The Monkees, Season 2

Welcome to Season 2 of The Monkees TV Show Episode Guide.

Season 2 of The Monkees debuted on NBC September 11, 1967 and ended March 25, 1968. Below are summaries of each episode with songs, dates, quotes, and credits. Coming soon will be detailed pages for each episode.

The Monkees TV show is owned by Rhino/Time Warner. If you would like to purchase The Monkees TV series, it is currently available on Blu-Ray on the Rhino/Time Warner store: The Monkees Complete TV Series Blu-Ray. Thank you to Sunshine Factory for the transcribed scripts and screen shots used for all of this artwork!

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Meet The Monkees: four young, plucky, out-of-work musicians, with long-hair and groovy clothes, who live together in a ramshackle California beach house in the 1960s, and often find themselves in madcap adventures and unexpected romance as they try to carve out a life for themselves different than their parents generation and struggle to make it as a band.

British Davy Jones stands at only 5’3”, but this heartthrob and hero has never let his small stature stand between him and his various love interests, facing an adversary, or charming his way out of a conflict; Los Angeles native Micky Dolenz is zany and adventurous, and often uses comedy, caricatures, and his science-driven mind to devise elaborate schemes, maneuver his way out of crazy situations, and get the band out of trouble; Texan Michael Nesmith is the cool, calm, collected-under-pressure de facto leader of the group, the rational problem solver and mature voice of reason, with deadpan delivery of humor and a reassuring confidence; and Connecticut native Peter Tork is the sensitive, earnest neurodivergent, musically gifted but socially awkward, ironically charming in his unavoidable sincerity, showing how to see the world with childlike wonder with his literal perception and innocent heart.

Together, these four men show that even if they have long hair, weird mishaps, and an unconventional lifestyle, “they’re just trying to be friendly”, and are “too busy singing to put anybody down.” They’re the young generation—and they’ve got something to say! 📺 🎸❤️

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Episode 33: “It’s A Nice Place To Visit”

When The Monkeemobile breaks down in a remote part of Mexico, Davy Jones falls in love with local waitress Angelita. The Monkees need to earn enough money performing at the local cantina for car repairs as they navigate patriarchal gang-wars.

[Apologies for the cultural appropriation and stereotypes found in this episode.]

Quotes
MIKE:
Did you find out what’s the matter with the car yet?
LUPE:
Si, amigo. I examine it from top to bottom! Finally, I find the trouble.
MIKE:
Oh, good. Wha-what is it?
LUPE:
It’s broken.

ANGELITA:
No. No, please. If you leave, he will punish the entire town.
MICKY:
Baby, if I don’t leave, he gonna punish my entire body.

PETER:
Are you scared?
MICKY:
No, I’m not scared. I welcome this duel. Symbol of good against the symbol of evil, and I know I’m gonna be the victor.
DAVY:
Because the symbol of good always wins?
MICKY:
No, because the lead in a television series always wins.

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Episode 34: “The Picture Frame”

Thinking they are being hired as actors for a movie, Michael, Micky, and Davy are tricked into robbing a bank. Peter thankfully went to the wrong location and becomes the only one who can prove his bandmates innocence.

Quotes
DAVY:
Do you think after we finish shooting the picture, we can go out to dinner?
CASHIER:
Do you have an account here, sir?
DAVY:
Hand over the money.

SERGEANT:
Alright, Monkees. Come on out. We know you’re in there.
MICKY:
Hey, what do they want us for?
PETER:
Oh, that library book—it’s a week overdue!

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Episode 35: “Everywhere A Sheik, Sheik”

When Princess Colette of Nehudi is pressured to choose a suitor or marry the undesirable Vidaru, she chooses Davy out of a teen magazine. The Monkees believe they will all have a life of luxury with Davy’s new status, but Vidaru has plans to sabotage this engagement.

Quotes
SHAZAR:
Do not question the strange ways of our people. Marry the princess and be happy.
DAVY:
Tell me, has the princess ever had a crush on anybody before?
SHAZAR:
Yes. There was a boy like you once. She loved him, but he rejected her.
DAVY:
Oh. Does she still see him?
SHAZAR:
Oh, yes. She visits him every week and puts a wreath on his grave.

PETER:
Hey, hey, if you’re, if she’s re—if he’s really a king, and-and she’s really his daughter you’re going to marry, that makes you a—
HASSAR:
A prince.

