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17	A 2007 remake of Creator/JayWard's iconic [[WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle 1967 cartoon of the same name]], ''George of the Jungle'' is a Canadian-American cartoon produced between Canada's Creator/StudioBProductions and the American Classic Media (now a subsidiary of Creator/DreamWorksAnimation) in association with Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/{{Teletoon}}.
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19	In a lot of ways, it's similar to the original show, following the misadventures of everyone's favorite heroic but thick-skulled Franchise/{{Tarzan}} pastiche as he protects the rainforest from various threats with the help of an ape named Ape who is his best bud, his pet elephant Shep who thinks he's a dog, and the Tookie-Tookie Bird. However, Ursula is reimagined from George's shapely wife to the daughter of a scientist who has arrived from civilization to explore the rainforest, and taking on the original Ursula's jungle girl role and appearance is a new character named Magnolia. The show's LemonyNarrator remains ever-present, but joining the cast are now Ursula's scientist father and a diminutive witch doctor known only as the Witch Doctor.
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21	This reboot originally ran for a single season of 26 episodes, but after several years in dormancy, the show was suddenly and unexpectedly {{Uncancelled}} in 2015 for a second season when Teletoon suddenly decided to commission for it[[note]]This isn't as strange as it sounds, as Teletoon has suddenly ordered a new season of a previously ended show before; in 2000, Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Babar}}'' series was suddenly revived with a new season on Teletoon nearly a decade after it ended on Creator/{{CBC}}[[/note]]. Due to some convoluted changes in the show's rights between seasons, the new season was instead created between Canada's Yowza Animation and Singapore's August Media Holdings, and also featured an entirely new voice cast and production team due to work on the show entirely moving over from Vancouver (where Studio B Productions is located) to Toronto (the home of Yowza Animation). Season 2 ran for another 26 episodes and retooled the series significantly, most notably redesigning George to look more like his original incarnation and completely overhauling Ursula and Magnolia's characters (most significantly by switching their names around). The second season debuted in 2015 on various children's networks across Europe, and eventually came over to North America in 2016, where in the United States, it aired on Creator/{{Kabillion}}.
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24	!!2007 series provides examples of:
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26	* AardvarkTrunks: In the episode "L'il Orphan Anteater'', George adopts a baby anteater with an expressive trunk that Shep the elephant grows jealous over.
27	* AdaptationalCurves: George lacks the muscular build of his original counterpart (until Season 2, that is). However, MusclesAreMeaningless and he's still strong as he can be.
28	* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Ape is more laid-back than in the original cartoon, and doesn't speak in a British accent.
29	* AdaptationNameChange: Ursula's last name is Scott in this series.
30	* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ursula. By the sound of her dad's accent, she could be Latina.
31	* BadLiar: Magnolia in an episode where she's trying to stall George, even denying she knows who Ursula is.
32	%% * BalloonBelly: George, Ape, Ursula, Magnolia, and Tookie Wookie, in episode 13.
33	* 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.
34	* TheCameo: [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Bullwinkle]], as a head trophy, [[AsideGlance winks]].
35	* CanonForeigner: Magnolia, Ursula's dad, the Witch Doctor and Mitch.
36	* 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.
37	%%* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: George and Magnolia.
38	%%* CheatersNeverProsper
39	%%* TheChosenOne: George, several times in "Brother George".
40	* 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.
41	* DecompositeCharacter: The original Ursula is split into Ursula (a brown-skinned city girl) and Magnolia (a redhead Texan/southerner jungle girl).
42	%% * DumbBlonde: Ursula's cousins Stan and Carena.
43	* {{Expy}}: Magnolia is one of the ''original'' Ursula, oddly enough.
44	%%* FieryRedhead: Magnolia.
45	%%* AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted
46	* FoulMedicine: In "Cone Head", when George gets a nasty skin inflammation that Dr. Towel Scott identifies as "Itchy Swell[[SomethingItis itis]]", the good Dr. tells George that he needs to drink a pink medicine to cure it. However, George refuses to do so because the medicine is so foul it makes him to a bunch of disgust wild takes. Dr. Scott tries to convince him otherwise by stating that the medicine is now bubble-gum-flavoured, but it still makes whoever drinks it do those wild takes, it just also makes them blow a bubble afterwards.
47	%%* GiantWoman: One episode has Magnolia turned into one, combined with BrawnHilda.
48	%%* HereWeGoAgain: "Trouble With Bananaquats" ends with Ursula becoming wild for fruit.
49	* HoldingHands: In "Spoiled King", Magnolia, who was frustrated, is holding George's Hand even if it wasn't seen.
50	%%* HonorBeforeReason: George, as demonstrated in "My Own Private Hero".
51	%%* HulkSpeak: Magnolia in "Muscle Mania".
52	%%* HumanPet: In "Spoiled King," Magnolia wants to be one to Stan and Carena, but they pick George instead.
