History Main / CymbalBangingMonkey

* There's a weapon in [[RatchetAndClank Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time]] called the Chimpinator...if you use it on a robotic enemy, they turn into this.
* The ''Annihilation'' DLC for CallOfDutyBlackOps has a cymbal banging monkey (with a bundle of dynamite strapped to its back) as a weapon.
* {{Okami}} has one of the three monkey gods be a cymbal monkey.
* In ''{{Wet}}'', cymbal banging monkeys act as secret collectibles.

* ''EuroTrip'' featured Lucy Loveless applying one of these to the.. erm.. [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean sensitive parts]] of a male lead in a ''club for adults.''

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' featured one of these very briefly in "The Empty Child".

* One of Mojo Jojo's minions in ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' movie. "I, Cha-Ching Cha-Ching, symbolize chaotic calamity!"

* ''ThePowerpuffGirls'' movie.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode, the Titans hear an eerie "help me...help meeeee..." coming from a closet. An innocent cymbal-banging monkey falls out and says "Help me, help me, help me count! One! Two!...." It's played for comedy though, the scene is hilarious rather than creepy.

* At the end of the final level in ''ApeEscape 2'', you fight a giant robotic cymbal-clanging monkey. When you appear to defeat it, it falls away to reveal a HumongousMecha ape, the ''real'' boss of the level.

* Basco ta Jolokia of ''KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' has a pet monkey named Sally, who wields cymbals... as weapons, and can produce a Liquidroid.

* ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' has one of this as part of a RobinsonGoldbergContraption built by The Brain.

* One shows up in episode 06 of ''DigimonAdventure'' chasing Sora in Toy Town, it later comes after Mimi who destroyes it, attracting Monzaemon in the process.

* ''DoctorWho'' featured one of these very briefly in "The Empty Child".

* Basco ta Jolokia of KaizokuSentaiGokaiger has a pet monkey named Sally, who wields cymbals... as weapons, and can produce a Liquidroid.

* In a ''Series/TeenTitans'' episode, the Titans hear an eerie "help me...help meeeee..." coming from a closet. An innocent cymbal-banging monkey falls out and says "Help me, help me, help me count! One! Two!...." It's played for comedy though, the scene is hilarious rather than creepy.

-->Over and over and over and over, like a monkey with a miniature cymbal...
-->Hot Chip, "Over and Over".

* In a ''TeenTitans'' episode, the Titans hear an eerie "help me...help meeeee..." coming from a closet. An innocent cymbal-banging monkey falls out and says "Help me, help me, help me count! One! Two!...." It's played for comedy though, the scene is hilarious rather than creepy.

Can also be used for comedic effect, usually by having the monkey replace a person who is even ''more'' incompotent at the job in question.

* One shows up in episode 06 of ''DigimonAdventure'', chasing Sora in Toy Town.

* "The Monkey", a StephenKing short story.

* One of the new [[TheHeartless Heartless]] enemies in ''[[KingdomHearts Kingdom hearts 358/2 Days]]'' is the Cymbal Monkey, which hides in chests and then attacks when you open them.

* It was also in the recent ''[[TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' movie. It poofed into Homer's mind to distract him from Marge's nagging.

* In the "Hyper Psy-Crow" episode of the ''EarthwormJim'' TV series, after Jim and Psy-Crow have destroyed the universe, the two are left floating in a blank expanse of nothingness. Well, blank until a cymbal-banging monkey strolls across the screen.

* ''ToyStory 3'' has one. [[spoiler: When night fals on Sunnyside Daycare, he sits in the second-floor security office, watching all the screens. If a toy tries to escape, he turns on the center's P.A. system and screeches into it while banging his cymbals. Lotso and crew are on top of the poor toy in moments.]]

*** As diffused here:[[http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4154/4838304460_9abd984054_d.jpg]]

* In ''Road to Utopia'', Bob Hope and Bing Crosby get a spot in a talent show following a man with a cymbal-banging monkey. The monkey wins.

*Jafar turns Abu into this in the [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]] ''{{Disney/Aladdin}}'' movie.