Ocean City Invites Everybody to Take a Fall for Autumn

WHAT: Ocean City’s King and Queen of Plop (Fall Guy and Fall Gal) Contests

WHEN: 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 31

WHERE: Ninth Street Beach, adjacent to

WHAT: Amateur ploppers of all ages compete for the King and Queen of Plop trophies by falling down on the beach — in the most dramatic and interpretive ways. "The purpose of this event is to welcome the fall season to Ocean City," says Mark Soifer, Ocean City's public relations director. Entry is free. All contestants receive Right Proper Plopper Certificates to testify that they have competed in this unique contest.

WHAT ELSE: Ocean City notables welcome the fall season by performing artistic slow-motion plops (or falls) on the beach. They are not eligible for prizes.

Celebrity Ploppers include:

• Jerry Lukas, cartoonist, who will plop and draw cartoons lying on his back and sitting in the sand
• Aviator Ken Thorpe and crew who will sail paper airplanes and watch them fall
• Doug Jewell of Air Circus in a dueling pirates plop
• Nancy Fox and her Soprano Ploppers
• Muscle Men from Ocean City Fitness who will flex and fall
• Ocean City’s fabulous Walking Fish, who will walk to music and plop
• Martin Z. Mollusk in costume and the crab itself will appear for the first time together and pose for photos before they fall
• Miss Ocean City, Junior Miss and Little Miss will entertain with a flopping skit
• Little Miss Chaos and Little Mr. Chaos will plop on the sand and bang on pots and pans
• Shelley the Mermaid, aka Suzanne Muldowney, will perform a pantomime to music then sink to the sand
• Trash Buster, the City’s Canned Crusader, will emcee backed by the world’s only Wind Chimes Band and much more. 

CONTACT: Mark Soifer, 609-525-9292 or cell 609-364-4010