When disscussing possible SS figures in another thread someone, actually a few people, mentioned an Oscar in case repaint that would be orange because Oscar was originally orange. Does anyone know why he was turned green? Also, is there a picture of orange Oscar on the web somewhere?
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Why was Oscar orange and then green?
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Super Scooter
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Orange just wasn't Oscar's color. 
I think this is explained in Caroll Spinney's new book. Haven't read it yet, but, I hear it's real good.
I think this is explained in Caroll Spinney's new book. Haven't read it yet, but, I hear it's real good.
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For the complete story on Oscar as well as others the book is definitely worth picking up...it really is reasonably priced...you should check it out.
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Heres the thread with the links to the pictures scarecroe had posted http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4265&highlight=*orange+oscar*
They are still working.
They are still working.
Cool thanks. Orange Oscar looks so weird. I had no idea there were so many changes, like apprently Grover was brown. Now I have to buy the book to find out why Oscar got changed, though I think someone alluded to it being a brightness issue.
Here's the scoop on how OSCAR turned from orange to green and how they explained it on the show:
OSCAR was orange in the first season, 1969-1970.
Carroll Spinney was gonna perform OSCAR as a guest on the old Flip Wilson Show in 1970, but by that time, it was agreed that the puppet would be re-designed, but with the original eyebrows intact, with a new green color, because the old orange one wasn't working.
So, Don Sahlin and Kermit Love, the Muppet builders of the time, gave him a new look for the grouch's first green appearance ever in public, the Flip Wilson Show.
Spinney said that the producers at SESAME were pretty irked that they weren't notified of this drastic change, but by that time, the original orange Oscar had been destroyed and taken apart to make the new green one, so they just lived with it.
His first green appearance on SESAME STREET, however, was popping out of the can on the 1970 Season Premiere, as Big Bird sang: "Everyone Makes Mistakes." They later explained on a different show that he had turned green because he spent a week at some grouch camp and the something caused his fur to change colors.
This is all paraphrased from Mr. Spinney's autobiography.
OSCAR was orange in the first season, 1969-1970.
Carroll Spinney was gonna perform OSCAR as a guest on the old Flip Wilson Show in 1970, but by that time, it was agreed that the puppet would be re-designed, but with the original eyebrows intact, with a new green color, because the old orange one wasn't working.
So, Don Sahlin and Kermit Love, the Muppet builders of the time, gave him a new look for the grouch's first green appearance ever in public, the Flip Wilson Show.
Spinney said that the producers at SESAME were pretty irked that they weren't notified of this drastic change, but by that time, the original orange Oscar had been destroyed and taken apart to make the new green one, so they just lived with it.
His first green appearance on SESAME STREET, however, was popping out of the can on the 1970 Season Premiere, as Big Bird sang: "Everyone Makes Mistakes." They later explained on a different show that he had turned green because he spent a week at some grouch camp and the something caused his fur to change colors.
This is all paraphrased from Mr. Spinney's autobiography.