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The Scarecrow is a former gangster who wants his former gang to help him stop some guy from blackmailing him.
Barbi Benton wants to be a movie star.

Roarke: Shirley Russell, the star of two new, very high-class European pictures–The Scarlet Whip and Two Women in Bondage.

Roarke: If we are going to fulfill Miss Russell’s fantasy, we have to convince certain people that she is an actress on the rise.

She’s no Davy Jones.

Roarke: She believes they have come to Fantasy Island for her honeymoon, but in actuality, it is Mr. Randolph’s fantasy we are charged with fulfilling.

Didn’t that exact thing happen last episode too?

Roarke: My dear guests, I am Mr. Roarke, your host.

He said this with a different inflection, and it was weird.

Tattoo: Nobody like a fat movie star.

So the old guy’s old gang shows up, and I realized “Monkees a la Carte” was pretty progressive by including Big Flora as one of the gangsters.

If they had reversed the genders for this episode, and had a guy who wanted to be a movie star and a girl who wanted to be a gangster, then I would have been interested in both stories.

I wonder why they switched from the tiki restaurant to the outdoor bar? I like the outdoor bar better though, since the restaurant always seems so dark.

So if she was up ’til 2am partying the night before, I’m assuming that was Saturday into Sunday night, because her fantasy was already in progress earlier that day. So they’ve only got Sunday to film this entire movie, and if they’re filming this scene of them falling in the water 11 times, then I think this film is only gonna have one scene, because after every shot, they need to redo her hair and dry her clothes and fix the railing.

Winnie McLaine: Come on, Spence. Give me a piece of the action.

Woo, the old lady’s getting involved in the caper! That’s actually fun.

So now the studio exec wants her to do a nude scene, and her fiance is upset about it. Well, that certainly doesn’t sound like any other episode we’ve had before (well, after).