The Banana Splits are the stupidest characters ever. I hate their show and the lame cartoons that go with that lame show. They don't even deserve to be on our 'Teletoon Retro' but that is where you can find them daily. I wrote them a hateful email but all they promised me was a signed picture.
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How can you possibly hate the Banana Splits? They were the world in microcosm. Sure the cartoons were lame, but the Splits themselves were like Shakespeare for us Kids.
All the personality types we knew were distilled into those four costumed characters. Fleagle, the well meaning leader, Drooper, the cool hipster who didn't care about image or fashion. Bingo, the exotic, ethnically flavoured one who played the bongos, and Snorkle, silent yet full of profound wisdom.
Think of the parallels through history: From the Mahabarata (Snorkle = Gennesh) to the Marx Brothers (Do I need to spell it out?) to the Beatles, to the main characters of The Big Bang Theory. There number is always four. A coincidence? I think not!
You need to watch more of them. Over and over again, untill your mind is full of the exotic multicoloured backgrounds and your head swims in the cosmic all...
...or maybe I'm reading too much into it. I don't know.
You are reading way too much in it. They just dance around in quick motion and pretend they can communicate which they can't. I just want to wail on the one that smiles at me all the time like he understands my pain. Stinkin' bitch.
I loved the Banana Splits! Drooper was my favorite. Still have the theme on my iPod. :)
They only come in my nightmares now. I think that Bannana Splits aversion therapy was really worth the money.
Hate them!
Hated them then, would hate them now if I ever bothered to watch them, which I would not. Even when I was nine years old in 1969 my immediate reaction was that this is incredibly stupid and they must think we're idiots.
Really always wanted to punch the elephant Snorkey guy("silent yet full of profound wisdom???" now I want to punch M.D. too)
BUT - it was so long ago that it's hard to remember, but I did like one of the cartoons that someimes came on it, where the family would shrink and explore ant-hills or something. It was reasonably entertaining but it was agony to sit through the whole show hoping for some little six minute cartoon that hardly ever came on anyway.
AND - didn't Banana Splits somehow lead to HR Puffinstuff? Gotta admit I did like Puffinstuff.
They just freak me out. Always have. And when they started showing that stupid six flags centered show on Teletoon Retro I realized just why I hated it even more. They are creepy. They are not anywhere near muppets or even sport team mascots. They are ratty and have stupid accessories.
Oh and MD...there were also 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (to continue your idea that 4 is always good) and 4 Banana Splits
The Banana Splits were effin evil - hated the music, graphics and zany fascist American humour. Yuk. Yuk. Yuk.
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