Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po are back, just as we remember them.
For those who were kids in the ’90s, Teletabik must have something to say – some people fondly remember the kids show, and some people turn pale when they remember it. It ran for nine seasons from 1997 to 2001 and then from 2015 to 2018, and Netflix felt it was time for a third. After all, multiple BAFTA Awards and two Emmy nominations show that it could make sense.
The reboot, which debuted in November, will be faithful to the source material to the extent that the characters haven’t changed: Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po are the same pajamas-chattering monkey creatures, with differently shaped antennas, who have devices TV in their stomach.
Titus Burgess, better known from The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, was asked to narrate, and today is “shaped” by an Asian girl. Already in 1999, the series was attacked by a TV evangelist (television preacher) saying that Tinky Winky was a “gay role model”, and conservative religious speakers feared that she had a bad influence on children. According to one of the creators, the character is neither gay nor straight, it’s just a character in a children’s series.
Anyway, here’s the poster, don’t look too deep into Teletabik’s eyes.
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