The Tub-A team is an episode of Teletubbies!: The official bootleg series. It is the 3rd episode of season 5 of the series. In the episode the Teletubbies try to convince that they are not as bad as they seem, so they start their own tv show but it gets backlash because they kill dogs.
Plot[]
The episode begins in Teletubby Land where the Teletubbies are in their living room discussing ways to show that they are not as bad as they seem and try to put Teletubby Land on the map. This causes a fight but Laa-Laa interrupts and says they should start a TV show about solving problems. Everyone agrees and they ride the tubby car to the ferry which takes them to Pee Pee Island. After the get there, they get a call from a steam train driver. He says that he heard 2 farm dogs howling because the dogs thought the train whistle sound was another of them. He has Lupophobia which is a fear of wolves and then the Teletubbies strive over to him. They soon realize that Dipsy also is annoyed by the sound and they put this on camera. Then Po has a solution. She hands Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Tonky Wonky AK-47s and grenades and this turns into a goose chase in which everyone runs around after the dogs while firing their rifles and throwing their grenades. Eventually, the dogs die from their injuries and the Teletubbies walk back up to the engineer and then he asks who the hell they are. Turns out he also owns the dogs and is a farmer and that he was trying to get the Teletubbies in trouble. Plus he does not have Lupophobia. This also results in a goose chase in which he gets his guns and chases after the Teletubbies back to Teletubby Land.
Reception[]
children thought this episode was funny. Even parents thought was too until they learned that the Teletubbies were just called to get them in trouble. Some countries even banned it for animal cruelty because the Teletubbies kill dogs.
Trivia[]
- The farm dogs and the steam train were a reference to the children’s book Owl Moon in which they do make a appearance
- When the author of Owl Moon heard of this, the episode got banned in lots of countries for animal abuse.
- The episode was a reference to a family guy episode titled the A-Team. In the episode Peter Grifin and his friends are called to a family’s cat stuck up in a tree. They then try to solve the problem by shooting the tree repeatedly but the tree falls on the family’s house and kills the cat, making the problem even worse.