Rally Monkey

The Rally Monkey is the unofficial mascot of the Los Angeles Angels. She is an actual monkey who made her debut in 2000, in a game against the San Francisco Giants. When the Angels were trailing 5-4 in the bottom of the 9th inning, 2 video board operators took a clip of a monkey jumping around from the 1994 comedy film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and superimposed the words "RALLY MONKEY!" on top of it. The Angels went on to score 2 runs and won the game.

Rise to popularity
The clip became so popular that the team hired an actual monkey, named Katie, who previously appeared on the television sitcom Friends, to be in original clips for later games. When she is seen on the video board, she would bounce around to the House of Pain song Jump Around, while holding a sign saying that its "RALLY TIME!" The 2002 World Series between the Angels and Giants was where she got national and worldwide attention. Down 3-2 in the series as the Angels entered Game 6, they entered the 7th inning down 5-0. Avid lots of rally-monkey themed support by the fans, the Angels scored 6 unanswered runs over the next 2 innings, winning the game and flipping the series momentum in their favor, as the Angels won Game 7 and the series soon after. She got back into the spotlight when the Angels made the postseason in 2009.

In popular culture
The Rally Monkey has appeared in 1 ESPN "This is SportsCenter" commercial where one of the executives had to make "budget cuts" which led to the Rally Monkey had to be released. She pleaded by holding up the "Its Rally Time" sign.

She has been edited into clips of popular movies and TV shows like Jurassic Park, Star Trek, The Brady Bunch Movie, Animal House, etc.