 oobi (pronounced oo-bee) is an american television series.parents' choice foundation 2001 gold award premieres aired on noggin (now nick jr.) from 2004 until 2007. reruns of the series were aired on nick jr. until early 2013. the show was created by josh selig and produced by his company little airplane productions."oobi does it," newsweek, october 1, 2004. after a successful run as a short-form series on noggin, oobi premiered as a long-form series on april 7, 2003 on the same network. the series won a 2001 gold parents' choice award. ==plot== the series follows oobi's everyday adventures with his younger sister uma, his best friend kako, and his grandfather, grampu. the show is intended to build skills such as mathematics, early literacy, and logical thinking. ==style== the characters are created from the bare hands of the puppeteers decorated with toy eyeballs and sometimes hair. the puppeteers' thumbs are used to represent mouth movement, and the fingers flutter, clench, and make other movements to indicate emotions (when the thumb scratches the side of the hand, that symbolizes that the character is thinking or feeling confused.) the hands also serve usual purposes, such as holding objects and turning doorknobs. a majority of the characters are right-handed, but three (mrs. johnson, mimi and paula) are left-handed. the characters' speech consists of simple vocabulary and simple sentences. for example, "uma, school, first day" is said in place of "it's uma's first day of school" or "it's my first day of school." ==cast== *oobi - tim lagasse *uma - stephanie d'abruzzo *grampu - tyler bunch *kako - noel macneal during breaks between each episode (there are two per show) the characters leave their home to talk to real preschoolers. they interact according to the theme of the episode. ==main characters== * oobi- the show's main character, is a young boy in grade school. oobi is curious, smart, thoughtful, kind and gentle. voiced by timothy lagasse. as the main character he is in every episode created and has lots of starring roles, though some are occasionally centere
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