Animal Parade (Magical Event)

**The Animal Parade** is one of the nine Magical Events and perhaps the most iconic of them. It consists of a series of animals which march past in two's similar to Noah's Ark. Shown in the very first episode Ned's Bicycle, it is also the first Magical Event to appears.

## Episodes that it appears in

* Ned's Bicycle (UK Original, CBBC & Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Our Pig Winnie (UK CBeebies Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Lambs (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Making Flowers (UK Original Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Playing in the Rain (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Owl Babies (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Rockpool (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Emily and Jester (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Balancing (UK Original & 1st Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Rockpool (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Rolling (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Tweet Tweet (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Dirty Dog (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Going for a Walk (UK Original Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Naughty Cloud (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Ned's Potatoes (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Digging in the Sand for Worms (UK Original & CBeebies Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Carnival (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Ice Skating (UK CBeebies Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Sophie Art Circus (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Emily Washing the Pony (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Sand Pendulum (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Numbers: 8 (UK Original & CBeebies Versions & Sunday Special Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Monkey Safari (Sunday Special Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Mandir Temple (UK Original Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Little Baby (UK CBeebies Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Naughty Horse (UK CBeebies Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Level Crossing (UK Original Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Colours: Pink (UK CBBC Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Living in Flats (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Numbers: 2 (Version 2) (1st Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Giraffes (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Penguins (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Making Fantastic Animals (UK CBeebies Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Feeding the Monkeys (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Football (UK CBeebies Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Snails (UK CBeebies Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Sea Lions (UK CBeebies Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Rollerblading (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Cows and Calves (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Kittens (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Funny Walks (Sunday Special Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Long Horns (Sunday Special Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Spiders (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Twirlers (UK Original Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Peacocks (UK CBeebies Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Jigsaw: Elephant (UK CBBC & Sunday Special Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound in Sunday Special Version/without elephant trumpet sound in the UK CBBC Version)
* Piglets (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Double Bass (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Cat's Night Out (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Pebbles (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Feeding Baby Penguins (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Sing a Song of Sixpence (UK CBeebies Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Clockwork (UK CBeebies Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Mary Had a Little Lamb (UK Original Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Brennan's Moonwalk (UK CBeebies Version) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Handshapes: Turkey (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Pavement Artist (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Going Up and Going Down (UK CBeebies Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Animal Rhythms (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Baby Elephant (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Asian Storyteller (4 Friends) (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Asian Storyteller (The Fox) (UK CBeebies Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Monkeys (South Africa) (Sunday Special Version) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* African Dance (South Africa) (UK Original, CBeebies & Sunday Special Versions) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Scavenger Hunt (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Our Cow Alice (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Detective (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Lion Cubs (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Parrot (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Numbers: 15 (Version 1) (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Feeding the Doves (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Skateboarding (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Our Hamster Alice (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Animal Masks (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Café Pancakes (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Eye Test (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Spacecraft (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Brennan's Spacewalk (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Ned's Insects (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Maze Game (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Asian Storyteller (The Turtle) (without elephant trumpet sound)
* My Dad's a Milkman (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Pease Porridge Hot (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Pangolin (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Climbing Up and Sliding Down (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Foreign Numbers (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Making Birthday Cake (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Chips BBQ (without elephant trumpet sound)
* The Enormous Turnip (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Balloon Race (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Making Toast (without elephant trumpet sound)
* Here Come the Teletubbies [Video] (with elephant trumpet sound)
* The Early Days [Video] (with elephant trumpet sound)
* Playtime Fun [Video] (without elephant trumpet sound)
* The Best of Dipsy [Video] (with elephant trumpet sound)

## Synopsis

The sketch starts with The Magic Windmill spinning a bit longer than usual. The Teletubbies then arrive silently at the Magic Event place in Teletubbyland. The Sun starts to giggles and laughing. The Teletubbies then hear the sound of elephants trumpet, and so they venture off to the destination of the Magical Event (in some episodes, it’s cut off or it’s not heard). The Teletubbies walk up a hill, they then gasp as they get to the top of the hill and see a group of animals (nine types of animals) marching in the distance two by two (similar to the Bible story Noah's Ark). Like in the Bible story of Noah's Ark, each of these animals are male and female. As the Teletubbies watch the animals, it is revealed they are in a parade. The camera then cuts to a path in a field where we see the animals close up. The animals are Tigers, Penguins, Snakes, Elephants, Flamingos, Butterflies, Turtles, Giraffes and Frogs. The tune changes like the sounds of each animal, loud and dramatic for the tigers and the giraffes, slow and low for the elephants and the turtles, a slow, high-pitched African-like tune for the snakes, a quick waddling tune for the penguins, soft and sweet for the flamingos and the butterflies, and a quick nature tune for the frogs. The animals continue to march through Teletubbyland in twos while the tune plays until the camera cuts to a faraway view of a hill. The animals march up the hill, the tune then ends and the animals fade away. And then the Magic Windmill stops spinning or the Baby Sun giggles.

## Trivia

* In Ned's Bicycle, Balancing, Detective, Brennan's Spacewalk and Pease Porridge Hot, the scene of the Teletubbies listening to the elephant trumpet noise is cut out. Though the Elephant trumpet can still be heard in Pease Porridge Hot.
* In Ned's Bicycle, Making Flowers, Balancing, Tweet Tweet, Twirlers and Climbing Up and Sliding Down, a fade effect is used to transition to the Windmill stops spinning after the animals fade away.
* In Mandir Temple, Rollerblading, Cows and Calves, Kittens, Spiders, Twirlers, Piglets, Cat's Night Out, Handshapes: Turkey and Animal Rhythms, when the Teletubbies are listening for a sound before running off, the Elephant's trumpet isn't heard.
* In Balancing, Piglets, Asian Storyteller (The Turtle), Pangolin, Climbing Up and Sliding Down and The Enormous Turnip, the Teletubbies do not gasp when they arrive at the top of the hill.
* In Twirlers, the Windmill does not make the Magical Event tune when the Animal Parade began, instead it just keeps on whooshing normally.
* In Giraffes, Feeding the Monkeys, Asian Storyteller, Lion Cubs and Parrot, the Sun Baby giggles for Tubby Bye-Bye after the animals fade away in the distance.
* In Feeding the Doves, Skateboarding, Pangolin, Climbing Up and Sliding Down and Balloon Race, the magical event is off sync.
* In Maze Game, the windmill stops spinning and the Teletubbies do The Calypso Dance.
* In Going for a Walk, Digging in the Sand for Worms, Piglets, Handshapes: Turkey and Making Toast, the Teletubbies do The Stamping and Stepping Dance after the event.
* In Ned's Insects and Asian Storyteller (The Turtle), the Teletubbies do The Round and Round Dance after the event.
* In My Dad's a Milkman, the Teletubbies do The Splashing Dance after the event.
* In Rolling and Balloon Race, the Teletubbies do The Tip Toe Dance after the event.
* This is the only magical event sometimes it has a sound or not when the Teletubbies are listening.
* The flamingos are the only animals shown in the introduction, middle and the end of the event, probably because they were the fifth pair of animals to appear (therefore, they were in the middle).
* The giraffes' fast-paced walking made them walk off-screen just a few seconds after the turtles. Although this would mean that the giraffes would've been ahead of the turtles, in the ending, the giraffes are shown to be still rather far away from the turtles.
* When the animals are shown marching through Teletubbyland, there is a tree in the background moving a lot.
* The animal sounds used are from the 'EMU Proteus 3 World' sound font 'Jungle Book'.