During the promotional song at the train station, in one shot Micky is seen with the girls pawing at him, but when the camera changes angles, they are gone.
Micky Dolenz had naturally curly hair, but the studio forced him to have it straightened in a time-consuming, painful process. He put up with this for the first season, and thus had straight hair in those early episodes. But after a few episodes of the second season, he could not tolerate it any longer and stopped straightening it, letting his hair go back to its natural curly state. So, his hair was straight for the first season, but curly for most of the second season. However, this film shows his hair curly from start to finish, which is inaccurate.
In the audition scenes in the film, Mike is dropped off by his wife Phyllis at the studio, who leaves with the family car. Mike actually rode his motorcycle to the audition, wearing his soon-to-be-famous wool cap to keep his hair from blowing around.
Whenever The Monkees dressed up in tuxedos,
Davy Jones used to wear a red satin dinner jacket instead of a matching tuxedo jacket.
The scene in the film showing the aircraft landing in Hawaii features a Boeing 747 "Jumbo Jet". These did not enter service until 1970, years after The Monkees' first Hawaii concert.
Headquarters was originally released on the Colgems label, but the copies of the album passed around in the record store scene are clearly Rhino Records re-releases.
Davy Jones had shorter hair in the second season and in the film Head (1968). Nor did he wear his hair long before becoming a Monkee.
The first day of shooting on the first episode of The Monkees (1965) to be shot (though it was eventually broadcast as episode #8), {Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth (#1.8)}, is recreated in the film. However, The Monkees are seen wearing the costumes from a second season episode, {Hillbilly Honeymoon (#2.7)}, during this scene.
Outside a teen record store soon after The Monkees (1965) premiered in the fall of 1966, there is a prominent window display of a Twist record - a dance that had fallen out of popularity at least three years earlier and which no record store pandering to teens would be promoting at that late date.
Polly Shannon as Phyllis Nesmith (wife of Monkee Mike) did not even attempt to do a Texas accent; she actually sounds British.
As unbelievably narrow-minded that statement is, not everyone who lives in Texas has a "Texan" accent, whatever that sound might be thought to sound like to an outsider or overly generalized in popular culture. Nor do all Texans even have a southern accent. Not in the 60s, not in modern times.
As unbelievably narrow-minded that statement is, not everyone who lives in Texas has a "Texan" accent, whatever that sound might be thought to sound like to an outsider or overly generalized in popular culture. Nor do all Texans even have a southern accent. Not in the 60s, not in modern times.