Close. Tarzan's chimp in the books was actually named was "Electric Cheetoh," but they changed it for the movies. But other than that, you are right, Tarzan had a pet chimp with the powers of electricity, that he often used to hurl lightning bolts at Nazis. He even saved Superman once by changing the polarity of the earth's electric field to reverse the effects of Kryptonite. R.I.P., Electric Cheetoh😢
On one hand I can understand why no one would want to be credited for its hideous design, but on the other hand that monkey’s outrageously long legacy is something to be proud of
So a note about the uniform: Performing monkeys in outfits were a thing well before the 20th century. One of the common styles of monkey costume was a knockoff of popular military uniforms of the 19th century--shiny buttons, gold braid, useless hat, etc. This style was very popular for certain service and performing professions; marching bands still use it today, of course, probably as an offshoot of military bands. The staff at hotels and movie houses often wore similar uniforms, so if you look up, say, an usher's uniform, you'll find someone who looks like a bellhop, and they BOTH look like a doorman at a fancy New York building or someone playing trombone at halftime. The idea was to make these workers look anonymous but impressive to the public. So it wasn’t that monkeys were dressed like bellhops, it was that monkeys, bellhops, ushers, and doormen all dressed like they were about to play John Philip Sousa.
Granted, that was a common cartoon trope in the 90s (inspired by old Tex Avery cartoons, and such from the 60s) where a character's eyes would stretch/bulge outward to show shock/surprise, or being scared. Also happens in the intro to Wario Land for Gameboy, so it's not just a DK trope. And oddly DK doesn't do it in the Retro Studios era DK games, though Smash Brothers brought it back in the K.Rool reveal trailer.
why was the most disturbing version of this also the one that stayed in production the longest? Were there actually people who wanted this horrifying thing in their homes or were they only buying this ironically?
@@gemstone108 no, they just had shitty production technology for toys until the 70s, anything not handmade was offputting and used that weird 1950s plastic
It's so creepy seeing the organ grinder and monkey, as they look so unbelievably miserable, but the narrator insists they're having a great time. Such creepy disconnect.
Well, they LOOK miserable, but the barrel organ itself is very expensive (such as a well-trained monkey, of course). So, what you actually see in that clip is a "professional beggar" at work.
I think I i had repressed this memory until I saw the "organ grinder" clip. When I was a little kid I saw one of those guys and you could give different amounts for different interactions. The most expensive option was to have the monkey "kiss" you. I begged my mom for money to get a monkey kiss. I think the monkey was supposed to like touch it's tongue to your cheek but I turned to look at it and the monkey was looking at the guy for affirmation, so it's weird monkey tongue went straight in my mouth. It's hard to describe how weirded out little toddler me was lol. I remember being sick and throwing up later
@@Roadent1241 not to mention the fact that Tarzan also has a bunch of Mangani apeman friends (like Teeka) and a dastardly monkey friend named Nkima in the canonical books.
Holy shit, me too. Especially the way the phone woody talks to about the monkey has a jigsaw like mannerism about it. At least, that’s the way I remember it.
So originally that loud screeching monkey used to be a cute monkey in the beginning but over time he evoluted into a scary screeching manic of a monkey!
4:00 Devil's Gift itself was later recycled over a decade later as part of a wraparound film from the same director, called Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, which is best known as being the final aired movie for the original (pre-Netflix reboot) run of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's a great episode and I implore you to go check it out, as the movie is an absurd mashup of family whimsy and morbid stuff, and Ernest Borgnine is in it too.
My little brother had one of these monkeys in the 1970s. My brother loved monkeys, so all the relatives would give him monkey toys as gifts. Well, that wind-up cymbal-clanking monkey was just freaky. My brother was scared of it - with good reason. It would randomly start hitting those cymbals together, usually when it was in the closet. You’d be in his room and you’d hear CLANK-CLANK-CLANK coming from behind the closet door. Mind you, this was years before the Stephen King story came out. I remember getting chills the first time I read that story, because I already had creepy memories of that awful little toy. My brother became so freaked out by it that he smashed it and threw it away at some point. I suppose it would have been hilarious to buy a new one and put it in his closet for him to find, but I wasn’t going to waste my meager allowance on a prank.
