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The Monkees
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| Title: | Monkees Paw |
| Episode Number: | 51 |
| Season: | 2 |
| Season Episode #.: | 19 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday January 29th, 1968 |
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Micky buys a mystical monkey's paw from a malicious magician.
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| The late Hans Conried was in great demand as an actor, panelist and narrator, appearing frequently in television series and movies throughout the 1960's and '70s. including Captain Hook in Disney's Peter Pan (1953) and a couple of stints at Jay Ward Productions as the host of Fractured Flickers (Syndicated, 1963) and the voice of Snidely Whiplash on The Dudley Do-Right Show (ABC, 1969-70). Unfortunately, Conried was not too receptive to The Monkees' off-the-wall antics in between takes, as the outtakes from "The Monkee's Paw" (shown at the beginning of the tag) attests. In his 1993 biography, I'm A Believer, Micky Dolenz mentions the Hans Conried outburst...something which he has since regretted provoking.
| Mendrek The Magician is a take-off on the Lee Falk-created Mandrake The Magician.
| The "Words" musical number incorporates scenes from Peter's The Astonishing Pietro act in Episode 15, "Too Many Girls."
| The late Severn Darden has an unbilled cameo as the psychiatrist (though the Screen Gems' original plot synopsis for this episode lists him). Among many film and TV roles Darden appeared as Pepito in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Syndicated, 1976-78).
| Henry Beckman, seen here as the ruthless Manager, was also the ruthless D.A. in Episode 34, "The Picture Frame." He was previously seen as Co. Douglas Harrigan in the final season of McHale's Navy (ABC, 1962-66), which also featured Monkee guest actors Jacques Aubuchon ("The Spy Who Came In From The Cool") and Carl Ballantine ("Find The Monkees") in recurring ring roles. Beckman was previously seen with Monkee guest alum Arch Johnson ("The Chaperone") in a January 4, 1968 episode of Bewitched (ABC, 1964-72), "Once In A Vial," and later appeared in a November 4, 1968 episode (exactly 11 months later) of I Dream Of Jeanie (NBC, 1965-70), "The Used Car Salesman," with another Monkee guest star (and former Michale's Navy costar) Carl Ballantine ("Find The Monkees"); he would later play Capt. Charley Clan on Here Come The Brides (ABC, 1968-70), which starred Monkee guest actor Bobby Sherman ("The Monkees At The Movies").
| Jack Fife previously appeared with Monkee guest alum Larry Gelman ("I've Got A Little Secret Here," "Captain Crocodile," "The Monkees Christmas Show") ina 2-part November 14-21, 1966 episode of I Dream Of Jeannie, "The Girl Who Never Had A Birthday," and later appeared with another Monkee guest Cecil Cabot ("The Royal Flush" and "The Success Story") in a December 21, 1967 episode of The Flying Nun (ABC, 1967-70), "Waiting In A WInter Wonderland."
| At the start of the fantasy sequence featuring Mike as The Regular Llama and Micky as young Mendrek, a musical dirge which will ultimately become the submain title of the next episode, "The Devil And Peter Tork" can be heard.
| Two legendary NBC shows are given mention in "The Monkee's Paw." You Bet Your Life (NBC, 1950-61), and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (NBC, 1962-92). (Footnote: The Monkees [minus Peter Tork] later made a June 16, 1969 appearance on The Tonight Show---along with their new backup band, Sam & The Goodtimers--to plug The Monkees Greatest Hits). Anotyher reference to Johnny Carson's Tonight Show is made in Episode 54, "The Monkees In Paris.").
| Lip-readers, note a voiceless Micky forming the words of, but not saying, The Gettysburg Address. Mike Nesmith can be heard saying its first line in Episode 40, "Monkees Marooned" in the scene where he, Kimba (Burt Mustin), Thursday (Rupert Crosse), and his fellow Monkees mates are ordered to spit out their last words at gunpoint by Major Pshaw (Monte Landis).
| The slate of the outtake from "The Monkees Paw" shown at its outset uses the same production number as Episode 36, "Monkee Mayor."
| In the tag interview segment, Davy Jones flaunts his love beads and says, "I'm not a hippie...Charlie bought me these!" He's talking about Monkee roady Charlie Rockett, who, along with Jones, Kim Capli and Ediie Brick, ciompossed the tune "Hard To Believe," which was the introductory track on Side B of Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd. Rockett will be seen as a Gendarme in Episode 54, "The Monkees In Paris."
| "The Monkees Paw" is one of 2 epsiodes this season which features a "karaoke" mix of a Monkee song; the second is No. 57, "The Monkees Blow Their Minds" (which featured a "karaoke" version of "Gonna Buy Me A Dog").
| The 1967 remake of Boyce & Hart's "Words" makes its second and final appearance in a first run episode of The Monkees in "The Monkees Paw"; the first was in No. 45, "The Monkees In Texas," Previous appearances of the track had ben in 3 redubbed 1967 summer repeats; "The Monkees In A Ghost Town" (7-17-67), "Monkees Chow Mein" (7-31-67), and "The Monkees On Tour" (8-21-67).
