Some lesser-known facts about the most loved show by toddlers and children.
Ask around, and you would find the show parents has to forcibly watch with their young ones is Teletubbies. They love those gibberish speaking aliens more than they would love their own parents. To a grown-up, they would look weird and insignificant, but the Teletubbies have been brightening your younger one’s world from the year 1997. Even though they are of such significance in the life of young kids, we are still not sure what do kids learn from the cartoon? So, let’s have a look at some of the fun facts about the show that makes absolutely no sense to parents but is the highlight of a toddler’s day.
Teletubbies have another version of themselves. There is a younger version of Teletubbies known as Tiddlytubbies. They debuted on the TV screens for the first time in the year 2015, but not many people know about them.
They are quite tall.
Even though in the cartoon they are shown as little hugging and running toddlers, but they actually are huge. The smallest of Teletubbies Po is little more than six feet, and TinkyWinky is almost over 11 ft tall.
The rabbits on the show are also humongous.
The rabbits featured along with them are also gigantic. They are Flemish Giant rabbits that are known for being massive.
Teletubbies are quite diverse racially.
The only way you could tell each of them apart is through their costume. The purple wearing Teletubby is called TinkyWinky. The yellow one is called La-La whereas Dipsy is the green one and lastly Po wears a red costume. TinkyWinky and La-La are played by white actors, and Dipsy is played by actor John Simmit who blends reggae in Dipsy’s gibberish. And lastly, Po is played by Chinese actress Pui Fan Lee who actually speaks Cantonese as Po.
They are not aliens.
Even though they are often mistaken as aliens, but Teletubbies are inspired by astronauts, according to its co-creator Andrew Davenport. The idea was to make children who are wearing spacesuits, exploring a whole new planet.
They was a question on Teletubbies in a competitive exam.
Interestingly, Metropolitan Police’s special branch once asked the candidates to name all the Teletubbies in their entrance exam. They wanted to check the candidate’s broad-based knowledge in different numbers of area. Now, that is another reason for you all to keep your eyes on everything and anything.
So, have you watched an episode of Teletubbies?