@ nothing is "haunted," so that wasn’t it. It was a wind-up toy, so faulty or rusty gears could have caused it to stop moving before all the tension in the spring had been released. Then a while later the tension in the spring could have overcome the friction in the gears, causing it to start moving again for a few more seconds. Being cheaply made, those things never operated smoothly and perfectly every time you wound them up.
Wait so the first scary-looking monkey was from Bandai, who later merged with Namco to become the publisher of the Dark Souls games? Yeah that makes sense.
really nice video here, i love learning about weird novelty toys. as a suggestion i think a video about billy bass (those singing fish plaques) would be cool
Very interesting video. Thanks! Never stopped much to think about the monkey, even after seeing it all the time in media. Also, 102 dalmatians: Puppies to the rescue's toy shop OST as the background? Great choice. Loved that game growing up and hearing it again hit me right in the nostalgia
My personal favorite appearance of the Naughty Suzy version is from episodes 33 & 34 of Ultraman Taro in 1973 where it's used as a dispatcher relaying orders for the villainous Alien Temperor. Very bizarre.
My guess is he's just meant to mimic a monkey in distress. Monkeys were generally very popular subjects for toys and even ones that are visibly sad were a thing. He's nasty looking but you'd be surprised how many kids in the 70s and 80s loved this thing. They saw something in them we don't.
It's not the first time I've seen a toy from back then that looks creepy. But when I say it's creepy to my older relatives and friends, they don't seem to think so.
@@ChargerBulletThese monkeys were used as a sort of screamer for a commercial in the 70s and used for horror movies and books in the 80s meaning atleast adults at the time already found them unsetling in the first place, not really what I would call creepy “to the younger generation” unless you are 200 hundred years old and the baby boomers who made those commercials, movies and books seem young to you.
I want to go back in time and show these 50s toy designers a modern day cute monkey beanie boo plush or something and see how they react. Would it be seen as genius or foolish because it “doesn’t even look like a monkey”? 🤔
Got it, so Steven King was who most iconically gave it that horror association it has now. Tbh tho if he didnt, someone else surely would have. Those things are so freaky looking with their bloodshot eyes
The first thing I thought of seeing that chimp was reading that Stephen King short story when I was younger. Glad you included it, I would highly recommend the story to anyone who hasn't read it yet.
Excellent work! The presentation is concise and straight to the point with none of the usual youtube fluff and the topic just really hits that sweet spot of familiar yet mysterious...
my mother had a battery operated one of these things when I was a toddler, it had like 30 year old batteries in it, those very same national hi-top batteries, and somehow the batteries one day got enough juice in them for the thing to function for a few seconds, and it scared the hell outta me, now whenever i see those things i feel like i need to poke them with a stick to see if they'll just randomly start moving.
I own one myself, they were pretty popular during the 70s and 80s! I found quite a few ads from the time for them being sold in various department and toy stores up to around 1985.
Great deep dive into the concept! Trying to figure out who designed stuff at Bandai even relatively recently is rough, I can't imagine stretching that far back. The only way to dive in further here would be someone with legal/lawyer-level Japanese diving into old records in Tokyo or asking Bandai for help, and that's maybe a bridge too far for a lot of folks. It's kind of amazing how much more popular he is outside of Japan though. I've never really seen this monkey in Japanese media, despite its very specific incarnation being a Japanese design. Just one of the many wonders of Japan's role as the world's toy manufacturer for many years.
The Devil's Gift: The Mystery Science Theater episode, based on a family movie, based on a horror movie, based on a short story, based on a toy, based on a street performer, based on a candy bar.
Thank you for mentioning "Rebel without a Cause" Why I was here. Cymbal monkey was Dean's first scene with the titles scrolling at the beginning of the film.
Wow, you really put a lot of work into this detailed toy history video, thanks! I may have had one of these, after awhile it does get creepy. I think it was a cheapo version, I don't recall hitting it on its head, or maybe I never thought of doing that.
in Indonesia organ grinder is still exist it's called topeng monyet, it was banned in many big cit but people still perform it anyway because high poverty rate in those cities.
