Must be pledge week at Monkey U

by Meg on August 7, 2008

Bro!—not everyone is Alpha Tau Omega material. You gotta, like, earn it. [Adjust baseball cap and spits chew into cup]

Prove your loyalty by taunting baby tigers, endure paddling by your Big Brother, successfully wrestle Brother Tacker naked in the jello kiddie pool and come back to the House with a girl’s panties by midnight TONIGHT!

[Secret handshake] Please, Xenia V., may we have another?

Extended monkeying here.

and here.

{ 70 comments }

1 Danar 08.07.08 at 4:10 pm

oh that’s so cute.

and brave.
very very brave.

2 Deckard Canine 08.07.08 at 4:10 pm

What hath natural selection wrought?

3 Alex Foster 08.07.08 at 4:10 pm

‘Gotcha ear!’ hee hee hee ‘Gotcha tail!’ hee hee hee ::monkey skips awaaaay and back:: ‘I’ma GETCHA!’

Tiger teen: ::stalks away, mumbling:: you jest wait til ima big tyeggee. i be free hunner pounds of get YOU.

4 bugmom 08.07.08 at 4:12 pm

Awwww, pretty tigers!! I kind of wanted one of them to catch that monkey and swat him a bit….nobody gets hurt, natch, but fair is fair!

5 doxnsox 08.07.08 at 4:13 pm

Love the tiger tail pull.
That’s one ballsy monkeh!

6 Noelle 08.07.08 at 4:13 pm

Oh those crazy frat boys, what will they think up next? BTW, are they selling tickets to the naked jello wrestling?

Love, love, love the monkey! Just hope Mommy Tiger doesn’t show up.

7 (the original) Mel 08.07.08 at 4:14 pm

All we need now are pirates, ninjas and strippers.

8 WannaSmile 08.07.08 at 4:16 pm

I’ve seen this one before…it’s pretty incredible!

9 Not That Mike The Other Mike 08.07.08 at 4:18 pm

Our simian friends like to live dangerously:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9n_moGyTlw

10 Legotech 08.07.08 at 4:21 pm

I think this is the definition of Cheeky Monkey.

11 Kallisto 08.07.08 at 4:22 pm

Okay, cute. And in Irish Gaelic???? Yay!

12 Daniel 08.07.08 at 4:22 pm

Cute, and also obnoxious, like many things I like!

I am instinctively forced to chime in, though, and point out that the little stinker is a gibbon, which means he’s a small ape rather than a monkey. No tail, among other things.

13 WannaSmile 08.07.08 at 4:25 pm

P.S. I’m a huge fan of your site and have you on my “blogroll”:) If you find that you like my site as well, could you add me to yours?

14 Desdemona 08.07.08 at 4:26 pm

Chalk one up for us primates!! [high fives gibbon]

15 ThreeCatNight 08.07.08 at 4:30 pm

Terrific. All I’m getting is the cutesy audio, but the video is “unavailable”.
Oh well.

16 Hyura 08.07.08 at 4:32 pm

he really was having so much fun. he’s all “hey, don’t go!”

17 jess e. 08.07.08 at 4:33 pm

LOVE how fast the cheeky monkey is! Makes the tigers look like sloths. Between the taunting and the swinging, that monkey is having a good time.

18 Lizzypoo 08.07.08 at 4:38 pm

Naughty little booger!!

19 Hon Glad 08.07.08 at 4:56 pm

“Well Mr Gibbon, you are either very brave or very stupid.” Strokes white Persian cat.

20 Kari 08.07.08 at 4:59 pm

I love the tail-yank at 0:54! Tiger wants a piece of that monkey, that’s for sure!!

21 Catsquatch 08.07.08 at 5:04 pm

AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Thats the funniest thing Ive seen in a LONG TIME!!!!!

Im still laughing!!

22 Amanda 08.07.08 at 5:05 pm

Where can I get one of those for my kitty cat?

23 scooterpants 08.07.08 at 5:09 pm

i was kinda rooting for the tiger.
cheeky monkey (er-I mean ape, whatever)

24 auntbaby 08.07.08 at 5:14 pm

what happened to the video>

25 Katiedid 08.07.08 at 5:38 pm

It says video is no long available… anyone else having problems??

26 Theo 08.07.08 at 5:47 pm

Seriously, peeps, embedded YouTube clips are always wonky like this. I don’t know why. Just press F5 to refresh your browser, then try it again. It’s working, honest.

