Grover was originally performed by Frank Oz from his earliest appearances.
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18 Facts About Grover
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Prototype version of Grover appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on Christmas Eve in 1967.
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Grover had a raspier voice – somewhat like Cookie Monster's – and was played a bit more unkempt than Grover would later behave.
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Grover later made a cameo appearance in The Muppets on Puppets in 1968 with the Rock and Roll Monster.
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The true Grover "officially" debuted in the second season of Sesame Street.
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One of the more frequent sketch segments featuring Grover involves him taking a series of customer service jobs.
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Grover's jobs have ranged from a taxi driver and a photographer to a flight attendant and singing telegram artist.
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One sketch parodied the ABC television series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in a segment where Grover began remodeling Mr Johnson's home despite his express wishes.
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Grover has an instructional persona who wears a cap and gown to provide educational context for simple, everyday things.
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Grover's lessons are often wrong, leaving himself open to correction by a group of Muppets.
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Grover is often a source of slapstick humor and often accidentally injures himself.
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Global Grover is a more recent series of segments, in which Grover hosts a trip to a foreign country to learn about their culture and customs.
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Grover's has been seen almost exclusively in print, including the many illustrated books starring Grover.
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Grover's was occasionally seen in photographs, as a photo puppet, such as on the cover of Volume 4 of The Sesame Street Treasury.
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Grover's has more recently appeared in a brief Elmo's World sequence, with her son as his alter-ego Super Grover, as her own alter-ego, "Super-Mommy".
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The late 1990s saw a sequel to the book where Grover desperately tries to stop Elmo from reaching the end of the book, eventually directing him to leave the book and enter from the back.
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In 1974, Grover went on a learning expedition in Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum.
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Adventures of Grover in Outer Space is a Sesame Street storybook featuring Grover that was published in 1984.
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