Due to its title and the content of the video, the song is frequently assumed to be either an animal rights song or a reference to the famous experiments by Stanley Milgram described in his book Obedience to Authority.
monkey | Monkey | Static Shock | Birdemic: Shock and Terror | Monkey D. Luffy | A Shock to the System | The Monkey's Paw | Tales of Monkey Island | Spokane Shock | Snub-nosed monkey | Shock Records | Shock G | Shock absorber | Monkey Island | Monkey Dust | Escape from Monkey Island | Capuchin monkey | 3rd Shock Army | shock therapy | Proboscis monkey | Love Monkey | Iron Monkey 2 | Daniel "Monkey Man" Roberts | Arthur 'Monkey' Gould | 3rd Shock Army (Soviet Union) | The Shock Wave | The Monkey's Paw (2013 film) | The Monkey's Mask | shock therapy (economics) | Shock of the Hour |
In 1990, after stunting with repeated airplay of "Shock The Monkey" by Peter Gabriel, the station returned to CHR as WZZG a.k.a. "Gorilla Radio, The New Z95.1 FM".