Steve Reviews: The BANNED Teletubbies Episode
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The fact that there is a BANNED episode…concerns me.
Same
I honestly thought it would be worse.
I’m the exact same
I mean it might be scarier if I was a toddler watching this but as a 28 year old... fuck I am feeling old now.
It also scared me that it is Steve Reviews who is reviewing this.
This show seems to have two target audiences, toddlers and adults on LSD.
LSD on pcp
I would even say that toddlers on LSD
This show was the result of lsd
This could be read two ways
Its basically LSD for kids who were too young for the real thing.
Also the fact that the lion said "WHERE'S THE BEAR!?!? " it sounds like he would kill me if I don't tell him where the bear is
True
You don't realise how terrifying this show is until you grow up. The Lion, the Bear, the vacuum cleaner and even the tubbies themselves are very unsettling
This shit is creepy af 😂
I'm over 40 and all I saw when our baby watched it was something obviously made for babies. As a stoned teenager I probably thought it was crazy but now I don't find it particularly strange considering the intended audience.
The power of suggestion.
Teletubbies have actually been said to be hypnotic but the fact Is that they are thought to babies when mind is developing and they are supposed to be very simple, of course since age of elementary school everybody sees them differently.
@@dickJohnsonpeter in the night garden is the weirdest show when you look at it from an adult point of view but it was perfectly made to help children’s development.
Fun fact: The Teletubbies are over 6 feet tall. Po (red) is 6 feet 6 inches. Laalaa (yellow) is 6 feet 5 inches tall. Dipsy (green) is 8 feet tall. Tinky Winky (purple) is 10 feet tall.
Holy Mother Mary Joseph
Lady D needs to up her game if the telly tubbies are bigger than her
OH MY GAWD
Why the fuck did they need to be so tall
that's nice to know jason voorhees or michael myers could be in a teletubby costume
the teletubby hill was actually flooded by the owner, she got sick of people trespassing it so she decided to flood the entire place and turn it into a pond
What a rude b word i get its her land but come on
@@sapphiredawn5773 It’s a famous fucking place, I’d be pissed too if the land I owned kept getting trespassed on for photos and shit.
Illegal teletubby hill drug rave 😂
Man, I didn't even know it was an outdoor location. I thought it was an artificial set.
@@reloadpsi
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Honestly the fact that the lion and the bear was banned internationally makes me jealous cuz i clearly remember watching it and being terrified the fact that i had to endure that trauma before it was banned is upsetting to me 😭
8:21 I KNEW that wasn't just some childhood nightmare I had.
9:42 Especially that creepy bear, which haunted me during my entire preschool period.
I blocked this out of my memory as a child, but the moment I heard the words "It's the bear... It's the bear..." I could feel the fucking dread I felt as a kid all over again. This episode haunted me.
I had horrible nightmares as a kid of the bear and lion! I distinctly remember seeing this for the first time and running through my house traumatised by it! I was probably 4 years old??
SAME
when i watched this years after watching it, i realised why i was so scared when i was a kid I GOT NIGHTMARES SKNJK
This was my favourite one
Huh, I guess that makes sense. I remember I was much older when I saw teletubbies, I actually felt too old to be watching it. But I never saw this episode either.
Fun fact: the area it was filmed in was actually flooded due to trespassing. The landowner had enough of people breaking onto their land to explore it, so they just flooded the area
That was probably the worst thing they could do.
Couldn’t they have made it a tourist attraction?
@@SocksFC in all fairness it was private land, and the person didnt want anyone on said land. Sad that it's gone tho
@@stagg_king_2472 fair enough, I suppose it would make an ok profit if it ever was an attraction
@@SocksFC right? Could've been an amusement park or something
I remember that episode because I was absolutely traumatised by it. I watched it when I was two and my mom said I cried like hecc when that scene came on. And I still remember it even though it’s a lot more than 20 years later. The way they moved and especially something about their eyes and the sounds they made just scared the living frick out of me.
For me it was definitly the eyes. They stared right at you and they just dont blink at all and always looking at you
4:46: Denise Noe wrote a book called “Teletubbies: On the Screen and Behind the Scenes”, which answers what the Tubby Toast is made from, along with dozens more questions that we’ve been asking ourselves.
The reason why Teletubbies is so disturbing to people who aren’t toddlers is because it was designed for toddlers through a bunch of psychological research. Yes, they did scientific research and stuff on how to make a show appealing for toddlers.
No toddler in my family watched this and when I got over I would switch to the Lopez show even know I didn’t like it either
As a toddler this made me cry. I rember being scared of this, but liked sesame street and such
Nightmare fuel for my child self
I liked it when I was 2 and under.
3+ I started to notice the uncanny valley
5+ then the speaker voice infiltrated my nightmares.
I feel like instead of making it appealing to toddlers they just made a show that makes you experience the world through toddler eyes y’know
Telletubbies episode: banned for being too scary.
Toddlers now: literally playing FNAF
I'm 21 now but when I was 4, that episode scared me so much. What's worse is that it just casually aired here in the Netherlands, and the Dutch voices were so creepy already.
It's depressing ...
