The sound comes from the Minions, the banana obsessed sidekicks introduced in Despicable Me in 2010 and later headlining their own films. Voiced largely by co-director Pierre Coffin in a made up mix of languages, the characters treat bananas as a running gag, chanting the word whenever one appears. Clips of the chant were ripped to soundboards and short video edits in the 2010s, where the single recognisable word made it easy to reuse for food reveals, cravings and silly celebrations far beyond the films.