History WesternAnimation / MyGymPartnersAMonkey

(Monkey! Monkey! Monkey!)''♫''

Because Lyon's my last name."♫''

* TheNapoleon: Adam and Pixiefrog.

* TyopOnTheCover: Adam was sent to CDMS when a file misspells his surname Lyon as "Lion".

* ComicBookAdaptation: Comic stories based on this show were featured in ''Cartoon Network Block Party''.

Due to a clerical error involving a misspelled last name, a middle-school aged human named Adam Lyon is sent to attend Charles Darwin Middle School: a school for [[TalkingAnimal talking zoo animals]]. Rather than [[JustEatGilligan fix]] [[StrangerInAStrangeSchool this problem]], he befriends an animal named Jake Spidermonkey and deals with the obvious problems of being a human in an environment made solely for animals.

* OedipusComplex: Principal Pixiefrog and his mother.

* MemeticHandGesture: Adam does this hand motion, where he puts both his arms out in front of him, bends them upward by his face and slowly waves them back and forth in anger. What this is never gets explained, but it's not likely this has been used anywhere else, other than the show itself.

* ManOnFire: Jake's head in "An Inconvenient Goof."

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* ArtifactTitle: As the show progresses onwards, Adam Lyon and Jake Spidermonkey actually spend less time attending Gym Class in Charles Darwin Middleschool. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Jake in Season 3 when he admits that they are rarely ever seen in Gym Class.

** Skips has a face more like a human's with a really large, pointy nose. Not to mention he also has ''[[NonMammalianHair hair]]''.

* CardCarryingVillain: Again, Pricipal Pixiefrog

* DeanBitterman: Pricipal Pixiefrog.

* HumiliationConga: The events of "Docu-Trauma" for Adam. In the course of a day, he's afflicted with a giant zit, covered in mud and paint and persued by a documentary maker convinced he's a mutant and determined to make him the subject of her film. Which she does ''after'' getting fottage of Adam naked, which gets broadcast to millions of people on national TV.

** Adam's father also appeared in another episode where they were having a party at a Chuckie Cheese like establishment though you only see him buried in a ball pit with his arm sticking out.

* YouMeanXmas: In the animal world, it's "Animas." And its in June. And it's got something to do with excretory functions.

* MeaningfulName: Adam's given name, which is also the name of the first man, created by God. And, since he's quite probably the first human to set foot in Charles Darwin Middle...

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[[caption-width-right:217:'' "You think your school's a zoo? [[TitleDrop My gym partner's a MONKEY!]]" '']]

* AwesomeMccoolname: Adam Lyon.

* StrangerInAStrangeSchool: The main premise, but taken to self-parody levels for an episode where Jake (whose last name is typo'd as [[SpeciesSurname "Spiderplant"]]) is taken to a ''[[UpToEleven school for plants]]'' for an episode.

* AntiSchoolUniformsPlot: The episode "Uniformity" has Charles Darwin Middle School instatinh a prep-school uniform, which causes everyone to act uncharacteristically genteel and proper (read: boring), in stark contrast to the students' usual antics. The uniform was instated in about a week and later revoked in less than a day.

** [[CarnivoreConfusion Euripedes Sharkowski]]. Yes, despite the mustache and masculine voice. And the way the students talked about her, Adam (and likely the viewers) were shocked to discover that Euripedes was [[UnsettlingGenderReveal a girl]].