Grundgetta

Oscar & Grundgetta 2.jpg Grundgetta is Oscar the Grouch's Grouch girlfriend on Sesame Street. Oscar occasionally calls her Grungie, while she generally calls him Oskie. She & Oscar, in addition to being a "couple", are also best friends. As stated by Oscar & Gordon's sister Olivia, Oscar & Grundgetta have been friends for, "a very long time".

Like Oscar, Grundgetta 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/ Grundgetta (which she ended by kissing him), Grundgetta starts to feel the same way. 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, she gets extremely angry. When Oscar says that she told him to kiss her, she asks him if he'd jump off a bridge if she told him to. After that they start arguing again.

Name
The spelling of the character's name has varied over the years, alternating between "Grundgetta" & "Grungetta".

The spelling "Grundgetta" appears in the storybooks, including Oscar's Grouch Jamboree, the albums Oscar's Trashy Songs & Let's Be Friends, and 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, while typing "Grungetta" doesn't show any 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" & the book A Grouch's Christmas 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.

Filmography

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

Book appearances

 * Welcome Home, Big Bird (1985)
 * Big Bird's Square Meal (1988)
 * What's in Oscar's Trash Can? and 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)
 * Abby Cadabby's Ryhme Time (2007)
 * Friendly, Frosty Monsters (2007)
 * What Makes You Giggle? (2007)
 * Storybook ABCs (2008)

Audio appearances

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

Casting history

 * Brian Muehl (1982-1984)
 * Pam Arciero (1985-present)