Monkey a Go-Go

Monkey a Go-Go
Season 3 Episode 5

General Information
Setting	San Francisco, USA Kīlauea, Hawaii, USA
Aired on	October 12, 2002
Production Number	57
Credits
Written by	Alexx Van Dyne
Directed by	Christopher Berkeley
Produced by	Frank Squillace
Episode Guide
Previous Episode Aztec Rat Race	Next Episode When Pigs Fly

Monkey a Go-Go is the fifty-seventh episode of Jackie Chan Adventures.

Synopsis

Some constructions workers inadvertently release the Monkey King. He quickly seeks out the people who last defeated him, Jackie and Jade. But they're out of town, trying to locate the monkey that has the shapeshifting power.

Plot

A pair of construction workers are breaking down a building when one of them digs up a smiling monkey doll. Checking the back, he finds the rhyme, "To free me of glitches and put you in stitches, this merry ape begs: Pull my leg." He does so, and in a swirl of magic, he becomes a motionless doll, while the monkey becomes six feet tall, laughing madly. The Monkey King boasts his return, swiping a jackhammer from his bewildered audience member and announcing he's about to get his revenge. He sets to work on a wall, revealing a carving of Jackie and Jade just before crushing it to fragments.

Meanwhile, Uncle has located the Monkey talisman's magic of shapeshifting in Hawaii. (He had a brief run-in with Daolon Wong on the same magical frequency, but Uncle jammed his enemy's visual display to loop on an image of Uncle saying, "One more thing," and blowing a raspberry.) Leaving Tohru to mind the shop, Uncle takes Jackie and Jade to locate the noble monkey, which is named Haiku and is the pet of an ambassador from Japan. The owner is initially skeptical of their story, but when Haiku gets startled, he activates his power, turning into a bird and flying away. Jade runs after him, but Jackie and Uncle are held up by the arrival of the Monkey King. He attacks them on a rooftop, donning a Grim Reaper cloak and scythe and preparing to cut them to bits. Cornered, Jackie manages to stammer, "You know, this is not a very humorous revenge for the King of Comedy." Speechless for a moment, the Monkey King admits he's right. With this, he takes them to the beach for a luau, tying Jackie and Uncle to a turning spit and garnishing them over an open fire.

Jade manages to catch up to Haiku and calm him down, and she soon finds Jackie and Uncle. The Monkey King, however, notices Haiku's magic and the fact that the nearby tourists are extremely impressed by the show. He responds with his own brand of shape-shifting magic, which gets a dead response - plus a few cricket chirps from yet another of Haiku's forms. Enraged that another monkey could be a better entertainer than him, he steals Haiku, turns his back on the now-escaped Chans, and takes him out to sea. Jackie tries to get Haiku back, but before he can get close enough, a magical tidal wave from the Monkey King forces a retreat as he carries Haiku to an island some distance away.

Later that night, the other three arrive at the island, finding that the Monkey King has suspended Haiku in a cage over a volcanic crater. He brags to them that he is preparing a spell to make the volcano erupt. Just as he's throwing spell ingredients into the crater, Daolon Wong finally makes it onto the scene. When the wizard's staff points out the true noble monkey, the Monkey King pulls the staff aside to brag some more. Jackie uses the resulting scuffle to snatch Haiku away, but Daolon Wong sinks Haiku and the Chans up to their necks in the rock. Free to talk, the wizard finally recognizes the Monkey King, but when he learns what spell is being cast, he is quick to point out that the spell has not worked. It turns out that one ingredient (three pounds of wood) was missing, and as a taunt to the failure, Daolon Wong turns the Monkey King back into puppet form. (This undoing also restores the construction worker.) He then turns to absorb Haiku's power, and in fear, he turns into an elephant, breaking them all out of the rock and pushing Daolon Wong to the brink of the crater. To everyone's horror, the earth immediately begins to shake, and they realize the puppet fell into the crater and completed the spell. A blast launches Daolon Wong and the rock he was hanging on into the sky, and Haiku carries the others in a mad dash to the water. But even he is not fast enough, and the crimson wave rushes down the slope and covers all of them.

Almost immediately, they poke their heads out the top of the solidified flow, completely unharmed. Haiku turns back to normal and munches several handfuls of the "lava," which turns out to be cherry gelatin, as Jackie looks at the puppet submerged in the crater and comments that, "It looks like the last laugh is on the Monkey King."

Characters

Protagonists

Jackie Chan
Jade Chan
Uncle
Tohru
Haiku
Ambassador
Mac
Mahoney
Helmut
Ulf

Antagonists

Voice Talent

James Sie - Jackie Chan
Stacie Chan - Jade Chan
Sab Shimono - Uncle
Noah Nelson - Tohru, Mac
James Hong - Daolon Wong
Billy West - Monkey King, Mahoney, Ambassador

Broadcast

USA: The WB (Kids' WB) - Saturday, October 12, 2002

Episodes
Season One
The Dark Hand • The Power Within • The Mask of El Toro Fuerte • Enter the Viper • Shell Game • Project A, for Astral • Bullies • Tough Break • The Rock • The Jade Monkey • The Dog and Piggy Show • The Tiger and the Pussycat • Day of the Dragon
Season Two
Through the Rabbit Hole • The Warrior Incarnate • Snake Hunt • The Mother of All Battles • The Stronger Evil • The J-Team • Jade Times Jade • The Curse of El Chupacabra • Rumble in the Big House • Lost City of the Muntabs • And He Does His Own Stunts • Showdown in the Old West • Queen of the Shadowkhan • Origami • Shanghai Moon • The Lotus Temple • Armor of the Gods • Agent Tag • Tale of the Demon Tail • The Return of the Pussycat • Scouts Honor • Danger in the Deep Freeze • Into the Mouth of Evil • The King and Jade • The New Atlantis • The Eighth Door • Demon World (Part 1) • Demon World (Part 2) • Enter the Cat • Pleasure Cruise • Tough Luck • The Chosen One • Glove Story • The Chan Who Knew Too Much • Chi of the Vampire • The Good, the Bad, the Blind, the Deaf and the Mute • Shrink Rap • I'll Be a Monkey's Puppet • The Amazing T-Girl
Season Three
Re-Enter the J-Team • The Powers Unleashed • Viva Las Jackies • Aztec Rat Race • Monkey a Go-Go • When Pigs Fly • Rabbit Run • Sheep In, Sheep Out • The Invisible Mom • A Jolly J-Team X-Mas • Little Valmont, Big Jade • The Ox-Head Incident • Animal Crackers • Tohru Who? • Re-Enter the Dragon • A Night at the Opera • Attack of the J-Clones
Season Four
The Masks of the Shadowkhan • Samurai Ratso • The Amazing T-Troop • Black Magic • The Demon Behind • Fright Fight Night • Half a Mask of Kung-Fu • The Shadow Eaters • The Good Guys • Deja Vu • J2: Rise of the Dragons • The J-Tots • Ninja Twilight
Season Five
Relics of Demon Past • It's All in the Game • Black and White and Chi All Over • Dragon Scouts • The Demon Beneath My Wings • Mirror, Mirror • Antler Action • Clash of the Titanics • Stealing Thunder • Weight and See • J2 Revised • The Powers That Be (Part 1) • The Powers That Be (Part 2)