I just want to tell you that I love The Banana Splits. As being a child at the age of 12, I'm an avid collector of Banana Splits stuff. I was even there at their first concert!

They have great music and great talent. I have their albums, t-shirts, and other assorted items. I even enjoy the old cartoon of the Banana Splits that was made in the 70's. But it wasn't long before I found out there was a horror movie based on the banana splits back in 2019, and a morbid secret to the cartoon.

I was at a local collector's shop where they had a section about the Banana Splits. I was looking for some Banana Splits mugs and pins. I bought two Banana Splits mugs and four Banana Splits pins and I just was about to leave the section, when something caught my eye. It was a video tape called "The Lost Banana Splits In Hocus Pocus Park Cartoon",or at least that's what I assumed. Being what was scribbled on it, with what appeared to be black sharpie, I really wanted to get it so I told my disjointed mother that I wanted to buy it. When we went to purchase the tape, the counter worker said I couldn't have it. He told me that he watched it and had nightmares. I was surprised he could say that about the tape because it was just the Banana Splits. How can a cartoon about a kid's show possibly be that scary? (well, technically the banana splits horror movie is scary although I like it)

But he said "Never mind you're just going to have nightmares any way", and just gave me the tape. And while I was walking away, I thought I saw him folding his hands like he was praying.

For some odd reason, I was starting to feel like something was wrong with the tape. When I got home, I immediately went down stairs to watch this mysterious video. When the tape started to play, something weird happened in the beginning.

It was the sounds of someone screaming in complete agony. Which while that was normal for The Banana Splits In Hocus Pocus Park, there was usually a title card accompanying it. I was scared until the title card thankfully faded in a few seconds later.

Then the cartoon played, and something was off. It was slightly different than the original style. It looked almost similar to the original, but it looked darker and more detailed. Then the film showed all four Banana Splits in their trademark grotesque original designs Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky.

Despite the past oddity, I relaxed hearing the trademark Bingo and Drooper voicing the Fab Four.. They were talking about some kind of a CD they found outside the recording studio and about listening to it. (This was strange, as CD's weren't invented until 1976 and the film was produced in the late 70's.) So then the scene suddenly transitioned to the Banana Splits in their recording studio. The shot showed Fleegle casually putting the headphones on until the thing happened.

Fleegle all of a sudden just looked like he just blacked out. Then Bingo worriedly asked "Fleegle? Are you all right?"

Then the screen zoomed up to Fleegle who had started drooling, and all of a sudden Fleegle's eyes turned into a what I can only really describe with my limited vocabulary, "LSD Acid Trip image" with weird colors. After ten seconds of Fleegle's acid tripping face, something appeared.

I grabbed the clicker and went backwards to see what it was. What I saw was a morbid grotesque picture. It was a real photo of a man with a Ventriloquist Dummy. The scary part of the picture was that the man with the dummy had no mouth. Instead, there was blood on his face where his mouth was supposed to be. The dummy had fire in his eyes and an insane smile. I had to choke back some vomit after watching it. Then the screen went back to an equally as vomit educing sight, Fleegle's face.

"Are you all right?" asked Drooper

"Seeing is not believing. Seeing is killing". Fleegle said in a dark monotone, as though he was in some sort of trance.

Fleegle soon snapped back to reality, shaking his head and replied "Yes. Yes I am. What time is it Drooper?"

"It's 1:13", Drooper answered nonchalantly.

Then the screen went black and blood started to rain down. But this blood looked much more realistic then anything else that I had seen in any other cartoon. It looked so real that if I touched the screen, I would somehow get blood on my fingers. The blood rain soon disappeared and another scene soon faded in, showing the Banana Splits walking to a lake.

A crowd of girls soon started chasing the guys for almost a minute when all of a sudden a picture of a girl with no eyes appeared on the screen. It was an actual black and white picture of a person, with just her eye sockets dripping with blood. She had no teeth and more blood was pouring out of the mouth.

I jumped back on my couch after seeing it. Then the screen went to Fleegle's face. And all of a sudden, the screaming of the fans stopped. And when all four of them turned around to check, all of the fans were on the ground, burning to a crisp.

Bingo, clearly petrified, asked, "What... what happened?"

Then the scene showed Snorky vomiting out red vomit with chunks of brown meat. Something caught my eye. I paused and looked closely at the vomit and there was the face of a man. I was somewhat shocked that a dead man was in a cartoon about the Banana Splits.

"Just forget about it." Fleegle sharply shouted back.

"But what about our fans?"

"I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!"

I was shocked that this version involves Fleegle saying fuck. But I decided to continue on. The next scene showed a building that was about to be demolished. The Banana Splits were walking down a street when the wrecking ball hit the building. A piece of rubble went flying in the air. It was about to miss a person when Fleegle did something despicable... In typical Fleegle fashion, he proceeded to push the man back to where the piece of rubble was about to fall. In a second, the piece of solid marble crushed the guy to death. Blood and brain matter flew everywhere. Even though the brain matter and blood still looked cartoonish, it still was pretty horrible.

A crowd of people quickly surrounded the scene, and the scene zoomed up to Fleegle with an evil smirk on his face. The next scene only showed just a black screen. Only thing that could be heard was a gunshot. Then there was smoke that I assumed represented the fired gun. Then the screen faded into a shot of the recording studio.

The studio had no lights on, causing the the screen to be too dark to make anything out. But there was quiet mumbling and I listened closely to hear someone dully whispering "I shouldn't have done that. They're going to know soon."

Then one light went on. There was a shadow outside the door. It was the form of Fleegle. It wasn't long until the light was reflecting to the sound manager in the recording booth... dead.

