The New Banana Splits Show is a Winner (especially for you!)

One banana, two banana, three banana, four! Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more!

Remember that song? Sure you do!

Because for us baby boomers who are now *cough cough cough* years old, The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (otherwise known as The Banana Splits and Friends) was a daily feature in our lives. I used to watch the hour-long show every day right after I got home from school, and try to figure out what animal that fourth Banana Split (the one that wasn't a dog, lion or elephant) was. I was *almost*positive he was an orangutan (turns out I was wrong, keep reading).

The Banana Splits were fun and silly and made me giggle with the physical humor that kids love, bumping into each other with cool "BOINK" sound effects while they followed their leader, Fleegle the Beagle, around.

But what I remember most about the show was the catchy music that stuck with you, like the Banana Splits theme song, and the cute costumes worn by Fleegle, Drooper the Lion, Goober (who I now know is an orange gorilla!) and of course the adorable elephant Snorky (or "Snork"). They all played in a band, like the Monkees (another great show of the era), and Snork never spoke, only ever madking a cute trumpeting sound, reminiscent of Harpo Marx of the Marx Brothers.

All of you out there, the parents, are nodding your heads, and singing out loud at this point, remembering the band ("He was a *gorrilla*?!") and the Three Musketeers and Arabian Knights animated features that ran in kind of a show-within-a-show.

And you are probably thinking about all the kids' shows they have on TV these days and saying to yourself, "That was a great show! Why don't they make shows like that any more?"

Well, Hooray, now they do!

In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the show, The Banana Splits are coming back to TV, and they are even better this time around. Starting Tuesday, September 2, you can watch the new Banana Splits show, with all-new comedy shorts and music videos, on Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Along with DVDs, live entertainment and CD's of their new, even catchier, music comes an interactive website full of cartoons, jokes, and activities where kids can join the Banana Splits club.

And you can win a special limited-edition Banana Splits Toddler Tee (size 4T) from Cool Moms Rule! In correlation with the launch, we're giving away an adorable limited-edition tee for your toddler, which you can win just by checking out the Banana Splits website.

Here's how to win: head on over to The Banana Splits site and then come back here and leave a comment with your favorite song, joke or activity on the site (while you are there, by the way, check out the "Best Friend" song. That Sam kid is a perfect double for the Rhino from just a couple years ago. Really. The resemblance is spooky). Winner announced August 31st.

So go relive your own childhood favorite, watch your kids experience it for the first time, and maybe even win a limited-edition tee for your toddler!