The Magic House (Magical Event)

**The Magic House** is one of the nine Magical Events. It was first shown in the 3rd episode The Grand Old Duke of York, it is also the second Magical Event to appear.

This Magic Event features a singing puppet who lives in a large pink house with 4 windows. In each episode, he wanders around his house choosing a window to sing from, with the window changing for each episode.

The puppet has tanned skin and orange-red hair. He wears a blue jumper and a blue hat with a big red bobble on it, and he speaks in gibberish. His puppeteer (operator and voice) is Robin Stevens who also worked on other Ragdoll shows including: Pob's programme (Pob), Rosie and Jim (Jim), Tots TV (Tom), Boohbah (Grandpappa), and Blips (Mr. Perfect), And also looks similar to one of The Wiggles' characters.

## Episodes that it appears in

* Our Pig Winnie (Sunday Special Version) (top left window)
* The Grand Old Duke of York (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (top left window)
* Naughty Sock (UK CBeebies Version) (top left window)
* See-Saw Margery Daw (Sunday Special Version) (bottom right window)
* Delilah Packing (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (bottom right window)
* Drawing Cacti (UK CBeebies Version) (top right window)
* Emily and the Trap (UK Original Version) (bottom left window)
* Yellow Cow (Sunday Special Version) (bottom left window)
* My Mum's Keyboard (UK Original Version) (top right window)
* Naughty Bee (Sunday Special Version) (bottom left window)
* Carnival (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (bottom left window)
* Numbers: 4 (Version 1) (Sunday Special Version) (bottom right window)
* Wake Up! (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (top right window)
* Dry Stone Wall (Sunday Special Version)
* Good Morning (Sunday Special Version) (top right window)
* Pancakes (UK CBeebies Version) (top right window)
* Becky and Jed Finding Eggs (Sunday Special Version)
* Rocking Chair (Sunday Special Version) (top right window)
* Colours: Pink (UK CBeebies Version) (bottom left window)
* Naughty Sock Returns (UK Original Version) (bottom right window)
* Samira's Gymnastics (Sunday Special Version)
* Feeding the Monkeys (UK CBeebies Version) (bottom left window)
* Football (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (top left window)
* Dentist (Sunday Special Version) (bottom left window)
* Numbers: 4 (Version 2) (UK Original Version) (bottom left window)
* Carnival 2 (Sunday Special Version) (bottom right window)
* Putting Angus to Bed (Sunday Special Version)
* Feeding My Baby Sister (Sunday Special Version) (bottom left window)
* Blackberry Picking (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (top right window)
* Twirlers (Sunday Special Version) (top right window)
* Old King Cole (Sunday Special Version) (bottom left window)
* Wrapping (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (bottom right window)
* Oranges and Lemons (Sunday Special Version) (bottom left window)
* Sing a Song of Sixpence (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (top left window in the UK Original/bottom left window in Sunday Special)
* Cuddles Poor Paw (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (bottom left window)
* Yoga (UK CBeebies Version) (bottom left window)
* Moon (Sunday Special Version) (top right window)
* Making a Den (UK CBeebies Version) (top right window)
* Torches (Sunday Special Version) (bottom left window)
* Maori Singing (Sunday Special Version) (top left window)
* Pumpkin Face (UK CBeebies Version) (bottom right window)
* Getting Up in the Morning (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (top right window)
* Colours: Red (Sunday Special Version) (bottom left window)
* Chameleon (UK CBeebies Version) (top right window)
* Dog Kennel (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (bottom right window)
* My Home is a Boat (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (bottom left window)
* Rickshaw (UK CBeebies Version) (top right window)
* Washing the Goat (UK CBeebies Version) (top right window)
* Pongal in the UK (bottom right window)
* Animal: Chipmunk (top left window)
* Emily Riding the Carriage East (bottom left window)
* Smoothie (bottom right window)
* Feeding the Turtle (top right window)
* Building a Playhouse (top left window)
* Tea Party (bottom right window)
* Roses (top left window)
* The Doll and the Solider (bottom left window)
* Baby Birds (top right window)
* Weeding (bottom right window)
* Running Through The Field (top left window)
* Sparkly Unicorn (bottom right window)
* Earthworms (top right window)
* Bug Hunting (bottom left window)
* Kick Scooter (top left window)
* Race Game (bottom right window)
* Guess What I'm Doing (top left window)
* Our Fish Ben (bottom left window)
* My Dad's a Plumber Boys (bottom right window)
* Christmas Party (top left window)
* Making Vending Machine (bottom left window)
* Flamenco Violin (top right window)
* Johnny Johnny Yes Papa (bottom right window)
* Numbers: 18 (Version 1) (top left window)
* Uh-Oh! Messes & Muddles [Video] (bottom left window)
* The Early Days [Video] (bottom right window)
* Magical Surprises [Video] (top right window)
* The Best of Po [Video] (top left window)

