Totally with you here.  My kids were at the right age for elmo and Teletubbies when those phenomena got popular.  Elmo &quot;worked,&quot; but Teletubbies blew Elmo out of the park.  My youngest would stop walking and stand transfixed at the TV when Teletubbies came on.  It was positively creepy.  A British friend said it was very controversial because of all the child psych research that went into capturing the kids&#x27; attention.  The &quot;Tinky Winky&quot; controversy came along much later.