"Monkees Get Out More Dirt"

I watched "Monkees Get Out More Dirt" last night and noticed a trivial detail.  The music that Peter plays (accompanied by some string players) in order to impress April seems to be based on the adagio from Bach's Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052.

"Monkees Get Out More Dirt"

When I watched "Monkees Get Out More Dirt" this morning, I noticed some literary allusions (which aren't pointed out in the DVD trivia).

At the end, after April announces her engagement to Freddy Fox III, Davy says, "April is the cruelest month."  This is the first line of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land."  Then Mike says, "Well, I guess it just goes to prove what Shakespeare said: 'To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the-" at which point he's interrupted by Micky.  Specifically, this is from Shakespeare's Hamlet.  Polonius says to Laertes "This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man" (I.iii.82-84).

"Monkees Get Out More Dirt"

According to Andrew Sandoval's The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story of the 60s TV Pop Sensation, "Monkees Get Out More Dirt" - the twenty-ninth episode of The Monkees series - was broadcast fifty years ago to-day (3 April 1967).  It was written by Gerald Gardner and Dee Caruso, directed by Gerald Shepard, and featured the song "The Girl I Knew Somewhere."  Sandoval describes the plot as: "A soap opera develops when Mike, Micky, Davy, and Peter all fall for the same woman, a luscious laundromat owner (played by Julie Newmar)."