DefunctTV: The History of Oobi
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In this episode of DefunctTV, Kevin takes a trip back to the inception of Nickelodeon and the Children Television Workshop's joint venture, the all-educational channel, Noggin, and the barehanded puppetry of its popular interstitial show turned full series, Oobi.
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“As oobi’s species aged, their fingers began to slowly curl inward” ok you can’t just drop that on us and move on like you didn’t just destroy us in a single blow calling whatever oobi is a *species* and assuming these sentient hands get old and eventually die
Is he wrong though?
Yeah that scared me
Um what's gonna happen to the shy one's eyes
Actually they probably wouldn’t die their fingers would curl through their hands and repeat the cycle
Masternugget475 Yeet
r/cursedcomments
"Oobi?"
*Smokes cigar*
"That’s a name I haven't heard in a long time."
Thats essentially this whole channel
"Do you know him?"
"Of course i know him,he's me."
That's exactly how I reacted when I saw the thumbnail, it's like a part of my brain was awoken, and memories I forgot about slowly started coming back.
Oobi-Wan Kenobi
I just randomly remembered it and searched it up. I just regained a lot of old memories.
College stoners especially loved this show, or so I've heard. Oobi reruns were usually early morning, I recall them being around 6am. College kids would return from a late night of smoking pot and partying, turn on the TV, and upon seeing hands talking to them they'd be hooked.
This show has something for everyone
honestly i get it. i loved oobi as a kid and im a stoner now lmao
explains why I still dig it at 22 🤭
i can see why, i'm high as shit right now and the puppetry is fascinating
That and Nanalan
to this day my mother has her own pair of oobi eyes she carries around... if she sees crying babies or toddlers when waiting in lines or riding the bus, shell put on oobi eyes and talk to the kids and the kids become happy :)
I love this❤
I need more beauty in my life.
this is so cute omg 😭💜
Awwww 😁
Adorable
Noggin was the shit. Moose and Zee made me the man I am today
Broadway trash person No I don’t like candy corn...
John Marshall I love lots of other things but I dont like candy corn
When the candy cane song played on Christmas night, that made my 7 year old ass that much more hyped for Christmas
When I was 3 that I don’t like candy corn short scared the crap out of me.
Born in 2005 I grew up on noggin
I haven’t organically thought about Oobi in years.......... this is a DEEP cut
Natalie ikr
Oh My Gosh! YEAH! Seeing this in my recommended brought back some repressed memories.
Seeing oobi again is literally so frightening please help.
SAME
Does this cut actually hurt?
Oobi: "What's wrong Angus?"
Angus: "My eyeballs are inside my mouth Oobi. I keep biting them. I am in horrible agony."
I want this as a shirt now.
Like the beetlejuice woman
@@hexmaniac6810 barbara
Oobi: "Chew your food more slowly then? Sorry bud I don't know what to tell ya."
No I think you mean.
Oobi: Angus, problem?
Angus: Angus eyes, inside mouth. Angus bites eyes, in agony.
This unlocked such a hidden memory in my brain, growing up in the 2000s was such a great time
Same, I just saw the thumbnail and was internally freaking out from the nostalgia lol
Same
Agreed. Noggin was my life! We had some pretty cool content to watch.
Ikr
same i think that it did because its so easy to forget because you see hands every day and you dont think of a tv show made in 2000 with hand puppetry
“A hand bird despite the existence of real birds being confirmed” Kevin really out here exposing the oobi plotholes
Also are the eyes of the bird on the raised middle finger? Making it really "the bird"???
wow. Kevin really exposing the main questions, huh?
I’ve been looking for this for 15 years now. Damn I wasn’t sure oobi existed.
@@barrettstone5657 I loved Oobi! It was weird but good!
In one of the older shorts there was an actual cat in it despite the show having a hand cat
Noggin Lady: Oobi enhances preschoolers' early literacy and math skills.
Me, aged 4, having literally no idea what any of those words mean: *Hell yeah dude*
Yeah, same lmao
Me being 16 and not able to do 2nd grade math
4 yr old me: oh...
