History WesternAnimation / GeorgeOfTheJungle

* DoesNotLikeShoes: George and Ursula.

The cartoon earned a [[Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle feature film]] LiveActionAdaptation in 1997, with Creator/BrendanFraser as George and Leslie Mann as Ursula. There was also a direct-to-video sequel in 2003, which had Christopher Showerman as George and Creator/JulieBenz as Ursula. ("[[NoFourthWall Me new George. Studio too cheap to hire Brendan Fraser.]]")

* ShesGotLegs: Ursula, full stop.

[[WatchOutForThatTree Watch out for that tree!"''

->''"WatchOutForThatTree"''

* FlatJoy: A running gag from the "Tom Slick" interstial shorts:

* MagicFeather: It's strongly implied that Super Chicken's super-sauce is just a placebo to help him use his ''natural'' powers.

* {{Mondegreen}}: The original theme song contains the line "...while Fella and Ursula stay in step." This line is often misheard as "...while ''Bella'' and Ursula stay in step." Justified because two women who look like identical twins show up when this line is uttered, but both of them are actually Ursula, and there is no "Bella" in the original show. The creators of the 2008 and 2015 revivals were apparently confused as well, since they actually introduced a new character (though she was called Magnolia, or "Maggie" for short, rather than Bella), and the theme song was changed to reflect this.

* ADogNamedDog: George's sidekick is an ape named "Ape".

In 2007, a second animated series was produced for Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Teletoon}} by Canada's Creator/StudioBProductions and the American Classic Media (now a subsidiary of Creator/DreamWorksSKG), running for 26 episodes. The reboot had a few key differences from the original show (namely reimagining Ursula as the daughter of a scientist and adding a new character named Magnolia who kept the original Ursula's jungle girl look). The new series then lay dormant for eight years, and was unexpectedly revived in 2015 with a second season that ran for another 26 episodes and {{retool}}ed the series significantly. This second season/reboot (depending on how you see it) featured an entirely new voice cast, and was instead produced by Canada's Yowza Animation and Singapore's August Media Holdings

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!!The 2007 series provides examples of:

