The missing Rainbow episode

For all of you who rember Geoffrey, Bungle, George, Zippy, Rod, Jane & Freddy here is the episode that was, hopefully, never shown.

I thought it was a myth but here it is (be warned - 16mb download)

EDIT (by michaelab): I've removed the link because it's now been changed to something rather unpleasant

We've only just stopped laughing in our office

Apologies if this has been done before

 

Quality Downloaded the clip and will view tonight. I assume the transcript is this one:

Apparently this is a true script from Rainbow:

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

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

George: " Zippy, where is Bungle?"

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 go od 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 w as 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."

 

Yep, thats the one and judging by the clip it's totally genuine

 

I always knew Raindbow was actually a sex show

 

Piss funny! That's had me in stitches for the last half hour or so! Imagine if it had actually been transmitted! :JOEL:

 

pure class

 

i've been wanting to see that for ages...
how about this, not subtle but funny (well i thought it was)
http://www.kontraband.com/index.asp?p=movies.asp?ID=297

cheers

julian

 

intresting site julian,loved this one
olny a little bit rude so watch the volume if at work

 

yeah i liked that one too.
cheers


julian

 

Guys - I saw this in an email about 3 years ago, and assumed it really WAS a hoax! I'm going to HAVE to download this in a minute and watch it in my lunch hour

 

I think it was done for a 'Christmas Tape'. The place where out-takes used to go before somebody realised they could fill air time with them rather than proper programmes.

I think the tradition has died out, but it was still going strong when I worked at the BBC in the mid 80's. There were benefits from going on on Christmas day to drink coffee and watch the news. At double time rates....

Brief history of the genre at http://www.bvws.org.uk/405alive/faq/prog_trivia.html

Paul

 

Yeah, I've seen one of those tapes. Most of it was utter crap but there were some real howlers in there

 

Only double time
Oh, you were probably BETA :MILD:

 

Non-union me.

I don't recall what we actually got, I think there was a lump sum involved. And of course another day off.

Paul

 

Oh yeah - of COURSE - the christmas tapes!!!! Makes sense now

Well, I couldn't play it at work - the mean beeatches have disabled mp3/g codecs on these machines (though if you DO get mp3 files, Roxio'll convert them to audio), so I burnt it to CD and watched it at home.

I nearly drowned in my own urine - pure classic GENIUS!!!

Quality with a capital "K"

 

Brilliant!!!

:lol:

 

How the actors/crew/puppetiers managed to keep such straight faces during the shooting of that clip is beyond me! :lol: They must have done it in several takes with plenty of "corpsing" (as Dennis Nordon would say) in-between takes!

 

Any chance of a copy Dom? Sounds like it has to be seen, and having heard so much about it...

 

Yo Ian - yeah, I'll sort you out with a copy - if I'd read this last night before going to Topsham I could have sorted you one out for tonight. I could just bring the CD with me later and copy you one on Saturday?