Posted on 08/18/2008 7:39:28 AM PDT by lowbridge
Children's TV classic The Banana Splits is getting a modern makeover.
Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky are to star in new comedy shorts and music videos on the Cartoon Network and its website from September.
A series of DVDs, live concerts, music CDs, and online games from the anarchic crew are expected to follow.
"Everything that made The Banana Splits popular in the '60s is back, including the group's terrific humour and music," said Jordan Sollitto, of Warner Bros.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
OMG, please, no!
One bananna, two bananna, three bananna
I HATED that show.
I disliked it as a kid and seeing a rerun on TV a few months ago confirmed my earlier judgment.
I have two kids and often “la la la” this tune to them when we are having fun. It’s great to see them enjoy this show as I did back in the 70’s.
Oh God no.
No hip-hop version of that awful song, please....
I hope they've got those dancing girls again. I liked them.
Not in a weird way or nothin’...
Okay, maybe a little bit of a weird way.
Loved it~~ Always wondered what kind of drugs the people who created it were doing...had to be some wild stuff.
How about the fifth banana, 'Bama ?
LOL!
Wasn’t it Sid & Marty Krofft that created The Banana Splits & HR Pufnstuf?
I was just discussing both those shows with a co-worker.
What drugs....indeed....?
Probably just the gateway drug to whatever the HR Pufnstuff crew were using.
they’ll never make it they’re DOOMED!!!
I remember one of their jokes:
Q. What is the highest form of Animal life?
A. The giraffe.
groan...
Oh PLEASE use the Dickies version of the theme song for the new show! La-la-la La-la-la-la La-la-la La-la-la-la-la!
I long for the insanity of the Road Runner cartoons and those of Tweety, Sylvester, and Yosemite Sam. Since the politically left moroons have banned them because of their “violence,” there hasn’t been a decent cartoon on TV for years.
Personally, I’ve lost all interest in cartoons where the female characters are always stronger and smarter than their stupid male characters (Shaggy-Stupid), and are always shown running in front of the whole pack of male characters(I notice stuff like that) no matter where they go.
Give me the whole loony bunch of Wiley, Roadrunner, Tweety, Sylvester, and Yosemite Sam any day. The rest of them STINK.
LOL! I posted a pic of Fleegle here on FR just a few months ago.
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