Trash Gordon is the name of a fictitious character on the long-running PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

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 children's television show Sesame Street

Sesame Street

Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...

. Played by Roscoe Orman

Roscoe Orman

Roscoe Hunter Orman is an American actor who plays Gordon Robinson on the television program Sesame Street. Orman joined the show in 1973, taking over as the third actor to play Gordon on the show...

, who also plays the character of Gordon on the show, Trash Gordon is a parody version of the science fiction

Science fiction

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 hero Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon

Flash Gordon is the hero of a science fiction adventure comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond. First published January 7, 1934, the strip was inspired by and created to compete with the already established Buck Rogers adventure strip. Also inspired by these series were comics such as Dash...

. Trash Gordon also lends his name to a recurring segment on Sesame Street, "The Adventures of Trash Gordon."

Within the context of Sesame Street, Trash Gordon is a character in a science fiction adventure book which Oscar the Grouch

Oscar the Grouch

Oscar the Grouch is a Muppet character on the television program Sesame Street. He has a green body , has no nose , and lives in a trash can. His favorite thing in life is trash; evidence for this is the song "I Love Trash". A running theme is his compulsive hoarding of seemingly useless items...

 reads to his pet worm Slimey

Slimey the Worm

Slimey the Worm is a light and dark orange striped worm that is the pet and friend of Oscar the Grouch on Jim Henson's Muppet show Sesame Street. Introduced in Season 13 , he is played by Martin P. Robinson and is the smallest of all characters on Sesame Street, being only 7 cm...

 to help him get to sleep. Trash is portrayed as an intergalactic traveler who encounters odd creatures on each planet he visits. In each adventure Trash Gordon escapes peril with nonviolent

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 solutions, thanks to his quick thinking; for instance, when a living pile of rotten banana

Banana

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s confronts Trash, it is soon chased away by an "Intergalactical Monkey" he happens to have with him.