Oscar the Grouch Makes Google Sesame Street Logo Filthy

Oscar the Grouch is not a positive role model for kids, yet Oscar the Grouch is among Sesame Street's most beloved figures. Oscar the Grouch hardly wants fame and attention, but Google gave it to Oscar today. As Google Sesame Street logo week continues, Oscar the Grouch is the latest Sesame Street character to get the Google logo treatment. Today, Oscar took a trip outside of Grouchland to dirty up Google - fittingly, after neat freak Bert appeared on it yesterday.

Oscar the Grouch is the fourth Google Sesame Street logo this week alone, and fifth Sesame Street character to appear. Oscar is not in his familiar trash can today, though he does appear out of an open manhole. Like with Cookie Monster and Bert and Ernie, Oscar the Grouch represents the two O's in Google - this time with his trash can lid as one O, and his head as another.

Google doesn't allow just any grouch to get their logo filthy and dirty. Oscar the Grouch has been a professional at it for 40 years, even in this politically correct age. Even Cookie Monster had to change with the times when he had to declare a cookie as a "sometimes food." One would think that in this age of global warning and pollution, Oscar would fall victim to the PC crowd as well.

But Oscar the Grouch remains a proud symbol of trash, grime, and overall not niceness. He may be smiling on today's Google Sesame Street logo, but he must have been promised a fat batch of sludge to decorate his house. Yet despite being an anomaly in the happy town of Sesame Street, Oscar remains a beloved member of the Sesame Street community by pure accident.

That doesn't mean some people haven't gotten grouchy at Oscar once in a while. Sesame Street has been airing reruns before its big November 10 anniversary show, and a rerun on October 29 had Oscar starting his own news network - a sketch that was two years old. When one of his viewers switched over to "Pox News" because it was a more "trashy news show" conservative parents and activists wrote many angry letters.

Though Oscar the Grouch caused others to be grouchy at him, that is one of the few things that would make him happy. However, since he is on the Google Sesame Street logo today, and everyone will be looking at him and not leaving him alone, his bad mood should be back by the end of the day.

There are only three more days of Google Sesame Street logos left, with the list of remaining Sesame Street icons getting thinner by the day. Which famed character will be next to get Googled?

Sources

HULIQ- "Oscar The Grouch Cans The Google Doodle"

FOX 411- "Sesame Street Ombudsman Says Fox News Parody 'Should Have Been Resisted'"

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