OT:Sesame Street

[crazycanuck]

Hi,

I'm looking for the names of the red alien characters on Sesame Street that mimicked telephones & other characters..

They would hear the phone & go "bring bring,yip yip yip, bring, bring " or if they saw a cow "cow, yip,yipppp, mooooooooo, coow, cow, mooo, yipppp"

If you can help me & if you *ahem* have a *ahem* *copy*..of it, *ahem* let me *ahem* know..

Otherwise, please nod your head & say "Yes dear cheryl, we know what you're on about "

C

[KnottedYet]

Yes, Cheryl, I know what you're on about.

They were some of my favorites. I still like Sesame Street.

[Wahine]

I love seasame street and I know the characters you're talking about. I have no clue what they were called.

I'll ponder this and get back to you if I come up with something.

[KnottedYet]

Look what I found!

They are "Yip Yips" and You Tube has a bunch of them!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4VNMERVsC4

Here's the telephone one!

Oooh, I'd better not get started watching, or I'll be late for work....

[Wahine]

Nice work Knott!!

That was awesome. I'm going to have that in my head for the rest of the day and I'll happily be smiling to myself.

Yip Yip Yip Yip.

[Derf]

You are going to love this. My husband and I dressed up as them for Halloween last year. Check it out:

http://images.kodakgallery.com/photo...2405_0_ALB.jpg

[Kano]

I couldn't remember the name when you asked, but it brings to mind a fairly recent fabric store excursion with my 23 year old -- she spotted a piece of fabric that she said looked just like those guys!

Karen in Boise

[RolliePollie]

I remember the Yip Yips too! But I had no idea they were called Yip Yips.

Sesame Street is the greatest. If I ever happen across it on PBS, I'll stop and watch for a few minutes. I even have the old 70's lunch box (sadly, no Yip Yips):

[KnottedYet]

I used to sing the "yip yip you, yip yip me, yip yip family" song to SKnot when he was a wee thing!

[Wahine]

My older sister used to sing the Sesame Street songs to me all the time when I was little. She's 10 years older than me. One day, we were sitting together, (which doesn't happen very often anymore), me 30 and she was 40. We were doing a "shift" at the hospital, sitting with our terminally ill father and I just started singing the theme song. You know the one....

Sunny day. Chasing the clouds away....

And she started to laugh. We had a great time remembering how she would sing to me and we tried to think of as many Sesame Street songs we could and sang them to my dad. At one point he stirred and lovingly said "you girls are silly." It was one of the first times in a few days he woke up and may have been the last thing he ever said to either of us.

On my way to where the air is sweet.
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street.

What and amazing memory.