Am I the only one who finds the Teletubbies vaguely disturbing?

[Lizard]

What is it about them? Aaah, it's so may things. They're mindless. And dumb. And pointless. And a waste. I could go on and on. But I think the worst part is: they're boring. How any child could enjoy watching something so incomprehensible is beyond me. Please tell me that this doesn't signal the decline of "Sesame Street".

[Enderw24]

But hot damn, can they accessorize!

[magdalene]

No, you are not alone. I find them very vaguely creepy. The giggling is quite sinister. However, little kids are soothed and comforted by repetition, which the Teletubbies surely provide.

But slap my ass and tell me if you don't think that there are some sort of subliminable messages being broadcast through their antennae. You know, the kind that tells the little children who watch them make a big batch of Guyana Koolaid and fall asleep with purple triangles over their faces, waiting for the MotherShip1 to carry them away.

If we suddenly start seeing rural communities go all Children of the Corn, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a Teletubby link. And everyone knows that Tinky-winky makes people gay, because ALL gay people are androgynous toddlers who giggle and carry a purse.2



[sub] 1 (Not the one that transports George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, though. If I thought it was THAT MotherShip, I'd watch the Teletubbies regularly).

2 :rolleyes: Because EVERYTHING Pat Robertsen says is the Gospel Truth. The man is a modern day saint.

[racerx]

Ok. That damn babyface sun creeps me out. Scarier than scooby doo.

My bro's kids like the TT, though. And if I had kids and they liked it, and them watching it gave me a moment of peace, I think I'd let the kids watch it.

[MEBuckner]

2 :rolleyes: Because EVERYTHING Pat Robertsen says is the Gospel Truth. The man is a modern day saint.
Let's keep our Modern Saints "straight" (heh heh). It was St. Jerry Falwell who revealed the Awful Truth about Tinky Winky.

[Persephone]

Vaguely disturbing? Just vaguely?

They're freaks, I'm telling you! They're not cute! They're not charming! Tod Browning is somewhere looking at these little weirdos and saying "Ewwwwwww!"

I demand to know what is in that Tubby Custard. It frightens me. Some fast-food place around here put some in a kid's meal. It was pink. A very light pink. What is it, damn you?? Is it the remains of innocent little babies who's brains you've taken over?? Did you grind their bones to make your Tubby Toast???? AAAAAAAAAAGH!!!

And, pray tell, just what is up with that machine you've got? You know, the one with the wheels and the vacuum for a face. What does he do, huh? Does he snatch the children who have managed to escape your vile clutches? Or is he the one that removed any gender-identifying body parts from your freakish little bodies, and now HE'S the one that's REALLY running your twisted little show? Huh? HUH???

Sorry. Sometimes my dislike for that show just gets the better of me.

[Clucky]

Originally posted by racerx
My bro's kids like the TT, though. And if I had kids and they liked it, and them watching it gave me a moment of peace, I think I'd let the kids watch it.

OK, I hope to holy hell I'm not like this as a parent. My wife and I do not want my daughter (3 mos.) to be raised by the TV. I was, you see. In fact, when we visited my Mom last week, she says to Kirsten and I, Why don't you just let Jessica watch TV. That will calm her down. I used to do it with you kids all the time. You'd just sit there and watch TV for hours. You loved it.

Holy fuckin' shit, jump on a rhino, slap him on the balls, and call him Tinky fuckin' Winky, because that was like a passage out of The Idiot's Guide to Bad Parenting.

No way. Not our child. We're sacrificing by having my wife stay home so we can avoid having her raised by other people and the media. It's hard being a parent. I don't want to give in and say, Here, watch TV and leave me alone.

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

I used to kid my nieces about the Teletubbies, but now they're older (5 and 7), and they don't watch them anymore. But they still call me "Teletubby Man."

Anyway, I was trying to find a t-shirt or sweatshirt with some or all of the Teletubbies to wear when I'm around them, and guess what??? They don't make 'em. Oh, sure, they do in small sizes, but nothing any larger that for a (maybe) six-year-old.

I think there are two reasons for it: 1) No one older than 6 would wear one anyway, and 2) So as not to encourage the raincoat crowd.

(BTW, my favorite is Nu-Nu.)

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

Wasn't it debunked that Jerry Falwell actually had never commented on Tinky Winky?

[Sue Duhnym]

My daughter was oh, about 15 months old, and she was wearing red footy PJs. I was behind her sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper while she was watching Teletubbies.

