# Banana Splits TV show
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 15, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031 "2006-01-15T02:32:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@melissa\_h](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melissa_h)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/1 "2006-01-15T02:32:21Z")
Help me Obi Wan Kenobi your my only hope…I seem to remember on the Saturday morning kids show “The Banana Splits” there was a group of teeny bopper heartthrob boys/men that came on between the banana splits skits. If memory serves one of them wore a blue velvet suit? I think they may have sung…I can’t find any answer to this burning question anywhere and no one I know remembers or for that matter cares. I’m beginning to think I have a made up memory.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/2 "2006-01-15T02:42:06Z")
[Here ya go](http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/bananasplits.htm)
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/3 "2006-01-15T02:45:08Z")
> [@melissa h](#):
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> Help me Obi Wan Kenobi your my only hope…I seem to remember on the Saturday morning kids show “The Banana Splits” there was a group of teeny bopper heartthrob boys/men that came on between the banana splits skits. If memory serves one of them wore a blue velvet suit? I think they may have sung…I can’t find any answer to this burning question anywhere and no one I know remembers or for that matter cares. I’m beginning to think I have a made up memory.
Welcome to the board, **melissa h**.
We have a forum specifically for entertainment, and I’ll bet one of the TV experts there can answer this for you.
Moved from ATMB to CS.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/4 "2006-01-15T02:46:00Z")
Damn, you’re good, **Frank**.
I just reported this post.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/5 "2006-01-15T02:49:41Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#):
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> [Here ya go](http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/kids/bananasplits.htm)
Um… I don’t see any mention of regular humans, tho…
Maybe you have your memories mixed up with the [Hudson Brothers](http://www.sunshineday.com/neugast/2nd%20Tier%20Pages/hudson%20brothers.html) ?
Note the guy in the blue vest in one of the pics.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/6 "2006-01-15T02:54:03Z")
:smack:
I wonder if she means [Kaptain Kool and the Kongs](http://krofft.dementedstuff.com/kkaktop1.jpg)?
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/7 "2006-01-15T02:57:49Z")
Our guest has posted this in two forums. It’s also over in Cafe Society, after being misposted in ATMB.
I’m gonna work some magic and (hopefully) merge this one with the one in Cafe Society.
Stand by–do not attempt to adjust your sets…
**samclem** GQ moderator
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/8 "2006-01-15T03:00:08Z")
😛
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/9 "2006-01-15T03:00:15Z")
> [@samclem](#):
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> Stand by–do not attempt to adjust your sets…
That’s done it. Now there’s a hole in the fabric of reality. Just as the Broncos are in the lead, too.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/10 "2006-01-15T03:02:06Z")
OK ladies and gentlemen. You can unfasten your seatbelts.
I also deleted some duplicate posts.
Carry on.
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/11 "2006-01-15T03:02:32Z")
[Are you thinking of these guys re the Danger Island segment?](http://www.wingnuttoons.com/DangerIsland.html)
[Banana Splits](http://www.wingnuttoons.com/Banana_Splits.html)
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> [@](#):
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> anana Splits
> Premiered (September 7, 1968)
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> * * *
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> ## The Banana Splits were four costumed actors performing zany slapstick humor. They pun, offer advice and answers to important questions of all time, They also run into each other alot, & carry on like nothing you have ever seen before. They would introduce cartoons & a live action segment called “Danger Island” (directed by Richard Donner). The Splits are the daffiest, wackiest foursome to hit TV since the tube was invented. Recurring segments include: Splits Handshake - Take Out the Trash - Dear Drooper - Mildred - Secret Password - Sour Grapes Messenger Girl - Fleagle News - Club Business - Hold the Bus - The Dilly Sisters - Uh Oh! Chongo, & many Really Groovy Music Videos.
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> ## Voices: Fleegle (a bollixed-up beagle)- Paul Winchell Drooper (a loony lion) - Allan Melvin Bingo (a goofy gorilla) - Daws Butler Snorky (a daffy elephant) - Don Messick The Actors in the costumes were: Fleegle - Jeffrey Brock Drooper - Daniel Owen Bingo - Terence Henry Snorky - Robert Towers Many many thanks, for reference to the actors, goes out to: Dan Winkless
>
> The other shows included with Banana Splits were: Arabian Knights \<- click here for more info
> Three Musketeers \<- click here for more info
> Hillbilly Bears \<- click here for more info
> Danger Island \<- click here for cast credits
> Micro Ventures \<- click here for more info
> Adventures of Gulliver \<- click here for more info
> New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn \<- click here for more info
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### Author:  [@cstamets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cstamets)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/12 "2006-01-15T06:58:46Z")
Boomerang, the Cartoon Network’s other channel, shows the Banana Splits.
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/13 "2006-01-15T07:30:46Z")
I don’t really have anything to add to answer the OP’s original questions. I just thought this would be a good time to mention that when I was a little kid in the early 70’s, I got to meet the Banana Splits and I got their autographs. It was terribly exciting for me.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/14 "2006-01-15T07:40:00Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#):
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> I don’t really have anything to add to answer the OP’s original questions. I just thought this would be a good time to mention that when I was a little kid in the early 70’s, I got to meet the Banana Splits and I got their autographs. It was terribly exciting for me.
My brother and I got to meet them at Korvette’s, a long defunct Dept store that I probably misspelled as I was very little and it was 1970. I am pretty sure I was excited because my brother (6 years older) told me I should be.
Jim
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/15 "2006-01-15T07:55:06Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#):
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> :smack:
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> I wonder if she means [Kaptain Kool and the Kongs](http://krofft.dementedstuff.com/kkaktop1.jpg)?
Egad! Thats always been my private, pet name for my genitalia!
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/16 "2006-01-15T09:48:38Z")
I just wanted to say that the final shot of each episiode, in which the animated characters are seemingly transformed into lifeless still images painted on a fence, has given me intermittent nightmares and a general feeling of unease for over 30 years.
> [@](#):
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> Did I ever tell you about the time Brasky and I went hunting? We stalked and murdered every member of the Banana Splits. All of them begged for their lives, except Fleegle.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/17 "2006-01-15T13:43:30Z")
> [@gatopescado](#):
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> Egad! Thats always been my private, pet name for my genitalia!
I will resist the urge to mention Dr. Shrinker.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/18 "2006-01-15T13:50:57Z")
A site with lots of Bananna Splits photos.
[http://bananasplits.freeservers.com/index.html](http://bananasplits.freeservers.com/index.html)
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### Author:  [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/19 "2006-01-15T13:51:36Z")
I remember the _Sour Grapes Gang_, but they were girls.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2006, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/banana-splits-tv-show/340031/20 "2006-01-15T14:31:47Z")
The Confessions Of A Sour Grapes Messenger Girl.
[http://www.wingnuttoons.com/Banana\_Conf.html](http://www.wingnuttoons.com/Banana_Conf.html)
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