Monkey

For other uses, see Monkey (disambiguation)

"Your real problem's the Monkey. The Monkey's the eye in the sky. He sees everything: Classrooms, hallways, even the playground."

—Chatter Telephone, telling Woody about the Monkey

The Monkey is a Musical Jolly Chimp monkey toy who is a character in Toy Story 3.

Toy Story 3

"You can unlock doors, sneak past guards, climb the wall, but if you don't take out that monkey, you ain't going nowhere. You want to get out of here, get rid of that monkey!"

—Chatter Telephone's warning to Woody

The Monkey is a cymbal-banging monkey toy at Sunnyside Daycare. He doesn't speak, but he does make screeching monkey noises. The Monkey has two cymbals he can bang together.

The Monkey is first seen being played with by Bonnie Anderson when the much older Ms. Davis goes to Sunnyside to donate the toys and meets Bonnie's mother, and Bonnie is extremely shy to talk to Andy's mom.

While Lotso was in power at Sunnyside, he assigned the Monkey to monitor the security cameras in the daycare's office. When a toy attempted to escape, the Monkey pushed a button that turned on a P.A. and screeched loudly into it while banging his cymbals together repeatedly, alerting Lotso and his other nighttime guard toys to capture that toy.

When Woody returns to Sunnyside to rescue his imprisoned friends, Chatter Telephone informs Woody about the Monkey, telling him that he would need to get rid of the Monkey in order to escape. That night, the Monkey is busy focusing his eyes on one camera where Ken, Big Baby, and the reset Buzz have cornered Mr. Potato Head (who escaped from his cell and left a real potato in it) that he doesn't notice Slinky coming out of his cell in the Caterpillar Room through another camera. Woody and Slinky quietly go through the vent into the Monkey's office. With Slinky grabbing hold of Woody and swinging him, Woody tries to put a plastic black bag over the Monkey's face, but the Monkey has already noticed them, and he quickly turns around and screeches at Woody, startling him and Slinky so that they fall on the Monkey. After getting up, the Monkey turns and hisses at the surprised Woody and scampers off to alert Lotso. However, before he can reach the door, Woody trips him over with his string. This then leads to a brief fight, in which the Monkey overpowers Woody by repeatedly banging his cymbals on Woody's face. Woody tells Slinky to grab a nearby scotch tape, and the Monkey screeches in horror when he turns to see Slinky charging toward him. Woody and Slinky then tie him up with the tape (like a mummy) and lock him in a filing cabinet.

Lotso's later knowledge of Woody and his friends' escape in the first place is not revealed, but it is likely that the Monkey has managed to free himself and alert Lotso, leading to Lotso beating up the Chatter Telephone for information on Woody's whereabouts.

During the credits, the Monkey is seen in the office again after Sunnyside is revolutionized into a cool and groovy toy paradise by Barbie and Ken, Sunnyside's new leaders. He is shown to be in a happier state as he puts on his star-shaped sunglasses and plays his clash cymbals gently while watching a disco being held in the Butterfly Room through one of the cameras.

Trivia

• It is very likely that director Lee Unkrich put a monkey in the film due to his love for monkeys.^[2]
• His sounds are reused from the Barrel of Monkeys.
• He is similar to the experimental monkey from the 1988 American horror film Monkey Shines.
• Despite being called a monkey, he is actually a chimpanzee, and chimpanzees are apes.
• It is unknown how the humans that run the daycare haven't caught on to the fact that the toys come to life via footage from previous nights that the Monkey has monitored. Although it is implied that Lotso has him erase each previous night's footage shortly before Sunnyside opens so that the humans won't realize this phenomenon.

Gallery

The Monkey screeching and banging his cymbals

The Monkey notices Woody and Slinky

The Monkey tripped by Woody, before he can alert Lotso

The Monkey banging Woody's head with his cymbals

The Monkey wrapped with tape by Woody and Slinky

The Monkey thrown to a drawer by Woody, before Slinky closes it

The Monkey in one of the credits scene wearing a pair of sunglasses

The real life toy version of Disney Pixar's Monkey by the Daishin CK Company

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