There was a very autistic boy that rode my bus when I was younger that would only talk to people through his Oobi hand. I just think it's neat that he found that way to communicate
i have an autistic niece who is only semi-verbal but she also does this, and i (also autistic) have been told by my mom that i did the same thing when i was younger although i have no memory of it, it's kind of freaky how common it is but also very cute in a weird way
I remember watching Oobi and Ni Hao Kai Lan and loving that they showed that grandparents are just as important as parents. It definitely made me feel more like I could trust my grandparents just as much. I wish we had a bit more of that now.
@@MuppetHell haha yeah im starting to get "i see you everywhere" comments again, i guess i've just been commenting more often? im also just a fan of athena's videos so i like to comment on them
Frieda Foot really threw me for a loop. All I can imagine is someone crawling on her back in front of the camera, in severe discomfort from holding her foot up for the entire filming session.
Puppeteers are willing to contort into any number of uncomfortable positions for their craft. For example, Bear, from Bear in the Big Blue House is an entire production in himself, with his Puppeteer/voice actor hidden away in the belly, one arm controlling Bear's working arm, the other acting as his mouth. The Puppeteer lines himself up using a tv screen hidden in the suit, because there are no eyeholes to look out of.
I remember really liking this show when I was little, but my parents never letting me watch it because they thought it was stupid. So, I ended up having to watch it in secret. Specifically, when my parents were asleep, because I remember it coming on after we all went to bed. Ah, good times.
Honestly, I kinda agree with your parents. Any show that treats baby talk like real talk is unhealthy - children learn to speak properly by listening to people speak properly, showing them something where everyone speaks in baby talk stunts their growth.
My favorite thing about this show is that no one in my family seems to remember it except me and my older brother. We went to a convention while cosplaying and only 3 people got the reference 😂
Fun fact: Noel Macneal who played Kako, was also the puppeteer of Bear in Bear and the Big Blue House and even recently was a puppeteer for Audrey II in the Little Shop of Horrors on broadway I’m a muppet geek and this is my time to shine Also Stephanie D’Abruzzo (who played Una) was also on broadway in Avenue Q and has even puppeteers on Sesame Street But Wait there’s more!!! Matt Vogel (who’s Angus) is the current Kermit the Frog, Floyd Pepper, and Big Bird Okay now I’m done
Fun fact: Stephanie D'Abruzzo was also cast in the Broadway cast for the 2003 musical Avenue Q, where she played Kate Monster, a character who is also a puppet. D'Abruzzo also worked on Sesame Street.
Ik, I even said that in a reply to an Oobi comment in the Wonder Pets vid. I don't really listen to Broadway soundtracks but I absolutely love Avenue Q's soundtrack
@@grandviceroyoftheempire LMAO yeah. It's not even like we have representation of our own... although to be fair, Tennessee doesn't seem to have much in terms of TV shows(aside from the Heartland series).
Fun fact: my old friend wrote the Oobi feelspasta. The show was kind of an inside joke to us. When we would hang out, we’d watch Oobi and make numerous jokes. She’s super sweet and I really hope she’s doing well
I always assumed that Frida the Foot was a way to show Neurodivergence. She doesn't show much emotion, and just because she can't do all the things Oobi can, doesn't mean she can do *less*
In Mexico there was a major new station in the early 2000’s and one of the reporters was a hand with these eyes. He was beloved across the entire country that he would usually give celebrity news and sometimes really tragic cartel torture murders
@@reesemalo dude I’ve tried to find it so much, I remember the hand did an interview with Sabrina (biggest Mexican tits at the time) and Lugernio Derbez
You have no idea how much I love your lore series! They bring me back to simpler times, especially Oobi! Also I HAD NO CLUE MOTHERS SIMPED FOR GRAMPU WHAT-
Aren’t the characters in Oobi just the skeletons of characters you would find on a puppet/muppet show like Sesame Street? A standard Muppet watching Oobi is the equivalent of a human watching a show about a family of human skulls that does everything with their jaws. Edit: I just realized! You didn’t even mention the fact that the statues and garden gnomes in some of the episodes are designed to have hands as heads like the other Oobi characters.
Oh my god I'm sobbing, this was my favorite show when I was incredibly young, I have a few pairs of the hand puppet finger eyes and still pretend to be Oobi sometimes. This is absolutely beautiful Athena, well done! Loving today's makeup as well!
Would you consider covering Wild Kratts? It’s a PBS kid’s show about two brothers with special suits that give them animal powers and they use them to fight villains who want to use animals for Evil.
