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[[WMG: Monk's been [[Main/ObfuscatingStupidity faking it]] since the beginning of Season 2]]
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[[WMG: Randy and Sharona had already begun dating off-screen by "Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend"]]
When Monk and Natalie say they have a secret to tell him, Randy asks if Natalie is in love with him, which strikes her as absurd and out-of-nowhere. However, if he and Monk's previous assistant had already begun dating, it makes more sense. He may also have been trying to figure out if he needed to let Natalie down gently.
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[[WMG: The Judge was originally going to be the ComicBook/{{Cerebus}} character of the same name, but the producers couldn't secure the rights to the character in time.]]
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[[WMG: The Judge was originally going to be the ComicBook/{{Cerebus}} ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' character of the same name, but the producers couldn't secure the rights to the character in time.]]
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[[WMG: [[spoiler: The poison that's killing Monk is in his wipes.]]]]
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** Tony Shalhoub once said, after the show had wrapped, that Monk has since passed on. [[JosSed Big Joss]] in the recent ''Monk'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4W2xmqjvx4 Covid TV special]], however; seems the defective detective is still alive and kicking, and is said to have been way ahead of the curve on his obsessive hand-washing and refusing handshakes.
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** Hell, SherlockHolmes once faked an illness, in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," to get a confession out of a murderer. And some of the ''Monk'' novels suggest that Monk is sometimes able to manipulate things to get a case closed (like telling a moving story about Trudy to incriminate Dylan Swift for two murders in ''Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii'').
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** Hell, SherlockHolmes Literature/SherlockHolmes once faked an illness, in "The Adventure of the Dying Detective," to get a confession out of a murderer. And some of the ''Monk'' novels suggest that Monk is sometimes able to manipulate things to get a case closed (like telling a moving story about Trudy to incriminate Dylan Swift for two murders in ''Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii'').
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[[WMG: The writers hate the fans.]]
No seriously, spoiling the ending 15 minutes into part 1 of the 2 part season finale isn't 'Rewarding people who follow the show'. It's giving them the finger.
* Depends. [[spoiler:If you were paying attention to the "Guest Star" credits, you would've noticed [[NarrowedItDownToTheOneIRecognize Craig T. Nelson and Ed Begley Jr.]] One of the characters played by those two dies shortly therafter, and the other one gets an ostensibly superfluous scene that reveals critical character information. A large amount of GenreBlindness would be required, even if the Judge had used a scrambler.]]
* To be fair, the point of the story wasn't "who" so much as "why" and "how does Monk prove it?" along with "what happens next?"
** Wow, just wow.
No seriously, spoiling the ending 15 minutes into part 1 of the 2 part season finale isn't 'Rewarding people who follow the show'. It's giving them the finger.
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* To be fair, the point of the story wasn't "who" so much as "why" and "how does Monk prove it?" along with "what happens next?"
** Wow, just wow.
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* It's possible. The only thing that gives me pause is that in "Mr. Monk Joins a Cult" Monk wanted to give Natalie a beeper (or rather for Natalie to pay for her own beeper). It's possible that Monk was paying for the assistant's phone and wanted to switch to a beeper because it was cheaper (doubly so if he assumed Natalie would pay for the beeper, unlike the phone, because she could afford it at the lower price). However, it seems like it Natalie already had an assistant's phone that would have been mentioned in this scene. As an alternative to the above theory, Sharona could have had her calls directed to Natalie's phone or had her number transferred to Natalie if a lot of people kept calling her looking for Monk.
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[[WMG: Monk helped Bob Costas out after Trudy's death, before spending three years at home]]
Monk claimed in "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs" that he helped Bob Costas out ten years ago. The episode aired early 2009, suggesting a timing around early 1999. Trudy died in December 1997. Monk spent three years at home after her death. Monk mentioned that he'd told Bob what he wanted to hear because he wanted to "get out of the house" which indicates that helping Bob took place outside of the three year period (since if he'd helped by phone he would have been in his own house). If he went catatonic immediately after Trudy's death then the three years would be 1998, 1999 and 2000 (at least most of it, accounting for possible rounding in the term "three years"). That doesn't reconcile.
The alternative is that the three years didn't start immediately. He was out and about by mid-2002 when the show started. This allows three years to fit in for 1999, 2000 and 2001 with a little bleed in to 2002. So it's possible that there was sufficient time after Trudy's death, before his psychological discharge and locking himself away at home, for Monk to help Bob Costas out. Otherwise, I can't seem to reconcile the timeline. Adding credence to this, Bob seemed to know Monk as he is now (for example, recognising that the game being tied ten to ten would make Monk happy) and not as he used to be (I know that there are a lot of indications that Monk has always had his compulsions but there are also indications that he controlled them better pre-Trudy's death).
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Monk claimed in "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs" that he helped Bob Costas out ten years ago. The episode aired early 2009, suggesting a timing around early 1999. Trudy died in December 1997. Monk spent three years at home after her death. Monk mentioned that he'd told Bob what he wanted to hear because he wanted to "get out of the house" which indicates that helping Bob took place outside of the three year period (since if he'd helped by phone he would have been in his own house). If he went catatonic immediately after Trudy's death then the three years would be 1998, 1999 and 2000 (at least most of it, accounting for possible rounding in the term "three years"). That doesn't reconcile.
The alternative is that the three years didn't start immediately. He was out and about by mid-2002 when the show started. This allows three years to fit in for 1999, 2000 and 2001 with a little bleed in to 2002. So it's possible that there was sufficient time after Trudy's death, before his psychological discharge and locking himself away at home, for Monk to help Bob Costas out. Otherwise, I can't seem to reconcile the timeline. Adding credence to this, Bob seemed to know Monk as he is now (for example, recognising that the game being tied ten to ten would make Monk happy) and not as he used to be (I know that there are a lot of indications that Monk has always had his compulsions but there are also indications that he controlled them better pre-Trudy's death).
