Trash Gordon

Trash Gordon is a science fiction adventure book which Oscar reads to Slimey to help him sleep. Introduced in Sesame Street Season 35, the segments appear at the end of every episode, and replace the older sponsor tags.

"Trash Gordon" features Gordon as a parody of "Flash Gordon," who continually finds himself stranded on strange planets and finding non-combative ways of overcoming his adversaries. Each ends with Gordon reminding viewers of the letter of the day and the number of the day.

The Adventures of Trash Gordon is also a newspaper comic strip, as seen in Elmo's Potty Time.

Starting with Season 38, Trash Gordon is only seen occasionally. Other times, Oscar reads Slimey a different story, which also ends with Gordon announcing the episode's sponsors.

Segments

Note that several of the beginning and ending sequences are reused in several episodes; thus the chapters feature random numbers that are duplicated and progress out of order.

• Planet Mud: Trash is attacked by the Muddy Mudons, until he gives them some apple pie a la mud.
  • Chapter 453; B, 8: Episode 4058
  • Chapter 269; J, 9: Episode 4066, Episode 4084

• Planet Wormhole-5: Trash combats of a gang of worms by reading them to sleep from a book of his own adventures.
  • Chapter 648; N, 3: Episode 4059
  • Chapter 692; Y, 5: Episode 4098

• Planet Gorgonzola: Trash's nasal passages are threatened by the Stinky Cheese Guys, whom he clears with a sneeze.
  • Chapter 538; D, 17: Episode 4060
  • Chapter 692; H, 18: Episode 4097

• Planet of Rotten Bananas: Trash saves himself by taking out an Intergalactic Space Monkey, which makes the "bananas split."
  • Chapter 269; E, 5: Episode 4061
  • Chapter 692; U, 3: Episode 4077
  • Chapter 648; E, 5: Episode 4087

• Planet Pizza: Trash is chased by a smelly pepperoni and anchovy pizza (with extra garlic), until he boxes it and sends it off to New Jersey.
  • Chapter 692; F, 6: Episode 4062
  • Chapter 648; R, 18: Episode 4074

• Planet Honk: Trash is cornered by a gang of noisy Honkers. He solves the problem by hosting a Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree.
  • Chapter 453, T, 20: Episode 4063
  • Chapter 538, X, 2: Episode 4080

• Planet Penguin: Trash feeds a big smelly fish to a gang of hungry penguins.
  • Chapter 648; A, 1: Episode 4064
  • Chapter 2; A, 1: Episode 4093

• Planet Dinger: Trash is almost driven off a cliff by Ding the Merciless, until he whips out his hotel bell, and they both have a ding-a-long.
  • Chapter 538; I, 7: Episode 4065

• Giant Space Chicken: Trash drives his spaceship around a giant space chicken, for no other reason than to get to the other side.
  • Chapter 692; K, 4: Episode 4067
  • Chapter 842; G, 6: Episode 4085

• Planet Very Hairy: Trash brushes and combs the hair of the planet's residents.
  • Chapter 453; L, 11: Episode 4068, Episode 4116

• Planet Chicken: Trash handles a mob of angry chickens by playing "Clucky Clucky Chicken" on a tape player.
  • Chapter 648; M, 12: Episode 4069

• Planet Oink: Trash is bothered by a gang of oinking pigs, until he puts on his earmuffs.
  • Chapter 538; O, 14: Episode 4070
  • Chapter 453; V, 8: Episode 4078

• Planet Snore-a-Lot: Trash can't get to sleep because of the snoring Snorecians. He solves the problem by playing his bugle and waking them up.
  • Chapter 269; H, 13: Episode 4071
  • Chapter 692; Z, 11: Episode 4082

• Planet Dirty Laundry: The smelly dirty laundry runs away when confronted with Flash's box of laundry detergent.
  • Chapter 692; P, 15: Episode 4072
  • Chapter 648; U, 8: Episode 4092

• Planet Stuck-in-the-Muck: Trash frees a duck from being stuck on a mucky rock - but then becomes stuck himself.
  • Chapter 453; Q, 16: Episode 4073

• Planet Scram: Trash is confronted by a gang of grouches shouting "SCRAM!" until he pulls the old snake-in-the-can trick on them.
  • Chapter 538; S, 19: Episode 4075
  • Chapter 453; S, 19: Episode 4094

• Giant, Grumpy Guppy: Trash scares away a giant grumpy guppy by pretending to be a kitty cat.
  • Chapter 269; G, 20: Episode 4076
  • Chapter 538; W, 0: Episode 4104, Episode 4113