*F#**#CK** YEAH*
it was the nick jr lady for me haha
WAIT THOSE ARE THE SAME THING I THINK IM A DUMBASS
Are we all having the same "oh my god this show WASN'T a fever dream & there's actually people that remember it other than me" moment rn?? I was SUPER obsessed with this show (something I know my mom hated lol) but never seemed to find other kids that'd seen it. It was such a sweet show & I've always remembered it fondly!!
WE ARE
This has happened to me twice now. First it was with Nanalan, now it's with this.
YES WTF
I think I was just old enough to see the show as a kid and remember it later.
I have always loved wonder pets I hope defunct tv does that show next
Oobi holding himself out to show he's not shaking is genuinely funny, wasn't expecting to laugh out loud at pre-k
that part made me cackle, great comedic timing lol
12:41
We all need an Oobi in our lives.
Angus: weak aura
Oobi: STRONG AURA
Oobi nerves steel 🫱 is a hillarious two seconds, I just love it
This show is so bizarrely fascinating. Like, the way the actors mimic facial expressions and head movements while still conveying that their characters are living hands is kind of brilliant (like when Oobi says that he has nerves of steel and lays his 'head' out completely flat to show that the hand is steady.)
But on the other hand....we're spending 20 minutes staring at *HANDS.* Why are the hands going on dates?! What does holding hands translate to in this universe?!?!
i remember being super little and watching this show in amazement but complete confusion bc the characters were hands but also bc the characters were hands. my parents thought it was the cutest thing ever. when my little sister would watch noggin with me she would get scarred of oobi lmao
I was waiting to see of inka and grandpa would uncurl their hand heads to make lips to kiss lol.
What If we.. held hands?? Haha jk..
Unless? 😳😳
@@Sandstimes and we were both oobi's 😳🤫
I remember a story from Noel McNeal, that the show would come on at 4 in the morning and college kids would get home from parties and were like: “Dude, are our hands talking to us?”
"And she would even develop a romantic relationship with Grampoo"
The Oobi lore runs deep I see.
I mean even as kids... come on, we all knew what was going on there.
@@bigol9223 Yeah, they were holding hands
I'm sorry no hate, but it bothers me that you didn't spell it Grampu.
@@brooke2719 I didn't know that was how it was spelled. I assumed it was grampoo because oobi also has double oos in the name.
@@Slenderquil You know I respect that, and no hate I was just joking around lol
The fact that oobi inspired the creation of wonderpets threw me for a loop, I can’t believe two legends are actually someone involved with one another
"This implied that when Oobi's specie aged-"
That line gave me psychic damage.
This was one of my childhood favorites, and this was a wonderful trip down memory lane for me
"Oobi. Nerves. Steel." is quite possibly the most inspiring phrase I heard all day.
Was that sarcasm? Please tell me it was sarcasm.
@@BrendanBarney I believe it. There's a distinct lack of inspiration posters at my workplace. "Oobi.Nerves.Steel" makes me believe in the little creature. He's got this!
@@BrendanBarney he said all day, not of all time
This was a memory stored deep within my
noggin
Life noggin
Brilliant
Same
😂
.......
listen here you little
I wonder how weirded out the real kids were seeing a grown man on the floor with his hand talking to them.
FOR REAL
Not to long ago I came across the Oobi wiki and for the episode about Kakos puppy it mentioned a girl who tweeted that she was one of the kids who interviewed with her dog at age 5 and that now she’s a disability activist at Boston College. Now I wonder where these other kids are at. You have to accept the fact that they are in their 20s now, college, and what they are doing in their lives right now since Oobi.
This was my first thought watching that part lmao
I wonder how many of them told Kako he sounds just like Bear.
I actually really liked it.
Noggin was very special for a kids' TV channel, and I feel like there's not been anything like it since. The day Noggin became Nick Jr. was a tragedy to my young self
I hope they do gargoyles next
In UK and Ireland the channel was always called Nick Jr and I find it funny how Americans act like it's some blasphemous name.
