History Awesome / Monk

* In the conclusion to "Mr. Monk is on the Run", Monk confronts [[spoiler: Dale the Whale, who again proves to be the mastermind behind Monk's woes. Dale attempts to HannibalLecture Monk, yelling that even though he (Dale) is in jail, Monk will forever be a prisoner of his own hang-ups and defects. Monk responds by simply [[ShutUpHannibal walking away]], leaving Dale sputtering impotently in the background.]]

* Sharona giving a piece of her mind to a kid who threw a chalk duster at Adrian:

--> '''Adrian Monk''': It wasn't much of a fight.

* In the TieInNovel series, there's ''Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu'', where Monk and Natalie are put in charge of the homicide division of the SFPD by the mayor. The mentally-impaired detectives he has all get some awesome moments, but especially Jack Wyatt, when he does a ShootTheHostage ploy on a serial killer captured in a SWAT raid.

* He also gets a couple of good moments when up against a shock jock. The episode deals with the insecurities Monk feels about his general lack of humour compared to the apparently hilarious DJ. He goes on the DJ's show and the DJ makes jokes about Trudy's death, prompting Monk to leap over the table and attack him. Then, at the end of the episode, when [[spoiler:Monk's finally figured out how the DJ killed his wife and got him placed under arrest,]] he solemnly tells him "you're not laughing... now... are you?" Hudson says "No. I'm not" and Monk replies "Join the club".

-->''[Monk leans in towards Dale, just inches out of reach; Dale eventually gives up in frustration]''

* In the TieInNovel ''Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop'', Natalie unflinchingly training a suspect's gun on him.

* Snoop Dogg rapping TheSummation song "Set Up".

-->'''Sharona''': What's he doing?
-->'''Monk''': ''[Highly amused]'' I think he's trying to kill me.

--> '''Monk''': It wasn't much of a fight.

** Plus, he stands his ground with several lasers pointed at him, which had earlier caused him to completely flip out.

-->'''Monk:''' This is me turning off your morphine. [waits a few seconds] This is Trudy, the woman you killed, turning it back on.
* Monk studying the mummified body of a prehistoric man for a few seconds before saying "I think I know what happened."

* Natalie's [[EstablishingCharacterMoment]] is her [[ImprovisedWeapon stabbing an intruder with a pair of scissors]].

* Randy saves the day in "Mr. Monk Gets Married," when the suspect has ''married his much older mother''. He finds the body of the suspect's partner and arrives just in time (after Monk, Sharona, and assorted extras have been locked in a closet) to stop him from fleeing the scene and to heroically demand, "Where the hell is my mother, you son of a bitch?!"
* Moments where Captain Stottlemeyer demonstrates Monk's power of perception: realizing a napkin from the suspect's coin store came from the crime scene where he claimed to have never been, figuring out Monk's new PoisonousFriend is using him because he knew a victim was beaten with a gun instead of shot, and solving a murder in Las Vegas just by looking at the victim's earrings in photographs... while ''drunk''.

-->[[GilliganCut to Stottlemeyer carrying a smashed laptop.]]
** I was quite fond of his [[OneLiner One-Liner]] to Lt. Disher as he hands the broken laptop to him.
-->[[spoiler:'''Stottlemeyer''': Your computer crashed.]]

* In "Mr. Monk and the Game Show", Monk realizes how a certain contestant has been cheating ([[spoiler: The host indicates the right answer by the corner he's holding the question card from]]) and makes it to the bonus round (to expose the murder) by [[HoistWithHisOwnPetard defeating the champion with his own method]].

* In "Mr. Monk and the Game Show", Monk realizes how a certain contestant has been cheating ([[spoiler: The host indicates the right answer by the way he holds his cue card]]) and makes it to the bonus round (to expose the murder) by ''cheating faster than him with his own method.''

* Natalie's very first scene, when she fights back a guy who broke into her house in the middle of the night, and kills him by [[ImprovisedWeapon stabbing him with a pair of scissors]].

* Against a murderous chessmaster who had spent most of the episode mocking Monk with chess puns:
--> "If you insist... checkmate."

