode where Meg claims that she dated him, and then flashes back to a time where they were beginning to have sex (showing her taking off her shirt with the camera on to her back) and the Count started counting her nipples, but is repulsed on discovering that she has three (One nipple! HAHAHA! Two nipples! HAHAHA! Three nip-oh, hell no, I'm outta here). In early episodes, Stewie also owns a Sesame Street Telephone toy. Seth MacFarlane has also had ""Sesame Street"" in his other series ""American"
"and not go to work tomorrow, which also leads to the economy collapsing, making the United States being doomed. Elmo calms him down, saying that it's just a TV Show, making David Alan Grier scold him. Telly Monster Telly Monster, known usually as just Telly, is an eternally worrying, fuchsia monster Muppet on ""Sesame Street"". He is puppeteered by Martin P. Robinson. On his debut in 1979, he was known as the ""Television Monster"", a character that was fixated on television. His name is derived from the British slang term for a television, ""telly"". Initially the character had antennae standing"
"six-year-old boy who finds his monster companion in a sewer. In a twist on monster lore, the creature – a tall, bulky, pink-furred behemoth with small tusks – proves as scared of the world as the world is of it. The monster, whom Stanley names Spot, comes home to live with the boy, with many hijinks ensuing. These occasionally including the bickering leprechaun Shaugnessy Poltroon, a gremlin named Schnitzel (sold to the Dovers as toys in issue #99), the ghost of French emperor Napoleon (introduced in issue #97) and teenaged babysitter Marcia. Comedian Jerry Lewis once visited (issue #110). The"