I for one welcome our new monkey butlers

Posted by Jerry on Oct. 8, 2008

Life continues to imitate The Simpsons. In a classic Season 9 episode in which Bart and his school chums are stranded on a desert island á la Lord of the Flies, we have this exchange:

BART: And every night the monkey butlers will regale us with jungle stories.

NELSON: How many monkey butlers will there be?

BART: One at first. But he’ll train others.

A restaurant north of Tokyo has made Bart’s dream a reality as the video below shows. One more-experienced monkey butler brings customers drinks while his apprentice still only fetches hot towels. According to the UK’s Metro newspaper, the monkey waiters “are tipped by the customers with boiled soya beans. ”