I can feel my brain slowly softening and dripping out my ears trying to process Oobi anatomy fitting the theories presented here. An excellent Saturday
i've.. honestly never been more excited for a youtube video in my life. oobi is like my favorite show from childhood and i call myself the only member of the modern oobi fandom. this video was practically made for me. hand delivered (no pun intended). i will be SEATED.
This was, unfortunately, one of the few children's shows that made scared when I was younger XD I think it was because it was kinda uncanny to see human hands pretending to be whole bodies/new creatures
Yay I'm not the only one who thought this show was a little unsettling! And that weird breaking the fourth wall when talking to us!😰😭😭 To be fair, I remember watching a few episodes because they're was a couple that were my favorite..... Basically a love/hate relationship 😂😂
when i was somewhere between 2 and 5 i would play the oobi games on the nick jr website, but i wasn't very interested in the show and had no idea who the characters were and all that. at one point, i was following my mother around the house (as toddlers do) and for whatever reason, we ended up either in the bathroom or just outside it with the door open. my father got out of the shower, ass naked because He Got Out Of The Shower, and i proceeded to call his penis (i did not know what a penis was) an oobi. my mother recounts what i said as being something along the lines of "look, daddy's got an oobi!!" i will never live it down. so basically, to me, the title of this video is "PENIS LORE". you are welcome
children's shows treating the world like payment is normal and everyone gets payed enough is actually really impactful because if everyone having enough money is normalized, then finding out the world is different is unacceptable
You should try doing a lore video about Strawberry Shortcake (2003) or better yet, make a lore video about Nella the Princess Knight when the series eventually comes to a close. Nella and Willow's love at first site story is so heartwarming!~
I was hoping for an anatomy segment that spiraled out of control this episode and I sure did get it! Fun fact about the shorts: It's partially lost media! Two shorts are completely lost, and one is missing the ending. It is impressive how many shorts have been found within the past year alone though, this time last year I believe around five or six shorts were missing but some were found in various Noggin compilations. Due to that I believe that the last two shorts can be found, hopefully within the year!
It was a trip hearing you mention the frog with eyes in its mouth because I used its picture a little while ago as enemy art for a horror ttrpg I was running. Weirdly enough, it was also paired with a lot of hand-based body horror.
Today I have learned that Oobi talk is just ASL gloss with extra steps. I'm going to college for ASL and I am so fucking happy right now- THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD-
i personally think that their mouths are like an octopus'. the fingers are like tentacles that are used to funnel foods into the palm where their mouths are, like an octopus beak. since they have no other appendages, they also use them to move everyday objects around.
My grandma loved watching this show with me when I was little, and apparently I liked it too because she bought a couple packs of those little eyes that go around your fingers
Oh my gosh, I forgot about this show…this show creeped me out. I love your videos. Your lore videos are great and make me so nostalgic! Have you ever thought of doing one on Liberty’s Kids? That was a huge part of elementary school history classes. All the episodes are free on TH-cam. The lore is amazing. It covers almost 20 years but no characters age. Plus, the cast randomly has Ralph Fiennes, Dustin Hoffman, and Arnold Scwartznegger. Plus there’s a rap song over a decade before Hamilton. It’s iconic.
Can’t wait for the team umizoomi lore video. Considering on the poll she showed on the wonder pets video, oobi was in second place and umizoomi was in 3rd
My personal Oobi lore is that when I was a kid, we had a very loud printer in our house that had this very specific noise it would make when printing, and my younger sister and I said it sounded like it was saying “Uma Party” over and over again and we made a little song for it so every time the printer printed something we had a little “Uma Party”. We also would recreate scenes from Oobi and create new characters, which is a testament to the brilliant simplicity of the character design.
I remember enjoying the show as a kid. I was always so confused watching the hands turn their body around and kept trying to figure out how to make my hand do that. It really bothered me for a while until I forgot about it. When I was reminded of oobies in college I came to the realization that the actors themselves just turned around then facepalmed and went on with my life.
The ''feels pasta'' actually feels like something that could work as an official episode, reminds me of how Sesame Street can deal with topics like death.
I always thought Oobi was so hilarious. Oobi language is so weird it's funny. I watched those Oobi YTPs when I was a child and watched it myself. I think you did an amazing move with this one. And to sum this all up, Dexter, you, friends!
i love how your lore series explains aspects of childrens shows that do deep dives into what the world and implications of such a world are. its a fun thought exercise and its fun to think about maybe things that don’t end up making sense but also don’t actually matter. i also really like explaining childrens shows shouldn’t be nonsensical because kids aren’t dumb.
