PERFORMER | Michael Oosterom face/voice |
Tom Fisher body | |
DEBUT | 2008 |
Spanky is an intelligent gorilla trained at the Simionics Institute in The Middleman episode "Pilot Episode Sanction." Obsessed with gangster movies, Spanky sees himself as a mobster, murdering the local mafia and spouting dialogue cribbed from the likes of The Godfather and Scarface. He leaves banana peels near his victims. Eventually, the Middleman and Wendy Watson discover that the gorilla is in fact the pawn of Dr. Gibbs
An animatronic gorilla suit was recycled as Ape from George of the Jungle.