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Calculator-animated television serial

Ass Kong Country

Based on	Ass Kong by Nintendo Donkey Kong Country by Rare
Developed past	Jacques Goldstein Philippe Percebois
Directed by	Mike Fallows
Voices of	Richard Yearwood Andrew Sabiston Joy Tanner Aron Tager Ben Campbell Adrian Truss Louise Vallance Donald Burda Len Carlson Damon D'Oliveira Lawrence Bayne Rick Jones
Theme music composer	Pure West
Opening theme	"Ass Kong Land"
Ending theme	"Ass Kong Country" (Instrumental)
Composer	Pure Westward
Country of origin	Canada France Mainland china
Original linguistic communication	English
No. of seasons	ii
No. of episodes	40 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Dale A. Andrews Patrick Loubert Michael Hirsh Clive Smith Gérard Mital (Season one just) Jacques Peyrache (Season i only)
Producers	Maia Tubiana (Season 1) Stephen Hodgins (Season one; supervising producer, Season two) Patricia R. Burns (Season 1; supervising producer, Flavour 2) Pam Lehn (Season two)
Editor	Samuel Lajus
Running time	30 minutes (per episode)
Production companies	Nelvana Limited Medialab Studio 50. A. (Flavour 1) Hong Guang Animation (Flavor two) WIC Entertainment Ltd.
Benefactor	Alliance Communications (Canada) Nelvana International (International)
Release
Original network	Teletoon (Canada) France 2 and Canal+ (France)
Picture format	NTSC
First shown in	France
Original release	August 15, 1997 (1997-08-15) – July 7, 2000 (2000-07-07)

Donkey Kong Land is a computer animated musical television series that was loosely based on the Nintendo franchise Donkey Kong—as portrayed in the Donkey Kong Country video game serial by Nintendo and Rare. The series was co-produced past Nelvana, Medialab Studio L.A. (Season ane) and Hong Guang Animation (Season two), in clan with WIC Entertainment, with the participation of Teletoon—for Flavor 1, it was produced in co-production with French republic 2, Canal+, in clan with Valar 4.

The show debuted in France on September iv, 1996, on France 2, on a block titled La Planète de Donkey Kong (The Planet of Donkey Kong). The French version of the show later premiered in Canada on Télétoon on September 8, 1997, making the series one of the channel'southward launch programs, while the English version debuted on its English counterpart on October 17, 1997, as well as a launch program. In the U.s., it was one of the get-go series to be shown on Play tricks Family, in which the serial was broadcast in its entirety from August 15, 1998 (the same day Play a joke on Family was launched) until 2000. It was also seen on Play a trick on Kids from 1998-1999 for a very curt time ambulation two episodes every bit specials on December 19, 1998, and aired a few more episodes during the summer of 1999 before being taken off.^[1] 40 episodes were produced.^[ii]

In Nippon, Donkey Kong State took over TV Tokyo's 6:xxx p.m. fourth dimension-slot from Gokudo the Adventurer ambulation on October 1, 1999 and was later replaced with Hamtaro after catastrophe on June 30, 2000.

Donkey Kong Country was one of the earliest idiot box shows to exist entirely blithe with move capture engineering.^[3] Several elements of the serial, such equally the Crystal Kokosnoot, appeared in later Donkey Kong video games similar Donkey Kong 64 , which was released iii years afterwards the bear witness began ambulation on television set. The second flavor was produced by Chinese CGI studio Hong Guang Animation—which updated the character models, silkier lighting, and cardinal framing—having been announced as early on as May 1999.^[4]

Plot [ edit ]

Donkey Kong is an ape who happens to find a magic coconut called the Crystal Coconut, which grants wishes and is capable of answering questions asked of it. Ass Kong is the protector of the Crystal Coconut, which is housed in Cranky Kong's Cabin. King Thou. Rool and his minions want to steal the Crystal Coconut from Donkey Kong and company in order to dominion Kongo Bongo Isle, the setting of the show. Try as they may, King K. Rool and his minions never succeed in stealing the Crystal Kokosnoot. Each episode features two songs performed by the show's characters.

Characters [ edit ]

Main [ edit ]

These characters originated from Ass Kong Land and Donkey Kong Country ii: Diddy's Kong Quest . However, some of them went through some design changes.