I would pick to play FNAF instead
Tinky winky is the man behind the slaughter
@@CalmestRaccoon hah, I didn’t know I had this memory but you rekindled it. I watched it too, and that was the first time I had a grim fascination with something that I couldn’t look away from, but also kinda disturbed me.
Loe that response, "hes just a character in a childrens series" thats the best way to respond, with a dose of reality
9:34 It would actually be the other way around in real life, bears (if where talking about polar bears and brown bears) are actually bigger and stronger than lions.
That's probably why the bear is treating it all as a game.
@@killdozer7792now this is scarier
This show is for babies so no one is ever gonna remember this...if your older maybe you shouldn't watch for gods sake
There is just some things in life you can avoid, and some you can't
@@killdozer7792😨
Now you need to talk about the walrus nightmare from Pingu
Yes
Holy shit I remember that
Yeah that thing is terrifying
You mean Tusk
It still scares me
No matter how hard I try, I cannot unsee the fact that there are adults dancing and running around in tellytubbie costumes
did you think they're real creatures someone captured from another planet?
@@TheSektorz yes
@@mdexterc2894 fair enough then
@@TheSektorz Futurama?
@@TheSektorz Lol probably..
When i was a kid, i remember, everytime that giant windmill spinning, i began to hide and waiting for clues of what will being shown, and started to notice the music changes. And when it come to this and puppet in the house one, i started ran off and turn my tv off immediately. That how much horrifying it was for me. So my parents rented a place and this one girl which was our neighbor, a bit older than me during that time, locked me inside the living room and force me to watch that horror, she put the volume up and it was the worst traumatizing experience in my childhood and started it all
This genuinely scared me as a kid to the point I’d run out the room, only the bear weirdly enough the lion I was fine with
Nah the lion gave me the worst nightmares
I was only scared of the lion!
@@Beanburrito122 same
Omg same. I thought i was the only one liking the lion but hating that goddamn bear.
But i watched it in german and i liked the lions voice. The bears was just nightmare fuel. And the way he moves still creeps me out
I wasn't scared of either of them.
The British have this talent of creating off-putting shows and creepy concepts, without being completely scary.
Yeah exactly 🤔
And people say French people are weird
°~°
Also noseybonk
@Alphavortex108 Weird fact: one of the actors became a porn star
Japan: Hold my beer.
Hold on, if the Teletubbies are "technological babies," what do they grow into?
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Sirenhead
eldritch tubbies
@@leahkoskovich2749
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The screen in their bellies just consumes them little by little and they end up being your flat screen tv
13:51 those boats actually terrified me, but it was less the boats but more of the valley being flooded with water with creepy drain noises playing prior to the boats showing up. I still have recurring nightmares of inescapable rising waters at 23 years old and i think that episode was a precursor to it
I am as old as this show. I was the target audience when this episode aired. I was one of these kids that cried watching this, and this video has just triggered some PTSD I didn't know I had. Thanks for that.
Grow up. It's a TV show.
he was a kid dude @@aquasnek5487 💀
@@aquasnek5487Grow up. Its just Daisy's destruction
I was 4 when it came out never have PTSD while watching the show. Then again I watched HXH where I saw a character get brutally killed by a vacuum at the age of 10 and I found that intriguing. I guess it different for everyone.
Can you guys seriously not see a sarcastic joke when you see it ? 😂
"I'm the bear, and im coming" is giving me actual chills
Freddy Fazbear Confirmed
Same
It does not me idk how
I doesn’t give me the chill it gave me the what type of sick f*ck made this
Just gives me some none PG vibes. Ngl.
"What's going on?!"
"I don't know, just keep dancing and don't get in the van!"
Bruh! I read this at the exact same time as he said it in the video. LOL!
@@lunabearsong2043 same L.O.L
You don't stop dancing & you keep giving those people what they came to see.
NOW, WHAT ARE YOU DOING UNDER THERE, PRICKLEY-MUFFIN?
@@Claymann71 loving the Bojack reference
4:40 It's so funny to watch them try to eat the Tubby Toast, without them actually getting any bites out of it. How are they even supposed to eat it without teeth?🤣
I remember when I was a child and I watched this banned episode I remember actually being genuinely terrified and I left the disc in the draw for years
“He’s not gay. He’s not straight. He’s just a character in a children’s series.”
That is the BEST way to describe it, hands down.
A male that wears a tutu and carries a purse is gay. 🤦🏻♀️
@@GamerNerdess no?
@@kamillen4732 I agree, how do those things IN PARTICULAR make a man gay?
Agreed. Imagine getting that pressed over a teletubby, lol.
He's bi?
"I'm the bear"
"Dear God..
"There's more, Scary Lion."
"No.."
That’s my favorite meme format Idc If no one gets it 😂😂
Where the tiger
YES
Did anyone put an episode idea in the bucket besides Scout?...
Well...This was a complete waste of time
@@DAMIENDMILLS See you all in
3:50: That's not what I heard. I remember reading a book called "5,000 Facts About Everything 3", and it actually said that the owner of the farm demolished the Tubbytronic Superdome which had housed the loveable "aliens," just because she was sick and tired of fans trespassing on her land. That's where the reboot series comes into play, after the demolition.
