The Bananas Chronicles

The Bananas Chronicles is a tetralogy of media franchises and a standalone prequel film created by E.H., the ultimate supreme god lord of all space and time. It follows the adventures of the Bananas Gang, a group of heroes with all different sorts of abilities, weaknesses, and personalities. This is the main reason why it is often considered its own category, and not lumped with the rest of the Bananas-Verse canon. The others shows are viewed as spin-offs, as they feature major or supporting characters in a lead role.

##### Chronological Order:

The Six Cridlington Sisters and the Mystery of the Blue Man (set in 1951)

Bananas Jr. (set from 1971-1975)

Nutty as a Fruitcake (set from 1977-1987)

Bananas (set from 1987-2037)

Bananas Beyond (set from 2037-2047)

### The Six Cridlington Sisters and the Mystery of the Blue Man

#### Main Article: The Six Cridlington Sisters and the Mystery of the Blue Man (film)

Set in 1951, the film follows Jane Cridlington and her six sisters, Evelynn, Elizabeth, Anna-Maria, Catherine, and Emily, as well as her best friend William, as they try to investigate a 'mysterious blue man.' The 'blue man,' is in fact the Good Guardian, one of the Seven Guardians, who is a founding character in the Bananas-Verse. Jane is predicted in this film to have a son, who will one day be a hero. She in fact grows up to be Elvis Cridlington's mother. The movie was released in 2023.

### Bananas Jr.

#### Main Article: Bananas Jr. (franchise)

Set from 1971 to 1975, the franchise follows a young Sam Jones, Elvis Cridlington, Penny Morris, PreastMonkey, as well as Lizzie, Bill, and Eleanor to some extent, as they go on adventures in their pre-teen and teenhood in PontyPandy, Wales. The series also reveals how Sam and Elvis met Penny and PreastMonkey, as well as Lizzie and Eleanor. The tv show ran from 2001 to 2005, and had 3 films.

### Nutty as a Fruitcake

#### Main Article: Nutty as a Fruitcake (franchise)

Set from 1977 to 1987, the franchise follows primarily the young adulthood of Sam, Elvis, and Penny. Now grown up and graduated from high school, Sam and Elvis become new firefighters at PontyPandy Fire Station. However, soon after, they are reunited with Penny, who had moved back to NewTown two years prior. Over the ten years in which the franchise was active the 'team' gathered many characters: John, Ellie, April, Ben, Jodie, Mal, as well as the return of Lizzie, Bill, and Eleanor. The show ran from 2007 to 2017, and had 6 movies and multiple specials. This is the only Bananas Chronicles piece of media (not counting The Six Cridlington Sisters and the Mystery of the Blue Man), in which PreastMonkey, the famous talking and insane monkey, does not appear regularly. He had a minor role in the fifth film, The Nutty as a Fruitcake Multiverse: The Return, in which he is in a barrel and appears in a drunken state.

### Bananas

#### Main Article: Bananas (franchise)

In 1987 (though the first film was released in 1986), Sam, Elvis, and Penny's lives are turned around when, during an emergency, there is a flood. The next thing they know, they are out on the sea. After reuniting with PreastMonkey and defeating Bob the Evil Jaguar King, the trio decide to settle down where they are: Willsburg Point InsanityFalls. Elvis and Penny eventually marry and have 5 kids: Nate the supergenius, Emily the badass, Ryan the dinosaur-loving film-making ladies man, Lucy the one who cooks and is like her father in more ways than one, and finally Gilligan, Lucy's long lost twin who was a pirate for 20 years. Sam would eventually marry Amelia Earhart after she time travelled from 1937, and they had twins: Oliver (also known as Burgess) and Olivia. The Bananas Gang, as they are known as, have also adopted some kids: Red, an orphan who was living under a bridge for three years, her younger twin brothers Mason and Adam, their stepcousin Raina, and their cousin Lily. Red was adopted first, while the others were found a few years after. Raina discovered that she had a long lost twin sister, and that she was being held captive by the Evil Guardian because she found the Crystal. She and Ryan later rescued her sister, who was named Dana. PreastMonkey also cloned himself, making his son Jamie. The kids would all grow up and have children and grandchildren of their own as the franchise progressed. The television series ran from 1987 to 2037, with 20 films overall.

### Bananas Beyond

#### Main Article: Bananas Beyond (franchise)

After Bananas ended in 2037, a sequel franchise was made, called Bananas Beyond. The series focuses on the fact that the Rift that keeps all of the Universes in the Multiverse separate is getting weaker and more fluctuated, so that the different Universes can mix and combine. The Bananas Gang was now so big that it contained over fifty members, due to the Second Generation all having children and grandchildren, and even four unnamed great grandchildren. The franchise lasted from 2037 to 2047, with four movies.

## Trivia

* The Six Cridlington Sisters and the Mystery of the Blue Man is often considered by many fans to be separate from the Bananas Chronicles, due to the main ensemble not being born yet. However, it is still part of the Bananas Chronicles, as it features the parents of Sam and Elvis, and their existence is even foreshadowed multiple times throughout the movie. E.H. confirmed in an interview that it was "not a spin-off, but part of the Bananas Chronicles."

* The franchises did not come out in chronological order. Instead it came out all out of order, causing major potholes. For instance, in the fifth Bananas film, when the Bananas Gang meets the Evil Guardian, it seems as though, and is implied, that Sam, Elvis, Penny, and PreastMonkey (to some extent), have known him before. This has happened several times before, though it was never explained to the children of the Bananas Gang of the audience, as a running gag that life in PontyPandy was not as boring as the adults made it seem. However, most of this was cleared up when Bananas Jr. and Nutty as a Fruitcake were released, primarily with the latter. However, a main question still left unanswered was why Jane, Elvis's mother, seemed to already know the Good Guardian in the fourth Nutty as a Fruitcake film. This burning question was finally answered by the release of The Six Cridlington Sisters and the Mystery of the Blue Man in 2023. In syndicated order, here are the franchises:

1. Bananas (1987-2037)
2. Bananas Jr. (2001-2005)
3. Nutty as a Fruitcake (2007-2017)
4. The Six Cridlington Sisters and the Mystery of the Blue Man (2023)
5. Bananas Beyond (2037-2047)