Sesame Street Martians: Yip-yip! Uh-huh!
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!
April 18th, 2005 at 10:03 am
any chance you have the video of the family song??
April 18th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
I love that song that Forgetful Jones always sang called “What’s the Name of That Song?” Because I can relate.
May 29th, 2005 at 6:21 pm
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September 5th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
Hilarious! I woke up this morning and thought of putting the Sesame Street Martians phone sounds as the ringtone on my cell phone. I was glad to find the sounds here.
September 16th, 2005 at 11:48 am
Thanks !!!
This is wonderful, a colleague & I giggled like little kids!!
September 16th, 2005 at 9:28 pm
Oh my goodness! I thought I’d lost my mind! I’ve been asking everyone for about three years solid if they remember the “aliens that met a telephone and say ‘yep-yep’ all the time.” No one here does! I told a friend that I was gonna look up Sesame Street aliens… and here I am! And thanks so much for the audio clip! I was so excited, I nearly woke up my very sleepy housemate just so he could share i the joy… but I elected to wait until morning.
November 4th, 2005 at 2:46 am
Amazing! “Drawn Together” referenced this in this week’s episode and my hubby and I knew it was familiar but couldn’t place it…. and you have solved the mystery! Thanks!!
November 29th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
Oh man, this is funny stuff. My friend and I were going indepth about them over this past weekend…Im glad he found this place online!
Now all you need is some video clips!
December 2nd, 2005 at 2:41 am
Amazing! “Drawn Together” referenced this in this week’s episode and my hubby and I knew it was familiar but couldn’t place it…. and you have solved the mystery! Thanks!!
Ditto
December 18th, 2005 at 5:56 pm
omg. this made my day. and i liked your “lake-turning” analogy…i can definitely relate. thank you soooo much.
January 18th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
ROTFLMAO
January 25th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
I’ve been looking for these things FOREVER and everybody thinks I’m insane! They were always my favorite creatures and I finally found them. Thank you!
January 25th, 2006 at 5:37 pm
oh my gosh, thank you so much for this song! me and my friend kim used to sing it in our maths class all the time, and now that she’s leaving interstate, i can give her something to remember me by! thank you thank you thank you! oh, me and my friends are going to have a good laugh over this.
February 11th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
I used to laugh about those aliens with my friends all the time. When they spoofed it on “drawn together” it was funny. Anyone remember they guys with the horns for noses that used to beep them all the time?
February 16th, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Yeah, right. The Honkers, and their cousins, the Dingers. Ahh. . . memories. My little brother made me watch that stuff for 5 years.
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:47 am
who remembers the song, “the honker-ducky-dinger jamboree?” that was a catchy one.
March 3rd, 2006 at 11:47 am
who remembers the song, “the honker-ducky-dinger jamboree?” that was a catchy one.
March 15th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
video - yip yips meet the telephone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVMe-kXE_0