The new gen needs to visit the bomb worshipping telepathic mutants

Pierre Bouelle: "Ok, so I've written this fun little romp of a space adventure where astronauts land on a planet where apes act like people. I know it's no Bridge on the River Kwai, but I'm sure some people might like this charming little sci-fi book"

Amen

Ooh! Rock me, Doctor Zaius!

Now that songs gonna be stuck in my head all day…which makes the day better

Welp, now i will be singing Dr Zaius Dr Zaius in my head the rest of the day.

No worry for me, I already was! One of many on my mental playlist that regularly work their way into rotation. Yesterday, it was the muncha buncha Fritos go with lunch song, so this is a step up. No telling what horrors tomorrow may bring.

RIP Alf Clausen

I watched the TV show, but really don't remember much about it...I guess it was OK? And the Marky Mark one was legit terrible. But...yeah, you may be correct.

the original sequels and the recent series are all good to great. the only truly bad one is the burton remake with marky mark

If I recall correctly you like the final original one more than I do (campy fun, but that's about it), but Conquest is amazingly good.

lmao marky mark

What no fans of Orangutan Paul Giamatti out here?

Beneath the Planet of the Apes is the first original sequel and is quite quite bad.

The other original sequels are actually pretty good, so I'll hand it to them there.

The one thing I'll say for the Burton film is both Helena Bonham Carter and Michael Clarke Duncan are excellent as apes

"Because I loathe bananas" is one of the greatest lines in cinematic history.

The ending of Burton's still makes me angry.

I remember just feeling baffled, like what are we trying to say even happened?

I have tried hard to black out everything about it. And yet Star Trek: Into Darkness was even worse.

Much worse

On the bright side, apparently Mark Wahlberg dropped out of Ocean's Eleven in order to make it and was replaced by Matt Damon, so he wasn't able to ruin that franchise before it got off the ground.

A friend was mad they didn't name the monument "Ape-raham Lincoln"

The ending slightly redeems the movie, because you think you've been watching a really bad movie, but it turns out you were just watching a moderately bad SNL sketch

I loved it. Sorry

I went to see that movie in theaters with my dad, who, at the very end, just turned to me and said “That was fucking stupid” before walking out.

That was how the book ended.

Ugh, I had forgotten about Ape Lincoln

It forced 20th Century Fox to include an explainer in the DVD case, so if you had never seen it before, the ending - which stinks! - was spoiled for you.

"Hey apes, whas goin' on? You like Fascism? I produce Entourage. Say hi to yah mutha fah me."

Don’t they guest star on Scooby Doo?

Many people haven't seen the OG or stopped after 1 or 2. Escape From The Planet of the Apes and Conquest of The Planet of the Apes are awesome. Whalberg is probably the only bad Apes movie.

I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpanzee!

I hate Every ape I see From Chimpan-A To Chimpan-Z #lyrics #TheSimpsons

Especially the prequel movies! Man those are better than they need to be.

the monkeys riding horses and holding rifles is so sick, it looks awesome every time. i love those movies.

I feel like the second and third ones are largely interchangeable (in that I have a hard time remembering which one was which), but each is still a great watch. The fourth one though was just excellent, and the first still holds up. The first three are all titled wrong though.

Dawn… should have been the first title, then War for… and finally Rise of… Kingdom still works though.

Dr. Zaius! I consider that Simpsons segment to be the best adaptation of Planet of the Apes ever made. It covers all the important bits.

This is objectively the correct answer. I will never not want to watch a movie with a heroic chimpanzee protagonist.

Doctor Zaius, doctor Zaius!

This is the correct answer and as a biological anthropology PhD I have particularly enjoyed the recent iteration.

Now that's a catchy tune to get stuck in your head, but I think I'd rather be stuck with the "ape" version of "I Will Survive" – "I Will Conquer, I Will Conquer"

I can't come up with something better that qualifies under the rules in the reply than Planet of the Apes (Middle-Earth novels may count, but not the Lord of the Ring films because because they're only three or six including The Hobbit).

A reply mentioned Mission: Impossible, but I can never quite like a few. I actually think The Hunger Games gets consistently on base, but not many runs per hit... and has the added bonus of being based on great novels. I just remembered that Planet of the Apes is also an adaption of a novel.

I'm not even a big Planet of the Apes fan, but every time I watch one, I don't understand why it leaves the cultural zeitgeist so quickly. Kingdom was one of the best franchise films in this decade, and I still can't get over how impressive it was, and how it's not talked about enough.

