01x22 - Monkees at the Circus

[bunniefuu]

Hey, I haven't been to a
circus since I was a kid, man.

I love a circus! Wonder
what time the show goes on?

Well, I guess that's that.

Well, why don't we just snick
inside and take a look?

What are you, snick?
It's not snick.

- Huh?
- It's sneak!

Yeah, I sneak,
and you sneak, and we sneak.

Oh, good, then we
can all get in. Ha!

Oh, Peter!

Hey, man.

Hey, hey, wait.
Someone might come in.

? It's great, it's terrific ?

? It's the best show on Earth ?

Get your own pins to juggle with.

There's only two.

Juggle with your-

I don't wanna juggle.

Hey, come on, let's go.
Mike, let's go.

Reminds me of when I was a boy.

You know, fellas, I really like the circus.
It gives you a feeling of joy.

It gives you the feeling that
everyone likes one another.

Ahh!

You should not be here.

But we were just-

Ahh!

Hey, listen here!

Ah!

You have no business being here.
You're trespassing.

If you're still here when I return,
I shall call the police.

You do, and I'll be sorry!

Mike! Mike! Mike!

That guy was throwing knives at me;

he could have k*lled me!
Why didn't you do something?

Well, I didn't wanna antagonize him.

Here we come
Walkin' down the street

We get the funniest looks from
Ev'ry one we meet

Hey, hey, we're the Monkees
And people say we monkey around

But we're too busy singing
To put anybody down

We're just tryin' to be friendly
Come and watch us sing and play

We're the young generation
And we've got something to say

Hey, hey, we're the Monkees
You never know where we'll be found

So you better get ready,

We may be comin' to your town

Listen! Listen to me!
We are not paid.

The equipment is old.
The crowds no longer come. I say we leave.

It's because of those rock and roll groups;
the discotheques are doing this to us.

I tell you, the circus is dead,
and we should all leave the corpse.

But, Victor-

We must reach a decision now.

Yeah!

What's wrong? Is there
anything I can do?

What's wrong? My father will lose
the circus if the performers leave.

Why would they have to leave?

The crowds won't come anymore.

We haven't been able to
pay anyone for months.

We can't even afford to
feed our animals anymore.

Look, don't worry. I promise
you everything will be alright.

If it isn't, you can personally
feed me to the lions.

If you all just wanna stand
around here and starve,

that's your business,
but I'm not going to stay.

Oh, I wish I could do something.

Wait! Wait! I know you have a
problem, but you can't give up now.

Get down from here.
You don't know a thing.

- Everybody, listen!
- He has a point!

Listen, let me ask you a question.
How long have you been with the circus?

Over twenty years.

And have things always been good?

Well, no, but that doesn't-

Of course not! 'Cause that's
the way the circus is.

And what did your father do?

He was a performer in the circus,
the same as me.

And your grandfather?

Him too.

The circus is a tradition, and it's
a tradition to the children also.

The kids'll come back to the circus;
all you have to do is be here when they do.

But the important thing
is you must have hope.

You can't give up, and soon the
crowds will come back to the circus.

He knows what he's talking
about! Yeah, right!

He knows what he's talking about!
He knows what's happening! Yeah, right!

? It's great, it's terrific
It's the best show on Earth ?

? The circus will- ?

- Oh, hey look. Oh, wow.
- An old TV series.

We can't thank you enough
for what you did.

Oh, it was nothing.

No more than any other poor,
lovesick fool would have done.

Thank you, Davy. Maybe the
crowds will come tomorrow,

and then everything'll be alright.

Hey, what's with the maniac
knife thrower and the-

Victor?
He gets these sullen periods.

Oh. What do they last, two or
three years? A ha ha. Ha ha.

Things haven't been going
well for my father's circus,

and Victor's our star performer.

He's upset because the crowd would rather
watch the rock and rollers than him.

- Oh, that's terrible.
- That's scandalous.

By the way, what do you do?

We're brain surgeons.

