- Tired of the same old scripts, the Monkees walk off the set and take a holiday in Paris. Director James Frawley is left having to come up with a way to change the formula.
- Peter rushes onto the beachhouse set of The Monkees' TV show reading a threatening letter in deliberately overblown fashion. Micky replies that there is nothing to worry about when stock villian Art Lewis enters the scene with a phony Russian accent demanding the microfilm. The boys don't react, and director Jim Frawley cuts the shoot to talk to the boys, who are exhausted and frustrated with the repetitious scripts the show is now filming after over fifty episodes. Frawley calls another take, but the second take goes nowhere.
The Monkees object because the show's jokes have become stale, the cliches have become unbearable (Davy in particular objects to the tall heavy and short heavy that permeate every episode now), and Frawley's urging of the boys to keep going falls on deaf ears. Mike then decisively tells Jim that they're going on a vacation, and Micky decides they should go to Paris, so the boys walk off the set, to the consternation of Frawley, who nonetheless calls for a closeup of the set's toy monkey, the kind of directorial cliche Mike had just gotten through complaining about.
Arriving in Paris, the Monkees drive around on small motorcycles and are spotted by Veronique, Karine, Carole, and Franchoise, beautiful young women who instantly fall in love with them. A mob of beautiful ladies starts pursuing the boys and amid the strains of the song "Love Is Only Sleeping" (presented with additional reverb in its album mix as opposed to the four-track mix used in earlier episodes) the boys escape through varied outdoor markets, fences, and streets as they are pursued by the beauties of Paris. The chase moves from motorcycles to foot but the boys manage to escape by comandeering a truck.
On the set Jim Frawley telephones producer Bob Rafelson to tell him what's happened and gets an earful for it. This of course has no effect on the boys as their Paris sojourn continues and they stay one jump ahead of four persistent beauties. At one point the four beauties corner The Monkees on a boat in the Seine River (amid a cut of composer Hugo Montenegro's theme to The Good The Bad & The Ugly) before they jump to momentary freedom. The chase takes a backseat to a fun trip to an amusement park and later to a romantic walk in a park amid a cut of Mike's "Don't Call On Me," then resumes at an outdoor market amid the snarls of "Star Collector," as the boys and girls play cat & mouse through the market, then the boys type romantic letters to their four girlfriends and get playfully slapped for them, so they rewrite them and the ladies fall into their arms.
The chase keeps going and Micky is cornered and gang-tackled by fawning females at a streetlight and his jacket is torn off amid the album mix of his rock-jazz anthem "Goin' Down," a chase that slams to a stop when he and Davy reach a cemetary. Walking through slowly and showing respect for the dead amid the strains of "Toccata & Fugue In D Minor," they eventually leave and the chase resumes. It eventually takes another backseat to the rest of "Don't Call On Me" before a mammoth traffic jam at the Arch de Triumph ensues. The ladies carry their chase of the boys up the heights of the Eiffel Tower before the boys wind up flat on their backs on the ground in a surprisingly harrowing ending.
Of course they're okay and return home only to walk into the exact same episode they'd quit the previous week. Micky and Mike apologetically tell the audience that they'll be back next week with something, and the boys leave the set while Frawley still tries to get a closeup of the toy monkey and a brief flashback of the Paris romp is seen.
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