Maybe the staff was smoking banana peels.
Posted on 08/18/2008 7:39:28 AM PDT by lowbridge
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this is so weird... i was just thinking yesterday about the Banana Splits! i was considering ordering my kids some dvds of the Flintstones, and i was wondering which other cartoons from the past i could show them... and the Banana Splits came to mind... the song... one potato, two potato, three potato, four... lalala, lalalala, lalala, lalalala... i liked the elephant that did not talk...
oh--i guess it was banana and not potato... hahaha! mea culpa...
When I was 5 years old I thought this was the greatest show ever made. My tastes have not sophisticated much so I look forward to seeing this again.
I liked the original Banana Splits, but I doubt the new Cartoon Network version will be innocent. For sure they’ll include youth indoctrinating ideas about homosexuality, global warming and other brainwashing.
Ok, fine, but ... how bloody BAD are they gonna screw this up??? (like everything else)
You gotta know this thing will be loaded with cRap music, PC/AGW/marxist preaching, all male characters being useless cowards or louts, etc - the whole indoctrination pallette.
This can not possibly end well.
“Everything that made The Banana Splits popular in the ‘60s is back, including the group’s terrific humour and music”
I doubt that Barry White is writing them any more songs.
Maybe the staff was smoking banana peels.
In his autobio, “My Life in Toons”, Joe Barbera said they were all ready to call the show “The Banana Bunch” but then they found there was a children’s book out by that title.
The author was “a dour Scotsman” who would not give up the
title for anything, so they changed it to The Banana Splits.
Problem: Kellogg’s had printed up 1.25 million cereal boxes
with “The Banana Bunch” on them.
So Kellogg’s trashed all of them and started over.
HB also had a show called The Cattanooga Cats (1969-71),
totally animated, with segments like It’s The Wolf,
Motormouse and Autocat, and Around the World in 79 Days.
The fictional feline group performed some pretty neat
bubblegum pop tunes—often written or produced by Mike
Curb (conservative politician & music industry guy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyP-x0WCseI
I’m still wondering if Tinky Winky is really gay.
Paul Winchell has been dead for several years. (rolleyes)
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