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The Monkees Pilot Opening & Closing Credits

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You must listen to Mike Nesmith's interview on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast. He talks at length about the Monkees, and in particular the Monkees pilot, exploring some of the concepts I had explored in the Monkees Script Project.  Here’s the pull quote:

“What happened was this: The screenplay, instead of it being ironic, and funny, it became sardonic and angry. It was… it mocked. And so the four main characters were assholes. They were just jerks. Nobody liked them, nobody wanted to be around them or anything. They were written into the screenplay so they were in everybody’s face and everybody’s hair. And it was just a very unpleasant kind of thing, and it never got funny.

“When they put Davy’s interview… and they put my screen test on it, that changed … ‘Meet the Monkees and you’ll never know where they show up next.’ And now, then, it became madcap, and kind of easygoing, and so when we were making fun of something, or poking fun at it, it was gentle and it was not angry. It was just kids fooling around and having fun.”