Banana Joe

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Joseph A. Banana Season 2 onwards Season 1 Young Younger Early reel Human

Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Also known as: BaJayJay (by Darwin in "The Promise") Joseph (by Miss Simian in "The Butterfly") Banana Joe (by himself and everyone at Elmore Junior High) Species: Banana Age: 12 Friends: Tobias Gumball Darwin Idaho Hector Anton Enemies: Jamie Tina Miss Simian The Treehouse Girls (formerly) Tobias (sometimes) Hot Dog Guy (in "The Candidate") Rob Relatives: Banana Bob (father) Banana Barbara (mother) Obadiah Banana (ancestor) Kayvon (cousin) an unnamed aunt Occupation: Student First Appearance: The early reel (prototype) "The Third" (final concept) Voice: Mic Graves Gallery Color Scheme coat peel eye lips none

Joseph "Banana Joe" A. Banana is a supporting character in The Amazing World of Gumball. He is the class clown of Miss Simian's class at Elmore Junior High. When he cracks his jokes, he thinks people are laughing with him, when they are really laughing at him, or not at all.

Appearance

Banana Joe is an anthropomorphic yellow banana, with googly eyes, and has a mouth made of clay, similar to Clayton's. He wears and treats his "peel" like a shirt - he can remove it at will, and has several extras messily stuffed into his clothing drawer. The bottom end of his nude banana body is crafted to resemble buttocks. He also lacks feet, which, as revealed in "The Promise," is due to frostbite.

From season 2 onwards, Banana Joe gets a redesign. Much like many characters with their designs, he gains eyebrows, meaning that he no longer expresses emotion through his pupils' changing shape, and he is much larger than he was previously. His eyes are now laid out in a horizontal line rather than a diagonal and are of equal size. Furthermore, the inside of his mouth is a deeper red.

In "The Uploads," it is revealed that he can summon a second head at will.

Personality

Being the class clown, Banana Joe is often making jokes or trying to be funny. In spite of this, the majority of his jokes fall flat and are perceived as annoying, embarrassing, or childish rather than humorous. He is also quite dim-witted and clumsy, frequently injuring himself, making idiotic decisions or remarks, or taking things too literally.

Throughout season 1, Banana Joe was depicted as a bully, and his jokes were often hurtful and at the expense of others. Some examples include him teasing Gumball to tears in "The Gi," or insulting him in "The Curse." However, starting with season 2, his personality changes significantly, becoming a much more likable and friendly person while still continuing his antics in a more innocent fashion. This is demonstrated in various episodes, such as "The Promise," where he values his friendship between Gumball and Darwin, and also in "The Banana," where he ultimately forgives Gumball and Darwin for destroying his family pen, and spent most of the episode trying to rectify a falling-out between them. However, he is still prone to anger, such as when his school portrait was ruined in "The Photo."

Banana Joe also seems to have a distaste for girls. This was prevalent in "The Pressure," where he established a "pals before gals" pact with the guys. He even resorted to chopping down the girls' clubhouse, all to prevent Darwin from kissing Masami.

One of Banana Joe's favorite hobbies is making videos of himself in his room to upload onto Elmore Stream-It, usually of him dancing, singing, or performing various stunts. This can be seen in the "Banana Dance" clip, "The Promise," "The Boombox," "The Uploads," and "The Singing." This videos are frequently interrupted by his family members or his own incompetence. He also frequently likes to strip fully or partially naked, such as in "Banana Dance," "The Party," "The Joy," "The Butterfly," "The Others," "The Uploads," "The Test," "The Cringe," and "The Decisions."

Furthermore, Banana Joe values his family tremendously. This is clear in episodes like "The Banana," where he is protective of Obadiah Banana's pen, "The Hero," where he compliments his dad's potassium and vitamin B6 levels, "The Mothers," where he argues his mom is the "superest mom" in Elmore, and "The Future," where he becomes depressed over his mother's disappearance, eventually confronting Rob with anger after discovering that he kidnapped her.

Episode appearances

Prototype

• Early reel: His debut. He is swinging, and Hector steps on him. Later, he lies damaged on the ground and laughs when Hector steps on Gumball and Darwin.

Season 1

• "The Responsible" (indirectly mentioned)
• "The Third": He is a possible third best friend for Gumball and Darwin.
• "The End": He is at Gumball and Penny's "wedding."
• "The Dress": He is among the students believing Gumball to be a girl in the dress.
• "The Pressure": He has fun with Gumball, Darwin, and Tobias, and later cuts down Molly's treehouse due to his distaste for girls.
• "The Ghost": He makes a cameo in the cafeteria.
• "The Mystery": He joins the students in trying to find out who harmed Principal Brown.
• "The Gi": He laughs at Gumball and Darwin.
• "The Kiss": He and Tobias perform "the sounds of suffering."
• "The Party": He attends the party.
• "The Robot": He breaks the fourth wall by talking to the audience, saying "I'm a banana."
• "The Picnic": He is at the field trip.
• "The Goons": He is a contestant of the "Dumb Race."
• "The Sock": He is in class.
• "The Genius" (cameo)
• "The Mustache": He is in gym class.
• "The Club": He and Tobias are part of the football club.
• "The Ape": He messes around in class.
• "The Curse" (cameo)
• "The Meddler": He, Anton, Tina, and Jamie make fun of Gumball for bringing his mother to school.
• "The Helmet": He is in the cafeteria, and thanks to Gumball, he accidentally pours salt into William's eye.
• "The Fight": He cheers on Gumball and Tina's fight.

