Born: June 1
Lives: In a trash can on Sesame Street
Years: 1969 - Present
Most Famous Song: I Love Trash
Description:
Oscar is the only person in Sesame Street
who doesn't like to have fun, and the only one who isn't nice to anybody,knows he isn't and likes it that way.
Oscar likes to be pessimistic, likes to
grouch and to be angry.
He is happy when it rains, but he hates
it to be happy, so he hopes the sun will shine soon, so he can moan again.
But the problem is that he is happy that
he can be grouchy again.
And he hates it to be happy. Or for instance,
he hates it when people bother him.
But when nobody disturbs him, he doesn't
have anything to moan at, so he hopes somebody will bother him, so he can be grouchy again.
Oscar's life is the hardest life to live,
but maybe that makes him the happiest person on earth, although he doesn't like to be happy.
Oscar has a few 'real friends'.
Of course
the other grouches, but his best friend is Slimey the Worm.
Another thing that bothers Oscar is that nobody seems to dislike
him,
although all the non-grouches never fully understand his behaviour and needs.
Telly and Elmo for instance frequently visit
Oscar when they want to play with him,
while Elmo and Telly are the ones who Oscar
hates the most.
Something nobody ever will understand is
his diet;
Oscar eats the most unusual things that
you can imagine.
And there are other things he likes,
such as rain and trash.
Oscar seldom
leaves his trash can.
There is by the way something strange with
his trash can; it contains some unusual things,
such as Fluffy the elephant and her friends,
a piano and a pool with a dolphin named
Ripper.
Of Oscar's family only his mother is known.
He has a cousin named Osvaldo.
