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The Monkees
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| Title: | Monstrous Monkee Mash |
| Episode Number: | 50 |
| Season: | 2 |
| Season Episode #.: | 18 |
| Production Number: | 4767 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday January 22nd, 1968 |
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When Davy falls for a mysterious woman, The Monkees enter a spooky scene with Dracula, a Wolfman, and the Mummy.
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| "The Monstrous Monkee Mash" is the second horror movie/occult-themed Monkees episode of the series; the first was No. 18, "I Was A Teenage Monster."
| The title for the episode "The Monstrous Monkee Mash" was inspired by the 1962 novelty song "The Monster Mash," so-written (with Leonard Capizzi) and performed by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.
| Outakes from this episode can be spotted at the outset of Episode 46, "The Monkees On The Wheel."
| David Pearl, The Wolfman, is a Monkee stand-in.
| That's Valerie Kairys, walking down the steps past Dracula Davy and Werewolf Micky, summoned by Micky's howl. Kairys previously had a guest role as Kitty in a December 28-29 episode of Batman (ABC, 1966-68), "The Sandman Cometh/The Catwoman Goeth," whose "Extra Special Guest Villainess, "Julie Newmar (as The Catwoman), was another Monkee guest ("The Monkees Get Out More Dirt").
| Though he composed the song together with his fellow Monkee comrades and Diane Hilerbrand, Mike Nesmith is suspiciously omitted from songwriting credit for "Goin' Down" in the end credits song listing for "The Monstrous Monkee Mash." The song itself appears here and in Episode 54, "The Monkees In Paris" (a.k.a. "The Paris Show"), in its mono mix heard on the B-side of their single. For the Saturday Afternoon repeat of "The Monstrous Monkee Mash" on CBS, "Goin' Down" was replaced by the Micky Dolenz/Ric Klein tune "Bye Bye, Baby, Bye Bye."
| The stock footage of the Gothic manor atop a steep mountain (flashing with lightning to thunderous weather) is used for the third time on The Monkees in this episode. Previous usage of the clip was in Episode 2, "Monkee See, Monkee Die," and No. 18, "I Was A Teenage Monster."
| Micky and Mike make snide comments during this episode about people being denied access to Disneyland due to their long hair. This same comment was first mentioned in Episode 42, "The Wild Monkees."
| When Micky and Mike find Peter missing, Micky thinks they should make it a duet, and "if you get lost, I'll be a single!" Micky then breaks out with a fine rendition of "Hey, Hey, I'm A Monkee!" --little suspecting that within 2 years, The Monkees would be reduced to a duet due to Mike Nesmith's departure.
| Ron Masak later played Charlie Wilson in the 1973 ABC sitcom turkey Love Thy Neighbor, and Sheriff Mort Metzger on Murder, She Wrote (CBS, 1984-95). A day after this episode aired, Masak also appeared in the beginning of a 4-part episode of I Dream Of Jeannie (NBC, 1965-70) , "Genie, Genie, Who's Got The Genie?" (January 23, Ferbruary 6 and 15, 1968), with Monkee guest alumni Lou Antonio ("Hillbilly Honeymoon"), Rita Shaw ("Too Many Girls"), William Baghdad ("Everywhere A Sheik, Sheik," Head) and Joseph Perry ("The Monkee In The Ring").
| Several interior shots of Dracula's castle in "The Monstrous Monkee Mash" were filmed on the set previously used as Cunningham Manor in Episode 2, "Monkee See, Monkee Die."
| An early story idea in the original synopsis for "The Monstrous Monkee Mash" had Loreli promising The Wolfman a better contract and the next body.
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| In the scene where he and Micky attempt in vain to remove their monster makeup, Davy inadvertently calls Jack Williams, the show's property man --- when he should have called Keeva Johnson, the makeup artist!
| Number of times that flashcuts of images of vampires are inserted in between scenes each time the word "vampire" is mentioned: 6.
| Number of times flashcuts of images of vampires are inserted in between scenes each time Peter mentions the word "face": 3.
| The tail end of "Goin' Down" intersperses footage of The Monkees leaping across and around a fountain, previously used in various musical sequences in the first season.
| Mike Nesmith is the only Monkee in this episode to successfully avert the mighty spell of Loreli's magic necklace! (The reason is obvious: he's already married, of course.)
| This is the second time "cookouts on weekends" is mentioned on The Monkees, following Episode 7, "The Monkees In A Ghost Town" in which Lenny (Lon Chaney Jr.) was seen requesting cookouts on weekends from Mike and Davy.
| The Monkees' first recording session for their fifth album, The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees, took place on the evening they finished the firts day of shooting for "The Monstrous Monkee Mash."
| Listen for an off-camera voice by director Jim Frawley, as he gives Micky direction on how to give a scare. Frawley also provides the voice of the small toy bat which flaps its wings and speaks when its string is pulled ("I vant to drink your blood!).
| Watch, during the Goin' Down' romp, as Peter manages to frighten The Count witha lollipop, which he slurps in celebration. Peter was seen with a similar-looking lollipop in Episode 14, "Dance, Monkee, Dance" which he presented as "an all-day sucker," as a responce to Davy's claim that the Reynaldo's Dance Au-Go-Go school "is gonna beloaded with suckers!" ("All Day! All-day suckers!").
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