@@morbidsearch I want Defunct TV to do Gamera next
i think one of the most important aspects of noggin was that the channel was completely commercial free! i think that’s super valuable and in combination with the mission statement and content of the channel created a healthier way for young children to engage in entertainment. it’s so sad that many young kids are being exposed to content on places like youtube that has none of that care put into it and is rampant with advertisement.
Disney channel doesn't have ads either
Welcome to why Coppa exists, the ads were never meant to run rampant
@@Kannongunnz Disney Channel definitely has ads. They're practically all over the place on there.
@@Kannongunnz When was the last time you were on there?
ABC, BBC, CBBC, PBS, PBS KIDS all don’t have ads.
"Pipo was already the name of an italian brand of jeans, so he had to come up with another title for his shorts"
underrated line
I... I GET IT NOW!!
That is so smooth it probably isn't even intentional. If so, it is genius. Overall, underrated line.
I just got that >_
😂
I don't get it?
I get it.
There's something about the simplicity that really adds to the charm. It's literally hands with minimal props but still able to convey the emotion and message they were aiming for.
i loved oobi. it’s imaginative in its execution but it’s also so human, which is absolutely gone from media in our age. when kids draw people, the heads and the hands are always oversized bc they’re socially evocative. combining them both into fun little puppet characters is so accessible and charming
budget increase:
-red hat
-flower
KillerMachine79 that’s what I thought lol
Okay so the person who made oobi worked on sesame Street and EVENTUALLY MADE THE WONDER PETS???????
*this man has my respect fr I mean, usually with behind the scenes like this I expect the worse but this is feelings like a flower first blossoming in spring and I love it*
Wonder Pets was the bomb man.
The world of puppetry and puppeteers is so interconnected, there are few major puppet productions that aren't connected to others. Angus's performer voices Kermit now, for example. There are many, many more I could list, but I'll refrain.
SAME HERE
Not only is the world of puppetry interconnected but the world of classic animation is as well.
@@scoopishere7881 That's crazy. Reminds me of how several puppeteers from this obscure puppet show about Mr. Potato Head would later be background puppeteers in future Muppet projects.
I distinctly remember a toy of this i had as a kid: a pair of googly eyes attached to a ring you'd wear on your middle finger to make it look like a character from oobi. Seriously.
i had the same one!
SAME!!!!
christ i had that too
Toys marketed towards kids but good this time. And affordable.
I wanted one of those toys when I first saw Oobi but it took me ten years to find one haha
For years, I have intermittently gotten "Ooobi! Oobioobioobioobi OOooOObi" stuck in my head. I absolutely loved this show and I can't believe I wasn't its sole viewer.
I was on the verge of straight up believing this show was a fever dream. I've never met anyone who ever heard of it and I couldn't find it for some reason when I went looking for it years ago. I'm surprised to hear how popular it was considering how difficult it was for me to find.
Same.
Where I'm from, it's because the show ran at night, so a lot of kids would be sleeping
I literally loved Oobi it scared me but like I loved it
i straight up forgot this show even existed until i saw the thumbnail, man does it bring back memories
BRO SAME
"Grandpa was the only main character that held his face in a closed fist. This implied that when Oobi's species aged, fingers began to slowly curl inward."
Wow we getting into Oobi lore now.
film theory wya
it's pronounced "Grandpu" actually. get it right nerd
Oobi is a spider
I am pretty positive that it was actually meant to signify the fact he doesn’t have his own teeth… Kinda like when you play “Baby Shark” and do Grandpa Shark with the fingers bent.
*Grandpu
Omg... Noggin, Oobi, and Wonder Pets were such huge parts of me and my little brother's childhoods as early 00s kids! 😭 Learning that Oobi and Wonder Pets were made by the same people... I never heard of the man before today, but I have so much respect for Josh Selig now.
I got close to teary-eyed when you played the Oobi theme 🥲 I guess I didn't realize how much I missed this show until I watched this video.