Glad somebody is finally talking about this episode!! It traumatized me so much as a little kid, whenever it would play on the TV i would always get hysterically scared and run out of the room and hide 😭😭 glad but also kind of upset next generation won't be able to experience this kind of terror.
LMAOOOO Bro I forgot they would always show the _stomach-movie_ twice in a row
I forgot it to
Oh shit
Primm is here
He be reviewing the hood movies
He consistent, He funny
He an all-star.
Bruh that would annoy me sometimes
Sometimes even thrice! O.o
@Jo Amon These words called this man to Chris' house
he ever dared to imagine
Promising dreams greater than
This is the man known as....
Fun fact: the original ‘tellietubby land’ was on a woman’s farmland. She kept on having people trespassing to see the location. So, to avoid property damage and all that she turned it into a pond.
But climate change still sucks.
In the very wise words of a truly forward looking individual, “How dare you.”
MISSED OPERTUNITY
50 dollars per entre, teleland rides, merch, MONEY
Fig
@@theween6788 Unless we make-
A REPLICA 💡
Oh god I have horrible memories of this episode! I thought it was so embarrassing that this used to scare me to death, but after watching this I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I think the majority of it came down to the music and the sound in general. It was just such a horrifying buildup to the reveal of the Bear and the Lion which I remember running out of the living room and I ran straight upstairs to my bedroom. The entire thing just felt so Erie as you described. Funnily enough though, at the time my parents used to actually make fun of me for being scared of it and they used to tease me which looking back it was pretty messed up of them (it was mainly my mother if I remember correctly). But I just remember trying to explain to them that I never wanted to watch the show ever again, and when the episode aired again I remember crying my eyes out because I once again heard that Horror sounding soundtrack haha.
Mean parents ngl
Wow. Most parents were furious at this scene's existence because it scared their kids.
I agree about the score - it's not really appropriate for a children's show , and your parents should have realised.
I’ll be honest, I never saw this episode as a kid, but the distant look of the lion scares me now looking at it as an adult. It has that dead eye look… something along the lines of a corpse manually animated. It’s a scary looking illustration.. it doesn’t look like a cartoon lion made to look alive. It looks like a cartoon lion that was once alive, but is now dead being pushed around as a puppet by a madman. Terrifying
Man, I remember clearly: Every time I noticed this segment was coming, I would hide behind the sofa crying and would be too scared to look again. (My mom had to convince me it was over)
I remember at this time there was also a Finding Nemo trailer on a commencial break with the shark smiling with sharp teeth filling the whole screen. It would always be so sudden it was almost a jumpscare.
How did you react when you saw the actoully movie as a kid than if the trailer alone scared you? If you don’t mind me askong
@@TheBatIsRad6436 I actually love the movie. But back when it was on theaters my dad didn't let me watch it. (I really wanted to, it could have been my first time ever watching a movie on theaters) but then when we were buying the tickets he saw the poster (wich was the same Bruce face from the trailers) and decided I would be afraid during the movie... Oh well, at least I eventually did watch it and it's one of my favorites from Pixar. (sorry if bad English, not my first language)
@@dalila2442 ✌🏻things. 1st what’s cd? 2nd when I was a kid finding Nemo scared me so much. Not only cause of Bruce but also the scenes with the angler fish, the whale, and The barracuda.I was also terrified by the scene where nemo 1st got captured by the scooba diver. I don’t know why thought since the diver was just a human. What makes it weirder is that when I reminder watching scarier things when I was even younger, like 300, Deep blue sea, nightmare on elm street, Grimm brothers, robot chicken, a Bigfoot horror movie that I can’t remember the name of (all I reminder from it was a the plot being the handicap man and some girls in a house in the wood Beijing attacked by big foot, and a scene where he bites off someone’s face) and another movie that I can’t remember the name of but had this creature sticking its tongue in people mouths and making them into monsters. But for some reason I thought nemo was scarier then most of those. What do you think the reason is?
@@TheBatIsRad6436 Maybe just because how massive everything feels compared to the poor small fish, also those are actually things that we know exist in our world, so it makes it a bit more scary, I think... Also I have no idea where the "CD" part came from lol
I edited it out now.
OMG yes ,exactly the same. when you saw the carrousel thingy come down and then you heard the music of this segment.
I can remember this episode terrifying me as a child. The part where the bear comes out from behind a bush and her eyes and tongue move around really freaked me out. Then when the lion came on screen and started growling, I screamed and ran out of the room.
I think the only reason I remember this scene so vividly is because to this day, nearly 25 years later, my parents still occasionally bring it up and laugh about it...
Yes I have a vivid memory of the bear coming from behind a bush too, it entered my damn dreams too
Yeah the tongue and the eyes freaked me out pretty bad as a kid lol
THIS. EXACTLY. I remember having this conversation with my parents and they were laughing about how scared i was because of this show segment, it really brought back a lot of subconscious memories. I eventually looked it up in TH-cam years later and shat myself laughing. The show aired in my country when i was 1-4 years old so yeah, it was really disturbing back then for a toddler.
Man i just relived a core memory... this was my first horror movie back in 2001
Teletubbies is probably my favorite show, im currently on season 5 and every episode is just a masterpiece! This show is peak fiction. I remember I watched this lost episode and it was definitely a hidden gem
I remember almost nothing about this show, other than the fact that there was a vacuum cleaner, and I loved him.
