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 appeared at the end of every episode, and replaced the older sponsor tags. 
"Trash Gordon" features Gordon as a parody of "Flash Gordon," who finds himself stranded on strange planets and comes up with non-combative ways of overcoming his adversaries. Each segment ends with Gordon reiterating the sponsors of the day.
During 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. In two episodes, The Adventures of Gina the Veterinarian replaced Trash. The segment was dropped by the end of the season.
The Adventures of Trash Gordon is also a newspaper comic strip, as seen in the 2006 direct-to-video special Elmo's Potty Time. In the 2007 book Abby Cadabby's Rhyme Time, Oscar is reading Trash Gordon: Space Glory.
==Segments==
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.
===Season 35 (2004)===
Adventure 	Description 	Appearance(s)
Planet Mud 	Trash is attacked by the Muddy Mudons, until he gives them some apple pie a la mud. 	
*Chapter 453; B, 8Episode 4058
*Chapter 269; J, 9Episode 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. 
Video: Bedtime with Elmo (sponsors scene cut out)	
*Chapter 648; N, 3Episode 4059
*Chapter 692; Y, 5Episode 4098
Planet Gorgonzola 	Trash's nasal passages are threatened by the Stinky Cheese Guys, whom he clears with a sneeze. 	
*Chapter 538; D, 17Episode 4060
*Chapter 692; H, 18Episode 4097
Planet of Rotten Bananas 	Trash saves himself by taking out an Intergalactic Space Monkey, which makes the "bananas split." 	
*Chapter 269; E, 5Episode 4061
*Chapter 692; U, 3Episode 4077
*Chapter 648; E, 5Episode 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, 6Episode 4062
*Chapter 648; R, 18Episode 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, 20Episode 4063
*Chapter 538, X, 2Episode 4080
Planet Penguin 	Trash feeds a big smelly fish to a gang of hungry penguins. 	
*Chapter 648; A, 1Episode 4064
*Chapter 2; A, 1Episode 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, 7Episode 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, 4Episode 4067
*Chapter 842; G, 6Episode 4085
Planet Very Hairy 	Trash brushes and combs the hair of the planet's residents. 	
*Chapter 453; L, 11Episode 4068, Episode 4116
Planet Chicken 	Trash handles a mob of angry chickens by playing "Clucky Clucky Chicken" on a tape player. 	
*Chapter 648; M, 12Episode 4069
Planet Oink 	Trash is bothered by a gang of oinking pigs, until he puts on his earmuffs. 	
*Chapter 538; O, 14Episode 4070
*Chapter 453; V, 8Episode 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, 13Episode 4071
*Chapter 692; Z, 11Episode 4082
Planet Dirty Laundry 	The smelly dirty laundry runs away when confronted with Trash's box of laundry detergent. 	
*Chapter 692; P, 15Episode 4072
*Chapter 648; U, 8Episode 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, 16Episode 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, 19Episode 4075
*Chapter 453; S, 19Episode 4094
Giant, Grumpy Guppy 	Trash scares away a giant grumpy guppy by pretending to be a kitty cat. 	
*Chapter 269; G, 20Episode 4076
*Chapter 538; W, 0Episode 4104, Episode 4113
Planet Huff-and-Puff 	Trash handles the wind of a Big Bad Wolf by fighting air with air. 	
*Chapter 648; W, 5Episode 4079
*Chapter 842; K, 12Episode 4088
Giant Cranky Monster Baby	Trash handles the baby by giving it a giant bottle. 	
*Chapter 269; Y, 7Episode 4081
*Chapter 269; R, 10Episode 4100
===Season 36 (2005)===
Adventure 	Description 	Appearance(s)
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, 4Episode 4083
Planet Trashpile 	Trash is cornered by giant piles of trash, which he scares away with a trash can. 	
*Chapter 269; Q, 8Episode 4086
*Chapter 453; N, 13Episode 4105
Planet Triangle 	Trash finds himself taunted by the planet's residents until playing his triangle. 	
*Chapter 648; O, 4Episode 4089
*Chapter 538; B, 3Episode 4096, Episode 4118
Planet of the Shoes 	Trash plays music to get a pair of wingtips to dance away. 	
*Chapter 842; T, 2Episode 4090, Episode 4121
Planet Nothing 	Trash breaks a cycle of inactivity by reading a book of his own adventures. 	
*Chapter 241; I, 0Episode 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, 14Episode 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, 15Episode 4099, Episode 4112
Planet Spaghetti 	Trash distracts a pasta dish with a pair of meatballs. 	
*Chapter 538; X, 17Episode 4101, Episode 4126
*Chapter 2; F, 11Episode 4103
Planet of the Cakes 	On the Crummy Planet of the Cakes, Trash blows out a birthday cake's candle. 	
*Chapter 453; V, 16Episode 4102, Episode 4133
Planet Double-Trouble 	Trash Gordon comes face to face with his double. 	
*Chapter 692; C, 2Episode 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, 7Episode 4108
===Season 37 (2006)===
Adventure 	Description 	Appearance(s)
Planet Spaghetti 	Trash fends off a meatball with a sneeze. 	
*Chapter 453; M, 4Episode 4109, Episode 4154
*Chapter 842; S, 5Episode 4127
Planet of theGiant Ringing Telephone	Trash conquers the phone by answering it. 	
*Chapter 648; Q, 10Episode 4111
*Chapter 2; G, 1Episode 4130
Planet of the Stinky Sock 	Trash copes with its lone resident by taking off his own sock, forming a pair. 	
*Chapter 269; O, 7Episode 4114, Episode 4147
*Chapter 241; E, 18Episode 4129
Planet Upside-Down 	Trash turns himself upside down to avoid frightening the Upside-Downians. 	
*Chapter 692; H, 3Episode 4115, Episode 4155
Planet Screechy Violins 	Trash conducts the Grouches' playing with a baton. 	
*Chapter 648; J, 9Episode 4117
Furballs 	Trash encounters a flock of furballs, which he finds are actually friendly. 	
*Chapter 241; F, 17Episode 4119
Planet Fairytale 	Trash contacts Little Bo Peep by interstellar cell phone to bring her sheep home. 	
*Chapter 2; I, 20Episode 4120
*Chapter 842; Y, 5Episode 4132, Episode 4136
Planet Vacation 	Trash is heroically tired and relaxes on a lawn chair. 	
*Chapter 453; A, 13Episode 4122
*Chapter 692; R, 8Episode 4128, Episode 4141
Planet Conga Line 	Trash is unable to stop dancing ... until he changes the Conga Liners' radio station.	
*Chapter 648; U, 12Episode 4123
*Chapter 538; K, 19Episode 4134, Episode 4151
Planet Booboo 	Trash bandages the Booboobians' booboos. 	
*Chapter 538; N, 6Episode 4124
Planet Pebble In Your Shoe 	Trash shakes the pebble out of his shoe, inspiring the Pebble People to do the same. 	
*Chapter 648; D, 11Episode 4131
==Notes==
* Gordon wasn't always eager to be a superhero, dismissing Captain Vegetable's suggestion that he could be the next superhero in the mid-1980s. 
* Based on the sketches and mentions of the chapters, it is revealed that this book has a minimum of 843 chapters in it.
==External links==
*Flash Gordon Wiki
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