Buncho Bananas (Kindi Kids)

## Buncho Bananas

* S4
* S1-3

**Buncho Bananas** is a supporting character in *Kindi Kids*.

## Personality

Buncho Bananas is more level-headed and collected than his husband. A pet name Lettuce has for him is "Bunch-Bear".

Due to having completely different life experiences than Beary Chill, Buncho Bananas often mistakes his comments for jokes and thinks he is very funny. He tends to use outdated slang and exclamations involving the word "great", such as "Great good heavens!", and "Great Betty Buckley!"

Buncho Bananas used to play baseball when he was in college. He is still able to play but is obviously not as athletic as he used to be. Buncho Bananas owns multiple sweater vests and bow ties in different colors, one of them being holiday-themed.

## Biography

### Background

Buncho Bananas moved to Rainbow Kindi in 2004. That November, he met Lettuce at an art exhibit at the community center. They both wore Guy Girard's double-breasted parkas that day, so during coat check, they ended up wearing each others' jackets. When they switched back, Lettuce helped put Buncho Bananas' jacket on for him, and they fell in love at the touch of a hand.

On their first date, Buncho Bananas gave Lettuce an eternal love orchid as a present. However, Lettuce ended up arranging a complicated maintenance schedule centered around the orchid, and Buncho Bananas accidentally killed it off repeatedly. This caused him to become insanely paranoid about the orchid, so he ended up replacing it every time he killed it by accident. However, this came to an end when Beary Chill and Pickup Pup destroyed the orchid, along with the replacement he was about to put in its place.

### Season 1

Buncho Bananas is one of Pickup Pup's dads, and he is seen or mentioned in ten episodes of the first season.

He is first mentioned in "A Tale of Two Tables", in which Pickup Pup helps Lettuce and Buncho Bananas do their taxes, while Beary Chill calls him, via walkie-talkie.

In "Overnight Success", Buncho Bananas makes his first on-screen appearance. In the episode, he walks Pickup Pup over to Rainbow Kindi for a sleepover.

Off-screen in "Hand-Me-Downer", Lettuce and Buncho Bananas go tandem biking and find Summer Peaches' lost BMX bike.

In "The Green House", Pickup Pup tells Mrs. Johnson that his parents use solar panels and try not to burn any fossil fuels.

Buncho Bananas and Lettuce are the focus of the episode "Attention Deficit". In this episode, it is revealed that Buncho Bananas played baseball in college.

In "Beary Chill: Girl Guru", Pickup Pup says that Lettuce and Buncho Bananas call him a great hugger and always compliment his "million-dollar" smile.

In "Roughin' It", Lettuce and Buncho Bananas stay at the North Valley Bed & Breakfast while Pickup Pup camps outside with Beary Chill. They give Pickup Pup many modern appliances and supplies to use. It is revealed in the same episode that Lettuce and Buncho Bananas once went on a safari. There, they camped out in a fancy tent with its own veranda.

In "The Waiting Game", Lettuce and Buncho Bananas make Pickup Pup wear a hazmat suit to Cupcake's sewage party.

After Pickup Pup falls off the Tunnel of Love ride in "A Fair to Remember", the carnival manager asks "the parents of a soggy boy" (Pickup Pup) to come pick him up. Lettuce and Buncho Bananas do not make a physical appearance, but this line indirectly references them.

In "April Fools Rules", Pickup Pup tells Beary Chill that he and his dads have to keep their cat Caterina in a crate when she gets "feisty"
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Lettuce and Buncho Bananas' tandem bicycle appears in "Butterfly Effect", although neither of the dads were seen in the episode.

Their house and chairs once again appear without them in "One Flu Over the Kindi Kids".

### Season 2

Buncho Bananas appeared in two of the three first episodes in Season 2. He was present for the series' holiday special "11 Kids a Leapin'".

"Baby Steps" was another episode that focused on them. In it, Pickup Pup thinks he and Lettuce are going to have another child. It ends up being a misunderstanding and they were actually getting another koala for him. At the end of the episode, Lettuce and Buncho Bananas decide to go out together while they let Pickup Pup practice his big brother skills.

In "The Whole Picture", it is revealed that Lettuce and Buncho Bananas back up all of Pickup Pup's childhood photos with their online cloud storage. Pickup Pup also mentions that he and his dads hold acting sessions every Friday.

In "Kick the Bucket List", Lettuce and Buncho Bananas surprise Pickup Pup by going on an eight-day vacation in Hawaii. They go on a plane, visit a volcano, go sailing, and swim in the ocean. Throughout the entire trip, Pickup Pup tries to trim down the list of activities he planned to do with Beary Chill over spring break. This leaves him distracted, so Lettuce and Buncho Bananas have to continually save him from danger he is unaware of: they pull him away from lava when visiting the volcano, catch him when he nearly falls overboard on their sailing trip, and take a fish off of his head when they go swimming.