Uh, well, except in the summertime,
I'm a cotton picker.

You know, it's a carryover of skills.
I pick a lot of cotton-

Say a few words to the folks.

Hello, this is Mike Nesmith with
the farm report. How are you?

Pigs is up twelve, hogs is down five,
and cows is fine like they are.

Well, I guess you can't be all bad or else
you'd be out fruging in a discotheque.

That's right!
Ah ha ha! Terrible.

- Do you like the circus?
- Oh, it's really great!

- We love it. Great.
- This is a gas! Hold it. Great.

Excuse me; I'll be right back.

I wonder where she's going.

Mm, probably to feed Victor
to the lions. I hope.

Ladies and gentlemen,
your attention, please.

Presenting for your entertainment,
the world's greatest lion tamer,

Clyde Greedy. Known to
his lions as Lefty.

Thank you, thank you.
For Tumba's first trick,

he will first jump through the
flaming hoop and then roll

over and lie down before
your startled eyes.

- Roar!
- Shut up and do the trick.

- What trick?
- The amazing Tumba,

- the man-eating-
- What trick?

The trick I just told you!

Oh, man, let me write it down.

- Oh, you stupid lion!
- I'm-stupid? I'm not a stupid-

I've worked for you
for twenty-five years-

You're just-no, give me the whip.

You're not supposed to
have the whip and the hoop.

And you are gonna jump
through the hoop, man. No.

I'm gonna whip-no, me? Rah, rah! Rah, rah!
I'm not supposed to jump through the-

You stupid man.

Ladies and gentlemen, the most
death-defying act of our time,

the Great Zambini, will hang by
his teeth from a trapeze without a net!

Ladies and gentlemen:
the Great Zambini!

Thank you!

Boy, there's nothing like a circus.

If I had it to do all over again,
I'd like to-

Hey, we better look this place over;

it doesn't look like
it's gonna be here too long.

Yeah, you're right.

You're right.

? It's great, it's terrific ?
? It's the best- ?

What is that?

It's the theme song for
an old TV series.

I know it from somewhere.

Everyone has signed this petition.

Either we get our back pay,
or we leave at once.

Victor, if-if you'd just give
my father some more time-

Boy, you really know how to
pick the emotional types.

Please, Victor. And-these people really
don't want to go; this is their life.

There is no more time. This circus
is at the bottom of the junk heap.

But we'll soon be back on top.

Who would come to a
little circus like this?

And what will you pay the performers
with? Why would they come?

Hello. We have come to save
the circus from distress.

Who are these people?

Who are we? Would you ask,
"Who are these people?"

to the Budapest String Quartet?

I still say who are you?

We are the Budapest String Quartet.

We are the Mozzarella Brothers,
aerialists supreme.

This is Amazing, Incredible-

This is Amazing, Incredible,
and Colossus. Colossal.

And Stupendous.

And Stupendous.

We are the toast of Paris.

You're amazing.

No. He's Amazing; I'm Incredible.

We have heard of your difficulty,
and we have come from France to,

in the great tradition of the circus-oh,

how do you Americans say
it-help a lending hand.

You've come all the way from France?

It was on the way.

We were headed for Belgium.

Overnight, the Mozzarella Brothers shall
raise you from obscurity to oblivion.

What exactly is it that you do?

Oh h* h* h*. That is rich,
what do we do? Ha ha ha.

We cross a tight wire at five
hundred feet above the ground. A ha.

Do you use a net?

No, just a little spray.

We use no net. We cross
the wire up there as

a human pyramid built
upon one of our shoulders.

Oh, it's foolish, I know,
but we're a game lot. Ha.

Amazing.

No.

No. Colossal, 'cause Amazing couldn't
take the weight; it's heavy.

We cross the wire on
a bicycle with the

top man carrying a tray
full of twenty glasses.

Of course, we no longer perform the act.

No more nerve, hm?

No more glasses.

If the Mozzarella Brothers are
going to perform, that, uh,

that puts a different complexion
on things. This is marvelous.

