The Monkees (1965–1968)

Peter Tork: Peter, Alexei

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Quotes 

• Peter : Cross at the green, not in between!

  Davy : He's been out in the sun too long.

  Micky : He was no bargain in the shade.

• Davy : What's in the morning paper, Peter?

  Peter : Oh, "Li'l Abner," "Peanuts"... Oh, say, this is funny!

  [laughs] 

  Peter : This big guy hits the little guy with a club, and the little guy hits the big guy in the jaw!

  [laughs some more] 

  Davy : What comic strip is that?

  Peter : What comic strip? This is the editorial page.

• Peter : Oh no, footprints! Someone else is on this island!

  Micky : Oh, don't worry, those are ours, we don't have a larger set so we had to use the same one twice.

• Mike : Welcome to Swineville, Peter, a happy, sleepy little hillbilly town where seemingly innocent, nice, naive people turn just like that

  [snaps fingers] 

  Mike : to a vengeful, hateful mob!

  Peter : How do you know that?

  Mike : Because these are my people.

• Peter : Hey, look, guys! All the comforts of home!

  Mike : Yeah, YOUR home, shotgun, not MINE.

• Mike : Ooh! So, uh... That's, uh... That's what

  [bleeped] 

  Mike : is all about.

  Davy : Yeah.

  [bleeped] 

  Davy : It's pretty scary.

  Micky : You know what's even more scary?

  Peter : What?

  Micky : You can't say

  [bleeped] 

  Micky : on television.

• Peter : [as the rigged blimp carrying the muscle man floats away]  Well, there he goes.

  Davy : Yeah, where's that, uh, der-uh... der-uh... blimp headed for?

  Peter : [almost comically]  Bayonne, New Jersey.

  Davy : Bayon-Bayonne, New Jer-? You know, I used to have a girlfriend in Bayonne, New Jersey.

  Peter : Anything like the Secaucus girls?

  Davy : [nonchalantly]  No, I don't know, her name was Mary Ann.