I happened to look up just to see Po (the red one) in a rear view. My daughter looked JUST LIKE HER!!!

Big head (in proportion to her body), big butt (diaper), short legs, big eyes, waddling. It was bizarre, but I think that's why children like them so much.

Anyway, that's my theory.

As an aside, I think Dipsy is the coolest Teletubbie. He has a tan, wears a jaunty, cow-patterned hat, sometimes he has a widow's peak, plus his antenna most resembles an actual dildo. AND he's green!

Horny bastard.

[betenoir]

Teletubbies are certainly not vauguely disturbing.

There is nothing vague about the way Teletubbies are disturbing. They're just plainly and obviously disturbing.

I think what's really disturbing about it is that it is so effective with kids. They've distilled down certain simple elements that the pre-verbal really respond to- repitition being one of them- and they give it to them. In place of that kid being fascinated by rain running down a window, dust motes in sunlight, the cat walking across the living room.

The infant mind is designed to be fascinated with small and stupid things in the world- the better to learn about the world. But Teletubbies provides a substitute.

It's like toddler crack!


Oh, I wanna say Jerry Falwell (well it wasn't even him, one of his minions wrote the article. Not to say he didn't publish it) didn't out Tinky Winky. There was some gay publication that was talking about the purple purse weilder as an obvious gay symbol. As a joke. Quite obviously. The scary thing is somebody at Falwell Inc. took it seriously and brought up Tinky as part of the Homosexual Agenda.

[Rosebud]

Said it before and I'll say it again: the Teletubbies rock when you are feverish, medicated, and loopy. I say this from experience. Tubby Toast? Don't mind if I do!

That demonic giggling infant in the sun gives me hives.

My mother bought me a talking La-La doll (the yellow one... I think it's La-La) because she said it reminded her of me. I was 26 at the time.

[CrankyAsAnOldMan]

I think it's the fact that their faces look like thick rubber was stretched over a skull. Features not very distinct, overly smooth, etc.

But it's the extreme simplicity and repetition that I think draws little kids in. They used to creep me out, but now I find them sort of soothing.

I am not sure I'd call Teletubbies educational, but I happen to believe there is some value in TV for kids that IS educational. I've blathered about this before, so I won't bother now.

Clucky, hope to hell all you want, but I don't think the generalization about "this kind of parent" is supportable. Even if you choose to practice AP, you gotta take the sling off to cook. I'd rather have Junior watching Baby Mozart for 20 minutes than in flames on my hip.

Sure, there are some parents out there who use the TV foolishly, but you'd have a damned hard time convincing me that what racerx said is some sort of slippery slope to shitty parenting.

[racerx]

Originally posted by Clucky

OK, I hope to holy hell I'm not like this as a parent. My wife and I do not want my daughter (3 mos.) to be raised by the TV. I was, you see. It's hard being a parent. I don't want to give in and say, Here, watch TV and leave me alone. [/B]

This is why I choose not to be a parent.
#1. I wouldn't be a good one.
#2. I really don't ever want kids. Ever. Really. None of that maternal mumbo-jumbo hanging around in my head.

FTR, while I support my bro, I don't necessarily approve of his parenting choices. But he does have 3 kids with another one on the way, a 12+hour a day job, and his wife works out of the home. They are just scraping by and have no idea where they are going to put the next child. Not everyone has the luxury you have of a TV-free life for their children.

[dropzone]

Originally posted by Clucky
OK, I hope to holy hell I'm not like this as a parent. My wife and I do not want my daughter (3 mos.) to be raised by the TV...No way. Not our child. We're sacrificing by having my wife stay home so we can avoid having her raised by other people and the media. It's hard being a parent. I don't want to give in and say, Here, watch TV and leave me alone.
Spoken as one whose child is still parked in the crib when his wife (note: [b]Clucky{/b] isn't the one staying at home) has to go to the bathroom.

In a year your wife will be glad to have something that keeps your little dear entranced for a couple minutes while she does something that doesn't allow her to keep both eyes on the kid. Cluckette watching Teletubbies for a half hour isn't letting the TV raise her, and she might get some useful lessons out of it.

[Clucky]

I repent. Nothing against Racerx, I guess I just blew my rocker because of what Mom said a few days ago. Looking back at Racerx's post, I probably shouldn't have used it as an example. And, hey, I'm not telling anybody else how to raise their kids.

