Rainbow!!

Cheese

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This is a script taken from a very old children's tv show called Rainbow.

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The sketch opens with Zippy peeling a banana.....

Zippy: " One skin, two skin, three skin, four "

Zippy: " I think Geoffrey is trying to get him up"

We see a view of the door and hear Bungle moaning from behind it.

Bungle: " Geoffrey, I can't get it in"

Geoffrey: "You managed it last night"

Bungle: "I know, lets try it round the Otherway.

Ooooooh, I've got it in"

Bungle and Geoffrey enter the studio with Bungle carrying a hammer and peg kit

Bungle: " Would you stick this on the shelf, George"

George: " I can't reach, you'll have to stick it up yourself, Bungle."

Geoffrey (to camera) " Hello everyone, today we are talking about playing"

Bungle: " Playing with each other, Geoffrey?"

Geoffrey: " Yes Bungle, do you have a special friend that you like to play with?"

George: " Yesterday we played with each other's balls. Are we going to play with our friend's balls today?

Bungle: " Yes, and we can play with our twangers as well."

Geoffrey (to camera) Have you seen Bungles twanger?

Zippy: " Oh I have, I showed him how to pluck with it."

Bungle: " It's my plucking instrument."

Geoffrey asks the audience if they can pluck like Bungle

Zippy: " I can, I'm the best plucker here."

George; " And I'm good at banging. My peg's hard isn't it Zippy?

Zippy: " Well of course it is, Your peg wouldn't go in if it was soft."

Geoffrey; " Let's get back to Bungle's twanger."

Bungle (excited) "Oooooh Geoffrey, we could all play with our twangers couldn't we? Let's play the plucking song. Rod and Roger can get their instruments out and Jane has got two lovely Maracas."

Singers Rod, Freddy and Jane enter.

Freddy: " We could hear you all banging away"

Rod: " Banging can be fun."

Jane: " Ooooh yes, and I was banging away all last night with Rod and Freddy."

Freddy ( looking sad ) " Yes, but it broke my plucking instrument."

Rod ( to Jane ) " Do you want to blow on my pipe while I'm twanging away?"

Jane: " Oh no, I was banging away with Freddy last night. But would you like to play with my maracas?

Zippy; " No, let's just pluck away with our twangers."

George: " Yes, it doesn't matter what size our twanger is."

Zippy; " I've got a big red one."

George: " I've only got a tiny twanger. But it works well and I like to play with it."

Geoffrey (to viewers) " Well, have you got your twangers out? And remember, you can bang your balls at the same time. If you haven't got any, ask a friend if you can play with his. Now,let's all play the plucking song."

Everyone in studio: " Pluck, pluck, pluck along, we're going to pluck all day."




I have never seen an episode of that show, nor have I heard of it but I wonder how the children who watched that show turned out...lol
 

A.B.Normal

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Cheese said:
I have never seen an episode of that show, nor have I heard of it but I wonder how the children who watched that show turned out...lol


Bet we've got a few of those childhood viewers here :lloyd:
 

Oz

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hehe...........I remember rainbow :lloyd:

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Oz

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AlphaTroll said:
Hmmmm, good on ye babe, you have just proven AB right!!!!!! So has viewing Rainbow had any significant impact on your formative years? :winkkiss:


I turned out ok :nuts:

George is the pink hippo...
Bungle is the giant teddy bear thing...
Geoffery is the human(ish) one....
And zippy......well, dunno wot the hell zippy is......but since I was four years old I've only been able to wear jeans with a button fly :erm:
 

Oz

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AlphaTroll said:
Bet you know all the Power Rangers, Barney characters and Thundercats too eh? :winkkiss:


Nah, I was a bit old when they came out..........can remember most of the Mr Men......The Flumps and Chorlton and the Wheelies tho' :lloyd:
 

AlphaTroll

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Didn't get that one.....I think my fave English one at one stage was Pumpkin Pathc - hey it had a talking dog that alsways screwed up, kinda nifty when you're a kid. :D
 
For those who haven't seen the episode in question, a video clip is available (16.6MB .mpg).


It was never a genuine broadcast, as explained by Geoffrey Hayes, the 'human' of the show:
"The VT department of each ITV company, every Christmas had a competition to enter all the outtakes from their particular companies programme out put, and see which ones were the funniest. But ours wasn’t an outtake, we specially did it. It was specially scripted and we did it and I never saw it! We did it and Thames won it, but what they actually won, I don’t know. But I never saw the video. I can’t remember much about it except for Zippy with a banana."

The script was written by the voice of Zippy and George; Roy Skelton.
source: Rainbow web FAQs
 
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