Mermay Zoidberg

In case you are unfamiliar, Oobi is a highly-imaginative children's program about a family of lovable "snakes" - that is, hand puppets which resemble snakes - Oobi, Keiko, Uma, and Grandpu. I say "snakes", because they look like them, but also, my son and I have long-since had a 'game' we play in which, in hand-puppet form, without the use of prosthetics, are embued with personalities and communicate with eachother and their human counterparts. So imagine our surprise when we one day came upon Oobi utilizing this form of playful expression on Noggin - it seemed to me pure synchronicity. Not only have we had snake characters, but in the cavalcade of hand animals, or "handimals" as it were, also included is the inevitable goat, spider, raven, turtle, frog, and even Nessie. And once in awhile, the despicable "foo" comes around, many times in the form of the "pink pimpernel", and "lop", to cause trouble, but are always driven off by the mighty hand-snakes.