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* BatmanGambit: The purpose of the breakin was to damage a picture Sherry liked so that she would take it to Jimmy, and they would decide to get married.
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* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: After meeting Sherry, Natalie grabs Monk's junior high school yearbook and looks up Sherry and Monk's old photos. Monk is so mortified that he threatens her with firing, which she ignores, and she and Sherry both coo over how adorable Monk was as a child.
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* HighSchoolDance: Monk tries to ask his crush to the upcoming spring fling but gets beaten to it by a classmate
%% * KickTheDog: Played with, as a passive aggressive variety. When Michael is being arrested for arranging the robbery, he looks at Sherry and spites her by [[VillainHasAPoint pointing out]] that his plan technically [[TheBadGuysWin worked]]: he got Sherry and Jimmy together. One gets the feeling he meant to say this to leave a bad taste in Sherry's mouth.
%% * KickTheDog: Played with, as a passive aggressive variety. When Michael is being arrested for arranging the robbery, he looks at Sherry and spites her by [[VillainHasAPoint pointing out]] that his plan technically [[TheBadGuysWin worked]]: he got Sherry and Jimmy together. One gets the feeling he meant to say this to leave a bad taste in Sherry's mouth.
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* HighSchoolDance: Monk tries to ask his crush to the upcoming spring fling but gets beaten to it by a classmate
%% * KickTheDog: Played with, as a passive aggressive variety. When Michael is being arrested for arranging the robbery, he looks at Sherry and spites her by [[VillainHasAPoint pointing out]] that his plan technically [[TheBadGuysWin worked]]: he got Sherry and Jimmy together. One gets the feeling he meant to say this to leave a bad taste in Sherry's mouth.classmate.
%% * KickTheDog: Played with, as a passive aggressive variety. When Michael is being arrested for arranging the robbery, he looks at Sherry and spites her by [[VillainHasAPoint pointing out]] that his plan technically [[TheBadGuysWin worked]]: he got Sherry and Jimmy together. One gets the feeling he meant to say this to leave a bad taste in Sherry's mouth.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Gladys Aquino to Michael's scheme. He and the Baptiste brothers were under the assumption that the night they were to deface the painting was Glady's night off, and thus she wasn't supposed to be there.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Gladys Aquino to Michael's scheme. He and the Baptiste brothers were under the assumption that the night they were to deface the painting was Glady's Gladys's night off, and thus she wasn't supposed to be there.
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* DeathByFallingOver: When Gladys confronts the two intruders, it ultimately ends with one of them slamming her head into a table and killing her
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* DeathByFallingOver: When Gladys confronts the two intruders, it ultimately ends with one of them slamming her head into a table and killing herher.
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* NiceGuy: Jimmy is one of the few kids that stood up for Monk when they were young.
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Monk's childhood crush asks him to investigate the murder of her housekeeper and Monk tries to impress her by solving the case. The episode also includes flashbacks to Monk's high school years where the same crush is framed for a crime she didn't commit.
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Monk's childhood crush asks him to investigate the murder of her housekeeper and Monk tries to impress her by solving the case. The episode also includes flashbacks to Monk's high middle school years where the same crush is framed for a crime she didn't commit.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Monk in high school trying to ask his crush to the dance and then again in the present trying to ask her on a date.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Monk in high middle school trying to ask his crush to the dance and then again in the present trying to ask her on a date.
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It's not really clear if that was actually meant to leave a bad taste in her mouth, and the entry itself only notes it as a possibility
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* KickTheDog: Played with, as a passive aggressive variety. When Michael is being arrested for arranging the robbery, he looks at Sherry and spites her by [[VillainHasAPoint pointing out]] that his plan technically [[TheBadGuysWin worked]]: he got Sherry and Jimmy together. One gets the feeling he meant to say this to leave a bad taste in Sherry's mouth.
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%% * KickTheDog: Played with, as a passive aggressive variety. When Michael is being arrested for arranging the robbery, he looks at Sherry and spites her by [[VillainHasAPoint pointing out]] that his plan technically [[TheBadGuysWin worked]]: he got Sherry and Jimmy together. One gets the feeling he meant to say this to leave a bad taste in Sherry's mouth.
