# "Banana Splits" Horror Movie?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497 "2019-08-11T07:21:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/1 "2019-08-11T07:21:05Z")
[A "Banana Splits movie with a body count?](https://www.newsarama.com/46449-drooper-can-t-be-found-in-banana-splits-horror-movie-clip.html) Somebody please tell me this isn’t for real. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/2 "2019-08-11T07:59:24Z")
It is real, and I find it surprising Sid and Marty Krofft\* would be okay with it, but there you go. \*both are still alive ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/3 "2019-08-11T08:00:47Z")
Well, people kept complaining about cop shows being adapted as comedies, so I guess it was just a matter of time before kids’ silliness-for-its-own-sake shows found a genre to adapt into. Next up: H.R. Pufnstuf as a _kaiju_… ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/4 "2019-08-11T12:04:46Z")
Never watched the original series, so this has no ap-peel to me. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/5 "2019-08-11T13:27:37Z")
I’ve often heard the phrase “I can’t even” and, intellectually, I know what it means. But this is the first time I have understood it on an emotional and spiritual level. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/6 "2019-08-11T14:37:07Z")
This is mind-blowingly insane. Also my wife and I were just talking about the old Sid & Marty Kroft shows after watching a kids react video on Youtube. More on it here on Wiki: [The Banana Splits Movie - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banana_Splits_Movie) IMDB: [The Banana Splits Movie (2019) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9831136/) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/7 "2019-08-11T15:05:53Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > It is real, and I find it surprising Sid and Marty Krofft\* would be okay with it, but there you go. > > \*both are still alive Given that they’ll make money from a property (assuming they still have an ownership interest) that’s long past its prime, I don’t find it at all surprising that they were okay with it. I did notice that it’s a straight-to-video release, so it’s not going to make very much money. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/8 "2019-08-11T15:20:00Z")
I believe this is the first R-rated movie adaptation of a Hanna-Barbera property. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/9 "2019-08-11T15:24:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I believe this is the first R-rated movie adaptation of a Hanna-Barbera property. I think you’re correct. The _Land of the Lost_ movie was PG-13. I mentioned this earlier, might be enjoyable for some. “Kids React To Creepy 1970s Kids Shows (Sid & Marty Krofft)”: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Ujk9A01io](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Ujk9A01io) ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/10 "2019-08-11T17:05:29Z")
It was always a horror show to me… ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/11 "2019-08-11T17:36:32Z")
_The Banana Splits_ was my first favorite TV show, when it was originally on Saturday morning TV; I was three years old. Their theme song was one of the first songs I learned to sing, and I even named my stuffed dog Fleegle, after one of the characters. I watched the show as an adult, when it was run on (I think) Cartoon Network. Lordy, it’s awful. Not horror-show awful, just cheesy and dumb. I could see why it appealed to three-year-old me; I imagined that it drove my parents crazy. Even so, I’m disappointed that it’s being made into a horror movie. It’s just misuse of the property, which was, as Wikipedia notes, basically a kids’ version of _Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In_. (Also, for the record, since there seems to be some confusion about this: the original TV show was made by Hanna-Barbera, though the costumes and sets were made by Sid and Marty Krofft.) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/12 "2019-08-11T17:46:44Z")
\*tra-la-la la-la-la-la tra-la-la la-la-la-la \* Wow, that could have been great. This does not look great. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/13 "2019-08-11T17:56:14Z")
I read that originally they wanted to do a _Five Nights at Freddy’s_ movie, but they couldn’t reach a deal. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/14 "2019-08-11T17:58:57Z")
Even though the original Banana Splits contained some of the worst cartoons ever made and I find it hard to care what they do with it, I still find the idea beyond weird. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/15 "2019-08-11T18:08:43Z")
This is going to be even worse than _The Happytime Murders_. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/16 "2019-08-11T18:18:51Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > \*tra-la-la la-la-la-la tra-la-la la-la-la-la \* > > Wow, that could have been great. This does not look great. ♪ _One insana, two insana, three insana, four All insanas throw a fit, so do many more Over the hill and on decay, the insana thuggees go Come along to bring you the insana unfit show_ ♬ ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/17 "2019-08-11T18:21:17Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I believe this is the first R-rated movie adaptation of a Hanna-Barbera property. Possibly, although the DVD set of \*Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law \*has a 15 certificate (UK). Now \*that \*is how you do an adult version of a kids’ show. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/18 "2019-08-11T20:58:13Z")
After watching the short clip, I want to go to there. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/19 "2019-08-11T22:44:17Z")
[Snorky](https://thebananasplits.fandom.com/wiki/Snorky)could easily be a First instar [spawn of Cthulhu](https://www.amazon.com/Legends-Cthulhu-Action-Figure-Animewild/dp/B01LW9CBWT). ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497/20 "2019-08-11T23:21:59Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > [Snorky](https://thebananasplits.fandom.com/wiki/Snorky)could easily be a First instar [spawn of Cthulhu](https://www.amazon.com/Legends-Cthulhu-Action-Figure-Animewild/dp/B01LW9CBWT). I think Snorky could be a prime suspect, but you just know that if they try to question him, he’s not going to say anything. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-horror-movie/838497.md?page=2)