Peanut Butter Jelly Time

About

Peanut Butter Jelly Time (PBJT) is a flash animation consisting of an animated Dancing Banana emoticon and the song “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” by The Buckwheat Boyz. Known for being both annoying and funny, the Dancing Banana video became a hit, leading to PBJT-related merchandise, and many subsequent tribute videos.

Origin

The first Peanut Butter Jelly Time flash animation was created by Ryan Gancenia Etrata and Kevin Flynn under the screen names RalphWiggum and Comrade Flynn, and posted onto the Offtopic.com^[1] forums in early 2002.

On March 21st, 2002, a Newgrounds^[2] user YrebWarts posted Etrata and Flynn’s work on the popular Flash gallery site where the clip became wildly popular spawning a number of remakes^[3].

Spread

By November 13th, 2002, Peanut Butter Jelly Time made it’s debut into the mainstream media when popular NBC sitcom Ed^[4] portrayed the main character watching the flash, during Season 3, episode 7 entitled “The Wedding.”

Over the course of 2003, the first two flash animations made the rounds, being reposted on eBaum’s World^[5], SomethingAwful^[6], basically any site that showcases viral content. Then on November 20th, 2005, the meme that just wouldn’t die once again broke into mainstream network television, appearing on Family Guy^[7] during the sixteenth episode of season four; entitled “The Courtship of Stewie’s Father.” Brian the dog performs his own rendition of Peanut Butter Jelly Time, dressed as the dancing banana and shaking maracas.

Videos

External References

^[1] OffTopic – OffTopic Forums

^[2] Newgrounds – It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

^[3] Newgrounds – Flash Search Results for Peanut Butter Jelly Time

^[4] eBaumsworld – Peanut Butter Jelly Time

^[5] SomethingAwful – It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time

^[6] CollegeHumor – PB&J on “Family Guy”