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The Monkees, Vol. 10 - The Spy Who Came in from the Cool / Card-Carrying Red Shoes [VHS]

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Honestly, I wish the episode titles were on here. Since I own this one, I can tell you it has two episodes, one from the first season "The Spy Who Came in From the Cool" and one from the second "Card-Carrying Red Shoes" both deal with foreign spies and feature Peter getting the girl as opposed to Davy. Good stuff.

I like the first episode, "The Spy Who Came In From the Cool." It was really funny when the guys imagine themselves as spy agents and scientists. But, I really dislike the second episode, "Card-carrying Red Shoes," or whatever the title is. Why? Well, Micky is usually funny in the show, but he is not funny in this episode. Also, his curly hair gets in the way. I liked it better straight. Okay. That's it. So if you want to laugh, watch the first episode, and then if you want to get quite annoyed, watch the second one too. Thank you.

IN the first episode on this tape in the first projector scene, when the Davy clip appears, He sings "Swanee River" and dances in the street and he gets everyone to sing along with him, WARNING:Please don't try this in real life or YOU MAY BE SENT TO A MENTAL HOSPITAL! Another Part I Like is when Davy sees a Genie, and HE says "Imagine that, wrong show." In "Card-Carrying Red Shoes" the episode is funny, but I like the "She Hangs Out" at the end and he dances and wears the same clothes in like in the "Daydream Believer" Video, and this is the only time Mike is in the Episode.

The slapstick, asides and plot non-sequiturs that were the fundamental traits of the "Monkees" episodes were and remain funny. When first viewed they were amusing in the context of the sixties, yet now they are more in the area of groaners. The plots were generally silly; the acting generally awful, yet there was a point to it all. Music videos were born in this show, while most of their music is lost to time, there is no better nostalgia song than "I'm A Believer." No heterosexual male can hear this song without being taken back in time to when he experienced his first crush.
The two episodes on this tape are "The Spy Who Came In From the Cool" and "Card-Carrying Red Shoes." Both use the plot device of international spies, although none of them is portrayed as being competent in any way. There are absurd costumes, ridiculous chase scenes, slapstick events and a scantily clad female that is very talented. She is capable of carrying out a sword fight while carefully maintaining control of the bath towel that covers her potentially censored regions.
One of the things that we used to look for and laugh over was the unicycles that the members of the group rode. If you look very closely you can see the training wheels that help them stay upright. The only point of this show was to entertain, and it did that very well.

These were good episodes and they were funny too, you should buy them now. They were about forein spies and both about microfilm.

Very good,especially the part with Micky's talk about guns,& Peter saying it can't be Davy every week,as the other episodes have it being.