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Zoboomafoo
''Zoboomafoo'' is an American/Canadian children's television series that aired from January 25, 1999 to November 21, 2001 and is still shown today in syndication depending on the area and it is regularly shown on Sprout. A total of 65 episodes were aired. A creation of the Kratt brothers (Chris and Martin), it features a talking Coquerel's Sifaka lemur named Zoboomafoo (voiced by Toronto-born puppeteer Gord Robertson) and a collection of repeat animal guests. Every episode begins with the Kratt brothers in "Animal Junction," a peculiar place in which the rules of nature change and wild animals come to visit and play. After January 16, 2004, the show was pulled from its weekday airing on most PBS stations, though some continue to air the show. On November 10, 2014, at the age of 20, Jovian, the lemur who played Zoboomafoo in the show, died of kidney failure at the Duke Lemur Center.
==Premise and structure==
Upon their arrival at Animal Junction, the Kratt brothers lean out the window and summon Zoboomafoo—or Zoboo for short—who is shown in a live-action segment as an actual lemur leaping across a field to reach them. When the lemur reaches Animal Junction, the Kratt brothers offer him a snack, generally some lemur-appropriate food like garbanzo beans, sweet potato or mango slices, whereupon the "real" lemur spins around on a turntable (yelling, "ZOBOOMAFOOOOOOOOO!!!") and becomes a talking lemur puppet. This change enables Zoboomafoo to lead into the main segment of the episode, which he begins by describing a "Mangatsika!" (a Malagasy word literally meaning "cold," but used in the show to mean "cool!") animal that he saw as he traveled to Animal Junction. As he describes the animal, a song called "Who Could It Be?" is sung while a cartoon shows different colored blobs turn into the "mystery animal". At the end of the song, Chris and Martin attempt to guess the animal Zoboomafoo has described and the mystery is solved when the animal or animals arrive at Animal Junction. Each episode has a theme, for example, baby animals, frightening animals, or the importance of play. The arrival of the "mystery animal," generally used as exposition, leads the Kratts and Zoboo into a conversation about various aspects of that particular animal. At least once every episode (sometimes twice), Zoboomafoo says that some event in Animal Junction reminds him of a time in Zobooland, where Zoboo tell stories about his friends in Zobooland, such as: Gooble (a purple bear that eats Goobleberries), Narchi (an elephant-like creature who can play catch by blowing a Goobleberry off his trunk), Sensit (a lemur-like creature with very acute hearing) and his three younger sisters, Wiggy Waxwing (a waxwing), Green Puppy, Slimantha (a salamander who loves giving hugs to her friends), Noggendrill (a burrowing animal that uses his drill-shaped horn to dig with), Snow Lemur (a lemur that lives on a snowy mountain called Mount Zoboomafoo), Baby and Mama Zoboomafoosaurus (two theropods that the animals often play on), Bugly (a large, flying insect), Fibby (a water creature with several parts including a tentacle and a crab leg) and Cy (a levitating, one-eyed squid with three tentacles introduced in season two). These segments are animated using clay animation and feature distinct voices for each character. After Zobooland, Martin, Chris and Zoboomafoo receive a letter from the animal helpers, who show kids how to help animals. At the end of each episode, Zoboo returns to his home in Madagascar and Chris and Martin also leave Animal Junction to better demonstrate the theme of the day, traveling to a region, often in South Asia or Africa to visit the creatures there.
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