10.08.10 by Jeff

Gorillaz / Ticket Giveaway

Heads up Vancouver, Gorillaz are rolling through town and I have been hooked up with a pair of tickets to the show! Who wants them?

gorillaz escape to plastic beach tour vancouver booooooom giveaway

gorillaz escape to plastic beach tour vancouver booooooom giveaway

Let me know who your favourite monkey character is, from any movie or tv show, in the comments below!

You must live in (or  within driving distance of) Vancouver to enter!

I’ll pick a winner on Friday.

REMEMBER to “uncheck” the button to be notified of responses to your comment! (Otherwise you will get a flood of emails!)










Advertisement
115 Responses to “Gorillaz / Ticket Giveaway”
  1. 10:08:10 Cory Gibbons:

    Curious George

  2. 10:08:10 BLAKE SIIK:

    The 12th Monkey.

  3. 10:08:10 Sabrina Whiffen:

    Curious George!

  4. 10:08:10 joseph:

    Cuuuuuurious George!

    • 10:08:10 joseph:

      damn!

  5. 10:08:10 Chase Kunz:

    Monkey from Dexter’s Lab.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHvoY73-P4

    • 11:08:10 Yvy Truong:

      Beat me to it ): <

  6. 10:08:10 William Alexander:

    The Monkey Kind

  7. 10:08:10 Claire:

    KIIIIIIING KOOOOOOONG!!!!!!!!!!

  8. 10:08:10 vuudoo:

    homer’s helper monkey

  9. 10:08:10 Amy Huang:

    Curious George!

  10. 10:08:10 Jason:

    The monkey from the old movie Bedtime for Bonzo starring Ronald Reagan. Haha.

  11. 10:08:10 Amanda:

    Mojo Jojo from the Power Puff Girls of course.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfv7gtcNhx8&feature=related

  12. 10:08:10 >>areml:

    Cornelius from Planet of the Apes. (technically not a monkey…)

  13. 10:08:10 Jennifer:

    King Louie from the Jungle Book

  14. 10:08:10 Concha:

    Donkie Kong. A muerte.

  15. 10:08:10 Brian Rush:

    The Monkey Shines surveillance monkey in Toy Story 3!

  16. 10:08:10 Todd Smith:

    King Kong. The techniques used to animate Kong in the original 1933 stop-motion film were perfected by Willis O’Brien, who was a great contributer to the genre of animation and its process. Without that knowledge, the Gorillaz visual style would not have ever been possible.

  17. 10:08:10 Henry Becker:

    Sock Monkey all the way!

  18. 10:08:10 Preston McPeak:

    Dexter from Night at the Museum!

  19. 10:08:10 Maciel Vargas:

    Captain Charles “Chuck” Simian from “Captain Simian & the Space Monkies.” Who wouldn’t love a show/character with that name?

    • 10:08:10 Gordon Higgins:

      The Monkey from that (much under rated) Brendan Fraser Monkey Bone.

  20. 10:08:10 alanna:

    all of them from planet of the apes!

  21. 10:08:10 Simeonf:

    The monkey in Monkey Goes West from 1966! BEST EVER!

    • 10:08:10 simeonf:

      from sweden.. fuck

  22. 10:08:10 icitea/clare:

    oh my god

    THIS GIVEAWAY IS AMAZING.

    i love… the Monkey King from Journey to the West! It was a really popular chinese drama series back in the day, and he was practically my role model growing up.

  23. 10:08:10 NICHOLE ONEAL:

    Sam!!! from the I Dream of Jeanie “Fly Me to the Moon” episode. He was a chimp and then Jeanie turns him human. When I was a kid, I video taped that episode and watched it almost every night.

    • 10:08:10 Nichole O'Neal:

      It was on Nick at Nites Summer Beach Party if any one remembers from the mid 90s

  24. 10:08:10 Richard Weald:

    My favourite monkey is the one from the Indiana Jones movie who eats the poison fruit and saves Indiana Jones. He was owned by a Turk and was a seemingly evil creature, but his cruel nature and desire to steal ended up serving the greater good- sort of like Smeagol in Lord of the Rings.

  25. 10:08:10 jed:

    Abu from Aladdin!

  26. 10:08:10 Andrew Vaughan:

    Magilla the Gorilla, of course.

