Yes Guy

The Yes Guy is a character known for bellowing “Ye-e-e-es?!” in a rising inflection, and appears to be highly eccentric in both his speech and appearance. During his first appearance, in “Mayored to the Mob,” Homer asked “Why do you talk like that?”; Yes-Guy’s response was “I had a strooooooooooke!”

He is a tribute to a recurring Frank Nelson character from The Jack Benny Show, I Love Lucy, and later Sanford and Son, whose trademark greeting in all his characters was a loud, drawn-out “Yeeeeesss?!” Inexplicably, the original character could always be found working behind the service counter of whatever shop Benny or Fred Sanford might be patronizing, and his Simpsonian counterpart is equally omnipresent.