List of cut lines in Monkie Kid

This is a list of cut lines and scenes in *Monkie Kid*.

## Monkie Kid: A Hero is Born

* A script seen in "A LEGO Journey to the East", dated 5/28/19, reads:

**Mr. Tang**: *Well, what do we do now?*

**Pigsy**: *What do you mean, what do we do? I've got a bunch of orders pilling up, and I've got my own Monkey King to deliver them.*

**MK**: *No... not Monkey King... Monkey Kid!*

* The opening narration originally began with:

**Tang**: *Once upon a time, atop Flower Fruit Mountain, a rock appeared. But this was no normal rock. This rock contained... the Monkey King!*

**MK**: *I've heard this part.*

## Coming Home

* While showing off the game room, Mei originally said:

**Mei**: *All right! First things first. Monkey King Marathon. I'm thinking we start with the episode where the dragon eats the horse, I love that one. Oh you know what this sleepover is going to be great!*

## Calabash

* Monkey King's calabash counterpart originally continued speaking after MK had left, saying:

**Monkey King**: *Point is you're the Monkie Kid, everyone loves you, sooo-*

## Revenge of the Spider Queen

* Before Red Son escaped from the Spider-Bots on the Inferno Jet, he said:

**Red Son**: *Sorry Father. You may be finished, but I'm not.*

## Shadow Play

* While speaking to the puppeteer, MK remarked:

**MK**: *What if he’s... bailing out.*

* In these storyboards, Macaque, while transformed into Monkey King, is voiced by Billy Kametz, while in the final episode, his lines are read by Sean Schemmel.

## On the Run

* After Macaque made his presence known, him and MK's confrontation originally went:

**MK**: *What do you want?!*

**Macaque**: *Oh it’s not what I want, friendo.*

**MK**: *Huh? What does that- what- why are you being so vague while we’re flying?!*

## Benched

* An audience member was going to foam at the mouth at Pigsy's performance.

* The entire ending scene is altered. It begins with Macaque looking at MK's drawing and then cuts to civilians looking at the flickering lights. When Lady Bone Demon appears, she says:

**Lady Bone Demon**: *It seems we are bound to repeat history. I warned you. There is only one path of destiny. Refuse the path and there will be... pain. I gave you a task, you have delayed me long enough. You know the price. Make haste or I will leave nothing left of you. Farewell, my champion.*

* These storyboards make it appear like the Lady Bone Demon has killed Macaque, which may be a reason the scene was so heavily altered in the final episode.

## The King, the Prince, and the Shadow

* Ne Zha and Monkey King's fight was originally a bit longer. The pair were also going to run from Macaque when he first attacked them.

## Time to Be Warriors

* While taunting an imprisoned Mei, Lady Bone Demon showed her flashes of MK being destroyed and said:

**Lady Bone Demon**: *You will give me the Samadhi Fire before the end. I have seen it.*

## Familiar Tales

* MK and the Gold and Silver Demons conversation is slightly different.

**Yin**: Yeah! A p-post battle pow-wow, slap on the wrist, and off ya go, alright?

**MK**: The time for pow-wows... is over!

## Pig-Napped!

* After separating from MK and Mei, Tang smelled something, saying:

**Tang**: *I think these swamp vapors are making me lightheaded... Bamboo shoots, peppercorn, and fresh mian, floating in a szechwan pepper broth! That couldn't be anything except Pigsy's family recipe zha jiang noodle soup!* (He retches) *That's not Pigsy's noodles.*

* When Pigsy awakens and harness' his powers, Mei reacts with "*It's beautiful.*", this line is said by Tang in the finished episode.

## Show Me the Monster

* Sha Wujing originally flexed and played up for the skeleton audience before attacking Pigsy.

## Roast of the Monkie Kids

* While they held down Red Son, Peng originally said something along the lines of:

**Peng**: *I remember your mother gave me those same hateful eyes...*

* When Master Subodhi criticizes Tang, he originally said:

**Master Subodhi**: *You have latent abilities, this is undeniable and you're intelligent... enough.*

## The Jade Emperor

* Ne Zha's skirmish with the Brotherhood was originally longer.