I loved this show when I was 3-4, and it’s been pushed back far into my memories for a while, this episode is a trip.
same 😧 r u 20
Its crazy how many childhood shows you forget about.
@@luna-li9fj 18 XD
"Oobi. Nerves. Steel."
*dislocates jaw*
IM CRYING AT THIS LMAOOOOOOOO
It's 4am bro, can't have me laughing like this
Lol
OMG 😂
I CANNOT GET OVER THIS
"the hand characters were not only characters, but they were also hands," LMAO WHY DID I LAUGH SO HARD
LMAO
The part where he pointed out that actual birds already existed in their world was hilarious to me for some reason
It's his deadpan tone.
7:09
999th like!
Oobi is something that I loved as a kid. It was something I would beg to watch. To this day I can sit down and watch an episode of Oobi because It fell between the cracks of my "not so good" childhood. The show was not tainted with the horrors I experienced as a child and Im forever thankful.
12:40 IM PISSING MYSELF LAUGHING AT THIS BIT WHY DOES HIS FACE LOOK LIKE THAT WHEN HE STETCHES OUT 😭😭 This is so much butter than anything i remembed about watching it as a kid
The Phrase "this implies Oobi's species..." has stopping power.
I remember watching this when I was little and I never thought it could go that far when it comes to their “species”. I’ll be honest I used to think this was just a show about these kids and their grandfather and all they did was play with their hands as people all throughout the house which is a reason why we are seeing this and why we don’t ever see their full bodies. And this was then they were still doing the shorts before the actual show premiered. I mean think about it, they live in a regular size house with full size furniture, appliances, musical instruments like pianos and guitars, etc. Plus my naive little self who didn’t know exactly how the television business works and how hard puppetry can be thought they were actually kids,not exactly an actual 4-5 year old using their hand as Oobi, Uma, Kako but like a preteen Nickelodeon/Disney channel age actor with the only adult as Grandpu since it looked simple and primitive
Oobi was a show like no other in TV history.
Lol no. 😂
@ But it was unique.
It is scary
@tiny bby queerlet How? It's not scary at all
@@mr.davidfilms9972 No it's not
This is such a nice change of pace from the channel's normal subject matter. No behind the scenes drama, no underhanded manipulations, just a bunch of people who made something they loved that ran its course
“Underhanded” I see what you did there
The moment I saw the piano teacher, I immediately knew that she would be perfect for grandpa. So happy for them.
I thought this show was a fever dream.
Toni Brooke same lol. I just thought it was a weird kid thing I brought up from my own imagination.
Me too!!! I thought it was a thing I made up in my brain as a kid!!!!!!
I thought so too I remember watching this show and I immediately thought I was in a fever dream
It wasn't?
Same, my mom doesn’t remember it so I thought I was insane and imagined it up
My daughter was OBSESSED with this show. Literally obsessed. She is on the Autism spectrum and she also had a tracheotomy so she didnt speak until she was 3.5 yrs old...she would use her hand as "Oobi" to help her communicate. To this day, sometimes she will still do her version of Oobi to talk. Shes 12 . This show really holds a special place in our hearts 💗
awww 🥺
This is really sweet💕
I don't think i'm on the spectrum at all but I used to do something very similar when interacting with older people in my family just because i felt insignificant. Really cool to see how many different people a show like this can help
My brother has a mental delay and he was OBSESSED with this show. We found some hand eyes and he also used ‘Oobi’ to speak.
@@Xeno1798 You're not insignificant. You're a valued person. You deserve as much respect as anyone in your family.
Something about knowing an avant-garde puppet show was on Nick is hilarious to me
I live in Mexico. And here we had a football review TV show that aired during championships and other important events.
In the show, there was one actor that used his hand like Oobi to make puns and other jokes, they called the character "El compayito" which is something like little buddy.
All my life i thought that it was something original from that show; and discovering this just now it's just mind-blowing.
