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Gorillas in pop culture

• The gorilla suit is an eternally popular gag costume. On The Zone on YTV, a recurring character is Gorilla Stan, who is actually a person wearing a cheap Halloween costume.
• The mascot of the NBA's Phoenix Suns is a man in a gorilla suit, called The Gorilla.
• The giant gorilla is a recurring theme in film, especially in the various incarnations of King Kong and Mighty Joe Young.
• The namesake of the Donkey Kong video game franchise is a gorilla.
• Optimus Primal on Beast Wars and Beast Machines starts out as a regular gorilla. His beast modes get more technological in each incarnation.
• The protagonist of Don Martin's Mad Magazine strip "National Gorilla-Suit Day" is ever beset by gorillas (or persons dressed as gorillas).
• In the film Planet of the Apes, gorillas fill security/military roles.
• Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas, is the only public college in the United States to have a gorilla as mascot.
• Famed boarding school Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts, also has a gorilla as an informal mascot.
• In the anime series "Sakigake! Cromartie High School," a gorilla is one of the more powerful delinquents at Cromartie High. He (she?) also plays backup guitar for "Freddie," a fellow student who may or may not be Freddie Mercury.
• A well-known vacuum cleaner repair shop in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, The Hilly Billy Vac Shack, has a gorilla-costumed mascot who waves at motorists, holding a sign saying "Hilly-Billy likes you!" In recent years, the owner has had legal problems because his roller-blading gorilla mascot was found to be disturbing traffic by waving at them from the road. "Is a gorilla on roller-skates considered a pedestrian?" was the question on the minds of the court.
• A gorilla teaches the protagonist about the history of humanity and the effect "civilized" culture has had on other species in the award-winning novel Ishmael, written by Daniel Quinn.
• Gorillas were frequently used as a gimmick to sell comics during the Silver Age of Comic Books: see Gorillas in comics.