wait remember my gym partner's a monkey it was a cartoon network animated series that ran for
a total of 96 episodes over four seasons and we ain't talking about no hotels around here
in fact we were talking about a school one filled all with talking animals and a human
kid whose last name is the name of an animal so i've been working on this video for a while and
it's funny to see recently how many people have been requesting this video so for today we're
going to take a look at my gym partners a monkey for our wait remember series learn all about it
what happened to it with the addition of my jordan cringy humor you're welcome or
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my gym partner's a monkey was an episodic style show that focused on adam lyon spelt l-y-o-n a
human middle schooler who due to a clerical error where they misspell his last name as l-i-o-n
is transferred to charles darwin middle school a school for anthropomorphic animals
charles darwin middle school is named after famed naturalist charles darwin who developed darwinism
during gym class on the first day of his new school twelve-year-old adam is partnered with
can you guess that's right a monkey monkey whose name is jake the pair quickly become best friends
despite one being a human boy and one being a spider monkey and a red t-shirt and a baseball
cap jake's spider monkey is goofy immature and emotional but also loving funny and occasionally
sensible quickly in the series jake becomes fairly possessive of adam often getting upset when he's
not around for a long time or even a bit where he mistakes adam for thinking someone is cooler
than him along with jake adam befriends a number of other animals at charles darwin middle school
including guadalupe or lupe a sassy toucan who puts herself and wants first before anything else
ingrid a giraffe with a crush on adam who is best friends with lupe windsor an intelligent monotone
gorilla and slips a carefree street smart green tree python episodes focus on atoms day-to-day at
charles darwin middle school and his inability to fit in with his animal classmates due to you know
being a human and whatnot adam longs for his old human school where he doesn't have to take
classes that are only applicable to animals or do things like spending his lunch hour running
away from dangerous predator classmates like virgil the bull shark who goes by bull and is
not just to play on him being a bull shark but also him being a bully my gym partners a monkey
first aired in 2005 as a sneak peek part of cartoon network's sneak peek week other shows
there that were hinted at during the time include ben 10 robot boy and zix maybe we take a look at
those shows in the future as well my gym partner is a monkey officially ran on cartoon network from
december 26 2005 to july 27 2008. coming up next it's my gym partners a monkey on cartoon network
the series was created by tim cahill and his wife julie mcnally cahill for cartoon network
as a group project tim and julie are writers directors animators and producers that have worked
together on numerous projects including the 2012 littlest pet shop show crypto the superdog and
several others ah man i haven't watched crypto the superdog in forever and with the new super pets
movie coming out with dwayne the fortnite johnson maybe i should revisit that series sometime soon
as well my gym partner's a monkey was produced by serum animation an animation studio located
in seoul south korea serum animation has also done the animation for such shows as adventure
time regular show and the marvelous misadventures of flapjack all for cartoon network speaking of
the marvelous misadventures of flapjack a video on that really soon i know a lot of you keep
commenting about it it's coming i promise when tim and julie first pitched the show to cartoon
network they pitched it under the title the zoo which was eventually changed at some point in the
development process to the more comedic title my gym partners a monkey it definitely stands
out more and makes you question what you just read the general concept and roster of characters were
kept pretty consistent during the development process bearing a small few tweaks and physical
appearances in 2007 my gym partners a monkey won an emmy award for outstanding individual
achievement and animation and was also nominated for two other emmy awards and two annie awards
over its run winning the emmy though for its television movie two-part special the big field
trip which saw the student band thanks to adam become stranded in the wilderness after the bus
breaks down which you would think is okay the animals are animals right well apparently not
because they are afraid of the wilderness and the wild animals my gym partners and monkey
consistently received quite a bit of criticism online throughout its run for its consistent
use of butt jokes literally particularly about jake's butt which are implants that
info wasn't necessary that was jake's secret but here we are the criticism became a running joke
in the series such as in the episode animal school musical where jake makes a whole song completely
about the love of his butt which was just a way for the show to kind of get back at people online
who were commenting about the show being too butt heavy with the jokes in other episodes it would be
referenced as well even citing angry internet bloggers to critique the amount of butt jokes
