The Tap Dancing Teddy Bear (Magical Event)

**The Tap Dancing Teddy Bear** is one of the nine Magical Events. The event first appeared in the episode Painting with our Hands and Feet. It features a yellow Winnie the Pooh look-a-like teddy bear who wears a Charlie Chaplin-like shirt (which almost looks like Winnie the Pooh's red shirt), Purple Bow-tie, and black tap shoes. He tap dances in a small carousel. Some of the Teletubbies fans think the bear is related to the Disney character Winnie the Pooh because the bear is yellow. Also, his Charlie Chaplin shirt is red like the said Disney character's shirt.

## Episodes that it appears in

* Painting with Hands and Feet (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (twice)
* Numbers: 1 (Version 1) (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Loretta Tap Dancing (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Humpty Dumpty (UK Original Version) & (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Feeding the Chickens (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* The Helicopter (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Balancing (2nd Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Jumping (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (twice)
* Drawing Cacti (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Yellow Cow (UK Original Version) (once)
* My Mum's Keyboard (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Arthur Robot Story (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Dandelion Clocks (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Hickory Dickory Dock (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Sandcastles (UK Original & CBeebies Versions) (once)
* Bubble Pictures (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Good Morning (UK Original Version) (once)
* Flamenco Guitar (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Pancakes (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once in the UK Original/twice in Sunday Special)
* Colours: Blue (UK CBBC Version) (twice)
* Hanukkah (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Irish Dancing (Sunday Special Version) (twice)
* Café Eggs (UK Original Version) (once)
* Tulips (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Sea Lions (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Haircut (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* My Violin (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Rebecca's Dogs (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Clogs (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Twirlers (UK CBeebies Version) (once)
* Boom Boom Dance (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Basketball (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Colours: Orange (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Body to Body (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Feeding Baby Penguins (UK CBeebies Version) (twice)
* Brennan's Moonwalk (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Crawling (UK CBeebies Version) (once)
* Handshapes: Turkey (UK CBeebies Version) (twice)
* Carousel (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Skipping (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Moon (UK Original Version) (once)
* Game Drive (UK CBeebies Version) (once)
* Honky Tonk Piano (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Watering the Garden (UK CBeebies Version) (once)
* Asian Storyteller (4 Friends) (UK CBeebies Version) (once)
* Goats (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Going In and Coming Out (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Barrel Organ (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Bird Bath (UK CBeebies Version) (twice)
* My Pretend Friend (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (twice)
* Washing the Goat (India) (Sunday Special Version) (once)
* Crazy Golf (USA) (UK Original & Sunday Special Versions) (once)
* Naughty Sausage Returns (once)
* Making Paper Airplanes (twice)
* Cleaning the House (once)
* Naughty Bird Returns (twice)
* Our Cat Cleo (once)
* My Mum's Living Room (twice)
* Cross-Country Skiing (once)
* Tomorrow's New Years (twice)
* Cuddles' New Friend (once)
* Grandma's Ducklings (twice)
* Sea Otters (once)
* Phillip’s Popcorn (once)
* Holi Games (once)
* Building a Gate (once)
* Jigsaw: Sheep (twice)
* River in the Beach (once)
* Figure Skating (once)
* Taxi Ride (once)
* Metallophone (twice)
* The Elves and the Shoemaker (once)
* Fruit Salad (twice)
* Bandstand (once)
* Rhyming Fun (once)
* Naughty Turtle (once)
* The Grand Old Man of New York (twice)
* Ducklings Bath (South Africa) (once)
* My Dad's a Zamindar (once)
* Puppet Show (once)
* Making Coffee Carrier (once)
* The Prince and the Pauper (twice)
* Vinyl Record (once)
* Dirty Elephant (once)
* Watering the Flowers (once)
* Dance with the Teletubbies [Video] (twice)
* The Early Days [Video] (twice)
* A Day for Dancing [Video] (once)
* The Best of Tinky Winky [Video] (once)