Fingers crossed for a Wonderpets video. I haven't heard that name in a while but as soon as I saw it a visceral wave of pleasant nostalgia washed over me.
it's still on the brain for me! when the work phone goes off my coworkers and i sing "the phone, the phone is ri-nging"
i was shocked to see the guinea pig appear in this. i never realized the wonder pets and oobi were from the same studio, though i didnt watch oobi as much
Yes! That show was part of my childhood
Just seeing you say Wonderpets got the song stuck in my head.
Another show I grew up with! “What’s gonna work? Teamwork!”
Pretty sure it started through the Go Baby interstitials, or was at least the same studio.
Does it make anyone else feel old how television like this is now dead? Cable is dying because streaming is the future. I remember watching this show and absolutely loving Noggin, and I just can't help but feel sad knowing that other than my future kids, this media will one day be lost or forgotten by everyone. Life seems unreal...
While it does make me feel old too, streaming gives these shows a chance to stay alive in a way that cable never could
Future generations will only have cocomelon to look forward to now 😞😞
I mean, the content was awesome! But... Commercials all over it while you already pay so much is just not something appealing to me now that I'm an adult. I wish the content was as good but tbh the ads just make me so mad because of how impatient I am. I just wanna watch the show when I want.
@@beanoptodon Wait until streaming becomes the standard, then you're gonna be dealing with a lot more ads because they know they can get away with it.
I feel like im gonna try and collect vhs tapes and dvds from this time when i had kids. So that way they can still experience it
I'm forced to think about the hand puppet every day, since my bright self decided as a child to call the new baby "Oobi" after that charming nightmare fuel. 15 years later and my brother is still known as "Oobi" by the rest of the world, and my best friend just met someone online who now goes as Oobi.
The Oobis are uprising
i was born in 2003. this was my favorite thing to watch as a kid and i rediscovered it at 16 and have been rewatching them, even until this day.
Now I can’t stop imagining a civil war between the feet and the hands that claimed the lives of Oobi and Uma’s parents which leaves them in the care of Grampoo.
Hand master race
Reggie Jenkins I can see why you said Uma, but with grandpoo and oobi, I would spell it ooma
Edit: never mind, the episode is titled Uma Swing so it is Uma. So dumb
Reggie Jenkins same
Everything changed when the Penis Nation attacked...
dildonius **THE PENIS NATION??**
So many unfortunate implications
Oobi
You
*remember*
Jewelian Perez Thank u for reminding me oh my god the nostalgia..
*Oobi!*
*You!*
YES!!
Oobi remember
I used to watch these videos late at night in the living room when everyone else was asleep and the clock ticked above me. The Gerber commercials were terrifying, so was the black night outside the screen doors and the clock, but Oobi made me feel calm and like it was alright. Oobi kept me safe and helped me sleep. This really hits home.
@@someperson9895 whats Gerber
This show was so wholesome and adorable, I loved it so much growing up that I would get the same type of eyes for the hand and make up characters with my grandmother, oobi was definitely a show I wish would exit now a days
Watching someone talk about this show feels like a fever dream. Literally something that has been laying dormant within my brain reactivated when I saw the thumbnail.
Peanut butter. Jelly. Different. Good. Oobi demonstrated diversity better in five words than every piece of media from the past decade combined.
SO TRUE
Yeah, like the Chinese restaurant episode, and the one where Oobi befriends Freida who is a foot (even tho that episode may cause some controversy today). Oobi was good at showing diversity in such an innocent and kid friendly way.
Oh so true
@@jocelynecupcake I don't feel like it would cause controversy. it's to show in a very obvious way that freda was different from oobi. to show kids that not all kids are the same like you and that's okay. the show was geared towards really young kids and had few words.
@@jocelynecupcake I've watched both episodes with Frieda in it, and I really don't see how they would be considered controversial by today's standards.
Other than a Nickelodeon production with bare feet is wince inducing for reasons I won't get into.
