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• The American Tourister luggage ape – a creature who’s almost as hard on your luggage as real baggage handlers.
• Monkees’ “trained chimp” Peter Tork
• Chim-Chim of Speed Racer
• Gleek the purple monkey from Superfriends
• Blip, the masked monkey of the original Space Ghost series
• Gloop, Penny of Lost In Space’s large craniumed monkey-alien
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• Lance Link, Secret Chimp
• Bear, B.J.’s best friend!
• All of Tarzan’s monkeys, in all their forms, particularly Cheetah. Congawah!
• The apes of Gilligan’s Island who somehow always seem to be getting a hold of explosives, keeping the castaways on their toes.
• Curious George – Nothing beats the books!
• Marcel the monkey. He raised the ratings and outshined the combined talent of the cast of Friends. (Not that that’s a real feat!)
• Mr. Stubbs – Toby Tyler’s monkey on the Wonderful World of Disney – had one of the all-time greatest near death scenes. “Please don’t die, Mr. Stubbs! (pout)”
• Quantum Leap had an episode where Sam leaped into the body of a chimp, exploiting Scott Bakula’s already apish demeanor.
• Bingo, the six foot orange monkey drummer for psychedelic rock group the Banana Splits
• The Little Rascals frequently featured a rattish, Outbreak-lookin’ monkey that would get the Gang into all kinds of mischief. Those damn Little Rascals!
• Grape Ape, the Hanna-Barbera gigantic purple ape whose vocabulary consisted entirely of the words “Grape Ape.”
• Magilla Gorilla, another Hanna-Barbera classic, the perennial resident of Mr. Peebles’ pet shop.
• Igoo, giant “rock ape” with super strength on The Herculoids.
• Monkey, subject of many of Dexter’s experiments on Dexter’s Laboratory, who also has a secret identity as the super-heroic secret agent, umm, “Monkey.” n
