Obscure Puppet Media: Puppets Lost in Oooberryland!
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
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I FOUND ANOTHER EPISODE ON DAILYMOTION
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Nini's Treehouse often aired at impossible hours during the noughties, and is remembered by very few. But it needs all the love in the world! I also apologize about the humming in the background, I'm eventually going to figure out this editing thing and have some sort of consistency!
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Ok so sorry to invade these comments again haha, but I have a really important update about this show. I actually finally bit the bullet and emailed the creator of this show the other day, not even expecting a reply or anything!
Guess who replied this morning? It stunned me and my fiance haha but none other than Kenn Viselman the creator. He seemed like a really nice person and his reply has shed some light on this show’s whereabouts….
He said he is sadly aware that there aren’t many eps online, but basically, cos the show was filmed before HD was even a thing, it’s too challenging to convert the show over to HD and current broadcasting standards, and cos of low broadcast fees, it is too expensive to do. It seems like the era it came from, is why not all eps are available to everyone, which makes a lot of sense actually! Hope is not lost totally though. He said he is always hopeful to find new ways to bring more eps of this show to life which is great cos he’s not given up. And he loves hearing from fans, it is one of his favourite shows he’s ever worked on
All we can do for now though, is just hope more eps pop up online, or VHS home videos become available online again. I’m guessing this is the same reason a lot of late 90s/early noughties shows have vanished and are now lost media
I took the opportunity to ask him more info about the show and even cheekily suggested a reboot. Hopefully he will reply again!
AHHH AMAZING THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REACHING OUT!!!!! I'm going to make a community tab post about this new info!
Haha no worries! After I finally thought about what to say, I just went for it haha. And now I’m glad I did! I was hoping he would send all the eps over but I guess that was just wishful thinking @@jettmcplane
Happy to finally get a answer though!
Jett McPlane doesn't upload often. But when she does, she never disappoints
I watched that show as a kid I loved it
Puppets are a big special interest of mine along with other things you’ve mentioned in the beginning of the video like mascots and animatronics. Finding this channel made me so so excited!! Just wanted to let you know the videos you’re doing really make people happy :D will definitely be tuned in for future uploads.
Also if you haven’t seen it already you should check out the puppet series 31 Minutos. it is in Spanish but there are some subtitled episodes on UA-cam!
I'm really glad to see your channel getting more views!
I remember parts of Ready, Set, Learn, but I don't think I recall this show specifically. Still, the credits where the different characters say goodbye does seem vaguely familiar.
Quality content has just approached me.
But wait, there's more!
Awesome review, I’ve read some stuff that treehouse aired this show but I have little to no memory of watching it on there
I have another show, though you would be, unfortunately, hard pressed to find any footage. Not to worry though: I saw episodes of it before they all got taken down, and there's still a reliable source (which I'll get to momentarily) around on UA-cam.
The show is called Roger & The Rottentrolls. It's a British children's puppet comedy based (sometimes directly) on a book series of the same name by father and son duo Tim Firth and Gordon Firth (no relation to the Salad Fingers creator I don't think) about a 12 year old boy who goes adventuring a bit too far off the beaten path to a hidden valley called Troller's Gyll, and by prophecy or blind luck, becomes king of a motley crew of trolls who are mostly good natured by shouting words carved on a stone, while trying to see if he could make an echo for some reason that I can't remember. The stone carving was "Roger Was 'Ere" or something with similar grammar, though he didn't know until after the fact. These trolls are called Rottentrolls. So called because, according to the lore, Merlin (yes, THAT Merlin) was trying to build a ski resort for the legendary King Arthur, when he accidentally caught a small population of Norwegian trolls in a snowdrift (apparently, from a clip I saw on a retrospective from a few years back, there are still hints of their Norwegian ancestry through some kind of writing around the valley), and they got their name from Merlin doing some light cursing, but not cursing (venting, more accurately) by saying "Those rotten trolls have messed it all up!" though it wasn't intended to be a name. I guess some of the trolls who understood English could make out the words "rotten trolls" and misinterpreted them as being their species name.
Anyway, with backstory out of the way, let's talk characters:
Asgarth: The eldest and wisest (but not smartest) of the Rottentrolls. He's their leader (the writers more officially classify him as president, which is weird because of their country, but that's thinking too much), who firdt introduced Roger to their species, home, community, and lore (history).
Pennyghent: the smartest, as previously mentioned, of the Rottentrolls. She made all their clothes we see in the series (primarily consisting of cardigan sweaters), and was responsible for their underground heating system, I think. If I remember what one of the episodes said anyway.
