Grape Ape

Grape Ape
Species	Ape
Gender	Male
Member of	S.P.L.A.T. Yogi Yahooeys Grape Apers
Affiliation	Beegle Beagle
Father	Harry Ape King Kong
Mother	Mrs. Ape
First appearance	TGGAS: "That Was No Idol, That Was My Ape" (1975)
Played by	Bob Holt (1975-1978) John Michael Higgins (2004) C.H. Greenblatt (2021)
Nightwing/Magilla Gorilla Special
Scoob!
Jellystone!

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

Character description

Grape Ape is a giant purple gorilla who stands at 40 feet tall. His clothing consists of a green cap, a green bow tie, and an green shirt.

Although a well-meaning creature, Grape Ape has the intelligence of a toddler, and is prone to make mistakes by accident (typically in huge consequences). His best friend is Beegle Beagle, who gives him commands in whatever situation they are in. While he is best friends with Beegle, his size tends to initially shock and frighten those unfamiliar with him, and his presence alone has often terrified people and animals.

Both Grape Ape and Beegle ride on a small yellow van driven by the latter, where Grape Ape positions himself by standing on top of its roof. Strange as it may seem, the van can withstand Grape Ape's weight. When told to "rev up", he winds it up as though it were a friction toy car, and then hops back in once it speeds up. He can stop the van by using his feet as brakes.

Grape Ape's catchphrase is saying his name twice ("Grape Ape, Grape Ape") after anything anyone says, usually as a form of agreement or acknowledgement of what was said.

Appearances

TV series

• The Great Grape Ape Show
  • 1.1A "That Was No Idol, That Was My Ape"
  • 1.1B "The All-American Ape"
  • 1.2A "Movie Madness"
  • 1.2B "Trouble at Bad Rock"
  • 1.3A "Flying Saucery"
  • 1.3B "There's No Feud Like an Old Feud"
  • 1.4A "The Grape Race"
  • 1.4B "The Big Parade"
  • 1.5A "A Knight to Remember"
  • 1.5B "S.P.L.A.T."
  • 1.6A "G.I. Ape"
  • 1.6B "The Purple Avenger"
  • 1.7A "Grapefinger"
  • 1.7B "Return to Balaboomba"
  • 1.8A "Amazon Ape"
  • 1.8B "Grape Marks the Spot"
  • 1.9A "The Invisible Ape"
  • 1.9B "Public Grape No. 1"
  • 1.10A "The Incredible Shrinking Grape"
  • 1.10B "What's a Nice Prince Like You Doing in a Duck Like That?"
  • 1.11A "Who's New at the Zoo"
  • 1.11B "The Indian Grape Call"
  • 1.12A "A Grape is Born"
  • 1.12B "The First Grape in Space"
  • 1.13 "S.P.L.A.T.'s Back"
  • 1.14A "To Sleep or Not to Sleep"
  • 1.14B "Olympic Grape"
  • 1.15A "Ali Beagle and the 40 Grapes"
  • 1.15B "Grape Five-O"
  • 1.16A "The Purple Avenger Strikes Again"
  • 1.16B "The Grape Connection"
• Laff-a-Lympics
• Dexter's Laboratory
  • 2.2 "Chubby Cheese" (animatronic robot)
• Brak Presents The Brak Show Starring Brak
  • 1.2 "Episode 2"
• Jellystone!
  • 1.1 "Yogi's Tummy Trouble" (no lines)
  • 1.2 "Gorilla in Our Midst" (no lines)
  • 1.8 "Cats Do Dance" (mentioned)
  • 1.16 "Squish or Miss"
  • 1.18 "Jelly Wrestle Rumble!" (no lines)
  • 1.23 "Baby Shenanigans"
  • 1.26 "Jellystone Moon Platoon" (no lines)
  • 1.31 "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Rat Race" (no lines)
  • 1.32 "The Brave Little Daddy"
  • 1.35 "The Box Thief" (no lines)
  • 1.40 "Sweet Dreams" (no lines)
  • 2.2 "Disco Fever" (no lines)
  • 2.6 "LAFF Games" (no lines)
  • 2.13 "Augie-mented Reality" (no lines)
  • 2.15 "Sha-zogi" (no lines)
  • 2.16 "Lil' Honk Honks!" (no lines)
• Teen Titans Go!
  • 8.24 "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary" (no lines)

Movies

• Scoob! (no lines)

Specials

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!

Shorts

• "Everyone" (no lines)
• Jellystone!
  • 1.6 "Wait-Tea" (no lines)

Comics

• Laff-a-Lympics
• The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
  • #3 "The Man Who Stole Thursday"
• Deathstroke/Yogi Bear Special
  • #1A "Jellystone Dark" (corpse)
• Nightwing/Magilla Gorilla Special
  • #1A "A Shrewdness of Apes"

Books

• Scooby-Doo's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics (coloring book)
• Scooby-Doo's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics (activity book)

Biography

Crossover Era

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 trial 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, fighting crime in Times Square.

Grape Ape in the Funny Books

Terminated

Grape Ape killed by Deathstroke.

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.

He also shares similarities with an earlier HB character, Magilla Gorilla.

Gallery

Main article: Grape Ape/Gallery

Behind the scenes

• According to a 1982 calendar, 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.
• In the Mad episode "Demise of the Planet of the Apes/The Celebrity Ape-rentice," during the "Demise of the Planet of the Apes" segment, Ceaser befriends Grape Ape in order to take over the world.

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  "Hear the G"

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  Grape Ape befriends Ceaser.