![]() ![]() ![]() Eastern time on Saturday afternoons) when some independently-owned affiliates across the country (blithely, capriciously, and cavalierly) blocked out the show and filled in that slot with their own locally-produced (e.g. I couldn't stop laughing when I first saw those! Unfortunately, NBC aired "Going Bananas" during a time slot (12:00 P.M. ![]() Two other parts of that segment I remember was a takeoff on the "Little Rascals" called "The Mangy Li'l Rascals," with animals and voice-overs by actors doing kids' voices on one episode, and a takeoff on Irene Cara's then-recent hit "Breakdance," with a large white French poodle doing a Mexican hat dance and then some other dogs doing a conga line to that song, music-video style, on another episode a few weeks later (that video spoof took place in a soda shop I do remember there was a sign above the counter that read, "Drink Pupsi Cola - The Paws That Refreshes"). "Going Bananas" was certainly funny (as well as inventive), especially the "Jungle Broadcasting System" sketches I alluded to in my plot summary above. I was lucky to have been in the right place at the right time since "Going Bananas" aired on NBC-owned WNBC-TV, Channel 4, in New York City. When "Going Bananas" first aired in the fall of 1984, I was living in the New York City suburb of Saddle River, New Jersey (I was in my junior year of college at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey). ![]()
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