Tuesday, January 5, 2010
11:44 PM
Banana Splits Costume and Contest
The Banana Splits halloween costume which I wore one year. I loved them SO much! Recently, I found some old episodes on youtube and excitedly carved out some time to sit and watch them for old time's sake. Sadly, this is one children's show that didn't retain the magic for me. I still get that special feeling when I see pictures of them, etc. but the actual show bored me to tears and I couldn't figure out why I was so crazy about them when I was little. lol I still love the Brady Bunch, etc. even though I'm older now. I have no idea why the same isn't true for this show. Still I love remembering them and the way I loved them back when I was too young to realize how utterly stupid their show really was. lol
Related Memory: One morning just before school was about to start for the year, I was playing over at Jeff's house when a call came through to their house from the radio station. They were calling to tell Jeff's brother, Mark that he had won a Banana Splits contest they were running. We were all so excited for him. None of us kids had ever won anything from a radio station before so it was an especially big deal. But then, the icing on the cake was that he won the Banana Splits contest which meant that he won all kinds of really cool, one-of-a-kind Banana Splits mechandise. I don't remember all of the items that he won though I do remember that I loved all of them and searched all over town afterwards hoping to find similar items. Of course, what I didn't understand then was that the things Mark had won were promotional items so they couldn't be found in any store, anywhere. Bummer. The one thing he received that I remember the most is the super cool white 3-ring binder with a built-in pencil holder. It had a picture of the Banana Splits on it. That was the neatest 3-ring binder I had ever seen and I wanted one like it so bad that I could barely see straight! lol I never found one, though. Because I didn't understand how radio contests worked, I hoped for the next several months that I too would get a call from the radio station saying I had won the Banana Splits gifts. I didn't get that Mark had entered a one-time only contest so I made a mad dash to beat everyone in my house to the phone for the next several months until I finally realized I was waiting for a call that wasn't ever going to come. lol But every time I see something related to the Banana Splits today, some childlike part of me STILL hopes it might happen. How crazy is that? LOL