Does Not Illustrate: Silly Simian

As pointed out by Amonimus, the page image on Silly Simian doesn't really illustrate what the trope is about (non-human primates being used for comedy).

I agree, personally - while I am familiar enough with Deadpool to know he is a funny character, the picture just shows him as a gorilla and feels a bit too much like a holdover from when the trope was called "Everything's Better With Monkeys".

I felt that showing a picture of a monkey or other primate actually doing something funny would better illustrate the trope (and may help curb some misuse that the trope is still getting), so I would like to suggest this picture of King Louie from The Jungle Book (1967) as a replacement. (Caption was suggested by badtothebaritone.)

I'm okay with alternative image suggestions if anyone has better ones, too.

Edited by punkcrow on Dec 3rd 2022 at 11:52:24 AM

to the suggestion. That's way better.

Edited by RamenChef on Dec 3rd 2022 at 8:52:33 AM

"He may be an ape, but he sure is making a monkey out of himself."

To suggested pic and caption

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Dec 3rd 2022 at 6:58:33 AM

Caption added to the post.

to image + caption.

Suggested minor change to the caption: "He may want to be a man, but..."

Edited by Noaqiyeum on Dec 3rd 2022 at 4:00:35 PM

Suggestion > current

I prefer Badtothebaritone's original caption suggestion. Noaqiyeum's version doesn't really make sense if you've never seen The Jungle Book, and the old one is playing off how apes are often called monkeys as a shorthand.

^ Okay, that makes more sense.

for image and caption.

Suggestion looks good.

Edit: I think we have superconsensus for the image at least.

Edited by petersohn on Dec 4th 2022 at 9:05:30 PM

In that case, is there anything I need to do? This is my first time doing an IP thread and I'm not sure if the one starting the thread has to do anything in particular.

Just wait for a mod to put the image on the page.

Alright, good to know!

to suggestion.

Suggestion

Suggestion.

to the suggestion. Original was probably a holdover from when this was Everythings Better With Monkeys.