He was the best character
Nunu I think
I used to be completely terrified of him, the noises he made spooked young me.
When i was a kid i always use a straw when drinking, trying to immitate it's slurping/sucking noises
Nunuuu was best character I always pretended to be him when I drank stuff
I think Bear and Lion got lost on their way to "Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared" auditions.
I like your pfp, you got taste :D
Most definitely
Lol
Yea . or rejected
@@athentdm5333 and then Lion blamed bear for their failed audition.
Let's face it, nobody even WANTS to remember this very episode.
10:45 Well I actually never did just that...
5:21 the guest sims at my sims birthday party turning on the radio be like:
My dad still quotes “It’s the bear” in creepy situations and I’m in my mid-20s now
Yoo my dad too 😂im fucking 23 now, and when he came to pick me&my man up last week, he scared us by walking up behind us, whispering 'its the beaaarrr' like wtf😂
We must carry on tradition and scar our kids in the future with “it’s the bearrrr...” LMAO
Your dad's are amazing 😂😂😂
Tfw a bear can kill people regardless of their age
I HATE THIS EPISODE. my 2 year old still watches Teletubbies. And that stupid episode comes on at least once a week. Eeegh
Making the lion even worse is the color of his irises. They're bright and shiny enough that when he sits in the sun correctly, it looks like they're *glowing* like an actual demon. And I'm 90% sure those pupils were somehow capable of shrinking and growing.
Um, pupils grow and shrink all the time. Do you also think it's demonic when cats' and dogs' eyes glow in dim light?
@@kenhollis6197 no but it was fucking mechanical not organic but still took at the fucker
@@kenhollis6197 Yes. Have you ever taken a picture of a dog standing in the dark with the flash on? Creepy as shit.
I feel sorry for everyone who endured this sketch when they were kids.
Me too.
I was lucky enough to NOT be one of them
i am one of them thanks
I was young enough to watch this show all the time when it aired. And yes, the bear and the lion scared the hell out of me along with that weird dancing cg bear.
And the footage of a bus going through it’s own version of a car wash for some reason. (Maybe it was the ominous music)
Still, to this day I wonder who the hell thought ominous voices, awkwardly moving cutouts and nature footage sped up to the point that it looked unnatural was a good idea for a show aimed at toddlers.
"I am a scary lion"
He's not wrong
That lion made me cry as a kid
@@stampergoeroe1384 same
That lion look like it would eat a human alive by sucking them like noodle after burning them alive with laser eyes
I don’t think the Bear is scary, she’s cute. The _Lion_ on the other hand is actual nightmare fuel.
Did you know that in the italian version of the episode the bear was also a male and had the most disturbing and fake voice ever?
@@VoiceOfP107 Well now I want to see that. While not at the same time.
As a child I was freaked out by both of them, but not in a scared way? Idk I just thought they were weird lmao
Stares at you 🦁
I loved this episode as a toddler!! XD
I remember seeing this when it first aired, I must've been about 4. It didn't scare me at all, I actually enjoyed it! I remember it was the first time the Teletubbies weren't boring. Mind you, at that age I liked watching more horror-based shows like Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark so it's no wonder I enjoyed something that terrified my friends lmao
I remember being scared to death and having vivid nightmares about the bear chasing me. It was truly horrifying
Tinkie winkie was scared that the lion would bite off his winkie. Thus the terrifying scream.
In my head canon the actor just briefly breaks character after being presented with the lion's unreadable face and body language and intense, fixed stare
@@xkidgey sounds agreeable
Eeee
Fun fact - The Lion and Tinky Winky were voiced by the same actor
@@mechazoic HA he didn't wanna bite his own off omg
The lion and bear weren’t horrifying, it’s the tap dancing bear that *CAME FROM THE SKY!*
nooo that was my favorite part 😭😭
Yeah I remember as a kid he was my favorite part
*forbidden space bear*
@@debonairprincess4294 Right!
I actually liked the tap dancing bear as a kid.
My most vivid memory from one of the eps was the one with the different animals going in a parade with this weird music and I loved it lmao cause it was so weird and funky. I remember the lion shown in this one as well and being creeped out by it
I remember a particular Teletubbies episode that gave me some trauma, the one where Po knocked a ball of string into the air with her scooter and the ball of string rolled around Teletubbyland
The pengu thing with his dad was an intentional little joke because the males care for the eggs until they hatch while the females do the things generally thought to be dealt with by the males, like hunting, and stuff
Now if thats not a girlboss moment i don't know what is. Good job penguins, smash that patriarchy.
@@CatholicismAppreciator true but you can't deny the fact that humans (males) created the patriarchy and when you look at animals, the male/female roles on humans don't make any sense
@@CatholicismAppreciator Everyone has a mother. Everyone on the planet was either pushed or cut out of a woman, often resulting in the death of said woman. Don't call feminism "Nonsense" just because you disagree with it. Those "TriGgeREd fEmIniST CrINGe" videos that 14yo boys eat up on youtube like candy, don't equate to the majority of the Feminist movement. That would be like if people called every men's rights activist an Incel.
