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[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Catchphrase}} Banana slamma!]][[note]]First Row: [[SurferDude Funky Kong]], [[IdiotHero Donkey Kong]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bluster Kong]] and [[{{Tsundere}} Candy Kong]]. Second Row: [[OnlySaneWoman Dixie Kong]], [[RecklessSidekick Diddy Kong]] and [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Cranky Kong]].[[/note]]]]

** In the games, Diddy helped save the day in not one, but two adventures (the 2nd being on the Kremlings' ''own turf''), proving himself to be very capable of taking the fight to the Kremlings. In the show, he completely avoids going trying to fight The Kritters and K.Rool, being as helpless as many of the side characters against them.

** In the games, Diddy helped save the day in not one, but two adventures (the 2nd being ''on their own turf''), proving himself to be very capable of taking the fight to the Kremlings. In the show, he completely avoids going trying to fight The Kritters and K.Rool, being as helpless as many of the side characters against them.

* ChristmasEpisode: One episode appears to focus on a holiday known as "Festival of Lights Day" (Day appears to actually be in the name of the celebration). The festival appears to be about be around family and friends, gift giving, peace, and fireworks. Minus the fireworks, this is basically the idea and overall way Christmas is treated. Even K.Rool celebrates it and honors the peace for one day, although Skurvy doesn't...

* BigNo: K. Rool's reaction to when Klump's video conference messes up his game playing in "Buried Treasure."

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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]]. In 2023, animator Alex Henderson would reunite several members of the voice cast for a musical animated short "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eggzBAzCZg Return to Krocodile Isle]]".

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]].

* ClipShow: The final episode of season 2 is simply a montage of characters remembering various sequences from the older episodes, with the over-arching story being about DK leaving the island possibly forever. [[spoiler: He misread the letter, so he's not.]]

* FriendOrIdolDecision: In "Speed," the intelligence-enhanced Krusha invokes this, placing Diddy and Dixie in danger so that DK will have to choose between saving them or protecting the Crystal Coconut. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, DK decides to TakeAThirdOption; he just grabs the Crystal Coconut and carries it with him while he saves Diddy and Dixie.]]

** Kaptain Skurvy is clearly based on the enemy Kannon from the second DKC game. The enemy is referred to as being just a Klump in pirate gear. [[spoiler: Turns out Skurvy and Klump are brothers!]]

* SnipeHunt: "Bug a Boogie" features MULTIPLE snipe hunts, starting when DK and Diddy trick K. Rool's crew into thinking there's a magic amulet in the swamp, Cranky tricks the two apes that some trinket is cursed and it must be disposed of in the "Well of Woe," and then K. Rool tricking Scurvy into coming after an amulet. [[spoiler: It's revealed at the episode that the "amulet" is actually the hood ornament for Funky's plane.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S86XCXalbSE "One of Us"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vDCEaoSP1E "No One's Going To Make A Monkey Out Of Me"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j47VYgQww4 "King K. Rool's Finest Hour"]] 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".

[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Catchphrase}} Banana slamma!]][[note]]Clockwise from center: [[IdiotHero Donkey Kong]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Bluster Kong]], [[{{Tsundere}} Candy Kong]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Cranky Kong]], [[RecklessSidekick Diddy Kong]], [[OnlySaneWoman Dixie Kong]] and [[SurferDude Funky Kong]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[{{Catchphrase}} Banana slamma!]]]]

* AssShove: In order to immunize the islands' inhabitants against the Kongo Bongo Gone Wrongo disease, Cranky administers the Timbananatu nectar vaccine by putting the syringe into the rear (following an incident caused by Polly Roger, which gave him the idea). Yes, this includes [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender Candy and Dixie]]. (Cranky has a bigger syringe especially for Bluster.)

* NoPronunciationGuide: Everybody pronounces K. Rool as [[{{Pun}} KUH Rool]], when it should probably be pronounced as KAY Rool. In the first episode, Cranky and a Robot Candy duplicate pronounce his name using the latter once, then only use the former for the remainder of the episode.