Also, I don't think watching TV every once in awhile is horrible. Sesame Street's a good show. I thought the Letter People was a good way to teach children. What I think is wretched is sitting the kid down in front of the TV and then going about your day. It promotes bad habits. My wife plans to play with our children, and we plan to have as many toys possible for her stimulation. Hey, she's more insistent on this than I am.

In a year your wife will be glad to have something that keeps your little dear entranced for a couple minutes while she does something that doesn't allow her to keep both eyes on the kid. Cluckette watching Teletubbies for a half hour isn't letting the TV raise her, and she might get some useful lessons out of it.

And, what did people do before the invention of television? Were no lessons learned? Was there no other way to occupy a child's mind? We plan to be creative and inventive. Like I said, I hope ...

[Eve]

Hey! Once and for all, I'm the one who outed Tinky, in "Movieline," a good year before Falwell got into this! I might add that I concluded that Tinky could not possibly be gay, as NO gay man would carry a red purse if he had purple fur.

I do agree, that creepy sun-face is a horror that even Stephen King in his palmiest nightmares couldn't conjure up.

[racerx]

Clucky Thou art forgiven.

Sorry, I get a little defensive of my brother, he gets harassed from everyone it seems.

[MEBuckner]

Wasn't it debunked that Jerry Falwell actually had never commented on Tinky Winky?
Based on what I believe is the original report (http://www.au.org/pr29299.htm) to break the Falwell/Tinky Winky story, it does appear to have been St. Jerry's minions rather than the Blessed Falwell himself.

[Lemur866]

Originally posted by Sue Duhnym


As an aside, I think Dipsy is the coolest Teletubbie. He has a tan, wears a jaunty, cow-patterned hat, sometimes he has a widow's peak, plus his antenna most resembles an actual dildo. AND he's green!

Horny bastard.

Bah. Everyone knows that Po could kick Dipsy's ass.

DON'T MESS WITH PO.

[Clucky]

Originally posted by racerx
Clucky Thou art forgiven.

Sorry, I get a little defensive of my brother, he gets harassed from everyone it seems.

Hey, if you didn't get defensive of your brother, what kind of sister would you be? I'm sure he and his wife are doing the best they can. I'm lucky we can (barely) afford for my wife to stay home.

[Persephone]

Also, I don't think watching TV every once in awhile is horrible. Sesame Street's a good show. I thought the Letter People was a good way to teach children. What I think is wretched is sitting the kid down in front of the TV and then going about your day. It promotes bad habits. My wife plans to play with our children, and we plan to have as many toys possible for her stimulation. Hey, she's more insistent on this than I am.

This is good. May I recommend watching some children's television yourself? If you take a little time, you really can separate the wheat from the chaff. There really are some good quality TV children's shows out there, that kids enjoy and learn from. And they learn even more if you get yourself involved.

Oh, and don't be afraid to allow your children to occasionally watch the brainless stuff. Their little brains need a break, too. The key is to find the right kind of nonsense. That can be a little harder, but if you do it right, and balance the educational with the completely silly, you'll end up with a kid like mine--delightfully imaginative, but with enough sense to put pillows down before she jumps off the couch. :D

[dropzone]

I think we can tell the old drug users from the non-users just by where they stand on the Teletubbies. I find it to be really cool. Especially the sun baby.

As for people who find their sensibilities accosted by the TT and are anything over three years old, the show is not aimed at you! Barney is not aimed at anybody over five. Jerry Springer is not aimed at anybody with an IQ larger than their hat size. And the people who created these show don't care that you don't like them! You are not their target audience.

Clucky, I always accept a good repentance. ;) And since you are new, I will regale you with the Tale of Wife Versus Sesame Street.

A few years back, Sesame Street had a new character named Party Animal. Much like a cross between Poochie (on Itchy and Scratchy) and Animal (on The Muppet Show), Party Animal was edgy and hip with a limited vocabulary of a yelled "PAR-TAY!" Wife gets on the horn to complain. She works her way up the hierarchy to the main announcer, a grandfatherly type who was also an executive with the station.

She explained to him her objections to the character, especially his call to "PAR-TAY." As this phrase is generally thought to imply binge drinking and illicit sex, she felt this was a poor choice for a program and network that as much as tells us we can safely park our kids in front of it for hours on end with no fear of exposing our precious little ones to anything worse than bad puppetry and worse singing.

She went on to tell stories of Saturday nights working in the ER, pumped stomachs, and cases of alcohol poisoning in young children. This was enough for the TV guy, and Party Animal was never seen again. Another victory for a Cranky Mom!