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* StupidCrooks: The Baptiste brothers didn't bother to where gloves during their break-in... when they already have criminal records.
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* StupidCrooks: The Baptiste brothers didn't bother to where wear gloves that covered their fingerprints during their break-in... when they already have criminal records.
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* GoneHorriblyWrong: All Michael was really trying to do was get his wife together with some other guy she had shown attraction to, albeit for selfish reasons on his part. Now he's going to prison for murder, because the two crooks he hired panicked and killed a woman
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* GoneHorriblyWrong: All Michael was really trying to do was get his wife together with some other guy she had shown attraction to, albeit for selfish reasons on his part. Now he's going to prison for murder, because the two crooks he hired panicked and killed a womanwoman.
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* ChekhovsGun: Young Monk notices that Sherry sets the dial on her padlock at 0, which would later convince him of Sherry's innocence.
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* ChekhovsGun: Young Monk notices that Sherry sets the dial on her padlock combination lock at 0, which would later convince him of Sherry's innocence.innocence. A zero also helps Monk figure out who set up the vandalism on the painting.
* DeathByFallingOver: When Gladys confronts the two intruders, it ultimately ends with one of them slamming her head into a table and killing her
* DeathByFallingOver: When Gladys confronts the two intruders, it ultimately ends with one of them slamming her head into a table and killing her
* GoneHorriblyWrong: All Michael was really trying to do was get his wife together with some other guy she had shown attraction to, albeit for selfish reasons on his part. Now he's going to prison for murder, because the two crooks he hired panicked and killed a woman
* MustacheVandalism: The painting is defaced with glasses, a devil tail, and a mustache.
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* RomanticRunnerUp: Monk, twice, losing the same girl to the same guy in the high school flashback and in the present.
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* RomanticRunnerUp: Monk, twice, losing the same girl to the same guy in the high middle school flashback and in the present.
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* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his own locker after Monk accuses him of the theft.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Gladys Aquino to Michael's scheme. He and the Baptiste brothers were under the assumption that the night they were to deface the painting was Glady's night off, and thus she wasn't supposed to be there.
* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his own locker after Monk accuses him of thetheft.theft.
* StupidCrooks: The Baptiste brothers didn't bother to where gloves during their break-in... when they already have criminal records.
* TheSummation: We get two intercut with each other, one in the past with Monk figuring out how Leo framed Sherry for stealing the bake sale money, and one for how Michael was trying to get Sherry and Jimmy together so he could stop paying her alimony.
* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his own locker after Monk accuses him of the
* StupidCrooks: The Baptiste brothers didn't bother to where gloves during their break-in... when they already have criminal records.
* TheSummation: We get two intercut with each other, one in the past with Monk figuring out how Leo framed Sherry for stealing the bake sale money, and one for how Michael was trying to get Sherry and Jimmy together so he could stop paying her alimony.
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* CallForward: The flashback shows us the origins of Monk's dependence on wipes (it was Sherry's idea) and his CatchPhrase (originally coined by a kindly cafeteria lady who sympathizes with Monk's quirk).
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* CallForward: The flashback shows us the origins of Monk's dependence on wipes (it was Sherry's (Sherry's idea) and his CatchPhrase (originally coined (coined by a kindly cafeteria lady who sympathizes with Monk's his quirk).
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* BraBrawl: Monk and Natalie trying to apprehend the two vandals in a bar led into an all-out melee with everyone inside getting involved.
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* BraBrawl: BarBrawl: Monk and Natalie trying to apprehend the two vandals in a bar led into an all-out melee with everyone inside getting involved.
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* BraBrawl: Monk and Natalie trying to apprehend the two vandals in a bar led into an all-out melee with everyone inside getting involved.
* CallForward: The flashback shows us the origins of Monk's dependence on wipes (it was Sherry's idea) and his CatchPhrase (originally coined by a kindly cafeteria lady who sympathizes with Monk's quirk).
* CallForward: The flashback shows us the origins of Monk's dependence on wipes (it was Sherry's idea) and his CatchPhrase (originally coined by a kindly cafeteria lady who sympathizes with Monk's quirk).
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* ChekhovsGun: Young Monk notices that Sherry sets the dial on her padlock at 0, which further convinced him of Sherry's innocence.
