"My Gym Partner's a Monkey" (2005) TV series 2005-????

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Creators:

Tim Cahill
Julie McNally Cahill

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

September 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family

Tagline:

You think your school is a zoo?

Plot:

A clerical error sends 12-year-old Adam Lyon to a middle school for zoo animals, but his best friend, Jake the Monkey, is standing by him every step of the way to help him adjust.

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 4 nominations

Cast

Tom Kenny	...	Jake Spidermonkey / ... (45 episodes, 2005-2008)
Nika Futterman	...	Adam / ... (44 episodes, 2006-2008)
Grey DeLisle	...	Lupe / ... (23 episodes, 2006-2008)
Maurice LaMarche	...	Principal Pixiefrog / ... (23 episodes, 2006-2008)
Rick Gomez	...	Slips / ... (22 episodes, 2006-2008)

Runtime:

USA:22 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-Y7 | Australia:G | New Zealand:G

Company:

Cartoon Network

Trivia:

The series regularly makes use of the same score used in "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (2000).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the theme song, during the error in typing Adam's last name, a bunch of keys are typed. However, only eight letters, Adam's name, come up.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Robot Chicken: Boo Cocky (#3.16)" (2008)

The theme got to me mama

There are two things that go through my mind when I watch My Gym Partner's a Monkey: 1) It is a cartoon 2) Comedy. I suspect if I were living in some bizzaro cartoon universe, anything is possible i.e. my jaw dropping to the ground, and my tongue dragging on the floor.

Back to the cartoon itself. As Jake's last name is Lion; subsequently he is shifted from a human school to an animal school. Basically Charles Darwin School is used to educate young animals. Again, this scenario could be possible in a cartoon universe. Jake Spider-Monkey and Adam Lion are best friends, and they get up to all sorts of stuff. One of my favorite episodes is, when the animals from Charles Darwin School, stayed at Adam's house for the night.

For a cartoon that has been produced on the cheap, I like it, because it is funny. If you want realism, well go and watch Nat Geo, or Discovery. It is a cartoon, Jake Spider-Monkey and Adam Lion can do anything they want, ranging from a talking Spider-Monkey, to being transferred to an animal school.

Nevertheless, my Gym Partner's a Monkey, could be a metaphor for school. Looking back at my youth, there is one place that could come close to a zoo, and that is high school, as the kids are out of control, and all the students are tearing each other to bits.

I have to give the my Gym Partner's a Monkey 8/10. That theme song is going to haunt me, until the day I die.