Next, a man on horseback rides up to him and says "Pssst" something you say to someone when you want to get their attention. Then an Italian tank enters the scene. An Italian man emerges from the tank and asks Micky if he is American. Micky says yes, and the man surrenders to him. I could never understand why they had to be Italian. I always thought it would be funnier if they were French an old joke, because the French aren't known for their battle skills, they would surrender without a second thought. Then I discovered that Micky is half Italian, so French wouldn't make any sense, and that's why it must be something personal. But if you read the articles and promotions from the sixties for the TV show, Micky usually claims to be American Indian, not Italian.

This is another pretty obvious scene, and was discussed in part I, but here are a few more details. Sex, drugs, and rock & roll, set to "Can You Dig It?" These must have been the benefits they reaped just for being the Monkees. At least part of the time their lives must have seemed like living in a harem. Side note: Micky gets hit in the face with one of the girl's veils.

This scene ends with Micky's hand holding the pipe, fading into the next scene with Terry Garr's bleeding finger at Micky's mouth.

The Western Scene: "More Straw Grasping"

How convenient that this scene is placed so closely to the desert scene; since I believe it is closely related. The only thing that separates them is the harem scene, which begins and ends with Micky. Here he declares he "doesn't want to do this anymore" because it's all fake; nothing is real. Is this scene as straight forward as that, or is there something more here? Micky doesn't see any need to help Miss Garr because she's just acting it isn't real. Yet he leaves her to go over and help Mike with the fake arrows. Why? "Quicksuck on it, before the venom reaches my heart." She says to Micky, referring to her finger. Mike responds "What Heart?" Mike and Terry try to get through the scene even though Micky is being uncooperative.

He always has a decision to make: should he go along with the machine, or should he stick by his friends, and personal morals?

The scene is also somewhat of a satire of a "western film genre", but it really isn't much of a satire; and because of its placement near the desert scene, I think it may be a continuation of that theme. Why else would they choose Indians to be fake? Coincidence? If so, then someone else should have done this scene other than Micky. He certainly had enough scenes to do, why put him in this one too? That's why I think there is something more than just the obvious going on.

There is another ethnic group here; which just happens to be related to Micky like the Italians in the desert scene. Only here they are fighting, not surrendering. The general theme is that everything is fake. So it suggests that Micky's Indian roots are either faked or maybe exaggerated. It's pretty hard to believe that they changed such details to project a certain image.   If all this is true, then it's no wonder that these guys were so pissed off that's an outrage! It's one thing to pretend you're playing instruments as a television band, but quite another if you're asked to change your "real" personal identity for the sake of marketing a TV show! That certainly blurs the line between fantasy and reality which just happens to be the main theme of the entire film.

Micky storms off the set through the backdrop and onto the stage lot, followed by a confused Mike. They walk to find Davy, who is faking the violin on an old fashioned street scene, and take him along with them to the next scene; where they have their first encounter with Lord High n' Low, who talks about making millions through products. The boys walk away from him through the lot to the next scene, where everyone is given an elaborate warning that "they're" coming.

The Café Scene:

Once they arrive at the café, the place clears out fast because they "don't want to be around these stinking kids". The crowd here is older, or hipper not like the audience in the concert scene, so their reaction is very different. They represent the "establishment", the critics, and in general, everyone else who didn't like the Monkees. The waitress is very hostile toward them, telling Davy to "order some talent". But the scene is a bit more straight forward than the previous scenes. Peter is sitting with a melting ice cream cone that he cant bring himself to throw away because of the starving people in china we've all heard that one before.

The other three order nonsense food that they would never eat like typical, wasteful Americans. Only Peter cares about the starving Chinese, but it's such a silly saying meant to make children eat all their veggies. So, it represents a kind of futility at the very mention of the starving Chinese or something similarly futile. To look at this in any real political context though, makes it seem too pretentious because after all we're talking about the Monkees here; and the political realm is a place where these guys have no business being, especially since they all managed to stay out of the war. Which brings me to...

Much of this scene is discussed in Part I, now here are the details. The obvious point to this scene is that petite Davy is trying to be a boxing champ. Unfortunately for him he's only taking punches to his face. This is nothing more than irony. The mystery to this scene is: what is the significance of everyone being the "dummy"? Davy is getting his million-dollar face badly damaged, but refuses to stay down. Micky keeps telling him to stay down and Mike says, "he'd better, the money says so" no mystery there. Then, a very studious looking Micky, (wearing glasses), calls Davy a dummy because he won't stay down; and a very scary Mike yells at Micky that he is the dummy. Micky gets very upset at this and insists he's not the dummy Davy is.

Micky then knocks everyone out with one punch each, and Peter appears in a cloud of mist. He tells Micky that he isn't the dummy because Peter is he's always the dummy.What in the world is that all about?! Everyone becomes the dummy except Mike; apparently no one thinks Mike is stupid. But Micky thinks Davy is, and Mike thinks Micky is, and everyone thinks Peter is though Micky thinks of himself as being quite smart, that's why he's wearing those glasses. I think the glasses are the clue here. Why else would they be so prominent? He even takes them off briefly and puts them back on. Peter doesn't seem to really be with them at all. He is somewhere else, probably in Micky's imagination. If Mike really thinks that Micky isn't very bright, and Micky is upset by that, then he imagines Peter telling him he isn't the dummy, because Peter is (at least on TV) and that makes him feel better.

If this is Micky's dream, then Micky may think Davy is a dummy because Davy doesn't question Hollywood. Davy does what he is told. This is what he tells Annette, and the reason he has to fight. Mike may have never told Micky what he thinks of him, but this could be Micky's perception of what Mike thinks of him; which could be why Mike scares him in the first place. If Micky fancies himself some kind of intellectual, but Mike doesn't agree, then that would be quite upsetting to Micky. But why is this happening in Davy's scene? Is it simply a segue into Peter's scene, or is it because this is Micky's dream, or both?