# What is the name of those yip guys on Sesame Street?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 24, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738 "2001-02-24T17:50:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmullaney](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@jmullaney](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmullaney)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738/1 "2001-02-24T17:50:38Z")

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What is the name of those yip guys on Sesame Street? And don’t just say “the yip guys” unless that’s the answer!

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738/2 "2001-02-24T18:32:17Z")

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Do you mean the ones who would go “yep yep yep yep, uh huh,uh huh”. ?

I think they were the “men from mars”. They were hillarious!😛

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2001, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738/3 "2001-02-24T19:34:36Z")

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My copy of _Sesame Street: Unpaved_ lists them as “the Martians”. To quote the book, they were “‘yip-yipped’ by Jim Henson, Jerry Nelson, and Martin Robinson.”

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**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738/4 "2001-02-25T04:00:05Z")

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uh huh, uh huh… phooooonnne… yip yip yip

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**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738/5 "2001-02-25T04:09:41Z")

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I don’t know, but those guys scared the hell out of me when I was a kid.

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**Author:** ![Keko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@Keko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keko)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738/6 "2001-02-25T05:58:36Z")

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I thought they worked for the government :P~

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**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738/7 "2001-02-25T06:13:25Z")

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yip yip uh huh uh huh phone phooone ring yip yp ring riiiing phooooooone uh huh uh uhuh ring riiing yip yip yip.

My God, I’d forgotten how cool they are.

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**Author:** ![DVous\_Means](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@DVous\_Means](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVous_Means)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738/8 "2001-02-25T12:24:22Z")

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I thought I saw a reference to them as “bucket-mouths”, but maybe it was a description of my own making. I also thought they were pretty cool.

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**Author:** ![Rue\_DeDay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/41988e/32.png) [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-of-those-yip-guys-on-sesame-street/55738/9 "2001-02-25T18:14:42Z")

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And the way they could hide behind their lower jaw when scared…priceless.