I never leave replies, but honestly this had me in tears for nearly 15 minutes, to the point my wife wanted to hit me. Funniest comment I've ever read. Priceless.
God Bless and R.I.P Geoffrey Hayes gave me and so many others much happiness growing up in the 70’s watching Rainbow , he will be missed by young and old all over the country .
Me, because I've shared it with someone who's actually never seen or heard of Rainbow..... Or Rod, Jane and Freddy. All be it this was with Rodger, before he left and Freddy joined. Ahhh, too much explanation. 😂
This was actually recorded as a joke by the cast and crew, who played it at their annual staff Christmas Party (usually they just did a bloopers tape, but this particular year, made something different). It was never aired on children's TV. However in 1991 it was shown on the Victor Lewis Smith - TV Offal, who mistakenly said it was a 'pilot' show. Still fookin hilarious though..
Was it heck, you idiot. It was recorded many years later for a comedy show. That's not Geoffrey Hayes, just someone who looks a little bit like him, and Rod, Jane and Freddy looked nothing like that. Although to be fair, this footage is so poor quality it's hard to tell.
By "research" I assume you mean Google it. Did that. Plenty of other people online spinning the same yarn. If you're into confirmation bias you could just stop there, _or_ you could take a good look at images of Rod, Jane and Freddy and compare them to this video. The only thing you can be certain of is your own _opinion._
R.I.P. Geoffrey... It seems that all the personalities from my childhood are either dead, ancient or getting arrested! Still glad I was born in the 70's though.. I think I could have been shown this episode when I was a kid and not seen anything wrong with it. Hilarious now though, nice one! 👍
@sneekyreek I was born in 71 (47 tomorrow aghhh) so I think I was lucky, I had a childhood without mobile phones etc getting in the way. I'd hate to be a kid now but I suppose all generations say that..
@@SpyroTek I know but something happens as you get older I've found, you know your age and you know that the adults who you spent your childhood with or watching on telly must be old but you get a shock when they die...I do anyway. It's like they stay the age you remember them as when you were a kid..in the mind anyway. God, I'm going all reflective and sentimental in my old age, take no notice..of course you're right :D
I think we all think our generation was the best no matter how old we were, but in reality it probably wasn't. It's just that we remember the good old days when we didn't have a care in the world and not a single bill to pay =)
Can you imagine the stink. Had the tapes been swapped about accidentally. And broadcast at times when all the kids were watching. Just think of all them letters going into the b.b.c. That would have been 😂 😂 😂 had this been played
@@FuttBuckerson87 U da man. Kids today fucking forget there was internet before YT. This was a great laugh and wasn't pixelated then. My older sister's friend showed me this and let me play with her maracas too.
I first watched this back in 2009/2010, and to this day, it still has comedy value. "If you haven't got any balls, ask a friend if you can play with his".
Interesting to notice how Rainbow (and indeed, many British kids shows of this era) seemed so much more "adult" than all the crappy cbeebies and CBBC channel shows we have today, whilst at the same time being completely suitable for children and especially for preschoolers too. During the 1970s and 80s, people didn't complain about how adult they seemed, but instead about viewing time. The difference between how adult they seemed and how much childrens content featured in them was that the Mr Men and Little Miss cartoons, despite being absolutely suitable for the youngsters, tended to sneak in a few adult jokes here and there, while shows like Rainbow would sneak in countless adult jokes during its 19 year run (1972-1991). This was really well done though, mate, cheers!
I love it! Naughty as it is. It's very obvious that it was never actually part of the regularly broadcast program. TV shows used to make a joke segment for the end of the year "Christmas tape". en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_(TV_series) Look under History --> Adult Version To read more about this clip.