• Planet Huff-and-Puff: Trash handles the wind of a Big Bad Wolf by fighting air with air.
  • Chapter 648; W, 5: Episode 4079
  • Chapter 842; K, 12: Episode 4088

• Giant Cranky Monster Baby: Trash handles the baby by giving it a giant bottle.
  • Chapter 269; Y, 7: Episode 4081
  • Chapter 269; R, 10: Episode 4100

• Planet Itch-on-Your-Back: Trash and the Itchies have an itch on their backs which they can't reach. They all cooperate by scratching each other's backs.
  • Chapter 241; D, 4: Episode 4083

• Planet Trashpile: Trash is cornered by giant piles of trash, which he scares away with a trash can.
  • Chapter 269; Q, 8: Episode 4086
  • Chapter 453; N, 13: Episode 4105

• Planet Triangle: Trash finds himself taunted by its residents until playing his triangle.
  • Chapter 648; O, 4: Episode 4089
  • Chapter 538; B, 3: Episode 4096, Episode 4118

• Planet of the Shoes: Trash plays music to get a pair of wingtips to dance away.
  • Chapter 842; T, 2: Episode 4090, Episode 4121

• Planet Nothing: Trash breaks a cycle of inactivity by reading a book of his own adventures.
  • Chapter 241; I, 0: Episode 4091

• Space Bunnies: Surrounded by Space Bunnies (all played by Benny Rabbit, Trash throws a head of cabbage, thereby dispersing the crowd.
  • Chapter 2; Z, 14: Episode 4095, Episode 4125

• Planet Pots and Pans: Trash bangs the biggest pot tops together, persuading the Pots and Pansians to stop doing the same.
  • Chapter 241; P, 15: Episode 4099, Episode 4112

• Planet Spaghetti: Trash distracts a pasta dish with a pair of meatballs.
  • Chapter 538; X, 17: Episode 4101, Episode 4126
  • Chapter 2; F, 11: Episode 4103

• Planet of the Cakes: On the Crummy Planet of the Cakes, Trash blows out a birthday cake's candle.
  • Chapter 453; V, 16: Episode 4102, Episode 4133

• Planet Double-Trouble: Trash Gordon comes face to face with his double.
  • Chapter 692; S, 5: Episode 4106, Episode 4110

• Planet Surprise: Trash looks for a surprise, but gives up. Suddenly, a gang of Surprisians pop up and surprise him with a party!
  • Chapter 842; L, 7: Episode 4108

• Planet Spaghetti (2): Trash fends off a meatball with a sneeze.
  • Chapter 453; M, 4: Episode 4109
  • Chapter 692; S, 5: Episode 4127

• Planet of the Giant Ringing Telephone: Trash answers the phone.
  • Chapter 648; Q, 10: Episode 4111
  • Chapter 2; G, 1: Episode 4130

• Planet of the Stinky Sock: Trash copes with its lone resident by taking off his own sock, forming a pair.
  • Chapter 269; O, 7: Episode 4114, Episode 4147
  • Chapter 241; E, 18: Episode 4129

• Planet Upside-Down: Trash turns himself upside down to avoid frightening the Upside-Downians.
  • Chapter 692; H, 3: Episode 4115

• Planet Screechy Violins: Trash conducts the grouches' playing with a baton.
  • Chapter 648; J, 9: Episode 4117

• Furballs: Trash encounters a flock of furballs.
  • Chapter 241; F, 17: Episode 4119

• Planet Fairytale: Trash contacts Little Bo Peep by interstellar cell phone to bring her sheep home.
  • Chapter 2; I, 20: Episode 4120
  • Chapter 842; Y, 5: Episode 4132, Episode 4136

• Planet Vacation: Trash is heroically tired and relaxes on a lawn chair.
  • Chapter 453; A, 13: Episode 4122
  • Chapter 692; R, 8: Episode 4128, Episode 4141

• Planet Conga Line: Trash is unable to stop dancing ... until he changes the Conga Liners' radio station.
  • Chapter 648; U, 12: Episode 4123
  • Chapter 538; K, 19: Episode 4134, Episode 4151

• Planet Booboo: Trash bandages the Booboobians' booboos.
  • Chapter 538; N, 6: Episode 4124

• Planet Pebble In Your Shoe: Trash shakes the pebble out of his shoe.
  • Chapter 648; D, 11: Episode 4131

External links

• Flash Gordon Wiki