Savor this blessed ignorance. Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. Watch the show. It's the first show specifically aimed at children as young as 1 year old, and it does so with an inane mix of goo-goo talk and hallucinatory imagery. The British media hates the show.
Parents hate the show.
Because it draws a regular viewership of 2 million in England. It's a creepy show, educationally suspect, yet here it is, helping PBS reach that last untapped kids' market. Actually, the Teletubbies do look an awful lot like fetuses, with their huge eyes, oversized upper lips and hairless, smooshy faces. They also look sort of like an infantilized version of the gray space alien. From an American perspective, the Teletubbies are a disturbing collision of two of the most pervasive cultural obsessions of our time, abortion and UFO's.