You was the best thing on TV you and your crew entertained me along with the singing crew My daughter was still enjoying your show videos in 2009 Wonder man wonderful programme and catchy sing,- a longs Thank you may your family be comforted at this time
Have you got your twanger out? You can bounce your balls at the same time. If you don't have a twanger, ask your friend if you can play with his twanger... LMAO
I distinctly remember this show, and this episode in particular, being aired in the early 80's here in Australia.. I was about 5 or 6 at the time, and actually made a Twanger Box (a tissue box with an elastic band stretched around it across the hole where the tissues are pulled out, kind of a poor man's guitar) to use when this show was on.. The show was completely innocent to a 6 year old, but I'm sure my parents (who, at the time, were my age now) 'got' the adult angle.. This is not the only 'rude' Rainbow episode.. funny as hell though.. heh
I saw this on tv and remember going into school and telling others about me and they didn't believe me! My little sister had been watching it. I couldn't believe all the innuendo and knew it had to have been done on purpose but everyone thought I was reading into it and no-one else I knew had seen it... until years later I saw it surface on the internet and knew I hadn't imagined it! Mind you it wasn't 1981 when i saw it because I remember being old enough to know what it meant (my little sis was oblivious) and that I was in secondary school. It was around 88, give or take a year, so I wonder, they must have accidentally repeated it in the UK.. which seems a bit mad. in 81 I was only 7 and my little sis was only 1 so I def didn't see it (or notice it if I did see it!) that time around. In fact, I bet if I go through my teenage diaries, I think I wrote about it
To clear up, this was a behind-the scenes treat for all the cameramen's hard work. Bit of a give away with "Have you got your twangers out?" and not the usual "Have you got your twangers out, kids" and a complete lack of the word "Kids" throughout.
Again - this *was not* broadcast. It was a private video made either for a Xmas party or a leaving crew member *not* for children. Besides which the humour *is* 100% innuendo. If you can't accept innuendo then you don't deserve to be called "sentient".
Yeah there's a bit of an urban myth that they actually aired this when in reality it was an inside joke. This clip didn't actually make air until the late 90s (Well after Rainbow was axed) when TV Offal aired it. If they'd ever tried to air this as a children's TV there would've been a huge outcry. This clip is still hilarious though.
back in the day the different channels and divisions would compile all the best outtakes to send to each other as a Christmas present on tape, they then began doing these sketches and jokes specifically for the tapes and this was on one.
Rainbow was a real Bitish children's TV show. This particular clip though was made by the cast and crew to be aired at a studio Christmas party, and not intended for broadcast.
I remember this when it first started, I would run home from school at noon to watch it I was 8 at the time in 1972, I loved the show and I miss those far off days. R I P Geoffrey Hayes.
01:11 - Zippy: I can, I'm the best plucker here! I kinda missed that on previous viewings in amongst all the other hilarious innuendo... classic, cracks me up!
Yeah, the uploader could have made it clearer (or could still!). That is somewhat of a shame. The Uploader clearly knows where it comes from, it''s the top result when searching for 'Rainbow Christmas tape'. The tags must include 'Christmas Tape'. I guess the title and description are supposed to be clickbait. Hence all the idiots talking about sexualizing children and such...pity. Likely it's only Gen X-ers+ (I guess) like you and me who have 'gotten' the fact that it's clearly not trying to sexualize children, even if we didn't know of the Christmas Tape, we knew Rainbow and knew something was VERY WRONG when we saw this! lol...or RIGHT depending on your POV 🤣 I remember when I was first shown this, I was in stitches, I had no knowledge of the Christmas Tape, so I must have found out via the comments. But I didn't for a second think this was, legit, even before reading any comments! I mean Rainbow was something I watched constantly, 'this' was clearly not what I used to watch as a young child!!!
When fiber optic internet was being installed to new homes I was with my mate filling in for someone who was away for a few days and we had to feed these long cables from the multiport on the street to the side of the house, and when the cables would get stuck I would yell to him from down the street "OH OH I CAN'T GET IT IN SHOULD I TRY IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND"
Just genius, I don't know how many people who find this funny just _know_ it was a popular childrens TV program, but enjoy it anyway. But I must say, as a child of the 80's who actually watched it all the time, it's just genius. Well done guy's and the uploader. And RIP Geoffrey Hayes, David Cook, Peter Hawkins, Roy William Skelton and Violet Philpott. (these weren't all featured here, I think only Geoffrey. The others were previous members of the cast, but still part of the Rainbow family).
