Wow. I didn't realize that chimps used on a set would still be that unpredictable. I've studied chimps - they were pretty calm when they were with the humans they knew and trusted, but yeah, in unfamiliar surroundings, probably not so calm.

Still cool though.

Ha! Now I'm picturing Ed Quinn in a diaper and a poker-faced stare.

Don't tell him.

I believe there is a whitefont exemption around here for anything even peripherally involving monkeys. Monkeys! And yes, chimps count for the purposes of the exemption. Monkey!

Also, yay Toronto. Haven't been in way too long.

Yeah I think it's because of all the lights, the actors yelling at each other in the scene and the AD yelling "hurry up". And then the set tension and they - I'm told - start to freak out a bit.

Especially when people then start to approach them like they are little dolls.

But I'm just repeating stuff I'm told by the trainer.

But I'm just repeating stuff I'm told by the trainer.

Because if you didn't he'd sic a chimp on you?

The Exec. Andrew Cosby insisted on "monkeys" in the episode when the idea was pitched.

The tv is MINE--Alienated, here I come!

I'm skipping the obligatory poo flinging jokes because I'm trying not to be twelve.

I'm trying not to be twelve.

but, why?

Oh, yeah... I forgot (having never been on one) how noisy and chaotic it must be on a set... especially to a chimp.

I didn't whitefont, due to the questionably-extant monkey exemption. Also because it's a pain.

Well on a big stunt day or a day with "monkeys" they start the call with a big safety meeting that is compulsory.

... and I still have burns, cuts and some vague nerve damage a month after some "safe" stunts I had to do