Pudge Gorrilliron was the first paid player of the famous New Apeland Primates who received money as payment instead of bananas because of a rare case of bananaphobia in monkeys. His fear stems from a traumatic experience at the top of his career - when he slipped on a carelessly disposed banana peel and broke his coccyx. This event nearly forced him to abandon his professional apeball career.
To overcome his fear to the point of being able to enjoy the nutritional benefits of bananas again without feeling disgusted, he underwent psychotherapy. However, this only got him into more trouble. When asked by his therapist to describe the shape of an apeball he nervously answered “prolate sphero...