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|image=CrankyCabin.png

|caption=[[Cranky Kong|Cranky]] greeting [[Donkey Kong]] and [[Diddy Kong|Diddy]].

|greaterloc=[[Donkey Kong Island]]

|latest_appearance=''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' ([[List of games by date#2018|2018]])

'''Cranky's Cabin''', later renamed to '''Cranky's Hut''' for the [[Game Boy Advance]] remake, is the home of [[Cranky Kong]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]''. [[Donkey Kong]] and [[Diddy Kong|Diddy]] can visit this location to receive advice and hear ramblings from Cranky.

Cranky Kong would later run the [[Monkey Museum]] in ''[[Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest]]'', and [[Cranky's Lab]] in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]''. In the [[Game Boy Advance]] remake of ''[[Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!]]'', he runs his own dojo, titled [[Cranky's Dojo]]. In ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'', Cranky runs his own [[Cranky Kong's Shop|shop]], whose design appears to have been inspired from his original cabin. The location's theme is even a rendition of that of Cranky's Cabin's.

== Description ==

[[File:Cranky Cabin DKC art.jpg|thumb|left|Artwork of the Kongs and Cranky at Cranky's Cabin]]

Cranky's Cabin is made out of a barrel, with an opening carved in the side for an entrance. The building has a stone-coated metal roof, which a long chimney stems out from. A neon sign of the [[Nintendo]] logo is hanging above the entrance, and a large [[Banana]] is sitting to the left of the cabin. Located to the right is a large crate appearing to be a [[Animal Crate|Rambi Crate]], of which a silhouetted emblem of [[Rambi the Rhino|Rambi]]'s face is printed on.

Although it appears to be situated in the [[Kongo Jungle]], Cranky's Cabin appears in every area of [[Donkey Kong Island]]. Regardless of the current world, Cranky's Cabin is surrounded by jungle foliage. Cranky is often shown sitting at the porch of his cabin.

In addition to his advice, Cranky lives up to his name by complaining, often breaking the [[fourth wall]] in the process. He constantly whines about how the games from his glory days (such as the original ''[[Donkey Kong (game)|Donkey Kong]]'') were much better than the newer one. Cranky makes other complaints such as over modern graphics, which he deems as too bright and colorful, or his swaying beard being a "waste of frames" from the game's end.

Occasionally, Cranky says he would invite Donkey and Diddy indoors but the game cannot allocate the memory allowing him to do so. Ironically, in the [[Game Boy Advance]] remake, Cranky's Cabin takes place indoors, and it now features new background details. The mask of Mumbo Jumbo, a character from ''{{wp|Banjo-Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie}}'' is lying on Steel Barrels right outside the screen. The decapitated head of Sabre Wulf, the main villain of ''{{wp|Sabreman}}'', is mounted on the cabin's wall, next to the entrance. Sabre Wulf does not appear to be dead because his eyes continue to blink in spite of his decapitation. To the left of Sabre Wulf's head is a framed picture above a television set with a flashing static screen.

There is an official artwork showing Donkey Kong and Diddy at Cranky's Cabin. It appears to be during the evening, as evidenced from the orange sky. Instead of a Rambi Crate, the scene shows a crate reading "2L84ME" (too late for me) in red text. This text was later included on the [[Barrel Cannon]]s in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''.

=== ''Donkey Kong Land'' ===

Although Cranky's Cabin does not appear in ''[[Donkey Kong Land]]'' itself, the manual has it as the location where Donkey and Diddy make a bet with Cranky over recovering their bananas from the [[Kremling Krew]] again on a handheld system.  

====''Donkey Kong Country'' television series====

[[File:Treehouse.png|thumb|left|Cranky's Cabin in the television series]]

In the ''[[Donkey Kong Country (show)|Donkey Kong Country]]'' animated series, Cranky's Cabin, instead of being located on the ground, is high in the trees, possibly in the television series equivalent of [[Tree Top Town]]. The appearance of Cranky's Cabin was also altered in the cartoon series; it was made rounded and larger and had a variety of booby traps located near it, which could be activated to ward off enemies. The Cabin's interior has a safe located in the center of the hut, and unlike the games also has a piano and potion making equipment.

The safe within the cabin is the holding place of the [[Crystal Coconut]] in the show, which [[Donkey Kong]] spends much of his time guarding. On several occasions, [[King K. Rool]] is able to sneak into the cabin and get the Coconut, and other times, he is able to trick, or even use magic, to get someone else to go in and get it for him (such as when he uses the love potion to get [[Candy Kong]] to go in and steal it for him in ''[[A Thin Line Between Love & Ape]]''). The walkway to the cabin is booby-trapped with [[barrel]]s that when jumped on, send anyone unfortunate enough to be standing on it flying into an abyss. This is featured in several episodes, and is often used to prevent K. Rool from apprehending the Coconut.

==== ''Diddy Kong Pilot'' (2003 version) ====

[[File:DKP - Cranky Kong Screenshot.png|thumb|Cranky sitting at his cabin in ''Diddy Kong Pilot'']]

Cranky's Hut makes a cameo in the 2003 ''[[Diddy Kong Pilot (2003)|Diddy Kong Pilot]]'', and it also shown in a jungle setting. It is the location where Cranky communicates to the player from during various parts of the game. The iconic Nintendo logo and Giant Banana reappear in the scenery.

CrankysCabinGBC.png|Cranky's Cabin in the [[Game Boy Color]] remake

|JapR=Kurankii kongu no koya

|JapM=Cranky Kong's Hut

|Fre=Case de Cranky

|ItaM=Literal translation

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