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Grover is a Muppet character on the television show Sesame Street. Self-described as lovable and furry, he is a monster who almost never uses contractions when he speaks and sings (except on rare occasions).
In his earliest appearances, Grover was depicted as having dark green fur and an orange nose. By the second season of Sesame Street, this was changed to the more familiar puppet with blue fur and a pink nose (although the original puppet was used for the initial appearance of Grover's mother).
ne series of segments on Sesame Street, Grover changes into his alter-identity "Super Grover".
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Grover is a Muppet character on the television show Sesame Street. Self-described as lovable and furry, he is a monster who almost never uses contractions when he speaks and sings (except on rare occasions).
In his earliest appearances, Grover was depicted as having dark green fur and an orange nose. By the second season of Sesame Street, this was changed to the more familiar puppet with blue fur and a pink nose (although the original puppet was used for the initial appearance of Grover's mother).
Appearances
In one series of segments on Sesame Street, Grover changes into his alter-identity "Super Grover". A parody of Superman, this monster superhero goes out to fix things, but doesn't always prove helpful. He wears a medieval knight's helmet and a cape emblazoned with the letter G tied around his neck.
Grover also has an instructional persona who wears a cap and gown to provide educational context for simple, everyday things. His lessons are often wrong, leaving himself open to correction by a group of kids or Muppets. This, combined with the failings of the Super Grover character, means that Grover is very self-conscious and timid. He is often a source of slapstick humor and often accidentally injures himself.
In skits set at Charlie's Restaurant, Grover is a waiter who often serves the same customer, who has repeatedly been the victim of Grover's bad service.
Global Grover is a more recent series of segments in which Grover hosts a trip to a foreign country to learn about their culture and customs.
Mother
"Grover's Mommy" plays an integral but often unrecognized role on Sesame Street. She has been seen almost exclusively in print, including the many illustrated books starring Grover. She was also occasionally seen in photographs, as a photo puppet, such as on the cover of Volume 4 of The Sesame Street Treasury. Over the course of time, her appearance has fluctuated greatly.
While Grover's mom is a regular character in Sesame books, his father is almost entirely absent. There is only one reference to Grover's Daddy in the Sesame canon, and it's spoken in passing, with Daddy offscreen.
Her earliest known appearance as a Muppet is a 1970s sketch in which Grover speaks to the audience about being afraid of the dark. At the end of the sketch, his mom (Frank Oz) enters his room to kiss him goodnight. Another early appearance (circa 1981) involves his mother (Kathy Mullen) coming into the bathroom while Grover is telling the audience about how to take a bath.
She has recently appeared (performed by Stephanie D'Abruzzo) in a brief Elmo's World sequence (from the "Families" episode), with her son as his alter-ego Super Grover, as her own alter-ego, "Super-Mommy". Grover crashlands, screaming "Moooommy!" and his mom follows yelling "Soooonny!" crashing on top of him. They recover, acknowledge each other, and both faint.
In A Celebration of Me, Grover (performed by Eric Jacobson), Mrs. Monster attends a benefit dinner in her son's honour.
In her first appearance in puppet form, she was gray-green in color. In later appearances, she was blue.
Books
In the 1971 children's book The Monster at the End of This Book, Grover goes to great effort to keep the reader from turning the pages of the book, because there is a monster on the final page. Despite Grover nailing pages together and building a brick wall to block access, eventually the reader does reach the end, where it is discovered that Grover is the monster at the end of the book.
In 1974, Grover went on a learning expedition in Grover and The Everything In The Whole Wide World Museum. He tours rooms such as "The Long Thin Things You Can Write With Room", as well as "The Things That Make So Much Noise You Can't Think Room". Grover wanders through "The Things That are Light Room", returns a rock to "The Things That are Heavy Room", and just when he wonders whether it is possible to have a museum that holds everything in the whole wide world, he comes upon a door labeled "Everything Else", which opens to take him out into the world.
International
Sesame Street is modified for different national markets, and Grover is often renamed.
- In Germany his name is Grobi, a possible diminutive of the German grob, meaning "rough" or "rude".
- In Portugal he is Gualter (Walter).
- In Spain he is called Coco.
- In Latin America and Puerto Rico, he is known as Archibaldo.
- In Brazil he is known as Arquibaldo, although recent broadcasts retain the name Grover.
- In Norway, he is known as Gunnar.
- In Egypt, he is called Antar.
- In Israel, he is called Kruvi, which is a play on the word kruv ("cabbage").
- In the Netherlands and Sweden, on the other hand, he remains Grover.
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