The 102 Dalmations game music in the background was giving me flashbacks to a darker time 😟 namely the time one of the kids my mum looked after abandoning the game on that level and the music looping over and over and over and over…. like a… monkey… with a… miniature cymbal… It’s all coming full circle! What does it mean?! 😶
When i was little one of my consideratiom cousin (Nephew of one of my mother's ex boyfriend) lived close to an abandoned hospital in place full of "Farms"(?), and i wanted to explore in there, and he said "Nah man... You know those cymbal monkeys..? They were given to cancer patients on there and when they died... The monkeys got possesed and now kill everyone that breaks in" Note: i was 7/8 And never wanted to even get close to it again
I used to do “table hopping” which is going table to table in a restaurant and offering a close up magic show. for a while I worked at a pizza place that was called The Organ Grinder that had a ginormous pipe organ. there was a special platform for one of those cymbal monkeys to the side of the console and every now and then one of the gift shop gals would bring out the monkey and set it on its little platform. the organist would play to the rhythm of the cymbals for a bit and then pretend it had gone off time, so he’d smack it in the head with a plastic baseball bat, the monkey would do its screaming bit and after a pause start slapping out the rhythm again. one night I asked the gift shop gal if I could carry him out. she said sure and I got a huge giggle out of doing the honors. all this was nearly 50 years ago and I still have fond memories.
That cymbal monkey in Toy Story 3 terrified me way back when, and it’s still fairly unsettling today. Never knew how deep the history of cymbal monkey toys, but I was aware that it was one of those creepy toys that was popular at one point.
"Electric Cheetah" is named after the chimp from Tarzan, presumably.
I'm glad that I looked, because I was about to write that same comment.
Thank you!! I knew I was missing something.
@@okso... Electric Cheeta toys were made when the first Tarzan tv show was dubbed into Japanese for Tv Asahi (then TV Net) in the late 1960s.
@@dc9662 Same!
Close.
Tarzan's chimp in the books was actually named was "Electric Cheetoh," but they changed it for the movies.
But other than that, you are right, Tarzan had a pet chimp with the powers of electricity, that he often used to hurl lightning bolts at Nazis. He even saved Superman once by changing the polarity of the earth's electric field to reverse the effects of Kryptonite.
R.I.P., Electric Cheetoh😢
On one hand I can understand why no one would want to be credited for its hideous design, but on the other hand that monkey’s outrageously long legacy is something to be proud of
If walt disney was annoyed his legacy was gonna be "just a cartoon mouse" you can only think how the person who came up with this must feel
Especially after what it did to my boy woody
So a note about the uniform:
Performing monkeys in outfits were a thing well before the 20th century. One of the common styles of monkey costume was a knockoff of popular military uniforms of the 19th century--shiny buttons, gold braid, useless hat, etc. This style was very popular for certain service and performing professions; marching bands still use it today, of course, probably as an offshoot of military bands. The staff at hotels and movie houses often wore similar uniforms, so if you look up, say, an usher's uniform, you'll find someone who looks like a bellhop, and they BOTH look like a doorman at a fancy New York building or someone playing trombone at halftime. The idea was to make these workers look anonymous but impressive to the public.
So it wasn’t that monkeys were dressed like bellhops, it was that monkeys, bellhops, ushers, and doormen all dressed like they were about to play John Philip Sousa.
The marching band connection also makes a lot more sense as to why so many of these toy monkeys play instruments
The marching band connection also makes a lot more sense as to why so many of these toy monkeys play instruments
I would absolutely buy you a beer. Thanks for this. It sounds like the kind of thing I’d randomly know myself.
The marching band connection also makes a lot more sense as to why so many of these toy monkeys play instruments
20th century: New fad involving fake monkeys that do something
21st century: New fad involving fake monkeys that do nothing
Also 21st century: New fad involving fake monkey that give us emotion and ask questions about what it is to be human
OH SHIT LANCER
22nd century: the monkeys rise up and make us do everything
Fake monkey that does nothing.
I don't know if this was meant as a knock at Bored Ape NFTs, but that's what I interpreted it as and it cracked me up
It's fitting that a creepy monkey has a mysterious origin
i didn't know what an "organ grinder" is and got so concerned like: Are they grinding monkey organs????
Same tbh, I think a lot of us would recognize the long gone profession yet not know the name of it
Like an church organ that you play like a meat grinder
@@myonlyfriendtheend4958fun for the whole family!
A couple day ago I saw an organ grinder in the city with a plush monkey that he bopped around to imitate dancing
An organ grinder is someone who plays a grind organ, also called a hurdy gurdy
Oh that's why Donkey Kong's eye will pop out like that
I think that's because the Battletoads' also do... And they were created (in DK's case, redesigned) by the same guy at Rare
@@thestripedmenace yeah, I'm talking about DK country
Granted, that was a common cartoon trope in the 90s (inspired by old Tex Avery cartoons, and such from the 60s) where a character's eyes would stretch/bulge outward to show shock/surprise, or being scared. Also happens in the intro to Wario Land for Gameboy, so it's not just a DK trope.
