The Dancing Banana (a.k.a. Peanut Butter Jelly) is a popular emoticon. By late 2001, the banana was already being used on several forums as a standard emoticon. Most of these forums would replace the typed text ":banana:" with the graphical image. As the popularity of the banana grew, hundreds of variations of the image had been created for forums or other purposes. These new images typically would have to be either uploaded or linked to, instead of replacing text. There is also a dancing pickle, carrot, apple, onion, taco, broccoli, Sonic the Hedgehog, Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, Megaman, and padlock ("lock this topic"), among many others. The Dancing Banana soon made its way to television shows and began to appear as an icon in American Pop Culture.
