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|title=<center>Oobi</center>
|title=<center>Noggin Presents: Oobi</center>
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|image=Noggin-Presents-Oobi.png
|imagecaption=The show's logo.
|imagecaption=A scene from the intro used for Noggin airings.
|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>
|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Lost'''</span>
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'''''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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081006214728/http://www.medialifemagazine.com/News2005/jan05/jan03/5_fri/news4friday.html Media Life Magazine, January 2005] Retrieved 24 Feb '19.</ref> 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 '''first season''' of the Noggin show ''Oobi'' was a series of two-minute interstitial shorts.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041227045328/http://www.worldscreen.com/print.php?filename=selig Interview with Little Airplane's Josh Selig] Retrieved 24 Feb '19.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120807181845/http://www.hello.timlagasse.com/2011/02/06/directing-resume/ Tim Lagasse's website] Retrieved 15 Oct '20.</ref> The show eventually ran for three seasons, and the last two seasons were widely released in HD on Amazon and Paramount+.  


The show was based on a series of two-minute shorts featuring the same characters.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041227045328/http://www.worldscreen.com:80/print.php?filename=selig Interview with Little Airplane's Josh Selig] Retrieved 24 Feb '19.</ref> 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.
However, the first season of shorts never got a full, official release. This season's episodes are mostly available from home-recorded clips of Noggin. Two episodes of the season are currently missing.
 
==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==
==History==
The shorts were pitched to Noggin in the late 1990s under the working title ''Pipo''.<ref name="kidscreen">[http://kidscreen.com/content/pdf/51180.pdf#page=32 Kidscreen article - "The Name Game: Deconstructing the fine art of kids show titling"] Retrieved 24 Feb '19.</ref> Josh Selig has indicated that there was some kind of pilot presentation with "Pipo" as the main character's name,<ref name="kidscreen"/> but no images have been found.
In the United States, the shorts were mainly shown on Noggin. From late 2000 until early 2003, one short was played before each 30-minute show from 6 AM to 6 PM.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.noggin.com:80/activities/oobi/home.swf?feature=1 Archive of Noggin's Oobi homepage] Retrieved 24 Feb '19.</ref> For the month of April 2002, Nickelodeon's main channel also aired the shorts as part of a cross-promotion for the Noggin channel.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/nick-jr-commercial-break-april-2002 Nick Jr. commercial break - April 2002] Retrieved 10 Oct '22.</ref>
 
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.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.noggin.com:80/activities/oobi/home.swf?feature=1 Archive of Noggin's Oobi homepage] Retrieved 24 Feb '19.</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.ontla.on.ca/library/repository/ser/13855/2004/200401jan.pdf TVOntario schedule from January 2004] Retrieved 24 Feb '19.</ref> 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.
In Canada, TVOntario aired 46 of the shorts on a rotating schedule.<ref>[http://ontla.on.ca/library/repository/ser/13855/2004/200401jan.pdf TVOntario schedule from January 2004] Retrieved 24 Feb '19.</ref> TVO's schedule catalogues are the source of official titles for many of the shorts. However, two 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==
==Availability==
Although the full episodes are widely available and can be watched for free [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCypysWGpVkHdEIloVy6yo-A| 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.
Shortened versions of "Dance!" and "Bubble Bath!" were released on Nick Jr. DVDs from 2003 to 2004, but that was it in terms of official releases. 48 shorts are confirmed to exist.