And oddly DK doesn't do it in the Retro Studios era DK games, though Smash Brothers brought it back in the K.Rool reveal trailer.
These are pretty cool bananas
This is like digging through your parents' paperwork and finding out you're adopted all over again.
Relevant pfp
why was the most disturbing version of this also the one that stayed in production the longest? Were there actually people who wanted this horrifying thing in their homes or were they only buying this ironically?
he makes great horror fodder
gonna say the latter, guess once people realized it was horrifying they bought it as more of a novelty toy
Somehow it took us a longgggg time to realize that maybe kids want cute toys and not horrifying uncanny realistic-but-not ones 😬
@@gemstone108some kids DO like creepy things, especially were they've grown a little while still being kids
@@gemstone108 no, they just had shitty production technology for toys until the 70s, anything not handmade was offputting and used that weird 1950s plastic
It's so creepy seeing the organ grinder and monkey, as they look so unbelievably miserable, but the narrator insists they're having a great time. Such creepy disconnect.
Well, they LOOK miserable, but the barrel organ itself is very expensive (such as a well-trained monkey, of course). So, what you actually see in that clip is a "professional beggar" at work.
As a retired cymbal monkey this is true
Were you one of those that were used in the "Hooked on Phonics"program?
@@caucasoidape8838 No, that's a bit too sophisticated for my tastes
How did you recover from automation taking your job?
@@braquen it couldn’t be going worse
I think I i had repressed this memory until I saw the "organ grinder" clip. When I was a little kid I saw one of those guys and you could give different amounts for different interactions. The most expensive option was to have the monkey "kiss" you. I begged my mom for money to get a monkey kiss. I think the monkey was supposed to like touch it's tongue to your cheek but I turned to look at it and the monkey was looking at the guy for affirmation, so it's weird monkey tongue went straight in my mouth. It's hard to describe how weirded out little toddler me was lol. I remember being sick and throwing up later
😦
damn your first kiss was with a monkey that's incredible
@@henriquelambcastellanos8439 lol God, don't say it like that. It makes it worse haha
Wtf that story did not go where I was expecting
And they've been married of 35 years now.
The "musical chimp" actually looks pretty chill, I would buy that one lol
I was born in 83, and remember being scared by a "Monkey Shines" ad when I was a little guy.
Same
Utterly haunting
Cheeta is Tarzan’s chimp friend in MGM’s Tarzan film franchise, so that’s likely the connection.
Why did Disney change it to Terk then? Not like they didn't have the rights if they had the main character.
@@Roadent1241 Character does not appear in the books, just the MGM films.
@@captainrigby7473 OK, that makes sense.
@@Roadent1241 not to mention the fact that Tarzan also has a bunch of Mangani apeman friends (like Teeka) and a dastardly monkey friend named Nkima in the canonical books.
That Monkey in scene in Toy Stroy 3 gave me Nightmares when I was 6 years old and watched that shit for the first time.
Holy shit, me too. Especially the way the phone woody talks to about the monkey has a jigsaw like mannerism about it. At least, that’s the way I remember it.
You were too young to watch Toy Story.
And then made funnier when Slinky beat his ass with literal tape.
Wait how old does that make you now, ten? How long ago did Toy Story 3 come out?
@@ofp857414 Years ago.
I'm glad you're not just the food fight guy
lmao thanks
Reject humanity, return to cymbal monkey
So originally that loud screeching monkey used to be a cute monkey in the beginning but over time he evoluted into a scary screeching manic of a monkey!
4:00 Devil's Gift itself was later recycled over a decade later as part of a wraparound film from the same director, called Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, which is best known as being the final aired movie for the original (pre-Netflix reboot) run of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It's a great episode and I implore you to go check it out, as the movie is an absurd mashup of family whimsy and morbid stuff, and Ernest Borgnine is in it too.
Oh shit. I didn't know we would get movie sign.
I loved watching it on MST3K.
Honestly, that Merlin movie felt like a failed pilot for a "Twilight Zone" style anthology show, but with Merlin.
Mermaid Man?!
