The Bumping Dance (Teletubbies Dance)

**The Bumping Dance** (also known as **Bumps a Daisy**) is the one of the dances that the Teletubbies do. It was first shown in the episode Numbers: 9 (Version 1). The Teletubbies do this dance outside the Home Hill.

This dance has an extended version.

## Plot

This dance starts with the Teletubbies running out of the house, they start walking right and left and then jumping around. Po runs over to Tinky Winky and they all start bumping tummies and bottoms. They all turn around with their bottoms together and then they start bumping bottoms. They all walk forward and then turn around and shake their bottoms and then they walk back again and shake their bottoms again. Laa Laa bumps Dipsy, who bumps Po, who bumps Tinky Winky and then Tinky Winky falls over. The dance then ends with either the Teletubbies going back into the house or staying out to watch the Windmill, or if it's the extended version they will do the dance again.

## Episodes that it appears in

* Numbers: 9 (Version 1) (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) **(shortened version)**
* Feeding the Sheep in Winter (UK Original Version) **(extended version)**
* Naughty Duck (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) **(extended version)**
* Blackberry Picking (UK CBeebies Version) **(shortened version)**
* Rangoli (Sunday Special Version) **(shortened version)**
* Jigsaw: Elephant (UK CBeebies Version) **(extended version)**
* Decorating Boxes (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) **(shortened version)**
* Harp (UK CBeebies Version) **(shortened version)**
* Stick Insect (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) **(shortened version)**
* Making Music (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) **(shortened version)**
* Asian Storyteller (4 Friends) (UK CBeebies Version) **(extended version)**
* Goats (UK CBBC Version) **(shortened version)**
* Sleepover (Sunday Special Version) **(extended version)**
* Monkeys (South Africa) (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) **(shortened version)**
* Flamenco Harp **(extended version)**
* Asian Storyteller (The Zoo) **(shortened version)**
* Making Boat **(extended version)**
* Cross-Country Skiing **(shortened version)**
* Naughty Wallet **(extended version)**
* Jigsaw: Frog **(extended version)**
* Eye Test **(shortened version)**
* Figure Skating **(extended version)**
* My Mum's a Restaurant **(shortened version)**
* Pangolin **(shortened version)**
* Flying Saucer **(extended version)**
* Favourite Things [Video] **(shortened version)**

## Trivia

* In Numbers: 9 (Version 1) and Cross-Country Skiing, the Teletubbies are silent during most of the dance. In every other episode they giggle through the whole dance.
* In Decorating Boxes and Making Music, the windmill Birds Eye View animation which first appeared in Making Flowers is used instead. The Teletubbies go back inside, then this clip is shown and the Teletubbies go back outside.
* In Making Tortilla Rolls, Flamenco Harp and Making Boat, at the end of the dance the Teletubbies stay outside and the windmill's sound is heard and the sparkles appear. The Teletubbies then look at the windmill, then turn back, say 'Uh-Oh' and run off, this clip was also seen in the Sunday Special version of Naughty Duck.
* In Naughty Duck and My Mum's a Restaurant, when the Teletubbies finish the dance they look up at the Windmill but the Tubby Bye-Bye voice trumpet is heard instead of the windmill.
* In Numbers: 9 (Version 1), Feeding the Sheep in Winter, Stick Insect, Figure Skating, Cross-Country Skiing, Pangolin and Flying Saucer, after the dance is over, the Baby Sun giggles for Tubby Bye-Bye.
* In Monkeys, Naughty Wallet, Jigsaw: Frog, Figure Skating and Asian Storyteller (The Zoo), the dance starts right away after the TV Receiver Event Sequence.
* In Eye Test, the Teletubbies watch The Animal Parade after the dance.