Long has the mystery haunted humanity: Just what kind of creature is Oscar the Grouch, anyway? Irrefutable evidence gleaned in a recent scientific study points indisputably to one answer alone: Oscar the Grouch is a a Time Lord.
At least, so says BillChas at the blog The Elegance of Humanity in America. The evidence, m’Luds, begins with Oscar’s trash can, the inside of which is pictured below [Exhibit A]:
BillChas:
Oscar’s trash can is obviously much larger on the inside. It is said to contain, apart from the items pictured, an elephant, a swimming pool, a china cabinet, and a portal to Oscar’s home planet of Grouchland. I can hear your nerdly grumblings already: “But BillChas, surely you know that Time Lords are from the Planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous at “galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre.” I say it was a ruse – that Oscar was merely hiding his true home planet to live a low-profile life on a happy block full of happy neighbors singing about the alphabet in Queens, New York.
What may we infer? Oscar’s trash can is a TARDIS!
I direct the jury to further evidence and beg you to draw your own conclusion. Which will be: Oscar the Grouch is a Time Lord.
(Thanks to reader Hank for the link. If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)
All right, so that gives us Ms. Frizzle, Mr. Peabody and Oscar the Grouch as confirmed Time-Lords-In-Hiding. Who else can we add to the list?
Oh, and the . Can’t forget him.
The above-mentioned link no longer links to a working video. So I guess the secret identity of the Time Lord JSW mentioned is just going to have to remain a mystery.
The Internet is forever. Except when it isn’t. I’m not sure which prospect worries me more.
I also think that engines to Oscar’s TARDIS are either locked down or broken, stranding him in the present on Seseme Street. No wonder he’s so grouchy.
Surely the same thing can be said for Snoopy’s kennel, which was a lot bigger inside than out.
The TVTropes hive mind has identified dozens of possible Time Lords, from Batman to Blackadder, here: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WMG/TimeLord
Warning: The above is a link to TVTropes, one of the most addictive sites on the Internet. TVTropes will ruin your life and your vocabulary, so be cautious.
My first car had a bumper sticker saying “James Bond is a Time Lord” to amuse 3% of the population and confuse the other 97%
Heh. About 30 years ago, I was going to write a Fourth Doctor/Sesame Street crossover all about Oscar the Really Renegade Time Lord!
His chameleon chip must be broken too. Running from the time war?
Oscar the Grouch. His name says it all. He is a grouch. He doesn’t like anyone but grouches.
Now now, he’s not a Time Lord from Gallafray of course. The Grouches are time lords (of their own, thanks). Hence the love for trash. Time is full of trash!
Absolutely.
But you have it a bit backwards, as those Tricky Time Lords always confuse Earthlings with past/future/current ages…
TIME LORDS ARE ALL GROUCHES.
They are, after all, aliens to Earthlings.
The Human form is a ruse.
ALL TIME LORDS are Grouches and actually look like Oscar the Grouch.
Different colors of fur, different sonic screwdrivers… even Dr. Who himself admits to stealing the broken TARDIS he loves so much.
100% True… proof of collusion between PBS & BBC with alien species.
The odd thing : in either form, as full fuzzy grouch or British humanoid form: people always just accept them as they are. Friendly and nothing odd at all with a man in a box or talking fuzzy grouch in a can.
More Grouch technology, The Trash Can TARDIS projecting a normality field around itself, as well as auto translating countless alien languages.
Dr Who ?
Dr OSCAR THE GROUCH !!
Also don’t forget his Companion, the trash man.