Web Video / El Bananero

The Banana Guy himself.

"El Bananero soy ioo." ^note I am El Bananero.

— El Bananero every time someone/thing asks about him.

Adrián Maximiliano Nario, better known as El Bananero (lit. The Banana Guy) is a Uruguayan comedian that is famous in Latin America, making videos for his own website elbananero.com since 2005. He comes from Uruguay, but actually lives in Miami, Florida, where he makes his videos.

Although he had made various other videos in the past, El Bananero became famous for a mock-infomercial for his best-known product: Muñeca System^note "Doll System", an inflatable sex doll that even provides complete home cleaning for you. This video was so successful that it became (and still is) a major referent for Latin American youtubers and comedians. The primary themes in his videos are Sex Comedy (which made YouTube censor his videos and shut down several of his channels), Toilet Humor, and Affectionate Parody of other media, especially in his Trailerazo series, which are Gag Dub Trailer Spoofs of famous movies and franchises.

His official website is here, but most of his content is in Spanish. However, a lot of his fans have made English subtitles for his videos, which can be found by searching YouTube. Though he still has YouTube channels, these are obviously censored versions of his videos — the uncensored ones are available on his website (or, in some cases, have been reuploaded to YouTube by fans).

Known video series by El Bananero

• Infomercials: One of the first big hits he had and what made him successful, creating fictional products like Muñeca System, Kit MacGyver, Sofanático and Gaytorade.
• El Bananero vs.: Here El Bananero appears as himself in movies and has to struggle with characters like Batman, Tony Montana, Samara/Sadako and even Santa Claus himself.
• Trailerazos (lit. "Big Trailers"): Gag Dub parodies of famous movie series like Harry Potter, The Twilight Saga and even some of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Noticiero Bananero (lit. "Bananero News"): A News Parody starring Sergio Vergara Telechea, Bananero's blonde alter ego that reports on world news and does interviews with famous celebrities (all with Gag Dub, of course).
• Putoriales: A Punny portmanteau name using "tutorial" and "puto"^note lit. male bitch, usually Camp Gay, in which El Bananero teaches you how to use diverse PC programs, all of them downloadable for you to follow his instructions by yourself... you fool.
• Paul Vazo's Sex Ed Classes: Another alter ego, a bearded professor that teaches sex ed to students.
• And apart from these videos he makes a lot of Music Videos, most of them are original songs and others are parodies of existing ones... and even with his songs on Spotify!

This group of tropes sapbeeee!

