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* ForWantOfANail: Shawn dropped Gitelson's playbook papers while photocopying them and put them back out of order. Without that, Gitelson wouldn't have suspected anything and the Wildcats would have gotten away with cheating with nobody the wiser.
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* IncitingIncident: Shawn dropped Gitelson's playbook papers while photocopying them and put them back out of order. Without that, Gitelson wouldn't have suspected anything and the Wildcats would have gotten away with cheating with nobody the wiser.
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* CheatersNeverProsper: Once Monk proves Binsack has been cheating, the coach is led away in handcuffs and the Condors manage to turn things around, winning the game.
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* ForWantOfANail: The driver dropped Gitelson's playbook papers while photocopying them and put them back out of order. Without that Gitelson wouldn't have suspected anything and the Wildcats would have gotten away with cheating with nobody the wiser.
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* ForWantOfANail: The driver Shawn dropped Gitelson's playbook papers while photocopying them and put them back out of order. Without that that, Gitelson wouldn't have suspected anything and the Wildcats would have gotten away with cheating with nobody the wiser.
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* OffscreenKarma: Stottlemeyer reveals that after he and Monk got the stolen playbook to Disher, Brian Binsack was arrested for possession of stolen property, while Shawn Metzger was arrested in Marin County for stealing the playbook and murdering Gitelson.
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* ForWantOfANail: The driver dropped Gitelson's playbook papers while photocopying them and put them back out of order. Without that Gitelson wouldn't have suspected anything and the Wildcats would have gotten away with cheating with nobody the wiser.
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* SelfDeprecation: Bob Costas plays a CloudCuckooLander version of himself. It turns out the favor Monk did to earn his tickets was apparently saving his life from an insane kitten which was planning to kill him with a squeaky toy. He signs out of the game still insisting on live TV that the cat really was trying to kill him.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In trying to get Monk to relax and get them to their seats, he claims "even God took a day off. And what day did He take off? It was Sunday. Why did he take off Sunday? I'll tell ya why Sunday; so He could watch football!". Aside from the obvious of football not being a thing at the time, the Bible states that God rested on Saturday, not Sunday. Stottlemeyer is mixing up the week of creation with the obligation for Christians to meet on the first day of the week.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In trying to get Monk to relax and get them to their seats, he Stottlemeyer claims "even God took a day off. And what day did He take off? It was Sunday. Why did he He take off Sunday? I'll tell ya why Sunday; so He could watch football!". Aside from the obvious of football not being a thing at the time, the Bible states that God rested on Saturday, not Sunday. Stottlemeyer is mixing up the week of creation with the obligation for Christians to meet on the first day of the week.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In trying to get Monk to relax and get them to their seats, he claims "even God took a day off. And what day did He take off? It was Sunday. Why did he take off Sunday? I'll tell ya why Sunday; so He could watch football!". Aside from the obvious of football not being a thing at the time, the Bible states that God rested on Saturday, not Sunday.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In trying to get Monk to relax and get them to their seats, he claims "even God took a day off. And what day did He take off? It was Sunday. Why did he take off Sunday? I'll tell ya why Sunday; so He could watch football!". Aside from the obvious of football not being a thing at the time, the Bible states that God rested on Saturday, not Sunday. Stottlemeyer is mixing up the week of creation with the obligation for Christians to meet on the first day of the week.
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* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cat salesman (i.e. the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself). Monk admits in the end, he made that up so he could leave Bob's house.
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* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cat salesman (i.e. ([[AmbiguousSyntax to clarify]], the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself). Monk admits in the end, he made that up so he could leave Bob's house.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Natalie's subplot (going to the police station to find Randy trying to watch the game on a big-screen plasma TV wedged in the stairwell) has little impact on the main murder investigation.
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* BusmansHoliday: Monk and Stottlemeyer go to a playoff game with tickets for the press box with Bob Costas AsHimself, but Monk discovers an attempted murder involving a rigged grill and murdered quarterback David Gitelson being Hidden in Plain Sight by being dressed as a passed-out fan.
