Funny / The Monkees

• Mike being adorkable playing a folk song on a TV talent show competition.
• The entire "Fairy Tale" episode is a riot, but the best part has to be at the end, with the Fourth Wall logic that Princess Gwen (played by Michael Nesmith) uses to turn down Peter's marriage proposal.
  Peter: Princess, will you marry me?
  Princess Gwen: No, I won't marry you! (Mike changes to his normal voice and pulls off the wig) Of course not, man!
  Peter: (pretending to be shocked) Michael!
  Mike: Yeah! I'm already married, man! You know, Phyllis? And Christian, and my little kids...
• "Don we now our GAY apparel!" Classic.
• Michael's silly faces in the background of the "Randy Scouse Git" video.
  • Also, Micky's crazy eyebrows near the beginning of the vid.
  • Davy dropping his drumsticks as Peter slumps over the piano at the end, followed by Davy's "oh, no, not again" Face Palm as Micky starts pounding the timpani for the Fade Out.
• Mike's comment in "Hillbilly Honeymoon":
  Mike: Welcome to Swineville, Peter, a happy, sleepy, little hillbilly town where seemingly innocent, nice, naive people turn just like that (snap) into a vengeful, hateful mob.
  Peter: How do you know that?
  Mike: 'Cause these are my people.
• Michael nearly incapable of saying the phrase "Save the Texas Prairie Chicken" without laughing, in an outtake segment shown in "The Monkees on the Wheel." Then, once he finally gets it right, he casually walks off the set to applause from the crew while Micky stands there with a "what the hell was that?" look on his face.
• In "Monkees à la Carte," the band disguise themselves as the Purple Flower Gang, but goof by wearing white carnations. Micky waves it off by saying, "You know how tough it is to find purple flowers, Baby?" When Peter goes to the police, they immediately grab him as a member of the Purple Flower Gang, and they respond to his pointing to his white flower with "Don't give me that, I know how tough it is to find purple flowers!"
• In “The Monkees Paw,” standing by the wooden Indian statue.
  Davy (likely VERY stoned, leaning against the Indian): You know, he (Micky) hasn’t said a thing in 12 hours?
  Mike: That’s it! In 12 hours, he forgot how to talk. I mean anybody can forget how to talk in 12 hours!
  Peter: Well, then it’s simple. All we do is teach him to talk.
  Davy: (raises hand) How?!
  (pause)
  Mike: WHAT did you say…?
  Davy: HOW!!!
  • From that same episode; They take Micky to the Psychiatrist. Said shrink attempts to give Micky the Rorschach (inkblot) test. Peter sees a ketchup stain, Mike sees flowers and Davy sees dancing girls....but the doctor repeatedly insists "IT'S A BUNNY AND A CHICKEN!".
• Peter's interview with a very literal computer goes horribly wrong in "Monkee Vs. Machine". Funny in and of itself, but then Mike goes for the same interview and brilliantly uses the computer's logic to short circuit it. Have a look here and here.
• "The Frodis Caper" gives us the most believable alien lifeform of all time: an eight-foot tall potted palm with a football for an eye.
• Midway through "The Card Carrying Red Shoes", an ally of the Monkees, while trying to rescue Peter Tork, stumbles upon a firing squad execution in progress. He asks if the condemned man is Peter Tork, and the condemned man says, "No!" The man apologizes for bothering the squad and condemned man, and after he shuts the door, shots are heard just before he tells Micky and Dave, "My error."
• Mike believing that a pretty cousin was a formerly ugly cousin only to find out that he's wrong and that the ugly cousin is still ugly.
• The Studio Chatter at the beginning of the "Daydream Believer" single.
  Chip Douglas: 7A.
  Davy: What number is this, Chip?
  Mike, Peter and Micky: (mildly annoyed) 7A!
  Davy: Okay! Don't get excited, man. It's 'cause I'm short, I know.

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