Rocket Monkeys is a Canadian animated television series created by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson for Teletoon.

[3] Although the show received negative reviews from critics and audiences, it won several Canadian Screen Awards,[4] including Best Animated Program in both 2015 and 2016.

They're not the brightest or coolest astronauts, but since they are the only ones around, they are called upon to go into space and carry out different kinds of important missions—including battling rogue black holes and vengeful aliens.

The two protagonist monkeys, Gus and Wally, are inspired by the complicity of the two creators of the series, Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson,[7] friends since high school.

She describes the main characters, Gus and Wally, are "loud, rude, and chronically dim," which "also persistent in the worst possible way, forever trying to one-up each other or get what they want by whining about it."