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Ape is more laid-back than in the original cartoon, and doesn't speak in a British accent.
* AdaptationNameChange: Ursula's last name is Scott in this series.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ursula. By the sound of her dad's accent, she could be Latina.
* BadLiar: Magnolia in an episode where she's trying to stall George, even denying she knows who Ursula is.
* BalloonBelly: George, Ape, Ursula, Magnolia, and Tookie Wookie, in episode 13.
* BareYourMidriff: Ursula and Magnolia.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't let Ape's NiceGuy attitude fool you -- he's still a gorilla and can be a force to be reckoned with when angry. Especially during Banana-Quat season.
* TheCameo: [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Bullwinkle]], as a head trophy, [[AsideGlance winks]].
* CanonForeigner: Magnolia, Ursula's dad, the Witch Doctor and Mitch.
* CarnivoreConfusion: One episode had George convincing the predators to start eating fruits and vegetables instead of meat, while Ursula and Magnolia teach the small prey animals to stand up for themselves. This resulted in the predators becoming hippies while the prey become vicious gangs, disrupting the natural balance. Eventually, the balance is restored when George pointed out there won't be enough vegetables for everyone.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: George and Magnolia.
* CheatersNeverProsper
* TheChosenOne: George, several times in "Brother George".
* CouchGag: The opening credits begins with "bum bum, bum bum bum bum bum". The fourth "bum" shows a glimpse of an animal (or animals) in weird expression.
* DecompositeCharacter: The original Ursula is split into Ursula (a brown-skinned city girl) and Magnolia (a redhead Texan/southerner jungle girl).
* DoesNotLikeShoes: George and Magnolia. Though George was seen wearing shoes in a couple of episodes. Magnolia's into fashion, [[AllWomenLoveShoes especially shoes]], yet she's always barefoot.
** A flashback showed that she may have worn shoes.
* DumbBlonde: Ursula's cousins Stan and Carena.
* {{Expy}}: Magnolia is one of the ''original'' Ursula, oddly enough.
* FieryRedhead: Magnolia.
* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted
* GiantWoman: One episode has Magnolia turned into one, combined with BrawnHilda.
* HereWeGoAgain: "Trouble With Bananaquats" ends with Ursula becoming wild for fruit.
* HoldingHands: In "Spoiled King", Magnolia, who was frustrated, is holding George's Hand even if it wasn't seen.
* HonorBeforeReason: George, as demonstrated in "My Own Private Hero".
* HulkSpeak: Magnolia in "Muscle Mania".
* HumanPet: In "Spoiled King," Magnolia wants to be one to Stan and Carena, but they pick George instead.
* IdiotHero: George.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: In one episode Ursula tries to teach George how to tell people about their flaws without offending them, but ends up unknowingly pissing off Maggie when he demonstrates on her.
* InsultBackfire: In "Lucky Pants", after Tookie Tookie flies away with George's lucky "hat":
-->'''Ape:''' You've really got control of these animals, do you, George?\\
'''George:''' Yes. Thank you for noticing.
* IntellectualAnimal: Ape.
* InvoluntaryDance: Mitch's bongos cause Ape to dance uncontrollably.
* {{Jerkass}}: Big Mitch.
* JunglePrincess: Magnolia.
* LampshadeHanging: In "My Own Private Hero", Ape notices that George seemed (more) articulate when he was a baby.
* LiteralMinded: George, and sometimes Magnolia.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: The fathers of both Ursula and Magnolia are mad scientists (well, in the case of the latter, a mad witch doctor).
* MagicSkirt: Magnolia wears one.
* MagicVersusScience: The Witch Doctor and Doctor Scott's conflict.
* MisplacedVegetation
* MisplacedWildlife: There are tigers, orangutans, rabbits, squirrels, sloths, beavers, anacondas, New World monkeys, tapirs, anteaters, and the Loch Ness Monster in Africa, too. And ''panda bears''. While there are lions, giraffes, and zebras in Africa, they don't live in jungles.
* MistakenForRomance: George and Magnolia has more shipping moments than George with Ursula.
* MythologyGag:
** In an episode where George believed he laid an egg, George imagines what [[Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle his son "George Jr."]] will be like.
** In "Trouble With Bananaquats," George refers to Ursula as a guy, but Magnolia reminds him she's a girl. Likely a nod to George's gender confusion in the original cartoon.
** In "Muscle Mania", George briefly became muscular, like in the original cartoon.
** In "Still Got It", Mighty Burbank and Mighty Mary, when they were young, resemble George and Ursula from the original cartoon.
* {{Narrator}}
* NothingIsScarier: In "Afraid of Nothing", George becomes ''literally'' afraid of nothing.
* OhCrap: When George and Magnolia learn that the Bananaquats have grown (because of what it does to Ape).
* RaceLift: Ursula (from redhead Texan/southerner to SpicyLatina).
* SeldomSeenSpecies: The series shows ring-tailed lemurs, meerkats, hyenas, tapirs, marmosets, and tree shrews, among others.
* ShipTease: George with both Ursula and Magnolia.
* ShoutOut:
** "Oh great, a [[Literature/AliceInWonderland mocking turtle]]."
** "George Lays an Egg" has a ShoutOut to ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' when George accidentally loses his egg in a field of eggs and has to find it. Recalls Horton losing the clover bud with the Whos on it in a clover-filled field.
* TempleOfDoom
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ursula and Magnolia.
* ValleyGirl: Magnolia.
* WatchWhereYoureGoing: Ursula and Magnolia run right into each other while fleeing from traps in the episode "Found Temple of Doom". [[MadeOfIron George must be rubbing off on them, however, because they both shrug it off.]]
* WholeEpisodeFlashback: "George Lays an Egg" is revealed to be one in the end. [[spoiler:The egg was really a baby Tookie Tookie]] and George had been telling the story.
* WholePlotReference: "George Lays an Egg" is one to ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg'', with some elements from ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho''.
* YouthfulFreckles: Magnolia and Chuck.

