I'm 54 and still love zippy 😂...used to go home at lunchtime from junior school in the 70s and watch Rainbow...and I come back to watch him on RUclips 😂
RIP to the wonderful Geoffrey Hayes. Many, many happy hours spent watching Bungle, Zippy, George, Rod, Jane and Freddy. Rainbow 🌈 will always have a special place in my heart. ♥️
Total psycho but it was all about the Zipster. Like Hartley Hare, he had something of the night about him. RIP Geoffrey and thanks for all the fun times.
Zippy is stroppy, rude, loud-mouthed, arrogant, conceited and selfish. All things I usually don't like in people. But for some reason, those things are why I LOVE him! :D
Never realized how near the bone and well observed this show was. Teaching kids about narcissistic sociopaths like Zippy , and that they'd probably meet them in life - amazing. Wish I'd paid more attention to it when I was 3
@Dominic Keefe, I agree with your observation, but disagree with the educational part, as the show did NOT provide any helpful strategies how to distinguish childish behaviour from sociopathic tendencies, or how to cope with the abusive and toxic relationships that in the end only served the abuser. Zippy gradually forced his will upon the household and boundaries were constantly moved by his cunning use of break-and-apologize-tactics.
I’am very upset at the passing of Geoffrey Hayes who died today and what a terrific guy , who made many of us happy growing growing up in 70’s watching Rainbow with Geoffrey and Zippy and George with Bungle . God Bless and R.I.P Geoffrey Hayes you’ll be greatly missed by young and old everywhere .
That's what drugs do. The creators of this, Button Moon and the composers of the theme tunes were all smoking something together before and after work.
Used to watch this as a kid thinking how mean and nasty zippy was. I watched this today 39 years later thinking he was fcking hilarious and how could I have missed it 😂
He shows more than just narcissistic traits. Zippy has all the traits of a sociopath. He regards himself as the best qualified person for everything, but he still needs others (as lower pawns) to keep his illusion intact.
He displays a scheming nature with little regards for the wellbeing of others, but still restricted by fear for rejection, scolding or punishment. He knows when he's out of bounds but believes that he's entitled to be the exception to the rules, and struggles emotionally with the concept of others not accepting this simple truth (his reality).
"So, what do you do Geoff? Live alone? Married?" "Im Single, i live with 3 housemates. A pink hippo, a bear and a spaceship shaped zippy thing. The bear and hippo are gay i think. Zippys just a twat"
The mind boggles thinking how these four came together. Lol. Think about it. A pink talking hippo, a wannabe talking bear, a Gollum lookalike with a zip for a mouth, and then there's Geoffory, who is their surrogate father. He loves them like only their own mothers could. Lol
George and Zippy have only a left arm and a right arm, respectively. I think they were conjoined twins that got separated. Severely deformed conjoined twins.
Bungle is too small to be Chewbacca and too big to be an ewok so had to settle for being Jeffrey's side kick. He has since developed a drinking problem and has never gotten over the disappointment.
Sam Holden I found it creepy as a kid and I showed my 13 year old son the show and he found it creepy. I relate to Zippy, I'm sure they'ed show him popping Ritalin these days.
Zippy was the antagonist, Bungle was the conformist and George was the pacifist and Jeffrey was the thought police / good morals advisor. Did you learn anything from this as a kid ?
This was innocent fun when I was a child. It looks and feels a little different now. Bungle, Zippy, and George were a strangely camp menage a trois. As for 'Mr Geoffrey'...hmmm!
I guess* we did! I'm waiting for therm to discipline Zippy by zipping his mouth shut and letting him struggle to breathe for a bit before relenting. "Mmmph, mmmph!" "See, we can be selfish too, Zippy!" *"I guess" - Beloved American phrase dating back to 19th century, replaces "I swan" or "Tarnation!"
I was reading the negative comments down below. What's wrong with rainbow? I used to watch that when I was a child & it seemed innocent to me & I never understood anything bad in it.
