The Banana Splits (“The Banana Splits Adventure Hour”) are a group of puppets who staged a TV show produced by Hanna-Barbera.

This was an innovative program, which began a series of programs, with puppets and costumed. The Banana Splits emerged in 1968 with a bit of fumbling and many drawings and studies. Viewed by U.S. channel NBC in the period 1968-1970, most of the program was the design: The 3 Musketeers, Arabian Knights or series as Dr. Shrink or The Mysterious Island. The pace was frantic, just like Three Stooges. The program lasted an hour and alternated cartoons, series with actors, jokes and musical numbers, a total of 31 episodes. The first season was the director Richard Donner.

The Bananas were enemies, the sour grapes, that never appeared, but always sent a message through a little girl dancer, dressed in a micro-skirt purple. As a group, The Banana Splits are a musical quartet that plays dippy pop and rock, formed by the following figures (actors in costumes). The names of Bananas were fleglee (the dog with tongue out), bingo (the toothy), drooper (the dog square glasses) and snorky (the elephant).

The children love it! I can speak for me, who came to weep when the class was saying goodbye (always with a song by pop bubble gum). Despite not understanding much as they spoke without moving his mouth, I thought in the all the situations stupid. Today, twenty years later, still watching can do very well for some people.