The Banana Splits (‘Tra-La-La, La-La-La-La!’)

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A collection of three T-shirts featuring three motifs.

Will fit Teen, Young Adult and Adults.

All items are recolourable, but the logos aren’t.

Please also find a collection of four poster pictures available as pictures for your Sims 3 game.

The poster pictures use a mesh with many thanks by Yarona at Sims Modeli, so you do not need any stuff packs for this to work – it’s all base game friendly.

Download

To use, download, unzip, and drop the contained folder into your The Sims 3\mods\packages folder and they should show up.

Enjoy!

‘Flipping like a pancake, popping like a cork, Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork.’

The Banana Splits was a show Hanna Barbera put together in the 1960s (a cross between The Monkees and Rowan And Martin’s Laugh-In) with a mixture of live action slapstick, bubblegum pop, the serial Danger Island and some brand new cartoons (in particular The Three Musketeers and The Arabian Knights done in the style of their ‘animated classics’ series).  The show was created specifically as a vehicle to promote Kelloggs breakfast cereals.

The show was a great success, not least of all because unlike so many Hanna Barbera productions corners weren’t cut to meet network deadlines, and audiences enjoyed the ‘variety show’ style (which resulted in HB thereafter flogging the format to death). It spawned a hit single, a hit album and all manner of tie-in merchandise.

But Hanna Barbera cancelled the show halfway through the second series, much to the dismay of children (and their parents!) and network executives at the time, all because Kelloggs didn’t renew the sponsorship deal as their own merchandise wasn’t seeing much extra sales out of it.

The fate of what had been America’s leading Saturday morning TV show first illustrated the danger of media creators becoming too concerned with pleasing sponsors or advertisers before their audience.

Michael Stipe of R.E.M. claimed their only album ‘We’re The Banana Splits’ had a greater lasting influence on American pop music than any other, as did The Ramones and the Beastie Boys. Tongue-in-cheek, perhaps, but even reggae legend Bob Marley borrowed the ‘Tra-la-la, tra-la-la-la’ for his own ‘Buffalo Soldier’, and the Banana Splits theme tune is still adapted by sports fans worldwide forty four years since its release.