WMG / Teletubbies

aka: The Teletubbies

The entire show is a delusion by which the inmates of an oppressive prison cope with their incarceration.

Locked into a crimethink gulag, their every thought, step and action are controlled by the nigh-omniscient surveillance loudspeakers which tell them everything they must do — such as watch "educational" propaganda films, exercise in the yard, or eat the disgusting rations of nutritional paste — that is, "Tubby Custard" — or waferlike "Tubby Toast." Any attempt to hide from the surveillance causes an immediate alert — "Where have all the Teletubbies gone?" Is it any wonder the prisoners have covered all of this by replacing it in their minds with a sunny, bucolic landscape of bright cheerful colors, even unto the all-seeing infant "sun"?

• As a slight variation, the inmates are drugged up to think that they're in a Sugar Bowl, and the reason Teletubbies are babylike in behaviour is because they are so drugged that their mental capacities have been reduced to those of toddlers.

The SunBaby is God.

He created the Teletubbies and their world purely for His amusement. All praise to the SunBaby!

The Teletubbies were the ones who actually had the TARDIS and not the Weeping Angels

• Look at the Teletubbies' playhouse/house/bunker-thing they live in, and then look at the inside of the TARDIS. They look so similar, that it's probably not a coincidence that the Teletubbies are in the Whoniverse.

The characters are all in Purgatory, atoning for their sins.

A rather pleasant-looking Purgatory, but Purgatory nonetheless.

• You forgot — everyone is Jesus.

The Teletubbies were once human.

But one day, they were offered a mysterious pink custard by a strange little man. It was good. They had seconds. Then thirds. Soon, they had consumed hundreds of bowls of the Pepto-Bismol like substance, reverting their intellectual capacities to those of infants and forever changing them into grotesque monsters.

• So sort of a retelling of Odysseus' encounters with the lotus-eaters crossed with his adventures with Circe? Or essentially the first part of the fourth voyage of Sinbad now that I think of it. That does of course mean that when they're fat enough someone plans on eating them.

Willy Wonka had to test out his Three-Course-Meal Gum on someone before Violet Beauregard came along...

...and he did have all those Oompa-Loompas sitting around... And he seemed awfully blasé about the side effects on Violet, almost as if he'd seen them before, swelling up and changing colors and all that...

• Clearly each piece of gum had a different type of pie as the dessert. Tinky Winky's was plum pie, Dipsy's was key lime, Laa-Laa's was lemon, and Po's was cherry.

The Teletubbies are demons.

Sigil-shaped horns, big ugly creatures with unmoving faces, and they're presided over by a giant disembodied flaming head. Teletubbies is a Stealth Aesop that television is the work of the devil, which they couldn't show blatantly without it getting taken off the air. The robot vacuum thing is there to say "technology sucks", both in the colloquial meaning and the sucks-the-intelligence-and-humanity-out-of-you meaning.

The Teletubbies are aliens living in a post-apocalyptic world.

Everyone else has died in the war, yet the strange little 'tubbies (who may have suffered physical or mental trauma, or injuries from earlier in the war) managed to survive by living in their strange bomb shelter and now have a creepy utopia to explore full of rabbits and speakers. Any other oddities (like the baby sun or the Teletubbies' strange behaviors) are just because it's another planet.

The show is set After the End

The world appears to have recovered from a civilization-destroying nuclear winter. The teletubbies' house looks suspiciously like a bunker. The only animals present are rabbits because they reproduce so fast that they could recover quickly from an atomic war. Same applies to the only plants being grass. The "tubby custard" is an imperishable foodstuff that was stored en masse in the teletubbies' bunker in case the ground became too irradiated to grow crops. (It didn't, quite, but no one remembers how to grow them.) The teletubbies themselves are mutants, and the baby face in the sun is a cloud of nuclear dust.

Teletubbies is set in the Brave New World, uh, world.

Something went wrong with that batch of clones in the Hatchery (or they were deliberately produced that way) so instead of entering normal society, they were conditioned as rabbit handlers and housed in a special compound away from everyone else. Apart from consuming vast amounts of tubby toast and tubby custard, their main purpose in life is to stop the rabbits from chewing through any important cables or generally causing havoc. After all, even in a dystopian society you'd need someone to keep the wildlife at bay.

