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|6||"Watermelon!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVF7Fcraw6Q<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>]||The last 10 seconds only.
|6||"Watermelon!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVF7Fcraw6Q<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>]||The last 10 seconds only.
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|7||"Soup!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||Clips of this short are featured in the intro sequence.
|7||"Soup!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
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|8||"Hotdog and Ketchup!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|8||"Hotdog and Ketchup!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
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|12||"Popcorn!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk4I0AZG6Dc<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
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|13||"Worm!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in the intro sequence.
|13||"Worm!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
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|14||"Apple Picking!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqH-oKt6AY<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|14||"Apple Picking!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqH-oKt6AY<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
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|23||"Animal Cookies!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
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|24||"Slide!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in a promo.
|24||"Slide!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
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|25||"Follow the Leader!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
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|28||"Hide and Seek!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in the intro sequence.
|28||"Hide and Seek!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
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|29||"Nature!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in a promo.
|29||"Nature!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
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|30||"Pretend Catch!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_lxyjNKk_g<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|30||"Pretend Catch!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_lxyjNKk_g<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
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|31||"Music!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0qHBEKIxkc<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|31||"Music!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0qHBEKIxkc<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
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|32||"Guitar!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in a promo.
|32||"Guitar!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
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|33||"Bongo Drums!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI67hF0Keos<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
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|39||"Pinch Pot!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in the intro sequence.
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|40||"Drawing Game!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIMEAoP_ao8<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
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Revision as of 02:34, 1 June 2019

Oobi.png

The show's logo.

Status: Partially Found

Oobi is a puppet TV series that was co-produced by Sesame Workshop and Nickelodeon. From 2003 to 2005, it ran for two seasons of 26 half-hour episodes on Nickelodeon and its sister channel Noggin. It became a staple of Noggin, and achieved higher Nielsen ratings than any other show on the channel by season two.[1] All of the full episodes are widely available and have been released on several different platforms, including Amazon Video, YouTube, and Noggin's mobile app.

The show was based on a series of two-minute shorts featuring the same characters.[2] They were filmed in the late 1990s and pitched to Noggin while it was jointly owned by Nick and Sesame Workshop. They started airing in 2000 during commercial breaks. They continued to air alongside the full episodes from 2003 to 2007, albeit much less frequently. Noggin pulled the plug on its relationship with Sesame Workshop on September 10th, 2007, causing the shorts and several other Sesame Workshop programs to be removed from the schedule.

Premise

The show is set in a neighborhood populated by bare-hand puppets, and is shown from the perspective of a 4-year-old boy named Oobi. The puppets tend to interact with the audience and encourage them to join in on whatever they are doing. The puppets speak in clipped sentences (ex. "Uma, school, first day!" instead of "It's my first day of school!").

Oobi lives in an old-fashioned single-story home with his excitable little sister, Uma, and somewhat hapless grandfather, Grampu. Oobi's best friend, Kako, lives right across the street and visits often. Each episode focuses on Oobi discovering or learning more about a particular concept, such as a game or sport. Uma and Kako provide comic relief, often misunderstanding Oobi's discoveries in a comical way.

In each full-length episode, the puppets leave their world to interview human children, usually to ask them questions relating to the episode's topic. At the end of each episode, the puppets play a game and encourage the viewer to join in. When the show was renewed for a 2nd season, the game segments were dropped in favor of longer storylines. The interview segments were retained, though they were shortened and used as intermissions between scenes instead.

History

The shorts were pitched to Noggin in the late 1990s under the working title Pipo.[3] Josh Selig has indicated that there was some kind of pilot presentation with "Pipo" as the main character's name,[3] but no images have been found.

In the United States, the shorts were shown on Noggin and Nickelodeon during its Nick Jr. block. Like its other interstitial programming, Nickelodeon had no specific schedule for airing them and played the shorts at random intervals. On Noggin, one short was played before each 30-minute show from 6 AM to 6 PM.[4] After the full episodes started airing on April 7th, 2003, Noggin stopped airing the shorts as frequently and adopted the same randomized schedule as Nick Jr.

In Canada, TVOntario aired 46 of the shorts on a rotating schedule.[5] TVO's schedule catalogs are the source of official titles for many of the shorts. However, some of them ("Itsy Bitsy Spider!" and "Toys!") don't appear at all on their schedules, indicating that TVO didn't air the complete collection.

Availability

Although the full episodes are widely available and can be watched for free on YouTube, very few of the shorts have had an official release. Though shortened versions of "Dance!" and "Bubble Bath!" were released on Nick Jr. DVDs in 2003, that was it in terms of official releases. 48 shorts are confirmed to exist, but it is unknown how many were made in total.

Episodes

# Episode Title Status Notes
1 "Dance!" Partially Lost The ending is missing.
2 "Tag!" Lost
3 "Flush!" Found
4 "On and Off!" Lost
5 "Share Pretzels!" Found
6 "Watermelon!" Partially Found The last 10 seconds only.
7 "Soup!" Lost
8 "Hotdog and Ketchup!" Lost
9 "Prince Oobi!" Lost
10 "Bubbles!" Partially Found The last 15 seconds only.
11 "Empty and Full!" Found
12 "Popcorn!" Found
13 "Worm!" Lost
14 "Apple Picking!" Found
15 "Pretend Wind!" Lost
16 "Tea!" Found
17 "Ice Cream!" Lost
18 "Water Games!" Lost
19 "Guess!" Lost
20 "Bird!" Partially Lost The first few seconds are missing.
21 "Cat!" Lost
22 "Puppy!" Lost
23 "Animal Cookies!" Lost
24 "Slide!" Lost
25 "Follow the Leader!" Lost
26 "Peekaboo!" Found
27 "Dig!" Lost
28 "Hide and Seek!" Lost
29 "Nature!" Lost
30 "Pretend Catch!" Found
31 "Music!" Found
32 "Guitar!" Lost
33 "Bongo Drums!" Found
34 "Quiet Read!" Found Low-quality.
35 "Clap Hands!" Found
36 "Painting!" Lost
37 "Macaroni Jewelry!" Found
38 "Paint Shapes!" Lost
39 "Pinch Pot!" Lost
40 "Drawing Game!" Found
41 "Neighborhood Art!" Lost
42 "Toothpaste!" Found Low-quality.
43 "Feelings!" Found
44 "Cake!" Lost
45 "Wet and Dry!" Lost
46 "Bubble Bath!" Found
47 "Itsy Bitsy Spider!" Found
48 "Toys!" Found

Photo Gallery

Screenshots

  • A low-quality screenshot of "Water Games!".

    A low-quality screenshot of "Water Games!".

  • A screenshot of "Guess!".

    A screenshot of "Guess!".

  • A low-quality screenshot of "Painting!".

    A low-quality screenshot of "Painting!".

Production Photo

Videos

The intro sequence, which contains clips from some of the lost shorts.

A musical Noggin commercial, which contains a clip from "Guitar!".

A musical Noggin commercial, which contains clips from "Nature!" and "Slide!".

Promos for the Noggin website, one of which contains a clip from "Dance!"'s missing scene.

External Links

References

  1. ↑ Media Life Magazine, January 2005 Retrieved 24 Feb '19.
  2. ↑ Interview with Little Airplane's Josh Selig Retrieved 24 Feb '19.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kidscreen article - "The Name Game: Deconstructing the fine art of kids show titling" Retrieved 24 Feb '19.
  4. ↑ Archive of Noggin's Oobi homepage Retrieved 24 Feb '19.
  5. ↑ TVOntario schedule from January 2004 Retrieved 24 Feb '19.
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