It's been a long time since I last watched Sesame Street, a whole 3 years I think (a record for a muppet fan)... so when I came across this site I nearly freaked at the thought that Grover is gone. However I am comforted that he is not forgotten. He is at least still featured on the webpage, and in the magazine. Long live grover. To Grover... "Monster at the End of This Book" will remain one of my all time favorite books, it was the first book that I actually wanted to read, and was not forced to sit through.

I have loved Grover for SO LONG! I am a teacher and these little idiots have the audacity to call Grover "Elmo." How wrong is that?!?!?!?!

Ernie and Bert WERE NOT GAY! Get over that!
- Susan

Hey, Thanks for saying something about that bastard Elmo. I've hated him since he came on the show. I am a huge Cookie Monster fan. Grover is also very near to my heart. Frank Oz, Jim Henson you guy's are/were geniuses. Sesame Street was the greatest television show ever. It's a shame that it seems to be in a downward spiral.
-Michael

Grover loved his Mommy and that always made him my favorite. I sing to my second graders "G Grover, G Georgie, there are two G sounds etc." I feel sorry for them not getting to hear it in the original.

Grover was and will always be my absolute favorite Muppet! I was so sad to see him leave the "Street"! Especially to be replaced by that non-sensical, overly cute, red thing that refuses to speak with correct subject/ verb agreement. Talk about the "dumbing down" of America.
Thanks, though, for the amusing read! Grover, if you are out there, please come back!

VIVA GROVER!!
I miss Grover, and agree on the whole Elmo thing. His presence struck me as simple corporate pandering to a marketable demographic. That doesn't belong in the world Jim & Frank built. *sigh*
I miss Grover.

This was absolutely brilliant.

it was funny, that's for sure, but i have to say it was a bit long, and i skimmed a lot of it. otherwise, well done.

Don't worry Grover, I have saved my children's Fisher Price Sesame Street toys. You are there along with Mr. Hooper and Snuffy. I even have one of your books. We don't have anything with Elmo, so my Grandchildren will only know the original characters. Glad you stuck around. I even have the original Sesame Street Magazines when you helped to teach the children important lessons through games. So know that you are loved and respected for all the love you shared.
Hurray for the cute Blue Monster named Grover. Say hi to Bert and Ernie, by the way they are not gay, just good friends who are very opposite by nature. Say hi to Big Bird and all the other originals.
From a Mom who loved watching you with my children everyday at eleven in the morning, or was it noon, and again at 4:00. Happy Sesame Streeting.
Mary Ann

Wow. I was surfing around trying to find funny things in my boredom when I literally stumbled onto your site. Expecting a humorous parody of some sort, I was deeply (and surprisingly) touched by the quality of compassion you have set here. Sesame Street was practically the only thing I watched on TV for nearly all of my formative years, and I miss the feel of that wonderful, wonderful program. Thank you for this true gem. I am getting a shirt right away!
Jamie Holman [email protected]

Really cute site Jason! May "NEAR-------FAR" live forever in our memories!
Martha

long live Grover!!!
Mark

Great job! It really took me back, and Grover was always my favorite!

I am a 43 year old mother of four. I can't even express how much Sesame Street meant to my me through my childhood. I never missed a morning with my ol' pal Grover. When I started having kids of my own, I began to realize the direction the show was headed. I wanted my children to know "the street" the way I knew it. So I went video shopping. "Dance Along" "Rock and Roll" "Sing Yourself Silly" and my personal favorite "Monster Hits" became required watching for my kids. We avoided the new show and I truly think they are better teenagers because of it. They know the beauty of Grover and for that I have to pat myself on the back.

Long Live Grover!... and the 80's!!!

Wow, this is a good site. I'm not sure if I wanted to know about Grover's personal life around the time that I was watching him perform, but all in all, very informative.
Grover was always my favorite. My favorite skit was always the waiter bit, especially the one where the customer orders alphabet soup, and he's going thru the letters and pointing out the missing ones. You could sense the agrivation that Grover portrays, but he never lets it go too far. He was always light hearted.
I still have a Super Grover doll from when I was 8 years old. I'm 25 now, with my own son, and I gave the doll to him. It's still in good shape after all these years. But, of course, he much preferes Elmo. So sad. I guess those days are gone. Grover, you're the man! God bless.
Joe

you are truly sick, exposing the soft underbelly of a great monster like grover. I hope the muppet mafia sends you a dead fish....

My son is now 2 and has started watching Seasame Street so I'm watching it for the first time in over 25 years. I knew about Elmo but was surprised to see Snuffy out of the closet. I was pretty bummed when, after watching a few episodes I realized that the blue monsters such as Harry and Grover were gone. I was looking forward to watching SS with my own son, so he could enjoy what I enjoyed, but I guess you can't go home again.

thanx dude,i thought the whole world had forgotten bout grover.

It's kind of funny to find this site now, I was just trying to teach my son the near/far routine, so for the first time in years I watched "the street" to show him how Grover explained it. Much to my dismay the "G-Man" was no where to be found. That was the last time for me, I'll now have to look for prirate copies of the good years. What ever happened to teaching kids important things like near/far?

No way, man! Absolutely no way!!! Ernie and Bert were not Gay. Do not try to ruin my childhood years.
Yeah, sure, I heard the rumours but that was just a futile attempt by some to try and legitimise the Gay lobby. Tom Cruise just successfully sued a guy for $10 million for saying something similar about him.
Don't go there!!! DO NOT GO THERE!!!

i'm 24 and i caught some sesame street a little while ago. it was so different to how i remembered it. a lot of elmo and some new characters too. something felt really off. it was very different in a bad way. i couldn't quite put my finger on what was missing.
then i realized, grover was gone. grover was my favourite character in retrospect. who can forget super grover??
i'd watch show centred on him for sure! even at my age!
-bagman

Mildly amusing, but with too many errors that nearly everyone makes and really cheese me off. It's Fozzie Bear, not Fozzie the Bear. Its Kermit D. Frog, not Kermit the frog.

Woops! Thanks for pointing that out. I did try to make the site as accurate as possible. I've made the changes you mentioned.
-J

Thanks for the reminder of what a pivital role grover actually played in my life.
-Schaf

Hey everyone- this is the webmaster, Jason, and I guess this is the first post on this page. I just wanted you all to know that I really enjoyed putting this site together and I hope you like it. I also wanted to state that just for the record, this site is not intended to paint Sesame Street or the Children's Television Workshop in a bad light at all. This was a labor of love and I have the utmost respect for the 30+ years of quality children's programming that they have brought to the world. However, I do think that Sesame Street has been badly crippled by the arrival of Elmo and the fazing out of some of "Street"'s best characters- the main one for me being, of course, our old pal Grover. To be fair, Grover's dissapearance has more to do with the fact that Frank Oz wanted to do other things with his life, like direct movies etc., and you can't begrudge him that, but I still find it lamentable. I guess you can never go home, and we can never return to Sesame Street's true glory days of the seventies and early eighties. But we can remember, and I hope this site has helped you to do that. I look forward to reading your thoughts.
-Jason