Grouchland USA, "the land of a thousand stenches", is the hometown of Oscar the Grouch in the 1999 film The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland. In a 1989 episode of Sesame Street, Bob visited "Grouchytown", a neighborhood which was the opposite of Sesame Street. In the film, however, the only known way to get to Grouchland, despite apparently being in America, is through a swirling door portal in Oscar's trash can. Visitors are then deposited, through a pipe, onto a pile of trash bags, the gateway to Grouchland. Grouchland is ostensibly run by a Grouch Mayor.