Cartoon
Kellogg's of Battle Creek Presents The Banana Splits Adventure Hour

Animal
Gorili-li-la!
Banana Split

Outfit:  Rimmed glasses / goofy grin / Sigourney Weaver in the Mist

Tagline:  "Tra la la!  La la la la!"

Plot summary:  Okay, you're in a room. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, an elephant, dog, gorilla, and lion slide in on fireman poles or come up through holes in the ground and just go ape-balls, running into each other, falling down, and screaming. Now imagine that they would like for you to watch some cartoons. That, my friends, is the Banana Splits, if you've never lived through them.

The Splits were Hanna-Barbera's first foray into live-action television, which of course means that they had EVERY SINGLE DUMB THING Hanna-Barbera EVER DID. Did they all sound like previously existing people or characters? Yes. Did they have a rock band? Yes. Did they solve mysteries? Probably. They were visited by characters like Fred Flintstone and Elroy Jetson DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE BANANA SPLITS ARE MASCOTS EXISTING IN OUR TANGIBLE WORLD IN REAL TIME. It wasn't like watching TV on drugs. It was like watching a TV made out of drugs.

I'm not going to lie and say that the Splits didn't "make up a mess of fun" for me. It was lots of fun for everyone. One of the things I enjoy most in the world are mascots. Big furry sports team mascots. Especially when they do things, like ride an ATV or get bulldogged into home plate so some guy can win free Mexican food. The Splits gave me FOUR mascots, and had them doing things like riding the log flume. That was just stellar. (more)

User Comments:  Correct me if I'm wrong. The opening line to the children's song "BINGO" goes: "There was a farmer had a dog and Bingo was his name-o." So taking into consideration rules of grammar and syntax, doesn't this suggest that it is in fact the farmer and not the dog who is named Bingo? There WAS A FARMER, and he had a dog. The modifier goes back to the farmer. All this time I've been singing a song about a fucking farmer. If I wanted to sing about a fucking farmer I'd sing fucking Farmer in the Dell. When they say "the cheese stands alone" you don't have any confusion. It's not "the farmer and the cheese are there and STANDING ALONE IS WHAT ONE OF THEM DID." It's fucking cheese and it fucking stands. How hard is that to process? Process the cheese.

[insert "dude, farmer is getting a dell" joke here]

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