Cartoon
Magilla Gorilla
Animal
Gorilla for sale
Outfit: derby / shorts / suspenders / bowtie / fucking clownshoes
Tagline: "How much is that gorilla in the window?"
Plot summary: Magilla is a big talking ape who wears clothes and eats up the profit of Peebles Pet Store, the place where he was born and is offered for sale. Mr. Peebles keeps lowering the price and Magilla is occasionally purchased for whatever reason (for experiments, for hunting, etc.), but he always ends up back at the pet store by the end of the episode via hilarity ensuing. The only person who wants to keep Magilla Gorilla as a pet is a little poor girl who can't afford him, and since Mr. Peebles is a masochist and hateful he won't just give her the ape, and it's this big circle of hatred and mistrust. (more)
User
Comments: Mr. Peebles was a real prick at the
core but he was also a crude businessman. Is dressing
your gorilla up like a clown going to sell him faster?
You've already got this sad ass gorilla living in your
pet store like a stoned older brother who won't leave,
and nobody wants him, and everywhere he goes they
mistreat him, and he's angsty and Goth and (apparently)
skateboards. So you dress him up in shorts, suspenders,
and big shoes?
Like Mr. Peebles goes home every night and crawls into
bed with his wife, grabbing at his face, cursing under
his breath because he can't figure out a way to give away
the bane of his existence. But he can't just give the ape
to the little girl who wants him because he wants the ape
to suffer, because he gets some sick satisfaction from
the circle of drama he's build around himself. Like
Frankie from the San Diego season of "The Real
World." He stands at the kitchen sink trying to see
how hard he can press the blade of a knife against his
skin before it cuts, and then he goes to work the next
day and dresses up the monkey like Bo Peep. And he
doesn't sell again, and the misery continues, and on and
on.
Or maybe he just put shorts on the monkey to keep the big
primate wang from falling out.
User
Rating: 
5.3/10 (20,991 votes)