The film ends with Fielding, still in disguise, being married to Nancy. Still no respect after becoming the president of a small country. Bananas ends on a high note, and one can't go away without feeling like they have just seen a cartoon turned into a live action comedy. The film is absolute comedy, and there does not seem to be any scenes to disprove this. The influences of Chaplain, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton are far more evident in this film than in Take the Money and Run .
Several scenes rely strictly on body humor and slapstick mannerisms.
The entire boot camp sequences are mostly gags with a fast paced jazz soundtrack accompanying them. As mentioned above, some of this slapstick works while a majority of it fails to impress. Woody himself said a majority of scenes in the film were improvised until he felt he had a good enough shot to move on. It shows the most in the boot camp scenes as well as early in the film. There is one scene where he parks his car, and we see there is road construction right outside of his car before he gets out.