The Dancing Banana (a.k.a. Peanut Butter Jelly) is a popular emoticon. By late 2001, the banana was already being used on several forums as a standard emoticon. Most of these forums would replace the typed text ":banana:" with the graphical image. As the popularity of the banana grew, hundreds of variations of the image had been created for forums or other purposes. These new images typically would have to be either uploaded or linked to, instead of replacing text. There is also a dancing pickle, carrot, apple, onion, taco, broccoli, Sonic the Hedgehog, Yoshi, Mario, Megaman, Lock ("lock this topic"), and Luigi, among many others. The Dancing Banana soon made its way to Television shows and began to appear as an icon in American Pop Culture.
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Peanut Butter Jelly Time
"Peanut Butter Jelly Time" is a Flash animation that emerged in the early '90s and became an Internet phenomenon. Based on a song of the same name recorded by the Buckwheat Boyz, the best known version of the animation was created by Ryan Etrata (usually distributed as a Flash clip) the repetitive chorus is often seen danced to by giant yellow bananas. The lyrics are:
peanut butter jelly time!
peanut butter jelly time!
peanut butter jelly time!
peanut butter jelly time!
Now where he at,
where he at,
where he at,
where he at?
Now there he goes,
there he goes,
there he goes,
there he goes.
Peanut butter jelly,
peanut butter jelly.
Now peanut butter jelly,
peanut butter jelly,
peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat.
Now peanut butter jelly,
peanut butter jelly,
peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat.
Now there he goes,
there he goes,
there he goes,
there he goes.
Peanut butter jelly,
peanut butter jelly.
Appearances in popular culture
- In the Family Guy episode "The Courtship of Stewie's Father", Brian attempts to cheer Peter up by performing "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" dressed as the Dancing Banana. This scene partially brought back the popularity of the dancing banana. He also wears the banana suit in the Family Guy video game whenever he is switched out in a tag battle.
- In the Ed episode "The Wedding," Jennifer Bradley shows Ed the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" animation to try to cheer him up.
- TNA professional wrestler Alex Shelley is occasionally represented by crowd chants or crowd signs that read "Peanut Butter Shelley Time" as a play on both his name and the meme.
- In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, one of the Tauren male dance cycles is based on the Dancing Banana.
- In one episode of The Proud Family, Penny babysits Dijonay's brothers and sisters. The kids put in a CD and start dancing to "Peanut Butter Jelly Time".
- On the January 31, 2007 episode of American Idol, contestant Sophat Peou sang the song while wearing a banana suit and doing the dance.
- Hot Topic sells shirts of the banana with the phrase "It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time".
- In The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (video game), an unlockable costume for Irwin is a banana suit also whenever he does his 'Mojo Meltdown' in the banana suit, he is in a stance that is part of Dancing Banana's dance.
- In an episode of the British comedy TV show That Mitchell And Webb Look, actor/comedian Robert Webb dances around in a giant banana costume while the end credits roll.
- In the Machinima video Frequency by Hollywood Halo the new weapon when used by humans produces the Peanut Butter Jelly song, which is lethal to the aliens.
External links
References
- [1] - Zimmette.net's "My Ruined Reputation" Message Boards (broken link)
