Bungle from Rainbow

Bungle from Rainbow

(Yep, another stupid idea from @JayTay)

Bungle from Rainbow

Poor Bungle. Not only is his name a word for messing something up (although it’s possible the word bungle comes from his name rather than the other way round), but he’s mercilessly bullied by Zippy (who called him “Bungle Bonce”), clearly has learning difficulties, and even appears in a reworking of the Rainbow theme song where the lyrics suggest he might have terrible IBS.

If all that wasn’t bad enough, he is no doubt constantly pelted with eggs and arrested simply because he looks like paedobear. And he had to live with Geoffrey for all them years.

Top 5 Definitely Real Bungle Quotes

5. “But Zippy, Geoffrey told me never to do that again and took the protractor away last time!”

4. “George, are you ever coming out of there? I really don’t want to have to live up to bear stereotypes and go in the woods again.”

3. “You’ll never guess what I saw through Rod, Jane and Freddy’s window last night.”

2. “Yeah hi, is that Argos? I’d like to return a personal grooming device.”

1. “Forgot to put my pants on again!”

BungleThese days, Bungle lives alone in a converted cave in the Derbyshire countryside, venturing out only to visit the bins round the back of a nearby branch of Budgens. He wears a scarf, hat and sunglasses to avoid being recognised (and thereby pelted with eggs), and forages for anything edible to take back home.

His first wife filed for divorce in 1994 following the very public revelation that Bungle had been having a secret affair with Buzby, the Post Office Telecoms mascot for 14 years. She took everything from Bungle leaving him poor and destitute. Buzby also left, selling his story to The News of the World for a substantial sum of money.

In 1996 Bungle remarried, this time to a woman who turned out to be a journalist posing as a massive fan of Rainbow. She’d tried to get his side of the story out of him, but a rival newspaper tipped Bungle off while he was on his honeymoon in Scarborough. He was devastated, and after that became the recluse he is now.

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  1. And he looked as if he’d suffered an unfortunate encounter with a steamroller at some point.

    And I’ve a faint recollection of his name becoming an insult for a short while among my schoolchums. (Sometime between “div” and “spaz”, I think.)

    He’s had it pretty hard, ol’ Bungle, hasn’t he? Zippy was always my favourite, but really he was a bit of a bastard when you think back. Bungle was all right. It’s time someone gave him another chance. Maybe he could take over from Michael Portillo on Great British Railway Journeys, or something.

    Duncan Snowden

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