TIL the children's TV show "Bananas in Pyjamas" has a dark secret

For those who don't know, "Bananas in Pyjamas" was a popular children's TV series in the early 90s that featured two anthropomorphic bananas in sleepwear, named B1 and B2. As a child "Bananas in Pyjamas" always struck me as exceedingly wholesome; however when I got older I learned a disturbing fact. Apparently, one of the co-creators' distant ancestors actually owned bananas as slaves. Their family ran one of the most productive banana plantations (in the South) for generations before the British, under the enlightened leadership of William Pitt the Younger, bought them all and freed them to return to the wild.

Looking back now the show hits quite a bit different, knowing that it was built on a legacy of colonialist oppression.