Grape Ape

A 40 foot tall purple ape that was featured in several Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon shows in the mid-to-late 70s. Although physically imposing the character was a friendly, gentle giant who sometimes didn't know his own strength and would often finish sentences by saying his name "Grape Ape, Grape Ape".

Widely considered to be a mediocre at best character. Often used as a meme by Adam Carolla to explain how terrible TV in general was in his formative years.

"At least now kids have choices as to what to watch on TV. When I was growing up we had Grape Ape. It was just dumb."
"I tried watching Grape Ape on Boomerang (retro H-B cartoon network) but I had to turn it off after 5 minutes."

by Honk4Gronk November 24, 2013

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Grape Ape

A 1970's Hanna Barbera cartoon about a 40 foot tall purple gorilla called The Great Grape Ape. Although the original series finished over 20 years ago Grape Ape is sometimes refered to in modern day cartoons e.g. He made a cameo appearence in an episode of The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy in wich he was a giant monster with his head stuck in a volcano.

Grape Ape, it burns, Grape Ape.

by Callum Hemsley May 2, 2008

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