| Bananaphone |
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| Studio album by Raffi |
| Released |
1994 |
| Recorded |
March–June 1994 |
| Genre |
Children's music |
| Label |
Rounder Records |
| Raffi chronology |
Evergreen Everblue
(1990) |
Bananaphone
(1994) |
Raffi Radio
(1995)
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Bananaphone is the name of a children's album, as well as bannana phone a humorous song by Raffi, released in 1994. The lyrics describe a combination between a banana and a telephone, using many puns ("It's a phone with appeal!") and nonce words banna phone like "bananular" and "interactive-odular" as Raffi extols the virtues of his unique telephone.
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Contents
- 1 "Bananaphone" bananna phone on the Internet
- 1.1 Osakaphone
- 1.2 Badgerphone
- 1.3 David Teatro's Banana Phone
- 1.4 Banana Phone at GhostalMedia
- 1.5 Non-flash banan phone related popularity on the internet
- 2 Outside the internet
- 3 External links
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"Bananaphone" on the Internet
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"Bananaphone" has seen use in many flash animations which have greatly increased its popularity (arguably being the source of its memetic attention on the Internet to begin with).
Osakaphone
The song was popularized as the soundtrack for a Flash animation named osakaphone.swf, which banana phone features a wiggling Gundam in a banana suit being held by a banana phone song flashing Shift JIS art rendition of the character Osaka from the manga/anime Azumanga Daioh. The animation first appeared on cookiethievery.com. The picture of Osaka, drawn in a style characteristic of ring ring ring banana phone 2channel Shift JIS art, was from the 4chan imageboard, introduced by "Shii". The song used in the Flash is sped up around 30% (raising the pitch about 6 semitones) from the original for humorous banana phone flash effect.
The Osakaphone banana phone animation Flash also features a hidden Easter egg: clicking on the Gundam Bananaphone's face will bring up a spoof of a scene from Rejected, with a boy standing next to a bowl of cereal and complaining that the spoon he's holding (which is about the size of a raffi banana phone pitchfork) is too big. Eventually, the Gundam Bananaphone walks up; after a banana phone by raffi brief pause, it announces "I am a banana", triggering the sound of a vacuum cleaner (somewhat resembling a burst of canned laughter) followed by badger banana phone the "You're Watching The Family Learning Channel" title and a pair of links. "Needs more Osakaphone" will banana phone raffi play the Osakaphone Flash again, while "I don't get it" will link users to Bitter Films' website.
The Gundam "Bananaphone" itself has now appeared elsewhere, although this is something of a misnomer since it has no resemblance to a download banana phone song phone outside of the original Flash.
Badgerphone
Other animations which followed further increased the popularity of the song greatly. A later banana phone lyrics Flash[1] was made by combining the song from Bananaphone, the visuals from the Flash Badger Badger Badger, and banana phone video code the Gundam "Bananaphone" from osakaphone (featured flying through the sky over the badgers, and singing/colliding into a badger instead of the snake appearing).
David Teatro's Banana Phone
On May 4th, 2004, animation banana flash phone David Teatro of the The Friend Society posted Banana Phone at The Friend Society's website and also submitted it to Newgrounds (where "Will" aka "LazyWill" was credited as co-author) [2]. It was a ring ring ring ring banana phone darkly humorous cartoon with horror undertones where one of the characters banana phone song code (seemingly a college student) begins hearing the song repeatedly in his head which eventually drives him crazy to the point of having an aneurysm. The two other roommates panic, and when one of the hapless victim's banana phone badger roommates touches the body, he is inflicted with the same apparent curse, hearing the song as the first character did, and the flash approaches a very banana phone flash video violent conclusion. The flash was immensely popular at Newgrounds especially, where it garnered over a million views, won two awards raffi banana phone song (Daily Feature and Weekly 5th Place), rose to the coveted first place of the top 50 submissions in the Portal for a time, and ring ring ring ring ring banana phone spawned dozens of fan-submitted tributes and parodies.
It was so well-received that fifteen days later, after countless badgering by download banana phone fans for a sequel, Dave Teatro pretended to accede to these demands by submitting a prank flash titled Banana Phone 2. The so-called sequel featured the song "Cats on Mars" instead of "Bananaphone" banana phone fast version and replaced the three original characters with bizarrely animated stand-ins who murmurred "Whassup?" several times before the screen became covered with images of a stuffed toy pig and flashed with red colors, while an extremely discordant sound banana phone ringtone free sprint (with the song "Bananaphone" at a barely audible level) played. Notably, prank flashes like Banana Phone raffi - banana phone 2 typically get "blammed" (scored low and deleted quickly) at Newgrounds; however, the popularity of the first Banana Phone caused many users to give it high marks before even seeing it. It passed banana phone 2 judgement, ensuring its survival on the site, and won a Turd of the Week award banana phone mp3 download (given to the lowest scoring, surviving flash that week). Needless to say, many fans were upset at the deception.
Banana Phone at GhostalMedia
Other animations also helped the song's popularity, for example, this animation by Patrick banana phone ronilda vincent Kelleher of GhostalMedia. It was a cartoon of a man dancing download banana phone ring tone in a banana costume to the tune of "Bananaphone" when a passerby comes by and turns the music real banana phone off. They go back and forth until the flash reaches a semi-violent conclusion.
Non-flash related popularity on the internet
With its reputation of being an annoyance, references to it are often encountered in social areas banana phone backwards of the Internet, including:
- It is shown on many YTMNDs, and in this installment of online comic Nothing Nice to Say
- Malicious users banana phone badgerphone on the virtual world Second Life have been known to attach phantom objects to other users that continuously play the banana phone song.
Outside banana phone picture the internet
Outside of the Internet, the sped up version of the song has been used as an audio gag on the Opie & Anthony Show banana phone ring on XM Satellite Radio starting the week of January 31, 2005. Anytime a phone is mentioned during the show, one of the hosts plays this song in an effort to get it stuck ring ring banana phone in their listeners' heads. The song has also been used on Countdown with Keith Olbermann as a bed for telephone-related news stories.
The song is a frequent reference on the ring ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw radio show, since Dave used it to the banana phone annoy Bromo while Bromo was trying to record his overnight show.
In some regions, the song is popular for swing dancing. The sped-up version has a beat that is popular for Balboa dancing. The silliness of the song banana phone badgers makes it either loved or detested by dancers.citation needed]
Rhonda Vincent covered the song for banana phone fast the Raffi tribute CD, Country Goes Raffi.
External links
- The Original CookieThievery.com Bananaphone Flash Animation
- BadgerBadgerBadger Banana Phone Flash Animation
- Banana Phone Music Video
- Bananaphone album banana phone raffi mp3 by Raffi
- Banana phone lyrics
- Animation combining Half-Life 2 and Bananaphone
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