My monkey! My monkey took that paintbrush and then went into that vent! Oh I miss him so much!
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— Troy, "Paradigms of Human Memory". |
Annie's Boobs is Troy's pet monkey who was given to him as a boon for his work as the bagman in the Chicken Fingers distribution network headed by his best friend Abed Nadir. A mischievous and sneaky creature, the monkey made its home later in the school's air vent systems. Occasionally Annie's Boobs would sneak out to procure various items to add to what appeared to be a shrine it was creating in honor of the study group. Its first appearance was in the Season One episode "Contemporary American Poultry". He is portrayed by animal actor Crystal the Monkey. |
Character history[]
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“ | I will not tolerate monkies living on campus. If I wanted to run a monkey hotel, I'd install a banana buffet. I'd use vines as elevators, I'd put tail holes through the bathrobes and I'd lower the shower knobs. | ” |
Season Three[]
In the study group's junior year at school, Dean Pelton instituted a zero tolerance policy on monkeys at school. He charged the head of Greendale security, Sgt. Nunez, to capture Annie's Boobs, who was hiding in the air vents. Nunez and his staff decided to pump the monkey gas Chimpan-Zzz's into the air vents in hopes of flushing out the animal. It was unsuccessful and they ended up accidentally hitting Jeff and Ben Chang with the gas instead. After winter break, Shirley had a quick engagement to her ex-husband Andre Bennett and decided to hold the wedding in the study room. At the wedding reception also held in the study room, the monkey sneaked out of his home in the air vents to look in on the festivities. Troy noticed the monkey, which shook him out of a forced "normal" persona. He had created this new identity after an all night Dreamatorium session with Abed just before the wedding. Seeing the monkey helped to reawaken Troy's whimsical side and he quickly went to Abed and helped him to shake his "normal" persona as well ("Urban Matrimony and the Sandwich Arts").
"Biology 101": Dean Pelton gets the school's security force to try and capture the monkey who is hiding somewhere in the air vents.
“ | I'm trying to liberate you! OW!! | ” |
–Britta freeing the monkey, "Heroic Origins" |
Season Four[]
In the study group's senior year, Abed is in therapy with Britta who suggests that whenever he feels anxiety he should retreat to a "Happy Place" inside his mind. It's shown that this place is an exaggerated sitcom version of his life. Annie's Boobs appears as part of Abed's "Happy place" interacting with Annie ("History 101"). Towards the end of the semester, Abed later discovered that Britta and the monkey had met much earlier after studying the interconnected history of the study group. In a flashback to the year 2008, it's revealed that Annie's Boobs was a test animal and a scientific research lab. At that time Britta was an activist who had been trying to make a name for herself after her anarchist group recently disbanded. She broke into the lab and freed the monkey but was unable to control it. Britta who ran out of the lab screaming while continuing to struggle with the monkey. ("Heroic Origins").
"History 101": Abed imagines a sitcom fantasy version of his life when he retreats into his inner "Happy Place" after struggling to accept that this may be the study group's last year together. He imagines that Annie's Boobs is in that reality interacting with Annie.
Trivia[]
Both Crystal the Monkey (who plays Annie's Boobs) and Ken Jeong (who plays Ben Chang) appeared in the 2011 sequel of the 2009 hit "The Hangover". Crystal is a capuchin monkey and according to howmuchisit.org? such a pet would cost from $1,000 to over $10,000 dollars depending on their breeding. Whoever got Abed the monkey must have wanted those Chicken Fingers really bad.