One of the tv preachers...Falwell or somebody?....was on a rampage about the purple one a few years back...the triangle was the symbol for gayness, the purple, the purse...etc..pretty much everything that Soz said in her post...which I shamelessly agree with.
I'm pretty sure they ended up releasing/replacing the actor that played him...I saw him in an interview and he seemed like a nice little guy, he said something like...I didn't realize that I was acting gay...and that it hurt his feelings that people thought that of him and his acting. That actually made me feel bad, but he could have been lying...who knows.
Those are people in costumes?!
This is getting stranger all the time.
gustavratzenhofer wrote:You just gave me an idea, Green Witch. Teletubbie porn. I wonder it would take for me to convince those things to engage in graphic sexual acts in front of a camera.
Surely there is an audience for such a thing. Besides Bear and Slappy I mean.
I'm going to do a little research on this one.
You can get tubby porn already.
There are these fat chicks that mud wrestle then they... well ne'mind. Its not on the telly though.
I think Dorothy the dinosaur doing Tinky Wink could be a winner.
Hi 2Packs,
Right, that was the "While I'm usually automatically dismissive of paranoid conservative rantings" part of my post. It was Falwell. I did a bit of research to try to job my memory on the "omigod he really IS gay!!" part and evidently Tinky Winky had been claimed by the gay community before Falwell jumped on it. That's where Falwell got the idea, evidently (don't know if that part's true, but chronology seems to be #1 = gay community claims Tinky Winky, #2 = Falwell starts sputtering).
There are just too many signifiers for it to all be coincidence. (I think there was something about a rainbow at some point too -- I remember thinking something like "OK, that's it, there are no more ways to telegraph 'I'm gay!!' and keep this show rated G...")
It's possible that the actor guy didn't know and didn't put it together. I'm sure he didn't design the costume.
Joe, totally mesmerizing. I let sozlet watch it because she obviously enjoyed it (especially "again!") but I don't think there was a single show I disliked more (including the Wiggles). And I believe in watching WITH your kid (commenting, interactive, yadda yadda) instead of just plonking her there, so I watched it. The main thing that bothered me (but is probably good, TV-wise) is
that
it
was
so
incredibly
slow.
But
what
was
worse
was
that
the
slow
stuff
would
then
be
repeated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oooh, drove me batty.
You mean it's not porn?
J(hmm)N
Nope, Joe, you can put your penis back in your pants.
Oooh, I can so see this..
Soz on the edge of her chair, tongue between lips, ready to explain, elucidate, articulate, interact and encourage.
And the Sozlet just happily zoning out or bouncing about to the oehs and aahs of the Tubbies.
That must have been frustrating.
[size=8]I'm soo going to get slapped for that post...[/size]
[size=7]I hope...[/size]
Ooh baby.
How'd that go again? Baby hit me one more time... (Or something.)
That's it. Her Baldness when she was 16, or something.
The thread title suddenly takes on a new meaning..
I should've taken off the ring, sorry.
You're making Lash jealous..
I masturbate to the Telletubbies.
Falwell's complaint about the gay aspect totally misses the point. The show is simply insane.
