Line #9 Main/CymbalBangingMonkey


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2	[[caption-width-right:220:He's peering into your soul...]]
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4	->''"Over and over and over and over, like a monkey with a miniature cymbal..."''
5	-->-- '''Hot Chip''', "Over and Over".
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7	[[WaistcoatOfStyle Vests are cool]]. Cymbals are cool. Monkeys are cool. [[CoolToy Toys are cool]]. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Combine all four and it should also be cool]]... in theory. But in practice, [[NightmareFuel it's so creepy]] that versions of these mechanical ManiacMonkeys end up in a lot of sci-fi/horror movies. Kind of the flipside of SillySimian. If you see ''this one'', you know the non-fun sort of weird is on the way.
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9	The TropeMaker is the real-life toy known as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymbal-banging_monkey_toy Jolly Chimp]]. They were first released by the Japanese company Daishin C.K. during the 1950s, though it is safe to assume that the company didn't intend for them to come across as creepy as pop culture would come to find them. Given that monkeys resemble humans (being closely related to us), the UnintentionalUncannyValley might have something to do with why these toys are so unnerving. The often deranged-looking [[SupernaturalGoldEyes yellow]] and [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] further accentuate the creepiness. Compare with CreepyDoll.
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11	Can also be used for comedic effect, usually by having the monkey replace a person who is even ''more'' incompetent at the job in question. Commonly found in the expanded DC universe as the symbol of various incarnations of the villain Toyman.
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13	Compare ManiacMonkeys.
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16	!!Examples:
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21	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AegsJYtwccw anti-drug PSA commercial from 1970s]] depicts a wind-up monkey toy as a [[ScreamerPrank screamer tactic]] in order to ScareEmStraight into not using drugs. ''Especially'' heroin.
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24	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
25	* One shows up in episode 6 of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' chasing Sora in Toy Town. It later comes after Mimi who destroys it, attracting Monzaemon in the process.
26	* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheTinLabyrinth'' ends with an AffectionateParody of kaiju films, where Doraemon and gang decides to take down Napogisutora's army with their own army of giant-sized LivingToys -- one of them which is a wind-up giant monkey who smashes airplanes with cymbals while seated atop a skyscraper (doubles as a KingKongCopy spoof!).
27	* In ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'', when Naruto and Konohamaru are going through Hiruzen Sarutobi's old stuff, they find one that is dressed up as Hiruzen. The toy is a pun on his clan name, Sarutobi, which means "monkey jump".
28	* Salvage King Masira's ship in ''Manga/OnePiece'' has a Cymbal Banging Monkey as its figurehead, going along with Masira's monkey theme. It's also used in the actual process of salvaging ships.
29	** Sugar in the Dressrosa Arc can [[TransformationTrauma turn people into toys]] and [[RetGone erase everyone's memories of them]] with a simple touch, thanks to having eaten the Hobby-Hobby Fruit. The character Sai, who resembles a monkey, is turned into one of these through her powers. As was apparently a random gorilla at some point, as seen when the toy curse is broken.
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32	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
33	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', NonHumanSidekick Abu is briefly turned into one of these by [[BigBad Jafar]].
34	* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' [[TheMovie movie]] "A Sitch In Time" ([[PunnyName pun intended]]), the Tempus Simia idol is a magical time-traveling stone version of one of these, broken into a body and head section. To find the head, the bad guys fly around in a jet waiting for the body to play its cymbals when they get close.
35	* Played for laughs (and quite literally too) in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', where Monkey grabs two cymbals and bashes them on a wolf bandit's head.
36	* One of Mojo Jojo's minions in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie''. "I, Cha-Ching Cha-Ching, symbolize chaotic calamity!" ''(bangs his cymbals together to make a sonic boom)''
37	* One appeared in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', where it poofed into Homer's mind to distract him from Marge's nagging, but eventually stops its clanging to tell Homer to focus on Marge.
38	* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' has one who is very, very frightening to look at. When night falls 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.
39	-->'''Chatter Telephone:''' You can unlock doors, sneak past guards, climb the wall, but if you don't take out that monkey, you ain't going nowhere. You want to get out of here, get rid of that monkey!
40	* ''Franchise/WallaceAndGromit: WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'': The villain uses one as a decoy, hiding it under a cloth to appear as a trapped animal, which when removed would make it start banging and alerting them.
