Grape Ape

Grape Ape is an anthropomorphic giant ape and the main title character in The Great Grape Ape Show. He was voiced by Bob Holt.

Laff-A-Lympics
He was a member of the Yogi Yahooeys which was led by Yogi Bear. Grape Ape was the only 1962-post member of the team.

He would later go on to lead the Grape Apers, and is the only remaining member of the Yahooeys on the team.

Cameo on Yogi's Space Race
He made a guest cameo in the Yogi's Space Race episode "Nebuloc–The Prehistoric Planet", in which he helped save the Space Racers from the "Space Apes".

Harvey Birdman Represents
In the episode, "Grape Juiced" Grape Ape is accused of taking steroids during the Laff-A-Lympics games and is put on trail with Harvey Birdman representing him.

SCOOB!
He appeared in the end credits sequence, in which he had joined the Falcon Force, alongside Atom Ant, Jabberjaw and Captain Caveman.

Terminated
In Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special #1, he was killed by Deathstroke.

Development
His character was most likely inspired by King Kong, being over 40 feet high.

Behind the scenes

 * He was born on May 19th.

In popular culture

 * In the Robot Chicken skit "Hear the G" segment of the episode "I'm Trapped", he is seen dead with police officers surrounding his body, once they checked his ID, they realized they didn't hear the "G" in his name which explains why they shot him.