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This page is about a Sesame Street character. For other uses, see Grover (disambiguation).
Grover is a friendly, childlike Muppet in the children's television show Sesame Street. His character is multi-talented, taking on many different roles and professions throughout the series run.
Grover described himself on the show as a "cute furry, little monster." He is fuzzy and blue, and much like other Muppets on the show in appearance. Grover does not use contractions when speaking, giving him a distinctive vocal pattern in comparison to most television characters.
In When Grover Moved to Sesame Street, it is learned that Grover has a toy named Teddy Monster, and an exotically-finned goldfish.
Grover, along with Elmo, is one of the more popular characters created during the show's run, partially for his silly manner of speaking and also for his numerous imaginary adventures (namely as Super Grover), adventures children felt they could easily identify with.
Appearances
The Grover character appeared in the following memorable skits:
- 'Fuzzy and Blue'
- 'Over and Under and Through'
- 'Sharing', with Grover and Prairie Dawn
- Grover takes the stairs, while Kermit takes the elevator
- Grover and Herry Monster as policemen singing the alphabet (may only be shown on Plaza Sesamo.)
- 'Professor Grover's Tub Tips' with his mother.
- The Super Grover series
- Various Professor Grover skits
- Various skits at Charlie's Restaurant, commonly as a waiter messing up situations for the Fat Blue Muppet character
- Lena Horne singing to him when he was shy
He is perhaps most remembered for the now famous "Near, Far" sketch, in which he demonstrated the positional concepts until he fainted from exhaustion, and also for his role as Super Grover.
Behind the scenes
Grover was originally performed by puppeteer (now film director) Frank Oz. Since Oz has left the series, newcomer Eric Jacobson has taken over the role. Many note the similarity between Grover's voice and that of Yoda, also an Oz character.
Grover may have been named after former US president Grover Cleveland. It is also speculated, however, that the Muppet Workshop and Sesame Workshop chose this name because it was out of vogue and unlikely to unintentionally offend many viewers.
In the children's book "The Monster at the End of This Book", Grover goes through greater and greater efforts to keep the reader from turning the pages of the book, because there is a monster at the end of the book. Despite Grover nailing pages together and building a brick wall to block access to the end of the book, eventually the reader does reach the end of the book, where it is discovered that Grover is, in fact, the monster at the end of the book.
International
Sesame Street is localised for some different markets, and Grover is often renamed. In Portugal, he's Gualter (Walter), and, in some skits, he served at a restaurant (Charlie's Restaurant - see Fat Blue) whose never appearing female cook was Cabidela.