Buckeroo Banzai Sammy

In order to understand what is happening in my son's clip of Sammy, I posted a "Banzai" cry, heard by Imperial Forces during the Second World War. My father-in-law and my wife's uncles would never have seen any humor in this.

They lost a brother in the Pacific Theater. Ann's Uncle Fred was a prisoner of war. During transfer to another location, Fred was on a transport ship with other American prisoners. He went below deck briefly, and while gone, an American torpedo hit the ship. It sank.

You never mentioned buying Japanese electronics, cars or watches in my wife's family, so I know how they would have felt to see this first clip. I may delete it later--especially if no one needs it to understand what Sammy is doing.

During the time that Cles and my daughter-in-law Leslie were with Jeff, Lydia and the kids for a visit, they watched a war movie. Between the gunfire and explosions, Cles told me that Sammy started to scream and put her hands in the air.

Cles asked Lydia if the movie was scaring Sammy. Lydia wasn't sure. I guess they paused the film, and Cles tried something.

"Banzai!" he said loudly with both arms in the air. Sammy did the same thing and made the identical scream she did earlier. She only imitated what she saw in the movie. Cles laughed about how cute it was.

For the time after the film, Cles would either do the cry, or he had Anna play something from his cell phone that reminded Sammy of the same thing.


Cles also made a clip of Anna and Sammy at Disney World.