My little brother had one of these monkeys in the 1970s. My brother loved monkeys, so all the relatives would give him monkey toys as gifts. Well, that wind-up cymbal-clanking monkey was just freaky. My brother was scared of it - with good reason. It would randomly start hitting those cymbals together, usually when it was in the closet. You’d be in his room and you’d hear CLANK-CLANK-CLANK coming from behind the closet door.
Mind you, this was years before the Stephen King story came out. I remember getting chills the first time I read that story, because I already had creepy memories of that awful little toy. My brother became so freaked out by it that he smashed it and threw it away at some point. I suppose it would have been hilarious to buy a new one and put it in his closet for him to find, but I wasn’t going to waste my meager allowance on a prank.
How does it even randomly start up? Faulty switch, or was it haunted?
@ nothing is "haunted," so that wasn’t it. It was a wind-up toy, so faulty or rusty gears could have caused it to stop moving before all the tension in the spring had been released. Then a while later the tension in the spring could have overcome the friction in the gears, causing it to start moving again for a few more seconds. Being cheaply made, those things never operated smoothly and perfectly every time you wound them up.
@DaveTexas the haunted thing was a joke, but still a good read
But you probably have enough money now to find one and put it in his closet. It's baaaaaaack! 😂
jumpscares:
2:59 (happens pretty fast)
4:44 (not as bad as the last one but still worth noting)
No way we got jumpscare timestamps on a video essay.
Wish i saw this lol shit woke me up
oh good, lore for my sleep paralysis demon
Fantastic video. What a thorough explanation of a weird topic! Excited to watch more videos from your channel!
By the way what’s the music?
Its at the end of the video! It's the toy store theme from 102 Dalmatians for the PS1.
@@okso... Amazing! Do you have IG by the way?
@@JJMcCullough I don't. I have Twitter though! x.com/OkSoEssay
Oh hello JJ!
“Oh look! It’s the picture of a Monkey-Bomb!”
- Dr. Edward Richtofen, talking about a picture of Takeo.
honestly just seeing the real cymbal monkey hurt. his eyes looked so heartbroken...
Wait so the first scary-looking monkey was from Bandai, who later merged with Namco to become the publisher of the Dark Souls games? Yeah that makes sense.
That stupid PSA scared the crap out of me as a child.
Yea there are WAY BETTER ways to tell people to stay off of drugs, but no. They just HAD to get the shock value in.
Loving the music you used. The Toy Store level from 101 Dalmations: Puppies to the Rescue for PS1. I used to love that game!
yesss i was hoping someone else would recognize it! 😂 i got hit with nostlagia whiplash
Scrolled down in the search of this comment. Was glad to find it. Played through the PC version of this game multiple times during my childhood.
I’m surprised real toy hisses like it did at Woody in Toy Story 3. because of course we want to see creepy old toys get mad when provoked
really nice video here, i love learning about weird novelty toys. as a suggestion i think a video about billy bass (those singing fish plaques) would be cool
@@pashedmotatoes877 oooh that's a good idea. I'll keep that in mind. (nice dead leaves pfp btw)
Yesssss Billy Bass
I like that you used the carnival theme from 102 Dalmatians: Puppies To The Rescue. It’s just a perfect fit for this topic 😁
Very interesting video. Thanks! Never stopped much to think about the monkey, even after seeing it all the time in media.
Also, 102 dalmatians: Puppies to the rescue's toy shop OST as the background? Great choice. Loved that game growing up and hearing it again hit me right in the nostalgia
Oh thats why the murder monkeys from dark deception where hotel staff
I was waiting for someone to mention DD lol
Where did the cymbal monkey come from that's an easy queastion.
It's called HELL.😊
They raided Satan's toy chest for those chimps
the real mystery is why the hell anyone would willingly subject themselves to putting one of these in their home
I have one on my bookshelf next to my bed LOL
@@okso... LOL how do you sleep 💀😭
@@DanteButtrey like a baby
i want one
@@facthunt2facthunt245 me too
Gotta love a good video on a obscure interesting topic
Its obscurity adds to its charm. A seemingly creatorless creation (clearly created but uncredited).
"Guys, I'm down near the teleporters! Somebody throw a Monkey & revive me!"
🐵
My personal favorite appearance of the Naughty Suzy version is from episodes 33 & 34 of Ultraman Taro in 1973 where it's used as a dispatcher relaying orders for the villainous Alien Temperor. Very bizarre.
