Narrative Essay About Teletubbies

If you want your children to have nightmares for the rest of their lives, Teletubbies is the show to do it. It was produced in 1997 and the target audience was pre-school age children. Portrayed as a quad of playful beings that laugh and play at the delight of children, the Teletubbies take over the screen with their frighteningly fixed smiles and incoherent gibberish. It is said that this is quite popular with young children, but it was the opposite in my home. Saturday morning cartoons are nostalgic to adults of my generation, and remain a favorite pastime of children in my home. The start of the weekend entailed lying on the floor with siblings, elbows on the carpet, eating a bowl of cereal while watching their favorites. What was once was filled with rolling laughter and excitement became a room of silence, awe and tears. I was asked to switch to a …show more content…
You might sway your head and clap your hands in sync with the playful tune, but the moment a laughing baby appears inside of a rising sun, your eyebrows may join in stupefaction. One by one, each character springs from behind a hill to surprise you with open arms and chillingly cold faces. Their faces are the most terrifying characteristic of them all. They are like haunted porcelain doll or a ghostly painting whose eyes follow you across the room. Horns spring from their heads as primary shapes, their limbs stubby and short, while their plump bodies move groove to the music. The Telettubby is not a graceful creature. If the first two minutes did not astound you, perhaps the metallic pinwheel that puts them in a trance will. Once it starts spinning and whirring, they gather at the structure in a fashion similar to the mice with the Pied Piper. There is not much to indicate the purpose of the pinwheel, but once it stops spinning, the Teletubbies run away as fast as they