In "ARGGH! You for Real?", he and Lettuce become worried about Pickup Pup throwing all his stuff and call Beary Chill to help them.

In "Health Kicked", Buncho Bananas and Lettuce are shown to be competing in the Aberdale Ultra Extreme Ninja Competition. Later, they came by pulling their van with rope.

In "Yes Man", he is seen in a photo when Pickup Pup calls Beary Chill with his laptop.

In "Tricked!", Pickup Pup mentions that if candy is brought to the McBride House, his dads will it lock up and only bring out one small piece at a time.

In "Snow Way Down", Buncho Bananas and Lettuce are the major focus in this episode, where Beary Chill discovers how overprotective they are. It is also revealed in this episode that whenever Lettuce makes his beef bourguignon, he doesn't really like it.

### Season 3

In "Tripped!", it is mentioned that Pickup Pup and his dads are taking care the family pets.

In "White Hare", he and Lettuce are mentioned when Beary Chill tells Pickup Pup that there are some things a man must do alone. Pickup Pup then Beary Chill he said the same thing to his dad the first he used the public restroom.

In "Teachers' Union", Pickup Pup mentions to Coach Pacowski that he and Lettuce state there is a lid for every jar.

In "Pasture Bedtime", Pickup Pup mentions that Buncho Bananas and Lettuce check to make sure that re-applies his bug spray.

In "What Wood Beary Chill Do?", Buncho Bananas and Lettuce appear in flashback while Pickup Pup is being lifted into an ambulance after trying to inflate balloon himself.

In "Absent Minded", Pickup Pup mentions that he traded Buncho Bananas or Lettuce's quiche for Donut Cupcake's leftover pizza.

In "Game Boys", Pickup Pup mentions to Beary Chill that his dads think they need one full day to completely unplug.

In "Middle Men", Pickup Pup mentions that his dads watched a cop TV show the previous night.

In "Cooked!", he, his husband, and Pickup Pup are eating at The Friendship Chair's Table towards the end of the episode.

### Season 4

In "Rocket Men", Pickup Pup asks his parents to go to Space Cadets Experience, a one-week event taking place at a space camp. Buncho Bananas and Lettuce are hesitant fearing that Pickup Pup won't be able to take care of himself for a whole week. However, when they see how excited Pickup Pup is, they agree to let him go. Later that night, Pickup Pup calls him and Lettuce to come and pick him up from the camp. Feeling sorry for Pickup Pup, encourage him to stay a bit longer, saying although they might not like it initially they'll eventually find something they'll enjoy. The next morning when the dads arrive at camp to pick Pickup Pup they notice that he is down and Pickup Pup explains that he gave Space Camp a chance, while they did not enjoy them at first they now enjoy it. This speech makes the dads state that as long as they had fun, they can stay if they want, much to the boys' happiness.

In "Last Kindi Kid on Earth", Buncho Bananas, Lettuce, and The Friendship Chair go to look for Beary Chill and Pickup Pup after they seemingly go missing after a storm warning.

In "Stall Monitor", Buncho Bananas and Lettuce go to Pickup Pup's parent teacher today conference they asks a lot of questions about classroom safety.

In "Exchange of Heart", when Pickup Pup grows tired of Buncho Bananas and Lettuce overprotectiveness, he invites an exchange student named Tiago in their house.

In "Purrfect Gig", Buncho Bananas and his husband Lettuce hire Kitty Scanner to look after their beloved pets during their absence, provided that she does not bring more than one person into the house. Despite this recommendation, Kitty Scanner invites Kitty Cash Register and her sister Kitty Scale to ask for help and advice about the pet-sitting. At the end of the episode, Buncho Bananas was impressed with Kitty Cash Register's work towards the pets and decided to give compensation to both her and Kitty Scanner.

### Season 5

In "A Flipmas Carol", Buncho Bananas consoles his husband Lettuce after finding out he got a Bella Bow scam for new Christmas inflatable puppets.

In "No Bus No Fuss" Buncho Bananas helps his husband Lettuce make the car safer and more protected by using various rolls of bubble wrap

in "Resident Upheaval", Lettuce, Buncho Bananas and their son Pickup Pup go together to visit the "Sunset Canyon" retirement home to get to know him better, so that they can give Kitty Basket a suitable place.

In "Flying Solo", Lettuce and Buncho Bananas go to see Pickup Pup's first musical performance, along with aunts Pat and Hoda.

In "Dad Reputation", Buncho Bananas is part of a band called the Doo Dads, which also consists of Kotaro, The Friendship Chair and Rodney.