## Synopsis

The sketch starts with The Magic Windmill spinning for a little bit longer than usual. The Teletubbies arrive silently at a place in Teletubbyland. The Sun starts to giggle happily. There are no sounds coming from the event like the other Magic Events. Instead, the Windmill is still heard spinning. Despite this, the Teletubbies look around and then just venture off to the destination of the Magical Event. The Teletubbies arrive and sit down on a hill. Over on a further hill, a roof and 4 windows magically appear. Then it cuts to a close up of the house, and the rest of the house appears (a pink wall, rain gutter, and drain pipe and a red door with a 4 on it). As the house appears, a soft, jolly tune starts to play. Footsteps are heard, suddenly one of the lights is turned on and a silhouette walks around the room mumbling to themselves. They then turn the light off and walk to the next room, doing the same thing. After doing this 3 times, the silhouette walks to the last window, turns on the light and appears. The silhouette then opens the curtains, revealing to be a puppet man wearing a blue and red bobble hat and a blue coat. The puppet man then opens the window and the camera zooms in. The puppet man starts singing in a gibberish operatic voice. The puppet sings in a different tone of voice for each window. He sings very loudly at the Right windows, whereas he sings more softly at the Left windows. After finishing with holding a long note, the puppet man then walks off. As the camera zooms back out, the window and curtains close and then the light is turned off. The pink house then disappears, first the roof, wall, door, gutter, and pipe, then the windows, one-by-one, in the following order: Bottom right, Bottom left, Top right, Top Left and then the house has completely disappeared and the hill is visible again. The Magic Windmill stops spinning or the Sun Baby Giggles.

## Reception

Like the Lion and Bear sketch this is was a controversial sketch in the show. The reason behind this was because many kids considered the sketch scary. Despite being deemed scary it did air in the US.

## Trivia

* The Magic House is the second scariest Magical Event (Especially in the UK) behind The Lion and Bear (Original Sketch).
* Despite speaking gibberish, after the puppet leaves at the bottom left window, he clearly says 'Very Nice!' as the window closes.
* In The Grand Old Duke of York, Building a Playhouse, Kick Scooter and Making Vending Machine, the scene of the Teletubbies running off to their destination is cut out.
* In Emily and the Trap, My Mum's Keyboard, Carnival, Wake Up! and Numbers: 4 (Version 2), the Teletubbies are silent when the house appears.
* In Delilah Packing and Emily and the Trap, a fade effect is used to transition to the Windmill stopping after the Pink House disappears.
* In Wake Up!, Weeding, Johnny Johnny Yes Papa and Magical Surprises, after the Magical event, a fade effect is used to show the next segment.
* In Carnival, the Teletubbies' laughter from The Three Ships is used when they go straight on.
* In Wrapping, Smoothie and Tea Party, the Sun Baby giggles for Tubby Bye-Bye after the Pink House disappears.
* In Running Through The Field, Kick Scooter, Race Game, Guess What I'm Doing and My Dad's a Plumber Boys, the magical event is off sync.
* Although it's scary, it does not have an edited sketch like the Lion and Bear, because it is not as scary.
* It’s unknown what happened to the puppet after the house completely disappeared. It’s possible that the puppet is also magic along with the house or that he died.
* It's very rare that the puppet sings in the top left window.
* It's very common that the puppet sings in the bottom left window.
* The puppet's name is Hamish.
* In the foreign language dubs, the puppet has Robin Stevens' voice. There are some dubs where he's completely silent, e.g. Thai, Icelandic (some episodes). In the Icelandic version of Carnival, he is silent while wandering around the house, then when he sings, he is voiced by a woman singing 'Daah da Daah', However in the Persian Dub the Puppet doesn't have his original voice and instead sing with a thick voice.
* In the US, the puppet has a different voice that sings 'Do-Re-Mi-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do'.
* In the US Version of the Magic House, the puppet sings with the same voice on each window, unlike the UK Version where he sings with a different voice on each window, making the magic event less scary than the US Version.
* This sketch is used for some reason in some US episodes and is so common. This is because of both the original and the edited Lion and Bear segments.
* In the episodes where the puppet sings in the Top Left Window, the brown curtains are remained as the house vanishes. In the other windows, the brown curtains fade to a blue background.
* In Dog Kennel, the windmill stops spinning, but after it stops, the Teletubbies do the Tip Toe Dance.
* In My Home is a Boat and Kick Scooter, the Teletubbies do The Happy Dance after the event.
* In Getting Up in the Morning and Guess What I'm Doing, the Teletubbies do The Twisty Dance after the event.
* Just like the Lion and Bear and Little Bo Peep, the Singing puppet man is not CGI except his pink house.
* When the puppet sings on the top left window, he goes to the top right window, then the bottom left window, then the bottom right window and finally the top left window.
* When the puppet sings on the bottom left window, he goes to the bottom right window, then the top left window, then the top right window and finally the bottom left window.
* When the puppet sings in the bottom right window, he goes to the bottom left window, then the top right window, then the top left window and finally the bottom right window.
* When the puppet sings in the top right window, he goes to the bottom right window, then the bottom left window, then the top left window and finally the top right window.
* This is the only magical event that has more than 2 versions as The Animal Parade sometimes has an elephant trumpet sound at the start and sometimes it doesn't, The Dancing Bear sometimes dances 1 time or 2 times and The Bear and The Lion have 2 sketches: one scary and one funny.