Teletubbies

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Teletubbies scene was so traumatising it was banned around the ... (Mirror.co.uk)

A terrifying moment from a Teletubbies episode which first aired in 1997 was outlawed in various countries and had to be censored by BBC bosses because kids ...

I'm scary on the top and I'm underneath," he growls. I'm hiding from the Lion but he doesn't know where." Teletubbies was an adorable children's TV show - but with four massive alien-like creatures running round it had all the makings of a horror movie. In the new version, the Bear's voice was edited to make it seem less scary and the dread-filling music was changed for something more lighthearted. The sheer presence of the Bear was bad enough, but it gets worse as the unpopular character keeps repeatedly saying: "I'm the Bear, I'm the Bear, and I'm coming." It was banned in the US by PBS after the backlash it received from viewers and in 1999 it was axed by even more countries.

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