The Nab Twins: The third youngest of the trolls, they're the teenagers of the community, being into rock and roll (even forming their own band, with the joke being that they can't sing well), and not saying much, but still pretty vocal when excited. You know, as teenagers are.
Yockenthwait (I have literally no idea how its spelled): the stupidest troll. He's good at painting, but that's his only successful intellectual pursuit. Actually, that's his only pursuit from what I know. He's good-hearted, but just really, REALLY dumb. For example: he once brought a family card game pack to a casino, which led him to being literally thrown out. Yeah, this show was a heavy hitter.
Commander Harris: He's a bighorn sheep trained in an ancient Buddhist art called Jim Jam Ya Ha. It's a martial arts form that emphasizes "combat without contact" as Simon Buckley, one of the show's puppeteers put it. Effectively, kind of like The Force, but without the heavy mysticism. I can't really say anything more about his character though, really, other than he's an army sheep who's seen the world.
Those are the only ones I can remember currently that aren't in the spin-offs.
The show ran from 1996 to 2000 on CITV, ABC Kids Australia, and apparently GMTV, and apparently won or was nominated for a BAFTA, and was so successful that it even had two spin-offs, though almost no footage exist for all three anymore. Not unless you wanna buy a DVD from the UK and risk your video being taken down due to copyright.
Now, ir you want to see footage or learn more, I recommend the channel Jack's Throwback Attack -- a podcast channel discussing classic British programs with people involved in that industry. I would recommend you start with his interview with Simon Buckley, the puppeteer I mentioned earlier. They talk about the show halfway through the episode I think
I had an episode recorded on a tape from Treehouse TV in Canada from around 2001. Unfortunately the tape is long gone, but I watched it so many times as a kid that I still remember the episode almost word-for-word.
The topic was learning about heavy vs light, and they didn’t just go like “this thing is heavy and this thing is light” and end it at that. They talked about different things like how a bunch of light things put together can become really heavy, and how items being really big don’t necessarily mean they’ll be heavy. Really going into detail about heavy vs light, which, looking back, I think was brilliant for kids.
Does someone in your family have it? Does it even work? If your family doesn't have it, do you know who?
@@marcusblackwell2372 No, sorry, the tape is long gone. We’ve moved houses a couple times since the last time I remember seeing it, and we thoroughly cleaned out my parents’ last house after my mom passed away, so that tape’s lost forever. Which is a shame since it really was an interesting episode.
@@KatesPlace Did you sell the tape? If so, would you know both to whom you sold it to, and perhaps where they live?
@@marcusblackwell2372Why would I sell something that meant a lot to me? It got lost. I don’t know how or when, but it’s lost forever
@@KatesPlace I was thinking that maybe since you moved, your family sold some of the stuff that you guys had
When you mentioned the mysterious tapping noise I instantly thought of Potter Puppet Pals.
Snape, Snape, Severus Snape...DUMBLEDORE
Nini's aired right after Jellabies (aka my comfort show) on GMTV so seeing Nini's not only mentioned, but HAVING AN ENTIRE VIDEO ON IT made me insanely happy
I was terrified of Oopagogo I still have nightmares about him killing me
Ahoyhoy There, Fellow UA-camrino! I remember Ready, Set, Learn! In that one show with the Orange and Purple Zebra Puppet, I always thought her Hooves were made of Lucky Charms Marshmallows when I was little. I also would rent Timmy the Tooth, but from Hollywood Video. My older Brother had a High-School friend who worked there and she'd set a young Me onto a Yellow Barrel and I'd watch a Jim Henson's Dinosaurs Tape almost every week on a VCR TV that was in a sideways Yellow Crate on top of a taller yellow Crate with the Store's Logo on the side. I'd rent the Dinosaurs tapes so often that I'd get to watch them free in the store. Btw, I think you should do a video on Between the Lions.
This is a topic that really interested me a few years back, and I was happy to see more content appear onto UA-cam! A lot of the videos had Arabic titles for some reason 😅
Is there any chance you could do a video on Wisharoo Park? I found it one day while going down a rabbit hole and I feel like it might be your kinda thing. It's a PBS puppet show about a kangaroo who lives in a magical park and helps her friends' wishes come true and it's INCREDIBLY wholesome!
I remember seeing this Ooberryland show on TLC on the Ready Set Learn block.
I’ve stumbled onto your channel by complete chance and have binged all of your videos in two sittings and I just wanna say I love your content!!
Welcome! I applaud you if you managed to cringe through my first few videos haha.
