Sign Cartoons



A series of Sesame Street cartoons featured a man who wore a green shirt, a bow tie, and pink trousers, whose head and arms appeared to be smaller than the rest of his body.

The sketches consist of the man running across a sign by chance. In some of them, the letters in the signs were mixed up, necessitating re-arrangement into their proper order (he would often mutter about the perpetrator behind these scramblings). He would then slowly pronounce the completed sign text several times. After triumphantly calling out the word(s), the man would find himself in a number of humorous situations.

The sketches are as follows:

One Way - Traffic passes by the man in reverse.

Coffee - A construction worker descends from off-screen sitting on an I-beam, requesting two regular coffees, and 20 more with sugar. He also asks for tea.

Help -

Hand -

Bingo - After saying "BINGO," a robot-like cleaning contraption comes on-screen and scrubs the man's foot.

Walk Tall - A snake tells the man that all he (the snake) can do is "crawl tall."

Kiss Me - A big barking dog comes up and kisses the man.

Oink - A pig comes up, wanting to share in a good laugh with the man.

School - After a bunch of kids come running by, a girl goes before the man and says it's Saturday. That leaves him to say: "No school."

Don't Walk - After reading this sign, the man has to crawl away.

Wet Paint - A man and a woman pass by and smear wet green paint on the man's shirt.

Milk - The man has a run-in with a cow.

Taxi - The man inadvertently hails a cab. This segment was included as a bonus feature on Old School: Volume 2.

Burp - After saying this word, the man is taught good manners.

Grow - The man shows off his gardening prowess with a wildly-growing flower.

Stop - After reading the sign, two cars screech to a stop, one on each side of him.