This is the real spirit of the
circus. I must tell the others.

Honey, I knew something
wonderful would happen.

The circus never dies.

I must phone the newspaper, and by tomorrow,
the crowds will be back.

Pop! Pop! Do you realize
what you just did?

Yeah, we saved the show.

You'll have a crowd
tomorrow and everything.

There you go, Susan.
I told you everything'd be alright.

We're gonna show them how we used
to do it in the old country. Bye.

Oh no! What's going to
happen tomorrow if

the crowds come and there
are no Mozzarella Brothers?

Oh, hey. Did you hear that the
Mozzarella Brothers are coming?

Wh-what is that supposed to mean?

We'll eat again!

Oh, I can't swallow that, man.

Oh, sure, look here.

Oh! The Mozzarella Br-

Aren't we lucky? The circus is saved;
the Mozzarella brothers are coming!

Hey, the Mozzarellas are coming.

I know.

Would you mind holding this?

Oh, of course not.

I've got to get ready.
I have so many things to do.

You know the Mozzarella
boys are coming?

No, really? That's wonderful!

That's marvelous.

Hey, Mike! Mike, the circus is saved;
the Mozzarella Brothers are coming.

Yeah, but-the Mozzarella
Brothers are us.

- Us?
- Yeah.

U-S? Us?

Oh, Peter; you're amazing.

Does that mean I have
to carry the glasses?

Peter? Peter?

Hold the glasses.

Peter, look out!

Ahh!

- Careful, Davy.
- Watch out! Easy!

Easy! Come on.
One foot before the other.

One at a time. Relax, Davy.

Take it easy, Davy.
Look out! Look out!

- Oh! Ah! Mike!
- Careful, Pete. Careful.

Mike, easy, st-steady.

Mike, easy, careful. Mike. Together now.
Careful, easy, watch-watch out. Steady!

Wh-what's that?

I don't believe that.
Go back, go back. Go back?

He says go back.

Go back! Go back! Go! Go back!

What are you going to do? Tonight's a
sellout; the whole town'll be here.

Well, for our first act,
we could get out of town. A ha ha.

A joke, a little joke. Get it? Huh.
A little joke, about that big.

Maybe you should just tell the truth.

You know, Susan's right; I think we
ought to tell the truth, at least to her.

I think you should know that
we're rock and roll singers.

Rock and rollers.
That's all I want to hear.

Oh, good, then we can play for you!

Everyone! Come in here.

This is important.
Come, come, come.

I have an announcement to make.
These boys are not trapeze artists.

They've never even been on a trapeze.

How dare you call
yourselves trapeze artists.

They're frauds! They're
not even circus people.

They're rock and roll singers.

Now, you can all stay if you
want to, but not Victor.

We better, we better go.

Uh, yeah. Heh heh. Bye.

Well, let's go home and
pack. Makes no sense.

No pay, no food.
I'm hungry.

Hey fellas! Hey, hey wait, listen.

We can't leave her like that;
she's still crying.

Well, man, we've done everything we can;
there's just nothing else left to do.

We could cheer her up.

Yeah.

Sometime in the morning

A simple thought may occur to you

And you hold her,

And tell her all the
things you never told her

Your love has shown me things

I never thought
I could see

I didn't know
[I didn't know]

It could be done so
easily now I know

[now I know]

You're where it is for me

Sometime in the evening

You're sitting there by the fireside

And she'll touch you

And you'll realize how much

you never knew before,

How much you couldn't see

You didn't know
[you didn't know]

It could be done so
easily now you know

[now I know]

She's all a girl could be

Now in her childlike eyes

You see the beauty there

You know it was always there

And you need no
longer wear a disguise

Sometime in the morning

You'll just reach out
and she will be there,

Close as the summer air

Sometime in the morning
[she will be there]

she will be there

Sometime in the morning
[she will be there]

she will be there

Hey, they're not too bad, huh?

