Everything's Better with Monkeys: Difference between revisions

This trope is named for [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502182413/http://www.superdickery.com/index.php?view=category&id=31%3Amonkeys-index&option=com_content&Itemid=34 this] [[Super Dickery]].com subpage. And yes, we know it ought to be "Everything's Better With Non-Human Primates" too. After all, everything's also better with ''apes'', who are technically not monkeys. The difference is actually very simple - Monkeys have tails, while apes (including chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans) don't. [[Rule of Funny|On the other hand the word "monkey" is simply funnier]] (unless you're adressing a certain [[Discworld|librarian]]...)

The actual editor of the site explains [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502182050/http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=31%3Amonkeys-index&id=621%3Aworst-contest-prize-ever&option=com_content&Itemid=24 here] how untrue this trope is. Speaking from personal experience, "Monkeys are not cute in real life, they are ''evil'' little bastards. On top of that, they carry the Hepatitis B virus." (And HIV came from a virus in monkeys called SIV.) In fiction, baboons are often used if Everything Is ''Worse'' With Monkeys, probably because they're on the large size for primates and are more than willing to display their formidable canine teeth on camera. Gorillas can work either way, because everybody knows gorillas are [[Badass]], so it depends on whether the gorilla in question is good or evil.

* A scene of ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' has Mutt Williams getting stuck in a tree, and being discovered by monkeys that due to having the same "hair" as his, decide to show Mutt vine-swinging and then help him attack the [[Dirty Communists]]. Opinions were divided between "it's stupid" ("[https://web.archive.org/web/20131101213429/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/reviewsnews.php?id=45198 I used to joke that you could make any movie better by adding monkeys or explosions to it. I take back the part about the monkeys.]") and "it's fun" ("[https://web.archive.org/web/20130310214431/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20080518%2FREVIEWS%2F969461084 What I want is goofy action--lots of it. (...) And throw in lots of monkeys.]").