DefunctTV: The History of Oobi 

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

KillerMachine79 that’s what I thought lol

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

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

I love this❤

I need more beauty in my life.

this is so cute omg 😭💜

Awwww 😁

Adorable

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

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.

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!

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

Life noggin

Brilliant

Same

😂

....... listen here you little

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?”

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.

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

IM CRYING AT THIS LMAOOOOOOOO

It's 4am bro, can't have me laughing like this

Lol

OMG 😂

I CANNOT GET OVER THIS

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Blood Oobi Now

The®999™ lmfao

Mind blown

Ayy bro Oobi ain't about that life

@@narlowemcfarlowe2952 haaaa

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

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

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

so simple yet so effective, grampu spits nothing but facts

@@sorbetbunny Oh, it’s Grampu? I thought it was Grandpoo this whole time

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

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.

Lol same, or I would call him just “Oobi”, either one, I even made my own character too called “handy” very big brain!

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

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.

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

Pogchamp

Yeah I had no idea either

@Stellvia Hoenheim Lazy, but successful.

@Stellvia Hoenheim Nobody said lazy ideas are bad ideas.

It's a cosplayer, probably

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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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 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

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.

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 RU-vid 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 🤤

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

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

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

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

Justas how would you show candy? Would he have a missing finger? 🤔

The rabbits, George

So Lennie kills Curley's wife by dislocating the puppeteer's wrist?

We gonna have bunny ears, right George?

Better yet , “It’s a wonderful life” but in this style

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.

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.

Don't you mean, "Oobi check vibes?"

You fail vibe 👋☹️👋

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!

cats are just like that

My childhood is forever ruined.

Having had a cat in my home for many years, can confirm

“Underhanded” I see what you did there

Best thing I've seen all day lol

Fucking same. I remember the exact place I saw that too.

No way how that hell?!? Same!!

same 😧 r u 20

Its crazy how many childhood shows you forget about.

@@luna-li9fj 18 XD

Yeah I was thinking "Nooo she couldn't have actually held up her foot for a long period of time to do that". Like that's amazing, but it had to have taken a bit of fatigue and energy to hold her leg up for that long.

@Yo Momma I get the joke, but it's a bad one. He had literally nothing to do with this show.

You know this was the catalyst for so many future foot fetishists

Yeah hahaha I can't believe she was able to preform with her feet hahaha, If only I had more pictures hahaha please for the love of God I'm desperate for feet pics God save me

Noah Ariss hahah yes

This is creepy me out too. I'm getting flashback s.

An insane fangirl yeasss “whittle airplane” thinking about that gives me so many flashbacks

I forgot that ending logo too...

It was actually based on a song from Sesame Street.

'_'

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

Do you remember any of the plots of the shorts? Most of them are lost media. lostmediawiki.com/Noggin_Presents:_Oobi_(partially_found_series_of_interstitial_shorts;_2000-2002)

For me I used to use the Mr. Potato eyes and put them between my index and middle finger ^^

Ur pfp is cursed

Meaning?

Lol, the bigger the eyes, the more cursed it gets

You're wrong! *_THEY'RE ALL CURSED_*

@@verdragon5591 *YOU TAKE THAT BACK*

That was legit my favorite show

Memories rushing in

I used to stay up to watch it but one day it just didn’t come one

NASCAR elite gamer I do but it's only cuz I was a teen by then

That show was the best

froggy bibi She still went along with it.

@brandon roberts what creepy pasta tv show?

@brandon roberts okay thanks

Dude. I felt the same.

I forgot the name of it. Then I saw this video and was like "is this what the memories we're about?" And I was right.

It terrified me lol

@@morgue.n444 those round,globular eyes on top of that hand-mouth *shivers* o_____0

@@tornadodee148 this was my daily routine (not the whole day of course): 1. Watch The Upside Down Show 2. See that Oobi was on next 3. Say that I "wanted to take a nap" and run into my bed 4. Hide under my blankets until I fell asleep 5. Wake up and forget what Oobi was It's kind of sad looking back on it now..

😂

Well how does one go about disproving that?

oobi kin

I’ve watched oobi a lot as a kid. I still watch the episodes on RU-vid

Yeah, this was like, so much of my childhood

Pls

Oh lord that gave me ptsd

killerdino17 my childhood friend right there

It was really good

YASS I WOULD LOVE THAT!!

That's so precious ;w;

My mom tells me all about his show and I was “THIS. IS. THE. SHOW.”

*grampu

For our family we just shortened it to "pooh!"

ok zoomer

This show was terrifying for me as a kid especially the episode when oobi's sister had that reoccurring nightmare

Furry Trash_exe lmao that episode was the foundation of my anxiety

SAME

Yeah. I one time remembered out no where when I was in my early teens and told my family about it and they thought I was thinking of a dream.

Hahaha that would be quit a fever dream

Viacom is still very defensive of that IP, good luck.

Yo gabba Gabba was my shit

Or better yet, Arnold

That was my younger brother’s favorite show as a kid.

Did you know Yo Gabba Gabba was created by Christian Jacobs, A.K.A. MC Bat Commander from The Aquabats? Side note, did you know Travis Barker used to be in The Aquabats under the stagename "The Baron Von Tito"?

Sameee I’m 20 as well lol

I’d do the same too and I’m 19 almost 20

i do the same thing with this show and many other shows "made for kids", cuz they're timeless.

gurple

snufkin omg that was my show. Also you remember gala gala island

yes!! i absolutely love this show !

GURPLE

THAT SHOW WAS WACK BUT I LOVED IT

Ah man, a Blue’s Clues mini-series would be the best. But with the continuation out now, it’s legacy is still developing, so I don’t know if that would work.

1, 2, and 5 were my childhood

Number 2 would be awkward though.

NoahBud Wilder I would literally cry if they did Little Bear

Oof, a Little Bill episode would be akward...