Sign Sounds

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.

Segments

Picture	EKA	Description
	Episode 1120	Grow The man shows off his gardening prowess with a wildly-growing flower.
	Episode 1121	Dirty The man combines the word and then a glove grabbed him for a while to make him dirty.
	Episode 1136	Taxi The man inadvertently hails a cab. Not only does he walk up to the sign, which is far across from him, the sign floats right toward him when he has stopped.
	Episode 1136	Kiss Me A big barking dog comes up and kisses the man.
	Episode 1142	Hot Dog The man has a run-in with a dog riding a bicycle. This was one clip where the man didn't walk up to the sign; the sign floated over to him while he was doing push-ups.
	Episode 1156	Bingo After saying "BINGO," a robot-like cleaning contraption comes on-screen and scrubs the man's foot.
	Episode 1161	Walk Tall A snake tells the man that all he (the snake) can do is "crawl tall."
	Episode 1164	Bad Dog After the man reads the sign, a dog comes in and protests, "I'm not a bad dog! What did I do? What did I do?"
	Episode 1169	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.
	Episode 1186	Burp After saying this word, the man is taught good manners. This is another clip where the man didn't walk up to the sign; instead, the sign floated over to him while he was juggling.
	Episode 1188	Milk The man has a run-in with a cow pushing a baby carriage, and she picks him up and holds him as she takes the bottle of milk out of the carriage and he drinks it while she is holding him.
	Episode 1199	Wet Paint A man and a woman pass by and smear wet green paint on the man's shirt.
	Episode 1289	Oink A pig comes up, wanting to share in a good laugh with the man.
	Episode 1293	Help
	Episode 2282	One Way Traffic passes by the man in reverse.
	Episode 2405	Hand Another man comes in and gives the first guy a hand by clapping.
	Episode 2608	Don't Walk After reading this sign, the man has to crawl away.
	Episode 2786	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."
	Episode 3174	Stop After reading the sign, two cars screech to a stop, one on each side of him.

Notes

• Iftah Ya Simsim created a number of animated segments designed very similar to this series, where a little boy read Arabic words, with a gag following each reading.