"Top Banana" has multiple meanings.
- Top Banana is the starring act in a Vaudeville performance. Originally, the phrase "Top Banana" was coined by comedian and Vaudeville Performer Harry Steppe.
- Top Banana (video game) is a computer game.
- Top Banana (Arrested Development episode) is an episode of the TV series Arrested Development.
- Top Banana (Metaphor for a performance of high quality)
- Top Banana (TV-am) was a children's game quiz that aired on the TV-am network in the United Kingdom during the late 1980s, early 1990s.
- Top Banana (musical) was a long-running Broadway play with comedian Phil Silvers. It was later made into a movie with Silvers in 1954.
- Top Banana (film) is a 1954 film made from the play.
- Top Banana Recordings is a house record label created in the early 1990s as an offshoot of Hooj Choons.
- Top Banana is a Jelly Belly brand jelly bean.
- Top Banana (Phnom Penh Guesthouse) is a Guesthouse in Phnom Penh.
- Alpha male: Top Banana is a metaphor for alpha male.
- Top Banana is a weekly club night at University of Warwick Students' Union.
- Top Banana, custom car, winner of the 1969 Ridler
Famous quotes containing the words top and/or banana:
“Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“I never liked bananas much anyway. Two-thirds of the way down even one banana I am willing to concede defeat smilingly and give the rest to the nearest monkey.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)