Everyone has ulterior motives

Dear George, you claim to like Ted, but only do so when he wears the banana suit. Curious.

They literaly say this in the movie. Kinda sad people don't care about DEEP LORE nowdays

...Yeah? This is literally a sc from the movie where he follows him for his hat. smh. You want some REAL deep curious george lore?
In the original books the man with the yellow hat was a poacher who stole him from his jungle home.