25 thoughts on “Teddy the talking porcupine returns”

  1. Is it not having Christmas Dinner at least one day early? Or did I sleep through the festivities? In any case, it’s got quite a good accent, saying “Ja, ja, ja” all the time. Very cute.

  3. Teddy is my new ‘happy place’. When I don’t have anyone to talk to, I’ll just fire up one of his videos. 😀

    He said ‘Yeah!’, (he liked the corn), and ‘grrr..leave it’, ‘get away’, ‘my corn’.

    Are those steamed corn or raw, I wonder. Does Teddy butter or no?

        1. I still never hear these words. I guess Porcupinese alludes me. Many people hear different things. According to this article they include:

          To Americans, those noises sounded like English. In the Netherlands, they heard Dutch. In Japan, they heard Japanese. Teenagers were convinced Teddy was spewing unfiltered profanity.

          Teddy’s voice was used in The Hobbit for the voices of hedgehogs.

          1. I just imagine he’s saying those things, according to his body language and tone and what’s going on with the keeper. 🙂

            It did occur to me, that when he’s saying stuff that sounds like nom nom nom, it could be taken for nein nein nein. 🙂 He’s a multi-cultural porcupine!

  4. I can’t get over the adorable sounds he makes! They’re so ridiculously cute that if I didn’t know better, I’d swear some human in the background was making them.

    Thanks for sharing this!

      1. Perfect argument by analogy for decriminalization! Imagine what Teddy’s mom’s hand would look like if she tried to take it away from him….

        b&

    1. Leroy Anderson’s composition, “The Typewriter” would be a perfect soundtrack for this.

      1. Did you ever see this performed on Evening at Pops? They had a cigar chomping guy in a green visor banging away at the typewriter who would glare at Arthur Fiedler every time he was late dinging the bell. PBS gold!

    2. There is a whole generation of children, young adults even, who will not understand you.
      I finished my meal (cooked by step-daughter and her boyfriend ; washed up by their college friends ; bliss!) with the traditional call for “one tiny wafeeer-thin mint”, and not one of them ran for the corridor or hid behind the pot plant. They just looked at me, puzzled.
      The end times are near. We must make a complaint.

  9. Well, I’m glad for the time on Ms. MacPherson’s hands so that the rest of can see Teddy and hear “porcupspeak”. If this isn’t pleasure, I’m not sure what is.

  10. This is how I’m celebrating the 75th anniversary of the first discovery of a live Coelacanth.

    1. Actually, it was discovered dead – but fairly fresh – in a fisherman’s net. It was recognised next day in the fish market as being something weird and was then brought to the attention of the fishery officer, who sent it to Latimer. (IIRC, haven’t googled or wiki’d.)
      Live ones weren’t observed until (IIRC) the early ’70s, and film of their normal habitats by ROVs in the mid-90s.

  12. Is that a pretty long, thin and curved claw I see on the right paw?
    My already low desire to go porcupine-cuddling has decreased substantially.

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