Shane Dawson talks about Oobi!

Have you heard of Shane Dawson? Chances are, if you have a teenaged kid in your house, you already know all about him. If not, well, he's a YouTube star who gets well over a million views on each video. He does comedy skits and parodies where he plays all the characters himself. In a video from earlier this month, he talked about Oobi and Grampu. He even did a pseudo-Oobi impression! Check it out here!

And thank you to iimaniifiiasco for sending the video to me!!

Nick Jr.'s still got it!

The Noggin Network was just replaced by Nick Jr. at the beginning of the week. Ethan has outgrown most of their shows so I didn't know until today. Sure enough, the Noggin shows are still played in reruns, with Oobi on twice a day in the morning! Not sure if it will get a regular timeslot like it had on Noggin, but it's nice to see that the "new channel" is more like a refresh of the same old Noggin...

Oobi is now in Polish!

Nickelodeon Poland is now airing a Polish-dubbed version of Oobi! It's called "Rączusie" which roughly translates to "little hands" in English. According to their website, it debuted on July 19 and is airing every Sunday.

This news article talks a bit about it. Apparently, Nickelodeon Poland shows the episodes without a channel logo in the corner. Maybe that's common over there, but I've never seen that before.

The studio that dubbed the voices is called Start International Poland. I wonder why they're dubbing it now when most of the other countries did their dubs of Oobi a few years ago. Maybe it was hard for them to translate the super-simple "Oobi speak" into Polish? Or wouldn't that make it easier to translate? I don't know, it's just great that the Poles are able to share Oobi with their kids!!

UPDATE: More fan pages and my new blog!

I was checking the pageviews again and it looks like the Oobi info posts get way more clicks than my personal story pages. I guess most of you are following mainly for updates and news about Oobi!

So I'm going to turn this blog into an Oobi fansite. I won't change much-- I'll just add more non-blog pages with photos, info, downloads and more. So instead of just a blog, this will be a one-stop spot for Oobi goodness!!

Here is a rundown of the non-blog pages so far:

• Oobi episode guide
• Oobi character guide

I'm also starting up a new blog where I'll put my ramblings about parenting and the library. Give it a follow if you want to keep up! Check it out here!! (Click link)

Watching Oobi

JessicaE148 sent me this clip of her kids watching Oobi. Apparently it's universal-- kids love the "Dirty!" song that Uma sings!

Fan Video Friday: "Oobi & Kako Watch YouTube"

Grady, aka Baseballfan2413, made a video last month where he and his friends rocked out to the Oobi theme song. It was pretty weird but funny. Now they've made another Oobi video... this time, Oobi and Kako look through what YouTube has to offer! Watch it below!

UPDATE: Is Oobi still being made?

Not too long ago, I made a Q&A post about whether or not Oobi was still being made. It's pretty clear that it's not, but staceysimgirl sent me a more definite answer.

I am so addicted to that show (in fact I'm taping episodes off of my tivo onto a VHS tape right now :) I wrote to their production company and asked them if they were still making episodes and the person who wrote me back was Josh Selig, the show's creator :) He told me that they were no longer in production and he didn't see it coming back. :(

Yeah. Not great news, but it gives us some closure. And it's so cool that Josh Selig wrote back to her! I'm thinking of sending him a message myself, but I don't even know where to begin... I don't want to overdo it or embarrass myself. My husband says I'm probably a bigger Oobi geek than anyone at his company!