If you haven’t had a chance to see the Savannah Bananas baseball team yet, good luck. The waiting list to score tickets for the viral sensation team whose acrobatic feats of delight are a mash-up of the Harlem Globetrotters, minor league goofiness and some seriously impressive hardball skills is a mile long.
But Jimmy Fallon’s got you covered.
The Tonight Show host lamented on Wednesday night’s (Sept. 10) show that the wait list is more than three million people long, which prompted the Roots’ Black Thought to suggest that it would be nice if the team just came to Jimmy instead. “Yeah, ha ha, yeah, Tariq. Can you imagine the entire Savannah Bananas team showing up here,” Fallon scoffed.
Then the impossible happened and a man in the audience ripped off his suit to reveal a #15 jersey as hunky outfielder Robert Cruz asked “what if it wasn’t impossible, Jimmy?” to the howls of the studio audience. Cruz bopped his way down to the stage to the strains of Benson Boone’s “Mystical Magic,” lip-syching the moonbeam ice cream jam as he side flipped to the studio floor and five more Bananas ripped off their civilian drag to reveal their bright yellow uniforms.
The men did a hip-swaying routine before making way for #10 Alex Ziegler, who showed off his impressive bat-balancing skills to the strains of Run-DMC’s “It’s Tricky.” Balancing a flaming bat on his nose as his teammates did a shuffle behind him, Ziegler grabbed another bat and flipped it in a dizzying flourish that paved the way for sky-high stilt walker #14 Dakota Albritton to amble out to Fall Out Boy’s “High Hopes,” naturally.
Another half-dozen bananas joined in, rocking their shoulders like buff Rockettes doing a hip-hop line dance. That was about all the umpire could take, as he stormed out and bellowed, “you’re gone!,” telling the hyped-up players they needed to scoot. Fallon tried to intervene, acknowledging that even the rule-keepers need “their moment.”
Cue T-Pain’s “Booty Wurk,” as the umpire dropped it low and twerked it out while his fellow official backflipped and seven corpulent, belly-baring male cheerleaders (the Man-Nanas) came out and shook it to Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!”
The whole routine ended with Fallon joining the team for their traditional big finish line kick, though Cruz stopped the show to explain that the crowd-pleasing routine was for Bananas only. Cue Bananas founder Jesse Cole bopping out in his signature yellow suit and matching bowler hat to offer Fallon a spot on the team by unfurling the scroll-like “Honorary Banana” team contract to the new #19.
Watch the whole bit below.
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