Kongs [ edit ]

Donkey Kong - The testify'southward titular graphic symbol, and the future ruler of Kongo Bongo Island, voiced by Richard Yearwood. His catchphrase is "Banana slamma!" His singing voice was provided by Sterling Jarvis.
Diddy Kong - DK's sidekick and buddy, voiced by Andrew Sabiston, who had earlier voiced Yoshi in Super Mario Earth .
Cranky Kong - DK and Diddy's mentor, who often mixes potions. He is able to use the Crystal Coconut to show up every bit a hologram whenever he needs to alert DK. The evidence makes no mention of how he and DK are related or of his days in the arcade games, which he frequently mentions in the game series as a form of meta-reference. He is voiced past Aron Tager.
Funky Kong - The resident airport director. He looks every bit he did in the commencement game only has tan fur instead of chocolate-brown. He is voiced by Damon D'Oliveira.
Processed Kong - DK's girlfriend. She is much less passive than in the games and has a dissimilar design to match. Part of her design for the show was mixed with her erstwhile game design for Ass Kong 64. She is voiced past Joy Tanner.
Dixie Kong - Diddy'south girlfriend, and the but character on the evidence who originated in Donkey Kong Country two . Like Candy, her design differs a bit from the games, and she too has been given tan fur like Funky. She as well has a addiction of losing her pets. She is voiced past Louise Vallance.

Kremlings [ edit ]

King Thousand. Rool - The main villain of the series, ever attempting to steal the Crystal Kokosnoot and take over the island. His only noticeable changes in physical appearance are that his greatcoat is shorter, his tail is gone and his left middle is non bittersweet, although information technology does enlarge often. He is voiced by Bridegroom Campbell, but the pilot, he was voiced by Len Carlson, who had earlier voiced Ganon in The Legend of Zelda .
Krusha - K. Rool's bodyguard. Despite his size, he is very childish and enjoys watching the Sing-Along with Uncle Swampy Prove. He is voiced past Len Carlson.
Klump - 1000. Rool's general. He oftentimes carries out his boss's plans in true armed services fashion, but without success. He was voiced by Adrian Truss.
Kritters - K. Rool's standard foot soldiers. They look as they did in the first game but are besides armed with Klap-Blasters.
Klaptraps - Small crocodiles who like to eat wooden surfaces in a manner similar to termites. They are fired out of Klap-Blasters by the Kritters and usually give comments on whatever they are eating.

Exclusives [ edit ]

These characters appeared simply in the testify and never appeared in whatsoever games to engagement.

Bluster Kong - The boss of the Bluster Barrelworks manufactory, where barrels are produced. He has a huge ego and constantly hits on Processed, his alone employee, unsuccessfully. His change ego in season 2, episode 11, is named Leo Luster.^[5] ^{[ better source needed ]} He is voiced by Donald Burda.
Kaptain Skurvy - A secondary, pirate-themed villain for the series. His blueprint is identical to that of Kannon from the second Donkey Kong Land game, and it has been revealed that he is Klump's long-lost twin blood brother. He persists in chasing the Crystal Coconut, challenge it to exist the birthright of one of his ancestors. He is voiced by Ron Rubin.
Kutlass & Dark-green Kroc - Skurvy's minions, the erstwhile of whom shares a name with one of the enemies from the 2d game.
Polly Roger the Parrot - The pet parrot of Kaptain Skurvy, Polly Roger later on works for K. Rool. He and Klump do non get along well.
Inferior the Klaptrap - He is an abnormally large Klaptrap. He is voiced by Ron Rubin.
Eddie the Hateful Quondam Yeti - A white-furred yeti who lives lonely in the White Mountains. He does not seem to like it when others intrude on his territory.
Inka Dinka Doo - The temple god from where the Crystal Coconut came. It was he who selected DK to exist the future ruler. He appears as a stone column on which expressions are featured. This rock cake turns around to prove the expression that matches his current mood.
Kong Fu - A martial arts "Kung Fu Master" who is hired by M. Rool to defeat Ass Kong in the Annual Donkey Kong Challenge. He just appears in one episode with the same name. His name was later used in the French version of Donkey Kong Jungle Beat for the boss Karate Kong.