I would never want to meet anyone on this replies section in real life hahaha
@@cal5566 We're just normal people irl, we've probably already met. Do you think everyone's online personalities reflects their actual life?
Unless they're an internet troll, in that case, they probably don't have one.
This is literally childhood trauma that I completely forgot about lol. The moment you showed a clip of the lion and the bear I instantly remembered it and realized how creeped out I was by it as a little kid.
This had me scared out of my mind as a kid
I remember them but it wasn't scary for me... Well as a kid that literally grew up watching hokuto no Ken, city hunter and such along with Teletubbies i think i had other thing to be scared at lol
I was terrified of that shit
This fuelled my nightmares as a young child. More so because I got autism. Literally I got PTSD from this segment lmao
Same with me, I had completely forgot about it until my cousin showed it back to me as an adult
I remember watching that episode and being scared asf, but that was not the only episode that scared the sh1t out of me.
There was this episode, featuring a wooden woman doll looking for her sheep. The movements, the voice and that part of the episode in general was so terrifiyng to me that i would hide under my dad’s piano for how much scared i was.
That was the Little Bo Peep segment
I actually thought that I'm the only person who got scared of this episode but I'm happy I'm not alone 😂. In fact, i didn't knew it got banned but after the traumatic Nightmares i got from this episode it's better for everyone. I even remember when i watched the episode in my grandmas House, that from the moment when this Part started, i jumped of the couch into the basements stairs until the episode was over.
The "I'm the bear and I'm coming" sounds like a perfect prhase for a murderer in horror movies.
BRB, editing Friday The 13th 😜
Or a gay porn, whichever floats your boat
Sounded like a gay person
Pedo-bear?
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13:51 The three ships did scare me as a kid and I used to have nightmares of being stranded in the water as the ships drew closer and closer towards me, before I was hit by them, I also had nightmares of them breaking through my tv screen and flooding my house with sea water.
HOLY SHIT I HAD THE SAME NIGHTMARE TOO
95
I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO EVER EXPERIENCED THIS TOO, I HATED THIS AND THE SHIPS ISTG
There be a deamon here in this land
If it was scary to you guys, imagine how scary it was for kids who had actual members of families who actually died on boats, or ships...
We all had that nightmare
I grew up with this 90's classic. I remember this episode vividly, the Lion and the Bear. I remember being scared by them but also strangely very glad when they showed up. I was used to seeing Dinosaurs a lot (Dino Kid; future palaeontologist) so I'd seen scarier when I really shouldn't. I was more or less captivated by their 'presence' (not that I could have elucidated or explained it in such a manner then) I think they stood out as special and rarer and literally wanted to see them. Sort of like the spooky Chinese Dragon Train ('Percy and the Dragon' episode) in Thomas the Tank. Something special and rare showing up.
That sort of thing always held my gaze. Whether I was a particularly, 'morbid' child I don't know for sure, though I was not sat there trying to scare myself. I was more or less just like everyone else, albeit perhaps more introverted. I just happened to watch these things and wasn't terrified but I was mildly scared. I think I would have watched this episode of the Lion and the Bear thing a few times. I even remember one linked memory involving seeing the Lion and the Bear, not for the first or the last time, on a family holiday in the place we were staying at (itself, now long since destroyed/demolished) Time flies.
British 90's kids (especially early 90's) were subjected to this sort of surrealist and pretty unsettling stuff all the time. I know, I was one. There are so many examples of this it's not a surprise how so many of my generation were a few shillings short. That said, I also liked/loved Postman Pat, Walking With Dinosaurs, Come Outside, Chucklevision, Thomas the Tank Engine, Fireman Sam, Brum, the Borrowers and Wallace & Gromit, so, go figure. It was a magical time.
In it's own, uniquely British 90's way. We were the post-industrial children of the post-war generation(s) and generally approaching the paradigmatic and temporal crossroads of a new millennium dawning on the horizon. There was a bizarre, 90's style mix of enthusiasm, hope, cultural exuberance (and depravity), reflection on the chaos of the 20th century and the changing scholastic and educational methods at various age levels, coming into the fore.
It was a strange transitory time, a time in flux. Everything was in motion. Politics, lagging behind social evolution, lagging behind creative expression. And this weird jumble of stuff, in a British paradigm, was the result. Everyone was throwing everything at the wall and seeing what stuck. Just look at those teletubby houses. They look like a cross between a golf course, an alien spaceship (because, it is) and a doomsday prepper bunker.
And who here can deny they wanted to eat teletubby custard all day long and those tubby toast things too? Sure there was some commercial version of the tubby toast if nothing else. Likely awful. The fact I have mentally blocked out eating tubby toast or just casually forgotten, shows the time that has elapsed since and the silliness of it all.
