Editing Grover (section)

===Charlie's Restaurant===
One of the more frequent sketch segments featuring Grover involves him taking a series of customer service jobs. One of his customers is always Mr. Johnson, a balding, mustachioed customer who invariably becomes frustrated at Grover's bumbling service and/or his (Grover's) insistence that he is serving him properly.

The first Grover-Mr. Johnson series of sketches, set at "Charlie's Restaurant", aired in the early 1970s; here, Grover is employed as a [[waiting staff|waiter]] and Mr. Johnson is his customer.

The sketches followed the same basic premise: Mr. Johnson would order a menu item, Grover would serve the customer, a disagreement results (usually) as a result of Grover's mistakes, and Grover attempting (often, more than once) to correct the mistake with varied degrees of success. Under this backdrop, the sketches served to teach the childhood audience basic concepts such as same and different, big and little, hot and cold, the alphabet, following directions and patience, among other things. This was even parodied in an episode of ''[[Monsterpiece Theater]]'', where Grover had to keep rushing out of the kitchen to tell Johnson that they had run out of parts of his order. Naturally, [[Alistair Cookie]] introduced this performance as "Much Ado About Nothing".

Repeats of the "Charlie's Restaurant" series of sketches aired for many years on ''Sesame Street''. In the years since, new Grover-Mr. Johnson sketches have been produced, with Grover taking other customer service jobs and Mr. Johnson as his hapless customer. Every time, Mr. Johnson recognizes Grover as "that waiter from Charlie's".

Grover's jobs have ranged from a taxi driver and a photographer to a flight attendant and [[singing telegram]] artist. One sketch parodied the ABC television series ''[[Extreme Makeover: Home Edition]]'' in a segment where Grover began remodeling Mr. Johnson's home despite his express wishes. In another one, Mr. Johnson is the only patron, and Grover is the only actor, for a production of ''Spider-Monster: The Musical'', a parody of the musical ''[[Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark]]''. The play is, of course, a complete calamity and finally comes crashing down on both of them.