No. You know, they are like-I
think they are show folks.

You know, let's do a show.

Huh?

Yeah. You know, you folks, you-you
look like real show folks to me.

Yeah, let's all do a show!

Ladies and gentlemen, Pop Arcady
presents the biggest little show on Earth.

For your approval, the peregrinating,

peripatetic Grand Duke Pooch
DeBlauner with his traveling harem.

And, in the center of the ring,
the Amazin' Fraison's celebrated pachyderms.

And now, ladies and gentlemen,
the spectacular highlight of our show:

the thirty foot knife
throw at a living target.

But first, our living target.

And now, ladies and gentlemen,
the incomparabl

master of cutlery casting,
the Invincible Victor!

In a moment, ladies and gentlemen,
the Invincible Victor!

Victor! Victor! Pop just
announced you! You're on!

I shall not perform.

What?

In a moment, ladies and gentlemen,
the Invincible Victor.

Davy, what are you doing?

Just trust me, Pop; I think I've got a
way of getting Victor into the ring.

Oh?

It's okay. Don't worry.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

May I introduce myself.
I am the Invincible Victor.

Who are they applauding?

My first feat will illustrate
the perfect control,

which results from years of discipline.

And now, ladies and gentlemen,
the thirty foot knife throw.

I will split the apple in half that's

sitting on my beautiful
young assistant's head.

Heh heh. Don't worry, folks;
I've got plenty more knives.

Wait!

Don't throw it.
I'll perform.

And now, ladies and gentlemen,
it gives me great privilege

to present to you the one
and only, the Great Victor!

You boys did a fine job.

There ya go, Pop. Everyone loves the circus.
It's just been so long since they saw one.

They didn't forget, huh huh. They
didn't even miss the Mozzarella Brothers.

I know, Davy. And we're happy
again because we can make them happy.

You-you better get ready
to go on with your act.

Huh?

Act, what act?
We're not aerialists!

Alright then, do the
thing you do best.

Oh h*!

Really?

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a
great treat for you here this evening.

A group of young men
without whose help we

might not be here, and here
they are: The Monkees.

She told me that she loved me,

And like a fool I believed
her from the start

She

She said she'd never hurt me,

But then she turned
around and broke my heart

Why am I standing here

Missing her and wishing
she were here?

She only did me wrong

I'm better off alone

She

she devoured all my sweet love,

Took all I had and
then she fed me dirt

She

she laughed while I was crying

It was such a joke
to see the way it hurt

Why am I standing here

Missing her and wishing
she were here?

She only did me wrong

I'm better off alone

And now I know just why she,
Keeps me hanging 'round,

She needs someone to walk on

So her feet don't
touch the ground

But I love her, love her.
I need her, need her

I want her [want her]
Yeah [yeah] yeah [yeah]

She

Why am I standing here

Missing her and wishing
she were here?

She only did me wrong

I'm better off alone

[She]
why am I missing her?

[She]
I should be kissing her

Oh, I was, I was just thanking
him for, uh, saving our circus.

You know, we have
another sellout tonight.

I wanna give you this to remember us by.
Thank you, Davy.

Oh, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Uh, can you thank me some more now?

Hi, Willy. Uh, Mike, I wanna
give you this as a token

of my appreciation for
what you have done for us.

Yeah, well, I-I appreciate it,
but, you know,

it won't cut bread, and
I couldn't swallow it, so-

Well, you could learn to swallow it.
It's really not difficult.

No, not me, I-

Look here, look. You can do it.
Just like that.

Ew. Wha-what's wrong?
It's-it's st-st-stuck.

Peter, after seeing you
handle this with great ease,

I want you to have it
to remember us by.

Oh, thank you.

Well, yesterday-that's amazing.

No, no. I'm Fantastic;
that's Amazing.

You know, if the discotheques
ever go out of business,

you can open up your own act.

Oh.

Uh.

Excuse me.

I was just thanking him for
sa-for saving our circus.

You know, it's another
sellout tonight?