It is interesting how the use of hands rather than full puppets increases their ability to vary expression by combining both imitations of facial expressions and expressions made using hands. My favourite that I spotted were when they 'scratched' the side of their pointer finger with their thumb to represent scratching their head and when Oobi flattend out his hand to show he's all chill. It's really a testement to how good our brains are at recognising visual signs that even as kids we can watch this and understand the expressions even though they code switch between being hands and being faces constantly.
Imagine an alien race without human facial recognition watching this show and just being utterly confused.
@Zanthia Blue true
@@zoejo1706 Your post reminded me of that detail from _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_ where it explains that the primary villain race, the Vogons, have brains that evolved from their livers. Maybe somewhere out there a "headless" sapient race evolved with it's visual organs on it's equivalent of hands.
Hearing the oobi theme after like 11 years just brought back a wave of memories
This show is so nostalgic to me. When I was very young I would visit my grandparents every summer and when I would visit my maternal grandmother, she'd lay me on the couch for nap time and we'd watch Oobi, and after everyone, my grandparents included, took a nap, she'd take me to swim lessons. Then at night before bed we'd watch The Golden Girls.
Whenever they high five, they have to unhinge their jaws. I am not sure how to feel about that.
Well, they are hands..so their jaws are also fingers.
So basically they are unhinging it’s jaw and kissing. I don’t know how to feel about this
It’s *V O R E*
With each comment it gets progressively worst
angus''s eyes are in his mouth, so yeah. how's that for imagery
i don’t think anyone understands how important this show is to me
JN Productions Kids today won’t understand🤦🏾♀️
its. Peaches i know right
same, this was my favorite show as a kid
potat oe
i used to love this show, still do
damn this didn’t just unlock memories it took my neurons and pried them open with a crowbar. i liked oobi even though i thought it was creepy. the combo of puppetry, limited dialogue, and airing early in the morning probably contributed to that
oobi was my CHILDHOOD and originally got me stuck on wanting to be an actor and ventriloquist. despite wanting to be a psychologist and mental health researcher, my love of acting and being in the spotlight from my childhood with oobi has not left me :]!
Knowing that this was based on Muppet training exercises makes me respect it a whole lot more like wow
Pogchamp
Yeah I had no idea either
@Stellvia Hoenheim Lazy, but successful.
@Stellvia Hoenheim Nobody said lazy ideas are bad ideas.
Oobi taught me that gang signs are people with complex emotions too
Blood Oobi Now
The®999™ lmfao
Mind blown
Ayy bro Oobi ain't about that life
@@narlowemcfarlowe2952 haaaa
So *this* is where that specific intonation of "Nice." entered my vocabulary. I remember it all now. Bizarre.
My daughter was born in 2004. We discovered Oobi in reruns, when she was around 3 yrs old. We all loved the show. Ooma was her favorite, Grampoo was my husband's, & mine was Kako. My husband & I appreciated the humor thrown in for adults. Our favorite episodes were the ones where Grampoo was "twitterpatted" over Inka & seeing their budding new romance - hilarious stuff! Watching this video brought back so many bittersweet memories because it reminds me of my daugther's early childhood. She's 20 yrs old now. I just want to rewind the clock, go back in time, & experience those fleeting years once again...
"Peanut butter, jelly, different, good"
Truly inspirational words.
so simple yet so effective, grampu spits nothing but facts
@@sorbetbunny Oh, it’s Grampu? I thought it was Grandpoo this whole time
I want an Adult Swim comedy but only in this style.
There's a mexican tv character who is basically what you're asking for
Write it! (:
This is something I never knew I wanted.
Do it yourself
Oobi: The College Years
This was my absolute favorite show as a toddler. My mom told me that when it ended, I cried because I didn't want it to end. Ahhh, memories.
Thanks for making this. Oobi always made me viscerally uncomfortably, but seeing all the talent and love that went into it, you can't help but be grateful it existed for a while.
THE HISTORY OF MY FAVORITE SHOW WHEN I WAS A KID?!
