#The Monkees Season 2

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Peter Tork with Arlo Guthrie and Timothy Leary on the set of Alice's Restaurant, 1968. Photo 1 by Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images, photo 2 courtesy of Everett Collection.

(Peter knew Arlo from the Greenwich Village days, particularly, according to 16 magazine, Peter's February 1964 visit to his old stomping grounds.) "[T]he Monkees use the new energies to sing the new songs and pass on the new message. [...] The Monkees' television show. Oh, you thought that it was silly teenage entertainment? Don't be fooled. While it lasted, it was a classic Sufi put on. An early-Christian electronic satire. A mystic magic show. A jolly Buddha laugh at hypocrisy. At early evening kiddie-time on Monday the Monkees would rush through a parody drama, burlesquing the very shows that glue Mom and Dad to the set during prime time. Spoofing the movies and the violence and the down-heavy-conflict-emotion themes that fascinate the middle-aged. And woven into the fast-moving psychedelic stream of action were the prophetic, holy, challenging words. Micky was rapping quickly, dropping literary names, making scholarly references: then the sudden psychedelic switch of the reality channel. He looked straight at the camera, right into your living room, and up-levelled the comedy by saying: 'Pretty good talking for a long-haired weirdo, huh, Mr. and Mrs. America?' And then ZAP, flash. Back to the innocuous comedy. Or, in a spy drama, Micky warned Peter: ‘Why this involves the responsibility for blowing up the entire world!’ Peter, confidently: ‘I’ll take that responsibility!’ And Micky, with a glance at the camera, said, ‘Wow! With a little more ego he’ll be ready to run for President!’ Why, it all happened so fast, LBJ, you didn’t even see it." - Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy (1968)

[personinthepalace]

MBS cast photo!!!

from Kristen Schaal’s instagram

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look at them fucking go

[transcakeoutintherain]

Ok I KNOW how inflation works & whatnot but also. the desperation of micky saying “14.50 to replace an engine!! where will we get 14.50!!” is the PEAK of comedy now like.... buddy.............

[tedhead]

struggling to watch the monkees in the middle of my revitalized bruce hyperfixation aka not being able to concentrate on more than one (25 minute) episode vs being able to watch passaic night straight through (3 hours)

[bl33py]

of all the gags in the show the freeze frames are some of the funniest, why in the world did they stop doing them halfway thru season one im so upset lmao

[thmollusk]

CHAPTER FOUR OF MY WIFE’S MONKEES FIC IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S VERY GOOD BTW AND I SHOULD KNOW AS A MONKEE FANDOM TUMBLR VETERAN

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Mutual #1: Ruby is DEFINITELY Missy’s daughter guys

Mutual #2: I wish 15 had condemned cops or something when Ruby asked why the TARDIS looked like that

Mutual #3: CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON. CHRIS. CHRIS COME BACK BABY

Mutual #4: She Charley on my Pollard till i Scherzo

Mutual #5: I hate that Moffat is returning to write an episode. Can Steven Moffat kill himself please

Mutual #6: I love that Moffat is returning to write an episode. Can RTD kill himself please

Mutual #7: What if we kissed in front of Ianto’s shrine in Cardiff and we were both girls

Mutual #8: Chibnall’s episodes outside of his era are some of his better ones. I think for every cool thing he does there’s law of conservation of energy applies and the next episode he makes sucks

Mutual #9: I really do not mean to TJLC but i think the Doctor is going to realize he’s in a TV show this season. Bc i don’t know what to do with the death of RTD’s subtlety in foreshadowing

Mutual #10: I’m not misogynistic but I just hate everything about the 13th Doctor era and I just think it doesn’t have a single redeeming quality.

Mutual #11: You are literally an anti-feminist if you hate anything about the 13th Doctor era

Mutual #12: Spydoc are pegging each other rn in my Google docs

Mutual #13: Guys I’m getting a tattoo of the 8th doctor should it say “autism” or “lesbian” underneath in impact font

Mutual #14: It’s so sad that Simm!master turned into a puppygirl. Oh well I must comply to canon

Mutual #15: Was Thasmin queerbaiting? No nuance pick one

Mutual #16: Everybody listen to the TV movie soundtrack NEOWWWWWWW

Mutual #17: Tegan and Nyssa would have the Monkees on their sex playlist

Mutual #18: I just wish 14 got a whole season, you know? Or maybe two. Or three. Who needs 15 anyway?