[Alphagene]

Originally posted by racerx
Ok. That damn babyface sun creeps me out. Scarier than scooby doo.
Is it me or does the baby sunface look like the lead singer from Radiohead?

And I get the impression that La-La is a little full of herself, don't you?

[Clucky]

Originally posted by dropzone
Clucky, I always accept a good repentance. ;) And since you are new, I will regale you with the Tale of Wife Versus Sesame Street.

A few years back, Sesame Street had a new character named Party Animal. Much like a cross between Poochie (on Itchy and Scratchy) and Animal (on The Muppet Show), Party Animal was edgy and hip with a limited vocabulary of a yelled "PAR-TAY!" Wife gets on the horn to complain. She works her way up the hierarchy to the main announcer, a grandfatherly type who was also an executive with the station.

She explained to him her objections to the character, especially his call to "PAR-TAY." As this phrase is generally thought to imply binge drinking and illicit sex, she felt this was a poor choice for a program and network that as much as tells us we can safely park our kids in front of it for hours on end with no fear of exposing our precious little ones to anything worse than bad puppetry and worse singing.

She went on to tell stories of Saturday nights working in the ER, pumped stomachs, and cases of alcohol poisoning in young children. This was enough for the TV guy, and Party Animal was never seen again. Another victory for a Cranky Mom!

Cranky Mom's my hero! Maybe there should be a Cranky Mom character on Sesame Street. :)

[racerx]

Originally posted by Alphagene
[QUOTE]
Is it me or does the baby sunface look like the lead singer from Radiohead?



Now that you mention it. . . fake plastic love. ;)

[Tamex]

Originally posted by Clucky
Originally posted by racerx
My bro's kids like the TT, though. And if I had kids and they liked it, and them watching it gave me a moment of peace, I think I'd let the kids watch it.

OK, I hope to holy hell I'm not like this as a parent. My wife and I do not want my daughter (3 mos.) to be raised by the TV. I was, you see. In fact, when we visited my Mom last week, she says to Kirsten and I, Why don't you just let Jessica watch TV. That will calm her down. I used to do it with you kids all the time. You'd just sit there and watch TV for hours. You loved it.

Holy fuckin' shit, jump on a rhino, slap him on the balls, and call him Tinky fuckin' Winky, because that was like a passage out of The Idiot's Guide to Bad Parenting.

No way. Not our child. We're sacrificing by having my wife stay home so we can avoid having her raised by other people and the media. It's hard being a parent. I don't want to give in and say, Here, watch TV and leave me alone.

Ha, ha, ha! Wait until your wife wants to take a shower or go to the bathroom by herself. Your kid might be OK being left in the crib now, but eventually she will scream if she is awake and Mom (or Dad, but you will be at work--no help) is not right there. And your wife will eventually discover that a small shot of Teletubbies (or Sesame Street, or Mr. Rogers, or whatever) will distract the kid long enough to take a five-minute shower, pee, or take something out of the oven. Maybe the kid will learn something, too, but the point is sanity (and safety, in the case of the oven example.)

What did parents use before TV? Grandma, probably, or maybe an older sister, since families were larger then. Or else they just let the kid scream, and neighbors were more sympathetic and less likely to direct-dial Child Protective Services. But families and communities aren't structured quite the same way today, for better or for worse.

Don't say "I'll never do that" or "My kid will never do that" unless your kid is older and you (or the kid) never did that.

Three months is a bit young for TV, though, I've got to admit.

[Rosebud]

Originally posted by Alphagene
And I get the impression that La-La is a little full of herself, don't you?

Don't be dissin' La-La.

[monster]

Originally posted by dropzone

As for people who find their sensibilities accosted by the TT and are anything over three years old, the show is not aimed at you! <snip> You are not their target audience.


Hee hee. This is what I told my 33 year old, childless brother. He asked me why I let my son watch them because every time he watched them, they creeped him out. I said "Why the hell are you watching them more than once??"

Weirdo.

[Saint Zero]

Originally posted by magdalene
[sub]2 :rolleyes: Because EVERYTHING Pat Robertsen says is the Gospel Truth. The man is a modern day saint.


Two Nitpicks.

A. Pat Robertson, with the O
B. And it was Jerry Falwell who claimed that, anyway. :D

[Saint Zero]

Originally posted by Saint Zero
Originally posted by magdalene
[sub]2 :rolleyes: Because EVERYTHING Pat Robertsen says is the Gospel Truth. The man is a modern day saint.

Two Nitpicks.

