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Grundgetta

Muppeteer:

Pam Arciero

Grundgetta is Oscar the Grouch's equally rotten, trashy Grouch girlfriend. Oscar occasionally calls her Grungie, while she usually calls him Oskie. In addition to being a "couple", they're best friends too. Oscar & Grundgetta, as stated by Oscar & Gordon's sister Olivia, have been friends for "a very long time". Her earliest appearance was in Season 14.

Grundgetta, like Oscar, has had a number of pets over the years, including her worm Sylvia, a Rottendoodle named Itchy & a muddy piglet who won the Yucchiest Pet contest in Oscar's Grouch Jamboree.

Grundgetta, like Oscar, sometimes slips up as a Grouch. In episode 3763 of Sesame Street, when she & Oscar tell Sally Messy Yuckyael how Oscar unwillingly fell in w/ her (which she snapped him out of completely by kissing him), Grundgetta starts feelin the same way. Just like Oscar did, she hears "yucky sweet violin music", her heart starts going "pitty pat, pitty pat", & she no longer feels like arguing. She begs Oscar to kiss her before she confesses her love to him, which he does. However, just as expected she gets extremely angry. Oscar says she told him to do it, but then she asks him if he'd jump off a bridge if she told him to. After that they start arguing again.

In a video released on "Sesame Family Robinson", Pam Arciero played around with the Grundgetta puppet. Grundgetta commented that she was nervous since she hadn't been on camera in months, referencing her absence in recent years.

1 Name
2 Casting history
3 Appearances
4 Photo galleries
- 4.1 Photo gallery 1
- 4.2 Photo gallery 2
5 Notes
6 See also

NameEdit

The spellin of the character's name has varied over the years, switchin between "Grundgetta" & "Grungetta".

The spelling "Grundgetta" appears in the storybooks, including & the books A Grouch's Christmas & Oscar's Grouch Jamboree, the albums Oscar's Trashy Songs & Let's Be Friends, & the Applause plush doll. Current Sesame Workshop press kits list the character as "Grundgetta", as does an internal CTW document from 1994. As of January 18, 2008, typing "Grundgetta" in the search engine on the Sesame Street Video Player gives results, but typing "Grungetta" shows no results. However, results can be found for either spelling at sesamestreet.org.

However, the Sesame Street Unpaved book & the "Sesame Street 35 Years Anniversary Game" refer to the character as "Grundgetta". A Sesame Workshop press kit from 1984 uses "Grungetta", as do the Sesame Family Newsletters from the early 2000s.

Casting historyEdit

Brian Muehl (1982 - 1984)
Pam Arciero (1984 - present)

AppearancesEdit

TV/Videos/MoviesEdit

Sesame Street (1982 - present)
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985)
The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years
I'm Glad I'm Me (1986)
Sesame Street, Special (1986)
Jim Henson's Memorial service (1990)
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson (1990)
Learning to Share (1996)
Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)

Sesame Street LiveEdit

BooksEdit

Welcome Home, Big Bird (1985)
Big Bird's Square Meal (1988)
What's in Oscar's Trash Can? & Other Good-Night Stories (1991)
1-2-3 (1991)
Sesame Street 123 (1991)
From Trash to Treasure (1993)
Around the Corner on Sesame Street (1994)
Oscar's Grouch Jamboree (1994)
Elmo Loves You (1997)
A Grouch's Christmas (1999) (mentioned)
Fun with Friends (2004)
Elmo's Delicious Christmas (2005)
Abby Cadabby's Ryhme Time (2007)
Friendly, Frosty Monsters (2007)
What Makes You Giggle? (2007)
Storybook ABCs (2008)

AudioEdit

Sesame Road (1993)
Oscar's Trashy Songs (1997)

Photo galleriesEdit

Photo gallery 1Edit

Photo gallery 2Edit

NotesEdit

In Sesame Street's Mother Goose Rhymes, Grundgetta takes the place of the cat in Pussy Cat Pussy Cat, going to the dump & wanting to know who wants to know where she's been.
In a Sesame Street episode, Grundgetta shows Gina & the kids pictures her cousin drew while on her world tour. One of which is the Awful Tower.

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