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A smoking monkey is a novelty item in the form of a 2-inch plastic monkey. When a speciality cigarette is inserted into the monkey's mouth and lit the figure gives the impression it's smoking.[1] The cigarettes do not contain any tobacco.[2]
In popular culture
editIn The Simpsons fourth season episode Marge in Chains unscrupulous attorney Lionel Hutz offers Homer Simpson and his wife Marge a smoking monkey if they hire him. It's also revealed he keeps a drawer full of them in his desk.[3]
References
edit- ^ Newgarden, Mark (2004). Cheap Laffs The Art of the Novelty Item. Picturebox, Inc. p. 38. ISBN 9780810955998.
- ^ "Smoking Monkey Toy". www.esnarf.com. Retrieved 2021-07-11.
- ^ "The Lionel Hutz File". Simpsons Archive. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
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