Rainbow came to my uni in 2003 on tour. They were on stage and a lad decided to get up on stage and punch zippy…. (Now you have to remember this was a 1980s children’s hero that had been assaulted, puppet or no puppet…. A crime had been committed…. He got battered the lad as he stumbled through the dance floor getting punched kicked, clothes torn, spat at…. He made it out of dance floor dripping in blood…. (Best part now) “I’d like to report an assault!” To the bouncers…. “You should watch yourself on the wet stairs more in future boy!” And launched him out of the SU Bar to a huge round of applause. 🎉🎉🎉 don’t fuck with zippys disciples.
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I used to watch Rainbow as a kid in the Seventies. Zippy was always a bastard, although I didn't understand what a Bastard was at the time. Geoffrey was nice though..... Taxi governor?
Zippy is a good age now, I didn't know that the real reason reason why Zippy has a zip over his mouth is to try prevent him from smoking crack! Some things never change lol 😂
@Julian-hx9yp lol ha ha, seriously though jokes aside Rainbow was hugely popular back in the earlier 80's. Hey you wouldn't happen to be Julian Littman by any chance?? 😊
I'm 48 years old and I can't stop watching these programs i wish it was the 1980s all over again
He's Donald trump is zippy 😅
Biden is bungle 😅
I know right 😂 it’s hilarious
Rainbow is freakin hilarious 🤣
I’m 51 n still giggle over this show. I love Zippy….. sooo norty 🤣
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I'm 54 and still love zippy 😂...used to go home at lunchtime from junior school in the 70s and watch Rainbow...and I come back to watch him on RUclips 😂
This was in the 70s, its very old then me
Zippy is an absolute prick, he gives zero fucks and I love him for it.
😄
Yep ,he's great. 😂
He's brilliant 😂
Absolutely hero
Well you saved me typing exactly what you said 😂
This show had a character who was a pure narcissist and he ended up being hilarious and the whole reason to watch Rainbow as a kid.
RIP to the wonderful Geoffrey Hayes.
Many, many happy hours spent watching Bungle, Zippy, George, Rod, Jane and Freddy. Rainbow 🌈 will always have a special place in my heart. ♥️
RIP Geoffrey, same here, very happy memories in a not so happy childhood, this show was the best, good man Geoffrey...………...
Radio interview from the 1st of October with the guy who played Zippy talking about Geoffrey is on my channel on here. In my uploads, October 2018
I see your comments every were.
Here here
Just found out from your comment😞
Zippy is amazing. He is a complete sociopath, but hilarious
LOL he is definitely a sociopath.
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Bungle knows Zippy would knife him in cold blood if he dared touch him.
Total psycho but it was all about the Zipster. Like Hartley Hare, he had something of the night about him.
RIP Geoffrey and thanks for all the fun times.
Lolllll!!
'You're shellfish!' 'Im a fisherman!'
Bloody hilarious episode. Children's television will never be this good again!
Zippy is stroppy, rude, loud-mouthed, arrogant, conceited and selfish. All things I usually don't like in people. But for some reason, those things are why I LOVE him! :D
same here :)
RCLeahcar unfortunately its not possible to zip a person's mouth shut!
Because the others are pompous arses?
mojopin 70
RCLeahcar He's the Nigel Farage of kids TV.
I’m 20 years old. My mum used to play this (parsley the lion, klangers) when I was young. I’m so glad she did
Brings amazing nostalgia
Never realized how near the bone and well observed this show was. Teaching kids about narcissistic sociopaths like Zippy , and that they'd probably meet them in life - amazing. Wish I'd paid more attention to it when I was 3
@Dominic Keefe, I agree with your observation, but disagree with the educational part, as the show did NOT provide any helpful strategies how to distinguish childish behaviour from sociopathic tendencies, or how to cope with the abusive and toxic relationships that in the end only served the abuser. Zippy gradually forced his will upon the household and boundaries were constantly moved by his cunning use of break-and-apologize-tactics.
cacauldr 🙄🙄🙄
@@80wynnie do you just roll your eyes when someone uses words you don't understand?
