Grover's Mommy

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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^[1] 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.