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Not sure if it is fake or not. But all the actors are the ones I remember from the show being a kid (although I don't recall this episode).

dictatorcat

i heard it on the radio last night and split myself laughing, it's funnier when you watch it! Was that ever aired?? were we that innocent??

Standard Toaster

AFAIK it was done for 'the laugh' but it was never aired.

Töpher

Never seen the full version of that clip, nearly wet myself laughing! Quality!

DMC

Brilliant! And authentic too!

Rod Jane and Rodger were replaced by Rod, Jane and Freddy in later series.

This was done as part of what was known as the Christmas VT tape. Each Christmas (more common with the BBC, this one is from Thames) the VT and sound folk made a compendium of the years out-takes, i.e. ****-ups during recordings or live transmissions; some were broadcast, some were made (like this one) especially for the tape. Sometimes this got shown at the Christmas party, but in latter years it was given as a gift to some people for their VCR's. Unfortunatley, some of this stuff made its way into public hands, and the press had a field day and it ended in the mid-80's.

But rest assured, there is plenty of this kind of stuff around!!

If you like that sort of stuff, BBC Radio 5 Live have a heap of bloopers on their website at the moment. Personal favs are the "leg-over", "sick", Mike Vince falling asleep and "splat"!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/fungames/bloopers.shtml

Standard Toaster

Full vid you say!;)

http://www.freeplasticdinosaur.com/rainbow/rainbow.mpg

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 Bungle’s 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."

elly

hehe that was so funny,
kind of disturbing aswell, all my childhood memories of the show are now tainted.

boohoo