A. Pat Robertson, with the O
B. And it was Jerry Falwell who claimed that, anyway. :D

Okay, so it was Falwell's Followers who put out the report, having learned of it from our own Eve. Now I consider myself enlightened.

And out of this debate. :)

[Lizard]

Originally posted by dropzone
As for people who find their sensibilities accosted by the TT and are anything over three years old, the show is not aimed at you!....And the people who created these show don't care that you don't like them! You are not their target audience.


Hmm. This line of thought presumes I have no control whatever over what my (hypothetical) kids watch, and they rule the clicker. Hah! The people who make these shows better care if I like them. I am the who decides what my kid will watch. Besides, no 2-5-year-old has developed any standards for good TV. It's not like he knows he's watching crap, or can call the network to complain. So I will just do it for him.

[Lizard]

Originally posted by magdalene
But slap my ass.....

I just noticed this magdalene. Are you inviting someone to give you a spanking? 'Cause, uh, I can do that.

[dropzone]

Originally posted by Lizard
It's not like he knows he's watching crap, or can call the network to complain. So I will just do it for him.
Ah, to be young, idealistic, and childless again!

While you have MacNeill/Lehrer on, Junior Lizard will be bored stiff or flushing the contents of your wallet down the toilet. But that is an unfair comparison, since it and Teletubbies are on the same channel. Instead, see what's on OPPOSITE Teletubbies and you'll Superglue the tuner to PBS.

[Badtz Maru]

Sniff, I loved Party Animal. 8^(

[Monty]

My sister-in-law opined:

Whoever came up with the teletubbies must have been on some serious acid.

[CalMeacham]

I've long had a theory about the Teletubbies:


1.) They live in an idyllic garden space that is lovingly tended by someone else who is never seen.

2.) All their food is provided for them. Teletubbies do no work, but spend all their time playing.

3.) What little work we seen is done by macines or underground entities.


Conclusion: Teletubbies are the Eloi from H.G. Wells' novel "The Time Machine"!

This means that, wandering around in the bowels of that Teletubbie house there must be Morlocks. If you've read the book, you know that the ultimate fate of the pampered upper-class Eloi is to serve as food for the worker-class Morlocks ("Eat the Rich! followed to its logical conclusion).

I don't know about you, but it helps make the Teletubbies palatable to think that, ultimately, Tinky-Winky will serve a useful purpose as a Teletubby steak on the table of some deserving Morlock family, to be replaced by another Tinky-Winky out of the cloning division's frozen Teletubby embryo case.

THIS, by the way, is why Rod Taylor was so secretive about the Eloi when he was telling the story to his friends at the Club. He didn't want Sebastian Cabot to know that he was dating a fuzzy Kewpie doll, instead of a Playboy centerfold.

[Moirai]

Man, there are days when my son doesn't stare at his own parents with the rapt fascination with which he views that damn show.

Ex-druggie here who also thinks that sun is way cool. Babies like it because they like looking at other babies. I like it because of those funky blue eyes.

Don't give me any shit because my kid watches a little TV. I don't park him in front of it and leave him there, or anything like that. But it is nice to load the dishwasher without him getting in it, you know?

Teletubbies rock, so does the Bear in the Big Blue House and Rolie Polie Olie.

BTW, if it's not on Disney, it just doesn't exist, so I have a hell of a time keeping track of events in the adult world. Oh well, my son's world is much more entertaining!

[Lizard]

Originally posted by dropzone
Originally posted by Lizard
It's not like he knows he's watching crap, or can call the network to complain. So I will just do it for him.
Ah, to be young, idealistic, and childless again!

While you have MacNeill/Lehrer on, Junior Lizard will be bored stiff or flushing the contents of your wallet down the toilet. But that is an unfair comparison, since it and Teletubbies are on the same channel. Instead, see what's on OPPOSITE Teletubbies and you'll Superglue the tuner to PBS.

I don't know why I feel so combative these days, but I can't let this slide. (dropzone, I should warn you ahead of time I'm not trying to start something here. I'm just being a lot less restrained than usual.)

Why do you assume that because I don't have kids I must therefore know nothing about them or how to raise them? How do you know I wasn't the primary caregiver for two younger siblings for most of their lives to date? How do you know I didn't have to babysit several even younger cousins without the benefit of television to keep them occupied, because we didn't have one? You can't possibly know those things, can you? It is possible to raise kids without the tube as a co-parent. That's how I was raised, and I never missed it.














