"Monkees Race Again"

I watched "Monkees Race Again" a couple days ago and noticed something that's almost included in this section of the episode trivia on the DVD:  "When Micky attempts to switch on The Klutzmobile's engine, music eminates [sic] from it.  A couple of cues from that music previously appeared in Episode No. 14, 'Dance, Monkee, Dance,' in the scene where David applies for a job as a dance instructor for Renaldo's Dance Au Go-Go."  The last of these musical cues (which is not included in "Dance, Monkees, Dance") is a tune composed by Haydn and later used for the German national anthem.

"Goin' Down"

I watched "Monstrous Monkee Mash" yester-day and noticed a small feature in "Goin' Down."  In the line "Don't want no more" near the end of the third verse (the one starting with "I wish I had another drink..."), the "more" is sung with a melisma (E G), so while it's negated, there's a sense of that abundance.

"I Was a 99lb. Weaking"

Recently, I started re-watching season two of The Monkees for research for a future post.  This morning, I watched "I Was a 99lb. Weakling."  When he's trying to convince Micky to sign up for his fitness class, Shah-Ku says, "It is truly written that the coward dies a thousand deaths; the brave man only five hundred or so."  This joke also appears in The Music Man (1962).  Professor Hill tells Marian Paroo, "A coward dies a thousand deaths; a brave man only five hundred."  Apparently, both of these jokes refer to lines from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:  "Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once" (II.ii.32-33).