↑ Generation 1 Optimus Prime never turned into a Mack truck, either.Ron Perlman has been tapped to voice Optimus Primal in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Collider has exclusively learned.↑ The song in mp3 format (archived copy).(This has been understood by the humorous users of the term all along, and adds approximately 34.5% of the snide.) Of course, the whole point is rendered moot when you realize that Optimus Primal's alternate mode is actually an ape, specifically a gorilla, not a monkey.
Since the Beast Era has ended, the term's usage has been generalized to indicate knee-jerk reactionary complaints of a "it's not what we had before (even if we did) so it's bad" nature. Being brief, easily understood by most fans, and amusing, "TRUKK NOT MUNKY" quickly became the go-to sarcastic reply. Immediately thereafter a song titled "TRUKK NOT MUNKY" was recorded by Brian Kilby and appeared on Radio Free Cybertron. The new phrase was a further condensing of the earlier forms, apparently conceived by Recharge in an IRC-related search for a band name. This condensed form first appeared in early 2001 (the single-K form seems a few months older, but the doubled K soon eclipsed it). By June of 2000, his parody seems to have become fairly standardized in form, but it was not "TRUKK NOT MUNKY" yet. Rob Powers was particularly fond of these parodies, which he usually formed as variations on the phrase "Why is Optimus a stupid monkey instead of a cool truck", with assorted intentional misspellings and cacography for humorous effect.
They took various forms, and were quickly parodied. Some records do exist, however, such as the archives.ĭuring Beast Wars, very serious posts bemoaning that "Optimus should be a truck, not a stupid monkey" were not uncommon, as indicated by the Usenet quote above. How did this phrase come into use? The answer is surprisingly hard to find history is quickly lost online. "Trukk not Munky" (or "Truk not Munky") is a phrase used by Transformers fans derisively towards those that complain about changes to the mythos.
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