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Oobi was made by Little Airplane Productions, a studio co-founded by Josh Selig and Lori Shaer. Both co-founders started their careers working on Sesame Street. Selig was inspired to create Oobi after watching puppeteers perform with their bare hands on the set of Sesame Street.
Oobi: Created by Josh Selig. With Tim Lagasse, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Noel MacNeal, Tyler Bunch. The everyday discoveries of a curious young hand puppet named Oobi. He and his family have funny, simple adventures that celebrate the awkward steps of growing up.
- (2.9K)
- 2000-03-15
- Comedy, Family
- 13
Selig had recently left Sesame Street when he was given the opportunity to propose his own show to Noggin. He pitched Oobi to them under the working title Pipo , which he wanted to name the main character.
Oobi was a series of two-minute interstitials co-produced by Sesame Workshop, Nickelodeon, and the Jim Henson Company for Noggin. The shorts were developed from 1997[1] to 1999 and aired in 2000. It was the only series created by Noggin before the Jim Henson Company sold its 12.5% controlling...
- 21 min
Oobi appears in every single episode of season two and three, but he was absent for six episodes of the first season. These were the episodes he didn't appear in: "Worm!", "Nature!", "Bongo Drums!", "Wet and Dry!", "Flush!", and "Bird!". Also, in "Watermelon!", Oobi doesn't appear in person and is only seen in a family photo.
In 1999, Josh Selig pitched the show to Noggin, a cable channel co-founded by Sesame Workshop and MTV Networks. Josh wanted to call the show "Pipo," but this name was already trademarked by an Italian brand of jeans. He came up with "Oobi" as a different name, which he liked because the two O's mirrored Oobi's round eyes.
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Josh Selig came up with the idea for Oobi while watching puppeteers audition for Sesame Street. They used only their hands and pairs of plastic eyes, which inspired Selig to consider making a show about super-simple, "rudimentary" hand puppets.
