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== the riginal series ==
* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Shep, the elephant.
* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: Shep, the elephant.
* [[A Dog Named "Dog"|An Ape Named "Ape"]]
* [[A Dog Named "Dog"|An Ape Named "Ape"]]
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** Since Ursula is an expy of [[Tarzan|Jane]], well . . .
** Since Ursula is an expy of [[Tarzan|Jane]], well . . .
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: George and Ursula.
* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: George and Ursula.
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* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: The three guides in the movie. While the three tour guides worked for Lyle, they aren't really bad guys. The only target of their ridicule is Lyle and all they do is insult and troll him in Swahili even though they can understand and speak English. During a prank gone wrong, they swap Lyle's novelty lighter gun for a real revolver and in an attempt to scare him away Lyle points the gun at George and Ape in an attempt to intimidate them. George gets shot and Lyle is arrested. Who points him out at the line-up, the three guys. Both because they hate Lyle and because their previous stunt almost got an innocent man killed.
* [[Flat Joy]]: A running gag from the "Tom Slick" interstial shorts:
* [[Flat Joy]]: A running gag from the "Tom Slick" interstial shorts:
{{quote|Announcer: And the crowd goes wild!
{{quote|Announcer: And the crowd goes wild!
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* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: Few animated series theme songs use words like "schlep" (literally, to drag along or carry something heavy) in their lyrics.
* [[Yiddish as a Second Language]]: Few animated series theme songs use words like "schlep" (literally, to drag along or carry something heavy) in their lyrics.


=== The 2008 series provides examples of: ===
=== one of the movies ===
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* [[Everyone Has Standards]]: The three guides in the movie. While the three tour guides worked for Lyle, they aren't really bad guys. The only target of their ridicule is Lyle and all they do is insult and troll him in Swahili even though they can understand and speak English. During a prank gone wrong, they swap Lyle's novelty lighter gun for a real revolver and in an attempt to scare him away Lyle points the gun at George and Ape in an attempt to intimidate them. George gets shot and Lyle is arrested. Who points him out at the line-up, the three guys. Both because they hate Lyle and because their previous stunt almost got an innocent man killed.

=== The 2008 series ===
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Ursula. By the sound of her dad's accent, she could be Latino.
* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Ursula. By the sound of her dad's accent, she could be Latino.
* Balloon Belly: George, Ape, Ursula, Magnolia, and Tookie Wookie, in episode 13.
* Balloon Belly: George, Ape, Ursula, Magnolia, and Tookie Wookie, in episode 13.

Latest revision as of 14:35, 5 October 2023

"Watch Out for That Tree!"

A series from the 1960s, which spawned a movie adaptation. Produced by Jay Ward of Rocky and Bullwinkle fame (the series, not the movie). George of the Jungle was an Animated Anthology, combining the George of the Jungle cartoons with Super Chicken and Tom Slick.

All three segments were full of the Post Modernism, No Fourth Wall, and satire that characterized Jay Ward's work. This series lasted only 17 episodes (1967), but has been rerun on various TV stations almost continuously for just over 40 years. The series has also earned a complete-series DVD release.

The George of the Jungle cartoons were a send-up of the Tarzan mythos. Square-jawed, dim-witted George was the king of the jungle. Almost every time he tried to swing to the rescue through the trees, he'd crash into one, usually while someone else was warning him, "Watch out for that..." WHAM! "...tree!". Not that unrealistic when you're swinging on a vine attached to said tree.

His wife, Ursula, was necessarily smarter and more refined. George would often refer to Ursula as a "fella", apparently having trouble with the whole gender thing.

George's elephant, Shep, was thought by George to be a giant dog, and apparently Shep believed it, too. The real brains of the outfit resided in the skull of an ape named Ape. He had an implausible Ronald Colman accent and was exceptionally well-read.

This cartoon earned a feature film Live Action Adaptation in 1997, with Brendan Fraser as George and Leslie Mann as Ursula. There was also a direct-to-video sequel in 2003, which had Christopher Showerman as George and Julie Benz as Ursula. ("Me new George. Studio too cheap to hire Brendan Fraser.") A second animated series premiered on Cartoon Network in 2008.

"Weird Al" Yankovic did a cover version of the George of the Jungle theme on his 1985 album Dare to Be Stupid. The Presidents of the United States of America performed it for the soundtrack of the 1997 live-action film.

George of the Jungle is the Trope Namer for:
Tropes used in George of the Jungle include:

the riginal series

Announcer: And the crowd goes wild!
Crowd: Yay.

one of the movies

  • Everyone Has Standards: The three guides in the movie. While the three tour guides worked for Lyle, they aren't really bad guys. The only target of their ridicule is Lyle and all they do is insult and troll him in Swahili even though they can understand and speak English. During a prank gone wrong, they swap Lyle's novelty lighter gun for a real revolver and in an attempt to scare him away Lyle points the gun at George and Ape in an attempt to intimidate them. George gets shot and Lyle is arrested. Who points him out at the line-up, the three guys. Both because they hate Lyle and because their previous stunt almost got an innocent man killed.

The 2008 series

Ape: You've really got control of these animals, do you George?
George: Yes. Thank you for noticing.

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