Who the fork is Flop! (Bing) wtf?

[MediumBags]

What the hell?

Who is this small old meek (but very patient) creature in charge of a very demanding small bunny?

It's weird?

And worrying??

I don't understand!!!

[Tawdrylocalbrouhaha]

I suspect it is a scenario like Never Let Me Go. Bing, Sula, Pando et Al are clones being raised for organ harvest. Flop, Ama et al are their carers/guards - they have been told the "children" don't have feelings like real people, but they are starting to wonder if this is true.

Flop is patient because of the guilt.

[Amanduh]

I love Bing 😍

[MediumBags]

The darker the explanation... the more it makes sense! 🤣

[Silversun83]

An* even!

[Silversun83]

@csigeek - I've read those explanations before

Personally I like the one where Flop and all the other 'carers' are a figment of Bing's imagination to cope with the reality that all the adults have died from a apocalyptic Virus. As you can probably tell, I dislike Bing immensely

[WeCameToDance]

I think Bing lives with Flop and Flop is his dad figure. So either foster carer, adoptive parent, bio dad don't want to think about it. He is also a childminder though so thats why he babysits all the other brats so often. In the opening credits you see another sock puppet on a phone obviously supposed to be working dropping off Coco and Charlie. Padget is Pando's carer and owns the shop that seems to sell everything! Amma is Sula's carer and she runs a tuck shop thing that's attached to her house in the park.
I hate Bing, what has my life come to.

[OneForTheRoadThen]

He is an enabler

[fluffylittleclouds]

There is an episode where they are measuring Bing and he gets worried that he’s ‘growing down’ rather than getting taller but it turns out they’d just measured him wrong or something.

That confused me because the adults are smaller than the children so surely it would be expected that Bing would begin to shrink as he aged? What will Bing look like as an adult? Why are there no giant adults in their universe if Bing and Sula etc are going to get bigger. It is all very bizarre.

Apparently in the story books that came before the TV series, Bing has parents and Flop is actually his toy stuffed rabbit. So maybe it just progressed from there and the result was this nonsensical world where the caregivers are small and there are no parents.

Another theory is the programme reflects a child’s point of view so the other children are larger whilst the adults are smaller and less significant in their worlds

[SamBaileys]

Winds me up when he says "its a Bing thing"...no its not, these are things that happen to everyone! Annoys me more than it should...

[NotLikeThis]

Oh my days I've just found out that Flop is voiced by Mark Rylance!!!! I am so shocked for some reason!

[jaseyraex]

I thought Flop was a peanut?

I don't know what Flop is but from now on he is a peanut.

[MediumBags]

What about when Flop was really sick and had a bad cold? Surely he'd have called in sick if he was a nanny??

[livinglongerwithcalgon]

I had just assumed that the adults caring for the children were foster carers.

No idea why that was my natural assumption, but that’s what I’ve always thought!

[Dohangoversgetworseasyougetold]

And why is Coco and Charlie's parent/ carer only glimpsed briefly on a mobile phone disappearing into a taxi in the title sequence? I imagine they're probably heading off to bitch about Flop and Amma over a big glass of wine, but who has Coco and Charlie most of the time?

[Biancadelrioisback]

But how can the parents be at work? Flop does all bedtimes and mornings so the parents would literally never see the kids?

[LizzyMac40]

Flop is a carer while the parent/s are at work.Sula does my head in. She is a brat. The episode with the picnic in her bedroom sums her up. Bing wanted his toy to have a bit more cake, Sula threw a strop and took bing's toy from him and dumped it in a box. Yes, I know, sad I know all this but I was subjected to it constantly as my daughter loves Bing. Thankfully, I am weaning her off this and she is now on racing cars (the animated film, Cars). 😬

[Inapickle230]

Yes I thought foster carer as he puts bing to bed sometimes. Ive given it far too much thought too!

[MyElbowIsItchy]

I thought Flop was a peanut?

I love him but I hate Bing and that Sula brat.

[MediumBags]

@donquixotedelamancha 🤣🤣

[csigeek]

www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/bing/51208/cbeebies-making-sense-of-the-bing-bunny-universe

[moreismore]

Flop is a rabbit! I love flop! It’s one of the only tv programmes I can tolerate because the narrator is a genius actor and his voice is infinitely soothing.

[Biancadelrioisback]

But what is flop? Paget (I think?) is an elephant. But flop is a sort of bear? No idea.
All the children are different animals to their carers. Nothing makes sense!!!

[Hersheys]

God don't get me started!
Flop is quite frankly a saint, that Bing is a right shit that needs some firm words. I just wish Flop would give them along with a tanned arse to him

[donquixotedelamancha]

I once got drunk with a bloke called Ted Dewan, who explained his inspiration in creating Bing to me:

Bingworld is one of the circles of hell.

Flop and all the other 'carers' are the souls of the damned. They all did something awful to children when they were alive.

Bing and the other animals are demons who eternally torment the damned. Flop et al are cursed so that they are unable to express any anger with their charges or do anything except look after them.

[Smiler1972]

theyruinyourlife.com/2016/03/03/an-open-letter-to-flop/