Original Script
Wall Gags
These "Wall Gags" segments were used throughout the Season 2 shows. This concept is directly lifted from the "Joke Wall" segments on "Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In," which was seen on NBC between 1968 and 1973 (two writers, Jack Hanrahan and Phil Hahn, wrote for both "Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In" and "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour").
Each of the four Banana Splits popped out from behind doors with their respective faces painted on them. The show's opening Kellogg's sponsor billboard (for Season 2) was filmed on the "Wall Gags" set, with a large Kellogg's logo added to the wall and various Kellogg's cereal box designs in place of the four characters' faces on the doors.
Some of the segments in this script feature Banana Vac. In the margins, most of those items are given additional handwritten numbers to identify them as "Banana Vac Gags" (in the original script, the "Banana Vac Gags" begin with B.V. #7, so this accounts for the first six).
BANANA SPLITS....1969
PROPS
WALL GAGS
The setting consists of a flat approximately 16' X 10', with four opening panels at various heights. Each is painted as a framed picture of one of the Banana Splits.
Dark backing for flat.
W. G. #7
Roll of adhesive tape ("adhesive" is crossed off and "masking" is written in)
W. G. #8
Banana
W. G. #25
Banana split (it must sit on ledge of Bingo's picture panel)
W. G. #61
Snorky's trunk rigged to squirt water
W. G. #68
Snorky's trunk rigged to squirt water
BANANA SPLITS....1969
WALL GAGS
(All gags work in picture panels on wall that opens and closes with Splits characters behind it).
W.G. 1
FLEEGLE
"Hey, how do you make a little, tiny poodle dog pull a great big two hundred pound dog sled?"
DROOPER
"Use a whip."
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W.G. 2
BINGO
"Last night I dreamt I ate a twenty pound marshmallow...and I'm worried."
FLEEGLE
"Why should you worry about a silly dream like that?
BINGO
"This morning my pillow was missing."
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W.G. 3
FLEEGLE
"Lock the door, somebody...a nutty hyena just escaped from the zoo."
BINGO
"What does he look like?
FLEEGLE
"Ten feet tall and he weighs two pounds."
BINGO
"That's unbelievable...ten feet tall and weighs two pounds."
FLEEGLE
"I told you, he was nutty."
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W.G. 4
BINGO
"How can a guy live to 100?"
DROOPER
"Get to ninety-nine and then be very careful."
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W.G. 5A
FLEEGLE
"The other day upon the stair...
I saw a man who wasn't there...
He wasn't there again today...
DROOPER
I wish, I wish, he'd go away."
* * * * *
W.G. 6
FLEEGLE
"My Aunt Rose, my Aunt Rose...
My Aunt sat on a tack...
My Aunt Rose."
* * * * *
W.G. 7
Drooper sticks his head out of window...it is wrapped almost completely in bandages.
FLEEGLE
"What happened to you....Droop?"
DROOPER
"I was driving golf balls in the shower."
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W. G. 7A
FLEEGLE
"A little bear in his little bear skin
is quite comfortable so I am told...
DROOPER
Last nite I slept in my little bare skin
and I caught a heck of a cold."
* * * * *
W.G. 8
BANANA VAC OR GOPHER (Note: It's Banana Vac)
"Get out of the corn field mother....
You're running against the grain."
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W.G. 9
Drooper sticks head out of window...in his hand he has a banana.
DROOPER
"Bananas for sale...Bananas for sale...
A hundred dollars each...A hundred dollars each."
FLEEGLE
"You're not going to sell many bananas for a hundred dollars each."
DROOPER
"All I want to sell is one."
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