Mutual #19: If David Tennant steps foot on a Doctor Who stage again I will kill him with my blade

Mutual #20: Link to pirating big finish in reblog. everybody please come to 6th Doctor land with me

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Saul og Peter Tork | I heard there was a secret chord

Kaufman, R. (Writer), Gardner, G. (Writer), Caruso, D. (Writer), & Frawley, J (Director). (1968, February 5). The Devil and Peter Tork (Season 2, Episode 20) [TV series episode]. In R. Rafelson & B. Schneider (Executive Producers), The Monkees. Raybert Productions.

Kronberg, J. (1885). David and Saul [Painting]. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden.

Ottaway, H. (1977). Nielsen’s ‘Saul and David’, The Musical Times, 118(1608), 122-124.

Shurpin, Y. (2021). What is the significance of King David’s harp?, Chabad.

Tripod. (n.d.). The Devil and Peter Tork, The Monkees TV.

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On the set of “Hitting The High Seas" (photos 1-7 photographer unnamed, via Reelin’ In The Years Photo Archive; the remaining photos are presumably by Henry Diltz).

“We spent a lot of time in San Pedro, on the coast not far from Los Angeles. The Monkees were filming an episode for the TV show. They were all dressed up in pirate costumes, and the shooting took place on a marvelous old sailing ship, built in Norway in 1908. Honestly, those Monkees have no fear at all! Davy was clowning around at the top of the mast, without turning a hair. And Peter Tork was fooling about at the edge of the gangplank. There were, believe it or not, sharks in the water below him. But he didn’t seem to care less! Micky Dolenz? Oh, well, Micky is just as mad as a hatter. He drives his car at unbelievable speed: enough to drive anybody out of their mind! I adore Peter Tork. He really is one of the most super people I’ve ever met. The day we said ‘Hello’ he seemed to play his guitar and sing to me for hours — talk about romantic! Peter is very talented; intelligent, too. We spent a long time talking about such things as classical music and reincarnation. We have similar views about life and death: he believes there will always be a Peter Tork, and I believe there will always be a Jennifer Moss. Peter talked to me a lot. He put me right on a lot of things. I didn’t meet Mike Nesmith enough to talk to him a lot — we were on a boat and I don’t think he felt very well. But he was very pleasant and polite.” - Jennifer Moss, NME, November 25, 1967 (x)

[rivertigo]

monkees hair stylist crimes ranked by badness

1. straightening Micky’s hair. They took a hot guy and made him so painfully kid by straightening his beautiful curls. they dulled his sparkle. never seen a crazier blowup than Micky with straight hair vs with his natural curls

2. giving mike the craziest side part ever. they were setting him up. I forgot who’s dad or relative or whoever said this but I remember they referred to mike as the one with the unfortunate hairline. I just saw a picture of him with bangs and he was hot as fuck lowkey I get you guys now. but with the side part so strong he loses like so much of his appeal

3. letting Micky have curly hair but styling it in a pushed back way. It just looked awkward and bad. they probably realized they had to keep the curls because we’ll have you seen him? but they probably wanted him to look ‘neat’ or something like that because it was the 1960s major network tv

4. Davy’s long hair in the early seasons. I love when men have long hair but his didn’t have enough shape in the early days. It was a long swoop they combed too much and I thought it wasn’t as good as it could’ve been and I know this to be a truth because in 1969/70 he had a similar length with some better shaping and it looked so good. this is the lowest on the list because Davy was still hot.

the monkees hair stylist has never harmed Peter Tork

[ilovedig]

I'm quite new to the world of the Monkees (started watching it a few weeks ago and am now a few episodes into season 2), but you want to tell me that the music video for Daydream Believer exists and somehow Jork isn't the main ship of the fandom?????

I mean????? Davy is literally serenading Peter for like half the song, and doing it really overtly.

And besides that, Peter basically said he was in love with Davy in his obituary for him, so I'm just very confused.

What even is your main ship????

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[vintagetvstars]

Luke Halpin Vs. Micky Dolenz

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Luke Halpin - (Flipper (season 3)) - Halpin was a good-looking actor of the 1960s who occasionally wore a shirt. At home on and in the water, he did all his own stunts in the Flipper TV series. As his acting career tapered off, he continued to do aquatic stunt work in the movies.

Micky Dolenz - (The Monkees) - The only surviving member of The Monkees (sobs), he was the lead singer on the original version of "I'm A Believer," before Smash Mouth covered it. So cute and great at comedy.

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Riu Chiu From Season 2, Episode 15 - "The Monkees' Christmas Show"

[acidgirl]

again i do not wanna gatekeep the monkees but i am always hearing just about head there are 2 seasons of television you can watch also