WOW. I totally remember that.

No wonder that years later, psychedelics seemed familiar...

Rain-Monkey: WOW. I totally remember that.

That, and The Archies. Everything was sooo groovy back then.

The drummer kind of looks like Mickey Dolenz.

I tried to describe this show once to somebody who had never seen it. He thought I was making it up.

If I think really really hard about it, I think my earliest childhood television memory was watching this show.

That, and the closing credits to Sesame Steeet - Funky Chimes

I'm a firm believer that your first pleasurable exposure to something uses that something as a standard for the rest of your life. It's no wonder, then, that Sesame Steet's Funky Chimes would declare, for me, an early predilection for funk, soul and all variant forms of groove-based music.

At least, that's my theory.

Woo hoo, Banana Splits thread! Loved them as a tiny kid.

And their theme song translated so well to punk (new window)

/la la la, la-la-la-la

Fark, let's try that again:

Banana Splits theme by the Dickies

The Banana Splits are on everyday in Canada on Teletoon Retro.

Mezmerizing, what a blast from the past. Seems like a lifetime ago that I used to watch that. Oh, it was.