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* ChekhovsGun: Young Monk notices that Sherry sets the dial on her padlock at 0, which further convinced would later convince him of Sherry's innocence.
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* AnachronismStew: In the flashback when Monk is explaining how Jimmy stole the bake sale money, the principal finds a $5 he wrote "good luck" on and holds it up for everyone to see. The enlarged face of Abraham Lincoln on the bill establishes it as a $5 bill produced in 2000
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* AnachronismStew: In the flashback when Monk is explaining how Jimmy stole the bake sale money, the principal finds a $5 he wrote "good luck" on and holds it up for everyone to see. The enlarged face of Abraham Lincoln on the bill establishes it as a $5 bill produced in 20002000.
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* ChekhovsGun: Young Monk notices that Sherry sets the dial on her padlock at 0, which further convinced him of Sherry's innocence.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Michael may have been willing to do anything to stop paying alimony to Sherry, but he never meant for Gladys the maid to be killed in the process.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
** Michael may have been willing to do anything to stop paying alimony to Sherry, but he never meant for Gladys the maid to be killed in the process.
** Michael may have been willing to do anything to stop paying alimony to Sherry, but he never meant for Gladys the maid to be killed in the process.
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* ShipperWithAnAgenda: The whole plot hinges on Sherry's ex-husband trying to set her up with an old flame of hers, hoping they will rekindle their romance, and so he can stop paying her alimony.
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* [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Nice Job Fixing It Bully]]: As Monk is being stuffed into his own locker, he notices that the lock on Sherry's locker (right next to his) hasn't been set to zero as she normally does. This tips him off that the bully had switched her lock with his so he could put the cash box in her locker and frame her for stealing the bake sale money.
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* [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Nice Job Fixing It Bully]]: NiceJobFixingItVillain: As Monk is being stuffed into his own locker, he notices that the lock on Sherry's locker (right next to his) hasn't been set to zero as she normally does. This tips him off that the bully had switched her lock with his so he could put the cash box in her locker and frame her for stealing the bake sale money.
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There is no way his crime (where he didn’t personally order the woman’s murder and had no idea it would happen) would lead to his execution
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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Michael did succeed in his plan to matchmaker his ex-wife Sherry with her old boyfriend Jimmy so he could stop paying alimony, but given that he killed her maid Gladys in the process, he's going to either suffer prison or execution, making his victory pyrrhic.
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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Michael did succeed in his plan to matchmaker his ex-wife Sherry with her old boyfriend Jimmy so he could stop paying alimony, but given that he killed her maid Gladys in the process, he's going to either suffer prison or execution, go to prison, making his victory pyrrhic.
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* AbusiveParents: Downplayed but the flashbacks show how Monk's mother formally withheld affection because "[he'd] thank [her] later". It's also clear that a lot of his compulsive tendencies were inherited from her.
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* AbusiveParents: Downplayed Downplayed. Her actions weren't particularly malicious, but the flashbacks show how Monk's mother formally withheld affection because "[he'd] thank [her] later". It's also clear that a lot of his compulsive tendencies were inherited from her.
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** In the flashback, the bully threatens to dip Adrian's clarinet in the toilet, but Jimmy talks him out of it by appealing to his Rolling Stones fanhood: "What would Mick Jagger do?"
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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Michael did succeed in his plan to matchmake his ex-wife Sherry with her old boyfriend Jimmy so he could stop paying alimony, but given that he killed her maid Gladys in the process, he's going to either suffer prison or execution, making his victory pyrrhic.
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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Michael did succeed in his plan to matchmake matchmaker his ex-wife Sherry with her old boyfriend Jimmy so he could stop paying alimony, but given that he killed her maid Gladys in the process, he's going to either suffer prison or execution, making his victory pyrrhic.
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* [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Nice Job fixing it Bully]]: The bully stuffs Monk into the locker, but in the process, his easily opening the locker (not his own) clues in Monk how he framed Sherry.
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* [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Nice Job fixing it Fixing It Bully]]: The bully stuffs As Monk is being stuffed into the his own locker, but in he notices that the process, his easily opening the lock on Sherry's locker (not (right next to his) hasn't been set to zero as she normally does. This tips him off that the bully had switched her lock with his own) clues so he could put the cash box in Monk how he framed Sherry.her locker and frame her for stealing the bake sale money.