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44	* ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren'' opens with a child's dream of Christmas, gradually turning into a nightmare due to the influence of a MadScientist. A toy like this appears as one of the subtler moments of creepiness before things get really strange.
45	* This was one of the toys that the aliens woke up in ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.
46	* Mentioned briefly in ''Film/TheConjuring''. The paranormal investigator couple have a room full of haunted objects they've taken from past cases, including a cymbal monkey. As the husband says to a journalist: "Nothing in here is a toy. Even the toy monkey."
47	* ''The Devil's Gift'', a film which is is pretty much a shameless ripoff of ''The Monkey'' (see literature). Same concept (someone dies whenever it claps its cymbals), one scene is lifted straight from the story (when it kills the fly), and the ending is pretty much the same (sealing the monkey away while it tries to take you with it).
48	* ''Film/MerlinsShopOfMysticalWonders'', a film made mostly from repurposed clips of ''The Devil's Gift'', wrapped around a FramingStory. When this movie was featured on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', it inspired Pearl to make Professor Bobo dress up as one of these to scare Mike and the 'bots. They weren't impressed.
49	-->Rock 'n' roll Martian... rock 'n' roll Martian...
50	* ''Film/EuroTrip'' featured Lucy Lawless applying one of these to the.. erm.. sensitive parts of a male lead in a ''club for adults.''
51	* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', the Grinch has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUOtBpLd9_w a giant version of one in his lair]], and uses it to drown out the Whos' singing...along with using a jackhammer as a pogo stick and la-la-laing while riding it. He's later found by Cindy Lou with him ''holding his head'' between the clanging symbols until she gets his attention. He stops its clanging one-handed, causing the monkey to malfunction and shut down before he acknowledges her.
52	* Used in ''Film/TheMasterOfDisguise'', before the door to the Nest opens.
53	* In the Colombian film ''Film/MilagroEnRoma'', based on the short story "La Santa" by Creator/GabrielGarciaMarquez, a mechanical cymbal-playing monkey suddenly bursts into action at the wake of a seven-year-old girl, although it had not worked before that. Later, the monkey's spontaneous action at the girl's wake is cited as evidence for her being a saint. The Vatican is not impressed, however.
54	* ''Film/{{Midnight\|2021}}'': It's a cymbal-banging ''rabbit'', actually, that Kyung-mi has in her house, and it appears to actually be a noise sensor--Kyung-mi is deaf. It's still creepy and is appropriate for the arrival of murderous Do-shik the SerialKiller.
55	* In ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' musical and film thereof, the plot kicks off with a bidding war for a music box with a figurine of one of these on top. It originally belonged to the Phantom.
56	* Creator/JamesDean drunkenly plays with such a toy in the opening credits of ''Film/RebelWithoutACause''.
57	* It's almost appropriate that in the film ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', the effect of some garbage bags full of still-animate dismembered zombie pieces was created by filling them with cymbal monkeys with the cymbals removed.
58	* In ''Film/RoadToUtopia'', when Creator/BobHope and Music/BingCrosby enter a talent contest, their act follows a man with a cymbal-banging monkey. The monkey wins.
59	* The children's room at the HauntedHouse in ''Film/TheWomanInBlack'' has several toy monkeys from the Victorian era (and a real stuffed one), one of which is a spring-powered cymbal monkey.
60	* A flashback scene in ''Film/{{Zoolander}}'' finds the title character acting like one.
61	* One of these is the madness-inducing ArtifactOfDoom in ''Amityville Toybox'' and its sequel, ''Amityville Clownhouse.''
62	* In the 2019 ''[[Film/Aladdin2019 Aladdin]]'', the Genie turns Abu into one when he sings the hammy version of "Friend Like Me". When he sings the song properly, Abu gets a full drum kit.
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66	* Discussed in Seth Grahame-Smith's ''How to survive a horror movie'', where a cymbal monkey is named as one of the things you should never put in your child's room.
67	* "Literature/TheMonkey", a Creator/StephenKing short story. In a nutshell, every time it claps its cymbals, someone dies, and the main character and his younger son both describe the feeling of revulsion they have when they see and touch the doll, yet also how they almost ''want'' to wind it up even though they know what will happen when they do. The comic adaptation of this by Glenn Chadbourne from ''The Secretary of Dreams'' (Volume Two) also features a cymbal-banging monkey.
