Bananaphone and the Secret of the Universe

We’re always trying to search for meaning here, even (especially?) among the Joe West ejections and hot GIF action posts. So when we hit this next picture from a Mets game, it was clear that the search must continue. Why? Why?

Can you spot the second meme?

Well, so, yeah. Why? I mean we can find the original Banaphone song by Raffi and there’s little that seems to predict the explosion of an internet meme. The word ‘ring’ might make up half of the lyrics, and the topics, yeah he sings for children:

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring banana phone
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding donana phone
It grows in bunches, I’ve got my hunches,
It’s the best! Beats the rest!
Cellular, modular, interactivodular!

But there was something about it that caught on. On May 4th, 2004, the internet was rocked by a slight alteration of the original song, plus some flash (NSFW for violence and language). We might never be the same again.

That took things in a new direction. But at its’ heart is still the same frivolity of the song. Don’t believe me? Check out a couple of the places the meme went after this video.

MF’in bananaphone.

So what have we learned following by this particular line to its’ end? Perhaps this one thing. There’s hint of the nefarious in the ridiculous… and a hint of the ridiculous in the nefarious. They key, that our sad little flash men didn’t realize (and our Kevin-Burkhardt-photo-bombing friends did realize), is that you have to have fun with it either way.

Thanks to Sam Page and the Daily What for the original link. WAIT — BREATHLESS UPDATE — Amazin Avenue (and James Kannengeiser) got there first. Shame on you the Daily What!