Oobi (2000)

Overview
Oobi is a Parents' Choice Gold Award-winning television series on the Noggin channel. Oobi, a bare-hand puppet (with eyes and accessories) focuses on the stage in a young child’s life when everything in his or her world is new and incredible. Oobi is a show about wonder. It speaks to the stage in a young child's life when everything is new and incredible: building a block tower, making cookies. Oobi is a show about children's first awkward attempts at mastery and meaning. It's a show about the everyday revelations.
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Overview
Oobi is a Parents' Choice Gold Award-winning television series on the Noggin channel. Oobi, a bare-hand puppet (with eyes and accessories) focuses on the stage in a young child’s life when everything in his or her world is new and incredible. Oobi is a show about wonder. It speaks to the stage in a young child's life when everything is new and incredible: building a block tower, making cookies. Oobi is a show about children's first awkward attempts at mastery and meaning. It's a show about the everyday revelations.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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The film's central subject matter, focusing on universal childhood development and basic social-emotional learning, is inherently apolitical. Its narrative consciously avoids any specific ideological stance, presenting solutions to simple problems through observation and positive interaction.
The movie, a children's show featuring bare-hand puppets, naturally displays diversity through the hands of its puppeteers, though it does not involve explicit recasting of traditional roles. Its narrative is focused on basic educational themes and does not engage in critiques of traditional identities or explicitly center DEI themes.
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The children's show 'Oobi' does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Its narrative is centered on early childhood education, focusing on simple concepts and social interactions suitable for its preschool audience, without addressing queer identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Oobi is an original children's show, not an adaptation or reboot of pre-existing characters. Therefore, there is no prior canon or source material from which character genders could have been swapped.
Oobi is a puppet show where the main characters are bare hands. As such, the characters do not possess a human race, making the concept of a 'race swap' inapplicable to this production.
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