Mr. Johnson (Sesame Street)

Mr. Johnson
Sesame Street character
Mr. Johnson with Grover in A Celebration of Me, Grover
First appearance	1969 (Fat Blue) 1972 (Mr. Johnson)
Created by	Jim Henson
Portrayed by	Jerry Nelson (1972– 2012) Matt Vogel (2012– present) David Rudman (in The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland)
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Aliases	Fat Blue, Mr. Blue, Mr. Blue Man, Sir (by Grover)
Gender	Male

Mr. Johnson is a Muppet character on Sesame Street. He is Grover's regular customer at Charlie's Restaurant and other restaurants as well.

Johnson is a fat blue Anything Muppet who has become increasingly frustrated over the years with the service Grover provides (in earlier skits, Mr. Johnson was calmer and Grover was the one who would get irritated, but the situation reversed over the years). Mr. Johnson is always called "Sir" politely by Grover, except for that one time Grover referred to him as a "weirdo" in "Grover And A Fly In My Soup".

Mr. Johnson was mainly performed by Jerry Nelson, and is mostly seen as a customer at Charlie's Restaurant.

In the restaurant sketches, Mr. Johnson goes to Charlie's Restaurant, which is a table service restaurant that he visits on a regular basis. Johnson is a nice and pleasant fellow, but can still be a bit impatient. He is usually in a hurry and has no time to wait, while Grover, the waiter, torments and harasses Mr. Johnson with his antics and mistakes. As a result, Mr. Johnson is eventually turned into the angry victim. However, in earlier sketches, Mr. Johnson and Grover's roles were switched; Johnson was calmer and Grover was usually the one who would get annoyed. Sketches typically end with Mr. Johnson either walking away in a huff, getting hurt, or fainting (which he does most of the time) out of frustration and annoyance. Despite the fact that Grover ruins his dining experiences, Mr. Johnson always goes back to Charlie's (he even says to himself, "Why do I keep coming back to this place?").

Other sequences with Grover and Mr. Johnson encountering each other include sketches on an airplane, at the airport, in a telegram office, at a rent-a-car agency, at fast food or other types of restaurants, at the movies, at a portrait studio, at a baseball game, at a department store, at a coffee shop, as a hot dog vendor, as a fitness gym trainer, as a salesman, as a game show host, as a street musician, as a flight attendant, in an art gallery, and in a taxi. In the sketches, something usually drives Johnson to lose his patience and get very infuriated with Grover.