The Monkees (TV Series)

Monkees on the Line (1967)

Susan Browning: Ellen Farnsby

Quotes 

• Mike : Promise me one thing.

  Ellen Farnsby : Anything, as long... as it hurts.

• Mike : Urgent answering service.

  Ellen Farnsby : I had to speak to someone. I just can't go on. I'm so alone, so terribly alone.

  Mike : Alone?

  [Another phone rings] 

  Mike : Uh, hold on a second. Hello? Um, no here's not here right now, can I take a message?

  [the person hangs up] 

  Mike : Well, what do you mean it's none of my business?

  [He goes back to the woman on the phone] 

  Mike : Hello? Now, honey what were you saying?

  Ellen Farnsby : I just can't go on. I had to speak to someone. I feel so alone, so completely alone.

  Mike : Wait, hold on who's these message for?

  Ellen Farnsby : Who's it for? It's for the whole rotten world.

  Mike : The whole rotten world?

  [a different phone rings] 

  Mike : Hold on a second. Hello? No, I'm sorry we don't have a telephone.

  [He hangs up] 

  Mike : Hello?

  Ellen Farnsby : Where'd you go? Hello?

  Mike : Now, what were you saying?

  Ellen Farnsby : I just can't go on! I'm going to end it all and don't try to stop me!

  Mike : [Other phones are ringing and Mike doesn't know where to talk now]  Well, wait! Don't do it, don't do it!

  Ellen Farnsby : [Mike gets tangled up with the phone wires]  Hello. Hello? Are you there?

  [She hangs up]