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The Teletubbies are... [Halloween joke theory]

Henry Atkins
Oct 31, 2017
3 min read

[Disclaimer!: This is not meant to be one of the more smarter posts featured on this website. This is meant as a creative take or a joke. Whichever you prefer]

I specially released this post late at night and a day earlier than usual (since my usual post schedule is on Wednesday discluding my adaption series) just to get this out on Halloween.

For a few months I've been watching Cbeebies stuff with my 3 year old nephew, Brandon. After a while of watching such shows like Go-Jetters, Mr. Maker and the Teletubbies I've started thinking of one thing.

Cbeebies is the best Sci-Fi channel ever!

But that's a separate post for another day. This time I'm throwing my metaphorical hat into the ring since I found quite a few other Teletubbie theories. Usually about aliens, government conspiracies or hypnosis. I'm a little of all of them. Well... It's all of the above.

The theory does indeed start with the race we know as the Teletubbies in space. They fly a UFO and do space stuff because they're humanoid aliens. This is mainly territory we've all seen in almost every space movie ever with aliens.

This race had to ability to change their skin colour on demand and had powerful telepathic abilities. We don't see that now but it is explained why later.

Noo-Noo is pretty much what he does now. Clean the space craft. Except an indigenous species of fungus that's notorious for being hard to avoid is collected and disposed of by Noo-Noo to avoid it taking over the Tubbies as hosts. Much like how certain kinds of bacteria are used to make yogurt, Noo-Noo uses the deadly fungus to make what we've dubbed as 'Tubby Toast' and 'Tubby Custard'.

Noo-Noo malfunctioned and the fungus took over the crew of the space craft causing them to completely go numb. They don't move, they don't think and they can't even change colour again. One very clear sign that a Tubby is infected is the iconic head... sprout? This is the actual fungus. It's much like another fungus on Earth called Corteceps that take over the minds of insects.

In their current state the ship goes off course and crash lands in a grassy field soon to be found by the Government. Inside they find everything. The technology, the food, the fungus and the Tubbies themselves. The government study and want to commercialise the Tubby Toast and Tubby Custard but first need to do further research into the fungus and how to grow it.

The government secured the UFO in a Trumann show style studio dome that they've passed off from the outside as another nuclear power station. Over the time of construction the UFO gathered dirt and grass forming the hill shaped home we know of even though it retains its Sci-Fi aesthetic from the inside.

Through research and development of the fungus the government made a gas to keep control of both the Tubby hosts and the growing fungus using the microphones to both deploy said gas (hence the farting sound it makes) and to audibly send instructions to again, keep control of mind numb Tubbies.

Part of the research into the Tubbies is into their telepathic abilities and chameleon like skin. So far the government can only part control these abilities. At the moment they can only control a rectangular spot on their stomach but they could display whatever they wanted on it via TV signal which their telepathic abilities could pick up.

And this is my Halloween theory for the Teletubbies!

I doubt it was believable but that's the point of all this. To reinvent something else to fit a new narrative. And with that, I hope you enjoyed.