I've seen several explanations as to where this came from - and some have been close but not quite right. Every year, the VT editors of the major broadcasting companies (mainly the BBC and the ITV network stations) edited together a tape that was to be aired in each others Christmas parties. Initially, this started out as outtakes (fluffed lines, swearing, corpsing, exploding studio equipment etc.), and other things that were never aired and at the time usually believed to be wiped once the final edit of a programme was made. They became known as the annual Christmas Tapes. It started out as what we would now know as a blooper reel of the previous reel's fluffs and mistakes made by presenters - back then without their permission or often knowledge. In the '70s and '80s these tapes were eagerly anticipated by the staff of the broadcasting companies and as their popularity grew, some shows made "special" versions just for the tape, with the assumption that they would never be seen by the public. Some of these "specials" were normal BBC presenters doing truly outrageous things that would have been scandalous should they be seen by the public so the tapes for many years were kept very much in-house and under lock and key, once shown. SOME of these clips have made it into the public over the years on dodgy VHS copies from the original (probably sneaked out by staff) but I'm pretty sure not all of the tapes have been released in their entirety as some staff would never give their permission for their mistakes or "private performances" to be released (I do know that all the BBC Christmas Tapes still exist in their entirety - not sure about the ITV ones). As well as these shorts, only ever aimed at internal staff, there are some things that we would never have today were it not for the Christmas Tapes. For example, on the Fawlty Towers DVD one of the extras is a short collection of outtakes from the second series. This is straight off the Christmas Tape for 1979 and would never have been kept otherwise. DVD extras? Back then shows were made to be watched once when transmitted (possibly with a repeat later on in the year should it prove popular) and were often wiped once shown to recycle the then, comparitively very expensive video tape, and there certainly wasn't a market back then for outtakes. The concept of the Christmas tape eventually morphed into a more sanitised version called Auntie's Bloomers, hosted by Terry Wogan for a good number of years every Christmas on the BBC consisting of (mostly) BBC outtakes, by then WITH the permission of the person who made the bloopers.
Thank god for the internet. I first saw this online years ago after searching for it. I'd hard about it's existence as a schoolkid, and eventually saw it when I was in my twenties. Good to see it's still available for people to see.
Seriously dude, everyone already knows this, it's just funny to watch a crew like this chill out and have a laugh together. You should try it sometime : )
Does anyone know if there's a better quality version of this anywhere? It's an absolute classic, and I've sent it to dozens of people, but it'd be great to unearth a higher quality version.
Oh my goodness, this is still too funny after all these years....R.I.P Geoffrey Hayes, he made my school lunchtime TV viewing back in the early 80s.......😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
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RIP Geoffrey - whichever pixel you are..
Class comment. :)
This might be my favourite RUclips comment of all time.
I never leave replies, but honestly this had me in tears for nearly 15 minutes, to the point my wife wanted to hit me. Funniest comment I've ever read. Priceless.
A better quality copy of this can be seen on Dailymotion
Very, very few RUclips comments make me actually laugh out loud...maybe one in a thousand...and this was one of them. Thanks!!!
Pure classic!!
What a great country England was back then.
I feel blessed to have grown up in the 60s, 70s and 80s..
God Bless Geoffrey Hayes legend!!
Still has me in tears of laughter! RIP Geoffrey, you were the best!
God Bless and R.I.P Geoffrey Hayes gave me and so many others much happiness growing up in the 70’s watching Rainbow , he will be missed by young and old all over the country .
Just heard about it on the evening news so sad when your childhood favourites pass on, shame it couldn't have been bungle.😧
I like the way we all instinctively went to this video
@@AlexRoseGames Absolutely! Just had to be done!
Me Me They were fantastic times .
So sorry to hear about Geoffrey.
The thought of playing with janes maracas has got my twanger standing to attention.
Mine too.
🤣🤣🤣
Hehe, I’ve got a big red one
I used to watch it with my kids hoping to see Jane. If I was really lucky she'd be wearing a short skirt
I broke my plucking instrument thinking about playing with Roger's balls
Kudos to everyone involved for keeping straight faces.
i lost it at "we can all paint our twangers" hahaha
+simontay1984 it was never an actual broadcast episode - this was recorded as a gag for the cast and crew wrap party one year.
Nick Muller 😂😂😂😂😂
Especially the puppets
Who was the guest presenter for this episode? Jimmy Saville?
