Tinky-Winky
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Sep 9, 2026
CornHOST
Which is a good moment to bring in someone who's been sitting on a very specific piece of Teletubbies trivia for 25 years.
GilbertSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I hand washed Tinky-Winky's handbag.
CornHOST
I'm sorry.
GilbertSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
1998, I was a runner on a Teletubbies adjacent production, four months fetching tea for the costume department.
EddieHOST
They came in '98, so.
White Sox DavePANELIST
Tinky Winky.
EddieHOST
[laughs]
DannyPANELIST
Don't get me started on Dipsy.
EddieHOST
You a big Dipsy guy?
White Sox DavePANELIST
What were their names again? You know, Ed?
EddieHOST
Dipsy, Tinky Winky, uh-
DannyPANELIST
Laa-Laa
ArthurGUEST
I know that Chris has probably watched Teletubbies.
IreneHOST
Was it Tinky Winky?
DavoGUEST
But neither Chris nor Irene strike me as a Teletubby fan.
ArthurGUEST
Oh, I don't know.
Jenna LaFleurGUEST
I'm so sorry.
Jenna LaFleurGUEST
The answer was Tinky Winky.
Jenna LaFleurGUEST
Tinky
Violet WilkesHOST
Winky! Max, when you were asked for your school yearbook what you wanted to be for Halloween, what did you say?
Rory PowersHOST
Uh, okay, so today we're dealing with a haunted castle.
Kit GrierHOST
Haunted castle, no Tinky Winky.
Rory PowersHOST
Oh, right.
Kit GrierHOST
Um, I'm gonna move on from Teletubbies references.
MattHOST
The Teletubbies were crazy huge.
MattHOST
Tinky Winky was the biggest of all the Teletubbies.
MattHOST
He was 10 foot tall.
MattHOST
And these are the four people that were behind the Teletubbies right here in this photo, and they were all professional dancers and choreographers, uh, except for one guy.
Tom GriswoldHOST
Winky and
Josh ArnoldHOST
Twink?
Tom GriswoldHOST
I was going to say Twinkies.
Tom GriswoldHOST
I mean, Hurricane Tinky Winky really isn't
speaker_4PANELIST
going
Tom GriswoldHOST
But
Chick McGeeHOST
Lala is? Lala,
Tom GriswoldHOST
Twinkie, Winky, and
Laylah BeattieHOST
Well, like the Tally Tuffies were a big part of my childhood.
Laylah BeattieHOST
But if I found out Tinky Winky was homophobic, I wouldn't be.
Laylah BeattieHOST
Yeah.
Laylah BeattieHOST
I wouldn't be really following him into war, would I? I think of all of them.
Laylah BeattieHOST
We've got something to tell you.
Annie QueeriesHOST
Of all of them, I think Tinky Winky is the least probable to be homophobic.
Donna FellaHOST
I think he's a
Annie QueeriesHOST
groomer.
Killjoy JakeHOST
This is something that may take shape more in a potential sequel.
Killjoy JakeHOST
So I can't say that I'm an expert on the Tubbs anymore, but four-year-old Jake certainly could have told you pretty much everything there was to know about Poe, Dipsy, Lala, and Tinky Winky.
Killjoy JakeHOST
27-year-old Jake, however, had to Google search what all of the Teletubbies' names were for this video.
Killjoy JakeHOST
The one thing I do know about those sun-worshipping aliens, however, is that there are multiple of them.
ZachHOST
My four-year-old's super into monster trucks, so we found a gravedigger costume.
ZachHOST
So you get to be the gravedigger, and I get to be Tinky Winky.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
Yes.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
I get to be
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