Seizures took out half the room as the hidden lights in the Den, which most people still don’t know about, flashed brilliant colors throughout the un-illuminated space we call “Susie’s.”
“Welcome Gungos and Gungites to Andover’s very own Battle of the Bananas,” yelled Ed Guerilla, one of the judges for the night.
“I’m not really sure what this event is,” said spectator Chimpy Jungle, as he nonchalantly strolled through Susie’s. “I only came because The Weekender made this event’s box bigger than the other events’ boxes for Saturday, so I assumed everyone would be here.”
Kicking off the event, the student band “The aPEELers” took to the stage. Talented couple Chiquita and Dole Del Monte hopped on, each holding their own ukeleles made from strings and overly large bananas.
Songs like “Bananeria” didn’t get much of a reaction. However, the crowd began singing along and chanting “B-A-N-A-N-A-S” to the student’s performance of Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl.”
“First of all, Gwen Stefani’s attire was chic,” stated Guerilla. “Chiquita was wearing way too much Banana Republic tonight.”
“Yaaa… the name was kind of a stretch,” admitted Dole. “The requirement to enter the event was to have a banana theme, and I really needed to enter some extra credit for art class.”
Next up were the “Banana Splits,” a group of Andover’s highest quality gymnasts. Even though the full body banana costumes took away 97 percent off their movement and rotation, they really gave it all they had.
“The group did mediocre tonight,” stated Judge Guerilla. “Slipped up a couple times… my vote’s gonna bunch over to a ‘no’ on that one.”
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p>Of course, an Andover event is not an event unless it features Andover’s very own, all-male a capella group, the Shitzus. This, ladies — and maybe two or three gentlemen trying to squeeze their way through a crowd while avoiding being caught in a “watching the shitzus <3 <3” Snapchats — is the probably the only reason you came to this event.
Many thanks go out to the Abbot Association for funded this event. That event was bananas, and it couldn’t have been done without you.
Even though this event was a bigger hit for the Twitter page “PA Bananas” than it was for the school’s activities board, it was clear that Andover students really/somewhat/didn’t try to make the event a hit. Whatever, I tweeted a picture for _Phillipian_ Art’s unimpressive amount of Twitter followers, so they should be content with me.
This event was the only notable one Arts covered this year.