HASSAR:
One more thing. Each of you could have his choice of a dozen wives.
MIKE:
Oh, lookie there.
MICKY:
Ooh. Ah, so, shalom, shalom.
MIKE:
What are you waiting for?
DAVY:
Well, I guess you’re right, man. It’s a lot better than getting killed, and, uh—
MIKE:
Sure, mm-hm, a lot better.
DAVY:
Maybe Nehudi’s the place to make a name for a group. We’ll do it.

MIKE:
Say, which sounds better in a peace treaty: “we humbly request” or “pretty please”?
MAIDEN:
I don’t know, but, uh, you have nice ears.
MIKE:
Ah, I think we should use “pretty please”.

MAIDEN:
You’re cute.
MICKY:
Don’t touch me. Secretary of defense is never cute. They’re ruthless and ambitious and power hungry!
MAIDEN:
You wouldn’t hurt a fly.
MICKY:
A fly? No. But let Russia step that much out of line, and the dreaded Nehudi Camel Corps marches straight to Moscow!
MAIDEN:
You are ruthless.
MICKY:
Oh, and efficient too. Watch me cut thirty percent off this budget.

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Episode 36: “Monkee Mayor”

When The Monkees become aware of neighbors being evicted to build parking lots, Michael takes matters to city hall, only to be gaslit by corrupt Mayor Motley. Since it’s an election year, Micky convinces Michael to run for mayor, but Michael’s competition tries to sabotage his campaign.

Quotes
MIKE:
Well, wait a minute. Will somebody please tell me what’s going on here?
MRS. FILCHOK:
Oh, don’t you know? We’ve all been evicted.
MIKE:
We have? Well, well, how did that happen?
MRS. HOMER:
They’re going to tear down our homes and build a parking lot.
MRS. FILCHOK:
They started blasting on my block.
MR. SWEZEY:
On my door where it says, “Welcome” will be a sign: “Seventy-five cents an hour”.
PETER:
That’s terrible! Even downtown, it’s only fifty.

MAYOR MOTLEY:
Our country was settled in sixteen hundred and twelve—
MIKE:
Well, I know that—
MAYOR MOTLEY:
From across the shores. From across the shores, the pilgrims landed—
MIKE:
Yes.
MAYOR MOTLEY:
—and found Indians.
MIKE:
Yeah—
MAYOR MOTLEY:
Luckily, they moved those Indians.
MIKE:
Well—
MAYOR MOTLEY:
Why, throwing people out of their homes is the American way!
MIKE:
Huh?

MIKE:
Oh, man. The more I think about this whole parking lot thing, the more I think we got to do something about it.
DAVY:
How come?
MIKE:
How—well, because we don’t want a dictatorial government running this city, and the rights of an individual citizen have got to be respected.
MICKY:
Right, yeah.
MIKE:
And because we gotta get all these people out of our house.

DAVY:
You know, you’d think at three in the afternoon, there’d be somebody at city hall.
MICKY:
Maybe they’re on their coffee break.
PETER:
How long’s their coffee break?
MIKE:
It’s from nine to five.

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Episode 37: “Art For Monkees’ Sake”

When Peter displays a talent for painting, The Monkees send Peter to an art gallery to be inspired by the greats–only for Peter to fall prey to crooked art museum guards who use Peter’s talent in an art heist. The Monkees must save Peter–and the painting Peter duplicated.

Quotes
CHUCHE:
What are you doing here?
PETER:
I’ve come here to be inspired by the great painters.
CHUCHE:
I’ll give you an inspire!
DUCE:
[To CHUCHE] Why do-a you use-a your hands for? I told you not-a to use-a your hands. [TO PETER] Forgive this indiscretion. Did you draw this picture?
PETER:
Yes, I did.
DUCE:
You’re a very talented boy.
PETER:
Thank you. I play bass too.
DUCE:
An artist and a musician.
CHUCHE:
We should kill them both.

CHUCHE:
Hey, boss, I don’t get it.
DUCE:
That’s why I’m the brains of this outfit, and you’re the muscle. We’re going to use his copy of the painting, then we make a switch.
CHUCHE:
And then what do we do?
DUCE:
Then we sell the painting and make a fortune.
CHUCHE:
And then what do we do?
DUCE:
Then we buy tickets to Europe.
CHUCHE:
Hey, that’s expensive.
DUCE:
You want to save money? I’ll get you deported.

