History WesternAnimation / MyGymPartnersAMonkey

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Adam Lyon comes dangerously close to crossing the MoralEventHorizon in "The Hyena And The Mighty." First, he talks behind Rufus Hyena's back, insulting him and making him cry. When Windsor explains that Rufus may die because hyenas need to laugh to live, Adam clearly doesn't give a damn about Rufus saying "See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya." Jake convinces Adam to help Rufus stop crying. They try visiting the principal, counselor and nurse with no help. Finally, Adam snaps and threatens Rufus with physical violence if he doesn't stop crying even though Adam himself MADE Rufus cry in the first place. It's a GOOD thing Adam gets hit with Karma in the end.

---> '''Boy lobster''': Oh, it is so nice to get out of the house after 97 years.
---> '''Girl lobster''': Oh, you take me to the nicest places.
---> '''Boy lobster''': Waiter, I'll have the lobster.
---> '''Girl lobster''' (as she is ''lifted out of the tank by the waiter''): Nathan, how could you?

* {{Joke of the Butt}}: All the time. Nary an episode goes by without at least one joke about bums.

-->'''Ingrid''': And you must be Slips' brother.
-->'''Slips' Sister''': Slips' sister, actually.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Duh.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When the animals all see shiny doorknobs, they get hypnotized and very distracted when they say "Pretty Pretty! Shiny Shiny!"

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Adam
** TheLancer: Jake
** TheSmartGuy: Windsor
** TheBigGuy: Ingrid
** TheChick: Lupe. Sometimes, Ingrid.
** TheHeart / KidAppealCharacter: Slips
** TagalongKid: Henry

* UnfortunateNames: Adam Lyon's name has a lot of tropes attached to it, but I guess you can slap this one of there too.

* HypnoTrinket: In "Shiny Thing," the titular object--a glass doorknob from Adam's house--has the power to completely hypnotize any animal that looks into it. It's revealed that shiny objects are banned writ large from CDMS because of this. Jake uses the doorknob to take over the entire building and turn it into the "Jake Spidermonkey School for the Study of Monkey Butts," leaving Adam to stop him.

* IdiotHero: Jake is a complete moron of a monkey but he still manages to save the say ... occasionally.

* BadJobWorseUniform: In "Flesh Fur Fantasy," Adam got a job as a sign twirler for a car dealership, wearing a gorilla costume.

* BatmanCanBreatheInSpace: Adam and Jake were able to breathe in outer space in "Cheer Pressure" and "Pants in Space."
* BearsAreBadNews: An episode was titled "Bad News Bear," giving us a perfect example. This was when a panda bear named Ding Bang went around the school causing chaos and misery to everyone he came in contact with, using the fact his species is endangered as a KarmaHoudini license. It turns out he was really a previously expelled student in disguise named Larry the Racoon, which makes him an open target for retaliation.

* BigFun: Lampshaded in "Animal School Musical," with one of the character archetypes, being "The One Who's Chunky."
* BirthdayEpisode: "Supplies Party."

Although it was generally received positively by critics [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Gym_Partner%27s_a_Monkey (according to the other wiki)]], [[CriticalDissonance its Internet reception is more mixed]]. Some say it was one of CN's worst shows, others believe it was SoOkayItsAverage, while still others say it was one of CN's most underrated.

* ParanoiaFuel: In-Universe, in "The Ivy League." Jake starts believing the plants are ganging up on him. One plant looks as though its whispering to another that looks its listening.

* {{Mondegreen}}: An accidental version occurred in "The Little Mermonkey," where Jake intended to say "Adam's got a crab," but due to a voice acting mishap that apparently no one noticed, it sounded like "[[AccidentalInnuendo Adam's gotta crap.]]" The reactions of the rest of the pack made it even more hilarious.

** Jake is a spider monkey, yet looks just like a cartoon-like chimpanzee with a tail in its butt. He even utters the quintessential chimpanzee StockSoundEffects. Even more jarring, one short had him getting his school photo taken with Adam. When both check the album, Jake appears as a ''realistic capuchin monkey!''

* JerkJock: Bull Sharkowski.
* JiveTurkey: In "Grub Drive," Principal Pixiefrog tries to convince students to participate in the Annual School Sales Drive by rapping. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments The students' reactions are priceless.]]

* KickTheDog: Bull Sharkowski does this to keep his title as school bully.

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Adam Lyon comes dangerously close to crossing the MoralEventHorizon in The Hyena And The Mighty. First, he talks behind Rufus Hyena's back, insulting him and making him cry. When Windsor explains that Rufus may die because hyenas need to laugh to live, Adam clearly doesn't give a damn about Rufus saying "See ya, wouldn't wanna be ya." Jake convinces Adam to help Rufus stop crying. They try visiting the principal, counselor and nurse with no help. Finally, Adam snaps and threatens Rufus with physical violence if he doesn't stop crying even though Adam himself MADE Rufus cry in the first place. It's a GOOD thing Adam gets hit with Karma in the end.

