Underground, the group find a pile of all the audience members and studio's staff corpses, and that Fleegle and Drooper have been entertaining chained and crying children with violent and gruesome things, such as burning Stevie's dead corpse and brutally ripping Andy's limbs off. Losing her sanity, she puts on the mask and kills Karl as revenge for Thadd's death. Everyone goes down, except for Poppy, who notices the mask of an unused fifth Banana Split named "Hooty" which Karl was building. He doesn't provide any information, but the group hear music coming from a hatch in the floor.
Beth, Austin, Paige and Poppy arrive at the backstage to ask Karl how to stop the Banana Splits. Harley attempts to convince him to help them, and Snorky redeems himself. While looking for a way out, Harley, Zoe and Parker come across Snorky. At the same time, Rebecca and Jonathan are captured by Fleegle and Drooper, who force them to participate in an obstacle course from the show to escape, but when they reach the end, they are killed by Fleegle and Drooper. In her office, Paige discovers that all phones have been destroyed. Drooper comes dragging Bingo, causing Karl to get distracted the kids are able to escape and lock him in his own cell while fleeing. Backstage, Harley, Zoe and Parker meet Karl, the man responsible for the Banana Splits' creation, and beg him to let them out. After that, they find Poppy sobbing over Thadd's death, and tell her to join them. While Beth and Austin are looking for the kids, Austin gets attacked by Bingo, but Beth manages to defeat him. When he tries to do the same with Poppy, he hears Harley and Zoe trying to find Snorky and takes them to the backstage where the characters were built, trapping them with aspiring young performer Parker, who was kidnapped by Bingo after Drooper burned her father Jonathan's face when they were searching for Rebecca and Andy for an audition.īeth, her older son Austin, Paige the page, and Rebecca learn about the Banana Splits' carnage when they find a seriously injured Jonathan. Meanwhile, super fans Thadd and Poppy explore around the studio and happily get engaged, but Fleegle murders Thadd, sawing him in half. Snorky afterwards chases and runs over Mitch with one of the Banana Buggies. Outside the studio, Harley's mother Beth learns that her husband Mitch has been cheating on her with his secretary, Kara. The characters' settings go haywire, with Bingo kidnapping Andy, and Drooper stabbing a lollipop into Stevie's throat, killing him. A drunk Stevie tells the Banana Splits while revealing his hatred for them. For his birthday, Harley goes with his family and friends to a live taping of the show.Īndy, the new vice president of programming, informs the show's producer Rebecca that the show is being canceled: this will be the final recording.
Harley Williams is a huge fan of The Banana Splits, a successful children's television series featuring four animatronic characters - Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky - and their co-star Stevie. As the body count quickly rises, Harley, his mom, and their new pals must escape from the Splits, or be their audience. Delbert Grady has appeared in all three versions of The Shining story including the novel, the feature film and the television miniseries.A boy and his family attend a taping of The Banana Splits Show, unaware that the animatronic rock band has just learned that their show is about to be canceled, and they don’t plan to let that happen.However, there is an omnipresent air of menace in his tone despite never raising his voice. In the 1980 film, Delbert Grady is presented as very prim and proper with very clipped and deliberate dialogue.In the 1997 mini-series, Delbert Grady was played by actor Stanley Anderson.The character of Delbert Grady was created by author Stephen King.
It encountered Jack Torrance in the men's washroom and encouraged him to "correct" his wife and child, in much the same way that he had "corrected" his own family. The ghost of Delbert Grady remained at the hotel for many years. He was succeeded as caretaker of the Overlook first by Bill Watson, and then by Jack Torrance. The isolation drove him mad and he butchered his wife and two young daughters with an axe before committing suicide by putting a shotgun in his mouth. Delbert Grady was the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel during the winter of 1970- 1971.