Some of you will get a kick out of this:
Dr. Huntington (Classics of East Asian Literature) posted this on my class's discussion forum. I thought it was amusing:

I'm typing this here because I don't want to drive everyone crazy in lecture telling cute stories about my kids. I think in our household all monkey stories are merging into one really big Monkey story. This means that Sun Wukong is also Curious George is also Hanuman (their father is Indian, so we have a big collection of comic book retellings of Indian myth, epic, and history). (If you think about it, it works in a certain demented episodic way- this is the time he wrecked havoc in heaven, this is the time he called the fire station...) Last night when I recapped for them the chapters I'd be teaching today ("you know, it is the part where he steals the peaches...") and got to the Bodhisattva Guanyin offering Monkey a chance at redemption, my daughter said, "No more monkeys jumping on the bed?" (since "five little monkeys jumping on the bed" is also a favorite song.) The image of the Bodhisattva saying that in place of the doctor in the song made me laugh really hard.
Long live the oral tradition.