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While Mike and the crew were in Africa shooting the Jobs That Bite and Jobs That Bite Harder for Shark Week, they ended up without anything to do one day, and as luck would have it, they went off in search of another job. While it involved animals, it wasn't sharks - it was monkeys. Crazy, wild monkeys.

The monkeys in fact are those that have been orphaned because the natives have killed their parents, either by eating them or running over them or something, and now these orphans live in a house and they are cared for by a staff that attends to their needs. Mostly it seems that the people wander around the house, cutting up fruit that is very nearly rotten and covered in fruit flies, but you have to be very careful with the way you cut it up. If you cut it up incorrectly, something will happen. I'm not sure what exactly will happen, because it seems that these monkeys aren't going anywhere. But it looked like it had something to do with allowing them to think they were still actually hunting for their food.

Frankly there is no chance these monkeys will think that's going to happen unless fruit suddenly starts falling off of trees and splitting into little pieces inside of plastic trays that are strategically placed inside the cages. But I digress. As it turns out, Mike couldn't do this job very well. Or maybe he just didn't want to do it.

The other job is to carry a stick around, in case the monkey gets too close to you. If it does, you can wave the stick in the general direction of the monkey, which we humans think scares the monkey. The monkey, in all likelihood, thinks you look phenomenonally stupid and runs away so that you don't see it laughing. In any case, it does keep the monkey from pouncing on you, and as that is the object, it works.

As this job was impromptu, it was the only one on the show, so it ran a bit long, and as there wasn't really much happening, it was rather slow. Much of it concentrated on the danger presented by the monkeys (Mike received a scratch, some of the crew was hurt as well), then they went for a ride to meet the chief of the Zulu tribe.