Superman: The Animated Series
Episode 25
Monkey Fun
This is another a good episode, it’s another Lois Lane central episode. We get to learn about her childhood. We meet her sister and father. It’s lighthearted but still exciting. As an eight-year-old child Lois had a chimpanzee named Titano that her military dad was caring for. Titano is being used in the space program for testing. Despite her dad’s assurances nothing would go wrong, something goes wrong and Titano is believed to have died in space.
Twenty years go by and we learn Lois Lane is 28 years old. Superman is working with his buddy Professor Emil Hamilton to stop some asteroids from causing problems to a space station. He discovers Titano in suspended animation. They bring him to Earth, he’s bummed out, sees Lois and gets happy again. Everyone accept Lois thinks it’s a good idea for her to care for Titano. The chimpanzee wrecks her apartment, she scams Jimmy Olsen into chimp sitting while she gets a massage. The chimp starts growing in size and becomes the size of a building.
Superman and Professor Hamilton discover this is occurring during their research of Titano’s condition. Superman rushes off just in time to save Jimmy Olsen as he causes himself to fall out the balcony of Lois’ apartment. Titano gets the blame for that but Jimmy was running away from the supersized chimp toward the balcony, slipped and fell.
Titano runs around Metropolis causing problems and fighting with Superman. Eventually the Special Crimes Unit (SCU) shows up along with recurring cops Dan Turpin and Maggie Sawyer. They come up with a plan to gas the monkey. A bunch more action occurs, Titano gets gassed, STAR labs stops his growing issue, and he is safely taken to an island where he can roam around with no issues.
In the comic book it is based off of they had to kill Titano. Since this is a cartoon for kids they couldn’t do that. So Superman saves the day with a happy ending. Apparently cartoons have no problem with the planetary genocide of Krypton and its billions of people but killing extremely large chimpanzees is not allowed.
Written by
Joseph Ammendolea
Owner/President
“I Like To Play With Toys” Productions®
ILikeToPlayWithToysProductions@Yahoo.com
