Sure hope these use this song too, cuz Bob cribbed from theirs.
Not a Pepsi MAX? 
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No, he didn’t.
It’s some of the same notes coincidentally, but the Wailers were not a Saturday Morning Cover band.
Woy Yoy Yoy is Jamaican slang, it has nothing to do with the kid’s lyric.
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Welp, they’re really going to ruin my childhood by crossing it with Five Nights at Freddy’s.
(Yeah, I’m old.)
Can’t wait for the Wonder Bug and Dr Shrinker reboot as gritty horror movies.
Oh, yeah.
I was the intended target age for The Banana Splits, but they annoyed the fuck out of me. They were:
A) a band. I just didn’t get bands. It wasn’t that I didn’t like music, it was the “being in a band” part that bugged me. It didn’t strike me as a fun thing to do, and especially to watch.
B) into shtick humor. Laugh tracks, rim shots, dumb gags.
I liked adventure shows, fantasy stuff. There were plenty of those on back then.
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I accidentally read this as “gridmark” instead of “grimdark” and thought, “Yes, this could be a good D&D module…”
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DC Comics is one step ahead of you 
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Actually, I think that was one of the first ones they did.
It wasn’t too bad, but there are better entries in the series.
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In the days before the internet a bunch of us were having a really stoned conversation about our childhood tv favorites (as you do), when one of my mates informed us that the Banana Splits had all been tragically killed in a plane crash in the late 70s. The rest of us were suitably horrified and it went kind of viral. Everybody told everybody and before you knew it I had people coming up to me saying ‘did you hear about the Banana Splits? What a terrible thing!’.
It wasn’t until Wkipedia came out that I found out that no such thing had happened. God bless the internet. When I confronted him he just laughed and to this day it’s an inside joke about unreferenced assertions.
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How are we not talking about this:
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Oh man, somehow I had completely expunged this from my memory. I can’t say it’s all coming back, but I certainly recollect that opening. Obviously it wasn’t a favorite of mine.
And now that’s immediately making me think of the brutal fight/massacre scene in Kick Ass set to the Dickies’ version of that song…
Apparently there’s a Jonny Quest movie in the works. I’m kind of surprised by that, given that I’d have said the Venture Bros. have hilariously destroyed its memory beyond recovery.
Oh shit, I saw that comic and it seemed like it should ring a bell, but I couldn’t figure out what the “Banana Splits” were supposed to be a reference to. Because they were real animals, not bad costumes, that didn’t trigger any memories of the tv show for me. Seeing the tv opening with the theme song is only triggering the dimmest memories. (Part of it might have been my limited television time as a child - I probably never saw enough of most shows for me to remember them.)
Gods, those DC/HB crossovers are weird.
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yes
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Weird, but generally really well executed. The one where Snagglepuss is a gay theatre actor dealing with McCarthyism is excellent.
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[NSFW]
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One of my faves as a kid, can’t wait. Dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flMS2gHFOH0
The Dickies - Banana Splits - YouTube
Definitely needs to be the opening theme.
Er, look about 30 posts upthread. 
Ah, there it is. I did a quick scan and didn’t see it. My fault for not using ctrl-f.
That said, I maintain that it warrants more discussion!
DC asked Mark Sexton (lead storyboard artist on Mad Max: Fury Road) to do the initial concept art and these 11 drawings are amazing. I want model kits.
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