!!"George of the Jungle (Season 2)" provides examples of:
(Make note that Magnolia and Ursula's names have been switched for this series)

* AbsenteeActor: Magnolia is absent in about a quarter of the episodes and Ursula is absent in about a third of them.
* AlmostKiss: George and Ursula, for example.
** On "Nature's Call," after Ursula destroys the dam, she and George argue. It appears the two are about to kiss while having a stare down when Ape breaks them apart.
** On "Lovecano", after she scares away their nemesis Dr. Chicago, Ursula glares at George and growls while he talks. Despite this, they look like they're going to kiss.
* AnimalStereotypes: {{Defied}} with the jerko lemmings, which instead of jumping off cliffs, throw other creatures off them.
* BalefulPolymorph: In "The Flavour of Science," Magnolia starts turning into a grub after eating several of them.
* BalloonBelly: In "The Flavour of Science" Magnolia gets a balloon belly after eating grubs.
* BattleOfTheSexes: George and Ursula throughout the whole season, especially in "Nature's Call" and "Excalibanana."
* BrainlessBeauty: Neferata, Queen of the Desert.
* BrickJoke: In "True Bromance", Ursula's solution to solving George and Ape's broken friendship is to "[[InsaneTrollLogic throw them into a volcano]]". She still wants to do so even after the issue is resolved.
* BrutalHonesty: In "Heart of Gold" after George is turned evil, he lays some harsh truths on Ape, Magnolia and Ursula.
* TheCaligula: In "The Peel of Fate" it's revealed the Ape Council are a group of these.
* CallBack: In "Strong as He Can Tree" when Ape questions her techniques in helping George, Magnolia reminds him that he brainwashed George in "Clockwork George".
* CelebrityParadox: In "Much Ado About Stuffing" George is turned into a stuffed toy and bought by a fan of the original 60s show.
* TheChewToy: Magnolia.
* ChickMagnet: On the episode "Cute as Cute Does", Magnolia hugs George because he looks sweet. She ends up with a tattoo on her belly that depicts her and George in a heart.
* CloserToEarth: Ape, with Magnolia coming second by a wide margin.
%%* ContinuityReboot: A rather odd one coming almost nine years after the 2007 series. It's still somewhat the same series only with some slight changes here and there. Not exactly known why they did it but eh.
* DefyingTheCensors: In "Nature's Call", during the battle of the sexes challenge, the animals decide which outhouse they'll take. When the challenge is complete, George's outhouse has more feces than Ursula's.
* DepravedDentist: Dr. Chicago's mother, who uses robots with oversized drills. [[spoiler: Averted by his father.]]
* DitzyGenius: Magnolia. Despite being a scientist, in "Strong as He Can Tree" she says she doesn't know basic math.
* DumbassHasAPoint: In "For Science" when Magnolia's boss Professor Lang says she wants Ursula brought to the city and made into an attraction, even George knows this is a stupid idea.
-->'''George:''' Did you no see Film/KingKong?
* EveryoneHasStandards: In "Guess What's Coming to Dinner", even Ursula doesn't want to hurt Ape's feelings by telling him his cooking is terrible. She has no problem with knocking him out with a club and running away, though.
* ExtremeOmnivore: Ursula eats both animals and [[ImAHumanitarian people]].
* FaceHeelTurn: George on "Heart of Gold."
* FantasticRacism: "Shadow of a Dolt" ends with Ape and Magnolia making George seal a portal to the shadow world because their shadow counterparts are weird and creep them out.
* FingerlessHands: Cuspid doesn't have hands or feet.
* FlippingTheBird: In "Body Politics," George's Body plays charades with Ape, then end the game by flipping him the bird.
* GeniusBonus: While it may sound like typical cartoon silliness, there ''is'' a species of penguin native to the jungle, the tawaki (though the ones seen here don't really look much like the ones inhabiting southernmost New Zealand).
* HarmlessVillain: Weevil, unlike his 1967 counterpart.
* HulkSpeak: In this season, both Ursula and George speak in third person.
* ImAHumanitarian: In "Kings and Little Ones," Ursula repeatedly tries to eat George and Magnolia.
* InSeriesNickname: George and Ursula call the narrator "Sky voice."
* ItsAllAboutMe: In "Valley of the Magnolias", Magnolia has herself falsely classified as an endangered species so she'll get preferential treatment. To teach her a lesson, Ape subjects her to some LaserGuidedKarma by having her locked in a protective cage.
* JerkassBall: In "Georgus Ex Machina," after George realises how helpful having an all-knowing narrator on your side is, he makes the narrator his deputy. The narrator lets the power go to his head and starts warping reality to suit him.
* KillerRabbit: The Bush Baby of Doom. Actually a case of ShownTheirWork, as bush babies can be much more vicious than they look.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Magnolia claims to know everything about science.
* LethalChef: Ape, as revealed in "Guess What's Coming to Dinner".
* LetsMeetTheMeat: In "Meet Meat" George is horrified to discover meat is made from animals, becomes a strict vegetarian, and tries to make all the carnivores vegetarians despite Ape's insistence that animals eating other animals is natural. When he discovers plants are also living organisms, he resorts to eating rocks instead.
* LightningCanDoAnything: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "Bananium Deficiency".
* MaleGaze: "Valley of the Magnolias" has a quite a bit of focus on Magnolia's butt.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Dr. Chicago's assistant Cuspid.