Okay, I have no younger siblings or cousins. But I wanted to point out that you did not know that, and therefore asssumed too much in your last post. And what I said about growing up without a TV is 100% true.

[Gunslinger]

I find them VERY disturbing. :eek:

[dropzone]

Originally posted by Lizard
Okay, I have no younger siblings or cousins. But I wanted to point out that you did not know that, and therefore asssumed too much in your last post.
Too much? No, I apparently got lucky and assumed the exactly right amount. ;)
[i]And what I said about growing up without a TV is 100% true. [/B]
Many generations of fine people have been raised without TVs. What I am saying is that even a responsible parent who is soloing at home during the day—the dad-working-mom-at-home, nuclear family recalled so lovingly by some people these days—will find a show that hypnotizes the kiddies, like TT does, invaluable if only so she can go to the bathroom in something approaching peace. Television, even that of the highest quality, should not be used as a daycare service, but prudent use can be good.

[Lizard]

Originally posted by dropzone
I apparently got lucky and assumed the exactly right amount.

I think you missed the point, Mr. dropzone. It was that you shouldn't have assumed anything at all. But there's really no point in arguing it further.


Many generations of fine people have been raised without TVs. What I am saying is that even a responsible parent who is soloing at home during the day—the dad-working-mom-at-home, nuclear family recalled so lovingly by some people these days—will find a show that hypnotizes the kiddies, like TT does, invaluable if only so she can go to the bathroom in something approaching peace. Television, even that of the highest quality, should not be used as a daycare service, but prudent use can be good.

Maybe so, but my conviction is that ultimately television does more harm than good, by stunting a child's development in any number of ways. Sitting and absorbing television does not require thought, or analysis, or skills. Nor does it develop physical or mental skills of any kind. Much children's TV is cunningly (and some would say cynically) intended and designed to manipulate children in some way, usually to get them to buy or pressure their parents to buy some product. (And I'm well aware that I am now hijacking my own thread, but oh well) I think this manipulation is just plain wrong, even if it is legal or "the American Way." I for one find the thought of a machine "hypnotizing" any kids of mine-especially a machine whose output I have no control over short of turning it off-very disturbing.

[Una Persson]

Originally posted by Enderw24
But hot damn, can they accessorize!

Damn you Ender! How can you make me laugh so hard with so few words?

[Chronolicht]

A Teletubby killed my brother.

[OneChance]

Originally posted by racerx
But he does have 3 kids with another one on the way, a 12+hour a day job, and his wife works out of the home. They are just scraping by and have no idea where they are going to put the next child.

Okay, I hate to hijack, but I just have to ask a question about this. If what you stated above is true, then why is your brother having another kid? I've always wondered why some parents decide to have kids at times when they know they can't afford it or have time for it.

[racerx]

Originally posted by OneChance

Okay, I hate to hijack, but I just have to ask a question about this. If what you stated above is true, then why is your brother having another kid? I've always wondered why some parents decide to have kids at times when they know they can't afford it or have time for it.

Yeah. The one on the way was an accident. Don't know how she got preggers 'cause they took precautions. Ya know, those pills are only 99.98% effective, or something like that. Also, I never said that I agreed with his decisions, only that I am supportive of him.

[G. Nome]

Originally posted by CalMeacham
I've long had a theory about the Teletubbies:

1.) They live in an idyllic garden space that is lovingly tended by someone else who is never seen.

2.) All their food is provided for them. Teletubbies do no work, but spend all their time playing.

3.) What little work we seen is done by macines or underground entities.

Conclusion: Teletubbies are the Eloi from H.G. Wells' novel "The Time Machine"

Close, but no cigar.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL9911/S00092.htm

[Syehoc]

I don't know. I've been channel surfing, run across the little fellas (or whatever they are) and found myself unable to click the up arrow again. I've seen them a couple of times and they allways seem to keep me watching...for a while anyway. I'm rediculously inexperienced with illegal drugs but I have a feeling that the world they live in isn't that much different from that of a mind clouded by narchotics.

[TwistofFate]

He wears a jaunty, cow-patterned hat

so does R. Kelly



Tellytubbies has some strange drug coincedences, magic dust, a laughing baby in the sun, and a speaker system to tell them when they have to go to bed.

Its really a conditioning tool, so in 20 years when a load of speakers pop up out of the ground in the midle of Times Square, urging people to kill the unbelievers, the training that teletubbies has been imprinting into the youth of today will take over.


yes, I'm scared too.

[Moirai]

Oh Twisty, now there's coffee all over my monitor!!!