Who needs Fifty Shades of Grey when you can have Rainbow Twangers lol!!😂😂😂😂
This is more like 50 shades of gay
Another piece of my Childhood now just in memory....fantastic memories....
Condolences to his family and friends.....and everyone else...
"I was banging away all night with Rod and Roger!"
"Yes, but it broke my plucking instrument..."
Yes but it broke my f#cking instrument😂🙈 ... I know it says plucking.. but still
Rodger had a bigger twanger than Freddie obviously!!
@@MrTaylor498Freddie replaced Roger in 1980, who in turn had replace Matt aka Matthew Corbet from Sooty fame
Who's back here in 2024?
At least a couple times a year when something reminds me of this . I search to show them when they don’t believe me that it exists. Lol
Me, because I've shared it with someone who's actually never seen or heard of Rainbow..... Or Rod, Jane and Freddy. All be it this was with Rodger, before he left and Freddy joined.
Ahhh, too much explanation. 😂
I'm here! lol
@@davidthomas-rk3kbI wonder what Geoffrey would 🤔 have thought of all the rainbow 🌈 parodies ? 🥶😱😅🤣😂 Aug twenty ✨️ four
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This was actually recorded as a joke by the cast and crew, who played it at their annual staff Christmas Party (usually they just did a bloopers tape, but this particular year, made something different). It was never aired on children's TV. However in 1991 it was shown on the Victor Lewis Smith - TV Offal, who mistakenly said it was a 'pilot' show. Still fookin hilarious though..
Was it heck, you idiot. It was recorded many years later for a comedy show. That's not Geoffrey Hayes, just someone who looks a little bit like him, and Rod, Jane and Freddy looked nothing like that. Although to be fair, this footage is so poor quality it's hard to tell.
Definitely filmed for a xmas party as a joke
Do research b4 shouting know it all crap and being an idiot
By "research" I assume you mean Google it. Did that. Plenty of other people online spinning the same yarn. If you're into confirmation bias you could just stop there, _or_ you could take a good look at images of Rod, Jane and Freddy and compare them to this video.
The only thing you can be certain of is your own _opinion._
It was plucking awesome!
David Ritko So was this thread.
you can change the dress, the era, and the style, but you cannot change the sexual innuendos or jokes.... timeless
This was a joke episode, never aired
This was a private video for Christmas that wasn't meant to be broadcast at all and it wasn't.
Its brilliant 😂
820 people didn't get to play with Bungle's twanger.
RIP Geoffrey, thanks for the childhood memories.
You could probably show this in nursery school and the kids would think it was just another episode, while the teacher collapsed in a corner.
Not these days you couldnt
Rest in peace, Geoffrey. Thanks for all the laughs.
This will never not be funny.
Ethan Dalton I
2019 and its still funny too bad TV broadcasting companies are too PC and snowflakes nowadays
Wanker
2020 and still funny 🤣🤣
chef jamie what happens when you let liberals take over I guess
How they all kept straight faces while doing this I’ll never know.😂😂😂😂😂
Genius.👏🏻👏🏻
R.I.P. Geoffrey... It seems that all the personalities from my childhood are either dead, ancient or getting arrested! Still glad I was born in the 70's though.. I think I could have been shown this episode when I was a kid and not seen anything wrong with it. Hilarious now though, nice one! 👍
They are old so chances are they are dead or going to die soon. Sad but that's life (death).
@sneekyreek I was born in 71 (47 tomorrow aghhh) so I think I was lucky, I had a childhood without mobile phones etc getting in the way. I'd hate to be a kid now but I suppose all generations say that..
@@SpyroTek I know but something happens as you get older I've found, you know your age and you know that the adults who you spent your childhood with or watching on telly must be old but you get a shock when they die...I do anyway. It's like they stay the age you remember them as when you were a kid..in the mind anyway. God, I'm going all reflective and sentimental in my old age, take no notice..of course you're right :D
I think we all think our generation was the best no matter how old we were, but in reality it probably wasn't. It's just that we remember the good old days when we didn't have a care in the world and not a single bill to pay =)
No you would not have as this was never aired.
LOL! This should have been officially aired on TV late at night as a treat for the parents of the kids who watched Rainbow.
