Talk:Banana in my ear

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I know the phrase from "Charlie the Unicorn", a quite popular web animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGYh8AacgY

I believe this comes from Sesame Street (?), and I see there is an Ernie and Bert link in the current article... this should be expanded to talk about the origns somewhat. ~leif 01:03, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

There is also a scene in the movie, "Baby Driver" (2017), in which the main character pretends to not hear what someone said, jokingly replying, "Sorry, couldn't hear you. I have a banana in my ear."

I believe the joke far predates Sesame Street and goes back to vaudeville comics — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.93.192.5 (talk) 02:07, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

whoa, someone is talking out of his ass

it comes off as pretty pompous to me to talk about the prototypical americanness and far-reaching consequences for law and philosophy of a freaking sesame street skit!! if those are only in reference to a generic catch-22-type paradox, then those descriptions should be in the catch-22 article, don't you think? -Lethe | Talk 02:31, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

This joke was old when my grandfather was young; it probably predates TV (not to mention Sesame Street).
Spare me the gratuitous anti-American comments.
Looks like someone thought they could write an article analyzing the banana joke but ran out of steam.
I don't think anyone really knows what makes a joke funny, but surprise may have something to do with it: in this case the sudden realization that he knew all along about the banana.
Darn! (Now it's not funny any more.) -- Uncle Ed, via Pocket PC

So what are you saying, you made this page as a joke? I guess that's what I expected. If the joke's over, maybe it's time to list this page on VfD or move it to Deleted Nonsense or something. -Lethe | Talk 15:55, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)