Grundgetta

 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 to feel the same way. Like Grundgetta 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.

Name
The spelling of the character's name has varied over the years, switching 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 " Grungetta ". A Sesame Workshop press kit from 1984 uses " Grungetta ", as do the Sesame Family Newsletters from the early 2000s.

Casting history

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

TV/Videos/Movies

 * Sesame Street (1982 - present)
 * Episode 1736 (1st appearance)
 * Episode 2107
 * Episode 2208
 * Episode 2258
 * Episode 2274
 * Episode 2484
 * Episode 2485
 * Episode 2606
 * Episode 2755
 * Episode 2877
 * Episode 2933
 * Episode 2969
 * Episode 3009
 * Episode 3067
 * Episode 3085
 * Episode 3100
 * Episode 3103
 * Episode 3120
 * Episode 3121
 * Episode 3152
 * Episode 3172
 * Episode 3175
 * Episode 3314
 * Episode 3482
 * Episode 3522
 * Episode 3695
 * Episode 3740
 * Episode 3763
 * Episode 3866 (mentioned)
 * Episode 4072
 * Episode 4073
 * Episode 4100
 * Episode 4104
 * Episode 4127
 * Episode 4134
 * Episode 4143
 * Episode 4160
 * Episode 4173
 * Episode 4196
 * Episode 4203
 * Episode 4248
 * 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 Live

 * Silly Dancing
 * Sleeping Birdie
 * Let's Play School
 * When I Grow Up
 * Let's Be Friends
 * Everyone Makes Music
 * Out of This World
 * Super Grover ! Ready for Action
 * When Elmo Grows Up
 * Elmo 's Green Thumb
 * 1-2-3 Imagine! with Elmo & Friends
 * Elmo 's Super Heroes!

Books

 * Welcome Home, Big Bird (1985)
 * Big Bird 's Square Meal (1988)
 * What's in Oscar 's Trash Can ? &amp; 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)

Audio

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