Donkey Kong Country (television series)

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All of the Kongs as seen in the show.

Donkey Kong Country was a short-lived French computer-generated television show starring Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Candy Kong, and King K. Rool. It first aired in France on September 4, 1996, and was originally titled La Planète Donkey Kong ("Planet Donkey Kong"). It premiered late in North America on August 15, 1998, and the original run finished on July 7, 2000. Strangely, many of the episodes were aired out of order, confusing many fans. Regardless of this, Donkey Kong Country won a publicly-voted award at 7 d'Or in 1999, for "Best Animation and Youth Program" ("Meilleure émission d'animation et de jeunesse").

The show featured all of the Kongs from Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, except for Swanky Kong and Wrinkly Kong. There were also featured characters exclusive to the show, such as Eddie the Mean Old Yeti, Kaptain Skurvy and Bluster Kong. Most of the episodes can be seen on the website, the Donkey Kong Chronicles.

Plot

The show portrays Donkey Kong, an anthropomorphic ape in the jungle who happens to stumble upon a magic orb called the Crystal Coconut in the temple of Inka Dinka Doo that names him the future ruler of the island Kongo Bongo. As he and his friends wait for the day when the Crystal Coconut will proclaim him the ruler of Kongo Bongo, they have to kep the mystical and powerful relic safe from the clutches of enemies such as King K. Rool and Kaptain Skurvy, who wish to possess the Crystal Coconut for themselves.

The show lasted two seasons with fourty episodes before ending. The episodes were all very episodic and it was rare that any episode connected to an earlier one. The second season showed many changes, like using new, sleeker styles of computer animation and dropping the use of title screens. Each episode features two songs performed by cast members.

Cast

Episodes

  1. Bad Hair Day
  2. Ape Foo Young
  3. Booty and the Beast
  4. Barrel, Barrel, Who’s Got the Barrel
  5. Kong for a Day
  6. Raiders of the Lost Banana
  7. From Zero to Hero
  8. Buried Treasure
  9. Cranky's Tickle Tonic
  10. Get a Life, Don’t Save One
  11. Orangutango
  12. Double Date Trouble
  13. The Curse Of Kongo Bongo
  14. Speed
  15. Klump's Lumps
  16. Bluster's Sale Ape-Stravaganza
  17. The Legend of the Crystal Coconut
  18. Kong Fu
  19. I Spy with My Hairy Eye
  20. Bug a Boogie
  21. Watch the Skies
  22. Baby Kong Blues
  23. Ape-Nesia
  24. The Big Chill-Out
  25. To the Moon Baboon
  26. A Thin Line Between Love and Ape
  27. Hooray for Holly-Kongo Bongo
  28. The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights
  29. Speak No Evil, Dude
  30. The Day the Island Stood Still
  31. Monkey Seer, Monkey Do
  32. Four Weddings and A Coconut
  33. Follow That Coconut
  34. Vote for Kong-Fidence
  35. The Big Switch-A-Roo
  36. Hunka Hunka Burnin' Bluster
  37. Best of Enemies
  38. It's a Wonderful Life
  39. Just Kidding
  40. Message in a Bottle Show

Lyrics

Long Version

Ooh, aah!
Ooh aah!
Donkey Kong!

Hey yo, look out down below!
Here he comes, banana slamma!

Donkey Kong!
Ooh, aah!
Ooh aah!
Donkey Kong!

Ooh, aah!
Ooh aah!
Donkey Kong!

Hey yo, look out down below!
Here he comes, banana slamma!
Kongo Bongo's hero!

Hey yo, Donkey Kong, let's go let's go!
Here he comes, banana slamma!
Ooh, aah!

Short Version

Ooh, aah!
Ooh aah!
Donkey Kong!

Hey yo, look out down below!
Here he comes, banana slamma!

Donkey Kong!
Hey yo, Donkey Kong, let's go let's go!
Here he comes, banana slamma!
Ooh, aah!

Media

Four episodes were released in North America on a single VHS cassette titled, Donkey Kong Country: The Legend of the Crystal Coconut and was marketed as a feature length film. But these episodes were recorded in poor chronological order, when a flash back shown in the third episode actually happened in the fourth episode of the tape. The American version of the tape was disturbed by Paramount Pictures, Nintendo, and Nelvana.

In the DVDs Donkey Kong Country Vol.1 (Released in Australia) and Donkey Kong Country - Bad Hair Day (Released in the United Kingdom) they also put a few episodes. The other two DVDs, Donkey Kong Country: Hooray for Holly Kongo Bongo and Donkey Kong Country: The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights (Both were released in Australia) only held one episode. After over three years of there being no knew DKC products in English, the UK realeased a new DVD called I Spy With My Hairy Eye. There have been over 30 DKC DVD's but with only five being in English.

Donkey Kong Country was one of the earlier television series to be computer-animated to match the artistic style of the Rare video game series, and garnered critical acclaim in France and Japan but only marginal success in the West. Several elements of the series appeared in later Donkey Kong Country video games such as Donkey Kong 64, which was released a year after the show had started airing on ABC Family (Fox Family).

The show had a large line of merchandise in Japan including a collectible card game, featuring drawings of characters some that never appeared in the series. The card game was later adapted to be based on Donkey Kong 64. The television series took over the TV Tokyo 6:30 P.M. timeslot from Gokudo, and was later replaced with Hamtaro.

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