Series synopsis
Rocket Monkeys is a Canadian sci-fi & fantasy animation comedy television series that premiered on Teletoon on January 10, 2013. It ended on January 16, 2017. It was created by Dan Abdo, Jason Patterson, Mark Evestaff, Alex Galatis. It stars Seán Cullen, Mark Edwards, David Berni and Jamie Watson.
This Canadian cartoon focuses on two monkey brothers named Gus and Wally who are in outer space working as GASI agents (Galactic Animal Space Institute agents, so no pun intended!). They are accompanied by their robot friend YAY-OK and their boss Dr. Chimpsky as they are sent on missions to accomplish different tasks, including defeating their enemies.
Premise
This Canadian cartoon focuses on two monkey brothers named Gus and Wally who are in outer space working as GASI agents (Galactic Animal Space Institute agents, so no pun intended!). They are accompanied by their robot friend YAY-OK and their boss Dr. Chimpsky as they are sent on missions to accomplish different tasks, including defeating their enemies.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Seán Cullen as Gus / Nefarious / Deep Space Dave (voice)
- Mark Edwards as Wally (voice)
- David Berni as YAY-OK (voice)
- Jamie Watson as Dr. Chimpsky / He-Rilla (voice)
- Mark McKinney as Lord Peel (voice)
- Shoshana Sperling as She-Rilla / Tina (voice)
- Kayla Lorette as Monkevil (voice)
- Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang as Bernice (voice)
Supporting cast
- Mark Little as Gamester-X (voice)
- Teresa Pavlinek as Slo-Mo (voice)
Guest cast
- Evany Rosen as M.A.U.D. (voice)
- Fab Filippo as YAY-OK 7 (voice)
- Julie Lemieux as Pinky Winky (voice)
- Laurie Elliott as Banana-Lee (voice)
- Dan Petronijevic as Boom-Boom (voice)
- Scott Thompson as Queen Bee (voice)
- Joshua Graham as Doodah (voice)
- Lisa Norton as Belindor (voice)
- Wendy Thatcher as Jane Goodspace (voice)
- Cory Doran as Rocket Bunny (voice)
- Rob Tinkler as Cornelius (voice)
- Valerie Buhagiar as Washroom Monster (voice)
Episodes
This series spans 4 seasons with 131 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 0 | 1 | October 25, 2015 | October 25, 2015 |
| Season 1 | 52 | January 10, 2013 | July 2, 2014 |
| Season 2 | 26 | November 5, 2014 | May 21, 2016 |
| Season 3 | 52 | November 7, 2016 | January 16, 2017 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Terrors and Tiaras The citizens of GASI headquarters start disappearing by a bright blue flash and the monkeys plus YAY-OK must save them. The citizens of GASI headquarters had also turned into princess monsters created by an evil princess named Princess Monstare. Eventually YAY-OK tries to fight her, but she turns into a robot with him and the monkeys must save him and stop her. |
October 25, 2015 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
I Am Not a Banana Lord Peel captures the Monkeys and intends to make them pay for turning him from a mild-mannered alien who happens to look a lot like a banana, into an embittered super villain obsessed with revenge. |
January 10, 2013 |
| 2 |
Scare-Larious For Gus and Wally, scary equals funny, and they perform a series of pranks on each other to illustrate this comedic theory for YAY-OK. Not to be outdone, YAY-OK puts together a terrifying joke of his own. |
January 17, 2013 |
| 3 |
Inspection Day It is Inspection Day, and the Rocket Monkeys are far from prepared. Gus thinks it will be easy enough to talk his way out of a bad report, but Wally's unhinged behavior threatens to interfere. |
January 24, 2013 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Monkey-Itis Thinking that Gus has caught the fatal and fictional disease "Monkey-Itis", Wally tries to make his brother's last days as comfortable as possible, no matter how much he hurts him in the process. |
November 5, 2014 |
| 2 |
Deep Space Disco In order to hide Deep Space Dave from a fire-breathing beast, Wally turns the rocket ship into a disco club. |
November 12, 2014 |
| 3 |
Hot to Bot A short-tempered robot named Belindor steals Yay-Ok's "robo-mojo" as revenge for ignoring her in high school. |
November 19, 2014 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Live and Not Learn Gus and Wally have a new and very important mission: build a protective orb around an extremely unstable quasar. After they made the orb as best as possible, they just realize the door knob is missing and leaving them stuck inside the sphere as well. |
November 7, 2016 |
| 2 |
So Mature When Yay-Ok's robo-ripener hits Wally, it gives him a mustache, which means he is now the more mature monkey. This makes Gus jealous, especially when the new facial hair causes Monkevil to start falling in love with his brother. |
November 8, 2016 |
| 3 |
Robo-Gas The monkeys realize Yay-Ok is holding in all his robo gas. |
November 9, 2016 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | Teletoon |
|---|---|
| First aired | January 10, 2013 |
| Last aired | January 16, 2017 |
| Runtime | 11 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Thursday at 18:30:00 |