Spill O'Reilly

On the November 24, 2009, episode of news commentary program The O'Reilly Factor, Sesame Workshop Executive Vice President Sherrie Westin appeared as a guest. During his segment, she introduced host Bill O'Reilly to his Sesame Street counterpart, an opinionated version of Oscar the Grouch named Spill O'Reilly.

Spill, whose regular employer is the "Grouch News Network," proceeded to take over his counterpart's Fox News program, initiating what he deemed the "No Spew Zone." He then noted that grouches are, by nature, fair and balanced, because they are equally irritated by everyone.

In 2007, Sesame Street debuted an episode in which Oscar the Grouch, reporting for the Grouch News Network, referred to a station called "Pox News" and called it "trashy" (a pun on Oscar's home, a trash can). The episode was the source of some controversy online in 2009, after the episode re-run, prompting O'Reilly to comment on the show's apparent bias against him and the Fox News Network. This prompted the appearance by Westin and "Spill O'Reilly," to counter these claims and point out that grouches don't favor any news channel.http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/07/oreilly-ambush-oscar/