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 Boyz, 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.

1 References in popular culture
2 See also
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References in popular culture

In the Ed episode "The Wedding," Jennifer Bradley shows Ed the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" animation to try to cheer him up.
In the Family Guy episode "The Courtship of Stewie's Father", Brian attempts to cheer Peter up by performing "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" dressed as the Dancing Banana. He also wears the banana suit in the videogame.^[1]

Brian, posing as the Dancing Banana on Family Guy

TNA professional wrestler Alex Shelley is occasionally represented by crowd chants or crowd signs that read "Peanut Butter Shelley Time" as a play on both his name and the meme.
In the MMORPG World of Warcraft, one of the Tauren male dance cycles is based on this.
In one episode of The Proud Family, Penny babysits Dijonay's brothers and sisters. The kids put in a CD and start dancing to "Peanut Butter Jelly Time".
On the January 31, 2006 episode of American Idol, contestant Sophat Peou sang the song while wearing a banana suit and doing the dance.
In the video game Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2, Super Saiyan 3 Gotenks says "It's peanut butter jelly time!" whenever he's swiched out in a tag battle.