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This show admittedly did catch my attention during the point where I was just about still in its target demographic.

I didn't really get into it but it was years later when I came across it again.

One reason was that one episode was linked in a forum about a fetish of mine (it's not a great example of it though but it's when Pixiefrog becomes human).

The other reason which got me watching was Nikka Futterman <3

Her voice has been in my life for ever (in practice since Mike, Lou and Og) and I discovered the name after her performance in Deadspace: Downfall.

Adam Lyon as a character definitely showcases her talent even if the show isn't really worthy of her.

It's tiresome to keep seeing Delisle, Lamarch, Lamarr and Macneill's names in credits but yet I always have time for Tom Kenny and it was fun to get to hear him doing his Spongebob voice for Jake the monkey but an octave lower and a lot less optimistic.

The concept of this show does feel a little desperate but a show is all about the execution which isn't amazing either. They're self aware about it though; at one point in season 4 after a particularly off the wall episode Jake says what I'm thinking when he asks "Remember when this show was about a boy in an all animal school?"

The world this is in is oddly fascinating but they never shine a light into it. It's a world in which non-humans exist as a linguistic community alongside but segregated from humans. Even insects can speak and yet they are served in the cafeteria.

They went for the jungle aesthetic within the school and I can get that. I liked how there are water tubes going in and out of the corridors and pillars of water in the classroom. In a world with individuals of such contractive shapes and sizes and abilities, the accessibility would have been a fascinating thing to explore but that's not the focus at all and Beastars handles that angle a lot better even if they were tetrapods only.

It's not about world-building, it's all about hijinks. The humor is nothing to write home about but it's disposable entertainment for the last thing before bed.

Windor Gorilla really grew on me but it's Principle Pixiefrog that steals the show especially his dynamic with world-weary secretary Miss. Warthog.

The element of Ingrid the Giraffe having her one-sided infatuation with the human Adam (Adam...get it?) was also agreeable, giraffes are special. The visual gag where her head is just almost always out of frame added something and didn't get old. Her head poking into the frame from the side was also a nice touch. It was cute watching the all huddle poolside, terrified of entry in their assorted swimwear, her head still not visible.

Lupe the very loud hispanic toucan I dare say has not aged well but then again, they never mentioned exactly which country she was from.

It was a fun idea that Jake the spider monkey is transferred to a school for plants because they thought he was a spider plant.

Often quite irksome as Adam gets chided for trivial things, there is a malicious quality to the first two seasons as they're happy to just end it negatively with no real sense of irony or karma. I hate that. AND girl scouts!!!

Oh and it's also kind of gross too.

I was a kid when this one aired and used to watch it after school. The nostalgic vocabulary for a time I wasn't alive in, some of the premises, and even the animation were some high points but a lot of the time it fell flat or a bit stale, even when I was a kid. There was some character acting and guest characters I liked quite a bit such as the nod to Samurai Jack with I Didn't, who was later renamed Larry, and recurring character, Principal Pixiefrog's dynamic with his secretary but it wasn't enough to really save the show. Fun to have on some of the time and a few catchphrases I still use to this day ("two words: soap"), but nothing more.

My Gym Partner's A Monkey was a show I watched back in the mid 2000's on Cartoon Network as a kid but I haven't seen it since 2014. The show was about a kid named Adam who goes to a Animal School meets Jake Spider Monkey Voiced By Tom Kenny and others Animals. The Show was On Cartoon Network From December 2005- November 2008 ending with the Thanksgiving Episode. Anyway the show was alright. 6/10

The show was funny in my opinion. It was well animated, written and voice acted. The show's about a kid named Adam Lyon (Nika Futterman) who gets accidentally transferred to a school that serves animals where he befriends a spidermonkey named Jake (Tom Kenny) along with several other classmates. The way this school is set up is cool. There're pipes that Adam and Jake use to get to class and it looks fun. The jokes are funny too. There's one episode where Adam saves a magic fish named David Coppertrout who offers to grant him a wish which causes him to get harressed by everyone who wants it. The voice actors have good chemistry. I like how they play off eachother. The show ended years ago but I still have fond memories of this show. It could be gross at times but aside from that it was still enjoyable. I'd say check it out.

The trailer for this show certainly caught my attention in my childhood because of the premise. I thought it was an interesting idea of a human going to an animal school, but when I saw the show, I was pretty disappointed in how the concept was handled.

You'd think a human attending an animal school would make an excellent social commentary, but instead it's just a barrage of stupidity and butt jokes. The humor in this show was very mean-spirited toward the protagonist, Adam Lyon, who always gets into trouble due to the antics of his "best friend," Jake Spidermonkey, who's always obsessing over his butt and generally being moronic and unreliable. Adam is also a frequent victim of physical abuse by his animal classmates, and the staff is too incompetent to do anything about it, not even bothering to fix the typo that got Adam transferred there in the first place.

While the voice performances were well-done, the writing for this show was far too ridiculous and mean-spirited, even for Cartoon Network, and I'm not a fan of the character designs. However, I still think more could've been done with the premise, and I'd love to see it explored again someday.