1. a tasty, TASTY treat made with a Banana, ice cream, chocolate, caramel and strawberry toppings or something like them in some semblance of that order, with whipped cream, nut sprinkles, in a special Vessel called a
Banana Boat. Made for eating on hot days in summer, or when the consumer feels crappy and needs victuals for oroesopha-Gastrointestinal comforting...
2. When pluralised, and preceded by the specific 'The', as The Banana Splits,
is a children's cartoon, that defies that description, given the content and the time (Late sixties vintage) that it was made...