Okay, so it wasn’t an actual crossover, but Balladeer’s Blog still finds it pretty hilarious. Back in 2012, the Icelandic television station Channel Two aired an episode of the children’s show Teletubbies but accidentally attached the subtitles track from an episode of the adult-oriented, swearing and violence driven gangster series The Sopranos.
For context, The Sopranos episode in question was the 10th one from Season Four and dealt with Christopher being confronted about his drug use and his resulting negligent killing of the beloved dog. Yes, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po and Tinky-Winky spoke in their normal way, but for anyone with Closed Captions activated the dialogue reflected an entirely different conversation.
An alert viewer in Iceland recorded a brief example of the result. He didn’t even know that the captions were from The Sopranos, just that the dialogue was wildly inappropriate for Teletubbies. Below are some screenshots with the original language subtitles plus English translations:
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