I wish I were a Monkey
I wish I were a Monkey
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#0I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 10:22am
Life has seemed unrelentingly grim lately, and I've spent many hours watching Law & Order reruns on cable (What a great show!).
During the reruns on the USA Network, there has been a Sears ad for back-to-school dorm room furnishings that features people getting up & ready for school, set to a tune about "how I wish I were a monkey, swinging on a vine....I wish I were a Monkey living in a tree", etc. It makes me squeal with delight.
Does anyone know who sings this delightful Monkey-centric song and what it is titled? If I could listen to this song a few hundred times a day, I know life would be brighter!
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#1re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 11:39am
Kinda replying to the title, sorry not really answering the question, but I wish I had a monkey, they're some of my favorite animals.
End threadjack.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#2re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 11:49amI've never heard of the song, I was going to send you a crate of bananas.
"I'm the STAR!"--Daniel Reichard during Glory Daze sound check
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:07pmAnd that is indeed part of it, Wicked & Betty: I LOVE Monkeys! I go see the Monkeys at the Lincoln Park Zoo whenever I'm down and even have a "Monkey of the Week" picture posted in my office.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#4re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:08pmMy monkey needs to be spanked
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#6re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:17pmImagine if we were monkeys, you know what our first line of defense would be when attacked...
#7re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:19pmbitter, cutting remarks about idina?
XING
PED
PED
#8re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:21pm
no, RobbO, that's a GAY's first line of defense.
#9re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:22pm
**thinks straight**
bad hair, wardrobe and design sense?
XING
PED
PED
#10re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:24pm
Nice. But that's still not what I meant.
Doesn't anyone know what a monkey does? Come on now...imagine doing it when cornered by a burglar in a dark alleyway...I think it'd scare any would-be assailant off in a heartbeat.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#11re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:46pmFlings POO!
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:57pmOn Animal Planet, they did a show about especially disgusting animal defenses and showed a species of Monkey that would pee on it's predators. The Monkeys would be sitting in a tree eating and scratching, looking unconcerend. The Leopard would creep up underneath the monkey, getting into position for a strike. Then, just as the leopard got ready to spring....WHEE! Monkey pee would stream down right on the leopards head. The Leopard would slink away looking disgusted and embarrassed and the other leopards would LAUGH!
#14re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 12:59pm
LOL! Joe, that's hysterical. But I was thinking of what Diva mentioned.
Can you even imagine the look of horror on a burglar if you walked down the stairs, caught him with the silverware, dropped your drawers and started flinging poop at him?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 1:01pmNot me. I'm poo-shy. I can't even do it in a public bathroom.
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#16re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 1:06pm
Well then, what is it?
I thought monkeys flinged poo when angry...?
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#17re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 1:07pm
They do! It's funny. I've seen it. They also do it because they think it's funny.
There's also a species of monkey that greets its fellow monkey by showing it his "special parts."
TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#18re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 1:10pmHell, I do that with my neighbors all the time......
"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2
#19re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 1:42pmJason Bateman hosted SNL this past season and he played the host of a talk show called "Monkeys throwing poo at celebrities". It was quite funny. The monkey threw poo at Darrel Hammond as Sean Connery, lol.
"I'm the STAR!"--Daniel Reichard during Glory Daze sound check
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/3/05 at 1:53pm
I saw that sketch and figured it had to be a new show on FX- "Monkeys Flinging Poo at Celebrities."
If it catches on we'll see
"Monkeys Tossing Crap on Gay Celebrities" On Bravo
"Monkeys Tossing Salads with Emeril" on Food TV
"How much Monkey Sh*t can you catch with your face?" on Spike.
"Monkeys Throw Poop at Hilary Clinton" on Fox
"Trading Spaces- redorated by poo-slinging Monkeys!" on TLC
"Monkensheit! Tales of the Poo-flinging Nazi Monkey Soldiers" on A&E
"Real World Monkey House" on MTV
"Law & Order: MFP" on NBC
But enough Monekyshines! Doesn't anyone know about this song?
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: I wish I were a Monkey
Posted: 8/4/05 at 11:49amSo no one knows what artist/song this is? I may cry-- a very un-monkeylike thing to do!
#22re: i wish i were a Monkey
Posted: 8/4/05 at 11:58am
i can't even do it in a public bathroom.
shocked, shocked, i tell you!
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#23re: i wish i were a Monkey
Posted: 8/4/05 at 12:12pm
I did a little googling for you Joe. Apparently it's by a guy named Ralph Covert who writes songs for children. It's called Just Like the Monkeys. Here's the link to his website which has the lyrics posted.
Just Like the Monkeys
Updated On: 8/4/05 at 12:12 PM
#24re: i wish i were a Monkey
Posted: 8/4/05 at 12:21pm
Joe,
My company edits commercials and Sears is one of our clients. Let me see if we did that spot and maybe I can find out who it is.
I just saw it last night...fabu.
*Edit* looks like yoda gave you the answer!
Updated On: 8/4/05 at 12:21 PM
Videos