# The King Kong cartoon theme just popped into my head.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-king-kong-cartoon-theme-just-popped-into-my-head/100734>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 29, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-king-kong-cartoon-theme-just-popped-into-my-head/100734 "2002-03-29T13:03:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-king-kong-cartoon-theme-just-popped-into-my-head/100734/1 "2002-03-29T13:03:59Z")

</div>

So I’m sitting here looking over thread titles and I see something about Hong Kong. Suddenly, unbidden, the theme from the late-'60s cartoon popped into my head:

“KING KONG! You know the name of KING KONG! You know the fame of KING KONG! Ten times as big as a man!” (I don’t remember the rest of the lyrics.)

Weird, eh? I mean, why not “Hong Kong Phooey! The number one superguy! Hong Kong Phooey! Quicker than the human eye!”?

Which reminds me of Hong Kong Harbour, which I liked to say when I was four. Also when I was four and living in Japan I liked to say, “Tokyo Tower! Tokyo Tower!”

There is no point.  
Everything is permitted.

(Which is a half-reference to something else…)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-king-kong-cartoon-theme-just-popped-into-my-head/100734/2 "2002-03-29T14:40:08Z")

</div>

You complete bastard! 😃 I’m gonna have that _NFBSK_ing song in my head all day now.

Personally I thought it was a pretty lame cartoon, from the Hanna-Barbera cheap school of animation. As a kid I always wondered if they mean ten time as big as a man linear or by volume? Now of course I realize if they meant volume that would only give you a Mighty Joe Young size ape. Pretty freaking big as monkeys (I know, I know) go but no K.K.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-king-kong-cartoon-theme-just-popped-into-my-head/100734/3 "2002-03-29T19:04:40Z")

</div>

King Kong, you know the name of  
King Kong, you know the fame of  
King Kong, Ten Times as big as a man.

One day a boy, too young to know the danger  
made a friend of this giant fearsome stranger  
But this mighty ape is a friend of man  
So says the legend, the legend of…

King Kong, etc…

(Oh god, I can’t believe I remember this, but it popped into my head too, not long ago).

I kind of liked it when I was a kid. It was on right before or after Johnny Quest, and seemed to fit in well with that theme.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Tracytron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@Tracytron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracytron)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-king-kong-cartoon-theme-just-popped-into-my-head/100734/4 "2002-03-29T20:07:57Z")

</div>

On a related note…

Hong Kong Phooey,  
Number One Super Guy!  
Hong Kong Phooey,  
Quicker than the human eye!