For some reason this show rings a bell but you're right in that I never saw a single episode of it. I feel your pain!! You're so adorable LOL when you said you sold baskets of fruit to make money to buy a monkey LOL that could do all the things you mentioned.

See this is where I think all us adults should never lose that part of us that loved cartoons. I don't mean we should be childish, but I mean we should always keep the inner child alive. I LOVE it when I talk to people my age and they remember these cartoons or comics and things and still have the heart and the imagination to still watch shows and not feel foolish about it.
Heck I have more toys now than when I was a kid. In fact I think I may be regressing. I was a 'small adult' as a kid and now I am just a BIG kid LOL.