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| Mike: Ooh, that’s kind of a drag, huh?
Peter: Oh, a bummer
Mike: Um, hi.
Mandrek: What are you doing? Looking down on me? Making fun of an old man?
Mike: No, we came to…no!
Mandrek: Oh don’t be sorry. Nobody wants to see magicians anymore, they wanna see reality…on television.
Micky: Blech, what is that? (picking up a monkey‘s paw)
Mandrek: That’s a very special monkey’s paw, given to me by a Tibetan Llama.
Mike: Oooh, I think it’s kind of groovy.
Mandrek: Oh, I remember it like it was yesterday. I was a young man looking for the secrets of far Tibet.
(Mike and Micky in a fantasy sequence in Tibet)
Mandrek: (o/s) I climbed the tallest mountains in Tibet to see the High Llama. The Llama, was very surprised to see me.
(Mike as the High Llama screams as Micky as Mandrek touches him from behind)
Mike as Llama: What are you doing here? You must be some kind of nut coming out here…it’s cold and horrible and miserable out here. What are you doing?
Micky as Mandrek: I have come…hand over hand…foot over foot to reach the top of the mountain.
Mike as Llama: Really? Well man, tell me how you did it? I’ve been trying to get off of here for 12 years. All this horrible weather…(talks to a prop man off stage) Cut off the snow!
Mandrek: (o/s) Suddenly, the snow stopped falling.
Micky as Mandrek: I…I came all this way to find the High Llama, where is he?
Mike as Llama: Well uh…oh well, I’m afraid you’re too late. He’s in the back sleeping it off.
Micky as Mandrek: (holds hand to his mouth as in shock) You don’t mean…
Mike as Llama: Yeah, See that’s how he got his name. I am the regular Llama, back in the east people just call me regular.
Micky as Mandrek: Alright, reg …here’s my story. It’s a long and sad one. Listen carefully, I started 10,000 miles ago in the Sahara desert overlooking a tree, (Mike yawns) the Golden maiden was high upon the 10,000 mile mountain, as the tree shown down about the valley I walked 10,000 miles upon burning sands and deserts (laughs) sands of deserts (Mike falls asleep) Reg…REG?
Mike as Llama: (Mike awakens) Huh…What?!
Micky as Mandrek: (looking confused) I was coming…looking for the Tibetan unknown secrets.
Mike as Llama: So?
Micky as Mandrek: I was looking for the unknown Tibetan secrets?
Mike as Llama: What?
Micky as Mandrek: I was in Tibetans secrets unknown?
Mike as Llama: (shakes his head) What?
Micky as Mandrek: don’t you have anything for me?
Mike as Llama: Yeah, I got something for you, I got this summons for trespassing.
Micky as Mandrek: What?
Mike as Llama: This is my property.
Mandrek And after much persuassion, the Llama broke down and gave me the monkey’s paw.
Mike as Llama: (Micky is choking Mike) Well after much persuasion I give you this monkey’s paw. It grants three wishes.
Micky as Mandrek: (grabs the paw from Mike) For me?
Mike as Llama: Yes for you. You’re the only kind of fool that deserves that kind of luck.
(Micky chokes Mike again)
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| The slate of the outtake from "The Monkees Paw" shown at its outset uses the same production number as Episode 36, "Monkee Mayor."
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| Mike Nesmith makes a swipe at an old movie as he, along with Peter explains Micky's "singing with his feet" to Manager (Henry Beckman): he actually quips, "Haven't you heard of the movie Young Man With A Corn?" Actually, Mike means Yound Man With A Horn, the 1950 Warner Brothers movie musical drama which starred Kirk Douglas and Lauren Bacall; Papa Nez obviously altered the title a bit to make it fit with the motivation. Technically, there is no motion picture entitled Flat Foot Floojy With A Floy-Floy (Pete's Movie).
| This episode is a takeoff on the classic William Wymark Jacobs horror tale, The Monkey's Paw.
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