# Remember the Banana Splits?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 19, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476 "2001-10-19T19:24:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 19
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### Author:  [@theretsof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theretsof)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2001, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/1 "2001-10-19T19:24:46Z")
Trying to get a run-down of all the cartoons they had. So far I’ve got:
Secret Squirrel
Huck Finn
Hillbilly Bears
That Octopus one
Uhoh Chongo
Witchy Witch
Any others? I know there’s tons.
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### Author:  [@lather\_rinse\_repeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lather_rinse_repeat)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/2 "2001-10-19T19:42:54Z")
The Banana Splits obviously had … a peel! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2001, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/3 "2001-10-19T19:51:10Z")
Here’s an interesting link about the show…
[http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1008.php](http://www.yesterdayland.com/popopedia/shows/saturday/sa1008.php)
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2001, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/4 "2001-10-19T20:04:50Z")
> [@](#):
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> Uhoh Chongo
Wasn’t that _Danger Island_ staring “Michael” Vincent?
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### Author:  [@Grok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grok)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2001, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/5 "2001-10-19T21:29:41Z")
Tra la la, la la la la, tra la la, la la la la!
Nope. Never heard of 'em. 🙂
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### Author:  [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2001, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/6 "2001-10-19T21:41:53Z")
One Bannana
Two Bannana
Three Bannana
Four…
Four Bannana’s make a bunch and so do many more
TRA LA LAAAA TRA LA LA LAAAAA
TRA LA LAAAA TRA LA LA LAAAAA…
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/7 "2001-10-19T23:26:26Z")
oh god, did us kids want one of those buggy-thingys they use to tool around in! (since found out they are “Argos” and met a distributer for this wacky things)
now i just want a Ferrari…
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### Author:  [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/8 "2001-10-20T00:56:25Z")
dont forget gullivers travels.
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### Author:  [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/9 "2001-10-20T00:57:58Z")
one more thing. this question has tortured me all my life.
did bob marley rip off the banana splits, or did the banana splits rip off bob marley?
thanking you…
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### Author:  [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/10 "2001-10-20T01:58:38Z")
There was one cartoon with a guy who would smack his wrists together and say “size of an (insert animal name here)” and then turn into that animal. I think it was called _The Arabian Knights_ or something like that.
Also, _Danger Island_ was called uhoh Chungo in the OP.
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/11 "2001-10-20T03:27:38Z")
The Banana Splits! One of my earliest memories.
Fleagle, Bongo, Drooper and Snork!
Haj
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### Author:  [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/12 "2001-10-20T14:29:26Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by hajario \*
> \*\*Fleagle, Bongo, Drooper and Snork!
>
> Haj \*\*
errr, wasn’t that _Bingo_?
Hillbilly Bears were on the B/S’s? _That’s_ where I remember them from!
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### Author:  [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/13 "2001-10-20T15:10:54Z")
What I want to know…Where do cannibal headhunters get cream pies? On Danger Island Every encounter with the skeleton men ended in a pie fight.
By the way, the octopus cartoon was…Squiddly Diddly.
Which sounds fairly indecent.
Wasn’t Precious Pup also on the show?
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/14 "2001-10-20T15:41:14Z")
Moving this to Cafe Society.
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### Author:  [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/15 "2001-10-20T17:46:55Z")
“What time is it cuckoo?”.
OK, I’ll add _The Three Musketeers_ and _Micro-Venture_.
Oh and (not a cartoon), but how about those Sour Grapes girls doing their Goldie-Hawn-in-Rowan-and-Martin’s-Laugh-In dance? Strangely sexual in a pre-pubescent way.
For those that don’t like the name of this forum, how about calling it Dear Drooper instead?
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### Author:  [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/16 "2001-10-20T21:00:46Z")
I always wondered what that strange head on the wall (with long hair and an animal muzzle) was. According to a stamp set my little brother had, it was “Banana Vac,” whatever that means.
When the BSAH was aired in the morning, years later, before he went to school each weekday, I would watch the end with him. I was watching Three Stooges shorts later in the day and I would sing over the closing theme:
_One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Good cooks don’t peel bananas anymore!
Watch them drive into the wall and make a little bump,
Moe, Larry, Curly and Shump!_
(forgive me, Shemp and all Stooge fans. :o )
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### Author:  [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/17 "2001-10-20T21:43:36Z")
“Banana Vac” was supposed to be a computer. The name was a wordplay on “Univac”–the name of the first supercomputer.
And (IMHO) the first season’s long-haired Snorky was way cooler than the second season’s short-haired version.
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### Author:  [@SolomonGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolomonGrundy)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2001, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/18 "2001-10-21T07:04:16Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by essvee \*
> \*\*one more thing. this question has tortured me all my life.
>
> did bob marley rip off the banana splits, or did the banana splits rip off bob marley?
>
> thanking you… \*\*
According to [BobMarley.com](http://BobMarley.com), “Buffalo Soldier” was released in 1983 on the album _Confrontation._. The Banana Splits theme was obviously written earlier, since the show debuted in 1968. I guess we should probably give Marley the benefit of the doubt and say that it was a case of “Now _where_ have I heard this tune before? Ah well, I must have made it up. Mon.”
Here’s a little bit more on the theme song:
[http://www.dfcom.freeserve.co.uk/hbw/banana/music.htm](http://www.dfcom.freeserve.co.uk/hbw/banana/music.htm)
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### Author:  [@Daytona\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daytona_Dave)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remember-the-banana-splits/88476/19 "2001-10-22T00:14:32Z")
Did Snork have a face-lift midway through the series? I seem to recall his physical appearnce changing at some point.