3 July 2012
Has anybody else found anything sinister about the Teletubbies? (For non-British and very young readers, Teletubbies was a programme for very young children featuring little colourful characters with television screens in their stomachs, and rather artistic ariels on their heads.) Those mysterious little speakers popping out of the ground giving them strange messages. And television screens which give them brain-washingly boring programs that they have to watch twice! As well as this there's the homophobic action against Tinky Winky for having a handbag. And also, don't you think Noo-Noo's a bit creepy? As if he's always watching them. In fact, even the toast is watching them! I don't want to think what they put in the Tubbie Custard. It's Orwell, on a cuddly scale. In many ways, that makes it worse.
(I should note here that I still love the Teletubbies, despite the dystopian connotations.)
1984: Noo-Noo Is Watching You • Opuss № I