Peanut Butter Jelly Time

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Peanut Butter Jelly Time is a Flash animation that emerged in the early 2000s and became an Internet phenomenon. Based upon a song of the same name recorded by the Buckwheat Boys, the best known version of the animation (usually distributed as a Flash clip) shows a heavily pixelated animated Dancing Banana (itself a well-known emoticon) moving back and forth to the song's repetitive chorus. The original version was made by Ryan Gancenia Etrata and Kevin Flynn from a thread on OffTopic.com. In some versions of the animation the song's lyrics are displayed on screen.

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In Ed, the titular character watches the Flash animation on his computer.
In one episode of Family Guy, Brian dresses in a banana costume and dances to the Peanut Butter Jelly Time song to cheer up Peter.
In The Proud Family, Penny has to babysit 20 kids and they break out into the song.
In World of Warcraft, the Tauren Male does the same dance as the dancing banana.
Juggler Jason Garfield has done a live-action juggling video featuring the song.
Hot Topic sold a black T-shirt with a picture of the dancing banana next to the lyrics "It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time ".
Professional wrestling fans often produce cardboard signs expressing support for wrestler Alex Shelley with the caption "Peanut Butter Shelley Time!" and a picture of Shelley's face on the banana. These signs have been featured on TNA iMPACT! and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay-per-views on several occasions.
In the video game Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam there is a special trick called Peanut Butter Jelly, in which your character does a manual while dancing like the banana.
In Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, SSJ3 Gotenks shouts "It's peanut butter jelly time!" before leaving when tagged out of a battle.