* MisplacedRetribution: In "Slothpocalypto," Ursula becomes angry after George ties her up, but after biting her way out of the ropes she takes it out on Magnolia instead.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: In "Strong as He Can Tree" it's discovered that crashing into trees is the source of George's super strength. Magnolia crashes into several trees, and though she doesn't gain any muscle, she still has super strength.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ape in "Clockwork George", when he realizes that his actions have caused George to see him as a monster.
* MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about Ursula's past.
* NegativeContinuity: "Meet Meat" ends with George becoming a ghost.
* NoOntologicalInertia: In "Much Ado About Stuffing", when Dr. Chicago's machine is destroyed, everything that got turned into a plushie turns back to normal. Magnolia lampshades it.
* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: A RunningGag in "Kings and Little Ones".
* OhCrap: Ursula says this in "The Ursula Solution".
* OpeningShoutOut: In "The Insider".
* OrphanedHero: George and possibly Ursula.
* ParentalBonus: "My Georging Jacket" has creatures quite obviously having sex behind censor bars, as well as people licking psychedelic frogs. At one point they even have a floofer "floofing" behind a censor bar [[ADateWithRosiePalms when there's no other floofer there]].
--->'''Magnolia:''' Hey, knock it off! [[BreakingTheFourthWall This is a kids' show!]]
* RaisedByWolves: Ursula.
* RealAfterAll: In "Valley of the Magnolias", after escaping her cage Magnolia runs and escapes the wildlife protection agents, only to fall down into the Valley of the Magnolias, which she thought she had made up. [[spoiler: But then it turns out she's hallucinating all of this as it cuts to George and Ape finding her lying on the ground with several tranquilizer darts in her butt, talking to herself.]]
* TheRemnant: In "Guess What's Coming to Dinner" an alien named Carl finds all of Ape's jellies, which his friends threw away instead of telling him they didn't like them, and mistakes them for members of his race. He then mind melds with them, bringing them to life, but when he's suddenly eaten by a lion in the middle of his speech, the jellies are left leaderless and just cause random destruction.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Dr. Chicago, a villain from the 60s series, is brought back with Dr. Scott's character design.
* SameCharacterButDifferent: This series uses the same characters as the 2007 series with some differences. George is a TopHeavyGuy like the original George, Ape has a British accent like the original Ape, Magnolia and Ursula's names have been switched, Ursula (previously named Magnolia) is a feral wild woman, the scientist and the witch doctor are no longer the girls' dads, and the scientist is now a villain.
* SapientEatSapient: In "The Flavour of Science" Magnolia can't stop eating grubs that she knows full well are sapient and capable of speech.
* ScrewLearningIHavePhlebotinum: In "The Flavour of Science" Magnolia finds a species of grub that increases her intelligence when she eats them. Turns out the effect is only temporary, and she has to keep eating them to the point where she becomes addicted. Unfortunately, eating them has [[TemporaryBulkChange other]] [[BaldWomen side]] [[BalefulPolymorph effects]]...
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: In "For Science" Magnolia refuses to hand over Ursula, giving up a chance at fame and fortune.
* ShipTease: Applies to both women with George, even with the name switch.
* ShotInTheAss:
** When George and his friends are destroying the Jelliens in "Guess What's Coming to Dinner," they regenerate and shoot George in the butt.
** On "Lovecano," Ursula falls into a Cake Trap. While eating cake, Ape shoots her in the butt with tranquilizer darts.
* ShoutOut: In "My Georging Jacket", George deflates after accidentally licking a psychedelic frog, referencing an Above the Influence anti-marijuana PSA.
* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Magnolia and Ursula are subjected to a significant amount of slapstick in this series.
* TelephoneTeleport: In one episode, Ursula shoves a bunch of lemmings into a fax machine so they'll attack Magnolia's boss on the other end.
* TokenEvilTeammate: Ursula.
* TooDumbToFool: In "Renaissance Ape," Ape and Dr. Chicago start hanging out in secret. When George and Cuspid ask them where they've been, Ape and Dr. Chicago both give the same excuse; "I was counting trees. You know, one-two-tree." Neither George nor Cuspid buy it.
-->'''George:''' Wait... Trees can't count...
-->'''Cuspid:''' Hey... There's more than one-two-tree trees in the jungle... What's going on?
* TookALevelInJerkass: Ursula, who was called Magnolia in the previous series. She's much more of a feral woman here than in the first season, and thus a lot more violent.
* TVNeverLies: In "Rip van George", Magnolia's future descendant's brain is hooked up to the internet and every time she tries to look up facts on Jungle Wiki, she gets an article that's been vandalized to somehow include pudding. She blindly believes every word.
* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: In "Rip van George", George's time leap is caused by a "hypervine" he uses to save an animal despite Ape's warnings that it's still an untested invention.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Averted in "The Ursula Solution". Tiger takes away Ursula's ferality and no one wants to help her get it back.
* WhatTheHellHero: Ape gets this in "Clockwork George" after he brainwashes George. Even Ursula calls him out on this.
* WholePlotReference: "Slothpocalypto" to ''Film/TheyLive''.
* WomenAreWiser: Subverted with Magnolia. She's smarter than George, but Ape is smarter than her.
* WouldHitAGirl: In "Nature's Call," George tells Ape that Ursula has always interfered in George's rescue. When George said she always slaps George, he actually slapped Ursula before she punched him in retaliation.

