Can anyone explain Teletubbies?

Damn it! I had forgotten about Boobahs, until I clicked on this link. I’ll learn one day not to click links in zombie threads.

All you need to know.

You are correct- I TOLD you I’d never watched it, and the Falwell controversy was a long time ago.

I accidentally watched them while whacked out on some heavy-duty cough syrup.

It was even weirder than seeing them whilst sober.

Maybe I needed stronger drugs. :smiley:

I never would have guessed that the people in the suits were also the voice actors. If there was any overlap, I’d expect the voice actors to be the ones controlling the facial puppetry. Unless the actors are somehow doing that, too.

I also never thought they’d be that big. I figured at most they would be the size of the Ninja Turtles. But Tinky-Winky is 8 feet tall?!

That’s similar to how I happened upon Zoobilee Zoo.

When my nephew was young enough to be watching Teletubbies, my brother described the show to me as “like ‘The Prisoner’ for preschoolers.”

Ha!Teletubbies is as mild marijuana to “in the night garden” crack cocaine.

Same creators though unsurprisingly. That is some seriously high-grade weird right there.

one small example

Uh oh!

Plus, Jerry Falwell never said that.

What happened was that about a year earlier, there had been articles about how gays had adopted Tinky-Winky as a gay icon due to his purple color & carrying a purse. Finally, a writer for Falwell’s paper, The Liberty Journal, had caught wind of that & used that as an example of how gays were even using children’s entertainment. When that came out & was attributed to Falwell, he laughed it off & said that all Tinky-Winkys that were being sent to him were being passed down to his grandkids. Soon after, he acknowledged that the discourse was getting overly rough & opened dialogue with Mel White, former ghostwriter for many famous Christians -Falwell included- who came out of the closet & founded Soulforce. Unfortunately, that attempt fell through as it became clear that Falwell was not going to veer from the Christian tradition about homosexuality and White was not going to veer from demanding that Falwell repudiate it.

A year or two later, 9/11 happened & Falwell’s rhetoric really went into overdrive.

Seriously, teletubbies is the logical version.

I lost it at the farting toucan.