YMMV / My Gym Partner's a Monkey

• Adorkable:
  • Windsor's a nerdy science/math/history geek, alright and he's had his cute moments. Though we don't see it much, his adorableness comes out when he's at his most vulnerable, like when he's shy around his girl crush in "Gorilla My Dreams" or if he's emotionally distraught in "Mandrill of the House".
  • Ingrid is the tallest member of the pack and is very accident prone, due to her very long neck. She’s also very sweet, kind and timid to a fault, making her all the more lovable. There’s also her cute little crush on Adam!
  • Henry, a nerdy armadillo who is always happy and keeps a positive outlook, even if everyone does push him around.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: What was going on with Adam in "Sick Day"? Was he genuinely sick, infected Jake, and that's why he was absent the next day? Or was he Playing Sick (since he seemed pretty energetic) and Jake was absent for a different reason?
• Awesome Music: "Thanks for Everything", an APM track composed by Dick Stephen Walter, was featured in two episodes ("She's Koala That" and "Kerry to Dance") that had the lyrics:
  Thanks for everything
  All those special things
  The stolen moments shared
  When we were unprepared for anything...
  • Though they're both funny examples of Soundtrack Dissonance (the first one being a straighter example), the song is still quite beautiful.
  • Sound familiar? It originally came from one of Megas XLR's songs in their soundtrack. Listen to it here.
  • The theme song itself also has a very good rhythm.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • It's hard what to think of Adam. Some people think that he is a mistreated woobie who deserves to go back to his normal school, while others think he is a whiny little brat who deserves the abuse he receives, due to his constant complaining about being the only human in the animal school and that he should just suck it up already.
  • Jake; some have a problem with his jerkish behavior and creepy obsession with his butt, other fans think it's pure comedy gold.
• Bizarro Episode: "Robo Frog 3000". The plot has the school board replacing Principal Pixie Frog and the rest of the teachers at Charles Darwin with robots (called robuts by everyone in the episode) and plan on replacing the students with robots, the teachers and Pixie Frog bringing out a wizard in their trunk to fight them, the school board bringing out a robot wizard that defeats the other wizard, and the robots eventually exploding due to running out of love. Adam and Jake lampshade this while the robots are exploding.
  Jake: Remember when this show used to be about a human kid going to an animal school?
• Catharsis Factor: In the series finale, Adam finally finds his true calling as a zookeeper and becomes an honorary zoo animal. It makes his Butt-Monkey status a bit more worthwhile.
• Critical Dissonance: As stated on the main page, most critics who noticed this show thought it was quite decent while audiences are often more divided on the series' quality.
• Ethnic Scrappy: Lupe the toucan is a Latina caricature who is loud, easily angered, and sounds like Sofía Vergara combined with Fran Drescher, smoking three packs of cigarettes a day.
• Friendly Fandoms: With fans of Seton Academy: Join the Pack! which has a similar premise of a human kid in a school full of animals. Most fans jokingly calling Senton the anime equivalent of MGPAM (Though Senton's humor is a little more risque and goes more into depth with their animals).
• Genius Bonus: Usually delivered via Windsor, such as his discourse on the Socratic dialogue.
• Growing the Beard: People who do like the show would agree that the season one finale is when the show started to break the mold and Adam started losing less often afterwards.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In "I Fear Pretties", it is mentioned that Vietnamese rhinos are the world's rarest rhinos. Four years later, the last rhino in Vietnam would sadly end up being killed by poachers.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This very surreal Cartoon Network show is about a chubby, rectangular boy serving as the Token Human of his friend circle and among the said-friend circle is an orange animal named Jake....HEY, WAIT JUST A MINUTE!
  • In the episode "Docu Trauma", Adam is chased around by a documentary filmmaker named Zira Cornelius, in what is a blatant shout out to Planet of the Apes. Adam is voiced by Nika Futterman, who would later go on to voice a very different Zira in The Lion Guard.
• Moe: Surprisingly, this show has tons of these:
  • Ingrid, the sweet and well-meaning giraffe who has a crush on Adam.
  • Adam himself is also a very huggable little guy in one way or another; helps that he's voiced by Nika Futterman, too.
  • The rather popular Rufus Hyena deserves a mention; he's a bubbly fellow who just can't stop laughing!
• So Bad, It's Good: A rare case in which the writers seem aware of it. Some people who grew up with the show even consider it an underrated classic.
• So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus among those who don't love or hate the show is that it's one of the weaker CN originals but manages to be a sort of enjoyable (and at times, entertaining) watch nonetheless. Of course premiering around the time Cartoon Network was going through their Network Decay and slipping into an Audience-Alienating Era didn't help matters.
• Squick:
  • In the special "Glazed And Confused", there's a scene where Adam applies sunscreen on Jake's behind. Even Adam points out "it's just wrong."
  • In episode "Guano in Sixty Seconds", Jake was eating (what everyone and himself believed to be) a bag of popcorn, when asked by Adam where does he keep getting it, Jake reaches up to the ceiling and scrapes off more popcorn, to which a horrified Adam tells him it is asbestos. Windsor calmly tells him that it isn't asbestos, but as it turns out it was bat guano.
  • Many of Jake's butt jokes.
  • Ingrid constantly crushing on Adam is one thing, but the fact that he's a human boy and she's a giraffe makes it rather uncomfortable.
  • Episodes like "Lyon's Anatomy" show that Nurse Gazelle, a grown woman, has a crush on Adam, a child.
• Ugly Cute: Deidre Koala is seen as somewhat adorable to few who don't see her as The Scrappy.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Coach Gills. Despite being female and wearing a bow, her voice is insanely masculine, to the point where she could be mistaken for a man pretending to be a woman.
• Wangst: Part of why Adam is considered so polarizing. Even those who sympathize with his plight wish he would just stop complaining so much, and at least TRY to suck it up.
• The Woobie:
  • Rufus Hyena from the episode "The Hyena and the Mighty" is easily the biggest woobie on the show. The only episode he was ever in, he suffered from severe Break the Cutie. Once Adam insulted him and his laughter, he stormed out of the bathroom in tears and actually went into a Troubled Fetal Position at one point. He was in a constant state of Ocular Gushers and Adam barely felt any remorse for having hurt his feelings. Not once did Adam feel the need to apologize to Rufus, even threatening him to stop crying at one point. Also, Nurse Gazelle terrorizes him for no reason by trying to shave off his fur while he's in his tearful state. The only amount of sympathy Rufus even got was Windsor cuddling him and Jake feeling concerned about him. Adam, Principal Pixiefrog and Nurse Gazelle treated him like garbage and didn't care about his hurt feelings.
  • Henry has his moments too.
  • Vice Coach Horace Ferret, who may be being used by Coach Gills only as a means of transportation and she may not care about his feelings.
  • Ingrid Giraffe, due to being the tall awkward girl of the class. The way she gets treated in Ingrid Through The Outdoors is pretty unnerving yet she is one of the sweetest characters on the show.
  • Little Lord Saucypants was once the beloved pet of Dobie Broadway Jr, but then he became his much oppressed and abused slave.
  • Adam himself is not only a fish out of water, he's also a bullying target, often gets in trouble for Jake's mishaps, gets hurt a lot, and generally has bad luck.

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