Alternatively, of course, one could assume that by about ten years Monk really meant eight years ago (which seems imprecise for Monk but is possible, especially with his fondness for ten being such a round number).
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** San Francisco has an extremely high cost of living, and the most expensive real estate prices in the country. 50 grand doesn't go too far there, especially as a sole wage earner with a teenager on the house.
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[[WMG:Natalie's cell phone was an assistant's phone]]
Part of me suspects that Natalie's cell phone (whenever she's shown using it) was passed down from Sharona, because of both times that Ambrose called. In "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies," he called looking for Adrian, but reached Sharona's cell phone instead of Adrian's apartment. The second time, in "Mr. Monk Goes Home Again," he called expecting to speak to Sharona, and got Natalie instead. If I remember right, I think Natalie told Ambrose to call Sharona for the details of why she left. If he had been calling Sharona's phone, he would have reached her when he called, instead of Natalie. This seems to suggest that Monk may have his apartment phone unlisted in the phone directory, and the phone number for him is actually for a phone registered to him but which his assistants are in possession of.
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He has a FreudianSlip in the episode "Mr. Monk Is Up All Night" when he shows up at a crime scene late at night in his CaptainAmerica pajamas. When the Captain jokes he needs to get back to Gotham City, Randy corrects him, "That's Franchise/{{Batman}}. I live in New York... ''h-he'' does..."
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* It's not an obscure literary reference at all. Robert Browning is on most English curriculums and Stottlemeyer is shown on several occasions to be well versed in literature. I can humour you, but the reference is honestly far from obscure. Just check the adaptions section of the Pippa Passes page on wikipedia.
** having said this, Stottlemeyer nearly always manages to get things done, he's clearly well connected.
** having said this, Stottlemeyer nearly always manages to get things done, he's clearly well connected.
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He is a self-admitted loveabe rogue and con man who makes a living by gaining people's trust and then swindling them. He's a pathological liar and at one point, he tries to con Natalie out of money. Meaning the guy could be an escaped con man who really is named Joe Endicott and the real Jack Monk, Jr. lives elsewhere.
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He is a self-admitted loveabe rogue and con man who makes a living by gaining people's trust and then swindling them. Meaning the guy could be an escaped con man who really is named Joe Endicott and the real Jack Monk, Jr. lives elsewhere.
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He drops their motto, a fairly obscure literary reference, at the end of Mr. Monk and the Miracle.
"God's in his heaven, All's right with the world."
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Wrong Man": "God's in his heaven, All's right with the world.""
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Even earlier, of course, are moments in earlier episodes, like "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man," with Leland being kicked out of the house and forced to room with Monk for a few days when he's failed to watch Karen's documentary on Miles Holling; or, hell, go all the way back to the pilot episode, where Monk tells Stottlemeyer that he's aware of his marital problems because, "You missed a spot shaving. Karen would have caught that. And your necktie – she always ties it for you. She uses that double slipknot. Conclusion – you dressed yourself. And, uh, the Ramada Inn cup. Send her some…roses maybe."
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Even earlier, of course, are moments in earlier episodes, like the other episodes Karen appears in.
*In her first appearance, in "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man,"with Leland being gets kicked out of the house and is forced to room with Monk for a few days when he's failed to watch Karen's documentary on Miles Holling; or, hell, go Holling.
*In "Mr. Monk Gets Fired," Leland initially is receptive to letting Karen film fly-on-the-wall footage of himself and his detectives at work, but he eventually comes to regret it and admits privately to Karen he only agreed because she relentlessly pestered him into doing it, especially since he's overwhelmed with investigating Paul Harley's murder of Larysa Zeryeva, Monk being suspended, and the commissioner harassing Leland to expedite the Harley investigation.
Go all the way back to the pilot episode, where Monk tells Stottlemeyer that he's aware of his marital problems because, "You missed a spot shaving. Karen would have caught that. And your necktie – she always ties it for you. She uses that double slipknot. Conclusion – you dressed yourself. And, uh, the Ramada Inn cup. Send her some…roses maybe."
*In her first appearance, in "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man,"
*In "Mr. Monk Gets Fired," Leland initially is receptive to letting Karen film fly-on-the-wall footage of himself and his detectives at work, but he eventually comes to regret it and admits privately to Karen he only agreed because she relentlessly pestered him into doing it, especially since he's overwhelmed with investigating Paul Harley's murder of Larysa Zeryeva, Monk being suspended, and the commissioner harassing Leland to expedite the Harley investigation.
Go all the way back to the pilot episode, where Monk tells Stottlemeyer that he's aware of his marital problems because, "You missed a spot shaving. Karen would have caught that. And your necktie – she always ties it for you. She uses that double slipknot. Conclusion – you dressed yourself. And, uh, the Ramada Inn cup. Send her some…roses maybe."
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Even earlier, of course, are moments in earlier episodes, like "Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man," with Leland being kicked out of the house and forced to room with Monk for a few days when he's failed to watch Karen's documentary on Miles Holling; or, hell, go all the way back to the pilot episode, where Monk tells Stottlemeyer that he's aware of his marital problems because, "You missed a spot shaving. Karen would have caught that. And your necktie – she always ties it for you. She uses that double slipknot. Conclusion – you dressed yourself. And, uh, the Ramada Inn cup. Send her some…roses maybe."