Well said! I've met a few zippys, in my time!!
i’m 13 and i used to watch this all the time. and i’ve been craving watching it. i miss it. it brings back memories with my mum haha
Im 15 and literally no one i know my age has heared if this haha im glad im not the only one who watched this lol
I'M A FISHERMAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!! ..."Oh look, its fallen over again" hahahahaha zippy is too funny and sarcasm too!
2:37
I legit almost pissed myself laughing 😂
@Skarlett-PR Raincloud you've got a badass name Skarlett 😎
It's like an episode of BBC Question Time. Only I learned more watching this.
These comments 🤣🤣 I loved this show as a kid, and now at 46, I still stop to watch them ! 🙆Haha
Pretty awesome, how time flies.
How funny. For a minute I thought that was my own comment. I'm 46 and both my kids love sarcasm and loudmouth ways of Zippy. Great show.
Great memories watching this
i never used to watch Rainbow as a kid haha. Boy what i was missing out on!
Me to bro now 47 oh Jeffrey!!
"The tower got in the way of the spoon, Bungle shouldn't have put it there!" Zippy 1991
1:03 ye
I would love Zippy to come out on the piss with me. I bet he would be a fuckin NUTTER
Imagine bungle on ket, that would be fucking mental.
@@alfiemoon1468 I heard Bungle turned to heroin many years ago. Sad.
I’am very upset at the passing of Geoffrey Hayes who died today and what a terrific guy , who made many of us happy growing growing up in 70’s watching Rainbow with Geoffrey and Zippy and George with Bungle .
God Bless and R.I.P Geoffrey Hayes you’ll be greatly missed by young and old everywhere .
Zippy is so bloody funny
Autumnblueskies I know he is and I am 13 My Teacher put this on on class and it so Funny And So Good I am good he put it on
i love the zipster x
Rip Geoffrey.. many happy memories from being a 5 year old child 😊
Pane in the glass This so Funny Rainbow my Teacher put this on in class and I am 13
Geoffrey was really weird
Perhaps he needs to go back and play with his twanger
Simon Millard haha yeah that episode was so full of innuendo lol
Simon Millard I've got a big red one !
Zippy: “Let’s just pluck away with our twangers!”
Let's play with her maracas!
and paint his twanger, whilst plahying with his red twanger
zippy was a bit of a prick looking back on it
Bungle was such a social justice warrior.
A Wild Nathan zero fucks given.
zippy was a pit of a brick looking back on it
Like that person you get in work, always steamrollering over everything!
I just laughed out loud at your comment lol. 😂😂😂😂🙈🙈🙈🙈
This is an allegorical commentary on postmodern society.
R.i.p Geoffrey. You were a big part of my childhood .
Me too 😅
never understood why bungle walked about naked during the day , but wore pyjamas at night ,lol
:-) :-) absolutely !!!
I'm done.....crying with laughter here!
That's what drugs do. The creators of this, Button Moon and the composers of the theme tunes were all smoking something together before and after work.
I got all my trolling skills from Zippy. Thank you Zippy. You were a true inspiration and you live on in every forum post I make.
zippy was and is the essence of PUNK
He was my influence into the punk lifestyle! 😂😂😂😂
exactly, He's not real you know mr sausage
0:56 Thug life!
zippy is a right nasty cow
hell yeah
Zippy would make a great politician...
Zippy for prime minister to replace Boris Johnson
SuperGingernutz Funnily enough I think he sounds exactly like Kier Stamer 😂😂
Zippy is the poster child for ADHD.
rabid rabbitshuggers I love to see zippy all over your face
And George the poster child 4 transgender rights
rabid rabbitshuggers lol
panther_ modern and you are the poster boy for hiding in the bushes wearing just a rain coat
@@rayfinkle2805 Yr mom told me i was her favourite poster always finkling with herself over it!
