Mr. Johnson in the 1980's

[Oscarfan]

Is it me or did Mr. Johnson make very few apperences in the 80's. I mean, he appeared in the early 80's, but there were'nt many sketches with him in it during the late 80's.

 

[minor muppetz]

I thought about this, too, and he's not with the Sesame Street gang in The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (despite Grover being a waiter at that event), or A Muppet Family Christmas (I'll cut his absence from The Mupets Celebrate Jim Henson a little slack since the finale didn't seem to try to include as big a group of Muppets as those other situations).

It seems like Mr. Johnson didn't start to become a major (or semi-major) character until the 1990s. It seems like he wasn't in many 1970s sketches, either (though the puppet was uses in quite a few sketches without Grover, though most likely not meant to be the same). I don't know whetehr the poetic memory sketch is from the late 1970s or early 1980s, but other than that the only segments I know of from the 1980s are Grover the singing telegram deliverer, Grover the singing and dancing waiter, and the airport resturaunt sketch (and that one I'm mostly just guessing that it's not from the 1990s).

It seems like it wasn't until the 1990s when Mr. Johnson would have the misfortune of having Grover serve him almost everywhere, besides a resturaunt, and also then when it was common for him to even go to other resturaunts (besides Charlie's) only to have Grover as his waiter. Then in the early 2000s he wasn't seen often, and then seemed to have something of a comeback in 2004, and has made at least one new appearance every season since.

 

[Oscarfan]

I don't think he came back in 2004; it was 2005. It was in the episode where Grover was Gina's vet assistant. The next season, he started appearing in more skits.

 

[minor muppetz]

I don't think he came back in 2004; it was 2005. It was in the episode where Grover was Gina's vet assistant. The next season, he started appearing in more skits.

Well, he had a featured role in A Celebration of Me, Grover! which was released in october 2004, and the next season of Sesame Street began in april 2005 (and then there was a long gap and then most of the next season was shown in august 2005 and then the last two episodes were broadcast in december 2005).

 

[Ilikemuppets]

Didn't he appear twice last season? Season 37?

 

[Oscarfan]

Didn't he appear twice last season? Season 37?

He appeared in the following episodes from the the past seasons he was in:

Season 37:

• Epiosde 4111 (Charlie's Russian Reasuraunt sketch)
• Episode 4121 (Pizzaria Dos sketch)
• Episode 4128 ("Put a Lid on It")
• Episode 4132 (Outrageous Makeover)

Season 38:

• Episode 4139 (Rhyming Day at Charlie's)
• Episode 4140 (Street story cameo)
• Episode 4150 (Grover the flight attendant)
• Episode 4156 (Outrageous Makeover)

 

[minor muppetz]

While looking at Muppet Wiki, I noticed that the earliest-known appearance of the "O'Briens Fast Food Restaurant" sketch was a season 20 episode. That's one more 1980s appearance!