Hi Athena, I'm a fan! I really loved the phrase "not important, but part of life" to describe your video topics. That's such a nice perspective on making things. Thank you for your work!
I remember this show. It makes me want to watch it again. I've been getting into old noggin shows and remembered The Upside Down Show. It's by the Umbilical Brothers people so they actually have stand up comedey expirience. It holds up so well and is funny even as an adult. Highly recommend.
This show actually was the first ever thing to give me nightmares but it was also my first fixation. I’ve long overcome my fear of this show obviously (though I won’t lie I still do find it a tiny bit uncanny). But this show is so intriguing to me both as someone who loved and hated it as a kid and who is a huge fan of muppets and puppetry as a whole.
I’ve been accidentally fucking with my HRT doses, and somehow I’m genuinely emotional to the point of tears watching Athena review what was basically my turning point to becoming an art kid. This production was basically a big passion project, and I have a homemade Oobi poster in my workshop to keep me motivated.
15:41 A very confusing reference to Teen Titans Go, Robin thinks that Pig Latin is being possessed by some sort of pig-like alien prophecy in order to hypnotize his teammates and destroying the world. Turns out it went true at the next scenes. Speaking of Pig Latin: Thena-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY would not see that coming.
1. The fact that you were able to sit through this show is a miracle in itself. I just tried watching the Anchors Away episode to see what you meant about Freida, and I instantly wanted to go visit my evil rooster. 2. With the way these characters talk, it’s insulting to children. It’s more educational to sit them in front of an Athena P video than an Oobi episode simply because the Oobi characters don’t speak more than three words in one sentence. While the typical three-year-old *speaks* in three-word sentences, they’re able to *understand* more than that.
This might be looking too deep but maybe it’s like A way to instill critical thinking in a way? Because they have to figure out what’s being said or something?
my theory for the hand-biology is that they’re sort of like octopi or other cephalopods, and the fingers are like tentacles while the “mouth” is some unseen structure on or in the palm like an octopus’ beak. by this logic, the foot gives me cuttlefish vibes, but i honestly don’t have a further explanation for that
Idk if you take suggestions but if you do, I’d like to suggest Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and Little Einsteins! Both were really good shows (or at least from what I remember) and I think that they might have some good lore that would be fun to look into!
I love Oobi! I have vivid memories of the show from when I was 4! I remember one night I was struggling to breath and kinda stopped breathing and was balling my eyes out while my parents put me on a machine that was supposed to help and it was like 12 am. Love this show! Definitely helped me forget the fact that I was borderline dying! Great show
If you want to review another commercial, I believe the old poptart commercials (When they had sentient poptarts) has some kind of lore. I remember a couple intertwined conmercials, as well as the big web event where you had to find out who was killing all the poptarts or something. I forget exactly what it was about. All I know is it ended with the Frosted Blueberry Ninja poptart.
I just noticed after re-watching as a comfort creator, I love how the only thing necessary to differentiate between the conspiracy person & the normal person is the tinfoil hat despite all the amazing face paint.
I loved Oobi as a kid. There’s an episode where he writes his own book, and it inspired me to try writing my own. I was maybe four. Now I’m a children’s librarian and a writer, so… thanks, Oobi!
Omg I LOVED this show when I was a kid. Every time my mom brings it up, my dad ALWAYS talks about how him and my uncle thought the middle finger cat was the funniest thing ever
Considering that a lot of what the Handfolk (what I’m calling the people that Oobi belongs to for the sake of simplicity) do doesn’t seem to be based of where tier stuff would be biologically or logically (like where their mouths are for instance) but instead as a representation of it, much like a shadow puppet it seems. There mouths aren’t where they should be biologically but there it would look like at the time. We’ve also seen them do some weird things too that make no sense, such as a fire fighter removing their eyes and laying them on a steering wheel, or large amounts of hair growing overnight, or being a completely different shape (a foot) being just the equivalent of a disability, or talking about marching and having teeth despite not having either. With all this in mind, perhaps the Handfolk might be some sort of fey creature that for some reason became fleshy for some reason and got stuck in our world somehow and became naturalized while retaining a good deal of their nonsense traits.
Oobi was really dear to my heart. Grew up in a home with no real social/emotional education, and Oobi speaking to me really made me feel seen and heard and ugh i miss him. And i can def relate to them Grampu groupies now that im older LOL
There was a very autistic boy that rode my bus when I was younger that would only talk to people through his Oobi hand. I just think it's neat that he found that way to communicate
i have an autistic niece who is only semi-verbal but she also does this, and i (also autistic) have been told by my mom that i did the same thing when i was younger although i have no memory of it, it's kind of freaky how common it is but also very cute in a weird way
💀💀💀that’s amazing
@@jasperjazzie puppets help that alot
Cool
People are weirdly more forgiving of social inadequacy if you do it through puppets. It's weird but works
As somebody who was raised by their grandmother I appreciate the representation of Oobi being raised by Grampu.