DUCE:
What’s a matter this time? All you have to do is copy a little painting.
PETER:
I just don’t feel it.
CHUCHE:
Hey, Duce, I can make him feel it.

MICKY: Excuse me, but I want to, uh—
ARTIST: You want what? To be an artist? Huh. You could never be an artist; you have no beard!

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Episode 38: “I Was A 99 Pound Weakling”

Desperate to win the love of a superficial woman, Micky is persuaded to join a scammy “health and fitness” program run by Shah-Ku and goes to great lengths to try to change his physical appearance–but for the other Monkees are suspicious Shah-Ku is a fraud.

Quotes
SHAH-KU:
Betraying one’s own body and becoming an absolute and utter physical wreck.
MICKY:
I may not be in very good shape, but I’m no weakling.
SHAH-KU:
Must I resort to calling you skinny to remind you?
MICKY:
Don’t say that.

MICKY:
Well, that’s no good. Brenda digs muscles, and I just don’t have any.
DAVY:
Hey, we took care of that. Don’t worry.
MICKY:
Huh?
DAVY:
Here you go, son. Put your arms through there. Put your jacket on here. Here we go.
MICKY:
This better be a good idea!
DAVY:
Oh, you’ll look great. Don’t worry.
MICKY:
I can’t get my arm in.
DAVY:
Up there, around the back. There we go. Now, this is your sportswear, casual beach attire.
MICKY:
This is casual?
DAVY:
Well, just a minute. *unzips jacket* That’s as casual as you can get.

PETER:
Hey, Micky, where’s the steak?
MICKY:
Steak, is in the garbage, where it should be.
PETER:
That’s no place to serve steak.
MICKY:
Steak has fat. Fat clogs your veins. Davy, that’s probably why you’re so short; your veins are all clogged.
DAVY:
So what we’re going to eat now you put the steak in the garbage?
MICKY:
Ah! The essence of a healthful cuisine. Voilà! Fried fermented goat milk curd burned in a dash of lemon seed oil to a crisp, golden green.
PETER:
Do you think we can save the steak?
DAVY:
Let’s try.
MICKY:
And after that fellas, I will further tempt your tastebuds with scraped mountain moss au gratin with a special peanut shell base.
PETER:
You made the peanut shell base yourself?
DAVY:
Of course, he did you twit; you can’t get a thing like that in cans.

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Episode 39: “Hillbilly Honeymoon”

Lost on a road trip, The Monkees find themselves in in the hillbilly town of Swineville and entangled in a family feud between the The Weskitts and The Chubbers. The Monkees attempt to help the families reconcile and get Davy out of marrying Ella Mae Chubber.

Quotes
MIKE:
Line. Davy, stay on the line, and follow it all the way to the end, and find some help.
DAVY:
But I’ll never see you again!
PETER:
Yes, you will.
MIKE:
How?
DAVY:
How come?
PETER:
Well, if it’s a straight line, it goes all the way around the world, and it comes back the same point here, coming back to the other side.
DAVY:
Oh, Peter.

ELLA MAE:
You’re beautiful. I love you.
DAVY:
I gotta get back on the line. Please let me get back on the line! I gotta get back on that stripe, or they’ll kill me.
ELLA MAE:
Well, if my boyfriend finds out we’ve been sparking, he’s gonna kill you anyway.
DAVY:
But we haven’t! Oh! *gets kissed* May I rest in peace.
ELLA MAE:
And if my daddy ever found out…
DAVY:
What would he say?
PAW:
He’d say, “Welcome to the family, son”. Hee hee hee hee. Ella Mae, looks like you got yourself a man!

ELLA MAE:
Paw, Judd, please. Let’s not start feuding again.
DAVY:
Now the girl’s right. You ought to listen to her.
JUDD:
I warned you, Ella Mae, I warned you to stop kissing other boys.
PAW:
And Judd Weskitt, I warned you to keep away from Ella Mae.
DAVY:
And I’m warning both of you! Helllllllllp!

DAVY:
Oh. Ooh! I’m sorry. I-I didn’t mean to touch your gun.
JUDD:
You no account city slicker.
DAVY:
I’m not a city slicker.
JUDD:
How much is one and one?
DAVY:
Two?
JUDD:
That proves it, you fast talking sharpie.
DAVY:
But I’m not from the city; I’m English.
MAW:
A danged redcoat! I knew they’d be coming back.

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