53	%%* IdiotHero: George.
54	* 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.
55	* InsultBackfire: In "Lucky Pants", after Tookie Tookie flies away with George's lucky "hat":
56	-->'''Ape:''' You've really got control of these animals, do you, George?\
57	'''George:''' Yes. Thank you for noticing.
58	%%* IntellectualAnimal: Ape.
59	* InvoluntaryDance: Mitch's bongos cause Ape to dance uncontrollably.
60	%%* {{Jerkass}}: Big Mitch.
61	%%* JunglePrincess: Magnolia.
62	* KangarooPouchRide: At the end of "Ape Ruth", two kangaroos ([[AnimalGenderBender both male]]) convince George and Ape to compete in a pouch race, with the pair riding in each of their pouches.
63	* LampshadeHanging: In "My Own Private Hero", Ape notices that George seemed (more) articulate when he was a baby.
64	%%* LiteralMinded: George, and sometimes Magnolia.
65	* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: The fathers of both Ursula and Magnolia are mad scientists (well, in the case of the latter, a mad witch doctor).
66	%%* MagicSkirt: Magnolia wears one.
67	%%* MagicVersusScience: The Witch Doctor and Doctor Scott's conflict.
68	%%* MisplacedVegetation
69	* MisplacedWildlife: The African jungle setting has tigers, orangutans, rabbits, squirrels, sloths, beavers, anacondas, New World monkeys, tapirs, anteaters, kangaroos, giant pandas, grizzly bears and even the Loch Ness Monster living in it. While lions, giraffes, and zebras ''do'' live in Africa, they live in the savanna, not the jungle.
70	* MistakenForRomance: George and Magnolia has more shipping moments than George with Ursula.
71	* MythologyGag:
72	** In an episode where George believed he laid an egg, George imagines what [[Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle his son "George Jr."]] will be like.
73	** 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.
74	** In "Muscle Mania", George briefly became muscular, like in the original cartoon.
75	** In "Still Got It", Mighty Burbank and Mighty Mary, in the flashback, resemble George and Ursula from the original cartoon.
76	%%* {{Narrator}}
77	* NothingIsScarier: In "Afraid of Nothing", George becomes ''literally'' afraid of nothing.
78	* OhCrap: When George and Magnolia learn that the Bananaquats have grown (because of what it does to Ape).
79	* RaceLift: Ursula (from redhead Texan/southerner to SpicyLatina).
80	%% * ShipTease: George with both Ursula and Magnolia.
81	* ShoutOut:
82	** "Oh great, a [[Literature/AliceInWonderland mocking turtle]]."
83	** "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.
84	* SluggishSloths: In one episode, George meets a sloth that doesn't react to an act of heroism he performed. In fact, the sloth doesn't react to anything at all. He asks everyone else why this is, and they all conclude [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond it doesn't like him]], leading George to spend the episode trying to win the sloth over. At the end of the episode, the sloth starts clapping and congratulating him for what he did at the beginning of the episode, which was days ago at that point.
85	%%* TempleOfDoom
86	%%* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Ursula and Magnolia.
87	%%* ValleyGirl: Magnolia.
88	* 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.]]
89	* 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.
90	* WholePlotReference: "George Lays an Egg" is one to ''Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg'', with some elements from ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho''.
91	%%* YouthfulFreckles: Magnolia and Chuck.
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93	!!"George of the Jungle (Season 2)" provides examples of:
94	(Make note that Magnolia and Ursula's names have been switched for this series)
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96	* AlmostKiss: George and Ursula, for example.
97	** 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.
98	** 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.
99	* AnimalStereotypes: {{Defied}} with the jerko lemmings, which instead of jumping off cliffs, throw other creatures off them.
100	* BalloonBelly: In "The Flavour of Science" Magnolia gets a balloon belly after eating grubs.
101	%%* BattleOfTheSexes: George and Ursula throughout the whole season, especially in "Nature's Call" and "Excalibanana."
102	%%* BrainlessBeauty: Neferata, Queen of the Desert.
103	* 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.
104	* BrutalHonesty: In "Heart of Gold" after George is turned evil, he lays some harsh truths on Ape, Magnolia and Ursula.
105	%%* TheCaligula: In "The Peel of Fate" it's revealed the Ape Council are a group of these.
106	* 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".
107	* CelebrityParadox: In "Much Ado About Stuffing" George is turned into a stuffed toy and bought by a fan of the original 60s show.
108	%%* TheChewToy: Magnolia.
109	* 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.
110	%%* CloserToEarth: Ape, with Magnolia coming second by a wide margin.
111	%%* 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.
112	* 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.
113	* DepravedDentist: Dr. Chicago's mother, who uses robots with oversized drills. [[spoiler: Averted by his father.]]
114	* DitzyGenius: Magnolia. Despite being a scientist, in "Strong as He Can Tree" she says she doesn't know basic math.
115	* 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.