I was raised by my grandparents too. Never thought it was weird grampu raised them and I liked that someone had an experience like me.
My grandma remembers watching this with me but I do not!
I remember watching Oobi and Ni Hao Kai Lan and loving that they showed that grandparents are just as important as parents. It definitely made me feel more like I could trust my grandparents just as much. I wish we had a bit more of that now.
@@TheAlmightyRiley19 the fact you even had nice enough grand parents is a rarity
Same here
that "feels pasta" was so well written in the oobi language it feels like it could've been an actual oobi conversation
MEME WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE
Turning into the next Pyro
@@MuppetHell haha yeah im starting to get "i see you everywhere" comments again, i guess i've just been commenting more often? im also just a fan of athena's videos so i like to comment on them
@@memethyst I was legit gonna say that though. I see you literally everywhere XD
12:55 is where it's at if you're looking for this
wasn't paying attention fully and thought she was reading from an actual script from the show
Fun fact: "Uma Sick" is the only episode whose title doesn't end in an exclamation point.
I don’t know if it was intentional but I like that. Exclamation points are usually for excitement and sickness usually isn’t that.
thats because "uma sick!" would imply uma is doing some SICK skateboard tricks rather then dying of whatever sickness these hand creatures can get
This is serious business
@@memethystmaybe it should have been, get oobi one of those finger skate board
@@memethystthis made me laugh more than it should have
Frieda Foot really threw me for a loop. All I can imagine is someone crawling on her back in front of the camera, in severe discomfort from holding her foot up for the entire filming session.
I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT-
There’s pictures online of bts footage of that episode, and the puppeteer for the foot is pretty much doing exactly that lol 💀
Puppeteers are willing to contort into any number of uncomfortable positions for their craft.
For example, Bear, from Bear in the Big Blue House is an entire production in himself, with his Puppeteer/voice actor hidden away in the belly, one arm controlling Bear's working arm, the other acting as his mouth. The Puppeteer lines himself up using a tv screen hidden in the suit, because there are no eyeholes to look out of.
fun fact: we nicknamed my dog grampu and it wasn’t until this video that i remembered where it came from. in athena we trust
Oh my god that’s such a cute nickname!!!! I’m so glad I reminded you of his nicknamesake 🥹🥹
Stop that’s adorable
@@dream_walker9726"Athena"?
In athena we trust
I remember really liking this show when I was little, but my parents never letting me watch it because they thought it was stupid. So, I ended up having to watch it in secret. Specifically, when my parents were asleep, because I remember it coming on after we all went to bed. Ah, good times.
Thats a shame
Honestly, I kinda agree with your parents. Any show that treats baby talk like real talk is unhealthy - children learn to speak properly by listening to people speak properly, showing them something where everyone speaks in baby talk stunts their growth.
@@Wandergirl108 It was part of the style and to simplify what they were teaching.
I remember nothing from this show but I do know that it was my favorite!
that’s so funny because my dad very much encouraged my oobi obsession
SHUT UP! I WANTED YOU TO COVER THIS SHOW SOOO BAD THANK YOUU 😭😭❤️❤️❤️
I GREW UP ON OOBIEEEEEE WTFFF?!
And yet you're shutting her up. Interesting. (This is a joke btw)
LMFAO SAMW
I wanted it to happen too!
Excuse me, this is a safe place. Please do not tell people to shutup
If hand fetishists are a thing, this show was their awakening
It is and I'm one 😅
*Slowly raises hand shamefully.* 😅 😣
Yoshikage Kira
Don't want to alarm you but there's a fetish for literally everything. And I mean everything.
@@zawarudo855 I KNEW SOMEONE WAS GONNA SAY THAT
My favorite thing about this show is that no one in my family seems to remember it except me and my older brother. We went to a convention while cosplaying and only 3 people got the reference 😂
How did you cosplay them? :0 just the general hands with eyes on them?
Just got some tiny styrofoam balls, painted eyes on them and wore them like rings
@@littlemoni2312Aaawww, that's cute. :3.
Fun fact: Noel Macneal who played Kako, was also the puppeteer of Bear in Bear and the Big Blue House and even recently was a puppeteer for Audrey II in the Little Shop of Horrors on broadway
I’m a muppet geek and this is my time to shine
Also Stephanie D’Abruzzo (who played Una) was also on broadway in Avenue Q and has even puppeteers on Sesame Street
But Wait there’s more!!!
