While we were starting to hone in on our story, we looked at the gags and tried to determine what our monkey would be able to use. There's a guiding principle in animation that Walt Disney called the plausible impossible. If you do something in a cartoon that is physically impossible, the audience will believe it to be plausible if there is a degree of truth behind it. When you ride in an elevator your body does not squish when you start moving up, but you feel like it does, so for a cartoon character it will.
While Wile E. Coyote is not trying to escape the desert, but rather just trying to catch the roadrunner, we suspend disbelief in his unwavering devotion to the ACME company and the equipment he gets from them. Our monkey Hank, however, is waiting on this island to be picked up, so it would not make sense for him to have ACME crates dropped on the island. We felt it would be more plausible to have him use items from the island and his space capsule instead.
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