Pop's Moon Palace (usually referred to as Pop's Diner) is a local diner owned by Pops. It serves as the favorite hangout of Johnny Bravo and Carl Chryniszzswics.
When the series underwent its first retool and introduced Pops and Carl, the diner became a new recurring setting for the duration of the second and third seasons. After the show was retooled to resemble the original format in Season 4, the diner only appeared in the episodes "My Funny Looking Friend" and "Johnny Makeover" with a more retro-looking redesign, resembling a mobile food truck. The diner was also topped with a sign reading "Diner."
Description[]
Pop's Moon Palace is an average diner that is known for serving disgusting and unsanitary food to customers. The food has very strange ingredients, using anything from exotic animals to hair gel. Some of the dishes seem normal at first glance, but have an unusual ingredient in them, such as corn chowder with aloe. It is unknown if every food item is made with unhealthy or unusual ingredients. The diner's food can also appear to be lethal, like in "Look Who's Drooling" when Pops made a pot of chili that was so spicy it could melt through the floorboards right to the center of the Earth, and in "Frankenbravo" where he was going to eat a shish kabob that was on fire and then accidentally burned Johnny by placing it in his hand.
Johnny and Carl both seem to enjoy Pops' food, often eating there despite being fully aware of the contents of most of the dishes he makes. Johnny was even once disgusted by Pops' corn chowder in "I, Fly". Bunny Bravo once brought Johnny and a talking lobster to eat at the diner in "Claws!".
The diner's kitchen also seems to not really apply any sanitation guidelines, as Pops mentioned to Carl in "Carl Be Not Proud" that his kitchen is filled with flies, and "A Gel For Johnny" shows Pops having no qualms about letting Johnny dunk his hair into a pot of his Five-Alarm Chili that contained Johnny's favorite hair gel brand as a secret ingredient, to which Pops states that they should not tell the health department about that.
Despite the diner's unsanitary state, it still manages to avoid being shutdown regardless. "Hail To The Chump" revealed that Pops keeps the diner from being shut down by bribing the mayor's health inspectors to keep quiet about what goes against public health codes.
The only employee at the diner is a large masked man named Bobo, who usually stays in the diner's kitchen helping cook food.
List of Foods Served[]
- Fries
- Pie
- Hamburger
- Sandwich
- Clam smoothie
- Clam juice
- Squid cake
- Root beer
- Buffalo wings
- Chili
- Chili with hair gel (and Johnny's hair)
- Corn chowder with aloe
- Ahi tuna tots
- Bald Eagle
- Soup
- Possum pie
- Raccoon nuggets
- Otter
- Loose meat special
- Shish kabob (on fire)
- Meatloaf
- Unflavored soy mulch (future, "Brave New Johnny")
List of Health Violations[]
- Pops letting Johnny dunk his hair into a pot of chili (A Gel For Johnny)
- Pops serving corn chowder with aloe (Cover Boy)
- Pops serving road kill and calling it "filet mignon" (Johnny's Guardian Angel)
- Pops letting the kitchen get infested with flies (I, Fly & Carl Be Not Proud)
- Pops serving red tide-contaminated tuna tots to members of the town government (Hail to the Chump)
- Pops serving chili with asbestos in it (Hail to the Chump)
- Pops serving meatloaf with radon in it (Hail to the Chump)
- Pops serving acidic-like chili (Look Who's Drooling)
Trivia[]
- In the Cartoon Network: Name That Toon trivia book, the diner is referred to as 'Pops' Soda Shoppe.' The diner appears to be a retooled version of the soda shoppe from Season 1, which was planned to be a recurring setting in Van Partible's vision of the second season. The shoppe was to be Johnny's "perennial favorite" and a great place to pick up chicks, which matches up with the diner.
- This partially explains why the diner was included in Season 4 despite Van's displeasure with the previous retool and the area only being used two times in his. Interestingly, Pops never appears inside and, outside of guest star Weird Al referring to it as 'Pops' diner' in "Johnny Makeover", it is indistinguishable from a generic diner. It can be assumed that it was only referred to as such due to continuity reasons.
- Johnny and Carl are not usually seen paying for their meals on-screen, however "Johnny's Inferno" and "Send In The Clones" suggest that Johnny does not pay and instead has a tab. Johnny is seen paying a dollar for chili in "Look Who's Drooling", so it is unknown how many of the meals he actually pays for.
- At the beginning of "The Color Of Mustard", there is an error where the lettering on the sign outside is changed to "Pop's Diner", removing the words 'Moon Palace'.
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