Little Bo Peep (Magical Event)

**Little Bo Peep** is one of the nine Magical Events and one of the most rarely seen. It features Little Bo Peep, a shepherdess with a very posh accent and her sheep with very thick cockney accents.

The event was the last one made as the other six Magical Events were shown in the first 11 episodes of Teletubbies and the video game exclusive magical events were featured in the 1998 game, Play with the Teletubbies while this Magical Event wasn't shown until the 245th episode Catherine's Toy Farm which aired when Teletubbies was at it's halfway mark.

This is the longest Magic Event, and unlike other Magical Events, this one uses stop-motion animation instead of computer-generated animation.

## Episodes that it appears in

* Dentist (UK CBeebies Version)
* Catherine's Toy Farm (UK Original, CBeebies & Sunday Special Versions)
* Colours: Yellow (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Mary Had a Little Lamb (Sunday Special Version)
* Hedgehogs (UK Original Version)
* Apple Pie (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Fox Cubs (UK CBeebies Version)
* Getting Up in the Morning (UK CBeebies Version)
* Ducks (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Animal Rhythms (UK CBeebies Version)
* Baby Elephant (UK Original Version)
* Watering The Garden (UK CBeebies Version)
* Dog Kennel (UK CBeebies Version)
* Goats (UK CBBC Version)
* Going In and Coming Out (UK CBeebies Version)
* Puppies (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Asian Storyteller (The Fox) (UK CBBC Version)
* Rumble Tumble Fun (UK CBeebies Version)
* Dragonflies (Sunday Special Version)
* Girl in the Back Garden (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions)
* Dominoes
* Feeding the Horse
* Western Dancing
* Numbers: 11 (Version 1)
* Ding Dong Bell
* Card Games with Debbie
* Buying a Halloween Costume
* Sophie Painting Artist
* Jigsaw: Frog
* Pandas
* Feeding the Pigs
* Bathtime for Tim
* Ropes Course
* Naughty Doll
* Jigsaw: Duck
* Macaroni & Cheese
* Ned's Apples
* Feeding Baby Elephants
* Rap Battle
* Cuddles Wearing His Hat
* Naughty Popcorn
* Painting Animals
* Sing with the Microphone
* Becky's Chocolate Eggs
* Driving Van
* Keeping Trying to House
* Walking with My Friend
* Electric Organ
* Something Appeared from Far Away [Video]
* Silly Stories & Wacky Wonders

## Synopsis

The sketch starts with the Magic Windmill spinning. The Teletubbies then arrive silently at the Magic Event place in Teletubbyland while the windmill is still heard spinning. The Sun Baby starts to giggle. This event is very different from other events as there is no sound indicating what is about to happen. Instead, the Teletubbies look around and see 8 clouds in the sky, floating to the right while the 'Teletubbies cloud tune' plays. There is then a quick close up of the clouds. The Teletubbies giggle quietly as they follow the clouds. After another close up of the clouds, the Teletubbies then sit down on a hill. A new piano tune plays and in another close up, the clouds float by and suddenly, sheep sounds are heard and black heads and legs form in the clouds. The clouds then turn into sheep and one small cloud turns into a white lamb. The 8 sheep float across the sky and then float and land on the ground, forming a line, with the biggest sheep at the top and the little lamb at the end. The excited Teletubbies then giggle and laugh after seeing the sheep land. The sheep begin to explore Teletubbyland with the little lamb slowly following behind. Then a voice in the middle of nowhere says, 'Oh, where, oh, where are my sheep?' Little Bo Peep comes floating down from the sky and lands into Teletubbyland. She says 'Hello!' and starts to sing about how she's lost her sheep and doesn't know where to find them. So she searches for her sheep around Teletubbyland. The sheep also sing too. The little lamb follows behind and starts blowing raspberries over the hills. The sheep hide behind some hills as Little Bo Peep looks around. After a while, the sheep come back to Little Bo Peep. Then she sings about how she's found her sheep. Little Bo Peep says 'Bye-Bye' and floats back up into the sky with the sheep and little lamb following behind. Once they've completely disappeared, the and then stops spinning or the Sun Baby giggles.

## Song Lyrics

Little Bo Peep: I'm Little Bo Peep, I've lost my sheep. I don't know where to find them. I'll leave them alone, and they'll come home, wagging their tails behind them.

Sheep: We are the sheep, we are the sheep. We are the sheep and here we are, now we are the sheep, we are the sheep. We are, we are the sheep.

