John Y’s Musings from the Middle: Teletubbies

I wonder if anyone will ever do a retrospective—a “Where are they now” — special on the Teletubbies.

Normally I don’t care much for these sorts of programs unless I really find the person fascinating.

I don’t find the Teletubbies fascinating, but couldn’t help think they were a fluke, a children’s TV sort of “one hit wonder.”

Television characters like that –after they drop off the public radar–often fall hard and aren’t heard from again. Until death or some public crises or tragedy.

I especially worried about Po.

Who seemed to “appear” happy and functional throughout the series but was masking some deep pain and seemed on a collision course with reality, despite the happy-go-lucky persona.

Po seems to have a lot of parallels with the Partridge Family’s child star Danny Bonaduce ….but as a terrycloth children’s TV character.