Sesame street - yip-yips, wav file

History Talk Fan Feed 1 Rocco 2 Zoe 3 Season 52 Universal Conquest Wiki. Telephone Episode The Martians discover a telephone. They say hello to it, and then try mooing, meowing, and clucking at it. None of these bring any response. Then the phone begins to ring.

The Martians, thinking it's talking, start making ringing noises back. Online: YouTube. Grandfather clock Episode The Martians discover a grandfather clock and wonder if it's an Earth person.

They consult their book, which says a person is tall, has a face, and has hands. The clock fits the description perfectly. But then the grandfather clock begins chiming the hour, frightening the Martians. Ernie and Bert Meet the Martians Episode Ernie wakes up and tells Bert it's time to get up, but notices that Bert isn't in his bed.

He slowly ponders what happened to his best friend, coming to the conclusion that maybe some Martians took him away in their spaceship. As it turns out, Bert just got up early to fix some oatmeal. Ernie is relieved The Martians discover a radio. They tune into three different styles of music, none of which they like. Then they tune into some static, which they start joyfully dancing to.

Old MacDonald tells Kermit that a spaceship has landed on his farm. A dog runs in, with a frisbee in its mouth, and MacDonald says that it's the spaceship. Kermit sets him straight. But before long, a real spaceship lands on the farm, and out of it come the Martians. The scene ends in chaos. Performer: Martin P. Robinson pink martian. Bring that Thing Episode They need to bring him something that involves light such as a flashlight, a lamp, and the moon, which they have to quickly zoom back into space to get.

Their jackpot prize is a pot of lightning bugs. Finding Earth Episode The Martians are looking for the Earth and find pigs in space and the Moon along the way. The Martians come upon a book which they try to eat, smell and hear before a gust of wind blows the pages open and they realize that they can read it.

Leaky Faucet Episode The Martians spy a leaky faucet through a kitchen window. As it continues to drip, a Fat Blue woman turns it off, shocked to see that she had been wasting water.

Performers: Jerry Nelson pink martian , Martin P. Robinson blue martian Online: YouTube. The Martians examine a fan and are "blown away" by it. Your eyebrow line will be the the approximate upper edge of the mouth. Be sure these markers all line up symmetrically with the length-wise axis of the fabric.

Next, cut out the mouth hole. Better to under-estimate here, you can always increase the size of the hole with more cutting. Keep in mind that whatever you imagine the hole size to be, leave a small 1" buffer between the edge of your cut, and the true edge of the mouth. This is because you'll need that flap to sow on the mouth covering. Post Note: I recommend making the upper area of the mouth slightly more square than rounded. This is so that you will have enough room to have a bit of peripheral vision when you look through.

If you don't manage this, you can widen the width of the hole by fastening the fabric to your beanie accordingly. Next cut out a rectangular piece from the black mesh to act as the mouth fabric. Be sure it has plenty of space to cover the hole. Depending on the transparency of your fabric, you'll need several sheets to form the mouth.

With my fabric, layers was enough. A good test of the visibility is to hold the total number of sheets close to your face and use a take a picture of yourself with flash on from several feet away. Your silhouette should not be visible, or only very slightly. At the same time, you should be able to see through the fabric and walk around a dimly lit room at least.

Here comes the tough part. After you've decided how many layers you want to form the mouth, you're going to sew them to the body fabric to cover the hole. It helps to tape the black sheets together first so they can be sewn on all at once.

This part can get frustrating as each layer may move about on it's own, but just take your time. The good thing is, complete accuracy isn't important, from the outside, no one can tell. If you're not comfortable with a needle and thread, ask a friend who knows how to help you.

Stapling is also an option, but that depends on the thickness of your mesh mouth fabric. After you've sewn the mouth fabric on to the body fabric, you can trim the loose flaps to clean up the area. From the outside it should look like a nice gaping black hole. Note: A commenter suggested using hot glue for this step, which probably would make things alot easier. Other commenters have used velcro strips to make the mouth area detachable.

This sounds like it would be especially helpful if you want to be able to show your face easily without taking off the whole costume. You've probably noticed by now that when draping the body over yourself, it tends to slide around a bit. To fix this, you'll need to attach your beanie to the inside, right where you've marked the center of the top of your head. You can use large safety pins to get a rough position, then lock it down in place with smaller ones around the rim.

