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'''''Donkey Kong Country''''' is a Canadian computer-generated animated television series based upon the [[Donkey Kong Country (series)|video game trilogy of the same name]]. It first aired in France on September 4, 1996. The show was later aired in North America starting on August 15, 1998, and the original run finished on July 7, 2000. Even later, the show began airing in Australia in December 2009. In the United States the series originally debuted on CBS before later being moved to Fox Family.

''Donkey Kong Country'' was one of the earliest television series to be entirely computer-animated, matching the artistic style of the video games. The CG animation style of the series was met with critical acclaim in France and Japan, but with mixed reception elsewhere. Despite this, the show has managed to gain a cult following, and even Nintendo itself has acknowledged its existence.

==Episodes==

;Season 1:

#"[[Bad Hair Day]]"

#"[[Ape Foo Young]]"

#"[[Booty and the Beast]]"

#"[[Kong for a Day]]"

#"[[From Zero to Hero]]"

#"[[Buried Treasure (episode)|Buried Treasure]]"

#"[[Cranky's Tickle Tonic]]"

#"[[Get a Life, Don't Save One]]"

#"[[The Curse of Kongo Bongo]]"

#"[[Speed (episode)|Speed]]"

#"[[Klump's Lumps]]"

#"[[Bluster's Sale Ape-Stravaganza]]"

#"[[Kong Fu]]"

#"[[Bug a Boogie]]"

#"[[Watch the Skies]]"

#"[[Baby Kong Blues]]"

#"[[To the Moon Baboon]]"

#"[[A Thin Line Between Love & Ape]]"

;Season 2:

#"[[The Kongo Bongo Festival of Lights]]"

#"[[Speak No Evil, Dude]]"

#"[[The Day the Island Stood Still]]"

#"[[Monkey Seer, Monkey Do]]"

#"[[Four Weddings and a Coconut]]"

#"[[Vote of Kong-Fidence]]"

#"[[The Big Switch-A-Roo]]"

#"[[Hunka Hunka Burnin' Bluster]]"

#"[[It's a Wonderful Life]]"

#"[[Just Kidding]]"

==La planète de Donkey Kong==

Four episodes were released in North America on a single VHS cassette titled, ''Donkey Kong Country: The Legend of the Crystal Coconut''. Said episodes were edited together to make them seem like one continuous storyline. However, these episodes were not put together in the proper order; for example, a flashback shown in the third episode actually happened in the fourth episode of the tape. The American version of the tape was distributed by Paramount Pictures, Nintendo, and Nelvana. Advertisements and even the videotape's packaging neglected to mention the actual TV series the episodes originated from, and was instead marketed as a feature-length film all its own (leading to some confusion among newer viewers of certain content, such as [[Eddie the Mean Old Yeti]]'s brief appearance in ''[[Ape-Nesia]]'').

The show had a large line of merchandise in Japan, including a [[Gallery:Donkey Kong Country Japanese CGI Trading Cards|collectible card game]] by Nintendo and [[Ahomaro Games]]. Some of the cards featured characters that never appeared in the television series. The card game was later adapted to be based on ''Donkey Kong 64''. The television series took over the TV Tokyo 6:30 P.M. timeslot from ''[[Wikipedia:Gokudo|Gokudo]]'', and was later replaced with ''[[Wikipedia:Hamtaro|Hamtaro]]''. As with most programs in Japan, the show has received home releases through rental tapes.

==Trivia==

*A recurring gag involves Donkey Kong (sometimes with Diddy) constantly crashing into trees.

*No [[Animal Friends]] appear throughout the series, although [[Rambi the Rhino]] was present in a commercial for the Game Boy Color remake of ''Donkey Kong Country'' that featured the cartoon's incarnations of various characters (see above).

*In multiple episodes, Donkey Kong admits to being a fan of King Kong; ironic considering that Universal Studios attempted to sue Nintendo for a copyright dispute over the two kongs.