Bananaphone is the name of an children s album (music), as well as a humorous song by Raffi Cavoukian, released in 1994. The lyrics describe a combination between a banana and a telephone, using many puns ( It s a phone with appeal! ) and nonce words like bananular and interactive-odular as Raffi extols the virtues of his unique telephone.

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# Bananaphone # Shake A Toe # The World We Love # Slow Day # The Changing Garden Of Mr. Bell # Naturally # Spring Flowers - instrumental # C-A-N-A-D-A # Michael Row The Boat Ashore # First Peoples # Dee Myth - instrumental # Cowlit Night # The Gorilla Song # Simple Gifts # Down By The Riverside # The Shmenge Polka - instrumental, a tribute to John Candy

= Bananaphone on the Internet =

The song was popularized as the soundtrack for a s from the original, making it livelier and more humorous than the original.

A later Flash, bananaphone.swf, was made by combining the song from Bananaphone and the visuals from the Flash forums after the original Flash was posted there.

The Gundam Bananaphone itself has now appeared elsewhere, although since it has no resemblance to a phone outside of the original Flash this is something of a misnomer.

The song also appeared in [http://thefriendsociety.com/anim.phpid=bananaphone&w=550&h=400 a bizarre animation] by Dave Teatro of [http://thefriendsociety.com The Friend Society].

It has also appeared in a less-disturbing [http://ghostalmedia.com/banana/ animation] by Patrick Kelleher of GhostalMedia.

The song also made numerous appearances in , so that the phrase went Yes, we have NOOOOOO bananaphone .

The sped up version of the song has been used as an audio gag on the Opie and Anthony on XM Satellite Radio starting the week of January 31, 2005. Anytime a phone is mentioned during the show, one of the hosts plays this song in an effort to get it stuck in their listeners heads.

The theme of the song was played upon in [http://www.nothingnice.com/index.phppageNum_Recordset2=292 this installment] of online comic Nothing Nice to Say.

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