I saw the remains of one of those cymbal monkeys on the road a couple days ago across some gas station. It was kinda sad to look at
That sounds both terrifying and fascinating
My question is…Why’d they make him so creepy? Like…this for meant for children, right? Why is it so creepy?!
My guess is he's just meant to mimic a monkey in distress. Monkeys were generally very popular subjects for toys and even ones that are visibly sad were a thing. He's nasty looking but you'd be surprised how many kids in the 70s and 80s loved this thing. They saw something in them we don't.
It's not the first time I've seen a toy from back then that looks creepy. But when I say it's creepy to my older relatives and friends, they don't seem to think so.
Grotesque toys will always have at least a bit of a market, some kids enjoy creepy looking stuff
It just looks like a toy to me. There is definitely a difference in younger generations who find fear in everything.
@@ChargerBulletThese monkeys were used as a sort of screamer for a commercial in the 70s and used for horror movies and books in the 80s meaning atleast adults at the time already found them unsetling in the first place, not really what I would call creepy “to the younger generation” unless you are 200 hundred years old and the baby boomers who made those commercials, movies and books seem young to you.
It originated at Waffenfabrik Der Riese, Near Breslau in Germany during the 40's iirc
based cod zombies player
The real question is, why did he subtitle the obvious black ops 2 town clip as being world at war?
1:30 immediately recognized the 102 dalmatians video game music!!! I played that game so much as a kid. Very good taste sir lol
I want to go back in time and show these 50s toy designers a modern day cute monkey beanie boo plush or something and see how they react. Would it be seen as genius or foolish because it “doesn’t even look like a monkey”? 🤔
We don't know where they came from?
Yep, that's an SCP.
cringe
Got it, so Steven King was who most iconically gave it that horror association it has now. Tbh tho if he didnt, someone else surely would have. Those things are so freaky looking with their bloodshot eyes
5:47 Dude wtf that’s like a concentration camp uniform.
The first thing I thought of seeing that chimp was reading that Stephen King short story when I was younger. Glad you included it, I would highly recommend the story to anyone who hasn't read it yet.
Great video! I've seen these guys at a lot of antique stores near me. So, it's nice to know their story.
Excellent work! The presentation is concise and straight to the point with none of the usual youtube fluff and the topic just really hits that sweet spot of familiar yet mysterious...
Seeing the thumbnail right before sleep was a freat experience.
Good video👌
I like how it's basically a horror character
But God Itself made it fit into Toy Story in a way that makes it kid friendly
1:50 maybe racism?
yeah, in YOUR mind
Calm down
@@FixedFacethis literally a fact tho.
@@possumwithacowboyhat5140
that u think of africans when seeing monkeys and apes?
get help
my mother had a battery operated one of these things when I was a toddler, it had like 30 year old batteries in it, those very same national hi-top batteries, and somehow the batteries one day got enough juice in them for the thing to function for a few seconds, and it scared the hell outta me, now whenever i see those things i feel like i need to poke them with a stick to see if they'll just randomly start moving.
Very interesting! one of those things that's been a trope so long that you don't necessarily think of the origin. Great video.
Having only seen this thing in media, I was always curious about how common it really was.
I own one myself, they were pretty popular during the 70s and 80s! I found quite a few ads from the time for them being sold in various department and toy stores up to around 1985.
Awesome video, I recognize quality when I see one. Keep it up you'll be able to fully dive into your strange hyperfixations 😍
Reminds me of an old horror movie called "monkey shines" that toy was pictured on the VHS cover.
The toy store music from 102 Dalmatians on the ps1, I remember that game
Even though you warned me about the screamer, that shit still scared me
I had one when I was a kid. I loved it. But I was also scared to death of it.
I will never forget the fear I felt when I first saw that thing in Toy Story 3
This is what I watch TH-cam for--answering questions that nobody wants answers to!
102 Dalmatians on the PS1 toystore music? Hell yeah
I knew I recognised it XD I'm gonna need to replay it.
Lucky I never had these kind of toys…
Oh the 102 Dalmatians game music! ❤
Was about to comment that 😄
My best friend had one in their living room and I actually used to be scared of it whenever we would have a sleep over. I’m such a wuss.
Great deep dive into the concept!