## Better Than We Found It

* Monkey King arriving on his cloud, and shrugging on his shirt was cut from the beginning of the beach scene.

## References

1. ↑ Monkey Kid\_action by Oriol Vidal on Vimeo
2. ↑ Monkey Kid\_comedy by Oriol Vidal on Vimeo
3. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe (January 26, 2022). I know you all love Redson and the Demon Bull Dad, so enjoy this scene from the 200 specials <3 Also I don't think we had audio for this ep yet, so uhhh... yeah, y'all get to hear me act out all the characters. Hoo boy.... "*Great?! I am the Demon Bull King! What would you have me be? The King of Dumplings?!'*
4. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe (August 05, 2022). The other half of the Mac/MK scene from Shadow Play. @minbitt thumbed this out and I cleaned it up as we hustled to get the ep done in late 2020! Sorry for the cutoff, that 2:20 max is killer. But man, what amazing line delivery by Jack and Billy. Legends, both of them..
5. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe (November 23, 2022). Boards for the infamous "Oh Wukong" scene. I think these were some of the first boards I did for s3! Always a joy to board Macaque being himself..
6. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe (February 8, 2023). [https://twitter.com/OffBrandLink/status/1623407568323215361 No one can withstand the power of Mr. Tang's stand,「Golden Cicada: Requiem」 Boarded when I was super into part 5, idk if you can tell. Honestly one of my favorite seq's I drew for s3. Tang is secretly my fav. Also mega thanks to
@nickleongart who helped me clean a buncha this!].
7. ↑ Denmark, Brandon (September 8, 2022). Another creepy board! This one was a collab. I fleshed out the thumbs done by: Tae Jun Jeung..
8. ↑ Denmark, Brandon (September 11, 2022). (*WAIT WAS MACAQUE GONNA DIE???*) nah, but it looked that way. Pretty sure thats why they changed it for the final.
9. ↑ Chhoa, Richard (April 19, 2023). An action sequence from season 3 Monkie Kid I had a lot of fun with! A few shots were cut for time. Alright, off to play escape room games!.
10. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe (August 10, 2022). Originally we had a chase sequence between Mac, NeZha, and MKing that had to get cut for time (my suggestion, no less)- never made it to anim, but I thought I'd give y'all a little peek at the shot graveyard. Lots of flips and dodges! Yeehaw..
11. ↑ Denmark, Brandon (September 2, 2022). First board post! Figured I'd show this since the special aired pretty recently. Extended cut of Mei fighting off The Lady Bone Demon (Tweet). Archived from the original on January 3, 2023.
12. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe (July 25, 2023). TThis is a test of the Monkie Kid broadcast system..
13. ↑ Denmark, Brandon (June 14, 2023). This shot had a ton cut out for time, but it was the beginning of my failed attempt to make Tang a baton twirling magical boy.
14. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe (July 14, 2023). The act 3 fight from e404! Also includes the first MK vision, what a wild combo to board. Also once again please excuse my weird choice of placeholder music. Pigsy has the heart of a true chef..
15. ↑ Denamrk, (June 3, 2023). This board was the most fun I had on ssn 4! I had a lot of fun with Sha Wujing and Pigsy's acting. I also left in a bit extra at the end that was cut for time. #LEGOMonkieKid #LEGOMonkieKidSeason4.
16. ↑ FACE Stream | It's my LIVE SIGNING!!! | Come hang out! Get something signed! Keep me company!! 🎺 (Timestamp 2:22:22)
17. ↑ Chhoa, Richard (November 27, 2023). Blast from the past! Here's a small section from a LONG sequence I did for Monkie Kid season 4 that I thoroughly enjoyed!.
18. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe (August 9, 2023). The e410 fight!! There was supposta be a brawl here with NeZha that got cut down for time (recognize that flip getting reused?) Also there's no audio for Mei 'cause I kinda adlibbed her intro but imagine her yelling "WHAT'S UP CELESTIAL REALMS" in the most bombastic way possible..
19. ↑ Jacobson, Ashe (August 15, 2023). BEACH PARTY! I swear we tried for so long to get a beach scene in an episode so when we finally got the chance I jumped on it. The squad finally gets a vacay at the end of a long adventure <3 Plus: bonus post-credits footage???.