No monkey here.

This commercial is only the latest of hundreds of commercials, movies, books and other forms of communication that refers to a chimpanzee as a monkey. A chimp is not a monkey. A chimp is an ape. In fact it's one of the great apes along with gorillas and orangs. I don't understand how a company like Dodge can spend so much money on advertising and add such an uneducated punch line. They stand corrected.

Note: It is now Mid-August and I noticed they have changed the commercial. Now instead of seeing the chimp, the announcer refers to him as "an invisible monkey." Apparently they made the change after a complaint by PETA, not about referring to him as a monkey of course, but I guess they didn't like him playing with dynamite. Invisible or not, it's still obvious that the detonator is a chimp.