(btw, I adjusted the size & added hovertext)

27 lurkingsmirk 08.07.08 at 6:12 pm

How cute–this must be why there are Asian folk tales about Monkey annoying the heck out of Tiger and outsmarting him at every turn!

28 cmb 08.07.08 at 6:23 pm

Ah, but it’s a gibbon–a lesser ape–and therefore even more awesome than a monkey!

29 Missy 08.07.08 at 6:31 pm

Thanks to Daniel and cmb for pointing out the title mistake. Not to be obnoxious, but calling a gibbon a “monkey” was bugging me, too.

Sorry, that’s what studying primates can do.

Nice video, though. I was cracking up!

Gibbons are one of my favorite primates!

30 weepy 08.07.08 at 6:55 pm

thanks for the giggle! and for having such a heartwarming website….makes my otherwise crappy day, just a little bit better! _weepy in charleston

31 sunnymum 08.07.08 at 6:57 pm

OMG that’s hilarious! I don’t think tigers are used to being messed with! What a look on the gibbon’s face after the tiger’s left!

32 sunnymum 08.07.08 at 6:57 pm

oops, after the tigers left – nothing possessive there

33 Fegli 08.07.08 at 7:51 pm

Kinda hoping those tigers grow up and eat that gibbon… lol definitely siding with the kitties on this one, but what else is new?

34 seeteufel 08.07.08 at 8:02 pm

The actions of the monkey are so typically human, annoying a big beast for no other reason than amusement, that no one watching this could doubt our common ancestry.

35 Paunchie 08.07.08 at 8:08 pm

Nother repeat, but crajee funneh anyway. Love the gibbons, remember the one with the wombat or whatever waiting for the bus all GD day?? ha ha.

36 moggyfan 08.07.08 at 8:15 pm

Gibbon, Thy name is Dinner.

37 weensicka 08.07.08 at 8:40 pm

Is it wrong that I want the momma tiger to come by and eat the monkey?

38 kerry 08.07.08 at 8:55 pm

i love gibbons! and i bet this gibbon knows the one with the wallaby purse who waited all day for the GD bus.

gibbons! gibbons!

39 starling 08.07.08 at 9:04 pm

It was a wallaby, Paunchie, and I’m still trying to figure out what that picture was all about!

40 Meghan 08.07.08 at 9:11 pm

Yay ATO! Them’s my boys. And they behave very similarly to the monkey in this video. Maybe they should rename their big annual party “Jungle”?

41 Blanche 08.07.08 at 10:55 pm

hahahahahaha… Soooo funny! Poor little tigers left hooomiliated. I feel sorry for them… well, just a bit. No doubt the primate was conscious he was dealing with amateurs. I bet he was taking his revenge for all those times he had to flee for his life.

42 amyj 08.07.08 at 11:01 pm

Brilliant hovertext!

I don’t know about gibbons but for sure monkeys can be incredibly nervy. Don’t get me wrong, I love monkeys, gibbons, and all manner of primates. But I’ve had some experiences… I had one jump on my back, startling me; at the same time he (she?) reached around and whipped my glasses off my face. Surprise surprise, a human standing nearby offered to get them back – for a fee.

Then there was the time monkeys came into my hotel room and threw my undies and pajamas into the branches of the tree outside the window…

43 lucy's mommeh 08.07.08 at 11:35 pm

Primate+little turd!

44 chanpon 08.08.08 at 1:02 am

ah, must be the classic “The Diary of a Cheeky Monkey” as narrated by the Swedish Chef.

45 tank 08.08.08 at 3:32 am

why’s jackie chan hitting those bebeh tigers

46 Theo 08.08.08 at 3:37 am

No no no… Jackie Chan starred in Drunken Master, not Monkey Disaster.
(That was Jack Black.)

47 yaya 08.08.08 at 3:50 am

Got a tiger by the tail!

48 C. 08.08.08 at 3:56 am

0:22 -

*tiger 1 tackles tiger 2*

Tiger 2: Hey, that wasn’t me!

Tiger 1: Yeah, but you’re closer.

49 Evan Waters 08.08.08 at 4:29 am

“The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!”

50 branan 08.08.08 at 4:54 am

that is one über confident gibbon!! he knows those big kittehs can’t touch him. Remarkably, Gibbons do this kind of teasing very frequently.
I know of one in Laos named Damnit who was pretty full of himself too.

51 Jing Jong 08.08.08 at 5:39 am

Awesome. What’s with the backwards devil talk at the end?

