Line #66 WesternAnimation/RocketMonkeys


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} It's monkeys in space.]] [[TemptingFate What could possibly go wrong?]]]]
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4	->The Rocket Monkeys\
5	They're monkeys in space!\
6	They try to be heroes\
7	But they're easy to replace!
8	-->--The first lines of the show's theme tune
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10	''Rocket Monkeys'' is a Canadian animated television series produced by Creator/BreakthroughEntertainment (the same studio that created ''WesternAnimation/AtomicBetty'', ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'', and ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'') and animated by Creator/AtomicCartoons (who also animated ''Atomic Betty'' and ''Captain Flamingo''). Created by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson, the show ran from 2013 to 2016 with a total of 65 episodes over 3 seasons.
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12	The show centers around dimwitted simian brothers Gus and Wally, who are members of [[FunWithAcronyms GASI]] (Galactic Animal Space Institute), an organization of animal astronauts focused on interplanetary exploration. The brothers possess an [[TooDumbToLive astounding lack of intelligence and skill]], but when all the good GASI teams are unavailable, Gus and Wally are usually the ones who end up saddled with whatever life-threatening space missions their boss Dr. Chimpsky needs completed. Thus, the pair travel through space on their makeshift rocket with their loyal if beleaguered RobotBuddy YAY-OK, encountering various strange lifeforms and worlds, as well as dealing with the occasional galactic evildoer. But Gus and Wally, being the incompetents they are, always find a way to screw things up, and as a result, have to clean up their own messes wherever they go.
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14	The show first aired on Creator/{{Teletoon}} in Canada on January 10, 2013, then aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} in the United States in February and in the United Kingdom and Ireland in April. While Nickelodeon in the U.S [[ScrewedByTheNetwork would only air the first season]], Creator/{{KidsClick}} began airing the remaining two seasons on July 3, 2017.
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17	!!This animated series provides examples of:
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19	* AccidentalMisnaming: The Rocket Monkeys often call Lord Peel "Banana Man".
20	* AgeLift: Wally has the voice of a child in the 2008 version, in the official cartoon he doesn't seem to be much younger than Gus.
21	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: The Space Gorillas compared to the Rocket Monkeys.
22	* AmbiguouslyBi: Gus and Wally both have feelings for Monkevil, and often Gus flirts with other women. However in "Always a Monkey Never a Bride", while Gus and Wally try to help Monkevil get away from her fiance Bazz to win her heart, Gus gets jealous when Bazz falls in love with Wally in disguise and the two fight over ''him''.
23	* ApologisesALot: In every episode where Gus is a jerk to Wally he apologises at the end each time.
24	* ArchnemesisDad: YAY-OK's father seems to care for his son, but cares about destroying anything that moves more.
25	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Zombie Bananas", when Wally and Gus are attacked by Lord Peel's zombies they yell "Zombie baboons! Zombie gibbons! Zombie chrysanthemum!"
26	* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Usually played straight, though in "Monkey Hearts" when Monkevil is making her escape into space she's wearing a space suit and helmet.
27	* BigBad: Lord Peel is the main villain of the series.
28	* BigBrotherBully: Gus physically and emotionally bullies Wally, by making him go to the bathroom in a bucket and once in a while disowning him.
29	* BigBrotherInstinct: In spite of his bullying, Gus does care about Wally and can even be overprotective.
30	* BirthdayHater: In "Happy Gus Day", Gus has never liked birthdays, but he gives in and opens what he assumes is Wally's birthday surprise - a box of Green Goo.
31	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Often. One instance, when Lord Peel removes Gus and Wally's love for bananas, causing them to really, ''really'' hate all bananas. It cuts to YAY-OK back in the ship's kitchen.
32	-->'''YAY-OK:''' Gus and Wally will love this all-banana 10-course meal... I hope I didn't miss any important plot point. Ehh, [[TemptingFate I'm sure everything is fine.]]
33	* CardCarryingVillain: Nefarious.
34	* CatchPhrase: "Poopy doopy" for Monkevil.
35	* ChristmasEpisode:
36	** "The Peel Who Stole Christmas", where Lord Peel seeks revenge on Gus and Wally by impersonating Santa and tricking them.
