Les Télétubbies

This is simply the WEIRDEST kiddie show I have ever seen...just looky at all those phone-poles that pop up from everywhere. Reminds me of my old humidifier that sat on my dresser when I was a toddler. It looked just like a little UFO in the dark and it scared the living daylights out of me even at such a young age. The same thing goes for "Noo-Noo", that bizarre-looking vacuum-cleaner with wriggling light-up eyes and a long sucking trunk. That thing would frighten the poor little tots half to death!

The aliens themselves are curiously portrayed as parentless kitten-faced infants with hare lips and monkey ears that bodily fell from the outer space and forever lost in a rustic paradise with all the hopping bunnies and plastic flowers. They squeak, wriggle, and hug each other for all eternity to come...they certainly act like they don't have any brains in their skulls. And the baby sun...such BRIGHT blue eyes...would giggle and look around as if it doesn't have anything better to do. The big pink pinwheel spins, sprinkling shiny pink stars to stupefy the pot-bellied creatures into delirious submission.

The worse thing of all is how the clippings of tykes doing everyday stuff are forever repeated in the aliens' fat tummies as if the watchers don't know any better...whether they just got off their mother's breasts or not.

I must first state that I agree that this show is a bit over hated. There are some redeeming qualities, such as the landscape, which I think is very pretty and charming. Those surroundings look a bit like a golf course but with the addition of cute fluffy bunnies. I also don't have any problem with their speech pattern, they're meant to resemble toddlers after all. The segments shown on the Teletubbies' stomachs are also very interesting. With that said, I myself don't particularly care for it although I do think that it gets a little too much hate. My main problem is that it is extremely repetitive. For example, after you see the videos on the Teletubbies's belly screens they play the same video again. In fact, pretty much everything is repeated ad nauseum. My other problem with Teletubbies is that in their grassy mound of a house (apparently called the "tubbytronic superdome" or something) they have a pet: a very creepy vacuum-type thing called Nunu. This thing communicates solely with uncanny sucking sounds, has bloodshot eyes, and appears out of nowhere. I found it very creepy when I first saw this as a kid and still find that thing creepy as an adult. To compare, Maleficiant scared me when I was little but I outgrew that, while Nunu gives me the creeps to this day. In conclusion, not as bad as they say but I would have preferred if everything wasn't replayed "again" and if it were just the Teletubbies without their scary pet.

The "Teletubbies" has to be one of the most Nightmare-inducing TV shows ever (save for Barney and the New Nick JR).

Four creepy-looking "creatures" with television sets in their torsos,doing some strange,nonsensical things that don't make sense and probably give you head aches and trippy nightmares.

I know this is a children's show,but I even know some little kids who are afraid to watch these monsters (yes,I'm serious).

Now,the Skeksis from the "Dark Crystal" on the other hand,are even more lovable than the "Teletubbie" things,and they are pretty frighting enough!

Some of the reviewers here seem to expect something like Game of Thrones in a children's show, ie something that entertains adults. You have to realise that the audience of this show is infants and toddlers from 6 months to about 4 years. So even five year olds are going to prefer shows more targeted at them.

I feel sympathy for children whose parents expect everything to be educational. Teletubbies is not really supposed to be educational. It is entertainment for littlies, and in that regard it serves its purpose well. The British seem to be very good at shows for young children that are for entertainment purposes only, Americans don't seem to get it.

The Teletubbies live in a Nazi-style bunker where everything is "lovely". Genetically modified rabbits are their only living companions. A voice from nowhere tells them what to do, or tells them what is about to happen to them. They show a small film from one of their bellies and then repeat the film - this was another Nazi trick - repetition being used to brain-wash.

All of this weird nonsense is watched over by a baby in the sun. All the Teletubbies are named after slang for genitalia:- Tinky Winky (obviously the male organ), La La (female), Po (bottom in German) and Dipsy (Russian slang for the male organ.

It's quite amazing - you should watch it.