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- Selig was a longtime writer and performer for Sesame Street, and he came up with the idea for Oobi while watching bare-handed puppeteers audition for Sesame Street. The show was filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios, where Sesame Street is also taped.
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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.
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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: 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
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.
Noggin's other displays at the show were all related to Sesame Street; the Oobi display was included as part of the Sesame tour. The display was designed and constructed by Matthew Allar, a scenographer for Viacom Media Networks .
Martin P. Robinson – who performs Mr. Snuffleupagus and Telly Monster on Sesame Street – created and built the puppets' costumes and accessories on Oobi. Ken Reynolds and John Tierney, editors on Sesame Street, were hired to edit the show.
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.