I'm not saying that I only watched British shows. Obviously there were loads of things from all over the world, from Star Wars (a lot of which filmed and acted in the UK though just saying, often by British actors as a big chunk of the cast) from the USA to Dragon Ball Z from Japan. I loved all of it. I have vivid memories from the late 90's of Frieza's purply hued energy discs fighting Super Saiyan Goku on Namek (and it's fair to say the versions of DBZ I would have seen first on Cartoon Network - another odyssey of 90's uniqueness unto itself, in it's OG form; if you know, you know - was really going to be more of an American filter and dub on the Japanese original, which I only learned to understand later as I got older; you don't question these things, normally, as a kid)
I loved Digimon more than Pokemon (Greymon, come on lads) and I loved other stuff like Angry Beavers and all kinds of Disney productions. Not ashamed to admit I liked the Power Puff Girls too (and yes there was this weird machismo stigma about liking that, way back when, at least in my experience; I must have just liked the vivid colours and animation style; still traumatised by the zombie magician, that thing used to horrify me as a small kid) But the British children TV scene was it's own unique contribution which was always so special in it's own right.
Eccentric, reflecting at least three generations and maybe more of developing ideas on children's education - but also rather wildly transitory and eclectic. Some might say, hectic. There was a lot going on. A lot of old ideas lingering, and a lot of new ideas trying to barge them out of the way. It was essentially a free-for-all arena of conceptual creativity and new methodology.
While something like Thomas the Tank Engine cornered it's own market for a long time and did very well in the UK, USA and Japan, other things like Teletubbies just sprouted up on TV and left their own rather iconic legacy. These Teletubbies were arguably like the Minions (eurgh) of their day. It's funny how differently our brains perceive things as we age. Innocence lost, youth remembered but never able to be returned to in the same way. Maturation and ageing changes us all. We can't go back. We can't see the world through the eyes and mindset of our former selves. Our jaded cynicism and biases are carried forward, as we age.
This nostalgia for something we _did_ live through but can, somewhat tragically, but entirely naturally, _never_ get back to in full. We can never relive those days the same way, _even if_ we have all the materials and productions in front of us ready to watch. It is just gone, lost in time. There is something both melancholic and timeless about that feeling. I genuinely pity those born after 2000. They can never _truly_ understand. Never. Only a particular generation truly knows itself best. Yet even for those that grew up at that time, it is too difficult to comprehend it all now, in hindsight. And that time has passed, as if it had not been...
P.S - Had a few deep belly laughs at this. Congratulations. 4:10 got me ugly laughing... 🤣
You know who else thinks their generation is the best one? *Everyone.*
Nobody’s going to read all this. Find something else to do than acting like ‘90’s kids’ are completely separate from everyone else and talking about your weird fixation on teenagers and young adults. It’s embarrassing.
@@yote333I absolutely love your comments. These people saying whatnot about their generation just sound absolutely corny
According to the Teletubbies Wiki, The Tubby Toast is actually made out of foam shapes.
Strange how this never scared me as a kid, but has just creeped the hell out of me.
Same! It creeped me out but that just made me more interested in watching it, lmao
IKR? It's probably because as the adults we have become more aware of the dangers and red flags
Same 🤷🏻♂️
My kids have watched the lion and bear episode om youtube multiple times as toddlers, and not once been afraid. It wad my sons favourite.
I’m shocked that I used to like this 0_0
3:45 actually what really happened was the landowner who turned it into a pond because they got fed up of people visiting the old set
Reasonable
Understandable
Pilgrimmage to the Tubbytronic Superdome
What an evil man.
At least you could like charge people for it if you really want to.
@@gum8191 Memes aside, it'd be pretty cool to go in that lake and swim through the remains of that place like it's Atlantis or some shit.
I feel like I was the only kid who genuinely loved this sketch 😂 It was so fun, like a pantomime! ❤
I did genuinely have nightmares due to this episode. My parents still quite the episode and the trauma of it to this day. This was by far the creepiest thing on the teletubbies and I have vivid memories watching with caution.. just in case this sketch came on. There was another creepy one to me, and that was the puppet in a doll house. I have always had this irrational fear of puppets though.
as a kid, I couldn't stand how long the kid activity segments were. Like, I don't give a shit about random kids doing things, just show me the Teletubbies!!
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Same xD
Yes indeed
ikr
Same
It’s definitely the eyes, if they were bigger and didn’t appear to glow in the dark I feel like it would help
yeah it’s the eyes mostly, i feel like their whole face is a bit too realistic compared to the rest of their bodies. It’s uncanny
So I was not the only one terrified of that lion
This show was pretty bizarre ngl. 😂
Their eyes must’ve been sunken in too far. It’s that disturbing.
@@YakkoWarnerTower quite the, _Bizzare adventure_
I didn't rlly think this episode was scary until the lion started repeating "WHERE'S THE BEAR?"
During Christmas in Norway we have a tradition of Christmas advent shows where every December they air an episode a day of a Christmas show till Christmas Eve. These shows are all really sweet and cozy and gets the viewers into that warm Christmas spirit. The first Christmas show or “julekalender” as we call it here is “Jul i Skomakergata”. It was aired for the first time in 1979 and regularly aired during Christmas until 2003 when it was replaced by newer more modern Christmas shows.
I was born in 2001 so I just missed it while it was still aired on tv, however I was fortunate enough that my parents had it on dvd so I still got to enjoy it growing up. Although it didn’t have any banned episodes or scenes at least to my knowledge, it did have some moments that were mildly unsettling to me first time I watched it at the age of 4.