Matt Vogel (who’s Angus) is the current Kermit the Frog, Floyd Pepper, and Big Bird
Okay now I’m done
So you're saying we can recreate Little Shop of Horrors with Kako as Audrey II?
@@punkysnarks Yes.
And it would be glorious
Shine On, 'Muppet geek', shine on 🤟🏾
I knew that was Bear's voice! Thank you, Muppet geek
I said this before in the Wonder Pets vid on an Oobi comment but the character Randy is performed by Kevin Clash, who was the prior puppeteer of Elmo
Fun fact: Stephanie D'Abruzzo was also cast in the Broadway cast for the 2003 musical Avenue Q, where she played Kate Monster, a character who is also a puppet. D'Abruzzo also worked on Sesame Street.
She was also in Book of Pooh for Playhouse Disney for puppetry too
Ik, I even said that in a reply to an Oobi comment in the Wonder Pets vid. I don't really listen to Broadway soundtracks but I absolutely love Avenue Q's soundtrack
I _love_ Avenue Q!!! I feel _blessed_ to know this knowledge this day, _thank you..._ :'3.
As a gay man living in Tennessee, thank you so much for calling them out for their drag stance. Its infuriating.
Ahhhh, thanks for letting me know that I'm not the only gay guy around here.
@@ExtremeWreck right? Genuinely feels like a gay wasteland down here.
@@grandviceroyoftheempire LMAO yeah. It's not even like we have representation of our own... although to be fair, Tennessee doesn't seem to have much in terms of TV shows(aside from the Heartland series).
@Extreme Wreck 2000 true, and what we do have is usually less than intellectually engaging. Lol.
They ruled it unconstitutional, we won!!!!
The feet note "of course this is nickelodeon" was completely inevitable, and I laughed admittedly.
Fun fact: my old friend wrote the Oobi feelspasta. The show was kind of an inside joke to us. When we would hang out, we’d watch Oobi and make numerous jokes. She’s super sweet and I really hope she’s doing well
Omg the show was also an inside joke for me and my brother whrn we were kids😂 we would die laughing at it😂😂
I always assumed that Frida the Foot was a way to show Neurodivergence. She doesn't show much emotion, and just because she can't do all the things Oobi can, doesn't mean she can do *less*
In Mexico there was a major new station in the early 2000’s and one of the reporters was a hand with these eyes. He was beloved across the entire country that he would usually give celebrity news and sometimes really tragic cartel torture murders
Imagine turning on the news and seeing a disembodied hand talk about someone being tortured to death by drug lords. Surreal for sure
are there any videos online?
@@reesemalo dude I’ve tried to find it so much, I remember the hand did an interview with Sabrina (biggest Mexican tits at the time) and Lugernio Derbez
This is such a fun fact
WEY, EL COMPAYITO
Man, the nostalgia is really kicking in now!
I honestly thought this show was forgotten. But thankfully this video is proof that that isn’t the case
To answer the off screen person's question, they make babies by hi-fiving but very passionately.
They might even fist bump??? 😱
No no, they probably do it like this:
✨👉🏻👌🏻✨
Oh, I figured they just, you know: 👉👌
Th-They hold hands???
@unfinishedzizzy7582 for once, that would make sense for getting someone pregnant
You gotta appreciate Athena's dedication to answering the questions that matter. I've never been more entertained- her videos are nonstop fun lol.
Omf thank you so so much!!! 🥲
You have no idea how much I love your lore series! They bring me back to simpler times, especially Oobi! Also I HAD NO CLUE MOTHERS SIMPED FOR GRAMPU WHAT-
Aren’t the characters in Oobi just the skeletons of characters you would find on a puppet/muppet show like Sesame Street?
A standard Muppet watching Oobi is the equivalent of a human watching a show about a family of human skulls that does everything with their jaws.
Edit: I just realized! You didn’t even mention the fact that the statues and garden gnomes in some of the episodes are designed to have hands as heads like the other Oobi characters.
Beatles Cartoon pfp jumpscare
@@roobusmcscroobus Cuz it’s the best cartoon ever made. And I believe in George supremacy.
That's kinda dark..lol I'm here for it...
Oh my god I'm sobbing, this was my favorite show when I was incredibly young, I have a few pairs of the hand puppet finger eyes and still pretend to be Oobi sometimes. This is absolutely beautiful Athena, well done! Loving today's makeup as well!
Would you consider covering Wild Kratts? It’s a PBS kid’s show about two brothers with special suits that give them animal powers and they use them to fight villains who want to use animals for Evil.