** DK in the show has an entire song about how terrified he is of the supposed 'Bog Monster.' DK in the games would be more likely to punch it.

** Or rather, insistence on ''not'' using a particular terminology. The word "Kremling" is never heard at any point throughout the series. Instead, the minions are called "Kritters."

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

Kongo Bongo's hero!''"
-->- The show's theme song

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]].

* AdaptationalDumbass: DK in the games is not particularly stupid, whereas in the show he’s very dim-witted.

* ArtifactOfAttraction: The Crystal Coconut is incredibly powerful wish-granting artifact that's the central focus for most of the episodes because of how everyone wants it. Every episode is either about the Kongs protecting the Coconut from someone trying to steal it, the Kongs trying to retrieve the Coconut after someone steals it, the Kongs losing it either through rotten-luck or stupidity or a convoluted plan from one of the various antagonists to procure it legitimately.

* DitzyGenius: King K. Rool. Several of his schemes are smart enough to actually work, but he gets too carried away at the end. Part of this problem is K.Rool's insatiable appetite for grandiose schemes and using Krusha and Kump over and over rather than his very adept work force.

* EvilVersusEvil: Kaptain Skurvy allowed for a three-way conflict, something that doesn't show up often in children’s cartoons in the era.

-->'''K. Rool:''' Good match. Once again, you win, I lose. No harm, no foul. Let's call it a day. *gets cold cocked by Donkey Kong*

** The EasyAmnesia episode brings Skurvy and his crew into the fold by trying to dig up treasure they buried on the beach. "Captain, why does we bury the treasure?"

* SadisticChoice: In the episode "Speed," Krusha, his intelligence increased, traps Diddy and Dixie on a runaway mine cart with no brakes and a bomb that will explode if it does stop. DK has to choice between staying and defending the Crystal Coconut, or going off to save his friends. Naturally, DK goes off... [[TakeAThirdOption but not before taking the Coconut with him]]!

* SuperpoweredAlterEgo: Leo Luster, the result of a chemical mixing of various hair-growth formula's, turns Bluster into a complete foil of himself: A suave, smooth talking, effective, brave, bold, and handsome monkey with a deep soothing voice. Nobody is aware that it ''is'' Bluster until he blatantly admits it to DK in the end of the episode before the two attack K.Rool for the Crystal Coconut.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: 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.

* WidgetSeries: ''La planète de Donkey Kong'' (especially its final years under the ''DKTV'' title) is pretty weird by design: it's basically a post-modern sketch show featuring an handful of the ''Donkey Kong'' characters, who behave [[NotAsYouKnowThem very differently]] from their portrayals in any other media, and features humour and subject matter raunchier than what you'd espect for something based on a Nintendo property. What pushes it in Widget territory is the frequent references to French pop culture and that most of the skits are built around untranslatable puns.
* WriteWhoYouKnow: In-universe. Bluster's movie, written by Funky, is based off the events of the series. Leading to an in-story WTHCastingAgency when K. Rool is cast as the hero and DK is cast as the villain.

* ShesGotLegs: Candy Kong.

While only a loose adaptation of the games, [[CanonImmigrant a few elements of the show would find their way into the games]], particularly in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', where Crystal Coconuts are an item (but not a MacGuffin like here), Cranky Kong works as a potion-mixing MadScientist, and Klaptraps now have "dentures."

* GrumpyBear: Cranky Kong and K. Rool.

* ArtifactOfAttraction: The Crystal Coconut is incredibly powerful wish-granting artifact that's the central focus for most of the episodes because of how everyone wants it. Every episode is either about the Kongs protecting the Coconut from someone trying to steal it, the Kongs trying to retrieve the Coconut after someone steals it, the Kongs losing it either through rotten-luck or [[IdiotPlot stupidity]] or a convoluted plan from one of the various antagonists to procure it legitimately.

* MinorFlawMajorBreakup: In "Kong For A Day," Candy breaks up with DK...over a banana peel[[note]]which K. Rool put in her path[[/note]]. [[SeriousBusiness No, seriously]]. They get better, but ''sheesh''!