Voice bandage [ edit ]

Season 1 of the French version was done in Quebec, with the exception of Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong^[6] and Funky Kong's voice actors who are from France. Season ii was not given a French version until later when it got released on DVD years afterwards, which had a new voice cast and it was washed in France, with DK and Funky's vox actors reprising their character roles. Hervé Grull never returned as Diddy Kong, as he had long since hitting puberty, replaced past Lucile Boulanger as a upshot.^[7]

Graphic symbol Role	French (Season 1)	French (Season 2)	English	Japanese
Ass Kong	Franck Capillery		Richard Yearwood Sterling Jarvis (singing voice)	Kōichi Yamadera
Diddy Kong	Hervé Grull	Lucile Boulanger Donald Reignoux (singing voice)	Andrew Sabiston	Megumi Hayashibara
Cranky Kong	Yves Massicotte	Yves Barsacq	Aaron Tager	Ryusei Nakao
Funky Kong	Emmanuel Curtil		Damon D'Oliveira	Assistant Ice
Candy Kong	Camille Cyr-Desmarais	Odile Schmitt	Joy Tanner	Mika Kanai
Dixie Kong	Violette Chauveau	Annie Barclay	Louise Vallance	Becky
Rant Kong	Daniel Lesourd	Patrice Dozier	Donald Burda	Daiki Nakamura
King Chiliad. Rool	Éric Gaudry	Daniel Beretta	Benedict Campbell	Jurota Kosugi
General Klump	Jean Brousseau	Jacques Bouanich	Adrian Truss	Keiichi Sonobe
Krusha	Pierre Auger	Daniel Beretta	Len Carlson	Tomohisa Aso
Eddie the Hateful Old Yeti	Unknown	Patrice Dozier	Damon D'Oliveira	Kenyu Horiuchi
Inka Dinka Doo	Unknown	Unknown	Lawrence Bayne	Tomohisa Aso
Kaptain Skurvy	Unknown	Unknown	Ron Rubin	Katsuhisa Hoki
Kutlass	Unknown	Unknown	John Stocker	Takuma Suzuki
Green Kroc	Unknown	Unknown	Richard Newman	Takuma Suzuki
Kritters	Unknown	Michel Tugot-Doris	Lawrence Bayne	Tokuyoshi Kawashima Toshitaka Hirano Takayuki Yamaguchi Daiki Nakamura Tomohisa Aso
Polly Roger	Unknown	Unknown	Rick Jones	Motoko Kumai
Junior the Behemothic Klaptrap	Unknown	Unknown	Ron Rubin	Unknown
Babe Kong	Unknown	Unknown	Joy Tanner	Kōichi Yamadera
Kong Fu	Unknown	Unknown	Richard Newman	Hōchū Ōtsuka

Episodes [ edit ]

BGM [ edit ]

The groundwork music were picked up on the albums, for example:

Tracks	Composer(s)	Albums
Quick Con	Paul Koffman Timothy Foy	NLV 169: Spy vs Spy
Hover Car
Helicopter Heist
Sneakers
The Line Up
Canaille Hunt
Techno Cowboy		NLV 166: Cowboy Army camp
Marching Orders		NLV 131: Clash of the Titans Vol.two
Paisley Homo		NLV 127: Funkytown
Taxi Chase		NLV 127: Funkytown
Madcap Monday		NLV 126: Music for Silly Moments
Edsel		NLV 126: Music for Silly Moments
Haunted Funhouse		NLV 151: Big Elevation Adventure
Firm Of Frights		NLV 151: Big Elevation Adventure
Three Piece Adjust		NLV 148: Peaceful Jazzy Feeling Vol. 2
Tiny Czar		NLV 141: Just For Laughs Vol. 4
Guava Nectar		NLV 115: Sunny Day Sounds Vol. 2
Meditation Fire		NLV 155: Global Bazaar
Spring In		NLV 165: Techno Town

Habitation video releases [ edit ]

Donkey Kong Land has been released throughout many VHS and DVDs in several countries. In total, 13 DVDs around the world were released with English audio.