Can you imagine the stink. Had the tapes been swapped about accidentally. And broadcast at times when all the kids were watching. Just think of all them letters going into the b.b.c. That would have been 😂 😂 😂 had this been played
This wasn't aired - it was a joke for the Christmas party - no kid ever saw this..... well, until the invention of RUclips...lol
I saw it in 2004 internet. Gf back then showed me it. YT started the next year.
Kelly14UK
So why did you break up? It wasn’t her it was YOU wasn’t it...
Ebaumsworld is where I first seen it in like 04-05
@@FuttBuckerson87 U da man. Kids today fucking forget there was internet before YT. This was a great laugh and wasn't pixelated then. My older sister's friend showed me this and let me play with her maracas too.
my dad showed me this on VHS way back when.
I first watched this back in 2009/2010, and to this day, it still has comedy value. "If you haven't got any balls, ask a friend if you can play with his".
Interesting to notice how Rainbow (and indeed, many British kids shows of this era) seemed so much more "adult" than all the crappy cbeebies and CBBC channel shows we have today, whilst at the same time being completely suitable for children and especially for preschoolers too. During the 1970s and 80s, people didn't complain about how adult they seemed, but instead about viewing time. The difference between how adult they seemed and how much childrens content featured in them was that the Mr Men and Little Miss cartoons, despite being absolutely suitable for the youngsters, tended to sneak in a few adult jokes here and there, while shows like Rainbow would sneak in countless adult jokes during its 19 year run (1972-1991). This was really well done though, mate, cheers!
Oh my God, that's the funniest thing I've seen in years...
This is a work of art.
All them shows and they never realized it was Lord Lucan in that Bear Suit.
Patrick Lavin I know I'm a bit late to the party here (OK, 2 years late) but that is the funniest comment I have read in a long time! Well done xx
😂😂😂
LMAO
I love it! Naughty as it is. It's very obvious that it was never actually part of the regularly broadcast program.
TV shows used to make a joke segment for the end of the year "Christmas tape".
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_(TV_series)
Look under History --> Adult Version To read more about this clip.
Hahahah
2:21. Zippy looking down at George's twanger! Ha ha!
We had Rainbow on TV New Zealand back in the early 80's, loved it as a kid. Had know idea they pulled this off. Brit's have the best humor bar none.
They didn't with this one, it was a joke episode, I don't think they released it for kids
i do remember watching this episode when i was young but didnt pick up on the rude inuendos
Me too
@@nzfalcon8698it was never broadcast on kids TV, but it did appear on an adult show called TV Offal on Channel 4 during the 90s
And if you haven't got any balls, play with your friends! Quality!
Adas 😁😁😜
How wonderful a Sense of humour is. First time seeing this today 13sep 2020. God bless you Geoffrey. Thanks for a wonderful childhood. 🇬🇧
So sad to learn of Geoffrey's passing, just had to view this classic video again....it's the very least I could do!
RIP Mr Hayes, you are a legend !!
RIP Geoffrey...sad news today. This clip is legendary but obviously not the show most UK kids of that time will remember.
You was the best thing on TV you and your crew entertained me along with the singing crew
My daughter was still enjoying your show videos in 2009
Wonder man wonderful programme and catchy sing,- a longs
Thank you may your family be comforted at this time
The amount of innuendos in this 3 minutes is insane lol.
This was made by the team for their own amusement, it was not meant to be broadcast, so get a sense of humour :)
Have you got your twanger out? You can bounce your balls at the same time. If you don't have a twanger, ask your friend if you can play with his twanger... LMAO
+WolfGames hahahahahahahahahahahaha
Have you got your twanger out...
Pickle 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This video is classic ☺️☺️☺️
2:23. Zippy checking out George's twanger!
This was developed internally for ITV staff members, they (used to?) do similar things with all their shows. It was never broadcast for kids TV
Yep!
+seemyownfuture yep..
lol ok
bruceownsu lol
It's a well known spoof and not aired, plus was ITV programme! Not BBC!! Another memory misfire?!
It always bothered me why Bungle would walk round naked in the day then wear pyjamas to bed!
I grew up with this stuff in the 80's. I used to love rainbow. hahahahah.
113 people don't know how fun twanging can be
Now it's up to 960 people that don't want to let anyone play with their balls
Wait is this really for kids?
