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Monchhichis

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Only monkey in the Wu-Tang Clan

Outfit: monogrammed dunce hat / jacket / pugil stick

Tagline: "Way up in the trees live the Monchhichis!"

Plot summary: As if being dressed like Gandalf wasn't enough, Wizzar was a member of the "Monchhichis," another in Hanna-Barbera's obsessive Middle-Earthian attempt to play God and create as many new races and species as possible.  The Snorks lived underwater, the Smurfs lived in the forest, and the Monchhichis (now more than just a Mexican restaurant in Jamaica) lived high above the clouds in especially tall trees.  Picture Endor, but replace the Muppet bear midgets with a line of Japanese plush monkey toys who suck their thumbs.   That was really their selling point, they were soft monkey babies with hard plastic faces making "O-face" into which one of their hard plastic hands could be inserted.  Mattel thought it'd be a good idea to market these abominations in the United States and Hanna-Barbera, being Hanna-Barbera, made it into a show about monkey ecological mishaps.

The plot of each show revolved around a core group of young Monchhichis having fun in their treetop paradise until the Grumplins, purple Monchhichis that lived in a place called "Grumplor," decide to pick on them and disrupt their monkey day.  The dramatically non-violent fights would continue until Wizzar, big time magician and elder of Monchia, would come up with something clever to send the Grumplins packing.  This is every episode.  Except, of course, for that one episode where the Grumplins are picking on two of the smaller, inept Monchhichis, only to have Boromir come to the rescue and get shot with 400 arrows.  And he dies triumphantly, even though Legolas, who doesn't even get hit for three three-hour movies about fighting, was like twenty feet away and couldn't even manage a brisk walk to lend a hand.  Hell, he could've just stood where he was and shot some arrows over to help out, but nope, he was too busy surfboarding down things and playing car-trip games with his dwarf.    (more)

User Comments: The Monchhichis wore mostly headbands and vests (one had a fannypack), so Wizzar's no-pants no-problem Chesney-esque attitude towards jacket accessorizing is the epicenter and pinnacle of Monchhichi fashion.   The huge "W" on his hat helps the others in the village remember that his name is Wizzar, because when your name is WIZZAR you want EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO REMEMBER IT.

Besides, your monkey child is growing to grow up to be a "wizard," so you name him Wizzar?  What's the point in that?  Why not just throw the "d" on the end for the sake of specificity and so your monkey child doesn't get his monkey ass monkey-beaten by cooler, more respectable teen Monchhichis like "Dumptake."  There was never enough masturbation and turd-hurling on these monkey shows.

User Rating: 5.1/10 (25,017 votes)