  27. 10:08:10 Matty J:

    Spike from Ace Ventura

  28. 10:08:10 Vanessa:

    The evil monkey from POWER PUFF GIRLS!!!!
    MOJO JOJO!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfeaIiDc8kw&feature=related

  29. 10:08:10 Tim Berkelmans:

    My favourite is Evil Monkey from Family Guy, the one that lives in Chris’s closet.. (yes, he scares me)

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

  30. 10:08:10 yaeeun:

    mojo jojo! yes, i’ll admit that i watched the power puff girls!
    and mighty joe young! i cried in that movie! i was young though!

  31. 10:08:10 nick s:

    dr, zaius guest appearance in simpsons

  32. 10:08:10 Thao:

    Gunther from the ‘Mechanical House’ episode on Futurama

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_VGsyAe1ss

  33. 10:08:10 Christian:

    Able the rhesus monkey, who was the first to monkey to go to space and make it back. In addition to being an astronaut he rocked a bitchin retro space suit.

  34. 10:08:10 Jeff Santos:

    Gleek (Space Monkey with the Wonder Twins)

    used to live in van but yes i’m in van that week!!

  35. 10:08:10 Leopard:

    Steeeeeve, the Monkey
    (cloudy, meatballs, yea yea)

  36. 10:08:10 LapalmeKevin:

    Duston in the movie Duston!!

  37. 10:08:10 EC:

    The apes in the “Planet of the Apes” musical with Troy Mcclure on The Simpsons…
    “Dr. Zaius Dr. Zaius oooooh Dr. Zaius,” Classic.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANpitsb4wGM

  38. 10:08:10 Jess W:

    Bollo! From Mighty Boosh is my favourite ♥

  39. 10:08:10 julia:

    The Arctic Monkeys and Bubbles! But…oh! These are real… then, the latest I’ve seen, Cymbal-banging monkey from Toy Story 3

  40. 10:08:10 Hilary:

    Check out this on-theme TED Talk, “A Monkey Economy as Irrational as Ours”:
    http://www.ted.com/talks/laurie_santos.html

    “The silly choices we make, monkeys make too.”

  41. 10:08:10 Brittney:

    Rafiki! from the Lion King!

  42. 10:08:10 Emily:

    The flying monkeys from the wizard of oz! Terrifyingly awesome!

  43. 10:08:10 kimi:

    Babar’s friend Zephir.

    (I don’t want the tickets–I’m not in Vancouver in November–I just wanted to answer the question)

  44. 10:08:10 sharrrr:

    Mojo! Homer’s helper monkey. PRAY FOR MOJO. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d4/The_Simpsons_5F15.png

  45. 10:08:10 tracy:

    The monkey on the Gilligan’s Island episode (season 3, “Bang! Bang! Bang!” episode) when they find modelling clay and it turns out to be explosive The monkey throws plates and makes them go boom!

  46. 10:08:10 Mark:

    Two words: Grape Ape

  47. 10:08:10 Ellie:

    Wallace from “The Fall” by Spike Jonze!
    Such a dope movie, but Wallace is a cool nod to Darwin’s colleague/competitor….

  48. 10:08:10 Becky:

    Flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz!

  49. 10:08:10 Andy:

    Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp!

  50. 10:08:10 Joel:

    Abu from Aladdin :)

  51. 10:08:10 Jason:

    KOKO – The talking Gorilla.

  52. 10:08:10 chisaka:

    Goku from Dragonball, in the earlier part of the series he was a were-monkey.

  53. 10:08:10 Shon:

    RAFIKI

    Asante sana Squash banana, Wiwi nugu Mi mi apana

  54. 10:08:10 Jeremy:

    King Louie from the Jungle Book.

    Now I’m the king of the swingers
    Oh the jungle VIP
    I’ve reached the top and had to stop
    And that’s what’s bothering me.

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

  55. 10:08:10 Jeremy:

    The Monkeys the Band

  56. 10:08:10 Jeremy:

    The drumming gorilla from the Cadbury commercial

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow_o78zjo14

  57. 10:08:10 tron:

    Steve from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, he rips out the heart of a gummi bear and eats it mid-combat. Bad ass monkey.

  58. 10:08:10 Amanda:

    Sun Wu Kong aka the Monkey King from the Chinese epic Journey to the West ;) b

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Wukong

    Clearly the most badass monkey out there.