I’d say LotR counts, and gets my vote. No reason not to count the Hobbit movies, and the Amazon show counts as a spinoff, plus the animated movie. Granted, I’ve never particularly liked Planet of the Apes, so perhaps it’s the better choice for the prompt for most people

Most definitely.

Dr Zeus Dr Zeus

I've always found it interesting that the saturday morning cartoon was way more interesting than the live action TV show. The creators of the cartoon were really interested in telling a serialized story that explored the POTA mythos. And this intro: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouH_...

The cartoon has its flaws (very limited animation) but watching a well-crafted story play out over multiple episodes thrilled my 7 year old mind and then you have the humour.

This so gives Homer Simpson

Are we limiting ourselves to the new movies with this? If you include the original series and the Burton, there are a lot of not-great movies in there.

the original series is good

Not even close really

Gif's that you can hear

The Street of the Town of the State of The Metropolitan of the Country of The Continent of the Planet of the Apes

"Stop The Planet Of The Apes, I Want To Get Off!"

The modern ones are very well executed (once they get away from James Franco), I just wish they had more to say. The originals had such great messaging.

The original was the best.

I love you, Dr. Zaius!

🎵 Dr Zaius… 🎵 Dr Zaius… 🎵 Dr Zaius… 🎵 Dr Zaius… 🎵 ooooooo Dr Zaius…

breakdancing ape is one of the best 5-6 seconds ever of The Simpsons

That whole scene is so magnificent.

The whole episode “Hey I thought you said Troy McClure was dead” “No I said he sleeps with the fishes

dr zaius dr zaius

I LOVE YOU DR ZAIUS

NCIS, Law and Order, The CIA.

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You've finally made a monkey out me, Bouie

Hard agree

I need that Simpsons musical turned into a Broadway production though.

“I love you Dr Zaius!”

Mission impossible has won me over.

I saw Conquest on tv an oddly large amount as a kid, I love it. Looking back at images from it, subtlety is overrated.

Genuinely, the only unsalvageable entry in the entire franchise is the Marky Mark one. Like Beneath was a weird mashup of two unrelated movies, and Battle had about $200 to spend on ape makeup but these movies are still interesting.

I will never understand why those writers never tried to get a full scale “stop the planet of the apes, I want to get off” production going

Because they were in the middle of making Golden Age Simpsons — and to make a full length musical that keeps up the joke pace of that two-minute chunk, you’d need the crew of peak Simpsons, the writers for the Marx Bros, and Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.

A cultured man

Kind of an ironic and oblique way to say that the franchise with the actual best hit rate is The Simpsons.

The movie or the planet?

The musical

You play the part of the Human

I can 🎵SIIIIIIIIING!🎶

It's the part I was born to play baby!

They did land the most underrated trilogy in movie history.

It also gave us Professor Bobo from MST.

I hate every ape I see! From chimp-an-A to chimp-an-Z

I hate every ape I see From Chimpan A to Chimpan Z

I love legitimate thee-ayter

I hate every ape I see, from chimpan-A to chimpan-Z

holy shit, I'd forgotten that lyric

It's seriously ingenious

It's up there with the Mark Hamill Guys and Dolls episode "Luke, be a Jedi tonight"

Was this when Conan was writing it?

not sure about writing, but definitely producing/overseeing

I would pay a billion dollars if Jordan peele would make a new series of them.

Why, is that you Cornelius?

You should go on Dana Gould’s Podcast

Can I play the piano anymore?

Of course you can

Well I couldn’t before

It is a good franchise from chimpan-a to chimpanzee.

Rock me, Dr Zaius.

I want a second opin-ion.

You're also lazy

I'm still not convinced that anyone watches or likes the modern movies for this franchise. I 100% believe that the studio fakes numbers all around to justify making more of them.

Have you, I dunno, watched them? They're top-tier sci-fi!

Australia be like

yes!

Someone should really make the musical a reality one of these days.

That is the same performance that girl from Australia used in the Olympics Breakdancing.... Raygun. She copied it from this ape!

The same guy (Pierre Boulle) wrote the novels on which the movies "Planet of the Apes" and "Bridge on the River Kwai" were based. I will go to my grave believing he also wrote a middle volume of this trilogy that connects the events of the two.

Also French, and not an English speaker.

Old enough to remember the 1970s TV show (had the lunchbox!) and the Saturday morning cartoon versions.