My Gym Partner's a Monkey (lost pitch pilots of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003/2004)

The show's logo.

Status: Lost

My Gym Partner's a Monkey is an animated series co-created by Tim Cahill and his wife Julie McNally Cahill that ran on Cartoon Network from 2005-2008. The series revolves around a boy named Adam Lyon who was accidentally transferred to Charles Darwin Middle School, a school for anthropomorphic animals due to his last name being misspelled as "Lion" and is partnered with a Spider monkey named Jake who they both go on various hijinks in each episode with their other animal classmates.

Pilots

There were 2 pilots developed for the show that were never aired on TV, one made in 2003 titled "My Gym Partner's a Monkey" and another in 2004 titled "A Troubled Lion." The 2003 pilot's characters in it allegedly had different designs while the plots about Adam being transferred to Charles Darwin Middle School, while the characters from the 2004 pilot also allegedly looked more similar to the final show with currently no info on its plot. Although no actual footage of either pilot had resurfaced, one image from it shows a scene that was later reused in the episode "Shark Attack," along with some presentation art from Tim Cahill's Instagram account when it was under the title The Zoo, and an early logo that came from one of the show's storyboard artists Kelsey Mann's blog. No further information on the pilot was available until 2021 when a production reel from 2010 was rediscovered on Vimeo with footage speculating to be from the pilot, but this has yet to be verified by an official source.

Gallery

Videos

The aforementioned production reel.

Images

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  The image that was reused in the episode "Shark Attack."

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  The early logo from Kelsey Mann's blog.

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See Also

• Ben 10 (partially found unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; early-mid 2000s)
• Billy and Mandy in Trepanation of the Skull and You (found prototype short of "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" Cartoon Network animated series; 1995)
• Camp Lazlo "Monkey See, Camping Doo" (lost unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)
• Captain Sturdy (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe (partially lost pilots from animation studio; 2008-2011)
• Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (found unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2003)
• IMP, Inc. (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• Jeffrey Cat: Claw and Order (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2002)
• A Kitty Bobo Show (found storyboard of cancelled second animated pilot for Cartoon Network; 2002)
• Major Flake in "Soggy Sales" (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2001)
• The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (partially found "Wedgies pilot" of Cartoon Network animated series; 2007)
• Mess O' Blues (partially found prototype short of "Johnny Bravo" Cartoon Network animated series; 1993)
• Nikki (found Cartoon Network animated pilot; 2000)
• The Powerpuff Girls (lost pilot of Cartoon Network animated series reboot; 2016)
• Regular Show (partially found Flash pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; late 2000s-2010)
• Squirrel Boy "Kite Makes Right" (lost unaired pilot of Cartoon Network animated series; 2004)
• Uncle Gus (partially found original English audio of Cartoon Network animated pilots; 2000-2001)

External Links

• My Gym Partner's a Monkey Wiki page on the unaired pilots.