SIGN
ME
UP
Ghostgirl 708 same
I used to watch this shiw like EVERY day
Oobi was both my savior and my sleep paralysis figure
Ghostgirl 708 glad I’m not the only one person who remembers this show
Omg i see you like anywhere i go
Do some of these eventually
1. Reading Rainbow
2. Play with me Sesame
3. Big comfy couch
4. Blues clues
5. Zoom
6. Cyberchase
I don’t know about cyberchase. The cancellation hasn’t been confirmed
I think Bunnytown should be on the list
@@southparkboyproductions6040 I totally forgot about that.
@BeaToluna275 PrincessRosalinaFTWBackpackBearFTL wasn't that a block?
I can blame Cyberchase for my lifelong love of both Gilbert Gottfried and Christopher Lloyd. I'd love to see an episode covering it!
I remember back in 5th grade, we had a small little friend group that all had a younger sibling that watched Oobi, so we all took on the names of the characters in a mocking fashion that any 10 year-old would do. Simpler times
I've been rewatching several of Kevin's works and I've got to say; No matter how much I've watched his videos, I'll be back to watch them again and again. 😎👉👉
Oobi's like me, Oobi's like you! Oobi's got a lot of big things that he's gonna do! Loved that show, I live near the studios where the principal photography took place and it made me realize I live in a small world
Uma’s his sis. Kako’s his friend.
@@michaelrhett4958 shes big, hes small. Kako is their friend, grandpoo loves them all.
VanVanTheManMan OOBI! OOBI OOBI OOOOBI!
Avery the Cuban-American I used to love that show too.
Ah, Justin Y's heir
If you remember noggin, you deserve a military discount.
Naadei Ashie Excuse me Noggin was my life 😂
He said "Noggin" and I felt like I got hit by a train. Like holy shit
Time to pick up my AARP card
I better get that discount to make up for the trauma it caused me
Guilty as charged.
I used to stay up just to watch Oobi well into high school 😂 it just always made me feel like comfortable. Like a hug as a show
I have it set for years that my first ever Pup I get (23 now) will be named Oobi, and I’m so incredibly excited to sing their theme song every morning with them
“-would lead to the development of a full series, titled The Wonder Pets”
Cue my brain having a vivid flashback to Kevin’s bewildered “MING MING DUCK LING” from the Nick Hotel episode
Hehehe hehehehe hahaha
And the time put a vsco girl with the nick hotel
Me too tbh
the phone, the phone is *WINGING*
Pie-rxmancer
Dun dun DUN
When my brother and I were little, we'd call him "Oobi-wan Kenoobi".
Lol same, or I would call him just “Oobi”, either one, I even made my own character too called “handy” very big brain!
I can only really remember one episode of this show, despite watching it a ton when I was little. Oobi was trying to throw a big elaborate birthday party for Uma, but Uma got upset because it was “too much party” I forgot what happened at the end tho lol.
Very good memories of this show, my family would take the eyes from our Mr Potato Head toy and stick them between our fingers and pretend to be like the characters haha
3:46 oh my god seeing their faces made my inner child sooo happy
I always wanted to see their faces for a long time and now that i get to see them I'm getting emotional man
this show was my biggest fear for a while, i had a nightmare once about oobi having a long, realistic tongue
Ok that dream was just paranormal
🤙🇷🇺☭✞
Finally I'm not the only one
Lol
Just seeing the thumbnail made my skin crawl, I'm glad I'm not the only one!
Grampu: *Instills wisdom*
Me: “That’s a good wisdom”
Peanut butter. Jelly. Different. Good.
Man. Woman. Relationship. Different. Good.
Man. Man. Relationship. Not different. Bad.
This is a meme. I do not condone homophobia, even when a fictional character's oversimplified "wisdom" can be extrapolated to justify it.
@@InventorZahran then why spread it?
No one cares
@@jameswent48 you cared enough to comment
Nice reference.
I vividly remember being in the dentist waiting room at like 6 years old with this on the TV. It was a segment where the hands were trying to high five but kept missing, and the girl hand was like "I can't dooo it..." It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen as a kid lol
It blows my mind how simple this idea really is and it translated into millions of dollars its truly insane. Literally would be so easy to film and write for and its like so genius at the same time
Hmmm yes Oobi lore. Myu favourite
This comment killed me because this is exactly how I feel about lazytown but unironically.
