Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle! (1975) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Bazonga believes that a full head of hair will make her appear formidable and command respect, which she considers essential for her plan to conquer Earth. She is a bald queen living in a blimp inside a cave shaped like a woman's body, and despite her extreme confidence in other regards, she feels her baldness undermines her authority.

Foreshadowing: Earlier, Bazonga's assistant Charles of the Pits mentions that hair from another will give her the power she seeks.

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• hair
• conquer earth
• queen bazonga

The scalp transplant is a bizarre experiment devised by Charles of the Pits where hair from another person would be grafted onto Bazonga's head. June was kidnapped specifically because Bazonga wanted her hair for this procedure, believing it would give her the legitimacy she needs to rule the world.

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• bazonga
• charles of the pits
• june hair

June kicks Shame out after a failed night of sex, expressing frustration with their relationship. While the exact details are implied rather than explicit, this moment establishes tension between Shame and June before her kidnapping, and shows that Flicka (Shame's monkey companion) has a romantic connection with June.

Foreshadowing: This relationship tension sets up the emotional stakes before Bazonga's soldiers kidnap June.

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• shame
• flicka
• relationship
• jungle

Charles of the Pits is Bazonga's two-headed assistant and the mastermind behind the scalp transplant idea. He is the one who proposes the bizarre hair transplant experiment to solve Bazonga's baldness problem. During the blimp's destruction, one of his heads kills the other, resulting in his death.

Foreshadowing: Charles pressures Bazonga toward the risky scalp transplant from the beginning of the film.

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• two-headed
• bazonga assistant

The blimp explodes during Shame's confrontation with Bazonga when the main generator overloads and catches fire. Shame triggers an Emergency Fire Alarm during the chaos, causing the blimp's systems to go haywire. The generator explosion kills Bazonga and triggers the collapse of her lair.

Foreshadowing: The blimp was already unstable, and the confrontation with Shame accelerates the malfunction.

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• fire
• generator
• cave

After Bazonga's defeat and the chaos of the blimp crash, Stephanie Starlet, one of the explorers who crashed into the jungle, somehow ends up leading the Molarman (also called Molar Men), a tribe of dangerous primates. The film ends with her vowing to conquer Hollywood, suggesting she has taken control of the tribe in the aftermath.

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• molarman
• leader
• hollywood

Shame infiltrates Bazonga's lair during the scalp-transplant ceremony, captures her soldiers, and confronts Bazonga directly. During the ensuing chaos when the blimp catches fire and begins collapsing, June is freed. Shame and June then escape together using an emergency two-seated parachute as the blimp crashes into Bazonga's cave, destroying her fortress.

Foreshadowing: Flicka was supposed to help but was told to stay behind while Shame went in alone.

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• june
• rescue
• bazonga
• parachute
• escape

Bazonga orders her army of peculiar soldiers, referred to as an army of giant penises, to seize June because she needs June's hair for the scalp transplant. June is Shame's lover and maid, and Bazonga believes taking her hair will provide the perfect scalp for her experiment to gain the hair she desperately wants.

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• june
• kidnapping
• bazonga
• scalp transplant

Craig Baker is a beer-loving, carefree character who appears flying on a magical carpet pulled by birds. He rescues Shame from the Molarman chaos, though he gets drunk and falls from his carpet. Flicka then saves Shame. After this, Shame and Flicka find a nearer route to Bazonga's lair.

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• beer
• rescue
• molarman

Four explorers crash their plane into a giant mud pit: Professor Cedric Addlepate (a scattershot scientist), Stephanie Starlet (a bubbly actress), Brutish (fame-hungry), and Short (his nervous assistant). Professor Addlepate is eaten by the Molarman, Brutish and Short are overtaken by the tribe, while Stephanie Starlet survives and eventually becomes the new Molarman leader.

Foreshadowing: Their crash brings them directly into contact with Shame's rescue mission.

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• plane crash
• mud pit
• professor addlepate
• stephanie starlet
• molarman