• Acme Products: All the products El Bananero shows in his infomercials.
• Adaptational Sexuality. In his Harry Potter videos, Snape (straight in the original) is depicted as Camp Gay, while Dumbledore (confirmed gay by J.K. Rowling) is straight and enjoys watching porn and hiring hookers
• The Ahnold: One of the Mythology Gag of most of his videos is his (on purpose) bad imitation of Arnold Schwarzenegger using various of his film appearances in his videos, including Predator, Batman & Robin and Kindergarten Cop, as others. Even lampshaded in videos like John "Salchichon" Rambo:
  Arnold: Te dije mucha chota, no muchachita!^note I told you "mucha chota" (much dick), not "muchachita" (girl)!
  Negro: Y qué querés, si hablás como el orto, carajo!^note And what do you want, if you talk like the ass, fuck!
  Arnold: Las pelotas!^note My balls!
  • Recently he made this imitation for Arnold's Instagram videos and even made one as Mr. Freeze wanking with a certain icicle-licking video as inspiration.
• Anime Opening Parody: Some fans made an anime opening for El Bananero based on the one from Blend-S. The "opening" was so well received by El Bananero himself that he used it as the opening for the current version of Radio Garka (his past podcast now revived as a live YouTube show due to the COVID-19 Pandemic) for the rest of 2020.
• Ascended Fanboy:
  • Inverted. El Bananero is a fan of Porn, especially of pornstars as Mia Khalifa. Well, he befriended Mia^note The picture was taken in El Bananero's house, by the way for surprise of many of his followers and even she appeared as Celebrity Cameo in various of his videos, especially this one.
  • Also with porn, he befriended BangBros staff and has some video in which porn videos like this were recorded in his house.
  • In recent years he had befriended other famous porn actors and actresses, like the Spanish Nekane and Jordi ENP, getting special salutes to him as well other Creator Cameos as Mia Khalifa.
• Ass Shove: Seen by El Bananero himself as well some of his characters in videos, mostly men putting their faces into women's asses (and also breasts) acompanied with this phrase:
  Cómo le haría un buen brbrbrbrbrbrbr^note How I would make her a good brbrbrbrbrbrbr
• Author Catchphrase:
  • The more known is "Sapbeee" or "Sapee", a modified version of Spanish "sabe" (lit. "knows", synonym of "rules").
  • He has various others that are untranslatable even for Spanish speakers, like "Más bien, loquita".
• Big Bad: Some of his episodes have different villains or enemies. The Joker in "Batman vs El Bananero", Santa Claus in "Feliz Navidad Bananera", Muñeca System in some chapters (although El Bananero is a pretty shitty husband); even Greta Thunberg and Ricardo Arjona.
• Big Eater: El Bananero himself, but El Gordo Buzard even more so.
• Black Comedy Rape: All the time.
• Broadcast Live: El Bananero made a live radio program all Friday nights called "Radio Garka", the name in part inspired by "Radio Gaga" song. Can be heard in the radio's website, which also has podcasts of past Radio Garka programs.
  • The Bus Came Back: Thanks to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic, in April 2020 El Bananero comes back with Radio Garka (subtitled as "Quarentine Edition") though his YouTube channel, making live videos all fridays.
• Character in the Logo: The most recognizable logo is his face from the first video he made officially as El Bananero, which was drawn in monochrome.
• The Chessmaster: The Joker in "Batman vs. El Bananero", honoring his movie version. He manipulates both Batman and El Bananero, and comes very close to destroying them both.
• Christmas Episode: He has various of them, the most notable one is the 2007 one which Santa Claus himself goes to see him just to Literal Ass-Kicking without warning nor explanation for El Bananero during the first half of the video, to be later revealed by Santa as a Restrained Revenge.
  Bananero: (after a shower of X-Mas letters over him) What the fuck is this!?
  Santa: 15 millions of Muñeca System they asked me, you son of thousand bitches! Muñeca System DOESN'T EXIST!
  Bananero: YOU don't exist!
• Cluster F-Bomb: Considering his Toilet Humor and Black Comedy, this is obvious. In fact, like the half of his speech is in F-Bomb, as well his fans write him in the same language (and the same F-Bombs).
• Cool vs. Awesome: El Bananero vs. Batman, or Santa Claus, or Samara, or Tony Montana, or Anonymous, or Facebook, or Justin Bieber, and so on.
• Chroma Key: El Bananero has been one of the pioneers of doing the Chroma Key for Latin American youtubers, getting most of his videos made under a green wall he has in his house to make this effect.
• Cure Your Gays: Inverted. Gaytorade is a drink that turns any man who drinks it gay.
• Easter Special: Has some of them where El Bananero goes after easter eggs, but he's Lured into a Trap by the Easter Bunny who has other plans.
• Extreme Libido / Really Gets Around: El Bananero as character seems obssessed with sex, usually being a porn addict, having his own sex doll all the time as his "girlfriend" and all the time is seen having "hand" games. Also this is seen in other characters he made in Trailerazos as Harry Potter himself and also Bella Swan in his Twilight parody.
• Fake Band: El Bananero made a mockumentary about the story of a fictional rock/cumbia band called as "MegaPanza" that was a kind of mixture of bands like Metallica and Guns N' Roses. He went so far with the mockumentary that even it's dedicated a website with the group here.
  • Previous Player-Character Cameo: After many years of the mockumentary, in 2019 El Bananero had a versus against El Gordo Buzarda (The Beer-Belly Fatso), MegaPanza's leader and vocalist (also made by El Bananero).