Pissed watching rainbow does life get any better
Bagpuss on shrooms?
hopefully it does yes
If this is what you call life, you need to get out more!
@@matthewmcvicar7755 That's a strong reply
Magic roundabout on fucking nothing!
Used to watch this as a kid thinking how mean and nasty zippy was. I watched this today 39 years later thinking he was fcking hilarious and how could I have missed it 😂
He's the best of Rainbow. Even as a small kid, I rooted for him!
This takes me right back to primary school and popping home for lunch, love it 🌈
Zippy is a narcissist. Gaslighting, playing the victim, refusing to accept blame and compulsively lying.
He shows more than just narcissistic traits. Zippy has all the traits of a sociopath. He regards himself as the best qualified person for everything, but he still needs others (as lower pawns) to keep his illusion intact.
He displays a scheming nature with little regards for the wellbeing of others, but still restricted by fear for rejection, scolding or punishment. He knows when he's out of bounds but believes that he's entitled to be the exception to the rules, and struggles emotionally with the concept of others not accepting this simple truth (his reality).
And yet he is preferable to the insufferably boring Bungle the self righteous dullard.
Sounds like my ex wife
He stood in the next General Election afterwards. He seemed qualified!
This may be have predicted 9/11. If only we could have seen the signs...
haha
Send zippy to the detention centre
If Bin Ladens team watched Rainbow, yes
hahaha
Mooncalf2012 this comment hit harder than the plane that hit the twin towers
Oh wait
"So, what do you do Geoff? Live alone? Married?"
"Im Single, i live with 3 housemates. A pink hippo, a bear and a spaceship shaped zippy thing. The bear and hippo are gay i think. Zippys just a twat"
meisterly manu this comment made me laugh
I think zippy is a pencil case!
Zippy reminds me of Norris Cole from Coronation Street.
ha yeah
I've always thought that, but I thought I was alone! Norris is just Zippy as an old man.
Matthew Clegg 😂😂😂😂
Matthew..I always used to think about the yolk of an egg when I watched zippy as a small kid.
Matthew Clegg 😂
R.I.P. Geoffrey :(
charlie lynes I heard he'd died yesterday. When did he actually die?
@@alexanderjones9572 Yesterday 01/10/18 😭
It’s sad isn’t it? RIP Geoffrey 🙏
Why couldn’t it of been Bungo that stupid Bear
@@jackredmond5998 Bungle
Thankyou for this upload.better than watching news on tv
Zippy's just misunderstood
This is my childhood. Thank u for sharing! Oh how watching this made me smile. Miles of smiles 😁
Zippy & George were both voiced by the same person, Roy Skelton, who also provided voices for the Daleks in Doctor Who during the 70s & 80s!
Fare well Geoffrey. Why do we have to get old?
Nowadays Zippy would be diagnosed with some obscure form of ADHD and medicated accordingly.
No. Sociopathy (including narcissism).
Back then we just got whacked by our parents.
Zippy is a god x
@@davidmahoney6394 yes he is
The mind boggles thinking how these four came together. Lol. Think about it. A pink talking hippo, a wannabe talking bear, a Gollum lookalike with a zip for a mouth, and then there's Geoffory, who is their surrogate father. He loves them like only their own mothers could. Lol
George and Zippy have only a left arm and a right arm, respectively. I think they were conjoined twins that got separated.
Severely deformed conjoined twins.
Hahaha!!
Teaching responsibility and getting kids ready for what real life is like. Miss this stuff. Superb! Button Moon another must rewatch!❤
What ya watching today
Its 4am im a 53 yr old man and asoon as the theme tune started the goosebumps came out and im smiling like a 5 yr old kid lol memories are priceless
Zippy - the troll of the 1970s.
lol
True, but Rainbow started in 1972 which is why I said he's the troll of the 1970s.