Season 2

• "The Knights": He makes a brief cameo outside Elmore Junior High.
• "The Fridge": He is in the marching band in Gumball's flashback.
• "The Banana": His first major role. Gumball accuses him of chewing Darwin's pen.
• "The Job": His family gets excited over pizza and sing a song about it.
• "Halloween": He and Idaho go trick or treating.
• "The Apology": He throws his eyes so as to not see Miss Simian's butt.
• "The Words": He is insulted by Darwin. Later, he can be seen in class. Later still, he is seen "cheering" on Gumball and Darwin's fight.
• "The Skull": He cries when Gumball says Clayton morphing into him and imitating "I'm a banana milkshake!" is funnier than the real him saying this.
• "The Bet": He is in class.
• "Christmas": He walks on the street.
• "The Pony": He can be seen on a poster outside Ripley 2000.
• "The Hero": He is one of the students talking about their dad.
• "The Photo": He vows vengence on Gumball for ruining his school photo.
• "The Storm": He confronts Gumball after the latter kisses Carmen.
• "The Game": He is in class.
• "The Promise": His second major role. Darwin promises to hang out with him.
• "The Boombox": He appears on an Elmore Stream-It video.

Season 3

• "The Coach": He and Sarah are eaten by Jamie.
• "The Joy": He is infected by the Joy virus.
• "The Recipe": He is seen in the cafeteria with Tobias and Bobert when Tobias eats Anton.
• "The Name": He is angry at Zach for taking a bite out of his cousin, Kayvon.
• "The Void": He is one of the students who does not remember Molly.
• "The Move": He sees a poster.
• "The Allergy": Darwin sneezes him into China.
• "The Mothers": His third major role. His, Tobias', and Gumball and Darwin's mothers are put to the test for the "Superest Mom."
• "The Shell": Gumball walks in his room.
• "The Bros": He and Tobias are on the bus watching Gumball and Darwin dance.
• "The Mirror": He whispers into Carmen's ear.
• "The Lie": He is one of the students talking about Sluzzle Tag.
• "The Butterfly": He is hanging out with Gumball and Darwin in class.
• "The Saint": He is among the students watching Alan give Tobias CPR.
• "The Oracle": He is seen at his family's yard sale.
• "The Safety": He briefly appears on one of the security cameras.
• "The Society": He is the leader of the fake school society.
• "The Spoiler": He is at lunch with Gumball, Darwin, Anton, Leslie, and Juke.
• "The Nobody": He walks by Gumball, Darwin, and Rob.
• "The Triangle": Gumball thinks he wants to sabotage Darwin's solo in the marching band.

Season 4

• "The Return": He panics when he realizes he does not have shoes (or feet).
• "The Others": He wants to make Gumball and Darwin happy. Later, he can be seen at Clare's ceremony.
• "The Gift": He is one of the students attempting to get the Mic Graves for Masami.
• "The Upgrade": He is seen watching Bobert wed Leslie to Alan.
• "The Comic": He greets Gumball and tells LaserHeart puns.
• "The Uploads": He appears singing in a video.
• "The Hug": Darwin and Anais are invited to sleep at his house.
• "The Origins": He and his father are seen fishing.
• "The Girlfriend": Jamie takes a bite out of his head.
• "The Advice": He is one of the students who gets hurt by the Abraham Lincoln goat.
• "The Love": He sings "What is Love?".
• "The Bus": He is one of the students on the hijacked bus.
• "The Night": He dreams about attacking a clone of himself, but in the reality, he bites himself in half.
• "The Misunderstandings": He is an "obstacle" for Gumball.
• "The Roots": He is hanging out with Darwin at the mall.
• "The Blame": He is with the other students singing "Books Are Violent."
• "The Compilation": He sings "Weird Like You And Me" along with several other Elmore residents.
• "The Scam": He is scared of Gargaroth like several others.
• "The Disaster": He can be seen at Laser Video.

Season 5

• "The Rerun": Rob uses the universal remote and ejects him out of his skin.
• "The Stories": He is one of the students who hates Molly's stories.
• "The Guy": He runs from Anais.
• "The Boredom": He tests out a lightsaber.
• "The Vision": He runs for class president against Alan, getting smeared in the process.
• "The Test": He and Leslie say that Gumball became a better person.
• "The Potato": He briefly appears in the school cafeteria.
• "The Matchmaker": (cameo)
• "The Console": He is summoned in the final battle against the Game Child.
• "The Catfish": He is modeling in art class.
• "The Grades": He is seen in Miss Simian's classroom.
• "The Ex": His fourth major role. Rob chooses him as his new nemesis.
• "The Sorcerer": He is seen presenting an art project to Mr. Small.
• "The Weirdo": He is one of the students who throws away Sussie's gifts.
• "The Singing": He sings "Banana Symphony."
• "The Best": He gets hit by one of Gumball's Justice Warrior waves and later has his phone set to airplane mode.
• "The Worst": He tries to greet Anais, but she walks over him. Later, he is seen in a flashback making fun of Gumball and Darwin in the showering stalls.
• "The Petals": He is seen watching Leslie is the hallway.
• "The Line" (mentioned)
• "The News": Mike asks him what his thoughts are on an unaddressed issue.