@@jettmcplane Not at all! Every video was really enjoyable and nothing felt off, to me at least :0) I know that cringe feeling of looking at past work is hard to shake, but it shows growth! Be proud of where you started :0)
Ok... so since you're all about lost puppet media, do you recall The Moonstone Gem?
It was a kid's fantasy short movie about a kingdom celebrating when the king gets to make a wish on the beloved moonstone gem, and they're a purple-skinned villain named Baron, and his two henchmen Beezle and Sledge, and it's up to the king's son to rescue the gem from the villain?
It used to show on Nick in the 90s.
I've never seen it! This might mean I'll have to do a video on it. I'll add it to my list
@@jettmcplane Well, I already looked and you won't find anything about it on UA-cam
@@jettmcplane I'd tell you place on where to find some more info, but SOMEONE KEEPS HAVING MY POSTS DELETED!!!
@@jettmcplane i posted some info on your 500 subscribers post. I hope what I gave you helps in finding The Moonstone Gem.
Hmm... How about... Little Horrors, from Australia? Or Shirl's Neighborhood?
Oh my goodness those are awesome suggestions! I'll add them to my list!
@@jettmcplane 1:16 the regular TLC ready set learn block ceased in 2008
@@jettmcplane can you also please review Scoop and Doozie?
Uh oh... one of the fingerling names didn't age so well...
Treehouse aired the show in canada in 2001
Thanks! Do you remember watching it? I have no memory of it and it also doesn't appear in Treehouse's old lineup. I guess it was just forgotten to time!
Hmm I didn't know that puppet show existed it looks a little teeny cute 💕
Your voice is so soothing and lovely to listen to! I love obscure media, and love your videos so much! I think they would also be so lovely to nap to as well ❤
I was about to ask if you could check out Wisharoo Park, but my friend already beat me to it! Everything she said, i absolutely agree with! (Also the bunny character Cali, is absolutely ADORABLE)
Love your channel, I make puppets and obscure shows always interest me. You should do a video on Roland rat who appeared on tv am the precursor to gmtv. It’s all very interesting and a good watch.
I have tried to type this like 8 times now but UA-cam keeps deleting it ffs. On lost media wiki last week I asked about Nini and a really helpful person managed to find a few more eps, they found I’ve Won! and also Look Here! I’m sorry it won’t let me link it but the video is called nini’s treehouse and uploaded by someone called Jeff K. I’ve Won! is at the start of the video
Now there’s 6 eps online but I still want them all including the VHS home videos haha. Maybe contacting Kenn Viselman the creator or Itsy Bitsy Entertainment really is the best way to go here. I would do it but I wouldn’t know what to say. I’m not sure how else we can get more eps besides that though I’ve asked some UA-camrs who have uploaded videos including the show if they have any full eps of it. Fingers crossed they do!
My eyes are sending a virtual high-five.
I think YTV had this back when YTV Jr was a thing.
Do more adult themed puppet shows work as potential subjects? I was thinking about D.C. Follies and Lost on Earth when I discovered this channel.
Yeah definitely! I've talked about only two "adult" puppet films on this channel so far but definitely plan on doing many, many more!
Could you one day cover My Bedbugs? It was the basis for the Ooobiloves movie (or whatever it was called) but much better. Part of it is lost media actually. I grew up with the show!
It's "Oogieloves"
Oh yeah I 100% watched My Bedbugs way back in the day. So similar to the Oogieloves!
@@jettmcplane I even went to a live show (which has like.. zero documentation) and got to meet the Bedbugs up close! Me and my slightly younger cousin also got stuffed animals. I got one of the girl.
Sorry couldn’t edit my last comment to add this haha! I don’t know if Itsy Bitsy Entertainment is around anymore, but I’m sure Kenn Viselmann has a email address either way. Or i wonder if there’s any forums that could help, like maybe the lost media has a forum? I don’t know though, I’ve never really looked at that site tbh. I’m glad to see I’m not alone in wanting more Nini though!
this show was my favorite childhood and i watch it in arabic dub as child
That's awesome! I read on the Lost Media Wiki that there was an Arabic dubbed episode that was uploaded online somewhere but looks like it was taken down. Hopefully it will reappear someday!
@@jettmcplane i found it at youtube it's full episode
I have another suggestion, though it's not quite so lost as everything else, just more because it isn't well known I feel like:
Swwmp Critters of Lost Lagoon: an American puppet series created by 1970's Country Music legend Bobby Goldsboro (whose best songs are in this show, though he started in the 1960's), about a small community of musically inclined animals (critters as they're known) in a bayou town called Lost Lagoon (I think it's a town anyway) as they teach valuable social and emotional (mostly social) skills to the children watching, with music, humor (though somewhat old fashioned. Not dated, but humor from before the 1990's, where humor became more cartoony in the mainstream. Soft humor, like with The Andy Griffith Show, is the best way I can describe it.
