Donkey Kong Country (TV series)

The title of the Donkey Kong Country animated series.

Donkey Kong Country was a Canadian-French computer-generated animated series, produced by Nelvana Limited, Medialab and WIC Entertainment, in 1996. The television series is loosely based on the Donkey Kong Country series games.

Overview

The television series first aired in France on September 4, 1996, and was originally titled La Planète de Donkey Kong, meaning "The Planet of 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 in random order, confusing many fans. Regardless of this, the Donkey Kong Country animated series won a publicly-voted award at 7 d'Or in 1999, for "Best Animation and Youth Program" ("Meilleure émission d'animation et de jeunesse"). it aired again in the United States from December 19, 2005 to September 12, 2006. The show is available on iTunes. Donkey Kong Country was one of the first television series to be entirely animated with motion capture technology.

Characters

The Kongs from the Donkey Kong Country animated series.

The animated series stars Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Candy Kong, Cranky Kong, Funky Kong, Dixie Kong, King K. Rool, as well as many other Kremlings, all residing in the Kongo Bongo Island. The series featured all of the Kongs from the games Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Country 2, except for Swanky Kong and Wrinkly Kong. There were also introduced characters exclusive to the series, such as Eddie the Mean Old Yeti, Kaptain Skurvy and Bluster Kong.

Voice Cast

Character	French	English	Japanese
Donkey Kong	Franck Capillery	Richard Yearwood Sterling Jarvis (singing voice)	Kōichi Yamadera
Diddy Kong	Hervé Grull (season 1) Lucile Boulanger (season 2)	Andrew Sabiston	Megumi Hayashibara
Cranky Kong	Yves Massicotte (season 1) Yves Barsacq (season 2)	Aron Tager	Ryūsei Nakao
Funky Kong	Emmanuel Curtil	Damon D'Oliveira	Banana Ice
Candy Kong	Camille Cyr-Desmarais (season 1) Odile Schmitt (season 2)	Joy Tanner	Mika Kanai
Dixie Kong	Unknown (season 1) Annie Barclay (season 2)	Stevie Vallance	Becky
Bluster Kong	Daniel Lesourd (season 1) Patrice Dozier (season 2)	Donald Burda	Daiki Nakamura
King K. Rool	Éric Gaudry (season 1) Michel Tugot-Doris (season 2)	Benedict Campbell	Jūrōta Kosugi
General Klump	Jean Brousseau (season 1) Jacques Bouanich (season 2)	Adrian Truss	Keiichi Sonobe
Krusha	Unknown (season 1) Daniel Beretta (season 2)	Len Carlson	Tomohisa Aso
Eddie the Mean Old Yeti	Unknown (season 1) Patrice Dozier (season 2)	Damon D'Oliveira	Kenyu Horiuchi
Inka Dinka Doo	Unknown	Lawrence Bayne	Tomohisa Aso
Kaptain Skurvy	Unknown	Ron Rubin	Katsuhisa Hōki
Kutlass	Unknown	John Stocker	Unknown
Green Kroc	Unknown	Richard Newman	Unknown
Kritters	Unknown	Lawrence Bayne	Unknown
Polly Roger the Parrot	Unknown	Rick Jones	Unknown
Junior the Giant Klaptrap	Unknown	Ron Rubin	Unknown
Baby Kong	Unknown	Bryn McAuley	Unknown
Kong Fu	Unknown	Richard Newman	Unknown

List of Episodes

The animated series is composed by forty episodes divided into two seasons. The list below does not reflect necessarily the chronological order of episodes. They were aired in the United States in a different order which can be found on the side.

Season 1

• 1. Bad Hair Day (Aired 3rd)
• 2. Ape Foo Young (Aired 5th)
• 3. Booty and the Beast (Aired 6th)
• 4. Barrel, Barrel... Who's Got the Barrel (Aired 25th)
• 5. Kong for a Day (Aired 7th)
• 6. Raiders of the Lost Banana (Aired 4th)
• 7. From Zero to Hero (Aired 8th)
• 8. Buried Treasure (Aired 9th)
• 9. Cranky's Tickle Tonic (Aired 10th)
• 10. Get a Life, Don't Save One (Aired 11th)
• 11. Orangutango (Aired 13th)
• 12. Double Date Trouble (Aired 22nd)
• 13. The Curse of Kongo Bongo (Aired 12th)
• 14. Speed (Aired 14th)
• 15. Klump's Lumps (Aired 15th)
• 16. Bluster's Sale Ape-Stravaganza (Aired 16th)
• 17. Legend of the Crystal Coconut (Aired 26th)
• 18. Kong Fu (Aired 17th)
• 19. I Spy With My Hairy Eye (Aired 1st)
• 20. Bug a Boogie (Aired 18th)
• 21. Watch the Skies (Aired 19th)
• 22. Baby Kong Blues (Aired 20th)
• 23. Ape-Nesia (Aired 23rd)
• 24. The Big Chill Out (Aired 2nd)
• 25. To the Moon Baboon (Aired 21st)
• 26. A Thin Line Between Love & Ape (Aired 24th)

Season 2

• 27. The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights (Aired 27th)
• 28. Hooray for Holly-Kongo Bongo (Aired 28th)
• 29. Speak No Evil, Dude (Aired 29th)
• 30. The Day the Island Stood Still (Aired 30th)
• 31. Monkey Seer, Monkey Do (Aired 32nd)
• 32. Four Weddings and a Coconut (Aired 33rd)
• 33. Follow That Coconut (Aired 34th)
• 34. Vote of Kong-Fidence (Aired 35th)
• 35. The Big Switch-a-Roo (Aired 36th)
• 36. Hunka Hunka Burnin' Bluster (Aired 37th)
• 37. Best of Enemies (Aired 38th)
• 38. It's a Wonderful Life (Aired 39th)
• 39. Just Kidding (Aired 40th)
• 40. Message In A Bottle Show (Aired 31st)

Videos

Donkey Kong Country Opening (HD REMASTERED EDITION)

Opening of the Donkey Kong Country animated series.

Trivia

• The Crystal Coconut, a prominent item in the animated series, would later appear in the Donkey Kong games, like Donkey Kong 64 for Nintendo 64.
• The episode "Barrel, Barrel... Who's Got the Barrel" is loosely based on the James Bond film franchise. The barrel which holds the Crystal Coconut is numbered "007", James Bond's code number, and when the number is first revealed the James Bond theme song is played.
• In the second season of the animated series, all characters and environments have received new textures, displaying more vibrant colors when compared to the first season, but they still keep their overall designs. It is more evident on Kremling characters that are covered with scales.
  • On the same note, the opening cutscene used for each episode during the entire animated series (see Videos section above) did feature only footage from the first season.
• In the English version of the animated series, the groups lead by King K. Rool and Kaptain Skurvy, respectively, are never referred to as Kremlings, the name used for their species of highly intelligent crocodiles in the Donkey Kong series games. The other characters in the animated series called them by their individual names or "the lizards" as a group.