It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

March 18, 2002 8:09 PM

It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time! …Yet another inscrutible Internet meme. (Warning: contains Flash, sound, dancing banana icon)
posted by Down10 (20 comments total)

I'm a bit unclear about the implied message in this link. Is is about peanut butter and jelly? Or would it be referring to some new type of peanut butter that is, in fact, flavored like jelly. Also, it's some of the best use of Flash animation I've ever seen. Very complex and moving. Especially the variations of style and movement, color and shading. Though, after a while, I felt an odd sense of deja vu.
posted by eyeballkid at 8:22 PM on March 18, 2002

More bananas. I'm starting to want that costume all over again.
posted by jonmc at 8:38 PM on March 18, 2002

Isn't it customary for the animation in Internet Flash Memes to actually... uh... do something?

I mean, sure the song is catchy, but as far as the visuals go... I'd rather just find that GREENL thing again.
posted by adamv at 8:40 PM on March 18, 2002

Shut up y'all, it's Peanut Butter Jelly Time.
posted by Hildago at 8:59 PM on March 18, 2002

peanutbutterjellywithabaseballbat

What the fuck does that mean?! It's time's like these I wish flash came with a timer bar like any good media player does, so you can tell how soon till something's done or whether it's looping.
posted by hincandenza at 9:15 PM on March 18, 2002

you can almost see them whacking the fader left and right...
posted by rhizome23 at 9:25 PM on March 18, 2002

I'll be sure to hit this site, lock my terminal, turn up the speakers , and leave for a long lunch away from the office tomorrow!!
posted by deviant at 10:05 PM on March 18, 2002

What does a dancing bannana have to do with peanut butter and jelly?

And the person who made this could've put a little more effort into it. I mean, we of the Internet SuperMeme Approval Board have some standards!
posted by ODiV at 1:29 AM on March 19, 2002

banana. I blame society.
posted by ODiV at 1:29 AM on March 19, 2002

I watched maybe 20 seconds of that.

That's 20 seconds of my life I'll never get back.

Can we please refrain from encouraging the spread of inane memes?
posted by zztzed at 4:14 AM on March 19, 2002

I want a CD of this. Bad. It was on the Pile last week. Love it.
posted by adampsyche at 4:45 AM on March 19, 2002

reminds me of sir mix-a-lot's "buttermilk biscuits" rap.

woohooooo! buttermilk biscuits!
posted by grabbingsand at 5:45 AM on March 19, 2002

gonads in the lightning!
in the lightning...in the rain!
wheeeeeeeeeeeee!
posted by mlang at 5:53 AM on March 19, 2002

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was peanutbutterjelly time..."
posted by ColdChef at 6:10 AM on March 19, 2002

How is this an internet meme, exactly? Just because someone decided to put a crappy flash animation to a comedy song? I always thought that internet memes had to start on the internet.

I heard the song on the radio a few months back... apparently it's by a band called "The Buckwheat Boys." Be glad they don't have a record deal.

Is it an internet meme because it's posted on Metafilter?
posted by Jart at 6:21 AM on March 19, 2002

The answer to this and other questions in next week's meme!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:59 AM on March 19, 2002

I think for our next meme, we should start a movement to change the pronunciation of "meme" to "Me-Me." Either that or "Me-May."
posted by ColdChef at 7:16 AM on March 19, 2002

I thought it was "Me-Me". I'll have to let the folks at MeMepool.com know different.
posted by DragonBoy at 8:33 AM on March 19, 2002

thanks...

now I can't get that song outta my head ...

puga

*it'spenutbutterjellytime!
posted by PugAchev at 3:10 PM on March 19, 2002

It's a slow day at work, so we've been playing this all day long. That line "PeanutButterJelly with a baseball bat.." starting nagging at me. I seem to remember some animated health-oriented commercial which actually featured a peanut butter and jelly sandwich playing baseball. Perhaps it was theinspiration for this whole thing. Does anyone else remember this or have I finally lost my mind?
posted by jonmc at 11:59 AM on March 20, 2002