SupahManDude, I think the "sea/see monkeys, do monkeys" is a play on words. In the backs of old comic books (I remember Archie comics in particular), there were ads for sea monkeys as pets -- basically, they were tiny shrimp that a kid wouldn't be able to kill too easily. The ads always anthropomorphized the sea monkeys & portrayed them as a family of suburban husband, wife, & kids -- a just-add-water American dream. Liz's double-edged lyrics spotlight how such ads reveal a desperation to achieve that dream, if only by purchasing an idiotic imitation of a real life.
SupahManDude, I think the "sea/see monkeys, do monkeys" is a play on words. In the backs of old comic books (I remember Archie comics in particular), there were ads for sea monkeys as pets -- basically, they were tiny shrimp that a kid wouldn't be able to kill too easily. The ads always anthropomorphized the sea monkeys & portrayed them as a family of suburban husband, wife, & kids -- a just-add-water American dream. Liz's double-edged lyrics spotlight how such ads reveal a desperation to achieve that dream, if only by purchasing an idiotic imitation of a real life.