Fat Blue (left) with Grover, in A Celebration of Me, Grover

Fat Blue on Sesame Street

Fat Blue is a character in the children's television show Sesame Street. Fat Blue is mostly seen as a customer at Charlie's Restaurant. The character during the first season was performed by Jim Henson. The character for a short time was performed by David Rudman. The character is mainly performed by Jerry Nelson. Fat Blue is also referred to as either Mr. Johnson or Fred Johnson and often as Sir by Grover. Fat Blue and Grover at a tribute, Sesame Street This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Fat Blue and Grover at a tribute, Sesame Street This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Fat Blue, Sesame Street This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Fat Blue, Sesame Street This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Childrens television shows are television programs designed for and marketed to children, normally aired during the morning and afternoon hours, mainly before and after school. ... Sesame Street is an American educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, combining both education and entertainment. ... Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was the most widely known American puppeteer in modern American television history. ... David Rudman is the voice-over talent behind many Sesame Street characters, notably Baby Bear and Cookie Monster. ... Jerry Nelson (born July 10, 1934) is a Muppet puppeteer. ... Grover and Kimiko on Sesame Street A Celebration of Me, Grover DVD cover Grover shown alongside another character from Sesame Street, Kermit the Frog, on the cover of The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street. ...

Synopsis

In the restaurant skits, Mr. Johnson goes to Charlie's, which is a table service restaurant he visits on a regular basis. Johnson is in a rush, used to be nice and pleasant, both angry and hungry, also is impatient, and has no time to wait while Grover, a waiter, torments him with his antics and mistakes, eventually turned into the angry victim. Skits end with Johnson either walking away in a huff or fainting. Despite the fact that Grover ruins his dining experiences, causing him to complain on his screwed up orders, and how cold the foods, on every visit prompting him to sometimes utter phrases such as "Oh waiter", "From now on I'm going to bring my lunch to work in a paper sack", "The same old guy that gives me trouble every time I come in here", "I'm gonna start bringing my lunch in a brown paper bag", "Oh no it's you again", "Oh no it's him", "Oh no it's you", "It's you", "Oh it's you, what are doing here", "Oh no it's him again", "It's him", "Not him again", "What's he doing following me", "Why me, why always me", "I don't want any, I don't need any", "That's not my order", When you wait on me, I don't get what I want, and it takes forever", Johnson always returns to the restaurant. Grover and Kimiko on Sesame Street A Celebration of Me, Grover DVD cover Grover shown alongside another character from Sesame Street, Kermit the Frog, on the cover of The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street. ...

Other sequences with Grover/Johnson interaction include skits on a plane, in a telegram office, also in a rental car agency, at fast food restaurants, other restaurants, also a chicken restaurant, at the movies, and at the movie theather counter, at portrait studio, also at the baseball game, inside the airport, as a food vendor, also as a fitness gym trainer, also as a salesman, and in a taxi. Despite the fact that Grover ruins his other experiences, causing him to get angry. Other skits end with Johnson walking in a huff, getting hurt or fainting. Look up taxi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Grover/Johnson also interaction in apartment skits at 14 Sesame Street, where there is a singing and dancing telgram, and screws up on telegrams, Johnson then ends up fainting, and getting hurt, then a wig salesman where Johnson wakes up, and open the door, and then slams it, doesn't want any wigs, and tries on wigs, and then tries a guinea pig, asks how do you take care of it, the guinea pig says "Feed me, weak, weak, weak, weak", and Johnson ends up fainting, also as speedy pizza delivery man, where he keeps screwing up on Johnson's order, and Johnson end up fainting. As Mr. Johnson reads at home, Grover bursts in with a bullhorn introducing "Outrageous Makeover: Home Addition." Under Grover's guidance, Biff, Sully, and Stella rearrange his furniture and add three doors to the room! They then remove all the doors, forcing Grover to stay. Mr. Johnson then starts to cry. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the species Cavia porcellus. ... biff is a mail notification system for UNIX. // Usage When a new mail message is delivered, biff alerts the recipient so he can read it immediately. ... Look up sully in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up stella in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

He also appeared in a skit set in the park, when he is tired of getting Grover as his waiter and resorts to eating his lunch in the park, but Grover, who is taking the day off, bothers him as a guitar player. When Grover asks if he'd like to make a request, Mr. Johnson replies, "I certainly would. Go away! And let me have my lunch." Grover, taking this as two song requests, sings two songs, titled Go Away and Let Me Have My Lunch. Mr. Johnson leaves for Charlie's, knowing that Grover will not be there.

He also appeared in a skit set in the park again, Johnson says "Such as pretty day, I really should eat my lunch here in the park, what can I get to eat", where he is hungry, and wants something to eat, unaware that Grover is selling hot dogs, until he hears "Hot Dogs", and sees Grover, and says "Oh it's you, what are doing here", Grover respones "I am selling hot dogs", wants a long hot dog with mustard, and finds out that Grover is out of long hot dogs, then wants two short hot dogs with mustard, also finds out the Grover is out of short hot dogs, and says "Are you telling me that you don't have any long hot dogs, and you don't have any short hot dogs", has to get more hot dogs, then puts the uniform on Johnson, and gets him angry, and Johnson ends up fainting, then Grover splits.

In one skit he attended Pizzeria Dos, where the two twins gave him two slices of pizza, even through he asked for one, and two grape juices, even through he also asked for one, and then they produce another one of him, and they both end up fainting.

He attended a nightclub lounge in one segment of Sesame Street, and was pestered constantly by the Squirrel Nut Zippers. The character made a brief appearance in Elmo in Grouchland, puppeteered by David Rudman. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (1999) is the second movie based on the characters of the childrens television series Sesame Street (after Follow that Bird). ... David Rudman is the voice-over talent behind many Sesame Street characters, notably Baby Bear and Cookie Monster. ...

Some sources claim that Mr. Johnson was first seen in season one; while the "Fat Blue" Muppet pattern was used at this point, he was just an Anything Muppet. It wasn't until a few years in that the long-running series of skits began and Mr. Johnson was developed. Anything Muppets are empty Muppet heads. ...

In the series itself, the character come to be referred to as "Mr. Johnson", "Sir", and "Fred" (and once Mr. Smith, Mr. Starr, Ed, Binky, Uncle Jay, and Mr. Blue). However the name "Fat Blue" was adopted earlier by the fan community based on the multipurpose Muppet Workshop pattern used to create him due to his unknown name at the time. Mr. Johnson often resembles actor Dennis Franz. Dennis Franz (born Dennis Franz Schlacta, October 28, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is a German-American actor best known for his roles as Andy Sipowicz, a gritty police detective in the television series NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues and Beverly Hills Buntz. ...

External links

• Muppet Wiki: Fat Blue
• Sesame Workshop Newsletter - September 12, 2000, discusses Fat Blue