The audience never sees any of the characters swim in any body of water, but instead they only see certain characters jump into the water off screen with a splash effect.
In one episode, Donkey Kong admits to being a fan of King Kong and even owns an autographed picture from him. In another, DK and Diddy Kong allude to the film King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) and Donkey explains that it made sense for the giant ape to win the fight in the movie. Back in 1982, Universal Studios attempted to sue Nintendo for a copyright dispute over the similarities between Donkey Kong and King Kong. Nintendo won the case after the jury ruled that the two characters were dissimilar enough.
The show had a large line of merchandise in Japan including a collectible card game, featuring drawings of some characters that never appeared in the series. The card game was later adapted to be based on Donkey Kong 64.
A direct to home video movie was made back in November 9, 1999 titled as "Donkey Kong Country: The Legend of the Crystal Coconut". However instead of it being an entirely original full length movie it was only four Captain Scurvy episodes edited together. The episodes were recorded in poor chronological order, for example "Ape-Nesia" was presented as the third episode on the tape. While "Booty and the Beast" was the last one on the tape. This created a confusion when "Ape-Nesia" showed a flashback of a clip from "Booty and the Beast".
The series only featured five sets of animals: primates, crocodilians, slugs, a parrot and flies. Dixie Kong's pet crab was mentioned in a couple episodes but never shown. None of the other animals from the game series appeared, although Rambi the rhino did show up in an animated commercial for Donkey Kong Country's Game Boy Color version. The ad in question featured updated version of the 3D models of this show's second season, so this is the closest viewers ever got to see how Rambi would have looked like in the series.