# And you thought the Tellitubbies were scary... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 6, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079 "2004-01-06T20:54:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/1 "2004-01-06T20:54:29Z")
[http://pbskids.org/boohbah/boohbah.html](http://pbskids.org/boohbah/boohbah.html) \<–coming to PBS later this month. Clicking on the orange or pink creatures shows you a better likeness of what they look like in the TV Guide insert (who’d they pay to wear this crap?) If the sounds on the site- fart/rassberry noises and squeals are any indication of what they’ll sound like on the show, I’m really really glad I don’t own a toddler or preschooler. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/2 "2004-01-06T20:57:32Z")
Wait until you see the show, it’s even scarier then that link. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/3 "2004-01-06T21:14:48Z")
Check out their [offical website](http://www.boohbah.com/). :eek: I saw a bunch of these things in a toyshop while Christmas shopping, and I thought I was having a flashback. The horror. The horror. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/4 "2004-01-06T21:17:58Z")
Indeed, it is one of the scariest thing I have seen on TV in my memory. I’m sure kids TV wasnt this disturbing when I was young, anyone remember Wackaday with Timmy Mallet? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/5 "2004-01-06T22:13:29Z")
Good grief. Hey Brits: can you please return to “invading” us with _talented_ entertainers? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/6 "2004-01-06T23:12:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hybrid\_dogfish \* > \*\*Indeed, it is one of the scariest thing I have seen on TV in my memory. I’m sure kids TV wasnt this disturbing when I was young, anyone remember Wackaday with Timmy Mallet? \*\* Timmy was a :wally rather than disturbing. But don’t forget the terrifying[Diddymen](http://www.chucklebutty.co.uk/Diddymen.html) from the 1970s. They scared the shite out of me and gave me nightmares for years. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/7 "2004-01-06T23:25:37Z")
Holy crap! The Boohbahs are…well, I wouldn’t want to watch that on acid. I looked at the Diddymen too. I’m glad I never saw those as a kid. I’d have been freaked out for life. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid\_dogfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a587f6/32.png) [@hybrid\_dogfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hybrid_dogfish)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2004, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/8 "2004-01-06T23:52:27Z")
Sorry **jjimm** Diddymen was a little before my time, although [Pob](http://www.jediman.free-online.co.uk/childrenstv/Childrens_TV_Index.htm?Pob/Pob.htm&1) scared me quite alot. (obviously I meant ‘one of the scariest _things_’:smack: ) ---
**Author:** ![bootytp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2acd7d/32.png) [@bootytp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bootytp)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/9 "2004-01-07T00:08:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hybrid\_dogfish \* > \*\*Sorry **jjimm** Diddymen was a little before my time, although [Pob](http://www.jediman.free-online.co.uk/childrenstv/Childrens_TV_Index.htm?Pob/Pob.htm&1) scared me quite alot. > > (obviously I meant ‘one of the scariest _things_’:smack: ) \*\* yikes ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/10 "2004-01-07T00:25:13Z")
Is this Ken Dobbs a funny man? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/11 "2004-01-07T02:30:20Z")
**bootytp** your Pob there is by Ragdoll productions. As is this new monstrosity. Looks like these people have been in the business of scarring people for a long while now. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/12 "2004-01-07T02:41:38Z")
Scarring or scaring? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/13 "2004-01-07T02:59:57Z")
Scaring too, but that’s not a typo 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@Bren\_Cameron\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bren_Cameron_1)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/14 "2004-01-07T03:04:04Z")
Oh my God. My kids are going to _love_ this. Heaven help me. ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/15 "2004-01-07T04:50:53Z")
So Boohbah’s are real live scary tele-horrors? I found a link to their site about 9 months ago on a webzine (W2KNews, no less), thought the flash game ([www.boohbah.com/zone.swf](http://www.boohbah.com/zone.swf)) was interesting and downloaded it so my daughter could play with it offline. I had no idea I was priming her for a Teletubbies sequel. I feel sick. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/16 "2004-01-07T07:09:28Z")
Please tell me I’m not the only one who watched that animation of the Boohbahs dancing and thought, “Foreskins!” ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/17 "2004-01-07T07:19:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bren\_Cameron \* > \*\*Oh my God. My kids are going to _love_ this. Heaven help me. \*\* Maybe you could have the TV block PBS 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MidnightRadio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MidnightRadio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MidnightRadio)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/18 "2004-01-07T08:34:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hybrid\_dogfish \* > \*\*Sorry **jjimm** Diddymen was a little before my time, although [Pob](http://www.jediman.free-online.co.uk/childrenstv/Childrens_TV_Index.htm?Pob/Pob.htm&1) scared me quite alot. > > (obviously I meant ‘one of the scariest _things_’:smack: ) \*\* Am I the only one who found [this](http://www.jediman.free-online.co.uk/childrenstv/Pob/pob10.jpg) Pob image to be a little offensive? And while we’re on the subject of creepy children’s programming, how about [_Jay Jay the Jet Plane_](http://pbskids.org/jayjay/)? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/19 "2004-01-07T09:10:12Z")
I’ve never seen _Jay Jay the Jet Plane_ before, and now I wish I hadn’t. The characters remind me of the grotesque fish in Monty Python’s _Meaning of Life_. Glad I don’t have kids… ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2004, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079/20 "2004-01-07T09:29:40Z")
I once had a cat named Boobah. She was named after a character from Cerebus the Aardvark. Just thought I’d share. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-you-thought-the-tellitubbies-were-scary/223079.md?page=2)