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Teletubbies is a BBC children's television series particularly for babies and toddlers, created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport.
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Ragdoll Productions, produced 365 episodes of Teletubbies (one episode for every day of the year.) The program features four colourful tubby creatures: Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po, who live in a surreal environment with a submerged, grass-covered spaceship at its center. The most dangerous predators in sight seem to be the herds of rabbits which pop out of their warrens placed in crucial photographic spots on the set.
The four Teletubbies have metallic silver-azure rectangular "screens" adorning their abdomens. These are used to segue into short film sequences, which are generally repeated at least once. When the series is shown in different countries around the world the film inserts can be tailored to suit local audiences.
The Teletubbies have the bodily proportions, behaviour and language of toddlers. The pacing and design of the show was developed by a cognitive psychologist, Andrew Davenport, who structured the show to fit the attention spans of the target audience. The repeating of practically every word is familiar to everyone who has ever worked with young children.
The Teletubbies speak in a gurgling baby language which is the subject of some controversy amongst educationalists, some of whom argue that this supposedly made-up talk is not good for children (a similar complaint was made forty years previously about another children's series, The Flowerpot Men). Tubbies are at the stage of understanding speech but not yet fully capable of articulating it, exactly like their target audience. The Teletubbies' catch-phrases are Eh-oh (hello), as in: Eh-oh, Laa-Laa, to which Laa-Laa will respond, Eh-oh, [other Tubby's name]; "Uh-oh", a common toddler response to anything untowards; "Run away! Run away!", especially from Dipsy; and "Bye-bye" at least four times in a row. Laa-Laa, when flustered, will explode with "Blubberly cheese!", which is as angry as they get.
The surreal landscape is like the world of a toddler, where they are ordered about, told to go to sleep, and wonderful and mysterious things happen without explanation. A prominent feature of each episode is a radiant sun that has an image of a smiling baby superimposed upon it. The baby in the sun occasionally laughs out loud in short bursts. To adults the laughter does not seem to be in response to any stimulus or humorous developments in the plotline of the episode.
Their diet seems to be almost exclusively Tubby Custard (which is sucked through a spiral straw bowl) and Tubby Toast (circular toast with a smiley face on it), and they are spectacularly messy eaters. In one episode, the Tubby Toaster, the machine that makes Tubby Toast, went seriously wrong and filled the Teletubbies' house with toast. Fortunately one of their companions is the Noo-Noo, a sentient vacuum cleaner.
The Teletubbies landscape was an outdoor set located in rural Warwickshire, England, at Sweet Knowle Farm, Redhill Bank Rd, Wimpstone, CV37 8NR. It was reported that by 2002 the set had become overgrown, and pending the 2003 lease expiration it was expected to become farmland again.
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