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Yip Yip Yip.
Do you remember when the Yip Yip Aliens met the telephone? I do. When I was a kid, my Mother would sometimes wake me up this way. Of course, I knew she was imitating a telephone and not an alarm clock, because I used to talk to dear ole Granny on one of those rotary-dial things.
On Sesame Street, it was the aliens who didn't know what a phone was. Kids watching thought that was funny.
It's not lost me that today's Sesame Street audience has more in common with the Yip Yips, because, to them, a telephone is something alien. Sure, they may know what that noisy thing tethered to the wall is, but only because it's what reference books say came after two tin cans and some string.
They know a phone as something that goes in your pocket. You use it to send pictures and text messages. Like maybe a photo of the Yip Yips, with a message, like so:
Yip Yip Yip — I giggled at The Yip Yips Meet The Telephone when I was a kid... but now I think it's funny for a completely different reason.
Posted by TheWordWire at 11/12/2009 12:05 AM 
Categories: Timeshifted Perspective
Tags: telephone Yip Yip Aliens Sesame Street
Categories: Timeshifted Perspective
Tags: telephone Yip Yip Aliens Sesame Street
We spoke Yip-Yip at the manor when the kids were small. I haven't thought of it in years!
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ha. have not seen that in years! love it! i wonder if kids would get it these days...hmmm...
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My kindergartener knows what a landline is, but doesn't understand TV that's not recorded.
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Oh! Fun, fun memories!
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I missed the whole Sesame Street phenomenon, so this is new to me and hilarious! I also note that I know several people who have ringtones for their cell phones that play the old phone ring. Talk about retro!
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Very cute. I'd forgotten about the Yip-Yips.
I think the kids would text that message more like: Y R U lafn at this.
Happy TT
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Hah - That is funny, how it has come full circle. Love the Yip Yips, too!
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That's kinda... disturbing. Cute. But disturbing.
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I forgot ALL ABOUT the aliens and the telephone!
Thank you for the vivid flashback.
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'meep'
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I jsut saw this video when trying to thin kof wha tto write for TT. Bring s back memories for certain, doesn't it? Even if now the interpretation can go so much deeper.
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