I tried to watch that show when I was a kid. The humans talking and living at a medieval level bothered me. They couldn't speak and lived like monkeys in the movies.
But I was also disillusioned by it. After watching all the publicity for the movies where they talked about the terrible grueling process for applying the ape make-up, it turned out they could do that for a lousy TV show. Later, Mystery Science Theater 3000 had Professor Bobo using the same make up for a series of skits.
They never looked much like apes anyway. It was like the old show Kung Fu. Why did everyone call David Carradine a "Chinaman" [sic]? The audience knew he was supposed to be half Chinese, but how did the cowboys on the show know?
In the novel, by the way, the apes spoke French. Or maybe they spoke some different ape language. SPOILER ALERT -------------- in the book, the planet of the apes wasn't Earth.
When the author, Pierre Boulle died, the writer of his obituary did the same thing kids do in school. He watched the movies instead of reading the books. There was no William Holden character in Bridge on the River Kwai and there was no ruined Statue of Liberty in the novel Planet of the Apes.
Here's a joke you can use. It's not mine. Comment on the end of the movie when Charelton Heston was so upset about the apes blowing up the Statue of Liberty.
"YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! THAT WAS MY FAVORITE LANDMARK! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!"
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