That would be neat. Let’s put Zaboomafoo in there too since it stars the same brothers.
Oh my gosh yasss
@@calebgoodman3028Zaboomafoo for the win, as Wild Kratts was a little after my time and I didn't really watch it, just a couple of episodes
Ooh, cool idea!
@@calebgoodman3028 i mean they don't have much else in common besides that considering that they're written for different audiences
You should totally do chugginton, you'd absolutely go insane over it
I was OBSESSED with this show as a kid. It inspired me to “eat” with my hands the way they did on the show, I made a mess 😂
I can feel my brain slowly softening and dripping out my ears trying to process Oobi anatomy fitting the theories presented here. An excellent Saturday
Seeing this reignited a fear of oobi that was buried deep within me. Primal feelings from before I formed memories
This and the hand scene in labyrinth did something terrible to a young me
Well I didn't watch the show, but I was afraid of commercials with a similar style.
@@madammarshmallow9468 the pale man In labyrinth will forever be an fever core memory my mom showed me that movie what I was like 10
I love the idea that the aliens tried to turn themselves into full humans, but only managed to make hands, and just gave up.
i've.. honestly never been more excited for a youtube video in my life. oobi is like my favorite show from childhood and i call myself the only member of the modern oobi fandom. this video was practically made for me. hand delivered (no pun intended). i will be SEATED.
I loved Oobi as a kid. I began to use my hands like a puppet after watching, and I always wanted those googly eyes lol
MY brother and I got the googly eyes from a candy machine. He loved them.
This was, unfortunately, one of the few children's shows that made scared when I was younger XD I think it was because it was kinda uncanny to see human hands pretending to be whole bodies/new creatures
I was the same way, I walked away whenever Oobi came on
Yay I'm not the only one who thought this show was a little unsettling! And that weird breaking the fourth wall when talking to us!😰😭😭 To be fair, I remember watching a few episodes because they're was a couple that were my favorite.....
Basically a love/hate relationship 😂😂
when i was somewhere between 2 and 5 i would play the oobi games on the nick jr website, but i wasn't very interested in the show and had no idea who the characters were and all that. at one point, i was following my mother around the house (as toddlers do) and for whatever reason, we ended up either in the bathroom or just outside it with the door open. my father got out of the shower, ass naked because He Got Out Of The Shower, and i proceeded to call his penis (i did not know what a penis was) an oobi. my mother recounts what i said as being something along the lines of "look, daddy's got an oobi!!" i will never live it down.
so basically, to me, the title of this video is "PENIS LORE". you are welcome
Haha that’s fuckin hilarious!
When I was a kid, I called a penis a “crayon”.
When I was little, I called it an "orange liquid".
Eek!
children's shows treating the world like payment is normal and everyone gets payed enough is actually really impactful because if everyone having enough money is normalized, then finding out the world is different is unacceptable
The part about the firetruck really made me chuckle.
OOBI!!! i used to be obsessed with this show as a kid its such a strange concept tho
You should try doing a lore video about Strawberry Shortcake (2003) or better yet, make a lore video about Nella the Princess Knight when the series eventually comes to a close. Nella and Willow's love at first site story is so heartwarming!~
There was a talking British horse
Also the theme tune slaps
I was hoping for an anatomy segment that spiraled out of control this episode and I sure did get it! Fun fact about the shorts: It's partially lost media! Two shorts are completely lost, and one is missing the ending. It is impressive how many shorts have been found within the past year alone though, this time last year I believe around five or six shorts were missing but some were found in various Noggin compilations. Due to that I believe that the last two shorts can be found, hopefully within the year!
The scene of them filling the produce scale to an absurd degree has been living rent free in my head for years.
I’m surprised no one has made a “catch these hands” joke yet so here I am.
It was a trip hearing you mention the frog with eyes in its mouth because I used its picture a little while ago as enemy art for a horror ttrpg I was running. Weirdly enough, it was also paired with a lot of hand-based body horror.
was it good?
I dont know why everyone finds the frog so scary I just feel bad for it, it has to keep its mouth open constantly in order to see
Bear in the Big Blue House Lore WHEN?!
Oobi wasn’t really a Nick-produced show, Noggin was run by a separate team in partnership with Sesame Workshop.
I have a deep need for a lore deep dive on Lazytown
Omg yesss
i heard "played pattycake" and my first thought was "holy shit like in who framed roger rabbit"
here because noel macneal (puppeteer of bear in bear in the big blue house and kako in oobi) mentioned this video on a podcast 🎉 good job athena!
