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Answer 1

'Banana' comes from burlesque, c. 1920s; 'Banana' is a comedian, 'top banana' as main comic and 'second banana' as straight man. To 'go bananas' is for an unsuccessful act; dogs, dancers, etc. to convert to a comic act, usually slapstick, badly underrehearsed and desperate.

Answer 2

(idiomatic) To go mad

I just told her that she couldn't have any pudding until she'd finished her main course, and she went bananas!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_bananas

Sl. to go mildly crazy.

Sorry, I just went bananas for a minute. I thought he was going to go bananas.

to become very angry

She'll go bananas if she sees the room in this state.

to become very emotional

I just went bananas when she told me she wanted to move out.

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/go+bananas

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