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The Search (Part 1)

KDog

on May 23, 2012

One of my fondest memories of Sesame Street is the Martians
or Yips Yips, as I’ve seen them alternatively called. There was
something both lovable and creepy about these googly-eyed, big-mouthed
aliens, just like so much else on Sesame Street. The blue and
pink fuzzy Martians would hover into some empty room of a house on their
mission of discovery and immediately try to make first contact with
some inanimate “Earthling” like a grandfather clock or a radio. Although
they mostly talked in strange utterances like “Yip yip” and “Uh huh Uh
Huh,” they would usually whip out a guide book in an effort to identify
the “creature” they found and speak with it. I think one of the funniest
and most surreal moments is when they mistake a house phone for in
sequence a cow, a cat and a chicken and then try holding a conversation
by respectively mooing, meowing and clucking. These segments of the show
usually gave me the unsettling impression that some kid like me had
just left the room to grab a popsicle or something before these aliens
had suddenly appeared at the window and invaded the living room. If you
have no clue as to what I’m yammering about, go check out the Yips Yips HERE and HERE.
By the way, the Yip Yips featured in this comic are homemade
refrigerator magnets I bought on eBay a couple of years ago.
(Unfortunately, they no longer seem to be available as I type this.)
That’s how long I’ve had this particular comic in mind.
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