In 2007, a second animated series was produced for Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Teletoon}} by Canada's Creator/StudioBProductions and Creator/DreamWorksSKG's Classic Media, running for 26 episodes. The reboot had a few key differences from the original show (namely reimagining Ursula as the daughter of a scientist and adding a new character named Magnolia who kept the original Ursula's jungle girl look). The new series then lay dormant for eight years, and was unexpectedly revived in 2015 with a second season that ran for another 26 episodes and {{retool}}ed the series significantly. This second season/reboot (depending on how you see it) featured an entirely new voice cast, and was instead produced by Canada's Yowza Animation and Singapore's August Media Holdings

In 2007, a second animated series was produced in Canada for Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Teletoon}}, running for 26 episodes. The reboot had a few key differences from the original show (namely reimagining Ursula as the daughter of a scientist and adding a new character named Magnolia who kept the original Ursula's jungle girl look). The new series then lay dormant for eight years, and was unexpectedly revived in 2016 with a second season that ran for another 26 episodes and {{retool}}ed the series slightly.

A series from the [[TheSixties 1960s]], which spawned a [[Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle movie adaptation]]. Produced by Creator/JayWard of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' fame (the series, not the movie). ''George of the Jungle'' was an AnimatedAnthology, combining the ''George of the Jungle'' cartoons with ''Super Chicken'' and ''Tom Slick''.

All three segments were full of the PostModernism, NoFourthWall, and satire that characterized Jay Ward's work. This series lasted only 17 episodes (1967), but has been rerun on various TV stations almost continuously for just over 40 years and has also earned a complete-series DVD release.

George's elephant, Shep, is thought by George to be a giant dog, and apparently Shep believes it, too. The real brains of the outfit resides in the skull of an ape named Ape. He has an implausible [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Ronald Colman accent]] and is exceptionally well-read.

This cartoon earned a [[Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle feature film]] LiveActionAdaptation in 1997, with Creator/BrendanFraser as George and Leslie Mann as Ursula. There was also a direct-to-video sequel in 2003, which had Christopher Showerman as George and Creator/JulieBenz as Ursula. ("[[NoFourthWall Me new George. Studio too cheap to hire Brendan Fraser.]]")

In 2007, a second animated series was produced by Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Teletoon}}. The series then lay dormant for eight years, and was eventually continued by Teletoon in 2016 as ''George of the Jungle (Season 2)''.

