# Okay girls, who was your favorite Monkee? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722 "2012-03-04T14:01:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/21 "2012-03-04T20:15:37Z")
Mickey. He had a devilish glint to his eyes that I even picked up on as a kid. He could’ve gotten me in trouble, for sure! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2012, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/22 "2012-03-04T23:53:00Z")
> [@Ms\_Boods](#): > > Also when I got a bit older (early teens) I had the chance to play/play with Mike’s [big ol’ white Gretsch](http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRvwlgfBOcO7CssqC2cAgni90UNcVcGXWM_h0ZL-uv2nGQWMxaNLeGe2D5RUg), so that was pretty neat, too 🙂 Wow, that sounds cool. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/23 "2012-03-05T01:44:19Z")
I love them all for equal ways. But I picked Nesmith. Woolhat for the win! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/24 "2012-03-05T02:26:26Z")
Peter. He was so sweet and mis-understood! (Didn’t you see _Head_??) ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/25 "2012-03-05T03:34:01Z")
> [@Quercus\_alba](#): > > Mrs. Quercus sadly remarked that she “was not allowed” to crush on Davy, and had to settle for Peter because of the pecking order among her sisters at the time. ☹ > > I had no idea … such cruelty! In the same sort of pecking order I got Micky for my very own. Davy was so cute, with his cute accent, but I don’t remember who wound up with Davy, who was pretty much everyone’s first choice. Well, at first anyway. As time went on and we had more than looks to go on, our choices became more varied. I still loved Micky, and that hasn’t changed to this day. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/26 "2012-03-05T15:37:13Z")
My order was 1. Mike 2. Davy 3. Peter 4. Micky Davy was my first choice at first, but once I had watched a couple shows he quickly slipped into second place. Really, a tie for second place with Peter. Cute will always get me in the beginning but smart always wins the day. Except…I did worry about him wearing that hat all the time. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/27 "2012-03-05T15:52:17Z")
Mike all the way. My best friend loved Micky. It was easy to find someone to be Davy when we played Monkees, but nobody ever wanted to be Peter. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/28 "2012-03-05T16:05:41Z")
Mike! Years before I would ever kiss a boy, I saw an episode where a woman kisses each Monkee (I think there was a “who’s the better kisser” thing going on): it made me want to kiss Mike, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/29 "2012-03-05T17:52:21Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > I also watched them on TV as a kid. > > 1. Peter Tork was just boyish enough for me to identify with. > 2. Mike. He seemed smart and almost rational. In the middle of all that crazy, it was good to stick with the guy who knew what was going on. > 3.Mickey. Fun guy. Sort of the anti-Mike, though. The guy to be with if you wanted to join in the weirdness up to your neck. > 4.Davey. Very cute. There to be The Cute One. Which he was. > > I liked them all but in that order. This was basically me, except I flipped around between Mike and Mickey at #2. It seems I had a thing for the cute-but-geeky ones from a very young age… ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/30 "2012-03-05T19:20:51Z")
Okay, I haven’t seen this show since I was a little girl, but I remember loving Peter and Mickey about equally. It sounds like as an adult I’d go for Mike, though. Are the episodes online anywhere? ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/31 "2012-03-05T23:42:20Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Mike! > > Years before I would ever kiss a boy, I saw an episode where a woman kisses each Monkee (I think there was a “who’s the better kisser” thing going on): it made me want to kiss Mike, too. 🙂 There’s an episode where all four boys are in love with the same girl–April Conquest, played by the statuesque Julie Newmar (Standing next to Davy, she looked like she could tuck him under one arm and carry him off without any effort). Anyway, all the boys are trying to court her in their different ways. Mike rides up on a motorcycle wearing a leather jacket, and she gets on the bike behind him. I remember seeing that as a young girl; the way she reached around him from behind to run her hands up his chest made me think that that might be nice thing to do. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/32 "2012-03-05T23:45:05Z")
Micky, I only found cute when he let his hair grow out curly and wore that tablecloth as a poncho. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/33 "2012-03-05T23:45:57Z")
Not a girl, but I answered the poll for the fiancee: Davy. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/34 "2012-03-05T23:55:57Z")
Davy. Between the accent, the looks, and the shortness, he made my heart go all pitter-pat. I’m still a sucker for a UK accent of any kind. Davy could have been the ugliest and tallest and he would have been my favorite, just for that accent. Yeah, I prefer the shorter guys. Bite me. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722/35 "2012-03-08T05:31:22Z")
Peter all the way. In the late sixties I had a pink tee-shirt that featured a cute photo of Peter Tork with his floppy spaniel hair. On the back, the tee-shirt said I LOVE PETER. Sometimes I would hear people laughing behind me, and only in later years did I realize that there was a double-entendre situation going on back there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-girls-who-was-your-favorite-monkee/614722.md?page=1)