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.
I’m not going to lie - I’m lost lol. No idea what just happened in that.
Yes, exactly.
Holy shit, I haven’t seen Zippy in decades. Wasn’t it ran in National Lampoon or something?
No, but a lot of alternative newspapers.
Was in our local paper
…the hell did I just read?
I’ve heard of Zippy the Pinhead before. Are they all like this?
Pretty much.
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?
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.
