Peter Sallis and he later starred alongside Brenda Blethyn, Kevin Whately and Anna Massey in the one-off ITV1 drama "Belonging" (2004). While a student in 1983, animator Nick Park wrote to Sallis asking him if he would voice his character Wallace, an eccentric inventor. Sallis agreed to do so for a donation of £50 to his favourite charity. The work was eventually released in 1989 and Aardman Animations' "Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out" went on to win a BAFTA award. Sallis reprised his role in the Oscar- and BAFTA Award-winning films "The Wrong Trousers" in 1993 and "A Close Shave"
Oscar the Grouch mob until the program's cancellation, but didn't win much money. Oscar has made appearances on Canadian public broadcasting advertising "childhood diabetes awareness days" at the Montreal Canadiens hockey games. The fumetti comic "Twisted Toyfare Theater" once featured Oscar in an issue in which he sings a variation of his "I Love Trash" song about Wesley Snipes' movies. In the end, Wesley Snipes (as Blade) decapitates him. Beginning in 2008, Oscar became the mascot for Waste Reduction Week in Canada, an environmental campaign. In an episode of "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy", an Oscar-like character emerges from a dustbin