===Episodes===
===Episodes===
2 of the 48 known shorts are currently lost. The sixth short, "Dance!", is only available in an incomplete form.
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! style="background-color:green" | #
! style="background-color:lightblue" | #<ref>[https://archive.org/details/tvo-logs-oobi TVOntario program logs: September 2003 to September 2006] Retrieved 5 Feb '24.</ref>
! style="background-color:green" | Episode Title
! style="background-color:lightblue" |Episode Title
! style="background-color:green" | Status
! style="background-color:lightblue" |Status
! style="background-color:green" | Notes
! style="background-color:lightblue" |Notes
|-
|-
|1||"Dance!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu0U0Sb3Wmo<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Lost'''</span>]||The ending is missing.
|1||"Slide!"||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||A clip of this short is featured in a promo.
|-
|-
|2||"Tag!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|2||"Follow the Leader!"|| [https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-25-Follow-the-Leader.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|3||"Flush!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNnoY1g8xs<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
| 3||"Pretend Catch!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-30-Pretend-Catch.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|4||"On and Off!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|4||"Peekaboo!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-26-Peekaboo.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|5||"Share Pretzels!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4ULzhRTxM4<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|5||"Tag!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-02-Tag.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|6||"Watermelon!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVF7Fcraw6Q<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>]||The last 10 seconds only.
|6||"Dance!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-01-Dance.mp4 <span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Lost''']||The ending is missing.
|-
|-
|7||"Soup!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||Clips of this short are featured in the intro sequence.
|7||"Share Pretzels!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-05-Share-Pretzels.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|8||"Hotdog and Ketchup!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|8||"Watermelon!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-06-Watermelon.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|9||"Prince Oobi!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|9||"Soup!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-07-Soup.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|10||"Bubbles!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGRuNy-fTY0<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>]||The last 15 seconds only.
|10||"Hot Dog and Ketchup!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-08-Hot-Dog-and-Ketchup.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|11||"Empty and Full!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk4I0AZG6Dc<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|11||"Empty and Full!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-11-Empty-and-Full.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|12||"Popcorn!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk4I0AZG6Dc<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|12||"Popcorn!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-12-Popcorn.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|13||"Worm!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in the intro sequence.
|13||"Worm!"||[https://youtu.be/hhpTkYRW5aw&ab <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|14||"Apple Picking!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqH-oKt6AY<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|14||"Apple Picking!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-14-Apple-Picking.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|15||"Pretend Wind!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|15||"Pretend Wind!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-15-Pretend-Wind.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|16||"Tea!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF87cz-fVHE<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|16||"Dig!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-27-Dig.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|17||"Ice Cream!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|17||"Hide and Seek!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-28-Hide-and-Seek.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|18||"Water Games!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|18||"Nature!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-29-Nature.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|19||"Guess!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|19||"Music!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-31-Music.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|20||"Bird!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_hLURKHuLU<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Lost'''</span>]||The first few seconds are missing.
|20||"Guitar!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-32-Guitar.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|21||"Cat!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|21||"Bongo Drums!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-33-Bongo-Drums.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|22||"Puppy!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|22||"Quiet Read!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-34-Quiet-Read.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|23||"Animal Cookies!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|23||"Clap Hands!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-35-Clap-Hands.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|24||"Slide!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in a promo.
|24||"Painting!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-36-Painting.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|25||"Follow the Leader!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|25||"Macaroni Jewelry!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-37-Macaroni-Jewelry.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|26||"Peekaboo!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38o6cP2Wj0c<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|26||"Paint Shapes!" ||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-38-Paint-Shapes.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|27||"Dig!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|27||"Pinch Pot!"||[https://youtu.be/V3V7U8Bdkiw?t=90 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|28||"Hide and Seek!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in the intro sequence.
|28||"Drawing Game!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-40-Drawing-Game.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|29||"Nature!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in a promo.
|29||"Neighborhood Art!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-41-Neighborhood-Art.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|30||"Pretend Catch!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_lxyjNKk_g<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|30||"Toothpaste!"||[https://youtu.be/4ldghafKPQ4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|31||"Music!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0qHBEKIxkc<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|31||"Wet and Dry!"||[https://youtu.be/4ldghafKPQ4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|32||"Guitar!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in a promo.
|32||"Bubble Bath!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-46-Bubble-Bath.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|33||"Bongo Drums!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI67hF0Keos<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|33||"Feelings!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-43-Feelings.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|34||"Quiet Read!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnuE-WzAoxM<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]||Low-quality.
|34||"Cake!"||[https://youtu.be/4ldghafKPQ4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|35||"Clap Hands!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WBZsz0NI-c<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|35||"Flush!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-03-Flush.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|36||"Painting!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|36||"On and Off!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-04-On-and-Off.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|37||"Macaroni Jewelry!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RfnTAxkVUs<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|37||"Prince Oobi!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-09-Prince-Oobi.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|38||"Paint Shapes!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|38||"Bubbles!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-10-Bubbles.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|39||"Pinch Pot!"||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>||A clip of this short is featured in the intro sequence.
|39||"Tea!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-16-Tea.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|40||"Drawing Game!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIMEAoP_ao8<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|40||"Ice Cream!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-17-Ice-Cream.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|41||"Neighborhood Art!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|41||"Water Games!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-18-Water-Games.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|42||"Toothpaste!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrKqHO3hK4Y<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]||Low-quality.
|42||"Guess!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-19-Guess.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Low-quality.
|-
|-
|43||"Feelings!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtG9jv-Ye7k<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|43||"Bird!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-20-Bird.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|44||"Cake!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|44||"Cat!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-21-Cat.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|45||"Wet and Dry!"||<span style="color:red;">''Lost''</span>
|45||"Puppy!"||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||
|-
|-
|46||"Bubble Bath!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ10pDPzfwg<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|46||"Animal Cookies!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-23-Animal-Cookies.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|47||"Itsy Bitsy Spider!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6c_PU8PTWw<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|47||"Itsy Bitsy Spider!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-47-Itsy-Bitsy-Spider.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|-
|-
|48||"Toys!"||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGuOUL0P7aw<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span>]
|48||"Toys!"||[https://archive.org/details/noggin-presents-oobi-shorts/Oobi-48-Toys.mp4 <span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
|}
|}
==Photo Gallery==
 
