RIP Tinky Winky

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2018 off to a horrible start!
 

Hoosker Du

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What, are you Jerry Falwell or something? He was a freekin' teletubby!

You know what I'm talking about. Which one was the androgynous Teletubbie?

Edit - Yup, Tinky Winky is the one that carried a purse. The androgynous Teletubbie...Tinky Winky.
 
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Husker.Wed._rivals

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There is no doubt Tinky WInky was intended to be gay because of the inverted triangle antenna, purple color, and he carried a purse. No big deal, it is what it is. The original Tinky Winky actor was fired after 70 episodes for making the character "too gay". Also, Dipsy was an of African descent and and Po was Asian (like the actors under the costumes). The creators of the show had to be doing some type of psychedelics to come up with all the colors, the cooing baby in the middle of the sun, and the half animal/half machine thing that went around the hut sucking up the Tubby Custard (the Nu Nu). I always thought Laa Laa was hot.
 

Hoosker Du

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Weird to be obsessed with a teletubby's gender/sexuality/etc, especially in light of such tragic news. They were all genderless if you must know.


Meh, I don't really care about the sexual identity of someone. Doesn't matter to me. I just thought it was funny that they created a character that definitely had an alternate identity.
 

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I wish I could say the same. I had young children at the time of the Teletubbies.
They used to watch videos, over and over, of Barney. I hated that purple dinosaur! Then my kids discovered the Teletubbies... Given the choice, I was suddenly okay with Barney.
 
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RedSea_rivals91325

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1. teletubbies were British, which explains a lot.
2. When my son was 3, he watched them every weekday morning. Good sitter during "get ready for work time." He had plush toys of the red and yellow ones.
I'm sure it was very relaxing for the 3 yr old mind.
 

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There is no doubt Tinky WInky was intended to be gay because of the inverted triangle antenna, purple color, and he carried a purse. No big deal, it is what it is. The original Tinky Winky actor was fired after 70 episodes for making the character "too gay". Also, Dipsy was an of African descent and and Po was Asian (like the actors under the costumes). The creators of the show had to be doing some type of psychedelics to come up with all the colors, the cooing baby in the middle of the sun, and the half animal/half machine thing that went around the hut sucking up the Tubby Custard (the Nu Nu). I always thought Laa Laa was hot.
That sun baby thing always creeped the he'll out of me.