i find it offensive the show itself was never one of my favorites by any means but i always
found myself watching it sure it falls under some of the annoying box checks it's loud and yelly a
lot but i liked the setting a weird fish out of water situation mixed with anthropomorphic animal
just like me when i go to the rainforest cafe to get some chicken nuggets while the official
final episode of my gym partners a monkey aired on july 27 2008 due to some poor pre-planning
in regards to episode release scheduling the second to last episode didn't actually premiere
until november 27 2008 months after the series had officially wrapped which always blows my mind how
so many shows because of the network's planning get their episodes shifted around and released
in orders that seemingly make you scratch your head in confusion like a monkey then i guess it
does make sense here then i mean not really but in that example sense sure one speculation about why
this may have occurred is due to that second to last episode being a thanksgiving episode
titled a thanksgiving carol where adam is visited by three ghosts of thanksgiving
past present and future to learn why all of his animal classmates hate thanksgiving so much
so maybe the network decided to delay the release of the episode until closer to the holiday in real
life which if that is the case okay fine here's your free pass to do so but never again my gym
partner's a monkey a whole zoo world serves as the series finale in a whole zoo world adam's first
year at his all-animal school is wrapping up for the summer and adam is excited to spend this time
with actual people again before returning to his animal school in the fall adam decided to use what
he had learned over the last year by getting a job internship as a zookeeper at the local zoo all of
his animal friends live in a position he soon learns is resented by the animals there because
of the overbearing prison guard-like nature of zookeepers to the animals adam begins to work on
reconciling the tension between the zookeepers and the animals by treating the animals better
and allowing them more freedom using skills he had gained at the school thankful to adam for all of
his hard work the animals throw him a surprise party and adam realized that no matter where he
gets his education as long as he works hard he can achieve anything a nice and fitting way to wrap
up the series my gym partner's a monkey was not cancelled for any particular reason in fact it
was more of the creators and executives just feeling that it was time for the show to rap not
every show can get to this point though so it's nice to see the show ending on the own terms of
the creators at a natural point that felt right to do so and not just a hasty network decision
four years after the cancellation occurred and the show had officially wrapped karch network
began to air reruns of my gym partners a monkey as part of the cartoon planet cartoon block cartoon
planet was a 60 minute cartoon programming block on cartoon network that showcased old cartoons
from a few years before kind of like my channel now oh gosh is that all my channel is anyway
nah hold on i need a quick break to examine this internal crisis now it's my gym partner's a monkey
then it's the cartoon cartoon show on cartoon network
cartoon cartoons will be right back on cartoon network okay i've come to terms with it i love
what i create and i love discussing them so we good since their original airing two episodes
of my gym partners the monkey have been banned and pulled from rotation the first banned episode was
amazon kevin a season one episode that featured a parody of steve irwin after the zookeeper's tragic
death the second banned episode was the butt of the jake after its second airing executives
decided that the episode was too crude having jokes about jake's butt that in their opinion
went too far there was also an interesting story with the start of all this as well specifically
the original pilots in 2003 and 2004 before the show came to be in 2005. the first pilot holds
the early designs of the characters depicting what the theme song sings about and the other
pilot titled a troubled lion which actually showcased their final design both pilots are
kind of considered lost media now as they are not a part of season one in any way with only
bits segments and pictures existing out there oddly like i mentioned earlier the show was
just all right in my opinion neither loving it or outright hating it the concept is fun and in
hindsight it's just a show about chum chum and his friend spongebob voice acting wise but it
definitely had that mixed energy of both in a way it was an easy show to sit through nothing that
would drive you crazy but nothing that really pushes you to keep watching more and more the
characters fall into that one-dimensional category for the most part where the shtick
you get from the beginning is the same shtick you get by the end to be fair for most cartoons
this is a normal thing and i don't fault it in a bad way for that i just don't find that
attachment i do in other cartoons that flesh out their characters a bit more i like to use
the term of background noise for this type of show if i have something to do or i am falling
asleep this show playing in the background works perfectly but that's just me what about you how
do you feel about my gym partner as a monkey do you enjoy it let me know in the comments thanks
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