52 bimmea 08.08.08 at 6:27 am

Why does Craig Fergeson come to mind?

53 Ruth 08.08.08 at 11:30 am

That gibbon had better get his yayas now, because those tigers won’t be cubs much longer. I sense gibby-snacks in the future.

54 Sonora 08.08.08 at 12:47 pm

I just love these gibbon video’s! They’re my favourite primates :) They have so much fun, great sense of humour!

55 slythwolf 08.08.08 at 1:48 pm

This is like the opposite of those “messin’ with Sasquatch” commercials.

56 Katie Kat 08.08.08 at 2:29 pm

ZOMG! I love it where the gibbon skips off all sideways-like and then swings up into the tree and back down and BOPS the tiger cub on the head!

LMAO! That gibbon reminds me of Spiderman!

MADE MY DAY!

57 Ponygirl 08.08.08 at 2:34 pm

Thats no Monkey! That is my Fav lesser ape; a Gibbon!

58 Catsquatch 08.08.08 at 3:01 pm

Ok, the hover text just kilt me ;D

59 wagthedogma 08.08.08 at 3:22 pm

Am I the only one a bit troubled by how much Meg seems to know about fraternity hazing?

60 Theo 08.08.08 at 3:30 pm

I thought it was kind of a turn-on.

61 wagthedogma 08.08.08 at 4:26 pm

Kinky Ed.! :D

62 jmuhj 08.08.08 at 7:16 pm

Tiger to bro: ‘What’s for dinner?’

Bro tiger: ‘Looks like monkey kebabs again!’

63 L C 08.08.08 at 11:40 pm

awesome!!!! …if only they made them in a smaller size to torment my cat, so maybe he’d gain some perspective and stop tormenting the girls!

64 Elvira 08.09.08 at 10:13 am

Wow, what a dumb monkey! He got lucky, but this is definitely not a good survival strategy.

65 Ross1219 08.09.08 at 11:26 am

He actually pulls their ears! What a cheeky lesser ape. This will be my favorite for a while.

66 Snorga 08.10.08 at 6:16 am

I like that theme song; it sounded almost like a video game. “Tease the Tiger…” I’d play that!

67 Snorga 08.10.08 at 6:17 am

Okay, not theme song, background music. I’ve been awake way too long.

68 darkshines 08.10.08 at 9:21 am

Come on everybody
It’s gibbon time

We’re the Goodies
How do you do?
We’ve just been down to the zoo
We saw a monkey in a cage
Doing a dance
That could be the rage
It’s not hard
So let’s all do the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo

Do, do, do the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
We are here to show you how
Ooo, ooo, ooo
Ooo, ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
He’s just like you
So come on and do
The funky gibbon now

Dogs are always howlin’
Cats are always yowlin’
But gibbons only
Like to sing and dance
Oop, oop, sh boop

You’ll be like that monkey
Get a little funky
And in a while
Start to smile
Gibbon half a chance

Do, do, do the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
We are here to show you how
Ooo, ooo, ooo
Ooo, ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
He’s just like you
So come on and do
The funky gibbon now

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

We slap that gibbon
Oh, feel the rhythm
And you’ll groove
And dance up to the planet of apes

Do, do, do the funky gibbon
We are here to show you how
Ooo, ooo, ooo
Ooo, ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
He’s just like you
So come on and do
The funky gibbon now

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

Now everybody get ready
To do the funky gibbon
Drop one arms down by your knees
And the other arm
Reach up to the trees

Let your wrist go limp
Like a bent baboon
Get ready to sing
This gibbon’s tune

Will you give me an ooo
(Ooo)
Will you give me another ooo
(Ooo)
And will you give me an ooo
(Ooo)
Now put ‘em together
What’ve you got
(Ooo, ooo, ooo)

Do, do, do the funky gibbon
We are here to show you how
Ooo, ooo, ooo
Ooo, ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
(The funky gibbon)
He’s just like you
So come on and do
The funky gibbon now

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon.
Ooo, ooo, ooo the funky gibbon

He promised to buy me
A bunch of blue gibbons
To tie up my bonny brown

Ooo, ooo, the funky gibbon
The funky gibbon

69 amber 08.11.08 at 2:34 am

that was great! loved the music :) They should make a kid’s tv series out of that one!

70 janene 12.02.08 at 12:24 am

just had to make sure the ape-ness was pointed out… missy, i feel ya! studying primates has turned me into one of those “um ’scuse me, not a MONKEY!” people.
if you cant beat em, join em!

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