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Posted: Mar 29 2006 06:20 pm

Oscar the Grouch was originally FUCKING ORANGE!!!

Posted: Mar 29 2006 06:40 pm

Good lord, black is down! Up is east! That's seriously weird, its like my eyes are playing tricks on me.

Posted: Mar 29 2006 07:24 pm

More importantly the man next to him is wearing an orange shirt.

Shenanigans.

Posted: Mar 29 2006 07:44 pm

It's not faked, it's a screen that I pulled from a History Channel biography on Sesame Street.

Wikipedia isn't the best information source, but it's mentioned that he was orange in the 1969-1970 season in Oscar's article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_the_grouch

The man with him is Bob (Bob McGrath) who has been on the show since it started. He will be 73 on July 11th and he's still doing it. When he dies, I suspect the world will get the best Very Special Sesame Street since Mr. Hooper kicked it. But with medical science being what it is these days, I'm willing to wager that Bob's got at least another 25 years in him.

Posted: Mar 29 2006 08:33 pm

Good thing they changed him. I don't generally think of orange as a very grouchy color, as I'm sure most of the rest of the world will agree (that's a first). That and I don't like that screen shot. It's visually misleading. How can two beings of two different mindsets be the same color... and a bright and cheery color at that? Oh man. Did they have a lot to learn...

Posted: Mar 30 2006 12:35 pm

Apparently in late 1970 the fashionista decided that green was the new orange. In 1980 they would go on to decide that cocaine addiction was the new anorexia.

Joined: Apr 24 2006 Posts: 292

It's like asking the wise man on the mountain that knows everything that one question. I mean I have seen variations of Oscar like is cousin or aunts but man oh man who knew Oscar was really a hairy midget living in a garbage can.