The Bumping Dance (Bumps a Daisy)

The Bumping Dance (also known as Bumps a Daisy) is one of the dances that the Teletubbies do. It was first shown in the episode Numbers - 9. The Teletubbies do this dance outside the Home Hill.

This dance has an extended version.

Plot[]

This dance starts with the Teletubbies running out of the house, they start walking right and left and then jumping around. Po runs over to Tinky Winky and they all start bumping tummies and bottoms. They all turn around with their bottoms together and then they start bumping bottoms. They all walk forward and then turn around and shake their bottoms and then they walk back again and shake their bottoms again. Laa-Laa bumps Dipsy, who bumps Po, who bumps Tinky Winky and then Tinky Winky falls over. The dance then ends with either the Teletubbies going back into the house or staying out to watch the Windmill, or if it's the extended version they will dance again.

Appearances[]

Episodes[]

UK Series (on BBC)[]

Numbers - 9
Feeding the Sheep in Winter (extended version)
Naughty Duck (extended version)
Decorating Boxes
Stick Insect
Making Music
Monkeys (South Africa)

Sunday Specials[]

US Series (on PBS)[]

Music with Debbie (extended version)
Feeding the Chickens (extended version)
Dry Stone Wall (extended version)
Photo Faces (extended version)
Kathak Dancing (extended version)
Colors - Yellow (extended version)
Numbers - 2 (India)
Sandwich (India)

Home Media[]

Special (VHS/DVD)[]

Favourite Things

Discography[]

Teletubbies say "Eh-Oh" (Hit Single)

DVD[]

Fun on the Farm! (Asia) (Feeding the Sheep in Winter)
What's Lovely Music? (China) (Making Music)
Numbers & Flowers (China) (Numbers - 9)

Trivia[]

This is one of the 5 dances to feature the Teletubbies' late 1997-mid 1998 costumes. The other four are The Twisty Dance, The Jumping Dance (2nd Version), The Happy Dance, and The Calypso Dance.
In Numbers - 9 and the UK version of Favourite Things, the Teletubbies are silent during most of the dance, in every other episode, they giggle through the whole dance.
In Numbers - 9 and Favourite Things, the dance ends with a different key change.
In Naughty Duck, when the Teletubbies finish the dance, they look up at the Windmill but the Tubby Bye-Bye voice trumpet is heard instead of the windmill.
In Decorating Boxes and Making Music, the windmill Birds Eye View animation (which first appeared in Making Flowers) is used instead. The Teletubbies go back inside, then, this clip is shown and the Teletubbies go back outside.
In the US Version of Feeding the Chickens, at the end of the dance, the Teletubbies stay outside, the windmill's sound is heard, and the sparkles appear. The Teletubbies then look at the windmill, then turn back, say "Uh-Oh" and run off. No UK episode has this clip. This clip was also seen in the Sunday Special version of Naughty Duck.
The music was used on the DVD menus distributed by Paramount and Warner Home Video.