YMMV / Bananas

• Awesome Music: Marvin Hamlisch, especially the song "Queiro La Noche". The end credits song, "I Believe In Loving", is an Award-Bait Song, later covered by Cliff Richard.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Fielding jokes about studying perversion and being up to "advanced child molestation." He also starts to tell a joke about a farmer who has incestuous relations with his two children, but decides against it. In light of Dylan Farrow's accusations of sexual abuse against Woody Allen, this can be really cringe-inducing.
  • It's a running gag that Nancy doesn't really like Fielding much and that there's "something missing" missing from their relationship. Woody Allen and Louise Lasser were married in real life and divorced shortly after the film was released.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Unless Allen already knew about J. Edgar Hoover's proclivities, the fact that Hoover appears at Fielding's trial played by a Black woman , the excuse given being that he got Disguised in Drag due to having many enemies, certainly qualifies.
  • One of the thugs that harrasses Fielding on the subway is a pre-fame Sylvester Stallone, and at the end of the film, Fielding consummating his marriage with Nancy at their honeymoon is covered by Howard Cossell and Wide World Of Sports like it's a boxing match (a Brick Joke on how the assassination of the Presidente of San Marcos was also covered like a sporting event by Cossell at the beginning of the film). One has to wonder if Sly got the idea of making a film about boxing from it.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Sylvester Stallone, then fresh out of his brief foray in adult films, is one of the thugs on the subway. Of course, everyone who sees the film now instantly recognizes him.
  • Conrad Bain and Charlotte Rae would star together in Diff'rent Strokes, and fellow castmate Mary Jo Catlett would be Mr. Drummond's maid in the fifth season.