in which the Librarian of the Unseen University is an orangutan who gets very violent if referred to as a monkey. Famous pet monkeys There have been many famous pet monkeys with Tarzan's Cheeta arguably the first famous pet "monkey" although they continued to live in the jungle. Nkima was the original Cheeta-like character in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels, and in adaptations of the saga to other media, particularly comics. Tarzan and Cheeta have been repeated across all major popular culture mediums including books, films, television, games and comics. Katie, a white-headed capuchin, played Marcel in the popular U.S. series Friends and also Los Angeles Angels' mascot "Rally Monkey." Finster played Harvey Keitel's pet thief, Dodger in the movie Monkey Trouble. Bubbles was a companion to Michael Jackson and became intertwined in his celebrity and was even a subject of a Jeff Koons sculpture. Frankie the Monkey has been seen in Sean-Paul and Juliane's magic act all over the country. Curious George Curious George is the protagonist of a popular children's books franchise by the same name, written by Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey. The books feature a curious pet monkey named George, who is brought from his home in Africa by "The Man with The Yellow Hat" to live with him in a big city. Around the world, the adventures of Curious George have been translated in many languages. The character has spawned books in many languages, two television series, two stop-motion animated shorts, an animated film, Curious George, featuring Will Ferrell, a video game and he has been linked with numerous products and companies. List of fictional pet monkeys Literature Ampersand is the name of Yorick Brown's pet monkey in the comic book series, Y: The Last Man. Chee-Chee is the pet companion of Doctor Dolittle, created by Hugh Lofting. In A Little Princess, the heroine finds and returns Carrisford's pet monkey Cartoons Abu is the pet in Disney's Aladdin Beppo was Superman's pet monkey. Bippy, a small monkey that accompanies Timmy Turner in the first Fairly Oddparents movie Abra-Catastrophe Boots is the pet explorer in Dora the Explorer Chim-Chim is the pet monkey of Speed Racer and his family Mojo was Homer Simpson's helper monkey who eventually adopts Homer's unhealthy lifestyle and becomes very obese Mr. Teeny on The Simpsons, is Krusty the Clown's assistant Mr. Twitchy from Rated A for Awesome was the pet