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Grouch (Joker Parody)
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The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A mock movie trailer recasts Oscar the Grouch as a downtrodden sanitation worker in the style of Todd Phillips's Joker. Taunted by his co-worker Grover and worn down by a neighborhood in decline, Oscar unloads in therapy while a television newscast reports that Sesame Street has become a haven of crime. The trailer glimpses ruined versions of the street's residents: Bert and Ernie held up at gunpoint, Snuffleupagus menacing Prairie Dawn, Big Bird dancing on a club stage, The Count counting pills, a homeless Cookie Monster and Elmo being arrested. Oscar paints his face green, climbs into his trash can, dances down a long city staircase and asks to be called the Grouch.
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Highly quotable.
From the studio that brought you Joker and the twisted minds at Sesame Workshop comes the next gritty antihero origin story.
And how does that make you feel?
Grouchy.
When everyone calls you trash and everyone treats you like trash, why don't you just become trash?
Would you do me one favor? Would you call me the Grouch?
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Paul Briganti
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Host David Harbour suggested the Joker-style Oscar the Grouch idea during the week of the show, according to SNL's Behind the Sketch video, and the film unit used some of the same lenses and cameras as Joker. Eli Brueggemann composed the trailer score, and an earlier cut included a scene with Slimey the Worm.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Grover
Damn, Damn, that smells straight like ass, man.
- 00:08
Oscar the Grouch
I I don't know I kind of like it.
- 00:13
Grover
Yeah? You like trash so much, why don't you live in it?
- 00:16
Oscar the Grouch
Why don't you fight me?
- 00:19
Grover
Damn, Oscar, why are you such a grouch, man?
- 00:24
Speaker 1
From the studio that brought you Joker and the twisted minds at Sesame Workshop comes the next gritty antihero origin story.
- 00:34
Susan Robinson
Why do you think you're always in such a bad mood?
- 00:37
Oscar the Grouch
Is it me? Things are getting worse out there.
- 00:41
Guy Smiley
The The one friendly neighborhood of Sesame Street has now become a haven of crime and corruption. I'm Guy Smiley, ABC DEFG News.
- 00:53
Oscar the Grouch
Cookers and pimps on every corner.
- 00:56
Mr. Snuffleupagus
Now look, Prairie Dawn, you want to snuff his hose, okay? And snuff his hose early.
- 01:01
Prairie Dawn
I'm sorry, Daddy.
- 01:03
Mr. Snuffleupagus
Bitch, you better shut your damn mouth for good.
- 01:06
Oscar the Grouch
People getting killed over nothing.
- 01:09
Mugger
Give me the ducky.
- 01:11
Bert
Penny, give it to him.
- 01:13
Ernie
hell no bitch
- 01:14
Susan Robinson
and how And does that make you feel
- 01:22
Oscar the Grouch
no cheating calls
- 01:27
Oscar the Grouch
If everyone calls you trash and everyone treats you like trash why don't you just become trash
- 01:41
Speaker 1
variety asks did we need a dark take on oscar lagrange no says the new york times
- 01:48
Speaker 1
the beloved residents of sesame street like you've never seen them before
- 01:52
Big Bird
you want to see this big bird dance
- 01:55
The Count
one two three three pairs for me
- 02:02
come on
- 02:05
Elmo
Elmo innocent! Elmo didn't saw no crack! You only arrest Elmo because Elmo mexican
- 02:12
Ah, honey, baby.
- 02:14
Speaker 1
from director todd phillips and the writer of p is for potty
- 02:34
Speaker 2
Tell me how to get.
- 02:38
Oscar the Grouch
Would you do me one favor? Would you call me the Grouch?
- 02:45
Speaker 1
Brought to you by the letter R.
- 02:47
Oscar the Grouch
Scram!
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