"losing to ""Christmas Eve on Sesame Street"". Both specials are now available on DVD. A Special Sesame Street Christmas A Special Sesame Street Christmas is a 1978 CBS Christmas special, made the same year as the better-known ""Christmas Eve on Sesame Street"". The special was first broadcast on Friday, December 8, 1978, at 8 PM ET on CBS, pre-empting ""Wonder Woman"" that week. Starring Leslie Uggams. The special features only three of the ""Sesame Street"" Muppets: Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, and Barkley the dog. Barkley is played by gymnast Toby Towson. The puppet used for the special was different"
"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"", with a running theme being his collection of seemingly useless items. Although the term ""Grouch"" aptly describes Oscar's misanthropic interaction with the other characters, it also refers to his species. His birthday, as noted by Sesame Workshop, is on June 1. The character is performed by Caroll Spinney, and has been performed by him"
"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"","
"being described as a ""survivor of gentrification"" by art director Victor DiNapoli. Oscar the Grouch's Trash Can sits in front of a fence made of salvaged doors and is where Oscar the Grouch lives. Oscar the Grouch's Trash Can is deeper than anyone suspects. In the first episode, Gordon mentioned that the Trash Can had three and a half bedrooms. The seemingly bottomless domain houses a variety of diverse Grouch amenities and luxuries. Oscar's girlfriend Grundgetta is his most recurring visitor to his Trash Can. In ""Sesame Street Visits the Firehouse"", Gordon mentioned that in Oscar's Trash Can lived, ""Two"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"I Love Trash ""I Love Trash"" is a song sung by the Muppet character Oscar the Grouch (performed by Caroll Spinney) on ""Sesame Street"". The song was first sung in the first season of the series and has been re-taped several times. In a Season 29 episode, Oscar sang ""Grouches Love Trash"" a variation of this song to his niece Irvine. In episode 3891, his old friend Felix the Grouch sang a variation called ""I Love Cleaning"" while Oscar sang ""I Love Trash"". Yet another variation occurs when Oscar's Trash Can was grown to a larger size and the lyrics"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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 the show, Trash Gordon is a parody version of the science fiction hero Flash Gordon. Trash Gordon also lends his name to a recurring segment on ""Sesame Street"", ""The Adventures of Trash Gordon."" Within the context of ""Sesame Street"", Trash Gordon is a character in a science fiction adventure book which Oscar the Grouch reads to his pet worm Slimey to help him fall sleep at the end"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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""."
"favorite dessert is mashed bananas with ice cubes and cold beef gravy, and in Season 12 he owns a car called ""The Sloppy Jalopy"". While appearing to be the size of a normal trash can on the outside, Oscar's trash can is actually bigger on the inside than the exterior would suggest, notably revealed in the film ""The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland"". Oscar has noted through the years that it boasts such amenities as a farm, swimming pool, ice-rink, bowling alley, and a piano. Oscar could occasionally be seen rotating while descending into his trash can, implying a spiral"
"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"
"character named Costello shows her the way. Then, he says ""Where are you going?"" Then Abbot responds ""Witch Way!"" ""Mutts"" has a character that resembles Oscar the Grouch, but it is a cat who lives in a trash can, who appears in some strips of the comic. In the ""Angel"" season 5 episode ""Smile Time"", the title character Angel is turned into a puppet. The episode is a direct parody of ""Sesame Street"", in which the Muppets were featured to teach kids on their long running and popular show ""Smile Time"", only to be revealed as demons as the episode"
"City Council Rubbish Dump, situated in Hyde Park, where Hercules Grytpype-Thynne and Count Jim Moriarty, more ragged than ever, are starving. The Council has just dumped a huge amount of lagging, because ""it was in feet and inches, and we have gone metric"". Secombe, now in character as Neddie Seagoon, arrives ""driving an unlicensed ""Goon Show"" with CD plates on"". Gritpype's comment is ""Yes, it does look a bit seedy, doesn't it."" The two villains then attempt their usual swindle of Neddie, in this case convincing him that his legs must be lagged to keep them warm for the coming"
"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"
"can is knocked over and a green ooze spills out. The bullies then bring Dodger into a sewer, handcuff him to a rail, and open a pipe, pouring sewage onto him. Dodger is then saved by little mysterious people named the Garbage Pail Kids. Manzini returns and is upset that the Garbage Pail Kids have been released from their can, but he introduces Dodger to each of them: Greaser Greg is a leather jacket-clad greaser with a violent attitude; Messy Tessie is a girl with a constantly runny nose; Windy Winston is an insane boy who wears a Hawaiian shirt"
"a trash can. Kinsey has been divorced twice. Her first husband, Mickey, an ex-cop, appears in ""O is for Outlaw"". Her second husband, Daniel, a struggling musician, appears in ""E is for Evidence"", where he is revealed to be attracted to men.. In most ways, Kinsey is a loner. She has no children and lives in an extremely compact studio apartment converted from a single-car garage. Her landlord is a young-at-heart octogenarian, Henry Pitts, a retired commercial baker who enjoys creating crossword puzzles; Kinsey admits to having a crush on Henry, but also says he is the closest thing she"
"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"
"Take Manhattan"", in the last of which he got a line. In ""Christmas Eve on Sesame Street"", Ernie decided to buy Bert a cigar box to store his paper clips in. However, as he did not have any money, he traded his own Rubber Duckie for it. At the same time, Bert decided to get Ernie a soap dish to put his Rubber Duckie in, so that it wouldn't keep falling into the tub, but had to trade his paper clips for it. However, Mr. Hooper could tell that neither of them really wanted to give up their prized possessions,"
"vegetables by the unforgiving townspeople. Later that day, Grampa stops by the Simpsons' house and tells everybody that he knows who the cat burglar is: a resident in the local retirement home named Molloy. Homer captures Molloy at the retirement home, and the surprisingly amiable cat burglar returns the objects he stole. Chief Wiggum arrests him and he is imprisoned. While in his cell at the police station, Molloy casually mentions that he assumes Homer and the cops probably want to know where he hid all of his loot. This piques their interest, and Molloy tells them the stash is"
"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"
"by writer Shalom M. Fisch and Dr. Lewis Bernstein to be a canary, who resides in a large nest alongside the ""123 Sesame Street"" building and represents the 6-year-old child with his tendency to question everything. Big Bird's best friend is Aloysius Snuffleupagus (better known as ""Snuffy""), who was portrayed as the bird's imaginary friend until revealed to the human cast in 1985. Also living outside of the building is Oscar the Grouch, a trash can-dwelling creature belonging to his own unique species, who is portrayed as a habitual pessimist and was designed to give children ""permission to feel grouchy—and"
"than with the other housemates, albeit this time is spent fighting. Vyvyan owns a talking Glaswegian hamster named Special Patrol Group (""SPG"" for short) of whom he is very fond, although SPG is also frequently subjected to Vyvyan's extreme violence. This is usually provoked, such as when SPG bit Vyvyan and made him destroy his cardboard submarine in ""Flood"" or plugging in the TV after Vyvyan swallowed it in ""Bomb"". Vyvyan's mother is a barmaid and former shoplifter, who named him a girls name ""Vyvyan"", gave him his first gift (a box of matches) at 8-weeks-old, and before the events"