• Fartillery: El Bananero, as well various of his characters, are seen farting commonly as well sometimes using it as weapon.
  • A hilarious variant is the "cunt fart" (yes, an Always Female variant) as seen in the Twilight Trailerazo.
• Fat Bastard: El Gordo Buzarda, Megapanza's frontman, is morbidly obese and almost always eating, and he's a total jerk to everyone around him. El Bananero himself usually qualifies too.
• Gag Dub: El Bananero and friends change official dialogs for gag ones, mostly seen in his Trailerazos series but also in his own version of 1983 He-Man series called as "I-Van el Trolazo".
• Gag Penis: Mostly seen when El Bananero himself appears without pants and sometimes when some of the characters of his videos appears, the reason why YouTube censored and closed various channels of him in the past.
• Halloween Episode: He has one in which his Muñeca System tried to kill him.
• Hurricane of Puns: Usually seen in Trailerazos in which the narrator speaks in puns.
• Infomercials: Some of his most known videos are parodies of infomercials. Some of his products:
  • Muñeca System: An inflated sex doll that can make more things that just being used for sex. As the slogan says:
    All the qualities of a woman and none of her disadvantages!
  • Kit MacGyver: Basing on the series's protagonist, it's a multiuse kit that makes almost everything with very few things. Also there's a Creator Cameo of MacGyver himself.
  • Sofa-nático: A sofa made for sports, that has a lot of extra functions apart of being just a sofa.
  • Gas-T-Rico: A Phlebotinum Pills that make your farts (and eventually your shit) smell like air freshener.
  • Gaytorade: A parody of Bottled Cool drinks (specifically Gatorade), in which drinking it will make you a Camp Gay.
• I Ate WHAT?!: After dealing with a supposed Anonyous hacking that turned out to be a prank by Isabel and Arjona, El Bananero enjoys eating a pizza when he receives a video showing the real Anonymous cumming all over the pizza. He decides to give the pizza to Arjona.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In-Universe as well in Real Life (more in the former than the latter). Same can be said about most of his characters. But...
  • Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: ...most of the characters are full blown Jerks. Although some of them do Pet the Dog from time to time.
• The Loins Sleep Tonight: Played for Laughs in the Trailerazo The Impotent Hulk, which parodied the 2008 movie from Marvel Cinematic Universe and even made some crossovers with X-Men Film Series, Fantastic Four (2005) and some of DC Comics characters.^note From movies appears Christopher Reeves (Superman: The Movie) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (Batman & Robin), also some cameos from comic book versions of Wonder Woman, Aquaman and The Flash.
  General "Thunderbolt" Ross: Don't waste shoots in the dick, fuck!
• Lovable Sex Maniac: El Bananero, not just In-Universe, he even has female fans that follow him.
• Mean Character, Nice Actor: Adrián Nario shares many of El Bananero's habits and views, but he's a lot nicer in person, and he claims that his offensive humour is his way to avoid getting depressed.
• The Mentor: Pelo Concha is usually this to El Bananero, as well as being one of the most popular and recurring characters in his videos.
• Mythology Gag:
  • As said in the beginning, his The Ahnold imitations.
  • Morgan Freeman, called as "Pelo Concha"^note lit. "pussy hair", is shown even more badass than he normally does in his movies, interacting in various videos with El Bananero (sometimes being a kind of mentor) and even having his own version of one of Bananero's catchphrases:
    Más bien, viejita
  • Generally all the black manly guys appears with high-pitched voices. In an interview, El Bananero says it's an Affectionate Parody to these type of characters, with few exceptions.
  • El Bananero has a hate against some artists like Thalia and Justin Bieber, and he doesn't hesitate to mock them in various of his videos as a nod instead dedicating some videos, with some exceptions (especially for Bieber, who has some dedicated videos).
    • The latter's last name is misspelled (with a purpose) as "Biebergas"^note Punny Name between Bieber and "verga", one of Latin American names for penis and usually he's shown as a Camp Gay.
  • A Real Life variant is El Bananero being mistaken as Argentinian or Chilean instead Uruguayan.
  • In recent years he was also mistaken with Ricardo Arjona, which also became an Ascended Meme thanks to El Bananero himself who personified him.
• News Parody: Noticiero Bananero, with Sergio Vergara Telechea.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Apart of all the cameos in his Trailerazos series, there's also some other famous people in his videos:
  • In the Noticiero Bananero, Sergio Vergara Telechea makes interviews to various famous personalities, including George W. Bush, Monica Lewinsky, Michael Phelps, Justin Bieber, Joseph Kony, Carlos Tevez and Lionel Messi, as others.
  • As said in Ascended Fanboy, worldwide Libanese pornstar (actually retired) Mia Khalifa appears in various of his videos, not just being mentioned, even acting for some of them. And years later, various famous Latina pornstars made dedicated greetings to El Bananero and their fans.
  • There's a special Noticiero Bananero video called "La vida después del Trailerazo"^note The life after Trailerazo, in which Sergio "interviews" various of the actors from these video series like Alan Rickman, Tobey Maguire, Rupert Grint and Kristen Stewart, as others.
  • One of his first videos was El Bananero interacting with Madonna, as she appeared in one of her 90s movies.
