One of the artists on my team had drawn up boards that had the monkey's attempts to get the bananas thwarted at every turn by an "evil cosmonaut monkey." This became the spark that lead us to the best solution. Our monkey was going to be a space chimp whose space capsule landed in the ocean, and floated to the island waiting to be retrieved by NASA. While waiting our hungry monkey would have his adventure on the island.
The final solution as to why the monkey didn't just climb the tree actually came from an anecdote from one of our CG modelers. He had worked for a major computer company in their tech support call center. When people would call in, he would go through his standard procedures to try and diagnose the problems that they were having, and when each question would not help he would dig deeper into his knowledge base to try and find a solution, only to have the customer eventually realize that their computer wasn't even turned on (or plugged in).
He wasn't thinking of the easiest solutions because he had been trained not to. We figured that a monkey who has lived and trained at NASA all its life would be the same way.
We were watching a lot of Chuck Jones cartoons to inspire us, and I came up with this gag that we really liked.
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