For Northward America, four episodes of Donkey Kong Land that feature Kaptain Skurvy were edited together into a VHS cassette release titled Donkey Kong Country: The Legend of the Crystal Kokosnoot and was marketed every bit a feature-length anthology moving-picture show. However, these episodes are non in chronological lodge, every bit a flashback shown in the third episode actually occurs in the fourth episode of the tape. It was released in Canada around 1997 with both English and French dub tapes separately with distribution handled by Seville Pictures and Nelvana themselves as the secondary benefactor.^[8] The U.s.a. version of the tape was distributed by Paramount Home Video and was released in the nation on Nov 9, 1999, marking this the only fourth dimension that the U.S. had a VHS release of this series. French republic has gotten a release of this tape too under: Donkey Kong Le Film!

In Japan, the TV serial was very popular and proven to be successful, since the video game that the serial is based on was also a hit. It was also considering the Japanese dubbed version of the series was produced with a very high upkeep thus investing to having a big-name well known voice cast. On top of that, the Japanese and also the Latin Spanish dub editions had ad-libbed a lot of extra humour that were not in the original scripts. The Japanese dubbed version of the unabridged series has been released on habitation video through Rental VHS tapes in 2000. Shogakukan Video has released all the episodes of the serial spreading through xiii volumes and they were sold by Japan Columbia, a record label visitor. Each tape contains three episodes each and in consistent order of its Japanese broadcasting on Television receiver Tokyo, with the exception of its series finale, Message in a Bottle Show was not included due to mostly being a clip episode. Even so, that episode was later introduced as part of another TV Tokyo program which is a quiz bear witness known as Ohashi.

In the PAL regions, Donkey Kong Country Vol.1 (released in Australia) and Ass Kong Country - Bad Hair Day (released in the United Kingdom) were released on DVD. The other two DVDs, Ass Kong Country: Hooray for Holly Kongo Bongo and Donkey Kong Country: The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights (both released in Australia) only held one episode. After over three years of no new English language DVD, I Spy With My Hairy Eye was released in the UK in 2008.

Finally in 2013, Phase 4 Films, a small Canadian low-budget film company, officially purchased the rights to license and distribute the series for a DVD release in Region one alongside Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and began releasing episodes starting off with the He Came, He Saw, He Kong-quered DVD that was released on August 20, 2013. The Complete Offset Season was then released on DVD in Region i on May 12, 2015.^[nine] ^[x]

In 2017, Pidax Picture has gotten the distribution rights in Germany to release all fourteen episodes of Season 2 on DVD with English and German language dubbing audio included. Frg still has yet to get a release of the first season.

The episodes of the show are all available on iTunes and on the Amazon Prime Ameba channel. The first two seasons are available on IMDb TV and on Amazon Video with advertisements.

39/40 episodes are available on Retro Rerun's YouTube channel.

