Long-running UK kids' show, intended to be the British equivalent of
Sesame Street, which, for the bulk of its long-running time, centered around puppets Zippy, a creature with a zipper for a mouth and George, a
camp hippopotamus, as well as a bear named Bungle and their human caretaker Geoffrey. It started airing in 1972, and ended in 1992, followed by two spinoffs.
Many non-European viewers know the show for its infamous "twangers" episode which consisted of a half hour of proceedingly less veiled
double entendres about the sexual escapades of the cast. The episode never actually aired as part of the show and was put together at a production party as a private joke, but has since
migrated its way to
YouTube and other such online video sites. Zippy and George also appeared on
The Weakest Link.
Rainbow provides examples of:
- Ambiguously Gay — George
- Anti Role Model — Zippy is sometimes portrayed as this
- Bumbling Dad — Geoffrey
- Cameo — The characters have made brief appearances in shows like Ashes to Ashes and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.
- Canon Foreigner — Cleo the rabbit in one spin-off, Dale in the later 'Rainbow Days'
- Cartoon Creature — Zippy. Word Of God calls him 'a unique'.
- Cross Over — Sooty appeared a couple of times
- Dream Sequence — too many times to count
- Edutainment Show
- Everything's Better With Bunnies — Cleo in the spinoff.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows
- Everything's Worse with Bears - Subverted and sort of played straight with Bungle. He's quite a nice character, but isn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box.
- Fable Remake — Plenty of these, even one imagining a backstory for Little Tommy Tucker
- Getting Crap Past the Radar — The infamous 'twangers' clip
- Guilty Pleasure
- Hey, It's That Voice! — Zippy and George are voiced by Roy Skelton, who voiced the Daleks in Doctor Who
- Kids Are Cruel — Zippy
- Long Runners — Over 1000 episodes - even for a Japanese series, that's long!
- Muppet
- Odd Couple — Zippy and George
- Pink Girl, Blue Boy — Inverted somewhat. George is male yet has pink fur (which is actually appropriate). In the first spinoff, Cleo, the female rabbit, had blue fur.
- Pride — Zippy has this in spades.
- Sesame Street Cred
- Spinoff — A series set in a toy shop, and 'Rainbow Days'.
- Subverted Kids Show — Undergone this treatment, with the 'twangers' clip and Zippy and George's appearance in Ashes to Ashes.
- Talking to Himself — Roy Skelton voices both Zippy and George
- Uncanny Family Resemblance — Zippy's cousin Zippo
- The Villain Sucks Song — Variation; a song is sung about how much of a 'bossy boots' Zippy is
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