* TheNotCatch: Happens twice in a Super Chicken segment. Villain of the week Ralph Hiccup jumps out of his plane intending to land on his horse, only for the horse to move out the way both times.
-->'''Ralph:''' One of these days horse, you and me's gonna have to have a little talk.
** The second time the horse also dodges a falling Fred.

* FunnyAfro: Magnolia's hair frizzes out into a huge one on hot days.

The ''George of the Jungle'' cartoons are [[AffectionateParody a send-up]] of the ''Literature/{{Tarzan}}'' mythos. [[LanternJawOfJustice Square-jawed]], dim-witted George is the king of the jungle. Almost every time he tries to [[VineSwing swing to the rescue]] through the trees, he crashes into one, usually while someone else is warning him, "Watch out for that..." '''[[OffscreenCrash WHAM!]]''' "...tree!". Not that unrealistic when you're swinging on a vine ''attached'' to said tree.

In 2007, a second animated series was produced by Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Teletoon}}. The series then laid dormant for eight years, and was eventually continued by Teletoon in 2016 as ''George of the Jungle (Season 2)''.

* ChickMagnet: On the Episode "Cute as Cute Does", Magnolia came to George who looks so cute, and she hugs him. And when she and the rest snapped out of it, she has a tattoo on her belly, with her and George in a heart.

* ContinuityReboot: A rather odd one coming almost nine years after the 2007 series. It's still somewhat the same series only with some slight changes here and there. Not exactly known why they did it but eh.
* DefyingTheCensors: In "Nature's Call", during the battle of the sexes challenge, The animals see which outhouse they'll take, after they all get done with the challenge, George's outhouse has more feces than Ursula's.

* DumbassHasAPoint: In "For Science" when Magnolia's boss Professor Lang says she wants Ursula to brought to the city and made into an attraction, even George knows this is a stupid idea.

* FaceHeelTurn: George on "Heart of Gold"
* FantasticRacism: "Shadow of a Dolt" ends with Ape and Magnolia making George seal the portal to the shadow world because their shadow counterparts are weird and creep them out.

* FlippingTheBird: On Body Politics, George's Body was playing charades with Ape then end it with flipping him the bird.
* GeniusBonus: While it may sound like typical cartoon silliness, there ''is'' a specie of penguin native to the jungle, the tawaki (though the ones seen here don't really look much like the ones inhabiting southernmost New Zealand).
* HarmlessVillain: Out of Every villain who are a threat, Weevil is the only villain who is hurt a fly, unlike his 1967 counterpart.
* HulkSpeak: Now in this season, Ursula speaks in third person aside from George.
* ImAHumanitarian: In "Kings and Little Ones" Ursula repeatedly tries to eat George and Magnolia.
* InSeriesNickname: the narrator gets called "Sky voice" by George and Ursula.

* JerkassBall: In "Georgus Ex Machina" after George realises how helpful having an all-knowing narrator on your side is, he makes the narrator his deputy. The narrator lets the power go to his head and starts warping reality to suit him.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Magnolia claims to know everything about science because she's a scientist.

* LetsMeetTheMeat: In "Meet Meat" George is horrified to discover meat is made from animals, becomes a strict vegetarian and tries to make all the carnivores vegetarians too despite Ape's insistence that animals eating other animals is natural. This is short-lived when he discovers plants are also living organisms, and resorts to eating rocks instead.

* MisplacedRetribution: In "Slothpocalypto" Ursula becomes angry after George ties her up, but after biting her way out of the ropes she takes it out on Magnolia instead.
* MusclesAreMeaningless: In "Strong as He Can Tree" it's discovered that crashing into trees is the source of George's super strength. Magnolia crashes into several trees and though she doesn't gain any muscle she still has super strength.

* OhCrap: Ursula said that on "The Ursula Solution".

* ReusedCharacterDesign: Dr. Chicago, a villain from the 60s series, has been brought back with Dr. Scott's character design.
* SameCharacterButDifferent: This series uses the same characters as the 2007 series, except for several differences. George is a TopHeavyGuy like the original George, Ape has a British accent like the original Ape, Magnolia and Ursula's names have been switched, Ursula (previously named Magnolia) is a feral wild woman, the scientist and the witch doctor are no longer the girls' dads, and the scientist is now a villain.

