The friends Trazan Apansson and Banarne live in a
tree house in the jungle with a
trampoline. Trazan is a person based on
Tarzan and Banarne is a
monkey. Generally they have
bananas as food. They often tell stories to each other and discuss figures such as
the Phantom. They also sing songs by
Povel Ramel,
Lennart Hellsing and
Hans Alfredson. Trazan plays
banjo and Banarne plays
guitar. They are also visited a few times by the stunt man
Johan Thorén. They also go on trips to
Toy Museum Stockholm.
Olyckan In 1980 the TV series was produced together with
Swedish Road Administration ("Road Traffic Safety Administration"). Then the character Olyckan ("The Accident") (played by
Ted Åström) appeared. He was a character who liked when Banarne made mistakes while driving, but Trazan told Banarne how to drive carefully without accidents.
Pulver & Nicko Nicko (Klasse Möllberg) and
Pulver (Lasse Åberg) were the title characters of the
sketch series
Pulver & Nicko in the TV series. The sketches take place in the countryside where two dirty and hoarse farmers ask each other riddles and when they hear the answers they fall backwards, laughing. For the New Year's Eve program in 1982 they went to
London,
Paris and
New York.
Rocktajm Besides the music by Trazan and Banarne, there was a musical segment called
Rocktajm where the rock music band
Electric Banana Band appeared. Their songs are based on jungles, bananas,
wild animals and
Tarzan. ==Media==