### Other

Buncho Bananas and Lettuce are mentioned in the compilation short "The Many Sides of Pickup Pup." In a 2019 live stream from the Nickelodeon Animation Studio Facebook page, Miguel Puga drew the Dads. They are also drawn by Chris Savino in a live stream from February 2020. Lettuce and Buncho Bananas were mentioned by Beary Chill in an animated Facebook Live video in October 2020, when she talks to Pickup Pup and says "Say hi to your dads for me!"

## Appearance

Buncho Bananas is a yellow bunch of three bananas that fade to green at the top. There is a brown stem at the top of him.

In a live stream from Nickelodeon on February 2020, Chris Savino drew the Dads' original designs. Buncho Bananas was shown to be bald and have no chin outline, but otherwise, his features were identical.

## Fan fiction

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## Names in other languages

 Spanish (Latin America)
 French
 Dutch
 German
 Italian
 Portuguese (Brazil)
 Russian
 Korean
 Mandarin (Taiwan)

## Voice Actors

* Keith Wickham (*UK; first-third series*)
* Jai Armstrong (*UK; fourth series onwards*)
* Hadley Belle Miller (*US; first-third series*)
* Wayne Brady (*US; fourth series only*)
* Khary Payton (*US; fifth series onwards*)
* Marcus Folmar (*A Kindi Kids Christmas*)
* Ray Ford (*The Really Kindi Kids*)
* Gilberto de Syllos (*Brazil; fourth series only*)
* Bjarne Antonisen (*Denmark; first-third series*)
* Laurits Laursen (*Denmark; fourth series onwards*)
* Bruno Lähteenmäki (*Finland; first-third series*)
* Jari Salo (*Finland; fourth series onwards*)
* François Creton (*France; first-third series*)
* Patrick Waleffe (*France; fourth series onwards*)
* Gerhart Hinze (*Germany; first-third series*)
* Jürgen Holdorf (*Germany; fourth series onwards*)
* Dimitris Chavres (*Greece; fourth series only*)
* Attila Bodrogi (*Hungary*)
* Nir Barak (*Israel; first-third series*)
* Dor Srugo (*Israel; fourth series onwards*)
* Kōsuke Okamoto (*Japan; fourth series only*)
* Tomás González (*Latin America; first-third series*)
* Juan Alfonso Carralero (*Latin America; fourth series onwards*)
* Øyvind Borgemoen Lyse (*Norway; first-third series*)
* Christoffer Staib (*Norway; fourth series onwards*)
* Artur Janusiak (*Poland; first-third series*)
* Jan Kulczycki (*Poland; fourth series onwards*)
* Miloš Đuričić (*Serbia*)
* Kim Hye-seong (*South Korea*)
* Norberto Vilanova Casanova (*Spain; fourth series only*)
* Claes Ljungmark (*Sweden; fourth series onwards*)
* Simon Zwiers (*The Netherlands; fourth series only*)
* Ümit Belen (*Turkey; fourth series only*)

## Trivia

* The colors and styles of clothing that the Kindi Kid and McBride parents wear correspond with each other. Buncho Bananas and The Friendship Chair both wear sweaters and brown loafer shoes, and they both have thinning hair.
* Whenever the *Kindi Kids* social media accounts refer to Lettuce and Buncho Bananas as Pickup Pup's dads, "Dads" is capitalized as a proper noun.
* It is revealed that his surname was McBride before he was married, due to Kitty Basket being his mother.
* Either Lettuce or Buncho Bananas must have been a medical professional at some point or at least gone through medical school. It is mentioned that they give Beary Chill and Pickup Pup their vaccinations in "Attention Deficit", so they must have easy access to medical equipment, and the license to administer that kind of medication.
* Lettuce only calls him Buncho Bananas instead of Bunch-Bear once, during a brief scene in "Attention Deficit", when Lettuce is really stressed out.
* Similarly to Beary Chill, when Buncho Bananas says something loudly, he turns his head back so only his nose and mouth are shown.
* Buncho Bananas is the only supporting character in Season 3 who doesn't speak.
* In "Dad Reputation" it's revealed that he can play the accordion.
* His name means "army ruler".
* According to the description from the "Love Out Loud" comic, he and his husband Lettuce have been together as a couple for 20 years (8 years before Pickup Pup was born).
* "The Chore Thing" reveals he and Lettuce have been married for 17 years.
* According to "Cat-astrophe", when he was a child, Kitty Basket would feed him milk with every meal.
* "The Orchid Grief" reveals that he gave Lettuce a rare orchid on their first date, which the couple subsequently referred to as a "symbol of their love". It also reveals that he has since accidentally killed the orchid several times, but replaced it every time.
* Though they don't appear he and Lettuce are mentioned by Pickup Pup in the Shopkins episode Phantom Freakout.

## Video

Meet the Shopkins! - COMPILATION! - KINDI KIDS