Grover
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| Grover | |
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| First appearance | 1967 (unnamed on Ed Sullivan) November 9, 1970 (as Grover) |
| Gender | male |
| Voiced by | Frank Oz (1970-2001 and occasionally since) Eric Jacobson (2002-present) |
Grover is a Muppet character on the television show Sesame Street. He does not use contractions in his speech.
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 a different puppet with blue fur and a pink nose (although the original puppet was used for the initial appearance of Grover's Mommy).
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[edit] 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 more than often wrong, leaving himself open to correction by a group of kids or Muppets.
In skits set at Charlie's Restaurant, Grover often serves the same blue customer named Fred Johnson, and nicknamed Fat Blue, who has been repeatedly mis-served over the years.
Grover was originally performed by Frank Oz. Eric Jacobson has since taken over the role. Oz still plays Grover from time to time.
[edit] 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.
[edit] International
Sesame Street is localised 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 cherub ("cabbage").
- In the Netherlands and Sweden, on the other hand, he remains Grover.
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