* He also gets a couple of good moments when up against a shock jock. The episode deals with the insecurities Monk feels about his general lack of humour compared to the apparently hilarious killer. He goes on the killer's show and the killer makes jokes about Trudy's death, prompting Monk to leap over the table and attack him. Then, at the end of the episode, when [[spoiler:Monk's finally figured out how the killer did it and got him placed under arrest,]] he solemnly tells him "you're not laughing... now... are you?" The killer says "No. I'm not" and Monk replies "Join the club".

* He also gets a couple of good moments when up against a murderous shock jock. The episode deals with the insecurities Monk feels about his general lack of humour compared to the apparently hilarious killer. He goes on the killer's show and the killer makes jokes about Trudy's death, prompting Monk to leap over the table and attack him. Then, at the end of the episode, when Monk's finally figured out how the killer did it and got him placed under arrest, he solemnly tells him "you're not laughing... now... are you?" The killer says "No. I'm not" and Monk replies "Join the club".

** How about the XanatosGambit she pulls in "Happy Birthday, Mr. Monk"? She put one over on ''Monk''.

* From the episode in which Monk gets his badge back is the confrontation with the murderer of a corrupt cop. While Monk does fall for a HaveYouToldAnyoneElse moment, what happens afterward is all sorts of awesome - when said murderer tries to drop him from a scaffold by tilting and shaking it, Monk pulls himself up from the bottom, stabs said guy with his badge, and then throws away his gun before suspending him upside down from the scaffold, all while terrified by being a few stories from the ground.

* In "Mr. Monk and the Game Show", Monk realizes how a certain contestant has been cheating ([[spoiler: The host indicates the right answer by the way he holds his cue card]]) and makes it to the bonus round (to expose the murder) by ''cheating faster than him.''

** How about the XanatosGambit she pulls in "Happy Birthday Mr. Monk"? She put one over on ''Monk''.
* Randy saves the day in "Mr. Monk Gets Married," when the suspect has ''married his mother''. He finds the body of the suspect's partner and arrives just in time (after Monk, Sharona, and assorted extras have been locked in a closet) to stop him from fleeing the scene and to heroically demand, "Where the hell is my mother, you son of a bitch?!"

* In "Mr Monk and the End (Part 1)", [[spoiler:the Capt. needs some info from a fixer to catch Monk's killer. He tries yelling, he tries pleading for his friend's life, but the fixer taunts him by asking if Stottlemeyer is going to hit him with a phone book.]]
-->'''Fixer:''' [[spoiler:People don't use phone books anymore! They use computers!]]

-->[[spoiler:(GilliganCut to Stottlemeyer carrying a broken laptop.)]]
** I was quite fond of his [[spoiler: [[OneLiner One-Liner]] to Lt. Disher as he hands the broken laptop to him.]]

* At the end of ''Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan'', Disher gets one. Throughout the episode, he had been wasting time playing a Jenga-like game, much to the annoyance of Stottlemeyer and the amusement of the others. When confronting the killer in a warehouse filled with large bundles of wood, Disher lifts out a long piece of wood and shoves it back through the hole, hitting the killer on the other side and knocking him out. "Stupid game, huh?"

** I was quite fond of his [[spoiler: {{One-Liner}} to Lt. Disher as he hands the broken laptop to him.]]

* At the end of ''Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan'', Disher gets one. Throughout the episode, he had been wasting time playing a Jenga-like game, much to the annoyance of Stottlemeyer and the amusement of the others. When confronting the killer in a warehouse filled with large bundles of wood, Disher lifts out a long piece of wood and shoves it back through the hole, hitting the killer on the other side and knocking him out. "Stupid game, huh?"

* Randy stopping criminals while dressed in Captain America [=PJs=]. While drunk.

** The writer's get one at the end of the episode, when we find out [[spoiler:Trudy's present for Monk, the one he never opened, contained a video message in case something happened to her. The same present they've mentioned throughout the entire series.]]

** The writer's get one at the end of the episode, when we find out [[spoiler:Trudy's present for Monk, the one he never opened, contained a video message in case something happened to her. The same present they've mentioned throughout the entire series.]]