Don Bongo



"Try to dodge my bouncing blubber. Just don't hit my lip of rubber."

- Don Bongo

Don Bongo is a boss from Yoshi's Story. He is at the end of Stage 3-4: Frustration. Don Bongo looks like a Clubba, except for the fact that his lips are humongous. Don Bongo attacks by walking into Yoshi, and by calling pots and pans down to hit the heroic dinosaur. To defeat Don Bongo, Yoshi had to hit him in the lips three times.

Don Bongo might have been the inspiration for Tubba Blubba, a giant Clubba from Paper Mario. Also, one may infer that the "don" in Don Bongo's name derives from the "don," the Spanish word for "lord." "Bongo" may refer to the sound of his footsteps, which resemble the sound of a low drum such as a timpani.