Don't tell me you've never heard the Peanut Butter Jelly Time song with the dancing flash banana. It's all over the Internet, my cloistered friend.

At least once a day on Petros Papadakis' afternoon show on 1540-AM radio show, the pulsating beat of "Peanut Butter Jelly With A Baseball Bat" rocks the airwaves.

It's origins? It's from a recording by The Buckwheat Boys and was first heard on the TV show "Ed," then "The Proud Family," then "The Family Guy," supposedly a riff off an old song from "Sesame Street." Some of the history of this Internet phenomenon actually chronicled at the Wikipedia.com site.

The lyrics:
It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Peanut Butter Jelly Time
Where he at
Where he at
Where he at
Where he at
There he go
There he go
There he go
There he go
Peanut butter jelly
Peanut butter jelly
Peanut butter jelly
Peanut butter jelly
Do the peanut butter jelly, peanut butter jelly, peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat
Peanut butter jelly, peanut butter jelly, peanut butter jelly with a baseball bat....

So when a couple dozen college-aged kids wearing brown T-shirts with the words "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" in purple letters came staggering between the security guards and the metal bleachers at the main stadium next to the Hermosa Beach pier, singing the ditty at the top of their lungs (with the help of a bullhorn and portable stereo), raging like they were at some South Bay pick-up bar and shaking it every which way, everyone in the stands couldn't help but start pulling for Stolfus and Wachtfogel -- even if half the crowd couldn't pronounce their name. And neither name fit on the stadium scoreboard.

After losing the first set 17-21 to the 6-foot-9 giraffe Dalhauser and the tenacious 6-2 Rogers, Wachtfogel and Stolfus could have folded up. This team, together only this season, had a third-place finish in Santa Barbara last week, but still, hardly anyone expected them to KO the beach's current giants.

But the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" crew wouldn't have any of it.

Wachtfogel and Stolfus battled back to win the second game 30-28 (it's first to 21, win by two). Then in a decisive third game that's supposed to be to 15, they endured a 19-17 win -- it ended with the two of them diving into the crowd of supporters, and Wachtfogel getting a jar of jelly smeared across his back.

"When we come down to play at the beach, we always bring out boom boxes and play that song," explained Wachtfogel (above), a Redondo Beach native and Hermosa resident who probably counts half that crowd as friends. "Whenever we're losing, they play that song, and we always get three points in a row."

"I swear if we didn't have them, we'd be done," said Stolfus (above). "They're worth 150 points."

On a day when giants like Karch Kiraly, Dax Holdren, George Roumain, Dain Blanton, Eric Fonoimoana and Jose Loiola had already been knocked out, Stolfus and Wachtfogel were still standing.

During the match, I had to lob a cellphone call to Petros to see if he'd ever heard of these volleyball players who've been pumped up by the song he's been so tied into. Petros said he hadn't but was interested in having them on his radio show ASAP. Remember, Petros' show moves from 4-to-7 p.m. on Monday in the new 1540-AM lineup.

Looking for something to do Sunday? Grab some peanut butter, jelly and join the party in Hermosa -- and get there early. Stolfus and Wachtfogel face studs (and fifth-seeded) Matt Fuerbringer and Casey Jennings at 8:30 a.m. Or watch both the women's (at 3 p.m.) and men's (at 4:30 p.m.) finals live on FSN Prime Ticket, or via live videostream at the AVP's Website.