Today I have learned that Oobi talk is just ASL gloss with extra steps. I'm going to college for ASL and I am so fucking happy right now- THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD-
8:14
Edd: "that's disturbing"
i personally think that their mouths are like an octopus'. the fingers are like tentacles that are used to funnel foods into the palm where their mouths are, like an octopus beak. since they have no other appendages, they also use them to move everyday objects around.
Never seen Oobi, but it looks horrifyingly beautiful
There are so many lore videos you make about shows I always thought were weird fever dreams I had as a child
My grandma loved watching this show with me when I was little, and apparently I liked it too because she bought a couple packs of those little eyes that go around your fingers
Oh my gosh, I forgot about this show…this show creeped me out.
I love your videos. Your lore videos are great and make me so nostalgic! Have you ever thought of doing one on Liberty’s Kids? That was a huge part of elementary school history classes. All the episodes are free on TH-cam. The lore is amazing. It covers almost 20 years but no characters age. Plus, the cast randomly has Ralph Fiennes, Dustin Hoffman, and Arnold Scwartznegger. Plus there’s a rap song over a decade before Hamilton. It’s iconic.
7:22 i audibly laughed bc you’re right… they can’t march 😂
Both oobi and wubzzy made me gasp when I saw you reviewed them! Both of them are the definition of childhood
As a snake expert, the hands wouldn’t need an elbow joint because certain species of snakes have been known to raise themselves four feet vertically
love how the yt subtitles aren't oobi-pilled enough to understand the word "oobi"
As a child with “mature humor” I love Athena, keep making videos
I so badly want a VeggieTales episode. Like, I need people to know about the kitchen and the invisible hands
I am so glad I found someone who remembers this show!!!!
Can’t wait for the team umizoomi lore video. Considering on the poll she showed on the wonder pets video, oobi was in second place and umizoomi was in 3rd
My personal Oobi lore is that when I was a kid, we had a very loud printer in our house that had this very specific noise it would make when printing, and my younger sister and I said it sounded like it was saying “Uma Party” over and over again and we made a little song for it so every time the printer printed something we had a little “Uma Party”. We also would recreate scenes from Oobi and create new characters, which is a testament to the brilliant simplicity of the character design.
I remember enjoying the show as a kid. I was always so confused watching the hands turn their body around and kept trying to figure out how to make my hand do that. It really bothered me for a while until I forgot about it. When I was reminded of oobies in college I came to the realization that the actors themselves just turned around then facepalmed and went on with my life.
The ''feels pasta'' actually feels like something that could work as an official episode, reminds me of how Sesame Street can deal with topics like death.
I always thought Oobi was so hilarious. Oobi language is so weird it's funny. I watched those Oobi YTPs when I was a child and watched it myself. I think you did an amazing move with this one. And to sum this all up, Dexter, you, friends!
Stop, why did the feels pasta actually hit me in the feels a little 😭it was so sweet omg
gahhhh Oobi was my childhood!!!
also, HOW do your songs keep getting better??? bangers every time.
i love how your lore series explains aspects of childrens shows that do deep dives into what the world and implications of such a world are. its a fun thought exercise and its fun to think about maybe things that don’t end up making sense but also don’t actually matter.
i also really like explaining childrens shows shouldn’t be nonsensical because kids aren’t dumb.
I discovered you the day your wonder pets episode came out and I've watched as many of your videos that I could stomach. I love your humor
Hi Athena, I'm a fan! I really loved the phrase "not important, but part of life" to describe your video topics. That's such a nice perspective on making things. Thank you for your work!
13:47 I'm crying rn.
I used to fall asleep watching television and get incredibly freaked out waking up to this.
I remember this show. It makes me want to watch it again.
I've been getting into old noggin shows and remembered The Upside Down Show. It's by the Umbilical Brothers people so they actually have stand up comedey expirience. It holds up so well and is funny even as an adult. Highly recommend.
I don't know how I wasn't subscribed from how much I love this channel. I fixed that today, lol, this was friggin great
omfg, thank god someone discovered this lore 😭. you should def do the backyardignas lore if you haven’t already.
10:50
Caine is that you
This show actually was the first ever thing to give me nightmares but it was also my first fixation. I’ve long overcome my fear of this show obviously (though I won’t lie I still do find it a tiny bit uncanny). But this show is so intriguing to me both as someone who loved and hated it as a kid and who is a huge fan of muppets and puppetry as a whole.
3:33 I'm betting it's more like a belly-bounce, which may or may not be any better.