Its 4 dirty nonces Lilia TRUST ME
BLESS THE PEOPLE WHO'VE MADE THIS!!!! I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS!
Jessica Lamb Forgot yet?
This particular segment of Rainbow was done as a spoof by the actors and wasn't actually aired on TV.
I'd say the Crew filming it were desperately trying not to laugh.
***** Are you referring to my post? you must be going through your time of the Month. There there now, it won't last long.
soeffingwhat I have a feeling he was talking to tachikoma XD
I distinctly remember this show, and this episode in particular, being aired in the early 80's here in Australia.. I was about 5 or 6 at the time, and actually made a Twanger Box (a tissue box with an elastic band stretched around it across the hole where the tissues are pulled out, kind of a poor man's guitar) to use when this show was on..
The show was completely innocent to a 6 year old, but I'm sure my parents (who, at the time, were my age now) 'got' the adult angle..
This is not the only 'rude' Rainbow episode.. funny as hell though.. heh
I saw this on tv and remember going into school and telling others about me and they didn't believe me! My little sister had been watching it. I couldn't believe all the innuendo and knew it had to have been done on purpose but everyone thought I was reading into it and no-one else I knew had seen it... until years later I saw it surface on the internet and knew I hadn't imagined it! Mind you it wasn't 1981 when i saw it because I remember being old enough to know what it meant (my little sis was oblivious) and that I was in secondary school. It was around 88, give or take a year, so I wonder, they must have accidentally repeated it in the UK.. which seems a bit mad. in 81 I was only 7 and my little sis was only 1 so I def didn't see it (or notice it if I did see it!) that time around. In fact, I bet if I go through my teenage diaries, I think I wrote about it
I’m here because of the sad news that Geoffrey sadly passed away today. A legend
RIP
Wait what?
Who gives a fuck about that
You sad prick
@@fleshgordon6190 I give a fuck
To clear up, this was a behind-the scenes treat for all the cameramen's hard work.
Bit of a give away with "Have you got your twangers out?" and not the usual "Have you got your twangers out, kids" and a complete lack of the word "Kids" throughout.
Love the way Zippy looks down when George says that he only has a small one (twanger). Ha!Ha!Ha!
Again - this *was not* broadcast. It was a private video made either for a Xmas party or a leaving crew member *not* for children.
Besides which the humour *is* 100% innuendo. If you can't accept innuendo then you don't deserve to be called "sentient".
Xavier Smith Pedophilia is the sexual attraction to children not making somethong raunchy with children's characters.
Xavier Smith How so?
Xavier Smith Considering rape is a physical action, that's pretty much completely impossible.
Dont feed the trolls guys
I grew up with this and have turned out reasonably well ! I keep the bars on my window very clean indeed 🤣
From a 1979 holiday special made solely for the cast & crew.
Yeah there's a bit of an urban myth that they actually aired this when in reality it was an inside joke. This clip didn't actually make air until the late 90s (Well after Rainbow was axed) when TV Offal aired it. If they'd ever tried to air this as a children's TV there would've been a huge outcry. This clip is still hilarious though.
back in the day the different channels and divisions would compile all the best outtakes to send to each other as a Christmas present on tape, they then began doing these sketches and jokes specifically for the tapes and this was on one.
R.I.P Geoffrey. That Christmas party must have been hillarious!
I used to watch this as a kid in the UK. This is giving me chills. LMFAO. One episode was about having 'secrets with friends' and was so creepy.
"We played with our balls!"
Was in tears of laughter and inconsolable when I first heard that. It was so unexpected
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sheer brilliance
Rainbow was a real Bitish children's TV show. This particular clip though was made by the cast and crew to be aired at a studio Christmas party, and not intended for broadcast.
I just love Adult Rainbow, absolutely brilliant.I think you have to remember watching Rainbow in the 70s and 80s to appreciate how funny this is
I remember this when it first started, I would run home from school at noon to watch it I was 8 at the time in 1972, I loved the show and I miss those far off days. R I P Geoffrey Hayes.
One skin, two skin, three skin....
Lul
Holly Brown: Obsessed Shipper What?
