| Sesame Street | |
| Plot | Grover, Safety Monitor |
| Air date | May 16, 1974 |
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) |
| Sponsors | V, X, 9 |
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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 | SCENE 1 | Maria, David, Gordon, and the kids pester Oscar the Grouch at his can about helping them teach the audience the concept of big, bigger, and biggest, but he's not having it. In response, he produces a sign he's made with a definitive answer to their plea: "NO". They continue urge him on, asking for his help, so Oscar emerges from his can with a bigger sign to help send the same message. Still his neighbors persist, so Oscar reveals the biggest sign of the three to really drive home his response. They all thank him as Maria explains that he's inadvertently helped them teach big, bigger, and biggest after all. |
 | Cartoon | A girl tries on big, bigger, and the biggest shoes. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0252) |
 | Muppets | Kermit and Grover build a snowman. The snowball head is big, the next snowball is even bigger, and the one on the bottom is biggest. (First: Episode 0336) |
 | Cartoon | A trainer announces that his talking dog will say YES, but he says NO instead. Artist: Derek Lamb |
 | Muppets | Herry Monster holds a sign with the word "NO" on it and tells Ernie that he can make him read his sign. Ernie replies "Oh no you can't!", and eventually gets the joke. He tries it on Bert, but the gag backfires when Bert bets he can get Ernie to read the sign. (First: Episode 0416) |
 | Cartoon | Jazz #9 (First: Episode 0137) |
| | SCENE 2 | Grover has designated himself the Official Sesame Street Safety Monitor and uniformed himself appropriately. He spots Maria in the yard taking a nap in a chair and notes that her shoelaces are untied, which is very dangerous. As she sleeps, he attempts to tie her laces, but finds that it's more difficult than he realized, and ties her shoes together in several knots. When she wakes up, she says she loosened her laces to relax, but intended to tie them again after her nap. Grover explains that he's done this for her, so she gathers her books and begins to continue on with her day, but stumbles and falls. Grover berates her for not watching where she's going. |
 | Cartoon | A man slips on his daughter's skate, and she points out that it makes him feel angry. (First: Episode 0542) |
 | Song | Joe Raposo sings "There's a Bird On Me." (First: Episode 0416) |
 | Cartoon | "Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in. (First: Episode 0006) |
 | Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola talk about the letter X. (First: Episode 0560) |
 | Film | The celebration of Chinese New Year |
| | SCENE 3 | Grover blows his safety whistle at David when he sees he's piled boxes next to Hooper's Store. Grover explains they'd be in the way if a rhinoceros charged down Sesame Street and someone needed to take cover around the corner. David finds the scenario ridiculous, but Grover manages to convince him to stack the boxes in front of the door. Tired from all the work, Grover turns to go inside for a soda, but knocks over all the boxes. |
 | Muppets | The Count sings "The Song of the Count." (First: Episode 0507) |
 | Film | Nine Song (Song of Nine) (First: Episode 0016) |
 | Song | "Here Come the Beans" (First: Episode 0537) |
 | Cartoon | Speech Balloon: X for X-ray (First: Episode 0064) |
 | Film | The Alphabet Dancers make a letter X. (First: Episode 0456) |
| | SCENE 4 | Grover makes his Safety Monitor rounds outside Big Bird's nest where he finds a big mound of brown, shaggy fur blocking the door. He walks around to Big Bird who's playing checkers with Mr. Snuffleupagus and explains the situation. When Snuffy gets up so they can inspect the door, he moves out of the way and Big Bird doesn't see a blocked door. Snuffy sits back down, and when Grover makes his way around the front again, he's sees the door blocked as before. He explains his frustration to Gordon and Maria who accompany him to see what's going on, but when he returns, Big Bird says they finished the game of checkers and Snuffy went home. Grover pauses and tells Big Bird that he has some imagination. |
 | Cartoon | Monster in the dark (finding a light switch) (First: Episode 0493) |
 | Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At the movies, a lady with a tall hat sits in front of Ernie and Bert. She block's Ernie's view, so he asks her if she'd mind taking it off. When she places the hat on the seat next to her, Bert's view is now obstructed. (First: Episode 0538) |
 | Animation | Sand Alphabet: X / x (First: Episode 0638) |
 | Film | Animal camouflage (kid VO's) Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0366) |
 | Cartoon | Joe's Lap (limerick) (First: Episode 0617) |
 | Cartoon | The story of an old woman who lived in a nine. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0512) |
| | Film | (LA) Sunrise, Sunset (0:46) |
| Muppets | Visual Thinking: A hipster and a square imagine shapes. (First: Episode 0361) |
 | Cartoon | Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy V Artist: John Hubley (First: Episode 0311) |
 | Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie wants Bert to pretend to be mad, but Bert says that he can't, because he has nothing to feel angry about. Ernie asks Bert to pretend that he borrowed Bert's paper clip collection, and lost his favorite paper clip. The thought makes Bert really mad. Bert gets tired out, and tells Ernie that he can't get mad anymore. Ernie makes a confession -- he really did lose Bert's favorite paper clip. (First: Episode 0216) |
| | Cast | Wally and Ralph: Wally sits alone in a room holding a giant key while Ralph tries to come in through a locked door. Wally suggests using the giant key to break the door down, but Ralph climbs in through the window to show him how a key is used to unlock a door. Ralph can now come in. (First: Episode 0338) |
 | Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin (First: Episode 0052) |
  | Muppets | Guy Smiley hosts the game show "What's My Part?". The contestant is Mr. Nose. The panelists -- Bennett Snerf, Arlene Frantic, and Cookie Monster -- don't know what a nose is, because none of them have noses. (First: Episode 0131) |
 | Film | A gorilla chases a woman, who registers her protest by shouting "No." She triumphantly drags the gorilla off. (First: Episode 0546) |
| | SCENE 5 | Prince Charming sings "One of These Things" and asks the kids to sort shoes. In the end, he's left wondering why he's always left with just one shoe. |
 | Muppets | Three monsters (Billy, Fenwick, and Pamela) demonstrate big, bigger, and biggest. (First: Episode 0474) |
 | Cartoon | The great Alphonso and his trained X's (EKA: Episode 0299) |
 | Muppets | Grover, Herry Monster, and Billy rearrange themselves in different ways and count to three, until they get exhausted and faint. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0364) |
| | SCENE 6 | Prince Charming wanders around with the shoe measuring against peoples' feet, sighing. |
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