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* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his locker after Monk figures out he stole the money. This helps Monk figure out how he did it.
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* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his own locker after Monk figures out he stole accuses him of the money. This helps Monk figure out how he did it.theft.
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* FelonyMurder: Presumably how Michael ends up being charged with the murder of Gladys, seeing how he didn't intend for her to get hurt and wasn't even in the city when it happened, but he ''did'' conspire with two other guys who committed breaking and entering and vandalism, which are felonies in their own right.
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* FelonyMurder: Presumably how Michael ends up being charged with the murder of Gladys, seeing how Gladys. He wasn't in the city when it happened and he didn't intend for her to get hurt and wasn't even in the city when it happened, be killed, but he ''did'' conspire with hire two other guys who committed breaking men to commit the break-in (a felony) and entering and vandalism, which are felonies in their own right.she died as a direct result of it.
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* SherlockScan: Whilst looking at a painting of a woman making dinner for her husband, Sherry remarks upon how calming it is. Monk however claims the woman is trying to poison her husband. He knows because he recognizes that the mushroom she's chopping for dinner is a poisonous kind. When Sherry reasons that perhaps it's a mistake, Monk points out that the bruises on her arm suggest the husband [[DomesticAbuse beats her]] and poisoning him is therefore intentional.
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* FlashbackBPlot: In the A-plot, Monk is hired by a childhood friend to investigate a murder, triggering flashbacks to Monk's childhood where he had to help the same friend who's been framed for stealing bake sale money.
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* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his locker after Monk figures out he stole the money. This helps Monk figure out how he did it.
* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: In the A-plot, Monk is hired by a childhood friend to investigate a murder, triggering flashbacks to Monk's childhood where he had to help the same friend who's been framed for stealing bake sale money.
* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: In the A-plot, Monk is hired by a childhood friend to investigate a murder, triggering flashbacks to Monk's childhood where he had to help the same friend who's been framed for stealing bake sale money.
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* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his locker after Monk figures out he stole the money. This helps Monk figure out how he did it.
* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: In the A-plot, Monk is hired by a childhood friend to investigate a murder, triggering flashbacks to Monk's childhood where he had to help the same friend who's been framed for stealing bake sale money.it.
* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: In the A-plot, Monk is hired by a childhood friend to investigate a murder, triggering flashbacks to Monk's childhood where he had to help the same friend who's been framed for stealing bake sale money.
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* AbusiveParents: Downplayed but the flashbacks show how Monk's mother methodically withheld affection and how a lot of his compulsive tendencies were inherited from her.
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* AbusiveParents: Downplayed but the flashbacks show how Monk's mother methodically formally withheld affection and how because "[he'd] thank [her] later". It's also clear that a lot of his compulsive tendencies were inherited from her.
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* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: In the A-Plot, Monk is hired by a childhood friend to investigate a murder, triggering flashbacks to Monk's childhood where he had to help the same friend who's been framed for stealing bake sale money.
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* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: In the A-Plot, A-plot, Monk is hired by a childhood friend to investigate a murder, triggering flashbacks to Monk's childhood where he had to help the same friend who's been framed for stealing bake sale money.
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* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his locker after Monk figures out he stole the money. This helps Monk figure out how he did it.
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* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his locker after Monk figures out he stole the money. This helps Monk figure out how he did it.it.
* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: In the A-Plot, Monk is hired by a childhood friend to investigate a murder, triggering flashbacks to Monk's childhood where he had to help the same friend who's been framed for stealing bake sale money.
* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: In the A-Plot, Monk is hired by a childhood friend to investigate a murder, triggering flashbacks to Monk's childhood where he had to help the same friend who's been framed for stealing bake sale money.
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* FelonyMurder: Presumably how Michael ends up being charged with the murder of Gladys, seeing how he didn't intend for her to get hurt and wasn't even in the city when it happened, but he ''did'' conspire with two other guys who committed breaking and entering and vandalism, which are felonies in their own right.
