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In episodes 26, he transports Irvine to and from day care.Īccording to Spinney, Bruno's greatest moment was at the end of Follow That Bird 'as he slowly walks into the sunset carrying Oscar'. These include Episode 1541, in which he transports the kids and Buffy, who is sleeping in Oscar's can, to Camp Uglyyuccy, Episode 1564, in which he transports Buffy and Cody to the airport to go home, and in Episode 1553, in which Oscar and Bruno go to the Cha-Cha Palace with Olivia, David, Mr.

While primarily transporting Oscar, there have also been occasions, particularly during season 12, in which he also transported other characters by can. When Oscar asks him a question during their appearance at the 1980 World Puppetry Festival, Bruno gets out a 'Well, uh.' before Oscar cuts him off and says that's enough. He had a brief line at the end of Follow That Bird, saying 'Sure, Boss!' when Oscar asked him to take a walk around the block, and similarly says 'okay' when Oscar tells him where to sit his trash can in Episode 1586. Though generally a silent character, one of the few times that Bruno spoke was in the song ' Put It in the Trash Can', which he sang as part of a singing group, ' Bruno and the Trashmen'. A piece of monofilament wire is strung from Bruno's lower jaw to the inside of Oscar's can, where Spinney could pull on it (using Oscar's hand) and manipulate his mouth movements.

Spinney could see through where the characters eyes would have been. The trash can was connected to an opening in Bruno's stomach. Since his arms are usually just holding onto Oscar's trash can, Caroll Spinney was able to perform Oscar as well as Oscar's left hand while inside the Bruno costume. Caroll Spinney, inspired by a puppet character on The Gong Show, conceived of a full-body garbage man who could physically carry Oscar. He was first seen on the show in Episode 1259.ĭuring the 1970s, the Sesame Street cast made live performances across the country, but there was no effective way to get Oscar to enter the stage. The wire that operates Bruno's mouth, glimpsed here in Episode 1586.īruno the Trashman is a sanitation engineer on Sesame Street who acts as personal chauffeur to Oscar the Grouch. He believes no one really gets hurt because it is all fake, but in his time in the Philadelphia underground wrestling ring, he opened the jugular of one his opponents with the sharp end of a trash can, he was cheered as a hero as his opponent was a terrorist, true American.Bruno on rollerskates in Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake.Īn instance of Bruno without a trash can in his arms. No one knows his real purpose, other than getting completely wasted and throw trash in the ring, followed by eating said trash followed by picking up the trash can and bashing his opponent in the head.

' Rising from the local trash dump, the man, the myth, the legend, the trash man was born.

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Professional wrestling career American Wrestling Federation/AWF

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