 
==Gallery==
===Screenshots===
===Screenshots===
<gallery mode=packed heights=175px>
<gallery mode="packed" heights="175px">
Watergames!.png|A low-quality screenshot of "Water Games!".
Oobi-shorts-Slide-commercial.jpg|A screenshot from a Noggin commercial, featuring a clip from "Slide!"
Guess!.jpg|A screenshot of "Guess!".
Oobi-shorts-Pinch-Pot.jpg|A screenshot from "Pinch Pot!"
Painting!.jpg|A low-quality screenshot of "Painting!".
Oobi-shorts-ending-Dance.jpg|The missing ending of "Dance!" (as shown in a Noggin commercial).
Nature!.png|An unidentified screenshot, likely from a bumper.
</gallery>
</gallery>
===Production Photo===
===Production Photo ===
<gallery mode=packed heights=175px>
<gallery mode="packed" heights="175px">
Dig!.png|A photograph of the production of "Dig!", which is featured on [http://www.timlagasse.com/#/oobi/ Tim Lagasse's website].
Dig!.png|A photograph of the production of "Prince Oobi!", which is featured on [http://timlagasse.com/#/oobi/ Tim Lagasse's website].
</gallery>
</gallery>
==Videos==
=== Footage===
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   |description2 =A musical Noggin commercial, which contains a short clip from "Guitar!".
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==External Links==
==External Links==
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352085/ IMDb article on ''Oobi''.]
*[https://imdb.com/title/tt0352085/ IMDb article on ''Oobi''.]
*[https://oobi.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Oobi_episodes Oobi Wikia article on the show's list of episodes.]
*[https://oobi.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Oobi_episodes Oobi Wiki article on the show's list of episodes.]


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 14:58, 5 February 2024

Noggin-Presents-Oobi.png

A scene from the intro used for Noggin airings.

Status: Partially Lost

The first season of the Noggin show Oobi was a series of two-minute interstitial shorts.[1][2] The show eventually ran for three seasons, and the last two seasons were widely released in HD on Amazon and Paramount+.

However, the first season of shorts never got a full, official release. This season's episodes are mostly available from home-recorded clips of Noggin. Two episodes of the season are currently missing.

History

In the United States, the shorts were mainly shown on Noggin. From late 2000 until early 2003, one short was played before each 30-minute show from 6 AM to 6 PM.[3] For the month of April 2002, Nickelodeon's main channel also aired the shorts as part of a cross-promotion for the Noggin channel.[4]

In Canada, TVOntario aired 46 of the shorts on a rotating schedule.[5] TVO's schedule catalogues are the source of official titles for many of the shorts. However, two 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

Shortened versions of "Dance!" and "Bubble Bath!" were released on Nick Jr. DVDs from 2003 to 2004, but that was it in terms of official releases. 48 shorts are confirmed to exist.

Episodes

2 of the 48 known shorts are currently lost. The sixth short, "Dance!", is only available in an incomplete form.

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


Gallery

Screenshots

  • A screenshot from a Noggin commercial, featuring a clip from "Slide!"

    A screenshot from a Noggin commercial, featuring a clip from "Slide!"

  • A screenshot from "Pinch Pot!"

    A screenshot from "Pinch Pot!"

  • The missing ending of "Dance!" (as shown in a Noggin commercial).

    The missing ending of "Dance!" (as shown in a Noggin commercial).

  • An unidentified screenshot, likely from a bumper.

    An unidentified screenshot, likely from a bumper.

Production Photo

Footage

A shortened version of the intro sequence.

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

A musical Noggin commercial, which contains an unidentified clip (likely from a bumper), and a clip from "Slide!".

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

External Links

References

  1. ↑ Interview with Little Airplane's Josh Selig Retrieved 24 Feb '19.
  2. ↑ Tim Lagasse's website Retrieved 15 Oct '20.
  3. ↑ Archive of Noggin's Oobi homepage Retrieved 24 Feb '19.
  4. ↑ Nick Jr. commercial break - April 2002 Retrieved 10 Oct '22.
  5. ↑ TVOntario schedule from January 2004 Retrieved 24 Feb '19.
  6. ↑ TVOntario program logs: September 2003 to September 2006 Retrieved 5 Feb '24.
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