* ScrewLearningIHavePhlebotinum: In "The Flavour of Science" Magnolia finds a species of grub that increase her intelligence when she eats them, but it's only temporary and she has to keep eating them and becomes addicted. Unfortunately, eating them has [[TemporaryBulkChange other]] [[BaldWomen side]] [[BalefulPolymorph effects]]...

* ShipTease: Even if with name switch, These women with George.

** George and his friends are destroying the Jelliens on "Guess What's Coming to Dinner" then when the Jelliens revived in multiplication, they shot George in the butt.
** On "Lovecano," Ursula was fallen into the Cake Trap, and she was eating the cake ferociously and Ape shot her once with tranquilizer darts, and nothing happen and Ape shot her 3 more times but 2 darts in her butt, then she got KO'd.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Magnolia and Ursula are subjected to much more slapstick in this series.
* TelephoneTeleport: In one episode Ursula shoves a bunch of lemmings into a fax machine so they'll attack Magnolia's boss on the other end.

* TooDumbToFool: In "Renaissance Ape", Ape and Dr. Chicago start hanging out in secret and when George and Cuspid ask them where they've been, Ape and Dr. Chicago both give the same excuse; "I was counting trees. You know, one-two-tree." Neither George nor Cuspid buy it.

* TVNeverLies: In "Rip van George", Magnolia's future descendant's brain is hooked up to the internet and every time she tries to look up facts on Jungle Wiki she gets an article that's been vandalized to somehow include pudding. She blindly believes every word.
* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: Also in "Rip van George", George's time leap is caused by a "hypervine" he uses to save an animal despite Ape's warnings that it's still a developing invention.

* WouldHitAGirl: In "Nature's Call" George was explaining to Ape that Ursula was always interfered in George's Rescue, then when George said she always slap George, he actually slapped Ursula before she punched him in retaliation.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Don't let Apes NiceGuy attitude fool you, he's still a gorilla and can be a force to be reckoned with when angry. Especially during Banana-Quat season.

* HereWeGoAgain: "Trouble With Bananaquats" ends with Ursula becoming wild for the fruits.

* HumanPet: In "Spoiled King" Magnolia wants to be a willing one to Stan and Carena, but they pick George instead.

* InvoluntaryDance: Mitch's bongos cause this to Ape.
* {{Jerkass}}: Big Mitch

* LampshadeHanging: In "My Own Private Hero", Ape noticed that George seemed (more) articulate when he was a baby.

* MagicVersusScience: The Witch Doctor and Doctor Scott's conflict

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The series shows ring-tailed lemurs, meerkats, hyenas, tapirs, marmosets, tree shrews, among others.

** "George Lays an Egg" has one to ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' where George accidentally loses the egg in a field of eggs and has to find it similar to how Horton loses the clover with the Whos on it in a field of clovers and has to go through the trouble of finding it.

* ValleyGirl: Magnolia

* WholePlotReference: "George Lays an Egg" is one to ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg'', with some elements from ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho'' as well.

* AlmostKiss: George and Ursula, for example,
** On "Nature's Call," After Ursula destroyed the dam, she and George are arguing. When those two are having a stare down, it looked like they are about to kiss then Ape break those two away in order for those two to get along.
** On "Lovecano", after she scared away the nemesis of her and George, Dr. Chicago, Ursula glares at George and when she growls, he talks. It kinda looks like they both are going to kiss.

* BalefulPolymorph: In "The Flavour of Science" after eating a bunch of grubs, Magnolia starts turning into one.
* BalloonBelly: In "The Flavour of Science" Magnolia gets one after eating a bunch of grubs.
* BattleOfTheSexes: George and Ursula throughout the whole season, for example, Nature's Call and Excalibanana.

* BrickJoke: In "True Bromance", Ursula's solution to solving George and Ape's broken friendship is to "[[InsaneTrollLogic throw them in volcano]]". At the end of the episode, Ursula still wants to throw them in a volcano even after the issue is resolved.

* WilliamTelling: The ''Tom Slick'' short when Tom is racing on a blimp. Gertie is competing in an arrow shooting with Marigold standing with an apple on her head. She narrowly misses each shot, but beneficial when stray arrows foil Baron Otto Matic's plans.

* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Shep, the elephant.

* [[ADogNamedDog An Ape Named Ape]]