The show follows this sweet old shoemaker while he goes about his day preparing for Christmas and interacting with his friends and neighbors. Every episode opens with him stepping out of his front door in the morning and then he starts talking to the viewer saying stuff along the lines of “nice to see your face again” and “don’t be shy, you don’t need to hide. Come inside” then inviting the viewer into his shop. As a 4 year old kid I couldn’t understand how this man inside the tv could see and talk to me or how he knew I was hiding behind the chair. It felt too real to me. Throughout the episodes he would occasionally acknowledge the viewers existence as if we were in the room with him wich to me was a bit unsettling as no other live action shows or movies I’d watched did this making it feel like this was a really a man inside the tv who knew I was there and spoke directly to me.
He also had a mildly creepy looking shoe creature named Tøfflus living in the counter in his shop. Each episode Tøfflus would show a short stop motion film of a guy named Jon Blund who would travel around from town to town throwing sleep dust at children so they would go to bed at night which is just as weird as it sounds. Then after the stop motion segment the show would carry on.
Although the show was for the most part really sweet and enjoyable and to this day is my favorite “julekalender”, it does have its share of moments that unsettled me as a little kid. I still watch it every December because of the nostalgia and Christmas spirit, but I always remember back to that first time I watched it and hid behind the chair as the man in the tv talked to me and laugh because now I just find the memory funny.
Fun fact: The sun baby now has a baby of her own
Aww, congratulations to her!
Then we must complete the prophecy and make a Teletubbies reboot with the new sun baby
"The legacy continues..."
the baby isn't actually hers, I heard they just had a photo shoot of her and the new baby sun from the reboot
the reboot came out in 2015, the original version of Teletubbies ended in 2001
That CGI bear just tapped into my deepest memories of being a young child
The CGI bear seems so familiar. I think I have seen it before.
To me it kinda looked similar to the bear from the "Barnie" commercial with the chocolate candy thingy
Right??? I don't remember it well but I just KNOW I have seen it as a kid
It was so fucking scary. Wtf
Same!
Lions and Bears are terrifying but in real life they look like something from a legend and Lions and Bears are majestic but dangerous creatures
Even as a toddler I would never have thought this smiling bear and lion were scary, You'd have to be a major puff to think this stuff was scary
You gotta admit, the set design on these shows is unbelievably well made and utterly creative.
@-- KamalaGamingTeams‼️ the clouds being sped up while everything else in normal motion... Etc
did you not see they made this creative stuff to simulate lsd effects this show is weird look closely at there eyes looks creepy when they all look at you then there is there voices don't get me started on the voices.
And scary bruh
Yeah, they did a good job replicating the backrooms!
@@Goose22jhyoure right. I showed telletubbies to my 2 year old and she screamed, when i looked at what it was they were all just staring into the screen with their unsettling eyes.
''I am the scary lion''
Damn right you are
Yeah, I distinctly remember that episode from Teletubies. Mostly because that night I randomly woke up and when I looked down the hall, the lion had its head around the corner. I was 5 or so at the time, scared the crap out of me, never seen it since but it is in my memory forever.
@@bensijmons8331 Wait what
I was 18 when TT started, and Noo-Noo never failed to make me hit major giggles, thanks to spending most of 1996-2009 completely baked.
That was hilarious 😂😂😂 My kids would have been laughing so hard
Sad fact: the actor who played Tinky winky was found frozen to death after getting fired and drunk during the show back in 2018
Fun
Fun
@WENDY HUANG what the dude said
@@DrawinskyMoon so death entertains you?
@@yeyeuo1065 and you?
This episode actually terrified me when I was a kid. The lion was horrifying.
Me too. I remembered crying
Think they could've skipped doing teeth to the lion. Even the bear looks more okay than it because somehow it has no teeth but a weird tongue. Yet, both are predators and neither of them live in the same habitat so.. idk the whole concept of it seems messy lol
Me too
Me too
Same I remember running away from the tv
That dancing bear on the carousel was my favourite. I remember watching these episodes! The wooden bear one was a bit creepy ngl 😂
I remember ONLY watching this show ONCE because my dad refused to rent a VHS copy of Pokemon from Blockbuster when I was 5 because the Pokemon saying their names was "too stupid."
He proceeded to rent the Teletubbies for me because THAT was smart. Probably the biggest dissapointment of my life
I didn’t expect you to be here
Yeah... "Tinky Winky" vs "Charizard"... Those are both pretty sensible names compared to "Reginald Bunthorne".
Lol
Pokemon isnt smart but teletubbies could probably actively tank your IQ if you watched enough of it
@@backwardsbandit8094 I have to disagree with that one - I watched _Teletubbies_ *ad nauseum* as a child, but I’m one of the smartest people in my family. But I guess that’s just my personal experience.
2000s' parents:
_"Everything is scary, everything is gay, everything is problematic - and we have to point it all out!"_
This was in the 90s.
Sir this is a Wendy’s
You can tell that a lot of kids, teens and adults nowadays are still like this since they find almost all show toddler friendly show CREEPY, SCARY etc XD
Oh hey, things haven't changed, only change gay to random isms.
@@Lee-cr6xb it's probably to do with how horror films often like to take things associated with childhood- clowns and dolls, for example- and subvert the attitude we had towards them. Well, it's that and if you stop to overthink any children's show, you'll realize very quickly that none of it makes sense, but it was never meant to. The target audience are at an age where most of them don't have any sense of object permanence.
