Originally posted by Shane Sohnle
By the way - that's an interesting tidbit on the Teletubbies. Can you give us the insider's track and tell us:
Is Tinky Winky gay? Why does he carry that purse around?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Firstly, I think I need to make it clear that the Teletubbies was NOT designed as a Children's TV show - but as a powerful diatribe against weapons of mass-destruction and the use of hallucinogenic substances.
Unfortunately, it's been interpreted wrongly as a children's entertainment program. This was initially a matter of deep regret for the writers, and me but we got over it and made a small fortune.
I will reveal more shortly, but in answer to your specific question, no, Tinky-Winky is NOT gay.
I can exclusively reveal that the Teletubbies is actually set in the deep future where, in a progressive society, handbags had become the norm' amongst males and females. Not many people realise that Tinky-Winky, a borderline psychopath, is actually concealing a powerful sidearm in his handbag - the minute that La-La steps out of turn, she is history.
Also accepted as normal in this future are sentient vacuum-cleaners and protein-rich types of custard and toast that have become the sole sources of nutrition.
The Teletubbies are the moronic child-like mutated survivors of a nuclear war that took place in 2345 - their dome is actually an old fallout shelter that they excavated after they thought the radiation levels had subsided (that's why it appears to be in a "crater”). Everyone else on the planet has mutated into a rabbit.
The "periscope" creatures that appear every now and then are probes sent out by other underground survivors who are trying to establish whether or not to emerge from their shelters and resume the war. You see, the time of the Teletubbies is very limited - any moment the war could start again.
The spinning shiny windmill on the top of the hill is an old pre-war generator turbine that somehow survived the nuclear blasts. It occasionally spins around as the radioactive winds blow across the landscape, spreading deadly fallout as it turns. This is slowly killing the Teletubbies with radiation sickness.
Although many people have tried to explain the meaning of the smiling "sun" that appears over the landscape, it's important to realise that it does not actually exist. It's a representation of the Tetetubbies' collective madness as they descend into total insanity. Unfortunately, before the Humans that became the Teletubbies were confined to their underground shelter in anticipation of the nuclear armageddon that would follow, they failed to realise that their supply of toast was contaminated with a powerful form of LSD, hence they spend their entire doomed lives in a state of rapture and psychosis. The "sun" is a joint hallucination cause by their mental illness. It's really very sad.
I think you’ll agree that this is one of the most powerful and outspoken pieces of disturbing social commentary ever created.
Eh-oh!
Dr. S.