116	-->'''George:''' Did you no see Film/KingKong?
117	* 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.
118	* ExtremeOmnivore: Ursula eats both animals and [[ImAHumanitarian people]].
119	%%* FaceHeelTurn: George on "Heart of Gold."
120	* 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.
121	* FingerlessHands: Cuspid doesn't have hands or feet.
122	* FlippingTheBird: In "Body Politics," George's Body plays charades with Ape, then end the game by flipping him the bird.
123	* ForcedTransformation: In "The Flavour of Science," Magnolia starts turning into a grub after eating several of them.
124	* 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).
125	%%* HarmlessVillain: Weevil, unlike his 1967 counterpart.
126	* HulkSpeak: In this season, both Ursula and George speak in third person.
127	* ImAHumanitarian: In "Kings and Little Ones," Ursula repeatedly tries to eat George and Magnolia.
128	* InSeriesNickname: George and Ursula call the narrator "Sky voice."
129	* 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.
130	* 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.
131	* KillerRabbit: The Bush Baby of Doom. Actually a case of ShownTheirWork, as bush babies can be much more vicious than they look.
132	%%* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Magnolia claims to know everything about science.
133	* LastOnesPloy: The episode of the 2015 reboot, "Valley of the Magnolias", has Magnolia tricking the World Animal Council into classifying her as an endangered species to obtain priority rescue status (as George is legally required to provide protection to endangered species first and foremost) to make life in the jungle easier for herself, only to end up abusing said status to turn George into her personal manservant. [[OnlySaneMan Ape]], who points out the absurdity of the situation, especially since there are actual endangered animals out there that George should be protecting, decides to put a stop to it by convincing the W.A.C to [[LaserGuidedKarma put Magnolia in a glass cage where she's forced to eat disgusting nutritional kibble and run on a giant hamster wheel for exercise while being shocked with electric prods]].
134	%%* LethalChef: Ape, as revealed in "Guess What's Coming to Dinner".
135	* 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.
136	%%* LightningCanDoAnything: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in "Bananium Deficiency".
137	* MaleGaze: "Valley of the Magnolias" has a quite a bit of focus on Magnolia's butt.
138	%%* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Dr. Chicago's assistant Cuspid.
139	* 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.
140	* 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.
141	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ape in "Clockwork George", when he realizes that his actions have caused George to see him as a monster.
142	* MysteriousPast: Nothing is known about Ursula's past.
143	* NegativeContinuity: "Meet Meat" ends with George becoming a ghost.
144	* 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.
145	%%* NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: A RunningGag in "Kings and Little Ones".
146	%%* OhCrap: Ursula says this in "The Ursula Solution".
147	%%* OpeningShoutOut: In "The Insider".
148	%%* OrphanedHero: George and possibly Ursula.
149	* 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 when there's no other floofer there.
150	--->'''Magnolia:''' Hey, knock it off! [[BreakingTheFourthWall This is a kids' show!]]
151	%%* RaisedByWolves: Ursula.
152	* 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.]]
153	* 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.
154	* ReusedCharacterDesign: Dr. Chicago, a villain from the 60s series, is brought back with Dr. Scott's character design.
155	* 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, Magnolia (previously named Ursula) is a bit less sensible, the scientist and the witch doctor are no longer the girls' dads, and the scientist is now a villain.
156	* SapientEatSapient: In "The Flavour of Science" Magnolia can't stop eating grubs that she knows full well are sapient and capable of speech.
157	* 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]] [[ForcedTransformation side effects]]...
158	* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: In "For Science" Magnolia refuses to hand over Ursula, giving up a chance at fame and fortune.
159	%%* ShipTease: Applies to both women with George, even with the name switch.
160	* ShotInTheAss:
161	** When George and his friends are destroying the Jelliens in "Guess What's Coming to Dinner," they regenerate and shoot George in the butt.
162	** On "Lovecano," Ursula falls into a Cake Trap. While eating cake, Ape shoots her in the butt with tranquilizer darts.
163	* ShoutOut: In "My Georging Jacket", George deflates after accidentally licking a psychedelic frog, referencing an Above the Influence anti-marijuana PSA.
164	* 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.
165	%%* TokenEvilTeammate: Ursula.
166	* 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.
167	-->'''George:''' Wait... Trees can't count...
168	-->'''Cuspid:''' Hey... There's more than one-two-tree trees in the jungle... What's going on?
169	* 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.
170	* 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.
171	* 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.
172	* WeWantOurJerkBack: Averted in "The Ursula Solution". Tiger takes away Ursula's ferality and no one wants to help her get it back.
173	* WhatTheHellHero: Ape gets this in "Clockwork George" after he brainwashes George. Even Ursula calls him out on this.
174	* WholePlotReference: "Slothpocalypto" to ''Film/TheyLive''.
175	* WomenAreWiser: Subverted with Magnolia. She's smarter than George, but Ape is smarter than her.

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