Talk:King Larry/@comment-1203476-20151226215105/@comment-24484989-20160416040946

It because Disney was threatened with a lawsut for the use of King Louie by Louis Prima's wife Gia Prima in the late-1990s for "unauthorized use of the late Loius Prima's voice and public personna in TaleSpin & Jungle Cubs by having a spot-on impersonation of Louis Prima performed by Jim Cummings". So to avoid upsetting Gia Prima, they created a look-alike substitute character as a replacement.