• Ode to Intoxication: There's a parody to Argentinian beer ads made by El Bananero promoting his own beer called as "Cerveza Melorto"^note Beer Metheasshole, which chorus is a Hurricane of Puns.
  Chupar Melorto es lo mejor!^note Suck Metheasshole is the best!
• The Omniscient: El Peluca from "Harry El Sucio Potter" (aka Rubeus Hagrid) has kind of become this, always appearing to different characters to give them advice, usually useless or too late to be of any use, when not helping evil people or just being an asshole. He does have some nice moments doeh.
• Only Known By His Nickname: El Bananero's real name is Adrian Nario, but he prefers to be known just by his nickname.
• Parallel Porn Titles: The Oscar Night video has a few for 2018 movies: Lady Gaga is "Lady Traga" ("Lady Swallows), Bohemian Rhapsody is "Bigotes de Chele: La Historia de Queen" ("Cum Moustache: The Story of Queen"), and Black Panther is "Petera Negra" ("Black Cocksucker).
• Parody Product Placement:
  • His most famous videos and the reason he becomes a referent for Latin American youtubers is thanks to his Infomercials that parody existing products, as well creating new ones, all of them with the "call now" placement. Some of his most famous "products" are Sofa-nático, Kit MacGyver, Gas-T-Rico and Gaytorade.
  • The most notable case of Continuity Nod about the above is Muñeca System, an inflated sex doll that can do a lot of things apart of being just a sex doll which Infomercial became El Bananero's first success. Well, with the time, Muñeca System became his girlfriend (a Yandere one, by the way) and appeared in a lot of videos and even has a dedicated Halloween Episode as the Fetishized Abuser.
  • He also made his own beer, Cerveza Melorto ("Beer Metheasshole"), with a proper ads with an Ode to Intoxication (parody of Argentinian beer ads that use this resource).
• The Pig-Pen: El Bananero rarely bathes, doesn't flush the toilet unless he feels like it, eats from the trash or from the floor, and doesn't even bother with a tissue while masturbating.
• Product Placement:
  • After many years, finally El Bananero have their own merchandising through his website "Comprate Esta", where he sells t-shirts, mugs and caps, all related to El Bananero.
  • Being known as a beer lover, he also made his own beer brand, called as "Japi"^note word game with "pija", Argentinian/Uruguayan name for penis, which has been distributed in various countries like Argentina, Chile, Peru and Mexico.
• Rapid-Fire Comedy: A staple of Bananero videos, as they are rarely longer than 3 minutes.
  • Real Trailer, Fake Movie: If you didn't see the referenced movies in Trailerazo series, you better stay away from them, or you'll remember Bananero's jokes over the movie itself (similar case than Honest Trailers, a kind of Spanish-spoken parallel).
• Self-Deprecation: A big deal of his humour is him making fun of himself. A great example of this is "El Bananero vs. Laura", and the series of "Cartitas Bananeras".
• Sex Miseducation Class: Professor Paul Vazo^note A Punny Name based on "polvazo" or "big polvo", being the word "polvo" (dirt) one of the names in Latin America for having sex, a PE teacher who during a rest of his class "teaches" his students about Sex Ed. It's all Played for Laughs and with the Bananero's own style. Apart of the misdirection of his class, these videos also got a Decade-Themed Filter, being mostly in black and white, like these were recorded in The '60s.
• Shared Universe / The 'Verse: El Bananero lives in the now called UCB/BCU (Universo Cinematográfico Bananero/Bananero´s Cinematic Universe), where all his characters seem to live. This was speculated by fans since years and even the youtuber The Cajuga made CAWs for WWE 2K19, being this finally confirmed by El Bananero himself.
• Soapbox Sadie: Greta Thumberg appears in one video to speak for every trendy social issue and annoy El Bananero about it in his own home.
• Song Parody: Apart of all the videos he made, also he produced original songs Just for Fun.
  • Location Song: Afghanistan, which is also a parody for PSY's Gangnam Style.
  • Crossover: El Bananero also appears in some songs (and music videos) of the Argentinian Song Parody band The Party Band.
  • He then made another crossover with the Uruguayan metal band Asspera, who made the song "El Ganzo"^note "The Goose", which the phrase "jalar el ganso" (pull the goose) is another synonym for masturbation, becoming his greatest hit for 2020 and with a music video made for New Year's Eve.
  • The 2021-2023 opening song for Radio Garka is a song based on the Pet Shop Boys version of "Go West" called "Es Viernes de Radio Garka."^note It's Radio Garka's Friday
• Take That!: He's not afraid to ridicule anyone he hates, mostly singers such as Justin Bieber, Thalia or Bad Bunny. Mia Khalifa is another frequent target of his due to abandoning her porn career (having never done an anal scene throughout).
• Trailer Spoof: The Trailerazo series.
• Vocal Dissonance: Isabel, El Bananero's female cat, speaks with a deep male voice.
• Vulgar Humor: The Sex Comedy and Toilet Humor are the bread and butter of his channel and the reason why he's so famous in Latin America.
• World Tour: His fame is so big that in recent years he's going to every country in Latin America with his character in a tour, being in countries like Peru, Argentina, Chile and his native Uruguay, as others.
• Yandere: In various of his videos in recent years, "Muñeca System", who's actually stated as Bananero's lover instead just a sex doll, seems to be a Psycho Fetishized Abuser, attempting to kill him various times.

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