Oliver McCall a foreskin
Fourskin😂🍆
four- AH ZIPPY, WHERE'S BUNGLE?
01:11 - Zippy: I can, I'm the best plucker here! I kinda missed that on previous viewings in amongst all the other hilarious innuendo... classic, cracks me up!
IVE GOT A BIG RED ONE
I like to play with it...
+The MilanToon Channel I love how people can not think of their own comments. They just repeat part of what was in the video.
+User User But how can one *NOT* rephrase a hilarious quote? :3
You can not rephrase a quote or it would not be a quote.
+User User Smart arse !
I'm sad to say that Geoffrey Hayes passed away today :( RIP
This wasn’t an actual episode, it was part of a Christmas Tape from 1979
Yeah, the uploader could have made it clearer (or could still!). That is somewhat of a shame.
The Uploader clearly knows where it comes from, it''s the top result when searching for 'Rainbow Christmas tape'. The tags must include 'Christmas Tape'. I guess the title and description are supposed to be clickbait. Hence all the idiots talking about sexualizing children and such...pity.
Likely it's only Gen X-ers+ (I guess) like you and me who have 'gotten' the fact that it's clearly not trying to sexualize children, even if we didn't know of the Christmas Tape, we knew Rainbow and knew something was VERY WRONG when we saw this! lol...or RIGHT depending on your POV 🤣
I remember when I was first shown this, I was in stitches, I had no knowledge of the Christmas Tape, so I must have found out via the comments. But I didn't for a second think this was, legit, even before reading any comments! I mean Rainbow was something I watched constantly, 'this' was clearly not what I used to watch as a young child!!!
The shit we think of looking up in lock down! 😂 Hands up if you've already visited "taking the hobbits to Isengard"?
When fiber optic internet was being installed to new homes I was with my mate filling in for someone who was away for a few days and we had to feed these long cables from the multiport on the street to the side of the house, and when the cables would get stuck I would yell to him from down the street "OH OH I CAN'T GET IT IN SHOULD I TRY IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND"
Errrrrr ok
“I’ve got a big red one” I totally lost it there
Words cannot describe how funny this clip is!. RIP and thanks for the memories Geoffrey.
"Well not now it's nearly time for us all to go."
"But I've just been."
XD
"Do you want to play my pipe while I'm twanging away" 😂😂
Best line ever
I don't remember my childhood being this fun
This was part of Thames Televisions Christmas tape that was sent to other ITV stations, it was done as a joke by the technicians and studio staff
I love these old "never aired" clips. Kenny Everett used to do them too for the itv staff at Xmas
Actually, this DID air, in part, on Channel 4’s TV Offal show!
I'm American and laughed my ass off over this. Some comedy is nigh universal. XD
brilliant nearly pissed myself watching this
zippy for president
Currently Zippy would be over qualified for the job.
#Zippyforpresident
Surely he's not needed - America is already run by a brightly coloured buffoon with a big mouth who spouts a lot of rubbish already.
:D
@@pjgathergood6987 I bet you think you're the worlds greatest comedy mind now, don't you ;)
As a kid I could never understand why Zippy, Bungle and George wore nothing during the day day but wore pyjamas in bed.
This is the best video on the internet
Just genius, I don't know how many people who find this funny just _know_ it was a popular childrens TV program, but enjoy it anyway. But I must say, as a child of the 80's who actually watched it all the time, it's just genius. Well done guy's and the uploader.
And RIP Geoffrey Hayes, David Cook, Peter Hawkins, Roy William Skelton and Violet Philpott. (these weren't all featured here, I think only Geoffrey. The others were previous members of the cast, but still part of the Rainbow family).
I've got a big red one! Is my notification tone on my phone. It goes off at the most inappropriate times 😃 👍
RIP Geoff, another part of our common childhood has gone now... :-(
Remember kids,
It’s only rude when you’re old enough to hear a different meaning 🤣
Spot on lol
This is such a gem, and I still gone back to it for a good laugh after discovering it 10 years ago
I laughed uncontrollably 2 days ago when I was introduced to this.
Did the writers even know what they where writing when they did this?
