"It's slop. Yuccha!"
"Yuccha" is an expression used to convey disgust or unpleasantness about something. Within Muppet productions, it has often been uttered by characters originated by Frank Oz as a way to convey distaste.
Uses[]
- Taminella Grinderfall expresses her distate for being sent to the dungeon to eat King Goshposh's stock of peanut butter sandwiches with a "Yuccha" in the Tales of the Tinkerdee pilot film.
- Rowlf the Dog comments "Yuccha" in episode 314 of The Jimmy Dean Show when Jimmy references stockings being filled with treats.
- During one of Kermit's lectures on two rectangles being the same, Cookie Monster takes a bite out of each of them. At the end of the lecture, Cookie Monster says that one rectangle is delicious, and the other is "yuccha."
- When Animal explains his grievances with the theme song to Kaye Ballard in episode 123, he concludes by exclaiming, "Yuccha!"
- Grump complains about his meal in the Muppet Meeting Film "Meal Break" by stating, "Nope, it's slop. Yuccha."
- Miss Piggy says "Yuccha. Move it!" to the rats exiting Christopher Reeve's dressing room in episode 418 of The Muppet Show.[1]
- Piggy responds to guest Michael Fox's anecdote about a hypnotized frog that once stuck to a table with a disgusted "yuccha" during an interview on The Tonight Show guest hosted by Kermit the Frog in 1979.
- When Fozzie Bear receives his orders from the ice cream salesman (Bob Hope) in The Muppet Movie, he reacts positively to his honey cone but says "yuccha" to Kermit's dragonfly ripple.[2]
- In Goldilocks and the Three Grouches, when Oscar suggests that Goldilocks took a nap in crummy, old sheets, Cookie responds, "Yuccha, me no like that part."
- In an outtake from The Muppets at Walt Disney World, Fozzie says, "Yuccha, ka-poopie."
- The Singing Food in The Muppet Christmas Carol utter it after their verse of "Scrooge."
- Attempting to explain what happened to the broken computer program in The Muppet CD-ROM: Muppets Inside, Rizzo the Rat says, "Picture yourself in a sewer." Fozzie replies, "Yuccha."
- In response to seeing mud bricks being made in the Global Grover segment on Nicaragua (First: Episode 4043), Grover exclaims "Yuccha, looks messy."[3]
- In The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Tattypoo, the Good Witch of the North — played by Miss Piggy — reacts with a "Yuccha!" to seeing The Wicked Witch of the East crushed by Dorothy's house.[4]
- In the "20 Facts About the Muppets" video for Mental Floss, when host Elliott Morgan mentions how he might still have a box of Cröonchy Stars, Miss Piggy responds with a "Yuccha."
- In a 2017 Chrysler ad, Cookie Monster comments "Yuccha" when encountering images of a banana peel and cookie crumbs while on his "Snackster" phone app.
- In Cookie Monster's Bake Sale: Block Party, Cookie gives a double "Yuccha-Yuccha" as he observes the contestants going under Oscar's Grouch Limbo.
Notes[]
- ↑ Subtitles on Disney+ for the episode spell the expression as "yucka."
- ↑ The subtitles on the 2001 DVD release captions the expression as "yucky." The 2013 Blu-ray release captions the phrase with "ugh!" as do the subtitles for the scene on Disney+.
- ↑ The script for the segment spells the expression as "yucha."
- ↑ The DVD captioning for the scene substitutes "(gasps)" in place of the expression.