Interestingly, almost every voice except background vocals (and some characters in one Christmas episode with an animated story about an elf that I can't remember the name of) was performed by Goldsboro himself, who has quite the range, as he can do two different accents seamlessly.
I don't know if you like the kind of music in the show (very old-school sounding, mainly Country, Rock & Roll and Blues), but I think the music is the best thing about the show, because of just how unconventional it sounds for a kids show.
I don't know how many of the episodes are lost, but I know you can find some on Dailymotion, UA-cam, and here in America the show was on a Christian channel called TCT Kids. I don't know if they still show it though, because my current cable provider doesn't have that channel.
The show isn't very lively though, mostly a bit realistic. So much so that there's not even background music most of the time, and when characters pause, it can get a bit uncomfortable. Not intentionally, of course. Just a warning
You have to talk about that weird puppet show- In the Night Garden and the theories behind it. I can’t think of a weirder show than that one. Well, there was also this other show called Whimzee’s House, which i guess I have a soft spot for.
I STILL watch In the Night Garden because I find it such a unique and calming piece of television. It's not obscure of course but I think I can definitely delve into shows that have lore in future videos! A good idea for a secondary series!
Also Wimzie's House I watched every morning!
My last comment on this was deleted for some reason :/ anyway this was a great video, thank you. I keep trying to find more eps of Nini but I’m struggling too, which were the two eps you found btw? Only ones i can find are Moo! Moo!, Pretty Pictures!, Silly Shapes, and Tap Tap Tap! I can’t even find any VHS of it online. I think it was repeated on GMTV til like 2010 cos that’s when GMTV ended. Don’t remember watching much of it as a kid, but as an adult I’ve got a bit obsessed with trying to find them all haha cos i found some VHS of it! Fiance is curious too. There’s a new video with another intro and ending of it with a ep called “Look Here!” But i got no reply when i asked if the person would upload any full eps of the show. And the same thing happened on the VHS opening of the Oooberry Alphabet Zoo. I really want to see more, is there anyone at all who knows where to find more? At this point I’m starting to wonder if there’s something wrong with uploading this show, like it’s not allowed or something. It’s really weird!
The episodes that you have watched are the same as the ones I have watched! I was excited to find two of them on Dailymotion. Also I'm sure someone out there has all the home video releases. Even if it has a copyright issues a Google drive with the link could always be submitted to the Lost Media Wiki or something like that. I'm also thinking maybe I can try and contact Itsy Bitsy Entertainment and inquire where all the episodes have gone to?
I also get excited when i find eps of it haha! I really do hope there will be someone who has them all but the videos are so old, they’re from 2002 so it’s hard to find them anymore, we’ve got 2. I think nowadays anyone would be really lucky to find the show on eBay! Even Amazon doesn’t sell them anymore. I hope your video will encourage someone to link more eps on google drive, cos i do find it hard to believe that there aren’t more eps out there. Go for it! I think contacting them is a great idea! I hope they’re still around, if you get in touch and they get back to you please let us know what they say! Thanks
@@jettmcplane The entire series in Arabic is available if you're willing to scroll through multiple 7-hour-long, multi-series livestreams by a Saudi Arabian UA-cam channel
One small thing: I don't think the show reran ln Discovery Kids all the way until its rebrand because I was born two years after the show ended, but these are the preschool shows I remember on the channel:
Hi-5 (the Australian version I think)
The Paz Show
Meteor & The Mighty Monster Trucks
Peep & The Big Wide World
Hip-Hop Harry
Wilbur
The Magic School Bus
I assume Brum, though I never saw it
Maybe The Save-Ums, but, again, I never saw it. Its first episode was on a Ready Set Learn DVD I had when I was little, as well as an episode of ToddWorld, which I also don't remember seeing on the channel
That makes sense! The only channel I could 100% confirm it was on until at least 2009 was CITV. It probably finished on TLC/Discovery in '05-ish. Also, I saw some comments online that it also aired on Treehouse TV in Canada but I can't find any additional info on that.
The US version of Hi 5 aired on discovery kids not the Australian version
@@georgerobertson7010 Really? I don't remember American accents in it
@@marcusblackwell2372 I could be wrong
@@georgerobertson7010 I wouldn't know whether you were or not. I wouldn't know what to look up
Sheesh, I barely remembered it in the US
Maybe it was before your time here in America? I know it was for me
@@marcusblackwell2372 Actually I'm from America.
@@PepperAnnFanatic1998 I figured