This was a Thames TV staff 'Christmas video tape' made privately which got leaked years and years later. Bet they had a right laugh. 😆
What the pluck did I just watch 😂😂
First thing when Heard that Geoffrey hayes had died was this vid Sleep easy Geoffrey
R.I.P. Geoffrey Hayes, i loved watching Rainbow when i was kid back in the '70's.
Wow the plot thickens. Taken me nearly 40 years to understand. I always knew their was something dodgy about that bear.
dunno how they got thru this without laughing, Geoffrey Hayes such a legend rip
I've seen several explanations as to where this came from - and some have been close but not quite right. Every year, the VT editors of the major broadcasting companies (mainly the BBC and the ITV network stations) edited together a tape that was to be aired in each others Christmas parties. Initially, this started out as outtakes (fluffed lines, swearing, corpsing, exploding studio equipment etc.), and other things that were never aired and at the time usually believed to be wiped once the final edit of a programme was made.
They became known as the annual Christmas Tapes. It started out as what we would now know as a blooper reel of the previous reel's fluffs and mistakes made by presenters - back then without their permission or often knowledge.
In the '70s and '80s these tapes were eagerly anticipated by the staff of the broadcasting companies and as their popularity grew, some shows made "special" versions just for the tape, with the assumption that they would never be seen by the public. Some of these "specials" were normal BBC presenters doing truly outrageous things that would have been scandalous should they be seen by the public so the tapes for many years were kept very much in-house and under lock and key, once shown.
SOME of these clips have made it into the public over the years on dodgy VHS copies from the original (probably sneaked out by staff) but I'm pretty sure not all of the tapes have been released in their entirety as some staff would never give their permission for their mistakes or "private performances" to be released (I do know that all the BBC Christmas Tapes still exist in their entirety - not sure about the ITV ones).
As well as these shorts, only ever aimed at internal staff, there are some things that we would never have today were it not for the Christmas Tapes. For example, on the Fawlty Towers DVD one of the extras is a short collection of outtakes from the second series. This is straight off the Christmas Tape for 1979 and would never have been kept otherwise.
DVD extras? Back then shows were made to be watched once when transmitted (possibly with a repeat later on in the year should it prove popular) and were often wiped once shown to recycle the then, comparitively very expensive video tape, and there certainly wasn't a market back then for outtakes. The concept of the Christmas tape eventually morphed into a more sanitised version called Auntie's Bloomers, hosted by Terry Wogan for a good number of years every Christmas on the BBC consisting of (mostly) BBC outtakes, by then WITH the permission of the person who made the bloopers.
Is it bad that I find this absolutely hilarious ans I showed all my friends and family? :)))
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R.I.P Geoffery. Rainbow brought me great joy during the 1070's..
Thank god for the internet. I first saw this online years ago after searching for it. I'd hard about it's existence as a schoolkid, and eventually saw it when I was in my twenties. Good to see it's still available for people to see.
Guys, this was never broadcast. Y'all can calm down now.
Y'all? Hey y'all, I'm from Alabama!
Seriously dude, everyone already knows this, it's just funny to watch a crew like this chill out and have a laugh together. You should try it sometime : )
This is as old as the internet. iI remember downloading it on dialup and it taking 20 minutes to arrive
Gary McNaughton God yes - this and famous the Thundercats bloopers.
You could pluck away with your twanger and play with your balls while you waited for the download to finish.
Does anyone know if there's a better quality version of this anywhere? It's an absolute classic, and I've sent it to dozens of people, but it'd be great to unearth a higher quality version.
been 7 years and you haven’t found a solution i’m sorry :(
Someone needs to ai upscale this
YES but it broke my plucking instrument 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Oh my goodness, this is still too funny after all these years....R.I.P Geoffrey Hayes, he made my school lunchtime TV viewing back in the early 80s.......😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I thought he said you broke my fucking instrument
He didn't?
***** he said "you broke my plucking instrument"
RIP Geoffrey. Hope you enjoy plucking away with your twanger in the afterlife just as much as I do today.
Watched this so many times, I still laugh. Geoffrey is trying to get bungle up. Ha, ha.
One skin... two skin... three skin... four... xDD
This should be rated "18" certificate! 😆🙈 Fokin' ACE mate!! I've got a red twanger like Zippy &would love 2play with Jane's marracas!!! 🧎♀️