Television sets in the real world are actually sourced from teletubbies.

In reality, teletubbies are reared in battery farms where they don't even have room to indulge in their favourite pastime of falling over. The entire show is actually propaganda for the teletubby farming industry, designed to show teletubbies in a free range setting and thereby averting the legitimate concerns of the animal welfare lobby. (And it doesn't even touch upon the issue of genetically modifying teletubbies to produce widescreen sets, or the lucrative trade in ground-up aerials for use in eastern medicine.)

• You have to keep them alive... barely alive.

Tubby custard is made from brains

The teletubbies eat the brains of children who watch their show and slowly brainkill them. They're modern zombies who hide their longing for brains behind a facade of cuteness.Actually, they're infecting children with zombieness, so once they were normal kids, too. The vacuum cleaner is the real villain, kind of like a vampire, sucking out their brains first, now holding them as his cute sklaves who keep children watching the show.

The house? Yeah, that's their spacecraft.

Again, the Teletubbies are aliens, possibly the last of their kind (similar to Superman), but maybe just regular colonists. They're locked out of the real controls, of course, and they just have some sort of superficial effect, perhaps training them in their actual use. It actually goes much deeper than it looks, as the loudspeakers are probably part of it. The windmill transmitters allow them to monitor intel on the humans of this world — well, England, anyway, which is possibly the only part they're privy to — and the Teletubbies, while they may enjoy the footage, are actually just asking to review it again so there's no mistake. The Noo-Noo merely keeps the ship clean, which is not as easy as it sounds; after all, there's no loo on board.

The Sun Baby is the viewer.

Well, not you of course. You're seeing another person watching the show.

• Confirmed. Word of God states that the purpose of the Baby Sun is to give the viewers someone to laugh with.

The Teletubbies are robots that humanity left behind.

Humanity has left Earth or disappeared long ago and has left behind the Teletubbies which are robots or cyborgs (as shown by the TV screen on their stomachs) with a young child-like mentality who marvel and laugh at videos of the distant past. And all around them, nature is reclaiming the land, as shown by the half-buried structures emerging from grassy hills and rabbits running around. And the prominence of the sun implies they are solar-powered.

The teletubbies are mutants who survived the nuclear war The vestiges of humanity live deep underground.

The speakers are how the surviving humans attempt to communicate with the surface. They are hoping to control the teletubbies' actions so that the teletubbies will make Earth livable again. However, they must deal with constant frustration as the teletubbies show very few signs of intelligence. Thus, the humans are slowly attempting to condition and educate the teletubbies to understand the world without questioning it, primarily through repetition to build the teletubbies' pattern recognition.

The Teletubbies are the future of mankind after evolving significantly.

• Eh why not? And I'm talking millions to billions of years in the future.
  • And there is a second human race. They live underground, make all the goods for teletubbies... and feed on teletubbies' flesh.

Teletubbies are made from people eating too many TV dinners.

I couldn't resist.

The Teletubbies live in the Midnight Channel.

• Compare the land they live in to the True Ending of Persona 4. Ghibli Hills? Check! Televisions? Check (and in their stomachs no less)! The Sun? Another avatar of Izanami! Perhaps the land they live in is the collective consciousness of a country or area where the fog has been lifted?

The Teletubbies are suffering from a serious mental condition, and Noo-Noo is their caretaker.

The "sun" is an infant Eldritch Abomination

• Its rays kill or mutilate everything they touch except grass and rabbits, but it doesn't know this. It accidentally caused an apocalypse on an inhabited planet by floating up to it, and the Teletubbies are the lucky few whom the rays didn't kill but instead were rendered immortal and infantile. The only other survivors have been hiding underground since the Sunbaby turned up, staving off the madness by taking upon themselves to look after and teach the mutants on the surface, even if they can only do so through archived TV transmissions and speaking tubes.

