I as a kid remember coming home after school and watching the Banana Splits. That was one of my Favorite Shows as is today. I was thrilled to see that it is back on T.V. unfortunately the time that it comes on is utterly ridiculous. I was looking forward to watching it again. Why would Cartoon Network have it on at those crazy hours. Danger Island was one of my favorite episodes. I wanted to live in California just to see the show live in person.The Banana Splits was such a wholesome show back in the early 70's it was such a fun show to watch something that your whole family can enjoy together. I wish this generation could appreciate a Great show like this.Maybe all of us Banana Splits fans will have to set our alarm clocks to watch it.

I was reading the first comment that shows up about how the guy got cable TV in 2003 and saw them rerun a bunch of shows in a row on Cartoon Network! I caught that too! I had gotten up to have a garage sale at 6am, turned the TV on, flipped around a while and saw it. Small world indeed! I loved this show when it came on. Would come home everyday and jam out to the song. If anyone is interested, there was a CD released called "Saturday Morning Cartoons" which had a rockin' cover of the theme song by Juliana Hatfield. Such memories always make me stop and smell the roses from time to time. So funny how we can't remember what we had for dinner last month but we know moments like this by heart. Hopefully heaven will allow us to be kids just once more.

I remember these shows as a young kid. No one has mentioned the amazing similarity between "Laugh In" and "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour". The same fast action camera work comedy segments. The main set had all similar appearances but instead of people popping out of flowered doors it was puppets popping out and being funny. And of course the Banana Splits comedy pranks aimed for kids. But being aimed at kids it had classic cartoons and a featured adventure show "Danger Island". The Cartoon Channel still shows these classic episodes.

When I was a tiny girl, I used to watch this special Hanna-Barbera hour featuring such zany live-action costumed animals sharing a groovy 2-D pad splashed in such bright psychedelic colors that would remind you of Pee-Wee Herman's Playhouse several decades later. All donning cool shades and old-fashioned firemen's helmets, the funny furry foursome - Bingo the toothy gorilla, Drooper the swingin' lion, Snork the woolly elephant, and my most favorite of all, Fleegle the floppy beagle with a cherry red tongue - would all run, turn around, bump into each other, hop around, and go tumbling all down as well as being scared right out of their wits by the sudden appearance of a little girl, surviving a day at an amusement park, playing such silly tunes in a band typical of cartoons from the '60s-'70s, and just plain engaging in such wacky adventures that would set off any Gen-X off into helpless gales of laughs and memories. And then after a whole series of a cuckoo bird popping out its head and then getting it whacked by a closing clock door and an ape's head moving its motorized mouth over the doorway, our singing hippie hosts would suddenly scurry away to make the way for a few short cartoons featuring The Four Musketeers and the Aladdin-like characters with their pet donkey as well as a live-action quickie all about a group of shipwrecked adventurers living on a tropical island full of crocodiles, pirates, and native cannibals. But once those little shows are over, our most beloved Banana Splits will be suddenly back with their banana-crazy antics and even more off-the-wall musical numbers to send off anyone growing up at the time on a very pleasant nostalgic trip all the way back to their Brady-Bunch childhood of the swinging Sixties and Seventies. Today, you can still visit your old rockin' pals at the most ungodly hours during the weekends on the Cartoon Network!