Papa Dee at Stockholms Stadsteater) Due to his prolific yet flexible imprint Papa Dee has enjoyed a successful career as one of Sweden’s most sought after voice artists dubbing cartoons and movies alike. He took on Eddie Murphy’s character in "Mulan" (1998) and "Mulan 2" (2005) as Mushu. In "Snow Dogs" (2002) he rendered Cuba Gooding Jr's character . Replacing Will Smith in the Swedish release of "Shark Tale"/"Hajar som Hajar" (2004) he featured as Oscar. In "Space Chimps" (2008) he voiced Andy Samberg's character Ham 3. As founding member of the NYC groove collective Brooklyn Funk Essentials he has recorded 4
Oscar the Grouch vocal track; however, occasionally, Matt Vogel instead operate the Big Bird puppet to a vocal track by Spinney, while he performs Oscar. The puppeteers have included Jerry Nelson and Jim Martin. In 2015, due to being diagnosed with dystonia, Spinney no longer puppeteered Oscar full-time on the show. Eric Jacobson became Spinney's understudy for Oscar; sometimes lip-syncing to a prerecorded vocal track by Spinney, and other times doing the voice himself. Jacobson started voicing Oscar for new material in Season 48 after Spinney's semi-retirement. On October 17, 2018, Spinney announced his full retirement from the character beginning the very same