History WesternAnimation / DonkeyKongCountry

->"''Hoo-Hah! Hoo-Hah! Donkey Kong!\\

** In the beginning of "From Zero to Hero", Krusha steals the Crystal Coconut out from Cranky's nose. However, he doesn't have it when he gets to K. Rool's lair. His Kritters remind Krusha that after Cranky's, they went to a swamp and met "That very cute lizard"...

* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: In "Kong For A Day," Candy breaks up with DK...over a banana peel. [[SeriousBusiness No, seriously]]. They get better, but ''sheesh''!

* MoodWhiplash: In "Kong for a Day," we have a melancholy DK singing "Nobody's Hero" until we pull back from him as the last note echoes and we fade to a commercial. Later, we cut back to a whiny DK hungry for bananas, hallucinating a banana tree and ending up falling into a pile of snow.

* SickAndWrong: In "Kong For A Day" Krusha imitates DK's voice and makes passes at Dixie behind their back, which cause her to think DK is hitting on her. Obviously Diddy is pretty pissed about this whole incident.

* TooDumbToLive: Klump and Krusha, especially in ''Speak No Evil, Dude'', where they misinterpret K. Rool's sickened grunts into '''blowing up the island...with everyone and THEM on it.''' To further prove the point, Cranky tried to point it out, ''yet Klump thought it was a mental trick.''

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S86XCXalbSE "One of Us"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDCEaoSP1E "No One's Going To Make A Monkey Out Of Me"]] for K. Rool.
** DK also gets [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXM6yez8Gog one, sorta.]] When he tries Method Acting to play the bad guy in Bluster's movie in Hooray for Holly Kongo Bongo.

* SurroundedByIdiots: ''It's at times like this I ask myself, do I really want the coconut this badly?''

* AffablyEvil: Basically every villain, aside from [[{{Jerkass}} Polly Roger]].

An unofficial musical theatre adaptation based on the TV series titled ''Banana Slamma'', which combines the episodes “Ape-Nesia” and “Legend of the Crystal Coconut”, was released on [=YouTube=] on April 12, 2020 as part of [=MAGFest=] 2020, which can be [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zaPYPMsqMeQ viewed here.]]

* ArtEvolution: Inverted. The visuals actually get ''worse'' in the second season, although more vibrant color palettes are used as compensation for this issue and the motion capture is replaced by regular 3D animation, removing the rapid lip flapping and sometimes glitched movements so it evens out somewhat.

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* GracefulLoser: King K. Rool tends to be very polite about his losses against Donkey Kong. Not that this has saved him from getting his snout punched in.

** In "From Zero to Hero," the song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j47VYgQww4 King K. Rool's Finest Hour]]" shares the same beat as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITQVlvGsSDA Krook's March]]" from ''[=DKC2=]''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAkn0ORDxUc Pirate's Scorn]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV5NerQIRk4 Booty Boogie]] for Skurvy.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S86XCXalbSE One of Us]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDCEaoSP1E No One's Going To Make A Monkey Out Of Me]] for K. Rool.

An unofficial musical theatre adaptation based on the TV series titled ''Banana Slamma'', which combines the episodes “Ape-Nesia” and “Legend of the Crystal Coconut”, was released on [=YouTube=] on April 12, 2020 as part of [=MAGFest=] 2020, which can be viewed [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zaPYPMsqMeQ here]].

* ChekhovsGun: In one early season 1 episode, an x-ray shows that Krusha's brain has literally fallen out of his skull and into his butt, with the implication being that this is why he's so stupid. About a dozen episodes later an accident knocks it back into place and within minutes Krusha transforms into TheChessmaster.

** This turned out to be Krusha's true colors when his brain got knocked back into place. He knows how most of the situations with everyone will play out, and fails because he neglected to take one detail into account: DK taking the Crystal Coconut. Krusha's so deadly, that he's even willing to kill Diddy and Dixie with a bomb, and effectively doesn't bat an eye at the prospect of K. Rool accidentally being killed in the crossfire.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Krusha becomes one when he gets he brain knocked back in place. Even K. Rool is terrified of him.