WTLNetwork Zippy brutally trolled Bungle and George. You're right.
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Got to love Zippy! He's always claiming to be the best at everything and loves his food :)
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Bungle is too small to be Chewbacca and too big to be an ewok so had to settle for being Jeffrey's side kick. He has since developed a drinking problem and has never gotten over the disappointment.
Zippy reminds him of his failures daily before going off to do coke
Ohh
cant believe Zippy just became PM of the UK. Fair plays.
I remember getting up and putting in the VHS to watch some zippy and George. Honestly funnier now than when I was a child
I used to watch this,didn't know it was so weird lol.
Faulty towers
I always found this show disturbing
Yeah found this series creepy too especially the bear but used to love watching this every week as a child in the 70s.
Sam Holden I call my ex wife zippy
Sam Holden I found it creepy as a kid and I showed my 13 year old son the show and he found it creepy.
I relate to Zippy, I'm sure they'ed show him popping Ritalin these days.
I used to really really love Zippy... The memories :)
Jessica Roberts He Funny and I am 13 and lol this Rainbow Show
Zippy would throw porridge at you.
Zippy was the antagonist, Bungle was the conformist and George was the pacifist and Jeffrey was the thought police / good morals advisor. Did you learn anything from this as a kid ?
oh my goodness..this brings back my childhood!!! I wish I could back...memories...I remember watching this after nursery ;)
Rip Geoffrey, May u rest in our hearts and we are so happy you made our childhoods better.
Fantastic, took me back years. Who remembers when zippies eye fell off.
Yes i do!
Solar Lighting 😂
Solar Lighting by accident?
bungle is such a fucking fanny
Fab. Please imagine Jimi Hendrix doing a version of the song... "Up above the streets & houses, Rainbow climbing high..."
my dad showed me this and he's 48 AND I LOVE IT
am i the only one who heard "This shitty spoon!" instead of "This silly spoon!" the first time..? it was at 3:16
Yes I heard it too lol
zippy sounds like a 1930's chicago wise guy
One of the best children shows ever done x
R.I.P Geoffrey. Thanks for the childhood memories.
This is fantastic! As an american I feel left out :P
Type into youtube The magic roundabout
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?
No need to feel left at all! I loved Sesame Street back then. & lots of american cartoons.
Dude you've got Sesame Street. Rainbow was originally conceived as a British equivalent of that show
Get involved my friend. The more the merrier.
R.I.P Gave my child good to many joys. You will not be forgotten! 😩🌅
Me and an old friend Benny Harvey would watch this in absolute shock at how badly bullied Zippy was! RIP big man
Miss ya big man
Who would have watched Rainbow if they didn't want to see Zippy? 😂😂
My sister showed me this when I was 3 and I still remember it all I’m 13 now and it’s still as good as when I first
watched it
You never see boris johnson and zippy in the same place, makes one think.
zippy is problematic
My mam loves this show♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ so much
how old is she 84?
Not surprised zippy acts up like he does, surrounded by those 3 mincing queens all day.
I always used to sing"up above the streets and houses,rainbow climbing high,Jeffrey sticks his arse out the window and shits in bungles eye"
RIP Geoffrey, such a great show and a happy part of my childhood...….
Set to 0.5 speed for a fun time.
TaylorTv you’re fucked up m8 (in a good way )🤣🤣🤣
You stoned mate? I am now after setting it to 0.5
0.25 for me thanks
2:35
Haha classic
My hearts broken R.I.P Geoffrey.💔
so long Geoffrey, another part of my childhood goes with you
This was innocent fun when I was a child. It looks and feels a little different now. Bungle, Zippy, and George were a strangely camp menage a trois. As for 'Mr Geoffrey'...hmmm!