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71	* ''Series/{{Banacek}}'': In "The Three Million Dollar Piracy", a scene opens with a cymbal banging monkey when Banacek visits the office of the president of a toy company. The monkey has no bearing on the plot whatsoever.
72	* ''Series/TheCaptainAndTenille'' VarietyShow in the middle 1970s featured a sketch where Darryl "The Captain" Dragon attempted to play piano with a Cymbal Banging Monkey allegedly named "Kokomo", who actively refused to cooperate.
73	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': One appears briefly in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]", controlled by the child in question and saying "mummy" over and over.
74	* ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'': The opening sequence featured one.
75	* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'' it is the symbol of Krank's toys, a version of the traditional DC villain Toyman.
76	* ''Series/HomeImprovement'': Tim finds one of these among a box of old toys in one episode.
77	* ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'': Basco ta Jolokia has a pet[=/=]assistant monkey named Sally, who wields cymbals as weapons and can produce giant monsters from a hatch in her chest.
78	* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': There is one in the nursery where the first murder occurs in "A Christmas Haunting" It starts banging its cymbals as the body hits the floor.
79	* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In one episode, Stottlemeyer dons a fez and starts banging together actual cymbals in order to [[ItMakesSenseInContext provoke an actual chimpanzee into firing a gun]].
80	* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'': Inverted on the December Holiday special when three were used in a Rube Goldberg holiday contraption. They're more comical than scary, plus they're hard to see amongst the rest of the gags.
81	* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': As Spencer, Emily, and Hanna investigate a doll hospital, a cymbal monkey is among the dolls that comes to life to threaten them.
82	* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Dustin Henderson has one of these in his bedroom. It’s seen briefly in the first episode of Season Three, where Eleven makes his toys start moving to lure him out to where she and the rest of his friends are waiting to surprise him -- Eleven makes the monkey start clapping its cymbals together, seemingly by itself.
83	* In ''Series/Supergirl2015'': it is the symbol of traditional DC villain Toyman.
84	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' had a laughing version of one of these while a repairman had his arm torn apart by a garbage disposal.
85	* ''Series/ATouchOfCloth'': Played for laughs with Jack Cloth's intentionally {{Narm}}y flashback to his wife's tragic death by murder, which has a random shot of a cymbal-banging monkey thrown in.
86	* ''Series/UltramanTaro'' has ‘Naughty Suzie’, a cymbal-banging monkey who acts as an assistant to the first Alien Temperor.
87	* ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': In "The Deadly Toys", a monkey toy claps its cymbals as Wonder Woman fights and is defeated by her robot doppelgänger, created by the WickedToymaker, a version of traditional DC villain Toyman.
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90	[[folder:Music]]
91	* It can be seen in Music/{{Roxette}}'s video ''Joyride''.
92	* ''Sliver'' music video by Music/{{Nirvana}}, from their album ''Music/{{Incesticide}}''
93	* ''Over and Over'' by Hot Chip.
94	* Exaggerated in Chris Cunningham's short film ''Monkey Drummer'', which features a monstrous contraption of mechanical parts, human limbs and a chimp's head that drums to the beat of Music/AphexTwin's "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount".
95	* "God's Away On Business" on Music/TomWaits' album ''Music/BloodMoney''. In the context of the play it was based on.
96	* In the booklet of Music/{{Konstrust}}'s album "Second Hand Wonderland", next to the lyrics of the song "Monkey Boy", which is about madness, one of these monkeys is pictured. The lyrics mention a "magic toy", but it's not clear if the monkey is meant.
97	* The music video of Music/{{REM}}'s ''Shiny Happy People'' opens with a drummer variant.
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100	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
101	* ''TabletopGame/BetrayalAtHouseOnTheHill'' has one of these as an artifact.
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104	[[folder:Theatre]]
105	* ''Woyzeck''/ ''Music/BloodMoney'' involves one of these, and even gives it a song ("Misery is the River of the World"). It was voiced by Music/TomWaits.
106	* ''Theatre/TheDrowsyChaperone'': [[BSODSong The Bride's Lament]] -- otherwise known as "The Monkey Song." In keeping with the way this musical stretches a gag, puts roller skates on it, then attaches jet engines, the climax of the song involves an entire chorus of "monkeys" in their little red vests clashing real cymbals over the final chords.
107	* ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' sees a music box version of this being sold at the opening auction.
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111	* ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'': One of the gravestones outside is a "stone" monkey with cymbals.
