Grouches

Grouches are a race of rotten, miserable, mean, grouchy, grumpy, unpleasant, argumentative and unhygenic furry creatures who are the exact opposite of regular human beings. Everything that they like Grouches hate with a passion. They also would never be caught dead living anywhere that is clean, looks nice, and has little to no flith or mud. They prefer to live wherever trash is found: trash cans, dumpsters, city dumps, even landfills. However, some Grouches live in broken cars, crummy old houses, (and, in a few cases, "yucky beautiful houses"). It is crucial to note that Grouches aren't Monsters.



Being as grouchy and miserable as they possibly can be is a Grouch's main mission in life. They also feel that they have to make everyone else feel the same way. Even though that makes them happy, however, a Grouch will never admit to being happy no matter what the circumstances. Such is the stability of a Grouch's life: so balanced, and yet so unbalanced. Oscar the Grouch is especially aware of this.

Anything a Grouches like can be described as anything dirty or dingy or dusty, anything ragged or rotten or rusty or trashy. Grouches will only buy appliances that don't work, keep elephants and worms as pets, eat undesirable foods (particularly sardines), sing out-of-tune, play radios at the highest volume, and bathe in mud.



Even though Oscar the Grouch is still the most famous Grouch ever, over the years, a huge number of Grouches have been introduced to the world. Many of them reside down in Grouchland USA, a disgusting place which can only be reached by entering Oscar's trash can on Sesame Street. Many of the Grouches were made to spoof important figures in today's world. Some of them are Walter Cranky, Dan Rather-not, Oprah Grouchy, Sally Messy Yuckyael, Snow Grouch, and several others.



However, some Grouches have soft spots. Oscar the Grouch has shown that several times. He has done so by, in the special Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, going out to look for the missing Big Bird, letting Rizzo the Rat sleep in his trash can in A Muppet Family Christmas, taking care of a lost kitten in Sesame Street episode 3120, and on several other occasions. However, he always does his best to hide that soft spot by driving everyone on Sesame Street crazy.