# Teletubbies Toy ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teletubbies-toy/326295 "2005-10-14T23:18:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teletubbies-toy/326295/1 "2005-10-14T23:18:59Z")
I have this talking teletubbies [Po](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001FR5H0.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg) that says certain phrases when you squeeze its (her? his?) hand. So far I’ve heard: Eh Oh Roller coaster, roller coaster? What’s that? 1…2…3 Po! :giggling sound: Big hug and… Donkey doo doo? I swear by my life this is what it sounds like Po is saying. We’ve thought and thought on what it’s saying. I’ve squeezed that damn plushie over and over again trying to understand. We try to pretend it’s “whatcha doin?” but it’s just not saying that. Surely it can’t be what we think it is! Everything else is clear. Donkey doo doo? Man. What could this be??? Anyone here a teletubbies expert? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teletubbies-toy/326295/2 "2005-10-14T23:24:38Z")
We have a toy like that. What I’ve heard is that she saying “Fast, Fast, Slow, Slow” in Cantonese. (The actress playing her is/was Chinese.) ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teletubbies-toy/326295/3 "2005-10-15T00:02:39Z")
Fast fast, slow slow? Hmm…that somehow seems worse than “donkey doo do”! :eek: And why would it say all these other things in English? I’m glad someone knows what I’m talking about though. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teletubbies-toy/326295/4 "2005-10-15T00:09:10Z")
Oh god, I remember those! They came out when I was working at Kmart, and we used to amuse ourselves by playing with them. They always sounded like: Tinky-Winky: “I carry my gun!” Red One (Po?): Faggot! Faggot! La-La: Sieg Heil! Green One: REEEE-TARRRRD!!! Or something like that. It was pretty amusing. ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teletubbies-toy/326295/5 "2005-10-15T01:25:38Z")
I remember there being a big controversy about the sounds that came out of these things mouths. After looking it up online, the quickest thing to a source I could come up with was from [Wikipedia’s site](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies_Trivia), which has this to say (following a paragraph about the controversy caused by people thinking Tinky Winky was supposed to be gay): > [@](#): > > However, this did not stop people from wrongly interpreting the sounds that the original version of the Talking Po doll produced as “faggot faggot,” when in fact they were “fai dee, fai dee” (Cantonese for “faster, faster”). ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teletubbies-toy/326295/6 "2005-10-15T06:02:23Z")
> [@LoganDear](#): > > I remember there being a big controversy about the sounds that came out of these things mouths. After looking it up online, the quickest thing to a source I could come up with was from [Wikipedia’s site](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletubbies_Trivia), which has this to say (following a paragraph about the controversy caused by people thinking Tinky Winky was supposed to be gay): I don’t know…that doesn’t sound anything like donkey doo doo! ---
**Author:** ![partlycloudy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/partlycloudy/32/3114_2.png) [@partlycloudy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partlycloudy)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teletubbies-toy/326295/7 "2005-10-15T07:52:46Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > I don’t know…that doesn’t sound anything like donkey doo doo! I dunno man, they must’ve changed it to something that sounds like “donkey doo doo.” I got no explanation for ya. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teletubbies-toy/326295/8 "2005-10-15T09:04:10Z")
Hilarious. My kid has a talking Dipsy, and I can never understand what the Christ it’s saying. At her grandparents’ house, she has a talking Po. My MIL said one day that she thought it was saying “Faggot faggot”, but I had never heard (or sought out the info) that pthers misheard that as well, and I thought she was just a little off that day. “Fast fast, slow slow” sounds like dialogue from a porn film, though, and I’d worry that my kid would start repeating that in school and get some funny looks. Well, it’s definitely better than her learning to say faggot, though, that’s for sure.