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The Monkees :: Monkees Race Again (a.k.a. Leave the Driving to Us) (02x21)
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| Title: | Monkees Race Again (a.k.a. Leave the Driving to Us) |
| Episode #: | 02x21 |
| Production Number: | 4745 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday February 12th, 1968 |
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Episode Summary |
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The Monkees come to the rescue of a friend whose race car is the victim of sabotage.
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Click to hear What Am I Doing Hangin' Round
| "The Monkees Race Again" (a.k.a. "Leave The Driving To Us") was the next-to-last Monkees episode produced, shot in the same week as Episode 56 "Some Like It Lukewarm" (a.k.a. "The Band Contest"); both episodes were filmed back-to-back.
| This was also the last filmed episode to feature the Monkees running afoul of dasterdly villians.
| The alternate title for this episode, "Leave The Driving To Us," is an affectionate nod to the slogan of Greyhound Bus Lines, Inc.
| This episode aired on NBC exactly one day before Peter Tork's 26th birthday. Unlike its other appearances on this show (in episode 33, "It's A Nice Place To Visit," and No. 40, "Monkees Marooned"), "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round" appears here in its mix heard on the mono version of Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones, Ltd.
| Travis Lewis and Boomer Clarke are the pseudonyms of Michael Martin Murphy and Owen Castleman, who where Screen Gems' second attempt at a prepackaged group, The Lewis And Clarke Expedition.
| The late comic actor Stubby Kaye starred in such films as Guys And Dolls (1955, as Nicely Johnson), Cat Ballou (1965, as Shoulter), Sweet Charity (1969, as Herman) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, as Marvin Acme). He also starred as Marty Scott in the Screen Gems sitcom My Sister Eileen (CBS, 1960-61), which also featured pre-Monkee guest star Rose Marie ("The Monkees In A Ghost Town' and "Monkee Mother") as Bertha.
| The late Maurice Dallimore played bit roles in films and TV, including the brief role of Willie Shorthouse in the sitcom Fair Exchange (CBS, 1962-63; it also co-starred pre-Monkee guest Diana Chesney "The Chaperone") and had a bit role in My Fair Lady (1964) as a Selsy Man. Dallimore later appeared with Monkee guest Milton Frome ("The Monkees On The Line," "The Monkees Blow Their Minds") and Monkee cameo guest Burgess Meredith (also "The Monkees Blow Their Minds") in the 1966 feature film version of Batman (ABC, 1966-68), as well as a couple of episodes of the TV series.
| Also, you may recognize Don Kennedy (seen here as the racing official) from his previous Monkees Guest shot as Paul the Policeman in episode 11, "Monkees A La Carte."
| A deleted story idea from this epsiode has Davy and Baron Von Klutz making all sorts of stops during the race: for tea, girls, relay races, mechanics on skateboards, trading stamps, glassware and contests. Also, the words "Klutz" and "Klutzmobile" were spelled with the letter C, and an alternate episode ending has Micky and Crumpetts dropping tires around The Baron and Wolfgang.
| Between 1978 and 1983, Elias Davis and David Pollock, who teamed up with Dave Evans in writing "The Monkees Race Again," composed 17 scripts for M*A*S*H (CBS, 1972-83), including its 2-hour, 30-minute February 28, 1983 series finale, "Goodbye, Farewell And Amen." The duo became executive script consultants for the series in its final season. (M*A*S*H footnote: Mike "B.J. Hunnicutt" Farrell, who played Agent Modell in Episode 26, "Monkee Chow Mein," scripted a December 2, 1982 episode of M*A*S*H with Davis and Pollack: "Run For The Money.")
| This marks the 18th and final appearance of the Monkeemobile in an original Monkees segment. Other episode appearances of the George Barris-built Dean Jefferies-styled Pontiac GTO were in No. 2, "Monkee Se, Monkee Die," No. 3, "Monkee Versus Machine," No. 5, "The Spy Who Came In From The Cool," No. 7, "The Monkees In A Ghost Town," No. 12, 'I've Got A Little Song Here," No. 13, "One Man Shy" (a.k.a. "Peter And The Debutante"), No. 15, "Too Many Girls" (a.k.a. "Davy And Fern"), No. 17,"The Case Of The Missing Monkee," No. 19,"Find The Monkees" (a.k.a. "The Audition"), No. 22, "The Monkees At The Circus," No. 25, "Alias Micky Dolenz," No. 27, "Monkee Mother," No. 32, "The Monkees On Tour," No. 33, "It's A Nice Place To Visit...," No. 39, "Hillbilly Honeymoon" (a.k.a. "Double Barrel Shotgun Wedding"), and No. 42, "The Wild Monkees." (A future episode, No. 57, "The Monkees Blow Their Minds," uses footage of The Monkeemobile as seen in the "Gonna Buy Me A Dog" musical sequence of "I've Got A Little Song Here.") The Monkeemobile's license plate # in this episode: PAR 54.
