The Curse of Kongo Bongo

The Curse of Kongo Bongo is the twelfth episode of the Donkey Kong Country television series, and it aired in the United States on October 25, 1998. During the episode, every ape on Kongo Bongo Island mysteriously gets a letter, which contains the curse of the Bluebird Baboon upon them. If the curse is read twice, the entire island will sink into the sea. Finding out that everyone has gotten a letter, Donkey and Diddy Kong head out to stop them from reading it.

Plot Synopsis
The episode begins with Donkey Kong brushing his hair in his treehouse. As he tries to get a warm glass of coconut milk, he hears the doorbell ring. Although surprised that it is late for someone to be ringing the doorbell, he hits the switch to bring up the elevator up to the house. When he searches inside, he finds a note and begins to read it, thinking that it is from the "Mr. Gorgeous Gorilla Contest" that he entered. However, when he reads it, he learns that it is really about the "double curse of Bluebird Baboon," which destroys the island if the letter is read twice by anyone. The scene ends with him announcing that he has a bad feeling about the curse.

Later, Donkey and Diddy head to the beach, where they meet Dixie Kong. Excited, she tells them that Funky Kong is taking her on her first flying lesson, which they do not appear to be too sure about. As they look into the air, they can see Funky flying in his plane, which begins to plummet to the ground. Quickly, Dixie tells Funky by radio to wake up, as he has fallen asleep. Immediately before crashing, Funky moves his plane away from the ground, barely missing Candy Kong. As soon as Funky lands, Dixie jumps in, exclaiming that she wants to start the engine. Donkey and Diddy appear stunned as she heads towards the plane.

Meanwhile, King K. Rool, with Polly Roger, try to find new plans to defeat the Kongs and get the Crystal Coconut. General Klump shows his "foolproof" plan to his master, but he explains that it is in code. King K. Rool is angered that Klump cannot decipher his own code, but the minion assures him that he will figure it out. As Klump and Krusha try to find what the code stands for, King K. Rool tells Polly Roger to steal the Crystal Coconut for anything as a reward, and the parrot chooses to do so, flying out of the hideout.

Donkey and Diddy enter Cranky's Cabin later to find him searching through his cabin nervously. Diddy suggests that Cranky needs a maid service, but Cranky then shows him a letter similar to the one Donkey Kong had received earlier. Donkey Kong, not thinking about the dangers of the letter, exclaims that he had gotten a letter just like it before, and Diddy announces that he has too. With a book of his, Cranky explains that every one hundred years, the ghost of Bluebird Baboon rises from the depths of the ocean to send everyone "the curse of the double doubloon." He is angered when he finds out that Donkey Kong has read it, showing the two Kongs the Crystal Coconut, which is losing power due to the effects of the curse. If the letter is read a second time, the Crystal Coconut loses all of its power and the island sinks into the sea, just as Bluebird Baboon's ship did one thousand years previously. After Cranky informs them on the curse, he infers that every ape on the island had gotten the letter as well. Donkey Kong then begins to sing about the curse, and afterwards, he and Diddy head out to stop anyone from reading the letter.