112	** The Holiday overlay based on ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' puts cymbal monkeys in the Attic scene with the rest of the creepy toys from the movie.
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115	[[folder:Video Games]]
116	* ''VideoGame/ApeEscape 2'': At the end of the final level, you fight Robo Kong, a giant robotic cymbal-clanging monkey piloted by Specter. When you defeat it, the fur burns away to reveal the true form: Ultra Goliath, a HumongousMecha ape.
117	* ''VideoGame/BishiBashi Special'' features one in the minigame "Stay With the Rhythm!!"
118	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'': Starting with Map Pack 3 in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAtWar'' through ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps''' "FIVE" features a CymbalBangingMonkey strapped with C4 (called the Monkey Bomb) as a distraction device for the players to use. It is replaced by the Gersch Device in First Strike's Ascension.
119	** The ''Annihilation'' DLC map "Shangri-La" features the return of the Monkey Bomb as the distraction weapon.
120	* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': One of King Dice's sub-bosses (and one of the last ones before Dice himself) is Mr. Chimes, an eyeless cymbal monkey on a crane game claw.
121	* ''VideoGame/EscapeFromMonkeyIsland'': A version with a real monkey. The animal is initially playing an accordion that Guybrush needs, so he swaps it for a pair of tiny cymbals, which endlessly amuse the monkey for the rest of the game.
122	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has these disturbing things scattered all over the wasteland. Their eyes light up as soon as you get close enough, sometimes [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]] to remind you that no benevolent God could have produced them, and they may or may not make noise. Even worse, they're frequently either the triggers for raider booby traps or loud enough to wake up a room full of previously-hidden feral ghouls. Fortunately, it's entirely possible to decapitate them either by blowing their heads up, or whacking them with a melee weapon.
123	* ''VideoGame/HarmoKnight'': Tyko's partner Cymbi is one.
124	* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'': The "Cymbal Monkey" and the [[PaletteSwap "Tricky Monkey".]] They're both recurring enemies that [[spoiler:hide in fake treasure chests]].
125	* ''VideoGame/TheLongestJourney'' has one (Constable [[VideoGame/MonkeyIsland Guybrush]]) which is used at one point to solve a puzzle.
126	-->'''April Ryan''': Mildly amusing.. but annoying as ''hell''.
127	* ''VideoGame/LetItDie'' has these strewn about the AmusementParkOfDoom as background scenery, as if the place wasn't already creepy enough.
128	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' had one of these available as one of their "annual" familiars available from Mr. Store.
129	* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has one in the music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nlJuwO0GDs Get Jinxed]]".
130	* ''VideoGame/LittleNightmares'': These monkey toys are inexplicably scattered about the Maw. They activate when thrown and can be used to [[ThrowingTheDistraction distract]] the blind janitor.
131	* ''VideoGame/MarioVsDonkeyKong'': Mario can hang by the tail of a cymbal-banging monkey (called "Monchee" in the manual) to cross over a spiked pit, a long gap or some other dangerous area.
132	* In ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'', the room item "Antique Isle Monkey Cymbals" depicts character Chop Chop, complete with the outfit of the trope's image and a fez.
133	* ''VideoGame/MutantYearZeroRoadToEden:'' A cymbal banging monkey is the UI icon for the DrawAggro skill "Joker."
134	* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': The Hanagami are three Brush Gods who grant [[GreenThumb plant-based magic]], each in the form of a monkey carrying a golden instrument. Tsutagami, the last of the three, carries cymbals.
135	* There's a weapon in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'' called the Chimpinator. If you use it on a robotic enemy, they turn into this.
136	* ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max Episode 101: Culture Shock]]'': A monkey serves as the form reader for Brady Culture's "Home" for Former Child Stars.
137	* ''VideoGame/SpaceBomber'' has a giant monkey mecha banging a set of cymbals as one of the various bosses. Each cymbal clang will release a circular wave of projectiles, and occasionally a bouncing ball towards the player.
138	* In ''VideoGame/{{Wet}}'', cymbal banging monkeys act as secret collectibles, in fitting with Rubi's [[AnimalMotifs monkey motif]].
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142	* In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', a cymbal gorilla toy mysteriously appears and starts causing a ruckus after Akira and company investigate the Moon Tower roof. Akira brings it along with them as evidence, and it later proves useful in the fight against the spirit Tsukuyomi.
