History Series / TheMonkees

** The pilot featured two different versions of "I Wanna Be Free": a midtempo version sung by Davy and Micky, and a slow version featuring just Davy.

* TabletopGame/TicTacToe: Played for laughs in "Monkees à la Carte", when the Monkees (disguised as the Purple Flower gang) divide the city into nine sections, and Mickey whispers hints to the individual gangsters about which sections they should get, alternating between X's and O's, resulting in three X's down the middle column.

** Several Monkees trying to enter a threshhold at once (getting stuck).

** Singing some variation of their Opening Theme (complete with imitating the drum noise in the begining).

* FeudingFamilies: In "Hillbilly Honeymoon", the Monkees find themselves in a rural mountain town, caught in a frud between the Chubbers and the Weskitts (a parody of the real life feud between the Hatfields and the [=McCoys=]). The clan leaders order the boys to stay on the line that divides the town in two, until Ella Mae Chubber pulls Davy to the side to romance him, prompting her pa to declare that Davy will be Ella Mae's groom in a ShotgunWedding, at which point Judd Weskitt (who is in love with Ella Mae) kidnaps Davy and takes him back to his cabin. Mike and Micky pretend to be relatives of Judd and Maw Weskitt with a pig as a piece offering to rescue Davy, while Peter stays behind at the Chubbers' place, before later dressing as a mountain man to coach Judd in manners so he can properly court Ella Mae. When Judd shows up at the wedding, a gunfight ensues, and during the crossfire, he and Ella Mae tie the knot, ending the feud.

The series ran two seasons on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1966 to 1968. The show ended its initial run when the group and the network could not agree on a format for the third season. The band wanted to update the format and make it more like a variety show, while the network wanted to maintain the status quo. NBC decided to pull the plug, but did make an agreement with the band for three television specials to be produced. When the first, the extremely weird ''33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee'', bombed in the ratings, plans for the other two specials were cancelled. However, Saturday morning reruns on Creator/{{CBS}} and Creator/{{ABC}} were successful. Then in 1986, a marathon showing of the series on Creator/{{MTV}} produced that network's best ratings to date, propelling the group back into the limelight. Over the next few years, the series would return to syndication on Creator/NickAtNite and a variety of local channels. It's available in its entirety on VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray, and as of 2011 the series has been a weekend fixture on over-the-air digital subchannel network Creator/AntennaTV, which also occasionally airs ''Film/{{Head}}''.

* WidgetSeries

-->'''Computer''': What is your name?\\
'''Mike''': Nesmith, what's yours?\\
'''Computer''': What?\\
'''Mike''': Thank you, Mr. What, and what is your first name?\\
'''Computer''': It's not what.\\
'''Mike''': [[InsaneTrollLogic Mr. Notwhat What.]] And what is your occupation?\\

'''Mike''': Oh, you're a D.J.? Look, I bet you got a great record collection.\\
'''Computer''' [''smokes from a short circuit'']: Wait, I am not programmed for these questions.\\
'''Mike''': Oh, you want a different program? Wait, okay, look, um... [''Mike starts pressing buttons; the computer sparks up and dispensing punch-cards'']

* OverprotectiveDad: General Vandenburgh in "The Chaperone", who refuses to allow his daughter to attend parties without a chaperone. When he overhears Davy telling Leslie that Micky is dressed as the hostess because the real chaperone is passed out drunk, he shuts the party down and forces the guests to leave in military march style.

* SharePhrase: "Don't do that"

* StarvingArtist: Despite the CoolCar and the nice beach house, the boys fit this trope to a T. To the point that they're happy to eat spaghetti off of Micky's head. Them having no food in the house is a RunningGag.

** The group members correlated to Beatles counterparts. Davy was "the cute one" analogue to Music/PaulMcCartney. Peter Tork was "the goofy one" parallel to Music/RingoStarr, as well as fitting Music/GeorgeHarrison's "quiet one" role. Music/JohnLennon was subject to DecompositeCharacter treatment, with Music/MichaelNesmith taking on his "smart one"[=/=]"leader" part, while Micky Dolenz picked up on John's other side as "the joker".

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, there really is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attwater%27s_prairie_chicken Texas prairie chicken]], and it's even more endangered now than it was in 1967 (about 32 left in the wild after Hurricane Harvey).

* HornyDevils: The boys are surrounded by a number of ladies with devil horns and barbed tails in Hell during the "Salesman" video in "The Devil and Peter Tork".

* GagWords: "Frodis" and "Kretch" show up a few times.

* CourtroomAntic: In "The Picture Frame", Mike, Micky, and Davy make a very thorough mockery of the court system.