Grover's restaurant is owed a plopping! ('Sesame Street' Wednesday)

Today is Plop Day. The now-legendary Plop Lecture occurred 21 years ago today!

In the utopia of 'Sesame Street', however, this concept is alien - as nobody has ever had to go to the bathroom in the entire history of the show. Ever notice that?

The lack of restrooms on the ol' Ses is unfortunate, when you consider what happened in the sketch profiled here today. It's one of many that features the bald, blue, male Anything Muppet with a brown mustache attempting to buy lunch at Grover's restaurant.

In this hilarious skit (probably from the '70s), Grover's eatery runs out of every menu item except milk:



This is notable as one of the few 'Sesame Street' segments in which a character almost uses profanity. At :08, the mustachioed Muppet mutters, "Son of a..."

What does this have to do with Plop Day? If I was the blue Anything Muppet, I'd be so frustrated by this restaurant's poor service that I'd make sure something got thrown in the toilet. A menu, a napkin holder, a tablecloth, anything. If the guy had lots of time, he could just get up and leave and forget about the whole ordeal. But he's clearly on his lunch hour, and he works too hard to have his lunch break squandered by Grover's serial ineptitude.

So a good plopping is in order.

Grover's diner being out of every menu item kind of reminds me of that tourist trap restaurant I ate at during my North Carolina trip last year.