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George of the Jungle is a Saturday-morning animated television program originally broadcast on the American TV network ABC from 1967 to 1970. A parody of Tarzan, the series was produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott. The title character, voiced by Scott, is a dim-witted but big-hearted "ape man", who lives in the jungle and is called upon each episode to save its inhabitants from various threats. He's famous for not looking where he's swinging and thus slams face-first into trees or other obstacles.

George is supported by his playmate interests Bella and Ursula (attractive identical twin young women with the voices of June Foray), his sapient gorilla friend Ape (Paul Frees), who is more intelligent than George (and sounds remarkably like Ronald Colman); and his pet elephant, Shep, who acts more like a lap dog, or, as George calls him, "big peanut-eating doggie".

Each half-hour show consists of three episodes: one of George; one of "Tom Slick", with Scott giving the voice of racecar-driver Tom, and June Foray speaking for his girlfriend Marigold; and "Super Chicken", with Scott as the titular superhero and Frees as his lion sidekick, Fred. The show was distributed by CBS Paramount Domestic Television.

George of the Jungle
(1997), a live-action film version of the cartoon, stars Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, and John Cleese as the voice of Ape. In this movie, the notion of Bella and Ursula was scrapped, and fused into one female, played by Leslie Mann and much more of a Jane-type girlfriend to George. In fact, many of the situations and actions in this movie were drawn directly from the Tarzan stories and movies, much more than the original animated cartoon show.

A sequel, George of the Jungle 2
(2003), was released direct-to-video with only Church and Cleese reprising their roles.

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Movies - George of the Jungle

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