Teletubbies is set in the future of The War of the Worlds

• The Martians ended up re-invading Earth. With their new knowledge of diseases they were unstoppable. The Teletubbies are really Martians that have been genetically engineered to adapt to Earth's environment and given cybernetic implants. Their house is really a buried tripod, their launguage is a mix between Martian and English, Tubbycustard is liquified human, and the baby in the sun is just because they're alien drug users.

Alternatively they're a caste of humans post-invasion. After the Martians won, they divided up the remaining humans. The collaborators got rewarded by getting positions of power, inferior to the Martians of course. Some humans are pets or servants. Others are used as a foodsource. And the Tubbies are menial laborers. They've been genetically engineered to be smart enough to take orders, but dumb enough to not question them. They then are sealed into a hazmat/power armor suit and placed in factories, power stations, and other places. The Tubbies we see work in an outpost made from a buried tripod and the remains of a windfarm. They're responsible for keeping the windfarm generating power. Most of the show takes place on their break, hence the loudspeaker telling them to get back to work. The clips they watch are just old tapes they found and are watching. Tubbycustard and Toast are processed human remains. Noo-Noo is just a cleaning drone. The scooter, hat, purse, and ball are things they found in the ruins of a village. All the weird stuff such as the baby in the sun is just because they're given drugs to keep them docile. All in all, a fairly Crapsack World.

Teletubbies is set in someone's unclear subconscious.

The Screaming Sun Planet in the season 2 finale of Rick and Morty is a future version of Teletubbies.

The Baby Sun grew into adulthood, and became self-aware of its condition, perched over a basically empty world for all eternity, unable to do anything. And so it began to scream and scream. The native inhabitants, driven insane by the constant screaming, killed themselves and each other, leaving the world devoid of anything resembling intelligent life.

• Jossed. Baby Sun is female, while The Screaming Sun Planet has a more masculine voice.
  • They could belong to the same species.

The Sun is a baby version of Soul Eater 's Sun.

It's always giggling much like how SE's Sun is always laughing and it appears to be within the atmosphere rather than out in space.

The Teletubbies are alien babies living on a nursery planet automated to care for them until they reach adulthood.

All of the Teletubbies' technology is solar-powered.

The Sun Baby's presence is vital for the teletubbies' world to continue functioning. Thankfully, it finds the teletubbies to be incredibly entertaining and will always be around so long as they keep doing things that maintain its interest. The voices over the loudspeakers regiment the teletubbies' daily routines to make sure that they always spend enough time outside to harvest the energy from the Sun Baby needed to keep their equipment running for another day. The teletubbies aren't aware of any of this but wouldn't concern themselves with it even if they were, as their sole interest in life is to have fun and be happy, which aligns perfectly with what the Sun Baby wants from them.

This theory leads directly into...

The series is a metaphor for how television is produced.

Word of God has confirmed that the Sun Baby is an Audience Surrogate of sorts. Taking this into account with the above theory, then the relationship between the world of the teletubbies and the Sun Baby is analogous to the relationship between a television series and its audience. An audience (the Sun Baby) is needed to ensure that a series (the teletubbies' world) can continue running, and it is the job of the characters within the series (the teletubbies themselves) to be entertaining enough to keep the audience coming back for more. The characters' antics are carefully overseen by the production staff (the voices on the loudspeakers), who will step in and direct them when necessary. This is all subtly implied by the teletubbies' world conspicuously being at least partially artificial; it's effectively just a sound stage that can only exist as a reality of its own when it has an audience around to watch it.

The Sun Baby can cause a When Day Breaks scenario.

It's certainly anomalous considering it's, well, a Sun Baby. The reason why When Day Breaks happens is because the Sun of S.D Locke's SCP-001 proposal is throwing a tantrum. The SCP Foundation of the Teletubbies universe figured out how to avoid the same thinking happening they would amuse it with Tellytubbyland. Admittedly the SCP sun is male and the Sun Baby is female, but that could just be one of the differences between universes.

The Teletubbies are monkeys or some kind of primate.

If you look at the designs of the Teletubbies, they do look like monkeys or lemurs if you look at their faces and ears.

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