## Synopsis

The sketch starts with The Magic Windmill spinning for a lot longer than usual. The Teletubbies arrive at the Magic Event place and the Baby Sun giggles. Soon the Teletubbies hear a galactic beeping sound and run off to the destination of the Magical Event. The Teletubbies arrive at some flat hills in Teletubbyland as a tiny dot appears in the sky. The Teletubbies gasp in excitement as the magic dot gets closer and is revealed to be a magical flying blue and white carousel. It continues to make the galactic beep until it is very close to the ground. The excited Teletubbies watch it land as it spins and starts making a different sound. The carousel lands on the ground and the Teletubbies then sit down around it. The blue walls of the carousel magically disappear and reveal a yellow bear (who looks like the Disney character Winnie the Pooh) in a Charlie Chaplin-like outfit (which almost looks like said Disney character's red shirt) holding a cane and wearing a hat. The teddy bear spins around and then stops with his face covered by his hat. Jolly piano music starts playing, and the teddy bear stops bowing and his face is revealed from behind his hat, from up close. The teddy bear starts doing a tap dance which the Teletubbies watch quietly and happily. The bear tap dances around the carousel, in the carousel, outside the carousel and all over the place. He then does his great, big finale dance and then bows. The teddy bear freezes in his joyful bow and then the walls of the carousel magically re-appear. The Teletubbies sigh happily and then gasp as the carousel takes off with the galactic beeps replaced with a joyful tune as it floats away into the sky, disappearing out of sight. Either the Magic Windmill stops spinning or the Sun Baby giggles.

## Trivia

* The carousel in the magical event has been used in the White Rose Shopping Centre, albeit black-and-white tint and the blue walls are replaced with the television-styled walls, which includes trailers, adverts, and music videos.
* In Painting with our Hands and Feet, Jumping, My Pretend Friend, Tomorrow's New Years, Making Paper Airplanes, Naughty Bird Returns, My Mum's Living Room, Jigsaw: Sheep, Metallophone, Fruit Salad, The Grand Old Man of New York, The Prince and the Pauper and Dance with the Teletubbies, the Bear dances twice. After the Bear bows, the Teletubbies cheer and as the carousel begins to take off they say 'Again! Again!' and the Bear will dance again.
* This is the third scariest Magical event of all. The other ones being The Lion and the Bear and The Magic House.
* In the original 1997 episodes Painting with Hands and Feet, Loretta Tap Dancing, Humpty Dumpty and Dance with the Teletubbies (VHS), when the Teletubbies rush off to see the Tap Dancing Bear, the Sun Baby is not shown giggling.
* In Jumping, Naughty Sausage Returns, Making Coffee Carrier and Watering the Flowers, the Sun Baby does not giggle when the Teletubbies run off to go watch the Dancing Bear.
* In Hanukkah, Carousel, Naughty Bird Returns, My Mum's Living Room and Puppet Show, the sun baby giggles for Tubby Bye-Bye.
* Loretta Tap Dancing, Going In and Coming Out, Figure Skating, Our Cat Cleo and Rhyming Fun are the only five episodes that have the event before the TV Event.
* This is the first magical event to show clips of the Teletubbies. The second is the Lion and Bear.
* This is the only magical event where the Teletubbies say 'Again! Again!'.
* This is the only Magical Event where it played twice or once.
* The sound that the carousel makes when it floats in the sky is the 'EMU Proteus 3 World' sound font 'Spirit Catch'.
* The Teletubbies' bottoms don't make any noise when they sit down to watch the tap dancing teddy bear.
* In Cuddles' New Friend, Phillip’s Popcorn, Holi Games, The Elves and the Shoemaker, Naughty Turtle and Puppet Show, The Teletubbies giggle as they reach the area of this event.
* In Grandma's Ducklings and Metallophone, a fade effect is used to show the Teletubbies about to do the Rocking Dance.
* In Sea Lions and The Prince and the Pauper, the Teletubbies do The Tip Toe Dance after the event.
* In Sea Otters, River in the Beach, Taxi Ride, Fruit Salad, Bandstand, Naughty Turtle and Vinyl Record, the magical event is off sync.
* The gasping sound the Teletubbies make when they see the carousel coming down would be re-used in The Magic Tree.
* Either Tinky Winky, Dipsy or Laa-Laa can be heard whispering "Oh, wow," just before the carousel opens for the tap dancing teddy bear's first dance.