• @[email protected]
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    401 year ago

    As a kid I always figured Zippy was some kind of grown up humor that only made sense to wiser adults. Turns out it was always just pure fever dream-grade insanity.

  • Grammaton Cleric
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    101 year ago

    Holy shit, I haven’t seen Zippy in decades. Wasn’t it ran in National Lampoon or something?

  • z500
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    31 year ago

    I’ve heard of Zippy the Pinhead before. Are they all like this?

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        11 year ago

        Oh is Zippy based on a real person? I think I remember seeing a pic who had a head shaped like his. A birth defect?

        • Flying SquidOP
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          11 year ago

          There is a real disorder called microcephaly which Zippy’s appearance is based on, but his personality and non-sequiturs are pure fantasy. Real microcephalics are severely developmentally disabled. The name comes from ‘Zip the Pinhead,’ a sideshow attraction (treated horribly by customers) who may have had microcephaly or may have just had a weird-shaped head. His last words were reportedly, “we sure fooled them, didn’t we?” so who knows if he was really microcephalic or not.