Little Bo Peep: I'm Little Bo Peep, I've lost my sheep. I don't know where to find them.

Sheep: Leave them alone, and they'll come home, wagging their tails behind them.

Little Bo Peep: I'm Little Bo Peep, and here are my sheep. I'm ever so glad I've found them. I left them alone an they came home, wagging their tails behind them.

## Trivia

* When Little Bo Peep and the sheep float down and back up into the sky, they are controlled by strings. When they move around Teletubbyland, stop motion is used.
* The voice actors behind Little Bo Peep and the sheep are unknown. Since the credits at the end of the episodes do not feature any additional voices. But Little Bo Peep may have been voiced over by someone from the original cast. It may be possible that Little Bo Peep was voiced by the late Simon Shelton (but this may not be true) because if you listen closely it’s a man doing the voice.
* This is the only Magical Event to feature the Teletubbies' mid 1998 - early 1999 costumes.
* When the Teletubbies laugh after the sheep have landed in Teletubbyland, their laughing is re-used audio from the Tubby Custard Flood segment in Trickle Painting.
* In the foreign language dubs of the sketch. Little Bo Peep is either voiced by a man or woman. However, unlike the Lion and Bear where the Bear has a straight up man's voice in some dubs, if Little Bo Peep is voiced by a man, the voice actor puts on a feminine voice.
* Like the Lion and Bear, in most episodes Little Bo Peep happens straight after the TV Event since the event is long.
* The scene of the Teletubbies looking at the clouds is the same scene of them looking around in the Lion and Bear.
* In Catherine's Toy Farm, Girl in the Back Garden, Feeding the Pigs and Driving Van, the Tubby Bye-Bye voice trumpet rises straight after Little Bo Peep and the sheep disappear, rather than using the Stop Spinning Magic Windmill animation like usual.
* However, in Numbers: 11 (Version 1), Bathtime for Tim and Feeding Baby Elephants, the sun baby giggles for Tubby Bye-Bye after the magical event.
* In Puppies, Dominoes, Jigsaw: Frog, Naughty Doll, Buying a Halloween Costume, Ned's Apples and Rap Battle, the Teletubbies giggle when they arrive at the Magical Event hill. (It's the same giggle sounds from the Edited Sketch of the Lion and Bear)
* Similar to some sketches like the Lion and the Bear (original), Dancing Bear, or the Magic House, the Teletubbies' bottoms don't make noise when they sit down on the hill. However in Girl in the Back Garden, Dominoes, Jigsaw: Frog, Naughty Doll, Buying a Halloween Costume and Rap Battle, their bottoms do make noise.
* This is the only magic event that doesn't use CGI, though the Lion and Bear are not CGI, there are certain scenes where they are CGI (see The Lion and Bear page).
* In Puppies, the Magic Windmill stops spinning and then the Teletubbies do the Round and Round Dance.
* In Baby Elephant, Dominoes, Feeding the Horse, Card Games with Debbie, Buying a Halloween Costume, Ropes Course, Naughty Doll, Macaroni & Cheese, Rap Battle, Cuddles Wearing His Hat, Sing with the Microphone, Becky's Chocolate Eggs, Keeping Trying to House and Electric Organ is the fourteen episodes to have a dance after this Magical Event.
* In Puppies and Rap Battle, the Teletubbies do The Round and Round Dance after the event
* In Cuddles Wearing His Hat, the Teletubbies do The Skipping Dance after the event.
* While this sketch didn't receive controversy like The Lion and The Bear, for some reason, it never aired on US television, just on home media releases.
* Little Bo Peep has a less scary audience then other sketches. Instead, it has beautiful music playing including a piano when the Teletubbies are looking at the clouds and has a song "I'm Little Bo Peep and I have lost my sheep" which is a Nursery Rhyme song.
* This is the final magical event of the original series.
* There are 2 fade effects in this magical event. The first one fades to Little Bo Peep saying hello, while the second one fades to her and her sheep floating away.
* In Painting Animals, the event comes after The Falling Down Dance.

## Goofs

* In the scene where Little Bo Peep finds her sheep hiding behind the hills, the Windmill is in the background leaned over and covered up. In addition, when the sheep come over the hills while they're singing, for one frame, you can faintly see a person on the left hand side of the screen and in the previous closeup of Little Bo Peep, studio equpment can be seen in the upper right corner for a few frames.