A few days ago, Mike shared his Sesame Street Memories.
You know how lakes “turn over”? (If you don’t, read here or just fake it.) That’s what Mike’s fun little article did to my brain. Suddenly things that were sitting at the bottom of my brain rose to the surface and I suddenly forgot about my taxes, which sunk from the top to the bottom of my brain.
One of the curious things that surfaced was the crazy Sesame Street Martians. If you don’t recall, or haven’t read Mike’s great post, the Martians were little blue and red guys who always said, “yip, yip, yip, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh”. Mike shared this audio clip of the Martians meeting a phone and I was instantly transported back to the days of yesteryear.
Pretty soon I was asking everyone I talked to who was within the age range that grew up with Sesame Street, “Do you remember the Sesame Street Martians?” Most people’s eyes lit up and they would just start laughing.
When I told my brother, Justin, about remembering them, he had a different reaction. “Oh! Man!” he said, rolling his eyes. Then he suddenly started chanting:
Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip,
Uh-huh, uh-huh!
Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip
Uh-huh, uh-huh!
Yip, yip, you,
Yip, yip, me!
Yip, yip, baby!
Yip, yip, family!
Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip,
Uh-huh, uh-huh!
Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip, yip,
Uh-huh, uh-huh!
Immediately recalling the sketch he was referring to, I laughed heartily and said, “Now you’ve gone and gotten that crazy song stuck in my head!”
A long and bitterly held rage flashed in his eyes as he snapped back, “That song’s been stuck in my head since I was nine years old!“
And now it can be stuck in yours, thanks to the miracle of the Intarweb:
Sesame Street Martians Family Song
Enjoy!
Several months ago, 
15? That’s probably what you’re thinking. Yes, 15. You read that right. It’s not that we’re bad at math (even though we are) – it’s that there is a “missing” session out there floating around on various storage devices.
