Just as long as it was running at the top of my head, picture this scenario:
The Banana Splits, on their Road Trip of Redemption from that awful horror film treatment, turn out to have a stop in Wisconsin Dells as includes an evening appearance at the Elm Street Plaza in concert and mirth, opening, more or less, as thus:
BINGO, taking stock of the mostly tourist-type audience for the show: How were we to know people were actually going to show up in the first place? FLEEGLE, slightly surprised: Who else would they be expecting, the Black Cat Tour? SNORKY: [Rather blatant honking, which Drooper interprets as "Whatever that was."] BINGO, trying to keep things a little crazy: Alright, if I may take a little survey here ... how many of you in the audience see yourselves as locals or even as tourists in your hometown? [Modest number of hands raised in response] DROOPER, trying to be pragmatic about it: And I just hope some of you don't get the takeaway that the rest of you just filling the seats here are tourists trying to make up for the loss of the Tommy Bartlett Waterski Show these last couple of years! [Laughter] BINGO: Which, I understand, had an evening performance-- FLEEGLE: And you're quite right they did ... as if chorus-line dancers winding up at Pebbles Flintstone's birthday party once--and it turned out to be by mistake--wasn't silly enough! [More laughter from the crowd] DROOPER: But at any rate, folks, it's rather wonderful of us Banana Splits to be here in the Waterpark Capital of the World this evening, and let's just all have a hot time in the old time tonight--
(Which turns out to be the cue for the opening numbers, a medley essentially of "We're The Banana Splits" and the show theme tune, "The Tra-La-La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)", followed by some vaudeville-model exchanges and banter)
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