The Monkees (TV Series)

The Monkee's Paw (1968)

Michael Nesmith: Mike

Photos 

Quotes 

• Mike : [pointing at a blackboard]  Alright, now that we got all this down: 'apple', 'kat', 'hare krishna', 'Frodis', 'legalize wisdom' and of course 'save the Texas prairie chicken', we're going to our next lession which is, speech.

• Psychiatrist : Well, we give you a little test. Ja, a test.

  [picks up a colorful Rorschach inkblot] 

  Psychiatrist : Now. What does that appear to seem to be to you?

  [Micky starts to reply but no sounds come from his mouth] 

  Mike : That looks exactly like a bunch of flowers to me.

  Psychiatrist : I am talking to him.

  Mike : I'm, I'm sorry.

  Psychiatrist : Hmm. You're such a silly. This is obviously a bunny... and a chicken. Ja? Now.

  Mike : It looks like a tomato ketchup stain to me.

  Psychiatrist : Seems you two came together. That is a bunny and a chicken. Hmm? Now!

  Davy : It looks like a bunch of birds dancing to me, you know.

  Psychiatrist : You three should form a group. It is a bunny... and a chicken!

  Mike : Well wait a minute, there's no need to get hostile about it.

  Psychiatrist : Don't you give me that hostile stuff, or I'll hit you! It's a bunny and a chicken!

  Mike : I'm sorry, man, that's just a bunch of flowers.

  Davy : It looks like a bunch of girls dancing.

  Psychiatrist : A bunny and a chicken!

  Mike : A bunch of flowers.

  Psychiatrist : A bunny and a chicken!

  Peter : A tomato ketchup stain.

  Psychiatrist : A bunny and a chicken!

  Davy : A bunch of birds dancing.

  Psychiatrist : A bunny and a chicken!

• Davy : [Micky, Mike and Peter are dressed as the Marx Brothers]  Now who wants an act with a fuzzy headed mute harpist, an Italian with a weird looking felt hat and another guy with a long nose, a moustache and a smelly cigar. It's not commercial, I wouldn't buy the act, I wouldn't buy it.

  Mike : You're right, there's no audience identification.

• Micky : [as young Mendrek]  I came all this way to find The High Lama! Where is he?

  Mike : [as The Regular Lama]  Well, I'm afraid you're out of luck. He's out back, sleepin' it off.

  Micky : You don't MEAN...?

  Mike : Yes, what I mean, that's how he got his name!

• Manager : What, are you crazy? Nobody sings with their feet!

  Mike : What do you mean, nobody sings - of course they sing with their feet, I mean, eh, didn't you ever hear of the movie, eh, 'Young man with a corn'?

  Peter : Yeah, and how about 'Flat Foot Floojy With A Floy-Floy'?

  Mike : Anybody can sing, it's not everybody can play their feet. No sirree bob.

• Mike : You know what, I think it's a mental problem.

  Peter : You can say that again!

  [laugs] 

  Mike : Now, and where do you go when you have a mental problem?

  Peter : Well, you go to eh, you know, to the mental problem analyst.

• Mike : One day Micky wished that he wouldn't talk and all of a sudden he just stopped, which is a stone drag.