# The electric yellow's got me by the brain banana

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-yellows-got-me-by-the-brain-banana/194759>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 12, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-yellows-got-me-by-the-brain-banana/194759 "2003-08-12T22:40:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-yellows-got-me-by-the-brain-banana/194759/1 "2003-08-12T22:40:02Z")

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The was a phrase from the Simpsons when the town got wasted on Homer’s “organic” drink.

I know I’ve heard the phrase before the Simpsons, but a Google search did not yield any positive results…

Anybody else recall where this phrase comes from?

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**Author:** ![Phnord\_Prephect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df705f/32.png) [@Phnord\_Prephect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phnord_Prephect)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-yellows-got-me-by-the-brain-banana/194759/2 "2003-08-12T23:14:24Z")

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I think you’re just imagining it. That weird version of deja-vu, you know what I mean.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-yellows-got-me-by-the-brain-banana/194759/3 "2003-08-12T23:21:08Z")

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Sounds a little Tom Wolf-ish. Perhaps you confused it with _The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test_, or something similar?

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**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-yellows-got-me-by-the-brain-banana/194759/4 "2003-08-13T01:49:12Z")

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That phrase makes me think of [this.](http://people.cornell.edu/pages/slp29/pbj.html)

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**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-yellows-got-me-by-the-brain-banana/194759/5 "2003-08-13T02:00:54Z")

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Donovan, perhaps? The song Mellow Yellow:

\*Electrical banana  
Is gonna be a sudden craze.  
Electrical banana  
Is bound to be the very next phase.

They call it Mellow Yellow,  
Quite rightly.  
They call me Mellow Yellow,  
Quite rightly.  
They call me Mellow Yellow.  
\*

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**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-electric-yellows-got-me-by-the-brain-banana/194759/6 "2003-08-13T04:52:20Z")

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**jayjay** and I are on the same wavelength.

My first though upon reading the thread title: “OK, someone’s tried to make sense of Donovan lyrics and it has destroyed his sanity.”