Tarzan is a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs and first appearing in the novel "Tarzan of the Apes" in 1912. George of the Jungle is a fictional character created by Jay Ward and first appearing in the animated television series "George of the Jungle" in 1967.

George of the jungle is a basically a parody character of Tarzan. The Tarzan book is also Disney's Tarzan. At the end of the movie George is shown sliding on tree branches exactly like Disney's Tarzan (1999). They even marketed this skateboarding style of movement across the jungle branches as "surf jungle" for Tarzan.

The majority of the jungle scenes were filmed inside an empty airplane hanger in Playa Del Rey in California over the course of two months. There, the set was filled with nearly 5,000 plants to create an authenticity. George's treehouse was constructed from steel and plaster.

George of the Jungle is an animated television series. It is a reboot of Jay Ward and Bill Scott's 1967 American animated television series of the same name, which in turn is a spoof of the fictional character Tarzan, created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.