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Captain Simian And The Space Monkeys
a year ago
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Never mind the cheesy title--if you aren't watching this series, you should be!
My husband's brother Jim--who was a keen animation enthusiast, who collected cell art--used to enjoy this series, so when my husband saw that it was available on Tubi, we started watching it. (It's also available on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcJCJ-MtpF8&list=PL2WSRXiO50er1j1CaIQqxof-9vEsjgsJR
The animation is excellent, the character designs are imaginative, the scriptwriting is top notch, the music is wonderful, the voice acting is spot on, and the puns are multitudinous, fast, and dreadfully funny. If you're any kind of sci-fi nerd, you will be splitting your sides at all the in-jokes and references.
This is a series that keeps getting better. I can't think of a bad episode, and we're halfway through the season. That may be the one bad thing about the show--it has only 26 episodes.
The basic plot is that a NASA test chimp in a space capsule went off course, and was frozen into suspended animation due to an internal accident. A long time later, the chimp was rescued by hyperintelligent beings who uplifted him and charged him with protecting the universe from a half-human, half-black-hole megalomaniac named Nebula, and Nebula's cybernetic henchman, Rhesus 2. To aid Charlie Simian in his mission, four other monkeys were wormholed in from Earth and uplifted--clever Spydor the spider monkey, hulking Gor the gorilla (who didn't get a full dose of the uplift process because he broke the device in a rage), wise Shao Lin the Chinese Golden Monkey (yes, a Shaolin Monk...ey), and schitzophrenic but brilliant orangutan, Dr. Splitzy, who shifts between being a calm genius and a redneck grease monkey. (This shifting is the one thing that bugs me.)
They also have an Orbitron supercomputer, but because it got damaged, it rarely makes sense, and sounds like John Cleese.
The show incorporates a lot of real monkey behavior. They use all four of their hands, they run on all fours, swing from the piping in their ship, and crave the difficult-to-obtain bananas.
The writing team includes DC Fontana and Nick Sagan (Carl Sagan's son.) It was developed by Gordon Bressack and directed most of the time by Bradley Rader. The voice cast includes Jerry Doyle, Maurice Lamarche, James Avery, Michael Dorn, Malcolm McDowell, Frank Welker, Karen Maruyama, Dom Irrera, and Jeff Bennett, who does amazing impressions of celebrities as the voices of the red-shirt Holoboons.
This is anthro animation at its finest and most intelligent incarnation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capta....._Space_Monkeys
My husband's brother Jim--who was a keen animation enthusiast, who collected cell art--used to enjoy this series, so when my husband saw that it was available on Tubi, we started watching it. (It's also available on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcJCJ-MtpF8&list=PL2WSRXiO50er1j1CaIQqxof-9vEsjgsJR
The animation is excellent, the character designs are imaginative, the scriptwriting is top notch, the music is wonderful, the voice acting is spot on, and the puns are multitudinous, fast, and dreadfully funny. If you're any kind of sci-fi nerd, you will be splitting your sides at all the in-jokes and references.
This is a series that keeps getting better. I can't think of a bad episode, and we're halfway through the season. That may be the one bad thing about the show--it has only 26 episodes.
The basic plot is that a NASA test chimp in a space capsule went off course, and was frozen into suspended animation due to an internal accident. A long time later, the chimp was rescued by hyperintelligent beings who uplifted him and charged him with protecting the universe from a half-human, half-black-hole megalomaniac named Nebula, and Nebula's cybernetic henchman, Rhesus 2. To aid Charlie Simian in his mission, four other monkeys were wormholed in from Earth and uplifted--clever Spydor the spider monkey, hulking Gor the gorilla (who didn't get a full dose of the uplift process because he broke the device in a rage), wise Shao Lin the Chinese Golden Monkey (yes, a Shaolin Monk...ey), and schitzophrenic but brilliant orangutan, Dr. Splitzy, who shifts between being a calm genius and a redneck grease monkey. (This shifting is the one thing that bugs me.)
They also have an Orbitron supercomputer, but because it got damaged, it rarely makes sense, and sounds like John Cleese.
The show incorporates a lot of real monkey behavior. They use all four of their hands, they run on all fours, swing from the piping in their ship, and crave the difficult-to-obtain bananas.
The writing team includes DC Fontana and Nick Sagan (Carl Sagan's son.) It was developed by Gordon Bressack and directed most of the time by Bradley Rader. The voice cast includes Jerry Doyle, Maurice Lamarche, James Avery, Michael Dorn, Malcolm McDowell, Frank Welker, Karen Maruyama, Dom Irrera, and Jeff Bennett, who does amazing impressions of celebrities as the voices of the red-shirt Holoboons.
This is anthro animation at its finest and most intelligent incarnation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capta....._Space_Monkeys
Vix
The cyborg character is voiced by Malcolm McDowell. He was damaged and Dr. Splitzy put him back together. Captain Simian asked Splitzy if Rhesus 2 was repaired. "Like clockwork," said Splitzy, then offered Simian an "Orange?"
In a previous episode, the insectoid aliens made sounds like the ants from THEM.
The hard-light hologram Holoboons rebelled, and were led by a character who sounded like Captain Kirk. The Holoboons are the sacrificial "redshirts" of the series.
The Orbitron got whalloped and staggered around singing "Daisy."
This show makes references from Jack Benny to Rocky and Bullwinkle and everything in between--and beyond; one Holoboon voice was Jerry Seinfeld, another was Cliff Clavin from "Cheers."
Of course it may Not have ended, the channel may have just discontinued showing it...
I don't know how long it could have gone on, probably not as long as "The Simpsons," but at least another season.
Quality like this is hard to maintain for a long time...
They also never kill living things, they only shoot drones or Holoboons or robots. They use stunners otherwise.
cause i seen it as a kid.
It's like how you can't really appreciate Looney Tunes--which were made to be seen by adults in the movie theatre--until you grow up and learn who people like Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre are.
He doesn't even have his own Wikipedia article!
not even actually, they refer to a different chimp named Zippy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_.....ndividual_apes
It comes fairly late in the series. The animation on the water and waves is impressive, but the plot and some of the plot devices are stupid.
And yes, they surf.
no...
not that memory!
no!
NOOOOO!!!!!"