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From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
Subject: Re: Kibo presents: BUBBLEBABIES
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Teg Pipes <teg@fruitfly.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> nickb@primenet.com (Nick S Bensema) writes:
> > 
> > This was painful to read.
> > 
> > I'm going to go get a vassectomy now.
> 
> This disturbed me the same way that watching _Threads_ when I was
> in 5th grade in spite of (well, *because* of) being warned 
> several times by my parents and the show itself that watching this
> show would be worse that watching Fluffy die of a spinal cord
> injury.  BUBBLEBABIES was Barney's version of _Apocalypse Now_.
> 
> I'm scared.

So, I take it nobody else bought a new TV just to watch the premiere
of Teletubbies?

Had I ever seen the show, I would have made the details more accurate,
like, I didn't know that the giant evil mind-control periscopes made
farting noises.  And I didn't know that the sun keeps shouting
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!".  And I didn't know that the Teletubbies live
in that alien ship that thumps Chris Elliott in the butt in "The Abyss".

I also didn't realize that because the show is British the title
is actually pronounced "Telly-Tubbies".  And I should have caught on
that it was a knockoff of "The Prisoner" for kids.

So what IS the deal with the pinwheel that emits sparkly radiation that
makes all the Teletubbies say "UH-OH!"?  Is it the deadly UH-OH! ray?
Why does the voiceover come out of periscopes with glistening wet lenses
that make farting noises?  Why is the baby's head on fire?

AND WHY ISN'T THERE ENOUGH REPETITION?

                                             -- K.

                                             When Sesame Street was new
                                             they said, "Do kids really
                                             need to know how to subtract?"
                                             Now those same detractors are
                                             using equally lame sophistry
                                             like "Do kids really need to
                                             be brainwashed into being
                                             afraid of radioactive pinwheels?"
                                             to disparage the fine
                                             educational product that is
                                             Teletubbies!