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* CannotSpitItOut: Monk in high school trying to ask his crush to the dance and then again in the present trying to ask her on a date
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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: Michael did succeed in his plan to matchmake his ex-wife Sherry with her old boyfriend Jimmy so he could stop paying alimony, but given that he killed her maid Gladys in the process, he's going to either suffer prison or execution, making his victory pyrrhic.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Both Natalie and Stottlemeyer seem to be this for Monk and Sherry. Unfortunately Sherry falls for her old boyfriend Jimmy
* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his locker after Monk figures out he stole the money. This helps Monk figure out How he did it.
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* AbusiveParents: Downplayed but the flashbacks show how Monk's mother methodically withheld affection and how a lot of his compulsive tendencies were inherited from her
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Michael may have been willing to do anything to stop paying alimony to Sherry, but he never meant for Gladys the maid to be killed in the process.
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* KickTheDog: Played with, as a passive aggressive variety. When Michael is being arrested for arranging the robbery, he looks at Sherry and spites her by [[VillainHasAPoint pointing out]] that his plan technically [[TheBadGuysWin worked]]: he got Sherry and Jimmy together. One gets the feeling he meant to say this to leave a bad taste in Sherry's mouth.
* [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Nice Job fixing it Bully]]: The bully stuffs Monk into the locker, but in the process, his easily opening the locker (not his own) clues in Monk how he framed Sherry.
* [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Nice Job fixing it Bully]]: The bully stuffs Monk into the locker, but in the process, his easily opening the locker (not his own) clues in Monk how he framed Sherry.
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* ClearTheirName: In the flashback, Monk investigates the theft of the bake sale money in order to clear Sherry's name. * DidNotGetTheGirl: Monk
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Monk's childhood crush asks him to investigate the murder of her housekeeper and Monk tries to impress her by solving the case. The episode also includes flashbacks to Monk's high school years where the same crush is framed for a crime she didn't commit.
!!This Episode contains examples of the following tropes:
* AbusiveParents: Downplayed but the flashbacks show how Monk's mother withheld affection and how a lot of his compulsive tendencies were inherited from her
* AnachronismStew: In the flashback when Monk is explaining how Jimmy stole the bake sale money, the principal finds a $5 he wrote "good luck" on and holds it up for everyone to see. The enlarged face of Abraham Lincoln on the bill establishes it as a $5 bill produced in 2000
* CannotSpitItOut: Monk in high school trying to ask his crush to the dance and then again in the present trying to ask her on a date
* ClearTheirName: In the flashback, Monk investigates the theft of the bake sale money in order to clear Sherry's name. * DidNotGetTheGirl: Monk
* HighSchoolDance: Monk tries to ask his crush to the upcoming spring fling but gets beaten to it by a classmate
* RomanticRunnerUp: Monk, twice, losing the same girl to the same guy in the high school flashback and in the present.
* ShipperOnDeck: Both Natalie and Stottlemeyer seem to be this for Monk and Sherry. Unfortunately Sherry falls for her old boyfriend Jimmy
* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his locker after Monk figures out he stole the money. This helps Monk figure out How he did it.
!!This Episode contains examples of the following tropes:
* AbusiveParents: Downplayed but the flashbacks show how Monk's mother withheld affection and how a lot of his compulsive tendencies were inherited from her
* AnachronismStew: In the flashback when Monk is explaining how Jimmy stole the bake sale money, the principal finds a $5 he wrote "good luck" on and holds it up for everyone to see. The enlarged face of Abraham Lincoln on the bill establishes it as a $5 bill produced in 2000
* CannotSpitItOut: Monk in high school trying to ask his crush to the dance and then again in the present trying to ask her on a date
* ClearTheirName: In the flashback, Monk investigates the theft of the bake sale money in order to clear Sherry's name. * DidNotGetTheGirl: Monk
* HighSchoolDance: Monk tries to ask his crush to the upcoming spring fling but gets beaten to it by a classmate
* RomanticRunnerUp: Monk, twice, losing the same girl to the same guy in the high school flashback and in the present.
* ShipperOnDeck: Both Natalie and Stottlemeyer seem to be this for Monk and Sherry. Unfortunately Sherry falls for her old boyfriend Jimmy
* StuffedIntoALocker: The bully who stole the bake sale money stuffs Monk into his locker after Monk figures out he stole the money. This helps Monk figure out How he did it.
