Imagine a time before YouTube made millionaire grumpy cats and celebrity sloth sanctuaries, when cuteness overload Vines were merely a dream recorded in a Lisa Frank dolphin-emblazoned trapper keeper.
There was Zoboomafoo, and he was an instant classic.
Jovian, the Coquerel's sifaka lemur and star of the short-lived PBS wildlife show for kids, Zoboomafoo, died Monday of kidney failure at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, N.C. He was 20½ years old.
Curious Jovian bounced, snacked and stared blankly at kids during the 65-episode run of Zoboomafoo, which produced new episodes for preschoolers on PBS from 1999 to 2001 under the helm of brothers Martin and Chris Kratt.
"He'd jump in through the window and we'd feed him mangoes or garbanzo beans. Sometimes he'd grab our noses with those soft sifaka hands," co-host Martin Kratt reminisced on Facebook.
For lucky animal-loving channel-flippers, the show is still occasionally available via syndication. For us '90s kids in mourning (or remembering how annoyed we were when it aired instead of a rerun of Arthur), well, that's what the Internet is for:
Well one of my least favorite children's show characters is dead. Seriously I don't even know or care what that big tree climbing rat of an animal was but it haunted me throughout my early and very impressionable years. The actual animal itself is pretty creepy looking but the damn puppet they used to portray this so called "lemur" was horrifying.
That puppet's piercing little eye till this day creep me the fuck out.
The thing that I don't get is how the whole world is now in mourning over this.... Am I taking crazy pills? I mean you all had to have seen the incredible creepiness of this little fucker I mean c'mon.
P.S. The Kraft brothers definitely molest Collies and most likely are stinky fingering this puppet in the picture.
P.P.S. USA Today be more of a nerd..... No one ever got pissed that Arthur wasn't going to be on. The kids that watched that show are still virgins today.... Now if Legends of The Hidden Temple wasn't going to be on well then let the riots begin.....
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