* TakeThatCritics: During it's run the biggest problem ''My Gym Partner's a Monkey'' got from online critics, was the constant butt jokes revolving around Jake. In season 4, a few one-off jokes were made taking a jab at those critics. Namely "The Butt of the Jake," "A Very Special Boy," "Lonely Lyon," and "Animal School Musical."

* TransformationTrauma: There's an episode where Slips comes to school feeling rather ill which leads everyone to believe that he has a horrible disease called the... "Eccch!" and the students start feeling weird (an ox student's fur starts coming out, a bear student gets really hungry and so on), at the end of the episode Principal Pixifrog calls an assembly- at this assembly he shows a video called "It's Only Natural" which is about changes animals go through, everyone is relieved to find out that it's not a disease going around, but then Slips shreds his skin and says..."It's only natural? Phew! I'm not a freak!" and ''throws his old skin off''- the old skin lands on Principal Pixiefrog who then states..."No you're not" and then Slips 'sneezes all over him, Principal Pixiefrog exclaims in a very disgusted way "Yuck, that snake's got a cold! Germ alert, germ alert!."

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Many episodes end like this.
** [[spoiler: The last episode involved Adam in the middle of passing his initiation test, to become an official zoo animal. It was never shown whether he did or didn't eventually make it.]]

* {{Constellations}}: In "Don't Noc It 'Til You Try It," when looking for Slips Python, students directed Ingrid toward "Serpens."

Due to a clerical error involving a misspelled last name, a middle-school aged human named [[OnlySaneMan Adam]] [[ButtMonkey 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 [[{{Jerkass}} Jake]] [[SmallAnnoyingCreature Spidermonkey]] and deals with the obvious problems of being a human in an environment made solely for animals.

* [[TheMovie The TV Movie]]: "The Big Field Trip."

** And again, this time full-out, in "Thanksgiving Carol."

* BearsAreBadNews: An episode was titled "Bad News Bear," giving us a perfect example. This was when a panda bear named Ding Bang went around the school causing chaos and misery to everyone he came in contact with.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
** In "Two Tons of Fun," Adam and Jake are curious about the nature of romance between animals. So, they pull out a book on mating rituals, only to be completely disgusted by what they see.
** In "Chew on This," Principal Pixiefrog became overweight and quoted "Our medical bills are astronomical," to which Nurse Gazelle replied, "That's not the only thing that's astronomical." Cut to Principal Pixiefrog's massive butt.
** In "The Magic Fish," Coach Gills nauseates Adam with going on a tangent about being an early bloomer as a teenager and telling him to imagine how she would've looked at that time.
** In "Flesh Fur Fantasy" Windsor had students draw nude pics of him in his "human" suit.
** In "Sidekicked," Mrs. Warthog informs Slips, Adam, and Ingrid on how every animal species does something different. She then mentions that male seahorses give birth, which cuts to a shocked male seahorse student at the school, fainting. Seems passable enough, but in the episode's {{Stinger}}, this same seahorse was seen, pushing a carriage of his baby seahorses, making this a joke about [[TeenPregnancy teen pregnancy]] in a kid's show.
** In "Don't Noc It 'Til You Try It," a bunch of [[GenericGraffiti vandalism was spray painted]] on the wall of the school. One of them read the word "PORK!" in all capital letters. "Pork" is sometimes used as a [[UnusualEuphemism slang term for "have sex with"]], in other words "fuck," which makes this the equivalent of "FUCK!" being [[BathroomStallGraffiti spray painted on the school]].
*** This can be seen as [[TruthInTelevision truth in television]], since in real life, it's almost impossible to go to the back alley or bathroom stall of a middle or high school, without seeing some kind of inappropriate shock imagery, drawn or spray painted on there.
** In "The Frog Principal," Pixiefrog begins to give Adam and Jake a lecture on the dangers of kissing and misleads them into thinking he's going to give them [[TheTalk a little PSA on safe-sex]].
-->'''Pixiefrog:''' Kissing. You guys may think it's harmless, but do you know what kissing can lead to?
-->'''Adam:''' Uh ... don't we need a permission slip for this conversation to continue?
-->'''Pixiefrog:''' Warts!
** In "Glazed and Confused," a one-off joke involves Adam wearing cloth around his head, holding a tombstone in one hand, and Jake's tail (bent into the shape of a cane) in another, [[MessianicArchetype made to look like Moses]]. Usually religious references are strictly not allowed in non-religion TV shows, aimed at kids.
** In "Animal School Musical," Adam gets hit in his "Lower stomach area" when its pretty clear [[GroinAttack where the ball actually hit him]]. And later on in the same special when Ingrid starts forcefully kissing [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Henry Armadillo dressed as Adam]] he say he is feeling funny in his lower stomach area.
** There's one right in the opening sequence! "[[CurseCutShort Going to this school is a pain in the- ADAM! What? I was going to say 'neck.' Oh, that's OK then.]]"

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-->'''Slips'': I'd have eaten more butter.