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Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater 🏳️⚧️My kids are watching this classic scene from Sesame Street and are just as confused as the Yip Yips. They have absolutely no conception of what this thing is. The humor of the scene has truly come full circle.
Dan@emilyaviva hahaha that's amazing. And in such a short space of time, too
Michael Slavitch 🍁🇨🇦🇺🇦🍁Not that short. That segment is 50 years old. In 1972, 50 years old was 1922.
@komputernik @emilyaviva stop reminding me I'm old pls 😂 they were rerunning this in my childhood and I definitely recognise the object
Joe
smells of bikes@emilyaviva rrrrradio.
Just as likely as anything else!
Just as likely as anything else!
Bornach@smellsofbikes @emilyaviva
https://youtu.be/z_trSIBCgF0
You'll have to introduce your kids to [Mr Carlson's Lab] on #YouTube to explain that specific antique
And to [This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete] for the "brrrr-ring!"
Sesame Street: Martians Discover a Radio
Alex P. 👹@emilyaviva
oh no, it's hyper-gremlinization!
oh no, it's hyper-gremlinization!
Millie Rooney@emilyaviva hahahahah that is so good :)
𝕂ℕ𝔽 𝕀𝕆𝕆 ☎️@emilyaviva I LOVE THOSE THINGS
Tom Forsyth@knf100 @emilyaviva I know right? The Yip-Yips are cool too.
Jon Sullivan@emilyaviva 😂 Love it! I remember that clip from years ago. It's extra funny now that the old telephone is just as alien to today's kids as it is to the Yip Yip aliens. Fantastic.
artisanroxuh huh
uh huh
carol@emilyaviva this tracks. A three year ild in urgent care correctly identified all the shapes on the eye chart he found, including a “pentagon” (a house), then move on to other objects in the room. Asked me, “whats that?” for the wall phone.
Miserable Old-GitIn the world of Catweasel "Ye olde telling bone"
Steve Fischman@emilyaviva I LOVE those guys!
Brett Glass - WY7BG@emilyaviva We all knew little kids were aliens…. 😀
Shiny Amygdala, ph.D@emilyaviva the yip yips were my favorite! Along with the "tiny little super guy" that lived in the cupboard and walked around the kitchen under the drinking glass... lol.
SSH17HX0r@emilyaviva That is too funny
C.S.Strowbridge@emilyaviva One of my high school friends was traumatized by the Yip Yips as a young kid.
MudMan@csstrowbridge @emilyaviva Me too.
I thought they were the scariest thing I had ever seen as a kid. The floppy mouths. And the noises.
Alright, I'll say it, I find them a little disturbing even now.
Katie Meek@emilyaviva 
The yip yips live absolutely rent free in my brain and are an integral part of my upbringing...maybe they were the beginning of my love of quirk, absurd humor. 🤷♀️ Either way they are a treasure.
If you have no idea what they are or need a delightful break, here they are: https://youtu.be/KTc3PsW5ghQ
Sesame Street: The Martians Discover a Telephone
ChrisFratz@emilyaviva I remember watching this short under the bonus features of a sesame Street DVD set that my dad had. I still have it too and it's a pretty neat collection of very old episodes of the show.
MyNameISCassandra@emilyaviva Yikes!!! I remember using those... and being on a Party Line so sometimes had to wait for them to finish before dialing out. :blob_cat_giggle:
Dongle Goblin 
@emilyaviva Phooooooone
Queer Sci Fi@emilyaviva OMG I loved that when I was a kid...
@billclassified@emilyaviva great stuff
Mr. Big John 
@emilyaviva I was surprised my kid recognized that ancient telephone.
Packy Anderson@emilyaviva The end of this scene is my phone's RINGTONE.
*telephone ringing* "Awwww. Brrr-ring! Brrr-ring! Yip, yip, yip, yip."
Russ Desaulniers@emilyaviva
Cow. Cow. Moooooo.
Cow. Cow. Moooooo.
Jojanneke van den Bosch
Incident Creator ❎
OutOfExile_IDR § Voice ®™️@emilyaviva Emily is my generation! 😍
Suran 🦊@emilyaviva
I feel old...
@emilyaviva keep thinking about this...
How many other objects found in the typical 1970s home would be unrecognizable to the younger generation today?
Einfach Nein 
@emilyaviva it works partly with my kid. Now waiting for the book in the scene to face a similar fate.
mosher@emilyaviva My kids we're just playing with one these phones still in service at my parents. They loved it! Somehow we'd already taught them what an old phone is.
They also listened to records on my grandma's victrola. Sadly I couldn't get to the old floppy disks so they'd recognize what a save icon is.
heshsum@emilyaviva for reference (and lulz): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KTc3PsW5ghQ
Sesame Street: The Martians Discover a Telephone
Alexandria Brangwin@emilyaviva BRRRRRRING!
OtherRetroMatt@emilyaviva My 1953 bakelite phone still works perfectly and is our only house phone 🤷♂️
Looking for explanations…@emilyaviva And on a laptop. 😂😂
Robert@emilyaviva I am not good at digesting humor 😛
Alan Campbell@emilyaviva Would probably look at a VHS or cassette tape similarly.
ijk64✅@emilyaviva that’s hilarious 😂
inaktiv@emilyaviva tbh did I have the same first-time-experiences with former versions of telephones. Or operators appearing in movies of the Fifties(?).
And just like the 🤯 of younger ppl trying to imagine growing up without "the internet", I have no real idea about how even my parents grew up in times, where traveling by train was a special occasion and tv's weren't owned by the majority of people. Weekly news to be seen at the cinema. 🤯🤯🤯
Manuel *hunting Eudaimonia*
Leon Zandman@emilyaviva @KingShawn Reminds of the time, already years back, when my sons first heard a tea kettle whistle. A sound that I grew up with, but they’d never heard 😅
Shawn King@leonzandman @emilyaviva I love these!
"11 Sounds Today's Kids Have Probably Never Heard"
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29230/11-sounds-your-kids-have-probably-never-heard
shauno@emilyaviva OMG that’s awesome!
Victor Gijsbers@emilyaviva Let it be known that some friends once made me a doorbell that played an audio clip from this scene. Ring ring! Yip yip yip yip yip.
DougOfBorg@emilyaviva A friend and I were discussing these two last night, coincidentally. Hours before, I had deleted a picture of some 1950s-60s rotary dial instructions from a major telco from my cell. 🙂
\ˈthē-ˈˈärd-ˌvärk\@emilyaviva I've watched that bit a few times recently and it hasn't occurred to me that young kids wouldn't recognise the telephone.
Kennylex Luckless@emilyaviva It is like my friends kids when they saw a floppy disk and thought it vas a decorative "save" symbol.
Dan C. 🏳️🌈@emilyaviva Oh my gosh. That is classic and something I never would have thought of happening haha
Drea@emilyaviva we stayed at a beach house a few years ago that had a landline phone, something we’ve never had in our house. Our daughter picked up the phone, held it to her ear, and screamed “What is that sound?!?”
It was the dial tone.
CecilBothwell@emilyaviva
yet we still say "dial a number" and "hang up" (the latter going back to those wall phones with a forked lever where you "hung up" the ear piece.
yet we still say "dial a number" and "hang up" (the latter going back to those wall phones with a forked lever where you "hung up" the ear piece.
The Lady Parabellum@emilyaviva i have a rotary "empress phone" on my bedside table... it just talks over a voip adapter now.
Sue Archer@emilyaviva a couple of years ago, we were in a museum that had an exhibit with an old phone, that you dialed a digit to hear a snippet of oral history. Beside it were instructions on how to use the dial. We felt very old.