Season 6

• "The Vegging": Gumball video calls him to watch his TV when the Wattersons' TV is destroyed by lightning.
• "The One": Tobias assassinates him by pulling him out of his skin to gain his powers. It is later implied he was not actually harmed, as none of the others Tobias thought he attacked were.
• "The Cringe": He makes the situation in the showers more awkward for Gumball and Hot Dog Guy by performing a "moon landing" with peaches.
• "The Neighbor": He is in class when Principal Brown introduces Gary.
• "The Candidate": He is part of the group of kids locked in school.
• "The Pact": He is on the bus and gets into an off-screen fight with Tobias and Ocho.
• "The Shippening": He is shipped with Penny by Sarah.
• "The Schooling": He is one of the customers during the Black Friday sale.
• "The Spinoffs": His younger self appears during Banana Joe's Afterschool Special.
• "The Transformation": He is on Elmore Plus.
• "The Ghouls": He goes trick or treating with Anton, Idaho, and Billy.
• "The Stink": He is in class when Principal Brown informs the students of Mr. Small's absence.
• "The Awareness": He gets paralyzed with horror after seeing Gumball rip out of his shriveled up body like a snake.
• "The Future": His fifth major role. He is looking for his mother with Gumball and Darwin.
• "The Web": He is on a website.
• "The Decisions": He slips over his peel and falls into the garbage can.
• "The Inquisition": He is in the school auditorium, and later is turned into a human.

Darwin's Yearbook

• "Banana Joe": His sixth major role. He is one of the students featured in the yearbook.
• "Clayton": (photo, flashback)
• "Carrie": He, Tobias and Leonard Daniels are mocking Carrie.
• "Alan": (cameo)
• "Sarah": (flashback)
• "Teachers": He argues with Darwin about what kind of teacher must be on the cover of the yearbook.

The Gumball Chronicles

• "Curse of Elmore": (video)
• "Vote Gumball…and Penny?": (flashback)
• "Vote Gumball…and Bobert?": His seventh major role. He and Gumball are talking about Bobert.
• "Vote Gumball…and Anyone?": (photo, flashback)
• "Mother's Day": (flashback)

Scrapped appearances

• "The Quest"
• "The Romantic

Comics

• Issue 1
• Issue 2
• Issue 3
• Issue 4
• Issue 5
• Issue 7
• The Amazing World of Gumball Vol. 1: Fairy Tale Trouble
• The Amazing World of Gumball 2015 Grab Bag Special
• The Amazing World of Gumball 2016 Grab Bag Special
• The Amazing World of Gumball Vol. 2: Cheat Code

Relationships

Main article: Banana Joe/Relationships

Voice actors

• Mic Graves (US/UK/AUS/NZ/CAN)
• Hiroki Eto (Japan)
• Ævar Þór Benediktsson (Iceland)
• Alessandro Bevilacqua (France)
• Antti L. J. Pääkkönen (Finland)
• Michael Pan (Germany)
• Clécio Souto (Brazil)
• Mieczysław Morański (Poland)
• Zoltán Renácz (Hungary)
• Gökhan Akçakara (Turkey)
• Gerardo Alonso (Latin American)
• Geezuz González (Latin American, "Darwin's Yearbook" and "The Gumball Chronicles")

Gallery

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Trivia

• According to Mic Graves, Banana Joe's voice is a "lazy impression" of storyboarder Chuck Klein's New York accent.
• Whenever Banana Joe does an exaggerated or a large motion, his googly pupils spin around inside his eyes.
• He has a Bananan the Barbarian poster in his room, a reference to Conan the Barbarian.
• His personality and appearance are based on the term "Top Banana."
• His name is similar to "Banana" Joseph Montione from the 1982 film, Banana Joe.
• Like many characters, in season 1, he was an inconsistent character: his personality would change in almost every episode he was seen in.
  • This trait went from inconsistency to part of his character in season 2 onwards, where he is shown to have violent mood swings, as he can quickly go from good-natured and happy-go-lucky to psychotic and temperamental.
• He hosted an April Fools' Day marathon in 2012.
• In "The Origins," it was shown that when he was younger, he was green, like an unripe banana.
• He is a very good whistler, as seen in the season 2 episode, "The Banana."
  • This is shown again in the season 3 episode, "The Move."
• As seen in "The Banana," his eyes and mouth can be removed from his body and then reattached.
  • He also has a closet full of spares, according to the game Water Sons.