When adjusting the placement, be sure your eyes are just beneath the upper edge of the mouth fabric, so you can see out through the mouth. However, you don't want your eyes to be too low into the mouth, or it may look like either your Yip-Yip is always looking down, or it's upper lip is wrapping around your forehead. With the dimensions of the sponge I bought, I cut it in half length-wise to make it thinner easier to handle.

Mark an area a few inches past the lower edge of the mouth, and tape the curved face of the sponge onto the inside surface at that location. This is where all the movement will take place. Try moving the jaw up and down while looking in a mirror, to make sure it looks ok.

When you're satisfied with the placement, hot-glue the sponge on. Once the jaw is attached, you may notice the mouth fabric feeling a bit floaty. You can weigh it down to give a it a better sense of being a "mouth" by pinning a small weight to the inside of it to create a sort of "throat".

A knot of left-over fabric works well for this. One tip, when holding up the jaw in the "closed" state, your eyes should fit just between the tip of your jaw and the upper edge of the mouth. This way you can still see without your Yip Yip opening his mouth. While inside the costume, have someone else mark a good position for the eyes, just based on whatever looks best.

Another option is to lay the costume out flat on the floor, then lay the eyes on the approximate area according to what appears symmetric. Once you have that, you can hot-glue the balls directly onto the fabric. I prefer to have the eyes touching each other, so I glue them together as well. Test the eye position by placing the costume on with the beanie a comfortable and even place, then look if the eyes appear to be straight and level.

When that is taken care of, cut out a pair of circles for the pupils out of black paper mine were about 1" in diameter , and glue them onto the Styrofoam balls. Take the pipe cleaners and wind them up into a single shape as seen in the images. I used about 24 total pipe cleaners to get the structure right, with more making up the base and less around the ends. When it was all wired together I lined it with four glitter pipe cleaners, just because.

When you have the finished antenna, affix it to the head area with safety pins, just behind the eyes. The safety pins can go through the beanie for extra support. Adjust the antenna so it stands up straight when the costume is worn normally.

While inside the costume, have someone start sealing up the sides with safety pins. Fold the flaps inward and close them up. The safety pins can be about " apart, going down the side. Just clean it up however you feel comfortable, as long as you can keep others from seeing into the costume from the sides. Don't close it up too tightly though, you need space to move around, and to maintain the Yip Yip look.

It doesn't have to be super neat, the Yip-Yips have a pretty sloppy look. And in the end, you're still essentially just wearing a sheet over your head. Commenters have opted to sew up the sides or use velcro strips, both which work fine. Safety pins are probably the fastest option. In any case, you may want to leave a hole for you to let your arms stick out in case you'll need them With the sides sealed up, you can get to work on the front and back edges.

What I did here was cut vertical strips up length-wise like a flier with tear-away phone numbers. I also cut out strips from left-over fabric and attached it to the ends. The more the better, it will help to cover up your feet and legs. Not too long though, you don't want to trip over it.

The idea is just to give the costume that ghosty-alien look. You can either hot-glue the extra strips on, or use safety pins, whichever you prefer. That just about wraps it up. If you need to adjust how the costume fits, you should be pretty comfortable by now with how much flexibility you have; I used safety pins pretty liberally as they aren't easily seen anyways being fastened on the inside.

When not wearing the costume it seems easiest to handle it with your hand inside the beanie like a puppet; this way none of the headgear flops around too much. Feel free to give me feedback, or share any ideas you've added to your costume. Still a "HIT" after 14 years.. Reply 1 year ago. Thank you for the instructions! My husband and I wore these to a costume party last night and they were a big hit, especially being that most of the people there were our age and grew up on Sesame Street with the yip yips!

I did alter a few things. I made the top half of the mouth Velcro so we could pull it down flip the head back to talk and cool off.

We couldn't find the same material these instructions have, but found something that worked well as a Muppet. I also added small slits on each side to put our hands through when needed. Added miniature, battery powered fairy lights wrapped around the antennas.

Lastly, for the mouth, I used a 12 inch piece of skinny pool noodle, cut into quarter strips and attached small pieces of skinny conduit pipe to each end so we could grab them with our hands and manipulate the mouth in different ways. The only thing I learned the hard way is that I had to put a strip of duct tape on top of the pool noodle portion before hot gluing it to the costume. Otherwise, the hot glue ate into the pool noodle material like battery acid.

Tip 2 years ago. They were a HUGE hit!