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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:banana-splits.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\| ''"One banana, two banana, three banana, four!~~<br />~~ ''Four bananas make a bunch, and so do many more!~~<br />~~ ''Over hill and highway the Banana Buggies go,~~<br />~~ ''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 (Creator)\|~~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: * ''The Arabian Knights'': A [[Five-Man Band]] of heroes fought evil in pre-Islamic Arabia. * ''The Three Musketeers'': These short adventures were adapted from [[The Three Musketeers (~~Literature~~novel)\|the book]] by [[Alexandre Dumas]] ''père''. * ''Micro-Ventures'': A scientist and his two teenage children visited [[Mouse World]] to observe insects up close. * ''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 (Animation)\|~~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 ~~(Animation)~~]] and [[Secret Squirrel]]'' * ''The Adventures of Gulliver'' * ''The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' 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~~film)\|Kick-Ass]]''. ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== ''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~~with Monkeys]]: Bingo * [[Fake Band]] * [[Flying Carpet]]: Often used on ''The Arabian Knights''. * [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Ventriloquist Shari Lewis voiced Nida in ''The Arabian Knights.'' * [[Hollywood Torches]]: ''The Arabian Knights'' and ''Danger Island'' segments. * [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: ''Micro Ventures'' Line 36 ⟶ 37: * [[Master of Disguise]]: Nida in ''The Arabian Knights''. * [[Misplaced Wildlife]]: On ''Danger Island''. Lions and leopards on an island, in the middle of the Pacific? * [[Old Shame]]: The ''Danger Island'' segments were directed by [[The Omen\|Richard]] [[Superman (~~Film~~film)\|Donner]]; [[Airwolf\|Jan-Michael Vincent]] (credited as simply "Michael Vincent") appeared in them as "Link". * [[Open Sesame]]: on ''The Arabian Knights''. * [[The Red Stapler]]: Don't tell me you didn't want a six-wheeled amphibious vehicle of your own as a kid. Line 47 ⟶ 48: {{reflist}} [[Category:Hanna Barbera]]▼ [[Category:Science Fiction Western Animation]] [[Category:Saturday Morning Cartoon]] Line 53: [[Category:Fantasy Western Animation]] [[Category:Western Animation]] [[Category:The Banana Splits Adventure Hour]] ▲[[Category:Hanna -Barbera]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Banana Splits Adventure Hour, The}}