Sesame Street's Yip-Yip Aliens Traumatized Me As a Kid
You know what scares me the most? Not monsters, or horror movies, or vampires, or ghosts.
Aliens.
Scariest movie I’ve ever seen? Signs, followed by Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. (I think E.T. is also responsible for my fear of the woods at night.)
But it all started with the Yip Yips from Sesame Street. Those things scared the crap out of me growing up. I can still feel a little of the paralyzing terror that would wash over me when they would appear. That eerie music would start. There they’d be, floating down from the sky, chanting their creepy “yip yip yip yip yip”, landing outside some window. They were Out There.
Here they are on YouTube:
Yip Yips Meet a Dripping Faucet
