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  47. Debra Barracca and Sal Barracca, Maxi the Hero (New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1992).

  48. Thomas C. Mann and Janet Greene, Sudden and Awful: American Epitaphs and the Finger of God (Brattleboro: Stephen Greene Press, 1968), 28.

  49. Alex Abella, The Total Banana and the Illustrated Banana: Anecdotes, History, Recipes and More! (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979), 30.

  50. Ken Dornstein, Accidentally, On Purpose: The Making of a Personal Injury Underworld in America (St. Martin’s Press, 1996; review in Washington Post Book World [February 16, 1997, 6]).

  51. Copy of 1950s’ brochure and recollection provided by Jane Webb Smith.

  52. Robert Clyde Allen, Vaudeville and Film, 1895–1915: A Study in Media Interaction (New York: Arno Press, 1980), 83, 123, 126.

  53. Recollections of Valarie Brown, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland at College Park, January 14, 1998, and Nancy C. Van Den Akker, New Orleans Public Library, January 13, 1998.

  54. Widner, “America’s Going Bananas,” 117; Wilcock, “About: Bananas,” 53.

  55. Abella, The Total Banana and the Illustrated Banana: Anecdotes, History, Recipes and More! 30.

  56. MacHovec, Humor: Theory, History, Applications, 4.

  57. MacHovec, Humor: Theory, History, Applications, 44.

  58. William Safire, “On Language,” in New York Times Magazine (May 9, 1993).

  59. Abella, The Total Banana and the Illustrated Banana, 31.

  60. Marina Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998), 368.

  61. Warner, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock, 367.

  62. Sokolov, “Bananamania,” 81.

  63. The Cook 1:14 (June 19, 1885), 12.

  64. James Ellis Humphrey, “Where Bananas Grow,” Popular Science (February 1894), 486.

  65. C. B. Hayward, “Culture and Transportation,” Scientific American (January 28, 1905), 80.

  66. Ralph W. Dexter, “Tarantula in Captivity,” Nature Magazine (May 1946), 229.

  67. Waverly Root and Richard de Rochemont, Eating in America: A History (New York: William Morrow, 1976), 235.

  68. February 28, 1993.

  69. August 28, 1991.

  70. Marilyn Vos Savant, “Ask Marilyn,” Parade Magazine (September 26, 1993), 18.

  71. Don Cusic, “Comedy and Humor in Country Music,” Journal of American Culture (Summer 1993), 49.

  72. Robert L. Chapman, ed., New Dictionary of American Slang (New York: Harper and Row, 1986), 170.

  73. “B.C.” by Hart, Washington Post (December 13, 1997).

  74. “That’s Life” by Mike Twohy, Washington Post (April 15, 1999), C12.

  75. “Ernie” by Bud Grade, Washington Post (October 12, 1994).

  76. “Dennis the Menace” by Hank Ketcham, Washington Post (May 19, 1996).

  77. Washington Post Weekend (August 8, 1977), 41.

  78. With thanks to Ann Lovell, curator of the Banana Museum, Auburn, Washington.

  79. Neve, “Freud’s Theory of Humor, Wit and Jokes,” 37.

  80. “Mellow Yellow,” Newsweek (April 10, 1967), 93.

  81. “Yes, They Sell More Bananas,” Business Week (July 8, 1967), 92.

  82. “Tripping on Banana Peels,” Time (April 7, 1967), 52.

  83. “Mellow Yellow,” 93.

  84. “Yes, They Sell More Bananas,” 92; “The Big Banana Hoax,” Science Digest (February 1968), 63.

  85. “Tripping on Banana Peels,” 52.

  86. “Mellow Yellow,” 93.

  87. “Yes, They Sell More Bananas,” 92.

  88. The Workbasket: Home and Needlecraft for Pleasure and Profit 16:4 (January 1952), 73.

  89. Unifruitco 24:9 (September 30, 1966), 3.

  90. The American Traveler (American Airlines, Summer 1992), 3.

  91. John Kaiser, “Auburn Collector Will Help National TV Show Go Bananas,” Valley Daily News (July 7, 1995), A1.

  92. Paula Borchardt, Sky Magazine (February 1995), 15.

  93. “Ken Bannister Isn’t Just One of the Bunch When He Slips into His Favorite Banana Suit,” People (November 12, 1984), 84.

  94. Mintz, Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, 120.