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Under the Influence with Terry O'Reilly · Seeing Is Believing: The Power of Demonstration Commercials - Part Two · 11 Jul 2026 podcast

The ape looked back and forth, scratched his head, then chose the banana, as expected.

But then, he unexpectedly takes the banana and uses it as a spoon to eat the banana yogurt.

A very funny idea to demonstrate that even a banana expert would choose the yogurt.

To shoot that commercial, two monkeys were flown up from Los Angeles, because where else do you find monkeys with agents?

There was a lead monkey and a backup monkey.

They arrived wearing diapers, as they were both under three years of age.

The handler said young monkeys are more trainable and controllable.

The handler had spent a few weeks training the monkeys to sit at the table, look at the two options, choose the banana, then use it as a spoon to eat the yogurt.

Everything was set to go.

Then suddenly the lead monkey got the hiccups, which lasted for three hours.

So the handler had to go to the backup monkey.

It took a little more time, but the second monkey pulled it off.

A very funny commercial.

When the shoot ended, Paul Lavoie marveled at how smart the monkeys were.

"'Actually,' said the monkey handler, "'these are the dumbest monkeys I could find.'"

Paul said, what do you mean?

The handler went on to explain that, just like people, there are smart monkeys and not-so-smart monkeys.

A smarter, older monkey could be taught to do everything the commercial required in just a few hours, as opposed to the weeks it took to train the less intelligent monkeys.

But the handler knew there would be multiple takes required, that the director and the client and a bunch of other people would be asking for changes and nuances to speed up or slow down.

And the dumb monkeys have the most patience.

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