Posted on 06/29/2006 2:36:48 AM PDT by Stoat
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By IAN KING IRAN has gone absolutely Laa-Laa over the Teletubbies and bought the kiddies TV show from the BBC. The Mullahs in Tehran are lapping up Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Pos adventures. BBC Worldwide said yesterday the main TV station the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting has bought 65 episodes and experts are dubbing them into Farsi, the national language. A spokesman said: Its taking a long time to translate, as you can imagine. The deal comes as Iran faces pressure over its nuclear expansion programme amid fears it plans to develop a bomb. The first shows are expected to go out before Ramadan this year. The Teletubbies celebrate their tenth anniversary this year. As well as Iran, the Beeb has licensed a Teletubbies Edutainment centre and a Teletubbies Play and Development centre at Dongguan and Shenzhen in China. BBC Worldwide, the Beebs main commercial arm, yesterday reported record profits of £89.4million up 62 per cent. Boss John Smith said BBC Worldwide is the worlds No 1 exporter of TV shows, with Hustle, Spooks, Doctor Who, EastEnders and Waking The Dead its best sellers. |
Tinky Winky is a homo. What are the Persians going to do? Stone their televisions when Tinky appears on the screen?
The "president" (of Iran, of course) is going to love this one.
I thought that the traditional punishment for homos in Muslim countries was to either collapse a brick wall on top of them or throw them off a mountain.
Maybe they haven't found out about Winky yet, but when they do, somebody at the Network of Hate will have a lot of 'splainin' to do.
They will probably dub it with secret instructions for terrorists.
How the heck can you "translate" the teletubbies? Do you actually need to?
Wait until they find out that one of the characters is Jewish.
Hehehe. You yanks can keep threatening the Iranians with war, us Brits will destroy them from within via the teletubbies and they will even pay us to do so! :D
How vile and underhanded!
I thought the show was creepy before. I am just imagining the disembodied voice saying. "Allah Akbar, Tinky Winky. Death to America, Poh!"
Actually, the 'Tubbies are so disgustingly saccharine, it may be just the push that the mad mullahs in Iran need to get the people to back an attack against the West for producing such a load of crap.
If they buy Barney and Friends, look out for incoming!!!
They'll hate us for sure now.
The new dialog says....
"Death to Israel La la"
"Death to Israel Po"
It's not the translation per se, it's finding just the right voice talent to say, "Kill the Zionists", "Destroy the Great Satan America", "There is no God but Allah" and such.
Coming from those brightly colored globby characters, I think that would be hi-larious.
Iran is going to use TTs as a form of torture on political prisoners. A couple hours of viewing and they'll crack.
How do you say "Big Hug" in Farsi?
If this show had been around when I was smoking dope, I never would have left the dorm room.
Yeah.... Pressing a wall down on them. Andrew Sullivan complained about that practice.
And all their little tummy screens will feature short films on kids wearing suicide belts.
Whatevew wiww we do?
ooops, post #19 was supposed to be for wittempo.
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