Name	Release Date	Episodes	Region	Boosted Information
The Legend of the Crystal Coconut (English) Donkey Kong Country: La Légende de la noix de coco en cristal (French)	1997 (Canada) November nine, 1999 (USA)	four	VHS	Includes Legend of the Crystal Coconut, Problems a Boogie, Ape-Nesia, and Booty and the Brute edited together in a feature-length format. A French dub release for Canada was also released.
Donkey Kong Le Film!		4	VHS	French dubbed version of the Legend of the Crystal Coconut compilation characteristic, release for France.
ドンキーコング Vol. 1 (Donkey Kong Vol. ane)	June 21, 2000	3	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 1-3 (Bad Hair Mean solar day, Ape Foo Young and Booty and the Beast).
ドンキーコング Vol. 2 (Donkey Kong Vol. 2)		three	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes four-6 (Barrel, Barrel... Who's Got the Barrel, Kong for a Day and Raiders of the Lost Banana).
ドンキーコング Vol. iii (Donkey Kong Vol. 3)		3	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes vii-9 (From Cipher to Hero, Cached Treasure and Cranky'due south Tickle Tonic).
ドンキーコング Vol. 4 (Donkey Kong Vol. four)	August 19, 2000	3	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 10-12 (Orangutango, Double Appointment Trouble and The Expletive of Kongo Bongo).
ドンキーコング Vol.5 (Donkey Kong Vol. v)		three	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 13-15 (Speed, Become a Life, Don't Save One and The Big Chill Out).
ドンキーコング Vol.6 (Donkey Kong Vol. half dozen)		3	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 16-xviii (To the Moon Baboon, I Spy with My Hairy Eye and Klump's Lumps).
ドンキーコング Vol.vii (Ass Kong Vol. seven)	Oct 21, 2000	3	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 19-21 (Kong Fu, Bluster'south Auction Ape-Stravaganza and Legend of the Crystal Coconut).
ドンキーコング Vol.8 (Donkey Kong Vol. 8)		three	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 22-24 (Scout the Skies, Issues a Boogie and Babe Kong Dejection).
ドンキーコング Vol.9 (Donkey Kong Vol. 9)		3	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 25-27 (Ape-Nesia, A Sparse Line Between Love & Ape and The Solar day the Island Stood Notwithstanding).
ドンキーコング Vol.10 (Donkey Kong Vol. ten)	December 21, 2000	3	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 28-30 (Hooray for Holly-Kongo Bongo, The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights and Speak No Evil, Dude).
ドンキーコング Vol.11 (Donkey Kong Vol. xi)		3	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 31-33 (Monkey Seer, Monkey Practice, Iv Weddings and a Coconut and Vote of Kong-Fidence).
ドンキーコング Vol.12 (Donkey Kong Vol. 12)		iii	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 34-36 (Follow That Coconut, The Big Switch-A-Roo and Hunka Hunka Burnin' Bluster).
ドンキーコング Vol.13 (Ass Kong Vol. 13)		3	VHS	Includes Japanese dubbed versions of Episodes 37-39 (Best of Enemies, Just Kidding and Information technology's a Wonderful Life).
Donkey Kong Country - Vol. 1	TBA	iv	4	Includes Hooray for Holly-Kongo Bongo, The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights, Speak No Evil, Dude and The Mean solar day the Island Stood Withal.
The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights	TBA	two	4	Includes The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights and Hooray for Holly-Kongo Bongo.
Speak No Evil, Dude	TBA	2	4	Includes Speak No Evil, Dude and The Day the Isle Stood Notwithstanding.
Monkey Seer, Monkey Practice	TBA	2	iv	Includes Monkey Seer, Monkey Practice and Four Weddings and a Coconut.
Bad Hair Day	June half-dozen, 2005	4	2	Includes Bad Hair Day, Ape Foo Young, Haul and the Animal and Butt, Barrel... Who'due south Got the Barrel.
I Spy with My Hairy Center	June 9, 2008	3	2	Includes I Spy with My Hairy Eye, Baby Kong Blues and The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights.
Raiders of the Lost Assistant	Baronial three, 2009	five	2	Includes Raiders of the Lost Assistant, Barrel, Barrel... Who'southward Got the Barrel, Kong for a Day, From Null to Hero and Cached Treasure.
He Came, He Saw, He Kong-quered	August 20, 2013	4	ane	Includes Bad Hair Day, Ape Foo Immature, Haul and the Beast and Barrel, Butt... Who's Got the Barrel.
Raiders of the Lost Banana	October i, 2013	4	1	Includes Raiders of the Lost Banana, Kong for a Twenty-four hours, From Zero to Hero and Cached Treasure.
Kong Fu	January 21, 2014	four	1	Includes Kong Fu, Get a Life, Don't Salve I, Cranky's Tickle Tonic and Orangutango.
The Legend of the Crystal Kokosnoot	March 11, 2014	4	1	Includes Legend of the Crystal Coconut, Rant's Sale Ape-Stravaganza, Klump'south Lumps and Speed.
The Complete First Season	May 12, 2015	26	one	Includes all 26 episodes from season 1.
The Complete 2d Flavor	TBA	fourteen	ane	Includes all xiv episodes from season 2.

Legacy [ edit ]

The testify had a big line of trade in Japan, including a manga and collectible bill of fare game featuring drawings of characters—some of which never appeared in the serial. The carte du jour game was after adapted to be based on Ass Kong 64.

Pirate's Scorn, a song from the show, was covered by Scottish heavy metal band Alestorm in their Curse of the Crystal Coconut album. This cover of Pirate'south Scorn was also included in DKC: Expletive of the Crystal Coconut, an animated fan tribute to the show.^[11] Additionally, the anthology artwork contains several nods to the Donkey Kong video game franchise.^[12]

In the Nintendo Switch version of Ass Kong Country: Tropical Freeze , the "assistant slamma" catchphrase is used in one of Tawks' lines when visiting Funky'south Fly 'n Buy while playing as Funky Kong, paying an homage to the animated series.^[thirteen]

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