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After the pilot "Yo Gabba" was rejected, the pilot was eventually re-worked due to (probably) terrible green screening, and it had a low budget. This was later titled Yo Gabba Gabba! on March 17, 2006, in a post by stevejonestherealbones on Punknews.org, These two pilots were aired on July 8, 2006 in Los Angeles, California according to its IMDb page. (some older edits on Wikipedia think they were aired on January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006, but they're wrong).
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These 2 pilots were produced in 2005, and the pictures of Tihane Wolfgramm and Nora Wolfgramm were filmed on February 23, 2006. The first pilot was called "Short Story" and the second one was called "Play". The first pilot Short Story's closing remix was done by Digital Unicorn, and Play's closing remix was done by Lance Robertson (who plays the presenter of the show, DJ Lance Rock). "Short Story" was uploaded on December 31, 2020. As for "Play", on February 15, 2021, it was presumably found (even though it was actually just "Short Story" uploaded on Vimeo), but in March 2021, it got copyrighted. And now "Play" is partially found, due to how there are a handful of segments that are from the "Play" that were uploaded online. Said segments include the infamous "La La Doodles", and "Bubblebeard".
A promo and the theme song have also been uploaded to YouTube and Vimeo (theme). Julius The Monkey also appears in "Short Story" by doing the Peanut Butter Stomp. In fact, one of the early merchandise of Yo Gabba Gabba was made by Paul Frank, which features Muno in a tote bag. Biz Markie appears in Play with his Dancey Dance, but it is unknown if it could be the Twirly Whirly, because in "Friends" and "Scary", The Peanut Butter Stomp instrumental was in those two. And in "Together" and "Find", the same instrumental of the Twirly Whirly was also used, so the Twirly Whirly might be in the second pilot. It's currently unknown what other segments were on "Play", but they reuse segments in the test pilot, like the final versions of Games with Foofa and Play Pretend With Muno, possible segments like Hey, Won't Somebody Come and Play, Pick It Up, and Pool Party might be in "Play" but these are just speculations...
There were blogs about the pilot in June 2006, and the videos were also uploaded on YouTube in the same year (some of the earliest ones were unfortunately copyrighted or deleted). The pilot had it's own website, in June 2006. Like the Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! pilot, the show was planned to be aired in Spring or Fall 2007, but it was changed to August 20, 2007, (when it was still summer). The website featured the audios of Party in my Tummy and Keep Trying, However, when the Nick Jr. page about it was made, the website still remained as the old site until when the show premiered in 2007, when it was closed.
Yo Blogga Blogga was created in February 2007 and features one page that uses the 2006 website. A video by HaroldChizick titled "Crazy Yo Gabba Gabba Kid" shows Eric dancing crazily to the intro. A video titled "Birthday!!!" shows an orange cake with Brobee and Toodee in it. The earliest known fan art of the show was "yo gabba gangstas" posted on August 17, 2006 by Belosh (who's also the voice of Toodee), and more fan art in 2007.
Updates[]
- 12/19/2020: Short Story has been Found, Last year of 2006.
- 10/12/2023: Play has been Found, Last year of 2006.
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Sources[]
- https://www.food-costumes.com/characters?lightbox=image1kiu
- Short Story can also be found in 1 single video in this link
- Wikipedia