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Several times per season, the Santa Cruz Bananas will experience The Blackening, which is a mysterious sickness that affects the entire time and requires the entire bunch of blackened bananas to be replaced with a new, fresh bunch of bananas.

When The Blackening was first discovered by the Bananas in the midst of Pseudo/Season 1, their first season of existence, they initially attempted to keep the phenomenon a secret. However, other teams quickly noticed the effects of The Blackening during matches, and raised awkward questions about the foul stenches and unsightly sores they were seeing appear on Bananas players.

Eventually, the Aptos Investigators did some digging and disclosed the existence of the mysterious affliction. It was also revealed that The Blackening only affected members of the Santa Cruz Bananas , so other teams were safe.