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'''''The Monkees''''' was about four incredibly clean cut aspiring young musicians with regrettable taste in clothes and haircuts who people on the show treated like they were pierced and tattooed Alternative Rockers. But hey, it was [[The Sixties]]!
The series ran two seasons on [[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 [[CBS]] and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] were successful. Then in 1986, a marathon showing of the series on [[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 [[Nick at Nite]] and a variety of local channels. It's largely been absent from the airwaves since the mid-1990s (though it does periodically resurface), but is available in its entirety on VHS and DVD. As of 2011, the series has been a weekend fixture on Digital Station Antenna TV, which also occasionally airs ''[[Head]]''.
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* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: In "Success Story", Davy (who is a born and raised Brit) states that he was raised by his grandfather, who is flying in from England to see his grandson. However, when we first hear the grandfather speak, his British accent is very mild-to-nonexistent, to the point of almost sounding American, and later, when the charade is falling apart, the grandfather starts sounding... Irish?
** The climax of one episode had the [[Grand Vizier]] of the [[Qurac|Middle Eastern nation Nahudi]] asked by the ruler how he could betray "the land of your birth."
{{Quote|'''Vizier''': [generic fake Middle Eastern accent] The land of my birth? [disgusted spitting sound] I am '''not''' a Nahudian! [[Punctuated!
[accent shifts to [[American Accents|Deep South]]] Ah just came heah to get yawr oil. Which Ah'm about to do raht naow.}}
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: "The Picture Frame" has three of them robbing a bank after being tricked into thinking they're making a movie. When the police present them with the film from the surveillance cameras as evidence, they treat it as an actual movie, complete with being critical about their performance and popcorn.
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