37	** Ships, Trips and Worm Holes", where Gus and Wally try to get to a Christmas party before all there cake is eaten.
38	** "A Very Monkey Christmas", in which the monkeys learn that they're on Santa's "Super-Naughty" list for Christmas and have to do one good deed before the midnight bell rings.
39	* ClusterBleepBomb: Nefarious has a hilarious one in "Ships, Trips and Wormholes".
40	* ColdTurkeysAreEverywhere: In "B.A.L.L.", Gus and Wally are reminded of the titular explosive everywhere they turn.
41	* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: The monkeys' mother and Lord Peel are heard listening to the show's main theme while rollerblading in "Not Lord Peel."
42	* DinnerDeformation: This happens when Wally swallows an entire bag of sugar whole.
43	* DisguisedInDrag: Nefarious's plan in "Princess Nefarious" is to disguise as a princess so someone will save him.
44	* DistinctionWithoutADifference: Pinky-Winky states that she's not a monster before saying that she's technically more of a beast.
45	* EarlyPersonalitySigns: An episode shows that the brothers have always been competitive idiots ever since they were babies.
46	* EyeScream:
47	** In "Scare-Larious" Wally causes Gus to shoot toothpaste into his eyes. He then exclaims "It burns!" before calmly adding "But minty fresh."
48	** In "Bro to Bro" Wally shoots himself in the eyes with his goop gun. Twice.
49	* ExpositoryThemeTune: Which details on just how useless and good-for-nothing our monkey "heroes" are.
50	* ExtremeOmnivore: Wally's pet Trixie in "Trick or Trixie."
51	* FacelessEye: The [[spoiler:Delivery Boy]] in "Inspection Day" has a giant eye for a head.
52	* FreudianTrio: Wally is the Id, Gus is (barely) the Ego, and YAY-OK is the Superego.
53	* FunWithAcronyms:
54	** G.A.S.I (Galactic Animal Space Institute). "[[HehHehYouSaidX Heh, heh, gassy]]."
55	** B.A.L.L. (Ballistic and Lethally Loaded)
56	** YAY-OK is seen with Slo-Mo, wearing a robe. They are both hiding inside of a lunar crater.
57	* {{Gasshole}}: Gus and Wally both, to the point where they're also notorious sleep-farters as Nefarious finds out the hard way in "Nefarious' Slumber Party".
58	* GenderBender: In "Day of the Doodah", Gus gets turned into a girl when Wally wishes that he [[ExactWords "weren't [his] brother"]].
59	* GrossoutShow: Pretty much everything gross which Canadian cartoons enjoy showcasing all jumbled up into one giant revolting pile.
60	* GrossUpCloseUp: When Wally gets a cramp on his twisted-up leg.
61	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In "Trick or Trixie" when Trixie spits Gus out after trying to eat him his torso is severed from his legs, the former hovering an inch away from the latter.
62	* HappyFunBall: In the episode "B.A.L.L.", the monkeys are tasked with delivering the eponymous B.A.L.L. (Ballistic and Lethally Loaded), which is an actual ball. They have to refrain from playing with it or it will explode.
63	* HeadTurningBeauty: The innocence-feigning [[PunnyName Monkevil]] is most certainly this, with a large amount of her screentime even accompanied by a {{Sexophone}}. Naturally, [[FemmeFatale she uses this to her advantage]] in "Love on the Run," roping Wally and Gus into acting as accomplices for her bank heists.
64	* HeelFaceTurn: Monkevil makes one in her second appearance, [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor only to become a heel again at the end of the episode]] [[ReformedButRejected when Inky frames her for theft and the trio doesn't trust her]].
65	* HollywoodToneDeaf: Pinky-Winky.
66	* IdiotHero: Wally and Gus. Gus is slightly smarter than his brother, keyword ''slightly''.
67	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Lord Peel; before the events of the series, he was a noble businessman. But then the Rocket Monkeys began to crave him, and he's been trying to get revenge on them for trying to eat him and especially for forcing him into the dark side.
68	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne:
69	** In "Ukulele Wally" when Wally and Gus list Pinky-Winky's many faults, the only one she's offended by is that they called her sweaty.
70	** When Lord Peel insults the Rocket Monkeys in the presence of their mother, she gets incredibly angry when he calls them stinky (although she agrees with the first two things he says).