This feels like a fever dream...
5:10: Fun fact, I’m pretty sure the episodes’ names are based on the TV events.
Being the target audience back then, I say those ships where indeed scary. Toddlers actually do enjoy watching the whole thing all over again, that’s their thing, repeating stuff over and over. I heard that they destroyed the original hill and created that pond because people kept invading the area to take pictures and the owner wasn’t happy about it.
THEY F-ING BREEEED??!
I had completely forgotten about the ships until he showed a clip and it immediately triggered something in my brain. They were very ominous. The way the grassy hills just suddenly get flooded and the ships turn up out of nowhere silently from the low angle is just uncanny. Then they just sail about unnaturally for a couple of minutes and disappear off frame. All just so weird.
When I was a toddler watching this stuff I couldn't stand seeing the same stuff again and again and again
the boats creep me out now tbh. they're coming at you in a surreal way that boats don't normally move in and they're too clean looking. its a uncanny valley thing that I didn't even know existed.
@@HomieUnicorn SAME i have distinct memories of being annoyed at the show lmao
I still have vivid memories about how this game me nightmares as a 5 year old, like I’d dream of seeing the bear’s silhouette behind my curtain and hear the lion in the background
Oh god! You as well? I literally had to hide my head beneath my pillows because if I even looked at my door my imagination would always pull towards the bear coming out from behind.
I remember my 2 y/o self going to hide away from the TV whenever this episode aired or asking my parents to change channel
i definitely hated the bear more than the lion because of it's weird side-eye glances, the tongue and the "BOLOLOLO" noises lmaoooo, my brain deffo repressed this memory.
I remember being sat in my living room during the evenings afraid that the bear would come down the stairs.
I think the lion was maybe scarier though because I had reoccurring nightmares about something that was basically the lion mixed with the Wheelers from the Wizard of Oz.
I still remember it fondly i was 6 years old and couldn't sleep because of this i was seeing his head on my window watching me.
The scream laugh of the OG baby sun used to scare me and give me nightmares as a kid.
Somehow, them rolling around on skates makes them seem even more like a terrifying fever dream.
I think it’s crazy that I actually remember this segment from when I was a baby/ very young child. I remember hardly anything from that show, I was so young. But as soon as I saw the thumbnail a deep memory was unlocked. I remember it so vividly. It was unsettling and it still is. I am German tho but I guess the German dub was just as unsettling.
Yeah I also remember this! Though I also do remember one episode where they were watching a video about the color pink and they kept repeating the word "pink", which I always wanted to rewatch (might have been a clue to my homosexuality though lol)
Omg. Same. And I’m from Latin America lmao
@@RuuBjAh1 Hahaha my gay-ass self felt that
same for the French Canadian version. it was spooky. not even a Halloween episode
same 0_0
I vividly remember being terrified of this as a toddler. The bear especially, it was the arms. I had nightmares about it. I loved the cgi dancing teddy though, that was my favourite.
I had nightmares for MONTHS about the lion! Probably the worst fear I've had in my life, couldn't get its creepy face and eyes out of my 3 year old mind xD
@@EbacArranges I guess I was lucky to have been raised by those hippies down on Sesame Street. Now I want to put sesame street into my gps so I can ask my Garmin, "Can you tell me how to get to sesame street?"
Me too! I was absolutely petrified of the bear. It still makes me shudder from time to time now!!
I was scared of the vacuum thingy
Me too omg. The eyes and the arms, the stare, the fact that the voice didn't seem to be actually coming from either animal... I was pretty freaked by the cgi bear too. I feel weird and anxious watching it back now 👀
All the episodes listed here were my favorite as a kid, not freaky then and not freaky now
Teletubbies was literally my favorite show when I was a toddler. The dancing CGI bear and the 3 boats actually did scare me though. This video brought back a lot of forgotten memories.
Bruuuuh, I could remember nothing of this show, but as soon as I heard that "I'm the bear, I'm the bear" some sort of suppressed memory came back reminding me how terrified I was when I saw that as a kid
I really feel bad, I only can imagine how it would have terrified me to hear that voice, in german it was way more cute also before the edit
I remember the boats and that scared the shit out of me for some reason
this actually makes me feel so relieved im not the only one who was scared af of this segment as a toddler!! I deadass had nightmares of the bear and yes i would run away from the tv any time this came on!! I never knew until now how many other kids were like me and that this got so blown up they made this episode and segment banned! crazy how they put this in a kids show XD
bear and lion did nothing wrong
Dude same that was also mainly the reason why i stop watching teletubies as a kid...
I had the same, if this part came on i would hide under the table until it was over
Same! When I was small one time I saw this episode on TV and I hid between the two sofas in my house cause I was so scared xD
It doesn't seem scary to me, at least less than Pingu's dream, the episode with the walrus. 😅😂
I found the way the dancing bear’s UFO’s doors open and close super satisfiying. The sound that played at the end of the three ships scene right before the Magic Windmill was shown scared me.
I remember watching this episode. It's one of the only episodes I remember because I cried when I saw it.