I’ve been accidentally fucking with my HRT doses, and somehow I’m genuinely emotional to the point of tears watching Athena review what was basically my turning point to becoming an art kid. This production was basically a big passion project, and I have a homemade Oobi poster in my workshop to keep me motivated.
15:41 A very confusing reference to Teen Titans Go, Robin thinks that Pig Latin is being possessed by some sort of pig-like alien prophecy in order to hypnotize his teammates and destroying the world. Turns out it went true at the next scenes.
Speaking of Pig Latin: Thena-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY would not see that coming.
Back in my day, the hand things from Oobi scared me as a young goober.
OOBI IS ONE OF MY SPECIAL INTERESTS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS BC I HAVE NO OOBI CONTENT TO ENJOY
God this show was such a fever dream. At times as a kid I would genuinely forget it was a real show.
3:47 nearly made me spontanisely combust i litteral started choking
1. The fact that you were able to sit through this show is a miracle in itself. I just tried watching the Anchors Away episode to see what you meant about Freida, and I instantly wanted to go visit my evil rooster.
2. With the way these characters talk, it’s insulting to children. It’s more educational to sit them in front of an Athena P video than an Oobi episode simply because the Oobi characters don’t speak more than three words in one sentence. While the typical three-year-old *speaks* in three-word sentences, they’re able to *understand* more than that.
This might be looking too deep but maybe it’s like
A way to instill critical thinking in a way?
Because they have to figure out what’s being said or something?
@@sheanartisthunty This could make sense. It’s worth looking into, at least.
my theory for the hand-biology is that they’re sort of like octopi or other cephalopods, and the fingers are like tentacles while the “mouth” is some unseen structure on or in the palm like an octopus’ beak.
by this logic, the foot gives me cuttlefish vibes, but i honestly don’t have a further explanation for that
Idk if you take suggestions but if you do, I’d like to suggest Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood and Little Einsteins! Both were really good shows (or at least from what I remember) and I think that they might have some good lore that would be fun to look into!
I love Oobi! I have vivid memories of the show from when I was 4! I remember one night I was struggling to breath and kinda stopped breathing and was balling my eyes out while my parents put me on a machine that was supposed to help and it was like 12 am. Love this show! Definitely helped me forget the fact that I was borderline dying! Great show
If you want to review another commercial, I believe the old poptart commercials (When they had sentient poptarts) has some kind of lore. I remember a couple intertwined conmercials, as well as the big web event where you had to find out who was killing all the poptarts or something. I forget exactly what it was about. All I know is it ended with the Frosted Blueberry Ninja poptart.
The queen of Nostalgia Paradise delivers once again.
GAH THIS SHOW LITERALLY GAVE ME NIGHTMARES AS A CHILD. 10/10 video very excited
12:59 *STARTS SOBBING* THE FEELS D,: ITS SO WELL WRITTEN ),:
Oobi along with The Big Blue House gave me nightmares as a kid. I wasn’t scared while watching it but after I just felt disturbed.
That Mouth from Brush Brush Bree scared me also
I just noticed after re-watching as a comfort creator, I love how the only thing necessary to differentiate between the conspiracy person & the normal person is the tinfoil hat despite all the amazing face paint.
I would love to see lazy town lore
I loved Oobi as a kid. There’s an episode where he writes his own book, and it inspired me to try writing my own. I was maybe four. Now I’m a children’s librarian and a writer, so… thanks, Oobi!
🫧🫧Can u do Bubble Guppies next? 🫧🫧
I think the lore in that show is more bonkers and out of hand
Omg I LOVED this show when I was a kid. Every time my mom brings it up, my dad ALWAYS talks about how him and my uncle thought the middle finger cat was the funniest thing ever
Considering that a lot of what the Handfolk (what I’m calling the people that Oobi belongs to for the sake of simplicity) do doesn’t seem to be based of where tier stuff would be biologically or logically (like where their mouths are for instance) but instead as a representation of it, much like a shadow puppet it seems. There mouths aren’t where they should be biologically but there it would look like at the time. We’ve also seen them do some weird things too that make no sense, such as a fire fighter removing their eyes and laying them on a steering wheel, or large amounts of hair growing overnight, or being a completely different shape (a foot) being just the equivalent of a disability, or talking about marching and having teeth despite not having either.
With all this in mind, perhaps the Handfolk might be some sort of fey creature that for some reason became fleshy for some reason and got stuck in our world somehow and became naturalized while retaining a good deal of their nonsense traits.
Oobi was really dear to my heart. Grew up in a home with no real social/emotional education, and Oobi speaking to me really made me feel seen and heard and ugh i miss him. And i can def relate to them Grampu groupies now that im older LOL