Banana Bomb (2006 Series)

This article is from the 2006 series of SMBZ and is no longer canon.

The Banana Bomb

The Banana Bomb (also known as the "I like Cereal!!!" Banana or the Kamikaze Banana) is a living banana with a face (excluding a nose), arms, and feet. So far, it has appeared in episodes 1, 3 and 7. It always appears out of somewhere, yells, "I LIKE CEREAL!!!" then explodes. The character originates from a series Alvin made on Deviant art called "Random Shorts" which involved his OC of the same name getting blown up by the Banana. It is one of the first animations that Alvin-Earthworm made and has continued to be a running GAG in SMBZ. The original Random Shorts series was thought to have been lost to time after Alvin closed his Devian Art account, however it was later found in poor quality and uploaded to a Archive channel dedicated to preserving Alvin-Earthworms lost videos. The character also has its own music video called C is for CEREAL!!!, which can be found on Newgrounds.

Creation

On Newgrounds, part of Alvin-Earthworm's description for the I like Cereal!!! video was:

"Yeah I know, he's just the PBJ banana, It's kinda a long story. When I first got Flash, I made some Random animations where my main Character Alvin got blown up by the PBJ banana. It combined the pixellated banana, along with the personality of Cheese from Fosters home for imaginary friends (Hence why it always shouts "I like Cereal") along with the explosive power of the banana bomb from the worms games. Hence, the PBJ banana was transformed into the Kamikaze banana. Which = Random. However, when I submitted the animations to DeviantArt, the joke was immensely popular (for some bizarre reason) and now he is my official running gag."

Appearances In The Original series

Episode 1: In episode 1, as Mario, Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi were approaching the finish line several Bob-omb's appeared from the sky all well as the Banana Bomb, yelling, "I like Cereal!!!"

Episode 3: In episode 3 when Mario jumped into the pipes to find chaos emeralds it randomly appeared before going back in. Strangely this is the only time it appeared without saying "I Like Cereal!!!" or exploding.

Episode 7: In the pipe maze Mario entered a pipe which Wario and Waluigi jumped on top of. However, the Banana Bomb came out and blew Wario and Waluigi out of the pipe maze.

Appearances In The Reboot

Episode 1: in episode 1 when Bowser is monologuing about his despise for Mario, you can see the banana bomb in the background behind the rubble when Bowser talks about eating cereal for breakfast.

Episode 2: in episode 2 during the emerald hunt montage, when Mario jumps into the pipes looking for chaos emeralds, you can see the banana bomb flying from the right pipe all the way to the left one.

Trivia

• Wario and Waluigi screamed when they saw the banana bomb in episode 7 hinting in on the fact that have built a fear of it ever since episode 1 (or possibly even before the series started).
• The Banana Bomb's sprite is the dancing banana from the PBJ song.
• The Banana Bomb's "I Like Cereal!!!" quote is voiced by Cheese, who was voiced by Candi Milo, from Cartoon Network's "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends".
• The Banana Bomb's "C is for Cereal" Song is a parody on the popular Sesame Street song "C is for Cookie" with Cookie Monster
• The Banana Bomb has appeared thrice in the series so far hinting that it may be able to revive itself after blowing up similarly to Bombette and Bobbery from the Paper Mario franchise. Another explanation for this may be that there is simply more than one banana bomb. However, there simply might not be an explaination as Alvin-Earthworm himself probaly hasn't came up with one.
• It was originally confirmed by Alvin that the Banana Bomb would not return in the remake, this was later changed and he decided it would return in the form of minor cameo appearances in every episode instead.