h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Right, in the children's television show Rainbow, it has been a matter of note for some time that the large bear Bungle is depicted in some shows going to bed in a set of pyjamas. If it is necessary for him to WEAR pyjamas at night does that mean that he spends the daylight hours 'au naturel' as it were?

Thoughts? Comments?

Clive & Octoberswimmer

This is indeed a
most puzzeling thing
What use are pyjamas
any way u have covers
to keep u warm.
Pyjamas only make u
unconfortable.

Bungle is ovously mentaly unstable

I believe the reason he wore bed clothing was that he slept in the bed as Zippy and George and there can't be anything worse than a naked bear brushing up against you in bed. I think Zippy would have complained, not sure about George though....he might have insisted!!

Why didnt they get nother bed?
It wasnt a small house

Bungle is just a bungler - he gets everything back to front. As you point out most of us wear clothes during the day and nothing except Chanel No 5 in bed. Therefore,...

A grown man going to bed with a bear, a hippopotamus and a creature with a zip for a mouth. Does that strike anyone else as being slightly kinky...?

and of course there was the strange going ons with Rod, Jane and Freddy. They'd never heard of three's a crowd. Thinking back the whole programme was a morality minefield!!

Aren´t the pyjamas mainly to make ppl feel modest, even though they´re not dressed properly?

Anyways, isn´t it also weird how Donald Duck runs around wearing nothing but a shirt all the time. But if he takes the shirt off, he suddenly starts to cover his groin. Why isn´t the groin naughty when he´s got a shirt on?

I live in the Middle East and donald duck comic books have been banned here because they supposedly depict nudity and so are unacceptable to the Muslim community. No joke...

One other thing that has bothered me is that when a cartoon character, e.g Tom and Jerry, gets their fur ripped off they have spotted boxer shorts on. Whats that all about?

Was Zippy the only member of Rainbow to make it to Hollywood? After all, he has a cameo appearance in Pulp Fiction; Bruce Willis punches him in a cellar, as I recall...

Pooh Bear in the AA Milne books went around dressed only in his fur, except for one story when it had been snowing, in which he wore a red jacket. When Pooh was Disneyfied, he wore the red jacket at all times. Was this another fig leaf in action?

The Tom & Jerry boxer shorts thing is so that it makes it clear that the loss of fur is not serious. When Itchy and Scratchy lose their fur, there is blood and guts underneath!

Anyways, what is it piglet is wearing in the Disney version? It can´t be fur but it doesn´t look like clothes either. Perhaps a form of bodystocking

This thread deserves another outing

Good shout GD

I was thinking that perhaps Bungle's pyjamas were to make sure that nothing got caught in the Zippy.

Now that would be painful

Piglet is wearing a strippy sweater- I think one of the original AA Milne stories focused on it unravelling, but my memory is hazy, so I couild be wrong...

*All* kids TV shows are a mine of smut, drugs and downright filth- it's to stop the parents getting bored when they have to watch the programmes with their children... And to give students something to laugh at when they should be working, of course.

Guilty as charged.

The morality issues of these old characters are pretty much academic now that we have characters like IR Baboon and Cow & Chicken who are blatantly naked, have huge protruding backsides and enjoy drawing attention to them.

It is only a matter of time before Cartoon Network presents McAllus the Phallus...

Bungle is definitely a Naturist and has no genitalia (can I say this?). HOwever, as the bed a night could be a bun-fight - what with Zippy and George sharing it - there may be fights over the duvet. Bungle is also a pacifist and wears pyjamas so that he won't get cold a night. It is all very well being au naturel when you can move about and keep warm with the heating on etc, but not at night. Not for Bungle anyway.

Is it I Am Weasel that has that Devil-guy in it? He enjoys showing his backside off too....

and south park, no morality whatso ever there.....

i loved the under pant gnomes