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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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 😭
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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?🤣
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.
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
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??
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
As someone who still loves the show since my early childhood, I don't find what you said funny in the slightest, compared to the jokes in the video which were actually funny.
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.
And like, there are already plenty of things people dislike about the teletubbies ( They're annoying, they look weird, etc). People didn't need to make some weird conspiracy theory about how Tinky Winky wants to turn your kids gay
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 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...
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 RU-vid 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 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.
@@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.
I remember the first time I watched this. It must have been 2002 or something, and my family were having a get together and to distract me, the one child in the room, they popped the TV on, while they had a cup of tea and a chat. Then this episode came on, nothing out of the ordinary, I was a random kid so the humour was up my street, until that unsettling music came on and I was like 😐, then the "I'm the bear and I'm coming..." 😦 and the bear came on so fast my brain couldn't register what I was looking at😱. I shot up and flew behind the sofa, and according to my mum and dad, I said, "Make the bear go away!" The Lion didn't help the situation...
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
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
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.
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.
@@Mamenber Ok, but I am just saying that I don't think the creators of Teletubbies intended on Tinky Winky being attracted to any sex or gender so that means Tinky Winky is asexual.
@@wp2837 i believe thats aromantic! (Or aromantic asexual) Asexual is not having a sexual attraction, where as aromantic is not having a romantic attraction!
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
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.
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
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.
@@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.
Plot Twist (I guess...) The Teletubbies are a part of some cult and the bear is their god, the Teletubbies being excited about the lion and the bear fighting due to the fact it's some sort of ancient ritual that the Teletubbies seem to like for some reason because it's a battle between a god (the bear) and a mortal, (the lion.)
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.
The bear: O no, the lion is coming. Something bad is gonna happen Teletubbies: Oh wow, we are so excited, yay The lion: *God exists. But so does Satan*
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!!
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.
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😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
what the hell, i've for years wondered what episode of teletubbies i watched that scared me so much as a small child and well i can safely say that i found it by your video. I only vaguely remembered the, for my young age, the creepy lion. It's weird to look at it now, remembering like 3/4 year old me hiding under my sheets while watching this episode.
This unleashed a horrible repressed memory I didn’t even remember having. It put me off watching the show whatsoever just in case it would come back on.
Me tooooo! Once I dared to watch it again, it was all going well until it appeared again in their bellies, I was horrified, thought the lion and the bear were everywhere lol, thanks RU-vid.
The scariest thing in that show when i was smaller was the vacuum i have autism and the noise freaked me out and in some episodes he did reall inappropriate stuff
I knew the moment i saw the title what this would be, i was a baby of 91' and my sister was into all these shows when i was about 12? maybe 14 max? saw all these and my god do the bear, boats and lion stick out. mental! on a weird note....did you ever see Huxley pig? Which has a weird ass hallowen special about monster burgers that also, freaked me the F out as a actual 5 year old myself. Video was a great time to see random stuff you didnt sign up for before what you actually bought lol. , love ya content mate! Dont you open that trap door!
Jesus christ. “I’m the bear, I’m the bear and I’m coming” activated my fight or flight response. I saw a comment on tiktok mentioning this sketch and it rang a bell so I looked it up and landed here. This unlocked a memory so deep I don’t even remember how I felt about watching this as a kid but it must have been bad because it’s triggering my anxiety as a 27 year old 💀
The fight or flight response I felt watching this was so real, at age 25 a sketch from a kids TV show had me freaked out. Even as a child watching this I knew something wasn't right.
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
@@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.
@@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.
YEAH I saw this as a kid with zero issue! Bought my son as an infant a DVD for car rides of the first season and this was all on there. He LOVED the lion and bear, as growing up never remembered it??