Same along with many others
To be honest, you need a very high IQ to understand Oobi.
@@drowsy7921 I believe Temmie. Temmie only wants High-IQ flakes.
@@mistersympa15 Tem wants High IQ flakes... plese gibe hi iq flake
so this show WASN’T just a fever dream from my youth
so many shows from the 70s, 80s, and 90s are like that. Starting in the 2000s shows started to become more main stream and weirder concepts became less common but goddamn so many shows from our childhoods were so weird you go through your whole life thinking it was some weird dream you had as a kid, and then you see a clip on CZcams and you're like "wait, that actually happened!?!"
I thought I made it up as a kid with those rings with those plastic eyes on it 😂 that or a dream 🤤
man i remember watching this all the time as a kid. i kept recognizing clips throughout the video.
I've been trying to remember the name of this show for 3 years. Perhaps for the first and only time, bless the algorithm
Bear in the Big Blue House, Blue's Clues, The Wiggles, Little People, Jack's Big Music Show.
And now Oobi.
The world will remember them.
WALN Zell JACKS BIG MUSIC SHOW WAS SOOOOO GOOD
OMG I LOVED BLUE'S CLUES AND THE WIGGLES AS A KID
Asdfhddhdbdmjf I forgot about Jack’s Big Music Show
I was big bear in the big blue house
@@Jay-qn5jx YASSS BITCH! I THOUGHT I IMAGINED THAT SHOW!
I just realized that "Kitty" is played on the performers middle finger.
He's been flipping off the cast all this time.
cats are just like that
My childhood is forever ruined.
Having had a cat in my home for many years, can confirm
I was born after Oobi ended, but I would love watching reruns on noggin all the time growing up, my parents said it was the show that always calmed me down :]
I thought I was the only who remembered this show. A nick Jr. GOAT
i named my cat oobi and the only person who got the reference was my sister
Out of everybody you know? Thats sad
@@nyctenthusiast3507 Not really. More adorable if anything.
NYCT Enthusiast i think a lot of people repressed this show in their memories. once i showed people what the show was they usually replied with “ holy shit i forgot that show even existed”
Oh. I sorta forgot too lmao
rei copola I always just remembered the hand puppets thing because I would do it too but only forgot the name
"...such as a hand bird, despite the existence of real birds being confirmed" summarizing the episode like a deep lore analysis
It's a cosplayer, probably
Love the intro, brought back some major Nick Jr. memories :)
Shoutout to when I was a young child obsessed with this show, walked into the gas station with my mother and loudly and proudly proclaimed to the cashier, “I love Booby!”
I didn’t think something could be cursed and wholesome at the same time but here we are
Blursed
I thought I was the only who was scared of this as a kid! Lol
If you're like me and grew up with it, it brings a tear to your eye seeing all of these old shows after so many years, but not a tear if cursed images, but of pure nostalgia, defunctland has unlocked parts of my brain that i haven't used in a while
I loved this show as a kid and it's wack looking back
@@kaseybennett7415 same thing here. Loved it during childhood, but nowadays they look creepier the more and more you stare back at them
"The wonder pets" HOLY SHIT I JUST REMEMBERED THAT SHOW! That nostalgia hit me like a semi.
There's an animal in trouble, there's and animal in trouble right now
Literally as soon as I saw the gosh darn hamster with the construction hat my mind instantly went "The phone, the phone is ringing!"
What's gonna work?..
@@cridly Teeamwork
The turtle
I’m really fortunate to have a really good long term memory and I can clearly remember watching this as a really really small kid, I absolutely loved the way they talked. As a child, there was something so warm and comforting about them using two to three simple words that I can still feel when watching this as a 28 year old. It was just so simple for me to fully understand as a tiny kid that I can remember always being so happy watching it :)
This really unlocked a memory I didn’t know I had