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Dax
Oct 18 2003, 04:00 PM
I had the great pleasure last night of watching an episode of Monkey!

the great japanesse series about the monkey god, who has friends Sandy and Piggy, they are on a quest to get the priest Tripitaka to India.

the down fall of this, is the late time slot, friday nights channel 4 at 1.20am!!!

How I managed to stay awake last night I do not know!

last night was where they meet the buffalo god, and had to put a volcano out with a magic fan, but as always were tricked along the way.
In the end good over came evil, and after everything was fixed they were on their way once more! thumbup1.gif
Dax
Oct 18 2003, 04:16 PM
QUOTE
Born from an egg on a mountain top
The punkiest monkey that ever popped
He knew every magic trick under the sun
To tease the Gods
And everyone and have some fun
Monkey magic, Monkey magic (repeat 4 times)
What a cocky saucy monkey this one is
All the Gods were angered
And they punished him
Until he was saved by a kindly priest
And that was the start
Of their pilgrimage west
Monkey magic, Monkey magic (repeat 4 times)
With a little bit of monkey magic
There'll be fireworks tonight
With a little bit of monkey magic
Every thing will be all right
Born from an egg on a mountain top
The punkiest monkey that ever popped
He knew every magic trick under the sun
To tease the Gods
And everyone and have some fun
Monkey magic, Monkey magic (repeat 4 times)


just so you dont go potty thinking of the words!! laugh.gif
The Doctor
Oct 18 2003, 06:10 PM
Moooooooooonkey! Wasn't that small stick in his ear great?! biggrin.gif biggrin.gif
shadow
Oct 18 2003, 07:55 PM
As kids my brother and I lived for this programme. I started to watch the repeats on C4 but just couldn't handle those late nights.

His wee little stick was brill, could go to any size. But lets not forget his mode of transport, how cool was that to travel around on a cloud.

But was it a fly he could turn into or a wasp? I can never remember.
The Doctor
Oct 18 2003, 08:11 PM
QUOTE (shadow @ Oct 18 2003, 07:55 PM)
His wee little stick was brill, could go to any size.  But lets not forget his mode of transport, how cool was that to travel around on a cloud.

Oh yes, the cloud! How could I forget laugh.gif Wasn't it pink or blue or something?! As I remember rightly, Monkey was on BEEB 2 at about 6pm then, after all the kids programmes on BBC 1 had ended, etc. thumbup1.gif
shadow
Oct 18 2003, 08:25 PM
Yeah, we used to drive our mother mad running around then arguing who got to be monkey next.

Like I say a lot of years ago now, so unfortunately can't remember the colour of the cloud poss very pale pink, though likely wrong. biggrin.gif
The Doctor
Oct 18 2003, 08:35 PM
The cloud is going to drive me barmy now......laugh.gif The colour that is........lets see if a picture is out there!

I can't find a picture of Monkey's cloud......LOL.....anyone help?! rolleyes.gif
Dana_Scully
Oct 18 2003, 08:44 PM
A brilliant series smile.gif But like you say the re-runs are on too late sad.gif

Scully
shadow
Oct 18 2003, 09:23 PM
Go barmy no more, found a web site with a lot of details.

A pink fluffy cloud.

It was a wasp he turned into after plucking hairs from his chest.

The Magic Wishing Staff was the name of his interchangeable stick.

robot.gif
Dax
Oct 18 2003, 10:12 PM
yes it was pink!

the baddies cloud was always a rain cloud.

I thought it was great the way he kept his staff in his ear then blew on it to make it big.

piggie was my fav though, wasnt sure about sandy, he was supppose to be some sort of fish or turtle or something!
the skulls round his neck put me off him, and he always looked really sour!

tripitaka was played by a lady, sadly she died after the series finished at age 27, she had lukeimia (sorry for spelling) it was about 6 years after she played the priest when she died, a common thought was she was bald in it becuase of her illness, but wasn't.
Eckie
Oct 18 2003, 10:40 PM
You should invest in a VCR my good friends and watch Monkey on Saturday morning wink.gif I remember when Monkey was on originally at 6pm, my parents always wanted to watch the news though!
Moon Dancer
Oct 18 2003, 11:09 PM
thumbup1.gif Fantastic programmes, great lessons to be learned...

Pink cloud, deifinitely, but I've come in late on this so don't win a prize. wink.gif

Missed last night - I tape it and (usually) watch on a Saturday morning. Last week, they were battling zombies in a ghost village blink.gif biggrin.gif .

Good overcame bad - of course, as it always will. biggrin.gif
Dax
Oct 18 2003, 11:18 PM
the week before piggy got preganant by drinking the holy water!

that was so funny!!!!! laugh.gif
Eckie
Oct 18 2003, 11:58 PM
I think I remember that one Dax, with snippets of information about coal strikes and 3 day a weeks every other minute whilst I was trying to watch it! blink.gif
Moog
Oct 19 2003, 11:19 AM
6 PM, Beeb 2, Friday evening - yesss. biggrin.gif

That cloud looked like a jet ski.

I thought it was pink too, but now I am thinking it might have been also a bit psychedelic - purply, it used to change colour, didn't it??

Monkey was just so wicked. Didn't understand a word of it, but it entranced me!

I'll be watching out for it on C4 - thanks for that!

Ya-ta-ta-taaaaa!
Moog
Oct 19 2003, 11:21 AM
Oh, by the way, I thought he was called Pigsy (Pigsie?) as I remember thinking he looked like a cross between a pig and a pixie biggrin.gif
Dax
Oct 19 2003, 01:15 PM
yep its pigsy!!

monkey heaven

this is quite a good site for Monkey info!
Dax
Nov 1 2003, 04:03 PM
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ohmy.gif

Monkey6 seems to have disapeared from the tv listings!!!!! mad.gif

what to do? sad.gif will have to watch xfiles instead now in its place.....or I could actually go to bed early! laugh.gif
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