| Production on The Monkees' movie HEAD commenced on the day before this episode originally aired on NBC.
| This episode is the fourth epsiode in The Monkees TV series' package not to be shown on CBS and/or ABC Saturday Afternoon, aside from No. 10, "Here Come The Monkees" (Original Pilot Film), No. 25, "Alias Micky Dolenz," and No. 45, "The Monkees In Texas."
| Micky is completely absent from this episode teaser sequence; he makes his first appearance in the episode in the scene where Mike, Davy and Peter inspect Crumpett's car. When Micky attempts to switch on The Klutzmobile's engine, music emanates from it. A couple of cues from that music previously appeared in Episode 14, "Dance, Monkee, Dance," in the scene where Davy applies for a job as a dance instructor for Reynoldo's Dance A Go-Go.
| This episode marks Mike Nesmith's third usage of the word "shotgun"; previous usages were in Episode 15, "Too Many Girls" (a.k.a. "Davy And Fern"), and No. 18, "I Was A Teenage Monster."
| This is the second of only 2 episodes of The Monkees to bear an actual appearance of show creator/writer/producer/executive producer/director Robert Rafelson; look for him riding in The Monkeemobile (among The Monkees themselves and probably Bert Schneider, David Pearl and Ward Sylvester) and backstage at The Coliseum with Davy and Peter in Episode 32, "The Monkees On Tour." He also makes a cameo in the commissary sequence in the movie HEAD.
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| Artist | Song Title | Played When | | •The Monkees | What Am I Doing Hangin' Round | |
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Episode Quotes |
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Klutz: You shh-tay here, why I go over there.
Otto: What are you waiting for?
Klutz: You’re shh-tanding on my foot!
Otto: Ooh.
Klutz: (chuckling while looking at Crumpetts’ car) Uh huh…uh huh!
Micky: (holding a stethoscope to the car) Cough please? Thanks, again?
Klutz: So Crumpetts, I see you’re having trouble with your car?
Crumpetts: I see you’re having some trouble with your accent?
Mike: We’re not having trouble with the car, the car’s fine!
Klutz: So why is you’re engine all blown up into smithereens?
(all mumble)
Mike: It makes it lighter!
All: Lighter!
Mike: It makes it lighter and easier to race with!
Davy: Faster!
Mike: Watch this (pulls a part off the engine) Pull it off and you put it here.
Davy: It’s excess you see?
Micky: (with stethoscope still on engine) Why thank you.
Klutz: Well then, how is it Yankee?
Micky: The car’s in perfect tune.
Klutz: No it isn’t.
Micky: Yes it is!
Klutz: No it isn’t.
Micky: Yes it tis!
Klutz: No it isn’t.
Micky: Yes it is!
Klutz: No it isn’t.
Micky: I’ll show you (pulls out a tuning fork and hits Klutz on his helmet) B flat!
Klutz: Enough of your musical wisecracks. Ha ha ha! We’ll see you at the race tomorrow Crumpetts. Otto, go!
Otto: I can’t.
Klutz: Why not?
Otto: You are shh-tanding on my foot.
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Inconsistency: in the scene where The Baron lures Michael and Peter by loudspeaker away from Crumpett's car, the two are seen leaving in a hurry wearing pantsuits, but later come back wearing overcoats.
| The tuning fork that they debate as being 'BB' or 'A' is actually a 'C'.
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After Baron Von Klutz reveals to Micky and Crumpetts his crooked scheme to make his Klutzmobile known throughout America and the world, a soundbyte, "Sieg Heil!" is heard. The byte resurfaces in Episode 58, "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper"), along with stock footage of Hitler in The Third Reich.
| Micky makes reference to the film The Blue Max (1966), just as Baron Von Klutz refers to the syndicated 120-minute talk show Open End (a.k.a. The David Susskind Show, 1958-87).
| David exclamation of "Curse you, Red Baron!" is in reference to World War I flying ace "Snoopy" of Peanuts fame. Micky used the phrase in Episode 18, "I Was A Teenage Monster."
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