A capuchin monkey with brown fur indoors in a living room setting, holding something green. 5:27
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Boo the monkey slaps the putty away

Boo the capuchin monkey cracks open a little egg with his teeth, pulls out the neon green putty and does what comes naturally. He tries to eat it. more

His dad gets it out of his mouth fast. “No, can't eat it,” he says. He had already explained that this isn't real Silly Putty, just color putty, and Boo has never had any before. So his dad shows him how it works, squeezing it and rolling it into a long green rope.

Boo wants nothing to do with it. When his dad holds the putty out, Boo swats it from his hand. When it gets tossed to him, he catches it and throws it off like a hot coal. After every touch he rubs his hands together, over and over, and that little scrub is the part viewers bring up most. One says you can almost hear him think ew.

“Super Monkey Boo has his Kryptonite,” his dad says. He stays gentle. He keeps telling Boo it's okay, promises to put the putty back in its cage, and then owns up. “I really thought you would enjoy this toy, bud. I really did.”

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Boo the capuchin monkey cracks open a little egg with his teeth, pulls out the neon green putty and does what comes naturally.

So he tries an itty bitty piece. Boo slaps it clear across the room. “You slapped it so hard, Boo,” his dad says. “I believe you can slap the taste out of something's mouth.”

He's baffled. Boo has ridden water slides and been around all kinds of stuff. Being scared of big giant horses makes sense to him, but a little piece of putty is another story. Mushrooms, he adds, are the other thing Boo hates.

Plenty of people think they know why. Stretched long and thin, the green putty looks a lot like a toy snake, and capuchins are no fans of snakes. That would explain all the slapping.

In the end the putty goes back in its case and gets slid out of the way. “Are you still going to be my friend?” his dad asks. “You mad at me?” Boo's last job is to throw the putty away, and he earns a “good job, Boo” for it. His dad has learned something too. “Now we know not to get you no putty.”