Growing up, there were somethings that we held to be truths purely because we were naive fans and obsessed with anything having to do with the Monkees. Around 10 years later, we realize that some of these things that we believed were probably not true, and we thought that we'd save any of you young fans out there all the time of being dumb and just tell you the truth now.

WE BELIEVED: The Monkees were an incredible live band!
WE LEARNED: They kind of sucked. I mean, you can't really blame them for sucking because they were, fundamentally, a made up band that had to learn to play for a tour. Except Mike and Peter, none of them were musicians. So basically, I guess we're saying that Micky and Davy ruined them live.

WE BELIEVED: Head is a great movie and oh so much fun!
WE LEARNED: Head doesn't really make sense and it was kind of the kiss of death for the Monkees, so for that reason alone it sucks. But I guess that was the intent of the group.

WE BELIEVED: Don Kirshner is the devil.
WE LEARNED: Dude was just doing his job. The Monkees were created as a band for a TV show. At the beginning, they weren't meant to be a band any more than the Bradys were meant to be a real family. Kirshner was brought in as the music supervisor, and he did a damn good job at it. I guess the point where it went wrong was when the guys showed some aptitude in making music, and he totally rejected them, but basically, Kirshner wasn't that evil.

WE BELIEVED: MIJACOGEO (The Frodis Caper) is the best episode because Micky directed it.
WE LEARNED: MIJACOGEO sucks balls. Why didn't they just call it "Four Potheads Run Around and Chase Imaginary People and Things"?

WE BELIEVED: Peter was so cute playing the dummy! And he did it so well!
WE LEARNED: HE'S A TERRIBLE ACTOR. And the whole "dummy" character thing is a LOAD OF SHIT because in Boy Meets World and 7th Heaven he has the same effing attitude, diction, delivery, etc. That's just how he acts. And it's bad. SO YEAH.