Trying to figure out who designed stuff at Bandai even relatively recently is rough, I can't imagine stretching that far back. The only way to dive in further here would be someone with legal/lawyer-level Japanese diving into old records in Tokyo or asking Bandai for help, and that's maybe a bridge too far for a lot of folks.
It's kind of amazing how much more popular he is outside of Japan though. I've never really seen this monkey in Japanese media, despite its very specific incarnation being a Japanese design. Just one of the many wonders of Japan's role as the world's toy manufacturer for many years.
4:12 this guy's description of the movie feels like Interdimensional Cable. he's got the tone and everything.
Comes out in cod monkey bomb, and a monkey signaling the player that an enemy is approaching on fallout 4 😂😳😳😳😳
The Devil's Gift: The Mystery Science Theater episode, based on a family movie, based on a horror movie, based on a short story, based on a toy, based on a street performer, based on a candy bar.
Thank you for mentioning "Rebel without a Cause"
Why I was here. Cymbal monkey was Dean's first scene with the titles scrolling at the beginning of the film.
Wow, you really put a lot of work into this detailed toy history video, thanks! I may have had one of these, after awhile it does get creepy. I think it was a cheapo version, I don't recall hitting it on its head, or maybe I never thought of doing that.
Well we don't know where he came from but I do know he's there to distract zombies for me
What an interesting video, I also always wondered where the hell that thing was from.
I wish they still sold these
in Indonesia organ grinder is still exist it's called topeng monyet, it was banned in many big cit but people still perform it anyway because high poverty rate in those cities.
Another great video, I really appreciate your channel
it comes from the darkest deeps of hell to haunt our dreams.
The 102 Dalmations game music in the background was giving me flashbacks to a darker time 😟
namely the time one of the kids my mum looked after abandoning the game on that level and the music looping over and over and over and over…. like a… monkey… with a… miniature cymbal… It’s all coming full circle! What does it mean?! 😶
I love these creepy little things
Unpopular opinion: These monkeys are cute
Wrong they look like they would kill you in your sleep
Each Fallout title has a great antagonist. The Master, Frank Horrigan, President Eden, Ulysses and THAT GODDAMN CYMBAL MONKEY.
When i was little one of my consideratiom cousin (Nephew of one of my mother's ex boyfriend) lived close to an abandoned hospital in place full of "Farms"(?), and i wanted to explore in there, and he said
"Nah man... You know those cymbal monkeys..? They were given to cancer patients on there and when they died... The monkeys got possesed and now kill everyone that breaks in"
Note: i was 7/8 And never wanted to even get close to it again
I used to do “table hopping” which is going table to table in a restaurant and offering a close up magic show. for a while I worked at a pizza place that was called The Organ Grinder that had a ginormous pipe organ. there was a special platform for one of those cymbal monkeys to the side of the console and every now and then one of the gift shop gals would bring out the monkey and set it on its little platform. the organist would play to the rhythm of the cymbals for a bit and then pretend it had gone off time, so he’d smack it in the head with a plastic baseball bat, the monkey would do its screaming bit and after a pause start slapping out the rhythm again. one night I asked the gift shop gal if I could carry him out. she said sure and I got a huge giggle out of doing the honors. all this was nearly 50 years ago and I still have fond memories.
One of those little things you don't tend to think about but it's really fascinating once you do. Good stuff.
0:36, Yay, my favorite song writer
1:05 "Mr. Russo cranks his organ..."
Heh heh...
“What fun to watch!…it’s fun…for Mr. Russo too, but it’s also work…Mr. Russo earns money this way.” 😅
I am one of those people who monkeys fall into the uncanny valley, and they fill me with a visceral hatred
Excellent video! Glad to have helped out.
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I have an iconic jolly chimp I bought at a festival and he still works I'm glad to know more of his lore
That first clip haunted me as a kid and still does..
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THAT SCREAMER TOOK MY SOUL OUT AND IT CAME BACK IN
Spirit Halloween's version is named Monkey Chimes
There’s even a Spirt Halloween Animatronic of this called “Monty”.
This is mentioned in the video! Lol
@@okso... they also sell a smaller variant called monkey chimes
In 1985's "Return of the Living Dead," they simulated moving zombie parts inside garbage bags by using several cymbal-clapping monkey toys.
That cymbal monkey in Toy Story 3 terrified me way back when, and it’s still fairly unsettling today. Never knew how deep the history of cymbal monkey toys, but I was aware that it was one of those creepy toys that was popular at one point.