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Team Umizoomi
Show Information
Created by	Soo Kim Michael T. Smith Jennifer Twomey
Channels	Nickelodeon Nick Jr. Channel
Running time	23 minutes
First aired	January 25, 2010
Last aired	April 24, 2015

Team Umizoomi is an American live-action and animated musical preschool children's television series created by Soo Kim, Michael T. Smith, and Jennifer Twomey, and developed by Teri Weiss. It was produced by the animation studios Curious Pictures and Nickelodeon Animation Studio.

The series premiered on January 25, 2010 on Nickelodeon. 77 episodes were produced across four (4) seasons (80 episodes counting the double length episodes as 2 seperate episodes). It aired new episodes from January 25, 2010 to April 24, 2015 on Nickelodeon.

Synopsis

Team Umizoomi is an American Nick Jr. show aimed at preschoolers. It teaches primarily subjects like shapes, patterns, and number, and encourages interactivity with the viewer, similar to shows like Blue's Clues or Dora the Explorer. The show focuses on the team of the same name, a trio of tiny superheroes who use their "Mighty Math Powers" to solve problems around Umi City.

Characters

There are 3 protagonists of the show. The 3 of them, along their trusty friend UmiCar and the viewer, known as Umi-Friend), make the titular Team Umizoomi.

Milli is the leader and only girl of the group, who uses her ponytails to measure anything and can change her dress to any pattern.

Geo is Milli's brother who travels around using his Super Skates. He uses his Shape Belt to create objects from many different shapes.

Bot is the team's best robot friend. He has the Umi Alarm which informs the team when someone needs their help using his belly screen to communicate with them. He also has extendable arms and legs for grabbing things from far away, as well as a Bot-O-Mat for storing things.

History

Beginning

After working on the show Blue's Clues, Soo Kim, Michael T. Smith and Jennifer Twomey were inspired stories involving tiny characters living in a human sized world, and created the show Team Umizoomi.

The Pilot

First, a pilot was made for the series, which was originally named The Umizumiz. It had 5 main characters: Milli, Geo, Bot, ZigZag, and Alphonse. They each had powers based off of math, patterns, and measurement. After the pilot was picked up by Nickelodeon, it went under many changes, including a different artstyle and changing the name to Team Umizoomi, as well as scrapping ZigZag and Alphonse, keeping Milli, Geo, and Bot as the main 3 characters.

Season 1

On January 25, 2010, the first episode of Team Umizoomi aired with the episode The Kite Festival, starting the first season. The season had the team going to everyday locations, like the library or the airport, teaching kids how they worked. The stakes were very low and there were no antagonists.

The character UmiCar was originally just a car that drove them places, and did not have a face. But later produced Season 1 episodes gave UmiCar a face and a personality, and he became a mainstay for the series, being the focus of a few episodes.

The episode The Butterfly Dance Show introduced DoorMouse, who was originally a one off character for this episode but started reappearing in episode from season 2 and beyond. This episode also introduced a new voice actor for Milli.

Season 2

Season 2 of Team Umizoomi aired its season premiere on October 18, 2010 with the episode Race Around Umi City. This season had more supernatural and action-packed episodes with slightly higher stakes, including racing around Umi City, rescuing a mermaid, and returning a comet back to his home. It introduced the first antagonists of the series, including Squiddy the Squid and Dump Truck, who would return in future episodes,

Season 3

Season 3 of Team Umizoomi aired its season premiere on October 13, 2011 with the episode Cuckoo Bears. This season kept most of its elements from Season 2, but there were a few additions to keep things fresh. Milli can karate chop anything into pieces, and Geo now has two new tools, the Shape Magnet, and the Shape Splitter. The show also added double length episodes with more larger-scale missions, like Team Umizoomi VS. The Shape Bandit, and DoorMouse in Space, the former which included a new antagonist called The Shape Bandit, who would return in the next season. This season did mark the last time Ethan Kempner provided the voice of Geo, as it was show in episodes like Let's Play Math Dragons! and A Sledding Snow Day that he was starting to hit puberty.

Season 4

Season 4 of Team Umizoomi aired its season premiere on February 4, 2013 with the episode The Boy with the Dragon Skateboard. This season had the most changes. It gave Geo a new voice actor (Juan Mirt), two new recurring antagonists were introduced, called The Troublemakers with their vehicle Trouble Truck, and the stakes were at an all-time high with even more action, like helping a fairy getting her sunshine back, or returning lost fairytale characters back to their book. The It's Time for Action sequence got extended with a new power up sequence, and more characters like Sunny the Sunshine Fairy, and Zeppo the Wizard were introduced. The show also had more larger episodes, where the team played different roles, like Umi Ninjas, and UmiCops. Only one double-length episode was made during S4's production. That being Umi Space Heroes. The show aired its final episode on April 24, 2015, with Umi Rescue Copter. However, the final episode produced was Gizmos Gone Wild.

Cancellation

After the final episode aired on April 24, 2015, there were no more episodes produced, as Nickelodeon did not pick up the series for a 5th season, so it was cancelled. The production company, Curious Pictures, closed down that year.

Current Day

As of June of 2024, there seems to be no plans to revive or reboot the series. However, the series is not entirely forgotten by Nickelodeon. It is still currently airing reruns on the Nick Jr. channel to this day, after previously being removed from the lineup for one semester on January 22, 2024, but later returning on June 17, 2024 with a new time slot. Additionally, the main characters from the show still occasionally appear in YouTube videos posted by the Noggin account, as well as clips from episodes from both the Noggin and the Nick Jr. Music accounts. However, the Noggin app shut down on July 2, 2024.

Episodes

Main Article: List of Team Umizoomi episodes

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	20	January 25, 2010	October 20, 2010
	2	19	October 18, 2010	October 13, 2011
	3	19	October 14, 2011	December 6, 2012
	4	19	February 4, 2013	April 24, 2015

International Names

• In Korea, Team Umizoomi is called "수학 특공대 우미주미".
• In Spain, Team Umizoomi is called "Equipo Umizoomi".
• In an handful of Europe countries (like France and Germany), Team Umizoomi is just called "Umizoomi". This can be seen in the UK Series 1 intro in some episodes as it’s used as a main international print of the series. Although the announcer still says "Calling All Umis, Team Umizoomi!" at the start of the programme

External Links

• Official Team Umizoomi Page on Nick Jr.
• Team Umizoomi Wikipedia article