Pluck Your Twangers and Play With Your Balls
Rainbow was a British children's show from the Seventies featuring a vaguely muppetesque, zipper-mouthed puppet called, perhaps not surprisingly, Zippy, a pink hippo known as George, a very creepy bear named Bungle, and Geoffrey the token human, who likes to dress up in rainbow-colored jerseys and bell-bottoms.
This hilarious clip was made by the cast as a joke (possibly for a studio party) and is loaded with not-so-subtle sexual innuendo guaranteed to get you in touch with your inner Beavis and Butthead.
Comments
I never liked this show as a kid, though I may have not been able to articulate exactly why. I found them all creepy, but Bungle even more deeply & disturbingly so than the others. To me, the cast's 'adult' skits, and their later novelty-act cabaret career only deepened my (no doubt utterly baseless) suspicions that these people should never have been let loose near small children in the first place...
Posted by: misteraitch | July 20, 2004 10:41 AM
Well, I can certainly understand your discomfort with Bungle...a giant, whiny teddy bear who looks as if he's been smacked in the face with a shovel.
Caberet act? That sounds kind of interesting, actually. Pee Wee's Playhouse, my favorite "childrens" show of all time, started out as a very adult theatrical presentation.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | July 20, 2004 1:13 PM
I had wondered about this; I think I saw the clip as part of some sanitized "office attachments" collection from Yahoo UK, along with badgerbadgerbadger, etc. and I had wondered if it was ever broadcast, or if it was something in-house and hoaxy. I suppose in a world full of Krofft Puppets just about anything's possible.
Posted by: little america | July 22, 2004 2:30 PM
I have a feeling that most, if not all, childrens television hosts harbor an urge to cut loose like this (Mr. Rogers, god bless his lily-white soul, excepted).
Posted by: MrBaliHai | July 22, 2004 3:55 PM
Oh. Oh dear.
Posted by: czeltic girl | July 22, 2004 7:12 PM