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{{quote|''"One banana, two banana, three banana, four!
''Four bananas make a bunch, and so do many more!
''Over hill and highway the Banana Buggies go,
''Coming on to bring you the Banana Splits show!"'' }}
 
''[[The Banana Splits Adventure Hour]]'' was a Saturday morning series from [[Hanna-Barbera]] shown on [[NBC]] in the late 1960s. Live actors in full-body costumes portrayed Fleegle the dog (voiced by [[Paul Winchell]]), Drooper the lion (voiced by Allan Melvin), Bingo the gorilla (voiced by [[Daws Butler]]) and Snorky the elephant. [[Sid and Marty Krofft Productions]] designed the Banana Splits' character costumes.
 
The foursome did comedy sketches, performed songs and introduced the following action segments:
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* ''Danger Island'': This was the serialized live-action segment, set on and around a Pacific island. Memorable for the [[Catch Phrase]], "Uh-oh, Chongo!". Directed by future-Goonie [[Richard Donner]].
 
After the Banana Splits became popular, Hanna-Barbera tried to duplicate its success in 1977: ''[[Skatebirds]]'' on [[CBS]]. (Some sources had 1969's ''[[The Cattanooga Cats]]'' on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] as live/animated with the Cats live costumes, but it was all animated.) When ''The Banana Splits'' was shown in broadcast syndication, and later on [[TBS]], the following series were added to the package:
* ''[[The Atom Ant Show]] and [[Secret Squirrel]]''
* ''The Adventures of Gulliver''
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Interesting trivia: The Banana Splits title song (or rather, a high-speed cover version by The Dickies) puts in an appearance as Hit Girl's theme music in ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]''.
 
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=== ''The Banana Splits'' provides examples of: ===
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: Hardly surprisingly, the band appeared both in live action and in animated form in a full-length feature, ''The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park'' ([[The Dark Age of Animation|1972]]), on the animated anthology series ''The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie''.
* [[The Big Guy]]: Raseem from ''The Arabian Knights''; Porthos from ''The Three Musketeers''
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]
* [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]: Leslie Hayden from ''Danger Island'', who was captured by Captain Mu-Tan's band or native headhunters in practically every episode and [[Bound and Gagged|tied up]], although all the main characters get this treatment at one point or another, especially late in the serial.
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Farik in the ''The Arabian Knights'' episode "The Coronation of Bakaar".
* [[Everything's Better with Monkeys]]: Bingo
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