  59. 10:08:10 alex:

    The Monkey Drummer by Chris Cunningam and Aphex Twin

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1ZGIrNf71Q

  60. 10:08:10 Andrew Brian Farris:

    Dr. Zaius from the Simpson’s Planet of the Ape’s musical.

  61. 10:08:10 Rosy:

    The ITV/PG Tips Monkey

  62. 10:08:10 Jordan:

    Clyde from the Clint Eastwood movies “Every Which Way But Loose” and “Any Which Way You Can”

  63. 10:08:10 Jay:

    Cranky Kong from Donkey Kong Country… because champions listen to gramophones

  64. 10:08:10 Tarah:

    The evil point monkey in Chris’ closet in Family Guy, who turns out to not be evil at all!

  65. 10:08:10 Davis:

    Jack, Captain Barbossa’s monkey from Pirates of the Caribbean

  66. 10:08:10 Hart:

    Sonson from the 1984 video game “SonSon” and “Marvel vs. Capcom 2″

  67. 10:08:10 Ruthie:

    The flying monkeys from Wizard of Oz

  68. 10:08:10 angus:

    evil monkey from family guy

  69. 10:08:10 Russell:

    King Louie. The orangutan who kidnaps Mowgli in The Jungle Book!

  70. 10:08:10 daniel:

    The first monkey to touch the monolith in 2001 A Space Odyssey. Soon as he got that science, he went to town whacking folks with that bone.

  71. 10:08:10 Nicole:

    Mojo Jojo from the Powerpuff Girls!!

  72. 10:08:10 Kyle:

    definitely has to be the chimps on ice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOj_QoSH6is

  73. 10:08:10 Jordan Ettinger:

    Jack from MVP: Most Vertical Primate

  74. 10:08:10 Ryan:

    Rafiki from The Lion King!

  75. 10:08:10 Zhengdong:

    Sun Wu Kong

  76. 10:08:10 Colin:

    Coconuts from Sonic the Hedgehog!! A robot AND a monkey from the early Sonic the Hedgehog days, he was a Badnick and also Robotnik’s janitor.

    http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100526010354/sonic/images/e/ea/Coconuts_3.png

    That’s my vote

  77. 10:08:10 Kuma:

    My vote is definitely the monkey from “Outbreak.” Really, that monkey just gave me an excuse to skip class in college. “‘Why didn’t you attend color theory?’ ‘Erm… bitten by a monkey and contracted the “Deadly Motabo Virus.™”‘” Also, “Deadly Motabo Virus”™ just kind of rolls off the tongue. Say it once and you’re hooked.

    • 10:08:10 Kuma:

      Excuse me, I upon further research it’s “Deadly Motaba Virus™.”

  78. 10:08:10 rillo:

    mr. teenie – krusty the klown’s monkey sidekick

  79. 10:08:10 Chris:

    Monkey from the dubbed English version of the japanese tv show Saiyuki, of course. BEST TV THEME SONG EVAR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iUMWy4hqAg

  80. 10:08:10 Dan:

    Django. Quinns monkey from sealab.

  81. 10:08:10 David:

    my favourite monkey is ME!!

  82. 10:08:10 jordan:

    Pankun.
    He’s a chimp in Japan that goes on real life adventures with his best pal, a bulldog named James.

  83. 10:08:10 Jake:

    Certainly tis Dunston, star of the awesome film Dunston Checks In!

  84. 10:08:10 Mitchell Rossit:

    KING LOUI FROM JUNGLE BOOK! HANDS DOWN!

  85. 10:08:10 Joey:

    The monkey from South Park’s “hooked on Monkey Phonics”
    (Hopefully Seattle counts as drive-able. I’ve never been to Vancouver)

  86. 10:08:10 matthew m.:

    going with the evil family guy monkey for now.

  87. 10:08:10 Aqilla:

    Considering how much I fear monkeys in real life, I have a strangely long list of favourites in the media:

    Books – The Librarian in the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett, my favourite novels of all time.

    Movies – King Louis in the original “The Jungle Book” mostly because he was voiced by Louis Armstrong.

    TV – The evil monkey in “Family Guy”

    Reality – The “Evil Pinhead Monkey with cock out” That my boyfriends threatens me with when I misbehave. I would post an image of him but it is so NSFW. However, if I win, I will post it for sure. (Shameless bribery, I know, but it says nothing about it not being permitted in the rules.)