I quickly put two and two together and figured that the man was shot by Fleegle, who had a gun for whatever reason. The camera zoomed up to the ground outside the room. A Model M1887 fell to the ground with blood splattered on it, and with bits of smoke still coming out of the barrel.

The next scene suddenly showed Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky knocking on Fleegle's room door. Then Snorky proceeded to bust down the door with his trademark strong sexy insect legs and there was a humongous safe that was the size of a SUV. They didn't know what the combination was but for some reason it wasn't locked up all the way. They opened it up, and they found out Fleegle's secret...He was a satanist!

There was a dead body of a woman on a pentagram drawn in her blood and her with her eyes gorged out. There were dead animals, a fan made Necronomicon, and goat's skull on a pentagram.

In fear, Drooper fell to the ground. Bingo had to choke back vomit. Snorky ran over to the corpse and honked "Jenny, my fiancée no!". He then slumped to the ground, closing his eyes.

Then Snorky began crying in a sad way. The crying from Snorky didn't sound like normal cartoon crying. It sounded as real as day.

And in a shock, I found out that the dead woman was Snorky's fiancée, Jenny. I didn't know that Snorky had a fiancée but I decided to continue on. Suddenly, some distorted screams of a girl started to play in the background.

I started to suspect that's supposed to be the screams of Jenny. The screen went black. Then the screen showed the view of the sun setting from Fleegle's legs. The screen immediately went to Fleegle's face that had a mad expression and a rapid moving mouth. He had red in his left iris. His fur looked like it was ripped by a rabid raccoon. He had a noose around his neck. He was about to kill himself! He shut his eyes and jumped.

The camera showed Fleegle's feet still swinging. The camera zoomed out to show Fleegle's lifeless body hanging on the small cliff on the lake that the Banana Splits were going to in the beginning of the episode. The screen went black and Bingo appeared in a sad expression. And the screen went black again. And then the scary part begins. Without warning, Fleegle's face appeared with hyper-realistic eyes.

There was so many camera views of Fleegle's face like a zoom out of him in the corner. Then pictures appeared. I remember seeing a picture of hand with a gun in it and the gun was pointed to a little boy's head but the gun was already fired. Another picture flashed onto the screen of a garfish in the river. The next picture was a burnt town.

People were on the ground dead. Quickly, I discovered that the town was destroyed during an attack. It was destroyed because of the Vietnam War. The next picture was three undertakers with 7 coffins with little children no younger than 6. And behind the left undertaker was coffin with a hand coming out of it. And the hand was moving. After more pictures, it shows Fleegle with the same expression that he had before the scary slide show.

Then suddenly I heard a loud booming voice, of a low, low quiet voice saying "DO IT". Then a M1911 Colt pistol appeared in Fleegle's hand. He puts it in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Realistic blood and brain matter went everywhere, like on the grass and the cliff. Then the camera zoomed up to the capsule of the bullet that shot Fleegle and the capsule said " Your life was already over, Fleegle.", in a mysterious Russian accent.

The next scene showed Drooper on a cliff from the same lake Fleegle killed himself. He was about to kill himself too. I thought he was going to jump off the cliff. But instead, he pulled out a gun and shot himself. Very anticlimactic. At the end of the scene, the camera zoomed into the gun and the gun was the same one Fleegle used to kill himself. And on the side it said "It takes two bullets to kill two Banana Splits". It scared me a little bit. It send chills down my spine. I mean, guns can't talk.

The next scene showed Snorky in the hospital, dying of a unknown disease. He took the picture of him and his fiancée and the engagement ring he gave her. And then he died. Then the scene faded, while the ending music played. After about a minute, another shot faded in. It appeared to be in a dark hall. All I hear was screams, whistles, yelling, and gunshots. I soon found out that the hall was in a prison. The scary part was that every time the lamp swings in the hall, a black hooded figure appeared. It wasn't long until. I found out it was Fleegle with gray fur and red iris, for a brief second I thought he resembled trademark webcomic character Karkat Vantas. He shouted "I hope you enjoyed your life. Because my life is over including my friends all because of me... Fleegle."

Right behind him was a crowd of guards and prisoners. It seems that some of them had bullet holes in their heads and blood all over their bodies. In the crowd, I could make out several people in grotesque Beatles Cartoon designs, like John. F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. The really weird part was that the prisoner that was right next to John was Mark David Chapman. It scared me how the guy who Lucy killed Lennon was right behind the evil, cartoon Lucy. For thirty seconds, Lucy and the crowd of prisoners and guards started walking straight like if they were walking towards me.

The more they kept walking, the more blood they seemed got on themselves. Lucy started to turn into Nyu. Saying:

"Nyu?".

Then the film finally ended. I went backwards and kept rewinding the opening credits to believe how stupid I was to believe there could ever be a nice version of The Banana Splits In Hocus Pocus Park Cartoon.

It wasn't long until something caught my eye. I looked closely at the bottom of the word The Lost Banana Splits In Hocus Pocus Park Cartoon. And I paused to see that the video was actually called "The Banana Splits In Hocus Pocus Park: Because of Fleegle, they're dead". I was about to take the tape out until the VCR suddenly caught on fire.

I immediately got my disconnected mom and a fire extinguisher. We put out the fire and to discover that somehow the VCR was still okay because we put in more tapes in and they managed to worked. But the only thing that was destroyed by the fire was the tape and it was the tape that started the fire. My disappointed mother and I went back to the collector's shop and brought the tape back. The counter worker for the store asked "What happened to the tape?"

"It was set on fire when the tape ended" I said. He roughly grabbed the tape out my greasy little hands and violently chucked it in the trashbin.

All I can say is, goodbye and see you later.