![]() This diverse menagerie includes goats, a horse, elephants (notably Fluffy), a dolphin, and his favorite pet, his beloved pet worm Slimey. Oscar shares his trash can with many pets. Finally, Bob replaces all the trash cans on the block with brand new ones and Oscar moves into one of the used ones intended to be be thrown out. He first tried living in a tent made from newspapers, then a metal wastebasket. ![]() In his version, the space next to the 123 stoop was empty until he settled down. In Episode 2089, Oscar tells a fabricated story of the day he moved to Sesame Street. In Episode 1419, Oscar builds a tunnel system from his trash can to the one in the Fix-It Shop, which he would be seen in from time to time for a few years (including Episode 1647). Episode 1159 established that a door in Oscar's can leads straight to the basement of 123 Sesame Street. As established on various occasions, the trash can also has a back door. In the Elmo's World installment Farms Oscar gives Elmo a tour of his farm (shown in darkness with only the pair's eyes visible). A 1970 article in Look Magazine also notes a pastry kitchen and a rococo staircase. According to Sesame Street Unpaved other items include a piano, art gallery and hearth and a train set ("Grouch Central Station"). ![]() The 1989 book What's in Oscar's Trash Can? and Other Good-Night Stories mentions the swimming pool as well as an ice-skating rink (which, on the series, has been used by Peggy Fleming) and a bowling alley. In Episode 0799, Oscar installed an Olympic-size swimming pool inside his trash can. In 1974, and until 2015, the perch was redesigned, with a big burlap crate replacing the trunk and a barrel as the base, and the rest of the area consisting of more crates, a garbage pail and a trash bag (though the previous look was re-instated for Christmas Eve on Sesame Street in 1978). In the earliest episodes of the first season, the trash can was atop a big blue crate adjacent to a wooden crate at right, with a few more trash cans around later on in the season until 1974, the base and the crate were replaced, the latter by a trunk, with a trash pail on top of another crate at left. This was changed to a trash can, in part because "the studio had no trapdoors that would allow a puppeteer to work from under the floor." Oscar the Grouch was originally planned by Jim Henson and Jon Stone to live in a manhole or in a pile of trash in a gutter. ![]()
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