* VoiceChangeling: In the episode "Kong for a Day", it is revealed that Krusha can perfectly imitate voices. K. Rool has Krusha uses his imitation of DK's voice to insult Dixie and Diddy, making the both of them get angry at DK.

* AdaptationalDumbass: DK in the games is shown to possess human-like intelligence, whereas in the show he’s very dim-witted.

* VoiceChangeling: In the episode "Kong for a Day", it is revealed that Krusha can perfectly imiate voices. K. Rool has Krusha uses his imitation of DK's voice to insult Dixie and Diddy, making the both of them get angry at DK.

* RealityEnsues: In the episode "Kong Fu", the plot revolves around an annual challenge for the title of future ruler of Kongo Bongo, but nobody ever accepts because one round is a physical contest and DK is 800 pounds of solid muscle. Because of this, DK has been slacking on training for it that year. That time, however, K. Rool hired a martial artist, the titular Kong Fu, to fight as his proxy. The reality ensuing is two-fold. One, just a few days of training isn't enough time to get DK back into prime physical shape. Two, an out-of-shape Donkey Kong is easily pummeled by the well-trained, physically fit Kong Fu. Donkey Kong only wins due to a foreshadowed ConvenientEclipse and some StupidEvil actions from the Kremlings.

** Polly Roger also qualifies in "Speak No Evil, Dude." It's revealed he carries the highly contagious "Kongo Bongo Gone Wrongo" disease. He knew full well biting Diddy Kong would spread the disease, yet he did it anyway. He also clearly was enjoying Donkey Kong struggling with his SadisticChoice between saving his best friend or the island. The threat of the island being blown up could have been prevented, but Polly held his tongue [[EvilIsPetty because K. Rool insulted him, and for no other reason.]] While K. Rool does choke-hold him into spitting out the cure, and Cranky's hologram startles him into dropping the Tim-Banana-Tu, he still gets away with all of this in the end.

* MacGuffin: The Crystal Coconut. It doesn't matter what it does, because it does ''everything.''

* CutSong: The CompilationMovie ''Donkey Kong Country: The Legend of the Crystal Coconut'' deletes "Pirate's Scorn" from the beginning of "Booty and the Beast". The deletes much of the context for why Skurvy wants the Crystal Coconut.

On the island of Kongo Bongo, TheHero of the series, Donkey Kong, is the island's future ruler, as selected by a magical orb called the Crystal Coconut, which has the ability to grant wishes (among numberous other things). But the Coconut is [[MacGuffin a prize coveted by the show's villain]], [[BigBad King K. Rool]], who aims to steal it and take over the island himself. Thus, [=DK=] has to always stand guard over it, which isn't an easy task since he's frequently taking time off to do activities such as eating his TrademarkFavoriteFood, bananas. Sometimes, another threat appears in the form of a group of {{Pirate}}s led by Kaptain Skurvy, who believes the Coconut belongs to him. And did we mention there's a lot of singing? It happens at least OncePerEpisode.

On the island of Kongo Bongo, TheHero of the series, Donkey Kong, is the island's future ruler, as selected by a magical orb called the Crystal Coconut, which has the ability to grant wishes. But the Coconut is [[MacGuffin a prize coveted by the show's villain]], [[BigBad King K. Rool]], who aims to steal it and take over the island himself. Thus, [=DK=] has to always stand guard over it, which isn't an easy task since he's frequently taking time off to do activities such as eating his TrademarkFavoriteFood, bananas. Sometimes, another threat appears in the form of a group of {{Pirate}}s led by Kaptain Skurvy, who believes the Coconut belongs to him. And did we mention there's a lot of singing? It happens at least OncePerEpisode.