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April 19, 2021 2:47 PM Subscribe
The Teletubbies, set to "The Rite of Spring". That is all.
as someone who has never seen the Teletubbies show before I am now thoroughly convinced this is the only way the show makes any sense
posted by phunniemee at 2:56 PM on April 19, 2021 [4 favorites]
posted by phunniemee at 2:56 PM on April 19, 2021 [4 favorites]
The Teletubbies also work remarkably well with a Joy Division soundtrack.
posted by Surely This at 3:21 PM on April 19, 2021 [6 favorites]
posted by Surely This at 3:21 PM on April 19, 2021 [6 favorites]
You might also enjoy The Rite of Spring for weird animal toy orchestra . Very satisfying for a certain type of music nerd.
posted by charmedimsure at 3:26 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by charmedimsure at 3:26 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
This feels like the right thread to link this absolutely incredible series of digital drawings from Reddit:
Tinky Winky, the Greeter
Dipsy, the Curious
Laa Laa, the Maternal
Po, the Sovereign
posted by capricorn at 3:46 PM on April 19, 2021 [11 favorites]
Tinky Winky, the Greeter
Dipsy, the Curious
Laa Laa, the Maternal
Po, the Sovereign
posted by capricorn at 3:46 PM on April 19, 2021 [11 favorites]
Teletubbies was pure magic when the kids were tiny. Nothing else held their attention so completely. It was so weird to be able to go do something and know they weren't going to move.
I think they'll find this pretty funny. Thanks.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 4:18 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
I think they'll find this pretty funny. Thanks.
posted by Mr. Yuck at 4:18 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
This is freaking delightful. Thank you.
posted by The Baffled King at 4:20 PM on April 19, 2021
posted by The Baffled King at 4:20 PM on April 19, 2021
Back in the earlier years, a local PBS station had a store in the big local mall. They sold games, books, science kits, etc. And VHS tapes and maybe DVDs of PBS shows. And in the back they always had the Teletubies playing. One evening I walked in and the Teletubies weren’t on. I asked the guy working there why. He said when he came in the morning to open up the store he went through the routine of getting things going. He said he turned on the TV and started the tape and then realized twenty minutes had gone by. He has been mesmerized by the Teletubies. And it wasn’t the first time. So he decided not today...
posted by njohnson23 at 4:38 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by njohnson23 at 4:38 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
It was so weird to be able to go do something and know they weren't going to move.
Psychedelics tend to have that effect on people.
posted by vverse23 at 4:41 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
Psychedelics tend to have that effect on people.
posted by vverse23 at 4:41 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
That is .. trippy. The kind of thing you'd totally watch stoned when you were a bored high schooler. Excellent post, and I say this as a pandemic-bored geezer in a state with legal weed.
posted by theora55 at 5:03 PM on April 19, 2021 [4 favorites]
posted by theora55 at 5:03 PM on April 19, 2021 [4 favorites]
Isn’t the Rite of Spring about sacrificing someone? That sun-god-baby looks like he needs some blood propitiation.
posted by vorpal bunny at 6:43 PM on April 19, 2021 [4 favorites]
posted by vorpal bunny at 6:43 PM on April 19, 2021 [4 favorites]
When they were new, my father would say
"I don't like those Tubbies."
posted by Rash at 6:47 PM on April 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
"I don't like those Tubbies."
posted by Rash at 6:47 PM on April 19, 2021 [1 favorite]
Utterly terrifying, in a good way I guess. But needs a full length supercut, that was just a 5 minute trailer.
posted by sammyo at 8:17 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by sammyo at 8:17 PM on April 19, 2021 [2 favorites]
That is .. trippy. The kind of thing you'd totally watch stoned when you were a bored high schooler.
♫ This part's too hi-i-igh for me ♫
posted by aws17576 at 12:05 AM on April 20, 2021 [1 favorite]
♫ This part's too hi-i-igh for me ♫
posted by aws17576 at 12:05 AM on April 20, 2021 [1 favorite]
That was cute and weird and funny af but I'm going to take every moment the Rite of Spring is mentioned to urge anyone who is capable of it to go a live performance. The sound rips across the concert hall. It's like someone tearing up a newspaper or magazine but the thing that's being ripped up is the air.
posted by treepour at 7:50 PM on April 20, 2021 [4 favorites]
posted by treepour at 7:50 PM on April 20, 2021 [4 favorites]
Also life-changing to see live was Quintron's punk rock take "The Wrongs of Spring" performed by like 40 musicians at the Music Box Village sonic sculpture garden in New Orleans.
posted by umbú at 1:02 PM on April 21, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by umbú at 1:02 PM on April 21, 2021 [1 favorite]
vorpal bunny: Isn’t the Rite of Spring about sacrificing someone?Not the whole piece, but this particular movement is. The last chords at the end are supposed to represent the final blow given to a sacrificial maiden.
*I know nothing of music theory, but I'm mildly infatuated with the Rite and have watched more documentaries on it than I should*posted by andycyca at 9:11 AM on April 23, 2021
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