  88. 10:08:10 Hannah Wells:

    My favourite monkey is Ross’s monkey in Friends.

  89. 10:08:10 JD:

    Gordo, the first monkey in space

  90. 10:08:10 allister:

    Michael Jacksons pet Chimp named Bubbles. Although he is not from a movie or t.v show someone should really make a movie about bubbles. Michael Jackson treated bubbles like a person, he slept in a crib in Michaels room, ate candy and even used the same toilet as Michael. During the Bad world tour bubbles traveled with Michael and Michael even bringing bubbles to tea with a Japanese mayor.

  91. 10:08:10 Steph:

    “Steve” the monkey from the animated movie “Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs”… mostly because his character is played by Neil Patrick Harris aka DOOGIE HOWSER!!

    http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4102260992/tt0844471

  92. 10:08:10 Riot!:

    Lil Wayne

  93. 11:08:10 megan:

    evil monkey from family guy

  94. 11:08:10 Keeb:

    Might Joe Young! I cried when he fell off the ferris wheel and everyone thought he was dead :(

  95. 11:08:10 Rory:

    Monkey from Killer Monkey – its a classic

  96. 11:08:10 Sascha:

    The monkeys from Citizen Kane.

  97. 11:08:10 LeeLee!:

    That monkey that’s always on my back!
    Or the monkey wrench.

  98. 11:08:10 Sara:

    the flying monkeys from the wizard of oz (in the Judy Garland version) !

  99. 11:08:10 Sarah A:

    the evil closet monkey – Family Guy

  100. 11:08:10 Lorena:

    My favourite is Guenter the genius monkey from the “Mars University” episode of Futurama. I felt so bad for him when he learned the truth about his “uncivilized” parents, poor little guy. Even after all of the banana jokes and teasing he still went out of his way to risk his life to save Fry. At least it all resulted in him being happier in the end.

  102. 11:08:10 geddy70@gmail.com:

    BJ and the Bear. TV show from the late 70 early 80. The Chimp name bear was great.

  103. 11:08:10 Haley Madsen:

    Johnny CHIMPO…. super trooper extravaganza

  104. 12:08:10 shannon rose:

    when derek zoolander dresses up as the monkey with the vest/hat/cymbals for that photoshoot and they’re throwing bananas at him.

    awesome.

  105. 12:08:10 Jeffrey:

    Curious George

  106. 12:08:10 Michael:

    Diddy Kong

  107. 12:08:10 Cory Bradshaw:

    I like Wallace, the little monkey from Tarsem Singh’s “The Fall”, who’s sort of the sidekick of a fictionalized version of Charles Darwin. SPOILER ALERT if you continue reading…

    Wallace is likely named after Alfred Russel Wallace, who, like Darwin, was a British naturalist. The real life Darwin and Wallace corresponded and discussed their theories; Wallace actually independently proposed a theory of evolution due to natural selection, apparently prompting Darwin to develop his own theory which he published in On The Origin of Species, the book that made him a household name. In The Fall’s surreal storybook world, Charles Darwin is a naturalist searching for a rare butterfly with the small monkey Wallace as his “colleague”. Wallace stays inside a bag for most of the movie, occasionally whispering things to Darwin to help him out, dictating ideas to him that he writes down in a notebook. (This parallels the relation some feel that the real life Darwin and Wallace shared; that Darwin received all the credit despite Wallace’s help.) Despite playing second fiddle in the team, Wallace eventually sees the rare butterfly they’ve been searching for and, braving imminent danger, attempts to capture it. Wallace is shot in the process and, as he lays dying in Darwin’s hands, Darwin tells him “I’ll tell everyone they were your ideas.”

    Wallace the monkey was like a kind of tribute to the real Wallace, it’s not even made obvious in the movie, Wallace just seems almost like the “brains of the operation” in his team with Darwin, as well as being a brave lil ape.

  108. 13:08:10 Sacha Husband:

    My favourite monkey is definitely the short lived fighting monkey “Furious George” from the Simpsons. The idea of two monkeys duking it out in a knife fight is too good.

  109. 14:08:10 Jeff:

    hahah there are some amazing answers in here, and some monkeys i would have never thought of – the only fair thing to do was make it completely random (random.org generated a number)

    The winner of the Gorillaz tickets is…

    Richard Weald

    Congratulations Richard!

    THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW OVER, stay tuned there’s another one coming!