Mad Monkey Love

Lately I have been watching the Planet of The Apes TV show, 1974, now available on DVD. I was completely in love with this show then and still am now. I have vivid memories of this show because at the time it first aired I was 12 and watched the show at a girl's house who I was "babysitting". She was only a couple years younger than me and what was really going on is that our fathers were meeting because they were on some committee together and would go out for dinner on Friday nights to discuss whatever, taking our moms, so basically I was just going over to her house while our parents went out. Maybe I am over explaining but anyway it just happened to be at the time when this show was on for only 12 weeks. It turned into a ritual and Brenda and I both loved the show. We always did the same thing. Before the show started we would prepare our own invention of potato chip dip containing the following:

    

        POTA Chip Dip

       1/4 cup  Mayonnaise

       2 T. Ketchup

       and a dash of garlic salt

It might sound gross but it was quite good. I have mixed it up since then playing with the ingredients, 1 clove of fresh grated garlic is a nice change. Brenda and I would then belly up to a large bowl of potato chips and the dip and slip away into the land of monkeys.

The show is still very watchable. Unlike the movies, humans can talk making for a greater exchange between apes and humans and the apes are trying to live peacefully for the most part with the humans. It is campy and the monkeys are so swishy with their British accents, for some reason all the Chimpanzees have British accents. The Gorilla do not. Brains versus brawn I guess.

 I really liked the architecture too. I wanted to have a stone monkey house that was sort of in the vein of the Flintstones. Big groovy plants growing without the aid of sunlight. They had these cool floating rock doors that looked as though they were light as a feather when they opened and closed. How did they do that? So so cool.

 
High Monkey/human drama.

Lots of skin.

Living, laughing and loving on the Planet of the Apes.

If I wore sweaters, this is one I would wear. It was quite stylin'. A robin's egg blue with tan in sort of a Japanese Ikat pattern.  I like it's simple ape styling, It might do better with a raglan sleeve which helps counteract sloping shoulders that I suffer from too, but all in all, a very nice patterned sweater.

In the act of crossing his fingers while lying, Galen (Roddy McDowell) flicked the bird. A Chimpy FU so to speak. Ha.