Feeding the Chickens

Feeding the Chickens
Number	18
Air Date	23 April 1997
Director	Vic Finch
Previous	Humpty Dumpty
Next	The Helicopter

Feeding the Chickens is the 18th episode of the original series. It first aired on 23rd April 1997.

Plot

Dipsy with a piece of tubby toast.

The Teletubbies dance in and out of the trees. The Magic Windmill spins and they go to watch Matthew, James, and Mark feeding their chickens.

Back in Teletubbyland, Laa-Laa decides to have Tubby Toast. Tinky-Winky, out for a walk, smells the Tubby Toast and decides to go and have some as well. But the Tubby Toaster malfunctions for some reason and makes too much Tubby Toast all over the Home Hill and Teletubbyland! Soon there is Tubby Toast all over the table, the floor, the beds, and Tinky-Winky! There is Tubby Toast everywhere! Lots of Tubby Toast for Noo Noo, for Po, for Laa-Laa, for Dipsy, for Tinky-Winky and for the rabbits! Lots of Tubby Toast for everybody! Afterwards, the Magic Windmill stops spinning (offscreen) and the Teletubbies run outside as it's time for Tubby Bye-Bye.

Rare Tubby Toast

Featuring: Matthew, James, and Mark Carnie

Plot (US Version 1)

The Teletubbies enjoy watching children on a farm feeding their chickens. Then Dipsy spills his tubby custard all over a tubby seat. No one wants to sit in the custard so Noo-Noo tidies it up.

Plot (US Version 2)

The Teletubbies Everywhere segment features Dipsy counting six, the color brown with Po, and big and small with Laa-Laa. The film from Portugal shows children feeding some chickens. In Teletubbyland, the Teletubbies appear for a big hug and the film shows some children exploring the color brown. Inside Home Hill, someone spilled their Tubby Custard, made a mess with their Tubby Toast at the control panel and fell fast asleep. Tinky Winky, Dipsy and Laa-Laa play a "Who Did It?" game.

Trivia

• This is the first episode to have the Magic Windmill stop spinning sound without the Magic Windmill stop spinning animation. To add this, this indicates that the Windmill froze off-screen.
• The Teletubbies dancing around the trees segment was featured in the VHS Dance with the Teletubbies.
• The Tubby Toast segment was featured in the VHS Here Come the Teletubbies.
• In The Tubby Toast Accident, there is a rare piece of tubby toast which it is a frowning toast, where the Noo-Noo was spinning.
• Laa-Laa is the boo shouter.
• Tinky Winky was the missing Teletubby.

Watch Episode

Teletubbies Feeding the Chickens (English)

Goofs

• In The Tubby Toast Accident scene, when Tinky Winky's shown attempting to catch Tubby Toast with his plate, a studio camera can be visibly seen on the left side of Tinky Winky.
• In that same scene, a Tubby Toast hits one of the cameras, causing the image to shake for a brief instant.

Note: the camera to the left of Tinky-Winky

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