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146	* ''WebAnimation/GamerPoop'' featured one briefly in the fourth episode of ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''. A guard asks the viewer if they've seen his monkey, only for the viewer to turn around and [[JumpScare find the monkey staring right at them]]. He even makes [[HellIsThatNoise a bunch of hissing sounds]] just to really amp up the creepiness factor.
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150	* The ''Webcomic/BobTheAngryFlower'' strip "[[http://www.angryflower.com/claptr.gif Clap Trap]]", in which Bob encounters a toy monkey that acts just like the one from Creator/StephenKing's short story.
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154	* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has a Bell Banging Monkey in [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-983 SCP-983]], who is able to [[OvernightAgeUp age a person up]] [[DiedOnTheirBirthday on their birthday with each ring until they die]]. It stops only if the person sings along or dies.
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158	* ''WebVideo/GloveAndBoots'' had shown this as a background prop in their earlier videos until it was sold on eBay because of the amount of money Mario spent on Hanzi's products. A photo of said monkey now resides on the area where the monkey used to be.
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161	[[folder:Western Animation]]
162	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': In "Normal Boy", Jimmy's brain drain helmet accidentally reduced his intelligence to the point of total idiocy; when it's time for one of his climactic brainstorms, the only thing left in his head is a monkey busily clanging away.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}''. Vander uses a cymbal-banging monkey toy to warn the children hiding in his basement to hide because Enforcers are upstairs looking for them. Later Powder fashions the same toy into a crude impact trigger for a hex crystal, never stopping to consider that she has no way to focus the explosion. The resulting explosion not only fails to kill her intended target but also ends up killing nearly everyone she was trying to save except for Vi.
164	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In one episode where the villain is an obsessive toy collector, one of the toys in his lair is a creepy-looking drum-playing monkey of similar design to the classic cymbal-playing monkey.
165	* In ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'', Quackerjack's first appearance has him take out a security guard at a rival toy company with a giant cymbal banging ''gorilla''.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': In "Dexter's Assistant", Dexter makes Dee Dee smart enough to become the titular assistant for a ScienceFair project. She eventually considers herself too good to be the assistant of someone who can't stand having their calculations questioned and gives him one of those toy monkeys to be his new assistant. In the end, Dee Dee wins the fair and Dexter [[NeverMyFault blames the monkey]] for losing. While doing so, Dexter unwittingly places his nose in a position to be hit by the cymbals.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
168	** In the episode "Obsoletely Fabulous", one of the inhabitants of the island of obsolete robots is a cymbal-banging monkey.
169	** There's also the episode "Reincarnation", in which the aliens in one of the three shorts (a parody of imported Japanese "action team" shows like ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'') combined their ships to form "Gigatron", a gigantic cymbal monkey that used the shockwaves from the cymbals as weapons.
170	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': The Tempus Simia, a magical artifact that allows time travel, looks like one of these... for no apparent reason, other than being monkey-themed.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E26SchoolRazePart2 School Raze – Part 2]]": As part of her plan to annoy Tirek enough that he'd help the Mane Six get out of Tartarus, Pinkie Pie dressing up as a monkey and banging her cymbals prove the last straw.
172	* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' has one of this as part of a RubeGoldbergDevice built by The Brain.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': The Toy Monster definitely had one of these for a head.
174	%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' used one in multiple episodes.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" has Homer awakened by such a monkey.
176	* ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'': In "Toys in the Hood", Static and Gear find themselves facing a giant cymbal-banging monkeybot, courtesy of Toyman. ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' ends up having to help them out.
177	* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': At the end of "Mxyzpixilated", Mr. Mxyzptlk turns a Superman action figure into a cymbal banging monkey toy wearing a Superman costume.
178	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans\|2003}}'': In the particularly scary episode "Fear Itself," this trope was used to lighten the mood. 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! Three! Four!...." It's worth noting that Beast Boy smashes this monkey against the wall several episodes later.
179	%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThreeDelivery'': The "Let Them Eat Cookies" episode.
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182	[[folder:Real Life]]
183	* One of the examples in Tom Igoe's instruction book "Making Things Talk" involves wiring one of these toys up as a organic vapor warning device.
184	* Daishin C.K. aren't the only ones to make these types of toys. For example, Z Wind-Up toys has their own batch of small cymbal banging monkeys, though (thankfully) far more cute than the ones put out by Daishin C.K..
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