Netflix's New 'Teletubbies' Reboot Introduces Us to a Handful of Smiley Sun Babies

Nov. 14 2022, Published 12:17 p.m. ET

If you have been a tender kid during the past due '90s, you most probably tuned in to observe the LSD-fueled fever dream that used to be Teletubbies. Boasting sprawling meadows adorned with hopping bunnies, alien-like creatures in an collection of colors (who've televisions embedded in their tummies), a domestic vacuum cleaner pet, and an toddler head sun, the British TV sequence used to be a wild trip.

Following the adventures of Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa, and Po, Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport's Teletubbies ran from 1997 to 2001. Now, in 2022, Netflix is up to its typical shenanigans, as the streamer released a new Teletubbies reboot (it being the second revival) on Nov. 14, 2022. The "21st century refresh" of the trippy '90s vintage is narrated through Emmy nominee Tituss Burgess (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) and is composed of 26 12-minute episodes.

Not only does every episode function a new original “Tummy Tales” track, but viewers are offered to a slew of latest "Sun Babies."

Netflix's 'Teletubbies' reboot features five new Sun Babies.

The original blue-eyed Sun Baby used to be played via Jess Smith, who was once discovered while being weighed at the medical institution as an toddler.

"My mum took me and it just happened to be the same time that the producer of the old series had come in and wanted the hospital to get in contact with them if they'd seen any smiley babies," she advised BBC South East.

Netflix, however, opted for a rotation of smiley Sun Babies, as there are a complete of 5 numerous babies who embody the iconic position. Being an enormous, laughing ball of fireplace in the sky is clearly a job fit for a quintet of drooling small children.

OG 'Teletubbies' fanatics don't seem to be happy with how the new Sun Babies look.

While the original Sun Baby was veiled with a translucent yellow filter, Netflix's Sun Babies are merely presented as floating heads in the sky surrounded by means of rays of sunshine. Many people suppose this is, well, a choice.

"Honestly, the baby sun really bothers me. They could've made the baby's head yellow to resemble a sun like the other versions, " Twitter consumer @MediaLover132 wrote. "It's just weird."

Twitter user @__boaty was much less refined with his reviews. "The Teletubbies reboot changed the sun effect, which definitely pushed it away from 'the sun has a babyface' to 'oh God, there's a giant severed baby head flowing [sic] in space,'" he tweeted.

Yikes. Well, no matter what your stance is on the new Sun Babies, they sure are lovely.

Teletubbies is currently streaming on Netflix.

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