39,327
edits
m (Mass update links) |
(update links) |
||
(7 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:
{{quote|''"Over and over and over and over, like a monkey with a miniature cymbal..."''|Hot Chip, "Over and Over".}}
Vests are cool. Cymbals are cool. Monkeys are cool. Toys are cool. [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Combine all four and it should also be cool]], but it's not. In fact, [[Nightmare Fuel|it's so creepy]], that versions of this mechanical monstrosity end up in a lot of sci-fi/horror movies. Kind of the flipside of [[Everything's Better
Can also be used for comedic effect, usually by having the monkey replace a person who is even ''more'' incompetent at the job in question.
Line 13:
== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* Salvage King Masira's ship in ''[[
* One shows up in episode 6 of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' chasing Sora in Toy Town. It later comes after Mimi who destroys it, attracting Monzaemon in the process.
Line 19:
* ''The Devil's Gift'', a film.
** Which is is pretty much a shameless ripoff of ''The Monkey.'' Same concept (someone dies whenever it claps its cymbals) one scene is lifted straight from the story (when it kills the fly) and the ending is pretty much the same. (sealing the monkey away while it tries to take you with it) Except ''The Monkey'' was ''good.''
* ''[[
** When this movie was featured on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', it inspired Pearl to make Professor Bobo dress up as one of these to scare Mike and the 'bots. They weren't impressed.
* This was one of the toys that the aliens woke up in ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''.
Line 25:
* James Dean drunkenly plays with such a toy in the opening credits of ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''.
* In ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' musical and film thereof, the plot kicks off with a bidding war for a music box with a figurine of one of these on top. It originally belonged to the Phantom.
* ''[[
* In ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (
* In ''[[Road To]] Utopia'', when [[Bob Hope]] and [[Bing Crosby]] enter a talent contest, their act follows a man with a cymbal-banging monkey. The monkey wins.
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' has one. {{spoiler|When night falls on Sunnyside Daycare, he sits in the second-floor security office, watching all the screens. If a toy tries to escape, he turns on the center's P.A. system and screeches into it while banging his cymbals. Lotso and crew are on top of the poor toy in moments.}}
** Can also serve as [[Nightmare Retardant]] since {{spoiler|we see him during the end credits in a much more positive light, at the new Sunnyside wearing these giant star glasses and happily swaying to "We Belong Together".}}
*** As defused here: [http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/4838304460_9abd984054_d.jpg\]
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', [[Non-Human Sidekick]] Abu is turned into one of these by [[Big Bad|Jafar]].
* Used in [[Master of Disguise]], before the door to the Nest opens.
Line 37:
* "The Monkey", a [[Stephen King]] short story. In a nutshell, every time it claps its cymbals, someone dies, and the main character and his younger son both describe the feeling of revulsion they have when they see and touch the doll, yet also how they almost ''want'' to wind it up even though they know what will happen when they do.
** The comic adaptation of this by Glenn Chadbourne from ''The Secretary of Dreams'' (Volume Two) also features a cymbal-banging monkey.
* Discussed in Seth Grahame-Smith's ''How to survive a horror movie'', where a cymbal monkey is named as one of the things you should never put in your child's room.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' had a laughing version of one of these while a repairman had his arm torn apart by a garbage disposal.
* The opening sequence of ''Friday the 13th: The Series'' featured one.
* ''[[The Captain And Tenille]]'' [[Variety Show]] in the middle 1970s featured a sketch where Darryl "The Captain" Dragon attempted to play piano with a Cymbal Banging Monkey allegedly named "Kokomo", who actively refused to cooperate.
* Tim finds one of these among a box of old toys in an episode of ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]].''
* Basco ta Jolokia of ''[[
* Inverted on the ''Mythbusters'' December Holiday special when three were used in a Rube Goldberg holiday contraption. They're more comical than scary, plus they're hard to see amongst the rest of the gags.
== [[Music]] ==
* It can be seen in Roxette's video ''Joyride''.
* ''Sliver'' music video by Nirvana
* ''Over and Over'' by Hot Chip.
* Exaggerated in Chris Cunningham's short film ''Monkey Drummer'', which features a monstrous contraption of mechanical parts, human limbs and a chimp's head that drums to the beat of [[Aphex Twin]]'s "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount".
Line 57:
* The 1986 musical ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' features a cymbal-banging monkey as the topper of a music box.
* ''Woyzeck''/''Blood Money'' involves one of these, and even gives it a song ("Misery is the River of the World"). It was voiced by [[Tom Waits]].
* [[BSOD Song|The Bride's Lament]] from ''[[The Drowsy Chaperone]]''
== Real Life ==
* Yes, [
* One of the examples in Tom Igoe's instruction book "Making Things Talk" involves wiring one of these toys up as a [[Awesome Yet Practical|organic vapor warning device.]]
Line 68:
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the Game Boy Advance game ''[[Mario
* ''[[The Longest Journey]]'' has one (Little [[Monkey Island|Guybrush]]) which is used at one point to solve a puzzle.
{{quote|
* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has one as a familiar.
* ''The Betrayal at the House on Haunted Hill'', a fun RPG-board game fusion, has one of these as an artifact.
* At the end of the final level in ''[[
* One of the new [[The Heartless|Heartless]] enemies in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
* A version with a real monkey is in ''[[Escape
* In ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police|Sam & Max Episode 101: Culture Shock]]'', a monkey serves as the form reader for Brady Culture's "Home" for Former Child Stars.
* There's a weapon in ''[[Ratchet and Clank|Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time]]'' called the Chimpinator...if you use it on a robotic enemy, they turn into this.
* Starting with Map Pack 3 in ''[[Call of Duty]] World at War'' through ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops
** The ''Annihilation'' DLC map "Shangri-La" features the return of the Monkey Bomb as the distraction weapon.
* ''[[Okami]]'' has one of the three monkey gods be a cymbal monkey.
Line 87:
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the ''[[
* In the ''[[
* Also, ''[[
* One appeared in ''[[
** "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" has Homer awakened by such a monkey.
* One of Mojo Jojo's minions in ''[[
* The "Let Them Eat Cookies" episode of ''[[
* In a ''[[Teen Titans (
** It's worth note that Beast Boy smashes this monkey against the wall several episodes later.
* In ''[[Static Shock]]'', Static and Gear find themselves facing a giant cymbal-banging monkeybot. ''[[Superman]]'' ends up having to help them out.
* ''[[
* The Toy Monster in ''[[
* One episode of ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy
{{reflist}}
Line 105:
[[Category:Paranormal Tropes]]
[[Category:Toys]]
[[Category:
|