You know I'm bored when I'm looking for plotholes in Monkees episodes.

[40cakes]

In "I've Got a Little Song Here," the guys seem rather surprised that Mike has written a song. We are not led to believe that anyone else is the specified songwriter of the group. The guys just genuinely seem surprised that Mike wrote a song, as if they were all accountants instead of musicians. They're starving artists (with beachfront property). Where do they get their songs, then?

(This isn't to mention the problem I've always had with this episode, namely that Mike's songs were always my favourites, and in this episode they give him a song that he didn't write and doesn't even sing.)

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[EDIT}: EEEEEE ROMP WITH PUPPIES!

Comments

[raion.livejournal.com]

if "Head" is any indication, the Monkees weren't terribly concerned with plotholes.
oh, and hi. ;)

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Very true. :) Hi!

Though once my friend and I sat down and watched the whole thing and reasoned out what every scene could be interpreted as meaning sorta maybe.

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[stmatthew.livejournal.com]

I'd say that Peter was the songwriter for the TV guys... since apparently it was up to HIM to write a new song for the audition in "Monkees Blow Their Minds".

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Hm, I've never paid much attention to that episode. I shall watch it now!

(No, I'm not making excuses to indulge myself, why do you ask?)

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[nesmith.livejournal.com]

My theory about the use of "Gonna Buy Me A Dog" is this:

The premise of the plot is that Mike takes in a really bad song, and Class thinks it's the greatest thing he's ever heard. The audience is in on the gag—and knows that Class is crooked from the start. It's obvious because he's fawning over a really DUMB tune. If they'd used one of Mike's REAL songs then the audience (who were kids, mostly) might not have picked up on it; who could hear "Mary Mary" and say "That song stinks?" (Okay, yeah, people who are tone-deaf.) ;)

Or maybe Mike refused to let them use any of his creations as a "mere" plot device. Either one.

And I always interpreted the "YOU wrote a song, Mike?" as joking, not serious. ;)

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I like your reasoning. It is now canon!

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