The Ooh

• Instrument:
• Horn Section, voices
• Special Skillz:
• Unintentionally
  frightening people
• Insecurity:
• More adorable than a
  monster wants to be

Until meeting Phineas McBoof And His International Band Of Misunderstood Geniuses, The Ooh Gah Boo Gus were the world’s best kept musical secret — the greatest horn section on the planet, but nobody would listen to them play. Seeing these big and scary looking monsters take the stage dancing and making loud noizes was enough to make any crowd run for the hills.
 
It took the considerable clout of Phineas and The Band to convince the general public to overcome their fears and listen to the monsters play — at which point, in a rare moment of Sudden Global Unity And Awareness, everyone in the world simultaneously realized the error of their ways and what they had been missing, and embraced the monsters and their music wholeheartedly. Just thinking about it brings tears to the eyes. Or…
 
The eye, in Ooh‘s case.
 
Click here to send The Ooh Gah Boo Gus a message in the Forum. They usually respond within 24 hours, unless they’re sleeping, which they sometimes do for as long as 36 hours in a row if it’s warm outside and there’s a faint smell of donuts in the air. You may also send Forum messages to the individual monsters.
 
Nothing says you’re a Big Loud Talent like an Ooh Gah Boo Gus T-Shirt. Click here for cool Ooh Gah Boo Gus stuff to wear and use.
 
Wanna hear the monsters’ individual bios? Here they are:
 
Ooh…
 
Ooh plays a trumpet sound out of her wonderful nose. Or her mouth. Is that her nose or her mouth? Who knows? Biologists are still trying to get close enough to study her. One thing’s for sure: She gets a big bright sound out of that instrument for a little monster her size. And about that…
 
Please don’t mention to Ooh how tiny and adorable she is. Monsters are supposed to be scary. She’s a bit insecure about it. Call it a Nap-Ooh-lian complex.
 
Gah…
 
Gah plays the sound of an alto saxophone out of her beautiful snout. She really knows how to solo with class, beauty and grace. Gah is a very girly monster. She loves dressing up and can almost always be found wearing her favorite pink bow. Wanna get on Gah’s good side? Tell her she looks beautiful. Almost nobody does that outside the band. You’ll see her bat all four eyes and blush. She might even give you a hug, and she’ll try really hard not to hug you so hard it hurts.
 
Gah is a uniped. Do you know what that means? We didn’t either. So we looked it up. It means she has one foot. Sometimes, when you hear Gah really getting deep into the music, you also hear a lot of pounding. That’s just her stomping her foot on the floor as she dances. She just gets sort of carried away sometimes.
 
Sorry about those cracks in the stage floor it made.
 
Boo…
 
Boo plays the sound of the tenor saxophone out of his richly toned, glorious snout. Nobody knows where he learned to play so well. Even he doesn’t know. It just comes naturally to him, and he can’t stop.
 
Once an unknown musical entity — because they were known only as scary monsters to run away from — The Ooh Gah Boo Gus now face an opposite problem: They have suddenly become Extremely Large Pop Culture Icons since joining Phineas McBoof’s band. This has taken an adjustment, as they are essentially shy creatures. Having everybody run away at the sight of you for years will do that to a guy.
 
It has recently been reported that Gah and Boo are brother and sister. This has neither been confirmed nor denied by the band’s publicist, but let’s be honest: You can see the resemblance. But Boo never wears a pink bow. In fact, Boo is a monster of few words. Ask him how he broke that horn on his head, and he’ll probably tell you: “It broke.” We’re working on his people skillz.
 
Where Boo really expresses himself is in his music. All you need to know about Boo’s monstrously beautiful and generous purple heart is in his music. And he’s happy to play it for you all day long.
 
Gus…
 
A lot of people think that Gus is not really all that smart. That’s only because Gus is not really all that smart. But everyone who gets to know him knows that Gus was born with a giant heart of gold. He is absolutely delightful except for the smell.
 
About that smell… Sometimes it’s best to just get the truth out there early, so here it is: You know that sweet trombone sound Gus plays out of his big bulbous body? Well, he gets that sound by blowing air from his snout into his mouth and straight out his big backside. There, we said it. And a more glorious sound you have never heard. We all do what we gotta do to express ourselves.
 
Gus has tiny wings that do not allow him to fly. Nobody knows why – even Gus. It is what it is.