The Monkees (TV Series)
Monkees on the Line (1967)
Michael Nesmith: Mike
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Quotes
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Drehdal : Do you say you boys were looking for a job?
[the Monkees all shake their heads no]
Drehdal : Well, why didn't you say so? You, you know how to pick up a telephone?
Peter : Yes, yes I do.
[Peter picks up a phone that didn't ring, and holds the phone upside down on his ear]
Peter : Hello, hello? This one's broken.
Drehdal : Boys, I'll make you a deal. You stay here and take care of my phones, I'll pay the regular salary and I'll throw in something extra. What do you say?
Mike : [All of the boys, speak the same time] Hold it, hold it. Wait, we can't do this, we're musicians.
Drehdal : Great. You can listen to the dial tone.
[She laughs and so does Micky, but then the boys start heading toward the door]
Drehdal : Hey, wait a minute. Where ya goin'?
Mike : Um, well we were going to talk it over.
Drehdal : Talk, talk. What's to talk about? Don't you realize what you can do here? You can feel the warm heart of this cruel world.
[the Monkees start to see her as the Statue of Liberty with her wearing a purple dress and a telephone on her torch]
Drehdal : The ideas of the very things that happens and you can be part of it. The city will be in your fingers. Come answer the phone.
Peter : [All of the Monkees are crying] I don't want to be a murderer.
[Drehdal looks confused and you stop seeing her as the "Statue of Liberty."]
Mike : We'll do it. We'll do it!
Drehdal : Good! Oh, I forgot to mention. In order to bring this cruelness in the world, don't get involved with the clients. Alright, which one of you will go first?
Mike : [Al of the Monkees speak at the same time] Hold it, hold it. We'll just check our fingers.
[He looks at his]
Mike : Ooh-la-la! I guess that means I have the city in my fingertips.
Peter : How come Mike always wins?
Micky : He's got six fingers on that hand.
Davy : Look Mike, maybe we'll check in with you later, ok? Goodbye, Mrs. Drehdal.
Drehdal : Bye boys.
[the other Monkees leave]
Mike : Well, got to get to work. Ooh, this is going to be fine and look a never ending sea of telephones.
[Drehdal and Mike talk at the same time]
Mike : It's a wonderful place you got here.
Drehdal : Well, now that you guys are firm, I can go to Jamaica with a free mind.
Mike : Jamaica?
Drehdal : That's right, honey.
Mike : Wait! You have to tell me how to work this thing.
Drehdal : Well, nothing can be easier. The phone rings ding-a-ling-a-ling. You plug it in the hole. You answer it, you write down the message. When the client calls you give them the message. What can be easier?
Mike : Going to Jamaica. Well, hold it.
Drehdal : Yeah?
Mike : I just noticed this red button on the wall. It's a button and it's on a wall. What's it for?
Drehdal : Push it if you get tired. Bye-bye, honey!
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Mike : Now look, I know things get kinda bleak some times, and It looks like the whole world's just running around in circles.
[cut to a footballplayer wearing a policeman's hat, Mrs. Smith, a jungle explorer wearing a gorilla mask, a marathon man, a girl in a towel, a gorilla with the explorer's hardhat and policeman Smith wearing a rugby helmet running down the hall]
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Mike : Promise me one thing.
Ellen Farnsby : Anything, as long... as it hurts.
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Mike : Urgent answering service.
Ellen Farnsby : I had to speak to someone. I just can't go on. I'm so alone, so terribly alone.
Mike : Alone?
[Another phone rings]
Mike : Uh, hold on a second. Hello? Um, no here's not here right now, can I take a message?
[the person hangs up]
Mike : Well, what do you mean it's none of my business?
[He goes back to the woman on the phone]
Mike : Hello? Now, honey what were you saying?
Ellen Farnsby : I just can't go on. I had to speak to someone. I feel so alone, so completely alone.
Mike : Wait, hold on who's these message for?
Ellen Farnsby : Who's it for? It's for the whole rotten world.
Mike : The whole rotten world?
[a different phone rings]
Mike : Hold on a second. Hello? No, I'm sorry we don't have a telephone.
[He hangs up]
Mike : Hello?
Ellen Farnsby : Where'd you go? Hello?
Mike : Now, what were you saying?
Ellen Farnsby : I just can't go on! I'm going to end it all and don't try to stop me!
Mike : [Other phones are ringing and Mike doesn't know where to talk now] Well, wait! Don't do it, don't do it!
Ellen Farnsby : [Mike gets tangled up with the phone wires] Hello. Hello? Are you there?
[She hangs up]
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Mike : Okay, fine, I got the number of this answering service out of the phone book, and we'll just call 'em up... I mean, you never know how many new things are gonna open up for you when there's somebody always there to answer your phone. You can get jobs... and millions of things... there's always somebody there, morning, noon, and night... 24 hours a day, they're right there on the job and never fail.
Micky : ...well?
Mike : Well, it's... there's no answer.
