Gordy's scenes represent a distinct rage against the exploitation of people and animals for spectacle, something which is a core theme throughout the rest of "Nope." The film emphasizes this in the opening moments of Gordy's rampage, adding a title card with the bible verse Nahum 3:6, "I will cast abominable filth at you. Make you Vile. And make you a spectacle."
Gordy's story of being made into a spectacle is connected to the film's main story through Ricky "Jupe" Park (played by Steven Yeun as an adult), who appears later in the film as the owner of a Wild West theme park called "Jupiter's Claim." Jupe is shown to have idolized and embraced his traumatic experience on "Gordy's Home!," dedicating an entire shrine to the disaster in his office, and profiting from the fame that he earned as a survivor of the incident. Jupe becomes no better than the people who had used Gordy for spectacle in the first place, and in the modern day he's one-upped that mistake by exploiting the nearby UFO as an attraction for Jupiter's Claim.
In an expanded interview for Empire Magazine's August 2022 issue, Jordan Peele claimed that the film itself is about the "nature of spectacle, our addiction to spectacle, and the insidious nature of attention," all of which are symbolized by the story of Gordy and Jupe. Although this chimpanzee rampage might have seemed a bit out of place, it's clear that Gordy the Chimp is an essential component of the message that "Nope" is trying to send.
