Teletubbies

Teletubbies is a British preschool show and music group that aired from 1997 to 2001, created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport. In 2015, it was revived for four seasons, but was quietly cancelled in 2018 in the European version. However, a new Teletubbies series was premiered on Netflix in the US version on November 14, 2022.

Plot
The program takes place in a grassy, floral landscape populated by rabbits with bird calls audible in the background. The main shelter of the four Teletubbies is an earth house known as the "Tubbytronic Superdome" implanted in the ground and accessed through a hole at the top or an especially large semicircular door at the dome's foot. The Teletubbies co-exist with a number of strange contraptions such as the Voice Trumpets and the group's anthropomorphic blue vacuum cleaner ("Noo-Noo"). The show's colourful psychedelic setting was designed specifically to appeal to the attention spans of infants and unlock different sections of the mind while also educating young children of transitions that can be expected in life.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Unlike most other preschool shows from that era, Teletubbies has barely any educational value. While it does try to show kids cooperative play, wonder, and simple joys, it mostly turns down to the Teletubbies just doing random things, that are either stupid, annoying, unfunny and/or boring.
 * 2) *Other preschool shows especially Boohbah and the Baby Einstein videos (especially the post-2002 ones) also suffer from this issue.
 * 3) While most of the side characters and the narrator speak proper English (or other languages depending on the dub), the Teletubbies just babble nonsense, which can get more annoying and stupid than charming, not to mention it could negatively affect children with them making the inability not to talk properly.
 * 4) The show can get uncannily disturbing for younger viewers. Examples include the faces of the Teletubbies, the puppet that appears in one episode, the Baby Sun screaming, the CGI effects used on the Animal Parade, the Magic Tree, the Ships and the Dancing Bear, and the infamous sketch featuring a cut-out bear and a cut-out lion chasing each other, which resulted in any episode containing the sketch getting banned in the UK and internationally. Granted, the sketch was edited later on, but still.
 * 5) The side characters aren't any better either:
 * 6) * The Baby Sun that appears throughout the episodes, along with the opening and closing. She does nothing but laugh.
 * 7) * The Bunnies in the background do nothing at all besides eating grass.
 * 8) * Noo-Noo (the sentient vacuum cleaner) is just there to clean up the Teletubbies' messes and serves no other purpose.
 * 9) * The characters with their own sketches are also pretty bland.
 * 10) The show's humor is also unfunny, annoying and cringe-worthy, even inappropriate, such as one scene where Laa-Laa blows a toter to Tinky-Winky's butt, and then Tinky-Winky does it to Dipsy, which if you think about it, is inappropriate for children.
 * 11) Most of the special effects are poorly made such as the Dancing Bear that appears in one episode, the Animal Parade, the Magic Tree, and the Ships as well that are obviously cheap CGI effects.
 * 12) The music, such as the theme song, can get insufferable and tiresome. Not helping is that the intro is two and a half minutes long, and when the original title appears, an extremely loud balloon squealing sound effect is heard, which can be too much to handle for some viewers. While this thankfully doesn't happen in the 2015 revival, the theme song there isn't much better.
 * 13) The show can often show kids bad morals:
 * 14) * Wasting food
 * 15) * Annoying each other
 * 16) * Making big messes
 * 17) * Acting immature
 * 18) * Not speaking properly but babbling babyish sounds.
 * 19) The TV Events serve no purpose at all. And what's worse is that they play the same segments twice with no differences whatsoever (though this thankfully doesn't happen on PBS and/or BBC VHS releases). The PBS VHS releases feature two TV Events per tape while the BBC VHS releases feature three per tape.
 * 20) *When it comes to the jazz band segment, the weirdest part of the singer is that, while he does sing in English (languages vary depending on the dub), it sounds pretty phoned-in and it's hard to even understand what he's singing.
 * 21) *In the revived series, a group of kids were singing and dancing, it sounds yelling and ear raped.
 * 22) There are no good or decent episodes. The episodes prove that this show isn't worth watching, and it shouldn't be given any attention. It goes to show that this show is hard to watch, easy to ignore, and just forgettable in general.

Comments
Oi there mate, Teletubbies is a werid show and is Bri'ish, innit mate

-- GoodEditor (talk) 12:28, 1 February 2023 (UTC)