Those of you who have read Superior Spider-Man #2 might have noticed the stand-out dialogue line of the decade, courtesy of Peter Parker’s ghost: “It’s crazy town banana pants!” But what really might have caught your attention is that, according to both Mary Jane and Carlie Cooper, “crazy town banana pants” is a long-time parker catchphrase.
If you’re like me, your reaction was “What? Peter’s never said that. He never would say that, seeing as how he’s not a crackhead.” But you’d be wrong! I went back and did the research, and it turns out Peter has been using this beloved catchphrase throughout the ages. Check it out. More after the jump!
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DAMN IT! How can you be so mean and make me, who currently has the flu, laugh! Do you know how painful that is? Do you? It’s so hurtful it’s like crazy town banana pants!
I always though Peter’s catchphrase was “What you talking about Willis?”
I can’t believe get so crazy-town banana pants-up because of a catch-phrase that could have simply been used between issues… between panels… christ…
I also remember when Peter Parker used to work in a diner with Linda Lavin and tell the cook, “Kiss my grits!”
He always said that, didn’t he?
I’m just glad I was born in the 70’s so that my childhood memories are of a better time when Spider-Man wasn’t a piece of shit comic.
@ #20 How about that Scots burr?! 😀
@ #18 Where’s the love forr “Collectors” every Sunday?
@18, if this line appeared in the Ultimate cartoon, Spider-Man would have actually turned into a banana while he said it.
I agree with Vanessa – this site and the daily strip are the only joy I have out of Spider-Man nowadays. Well, I guess the Ultimate cartoon – it may not be great but that and the daily strip are my only source for true Spider-Man stories now.
@13- woah, hold your horses, hombre. This is taking one little line that everyone has agreed is really out of character compared to what’s written on the page, and had a little fun with it. That’s not a ridiculous effort to rip his work to shreds. That’s a five minute job to slap him on the wrist :V
Let’s see who can spot that phrase on a ASM comic over the years. It has to be somewhere!
@13: “Your captions were hilarious, but geez, people who don’t like Slott really do make ridiculous efforts to shred his work.”
These really didn’t take a “ridiculous” effort; they were made pretty simply. And when writing goes off the rails this bad it begs – nay, demands – to be satirized. To not do so would be… well it’d be crazy town banana pants.
That stinks!!!
Now I have to go buy a hat so I can tip it to you!
“Let’s find every little conceivable thing to dissect and tear it apart”
Your captions were hilarious, but geez, people who don’t like Slott really do make ridiculous efforts to shred his work.
This post is crazy town banana pants!
Hilarious–and I mean crazy-town banana pants kind of hilarious. I’m sure there’s more examples, like when Pete was told he was the clone, how could he not have said “crazy town banana pants”?
Oh man. I’m actually in pain from laughing because I woke up sick this morning. This is seriously hysterical.
I enjoyed the issue. Again I’m reading with the interpretation (which I believe will turn out true), which is that Peter is still Peter but with Dock Ocks memories making him THINK he’s Dock Ock. And the “ghost” Peter is just Pete’s subconscious fighting off his ock memory induces Schizophrenia.
But I do have to say, this “crazy-town banana pants” thing was terrible writing.
“If you’re like me, your reaction was “What? Peter’s never said that. He never would say that, seeing as how he’s not a crackhead.”
XD
The Post-Coitus JMS one is my favorite
I think Pete really meant in the last panel “let’s go crazy-town with the banana in my pants”
Brilliant.
This is phenomenal. What I like best is what it says about the state of ASM. One of the most horrible things that could ever happen to Peter has happened. He’s dead and a homicidal, megalomaniacal psychopath has taken over his incredibly powerful body, puting in danger all the people he loves and it’s so serious and so heart-rending that it’s, it’s crazy town banana pants.
Brilliant work, counselor.
So he line was merely continuity porn as opposed to out of character
Well of course, everyone knows this. Next to “with great power…..” this is probably his most notorious catchphrase.
This made my entire month… Thank you Chris.
LoL! I’m so frustrated with the current state of Spider-Man… that I think you guys and your posts here are currently the only thing Spidey related that manages to put a smile back in my face. So thank you. This really is hilarious.
Epic work Chris, this was hilarious.