71	* LastDayToLive: When he thinks that Gus has caught the fatal and fictional disease "Monkey-Itis", Wally tries to make his brother's last days as comfortable as possible, no matter how much he hurts him in the process.
72	* LazilyGenderFlippedName: Gus becomes "Gustina" when he gets turned into a (very ugly) female in "Day of the Doodah".
73	* LoveAtFirstSight: Gus and Wally upon seeing what Monkevil actually looks like.
74	* LustfulMelt: In "Love on the Run", both Gus and Wally melt from Monkevil's charms at one point.
75	* MadeOfPlasticine: Lord Peel. Justified as he's a living banana.
76	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Gus' only response to being split in half is that he needs a bandage.
77	* {{Manchild}}: Gus and Wally may be adults, but they act like very stupid and hyperactive little kids.
78	* MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody: One in "Zombie Bananas".
79	* MisterSeahorse: In "Monkeys vs. Gorillas" when the Space Gorillas call the Rocket Monkeys chicken Gus states that they're not... then suddenly lays an egg that hatches into a misshapen chick.
80	* MyBelovedSmother: Gus' and Wally's mother is quite overprotective of the two and often babies them.
81	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The ending of "Home on the Strange"; the monkeys are sent to deliver cow-like creatures as food to a living asteroid, but they destroy it to save one creature that Wally had grown attached to. Said asteroid was the only thing keeping their population in check, so without it they quickly overpopulate and exhaust their food supply.
82	* OhCrap: In "Zombie Bananas", this is Gus' reaction to seeing that Wally ate a crapload of the poisoned bananas that have been turning people into zombies.
83	* OmnicidalManiac: YAY-OK's father in "My Dad-Bot, the Doom-Bot" is a doomsday device that had been powered-down for the good of all mankind.
84	* OnlySaneMan: YAY-OK serves as the straight man for Gus and Wally.
85	* PapaWolf: YAY-OK goes to great lengths to keep his monkeys safe.
86	* ParentalSubstitute: Despite the monkeys probably being adults, they need YAY-OK to look after them. He goes as far as to call them "my monkeys", "my Gus", or "my Wally".
87	* PetMonstrosity: Trixie, a toothy beast [[BigEater with an appetite for EVERYTHING]], from the monkeys' food supply to the ship itself.
88	* RedOniBlueOni: Gus and Wally, who respectively wear blue and red jumpsuits.
89	* SealedEvilInACan: Nefarious is kept at bay be being stuck on an asteroid.
90	* SequelEpisode: "Love on the Run" and "Monkey Hearts" have the episodes' plots connected with each other.
91	* ShaggyDogStory: "Dude, Where's My Dad?" reveals that [[spoiler:the monkey that was frozen in ice is ''not'' the brothers' long-lost father after all]].
92	* ShoutOut: In "Trick or Trixie" when Wally demands that Inky paint something for him he gets a face full of ink that makes him look like [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons]], complete with hanging tongue.
93	* SomethingElseAlsoRises: In "Princess Nefarious", YAY-OK explodes tokens when he developed a crush on Slo-Mo. The next scene shows that he looked embarrassed.
94	* TeamPet: Gus's pet space squid Inky.
95	* ToiletHumor: ''Very'' constant.
96	* TooDumbToLive: The monkey brothers, OncePerEpisode.
97	* TorsoWithAView: When the monkeys accidentally shoot Chimpsky in the chest during a simulation, it leaves a hole exposing his heart.
98	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bananas (surprise, surprise) for the Rocket Monkeys. Their love for bananas are so powerful, that in "Destroy all Bananas" when Lord Peel gives them a lobotomy removing the part of the brain that makes them love Bananas, it can easily grow back with a bit of encouraging.
99	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Both Gus and Wally, especially Gus. Both are seen by almost everyone as nothing but nuisances who make everyone miserable. In "It's a Rocket Monkey Christmas" it's even proven that most characters would be better off if neither of them ever existed.
100	* VomitIndiscretionShot: When Gus and Wally both get sick on a coin-operated ride.
101	* WastefulWishing: Let's just say that the monkeys do a ''lot'' of this in "Day of the Doodah"...

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