Our American friends rather missed out in the 80's, didn't they? :-)
90s’
I guess* we did! I'm waiting for therm to discipline Zippy by zipping his mouth shut and letting him struggle to breathe for a bit before relenting. "Mmmph, mmmph!" "See, we can be selfish too, Zippy!"
*"I guess" - Beloved American phrase dating back to 19th century, replaces "I swan" or "Tarnation!"
Yeah, they had some tw@ dressed as a big yellow chicken.
They really missed out..🤐
@Big Chris To be fair though, as much as I loved stuff like Rainbow, most of the good TV shows and films have always been from America
I was reading the negative comments down below. What's wrong with rainbow? I used to watch that when I was a child & it seemed innocent to me & I never understood anything bad in it.
Ray Man there was nothing wrong with it my friend it was great
I want to go out on the piss with The Zip
Gareth Glitter lol I'm a bungle man myself, imagine that hairy bastard on the sniff with a few vodka's and a few joints lol The useless hairy bastard!
***** lol fuck off
haha same
+ garen glitter stop swearing...
WTF is with your avatar PMSL
Talk about a blast from the past I loved this as a kid I used to laff myself silly every time
Rainbow came to my uni in 2003 on tour. They were on stage and a lad decided to get up on stage and punch zippy…. (Now you have to remember this was a 1980s children’s hero that had been assaulted, puppet or no puppet…. A crime had been committed…. He got battered the lad as he stumbled through the dance floor getting punched kicked, clothes torn, spat at…. He made it out of dance floor dripping in blood…. (Best part now) “I’d like to report an assault!” To the bouncers…. “You should watch yourself on the wet stairs more in future boy!” And launched him out of the SU Bar to a huge round of applause. 🎉🎉🎉 don’t fuck with zippys disciples.
This and the magic roundabout made my childhood tbh
im 32 now this show used to stress the shite outta me as a kid
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when I was a kid I used to sing "up above the streets and houses Jeffreys flying high opens up his hairy arse and shits in Bungles eye"
you are just too funny, It even goes with the tune. so funny
MCFCRuss Brown 🎶😂😂
Funny as fuck lol
Bungles flying low
lmfaooooooooo proper made me laugh that :D
If anyone from the 80 s has never tried to impersonate Zippys voice is a liar ffs im 53 and still do it lol
Ffs so do I 🤭
I never knew what a rainbow was untill i seen one as a kid. We had a black and white tv in the 80's
RIP Geoffrey. Life won't be the same....
RIP Geoffrey Hayes, thanks for all the happy fun.
Oh look, it's fallen over again. You're not a very good builder are you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
SlelS Mehm 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Loved this show as a kid. Just showed it to my boy and he laughed for ages
I teach kids like this everyday, except in some schools I've worked at, we had to REWARD kids for behaving like Zippy.
R.I.P Geoffrey. "It wasn't my fault it was this silly spoon." I'm nearly 12 and I love this 😂
Zippy is the physical embodiment of wrath.
Rip Geoffrey u was my hero as a kid I'm 51 so sad 😔 about the death of him
Happier days back then how I miss the 70s best days ever to be a kid 😪 😔 😢 💔 😞 😕 😪 😔 😢 💔
Yep - that's so, so true.
Zippy was the inspiration for Vyvian from The Young Ones.
Rick's brother works at pentonville Prison on the detox wing.
I used to watch Rainbow as a kid in the Seventies. Zippy was always a bastard, although I didn't understand what a Bastard was at the time. Geoffrey was nice though..... Taxi governor?
kidfromtheseventies I hated bungle, bloody know it all bear
Zippy is a good age now, I didn't know that the real reason reason why Zippy has a zip over his mouth is to try prevent him from smoking crack! Some things never change lol 😂
So you have your jaw removed?
@Julian-hx9yp
lol ha ha, seriously though jokes aside Rainbow was hugely popular back in the earlier 80's. Hey you wouldn't happen to be Julian Littman by any chance?? 😊