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* BusmansHoliday: Monk and Stottlemeyer go to a playoff game with tickets for the press box with Bob Costas AsHimself, but Monk discovers an attempted murder involving a rigged grill and murdered quarterback David Gitelson being Hidden in Plain Sight HiddenInPlainSight by being dressed as a passed-out fan.
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* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cat salesman (i.e. the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself).
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* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cat salesman (i.e. the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself). Monk admits in the end, he made that up so he could leave Bob's house.
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* AccidentalMurder: Shawn Metzger's murder of Davy Gitelson was a heat of the moment panic from Davy rightly confronting him for stealing his playbook.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: In trying to get Monk to relax and get them to their seats, he claims "even God took a day off. And what day did He take off? It was Sunday. Why did he take off Sunday? I'll tell ya why Sunday; so He could watch football!". Aside from the obvious of football not being a thing at the time, the Bible states that God rested on Saturday, not Sunday.
* BludgeonedToDeath: David Gitelson is killed by being struck on his head with a tire iron.
* BludgeonedToDeath: David Gitelson is killed by being struck on his head with a tire iron.
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* ChekhovsGun: Bob Costas gives Monk all-access passes, which Stottlemeyer comments in awe would even allow him in the locker room. Monk doesn't think he'll use that feature, but it later comes in handy to retrieve the playbook from the Wildcats' coach before he can destroy it.
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* ChekhovsGun: ChekhovsGun:
** Bob Costas gives Monk all-access passes, which Stottlemeyer comments in awe would even allow him in the locker room. Monk doesn't think he'll use that feature, but it later comes in handy to retrieve the playbook from the Wildcats' coach before he can destroy it.
** Brian Binsack's constant flipping to seemingly random pages of his playbook.
** Bob Costas gives Monk all-access passes, which Stottlemeyer comments in awe would even allow him in the locker room. Monk doesn't think he'll use that feature, but it later comes in handy to retrieve the playbook from the Wildcats' coach before he can destroy it.
** Brian Binsack's constant flipping to seemingly random pages of his playbook.
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* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cat salesman (ie. the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself).
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* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cat salesman (ie.(i.e. the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself).
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* SmarterThanYouLook: Throughout his scenes, Chet looks like just some typical drunken football fan. As he and Monk are investigating what was "out of order", he gets a call from a co-worker and drops several financial terms. When Monk asks who Chet is, Chet explains he is a hedge fund manager.
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* BusmansHoliday: Monk and Stottlemeyer go to a playoff game with tickets for the press box with Bob Costas AsHimself, but Monk discovers an attempted murder involving a rigged grill and murdered quarterback David Gitelson being Hidden in Plain Sight by being dressed as a passed out fan.
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* BusmansHoliday: Monk and Stottlemeyer go to a playoff game with tickets for the press box with Bob Costas AsHimself, but Monk discovers an attempted murder involving a rigged grill and murdered quarterback David Gitelson being Hidden in Plain Sight by being dressed as a passed out passed-out fan.
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* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murderer rigs a fan's charcoal grill to explode by adding in gasoline that he siphoned out of his own car to silence this particular fan (Long story short, the murderer was afraid that the fan in question had either witnessed his murder of the backup star quarterback or was privy to the out-of-order playbook because he was in close proximity to the quarterback shortly before he was bludgeoned and killed.) Although he certainly succeeded in having the grill ignite, actually having the fan killed by the explosion wasn't nearly as successful, as the only real damage he did to the fan was burn his right hand (a good substitute for an ice pack or bandage is to put a rubber foam glove over it). Also, unlike most cases, it wasn't PlayedForLaughs.
* HiddenInPlainSight: When David Gitelson is killed by his limo driver, the driver hastily hides the body in plain sight, disguised as a passed-out fan. Monk was only able to ID him because he was wearing a championship ring.
* HiddenInPlainSight: When David Gitelson is killed by his limo driver, the driver hastily hides the body in plain sight, disguised as a passed-out fan. Monk was only able to ID him because he was wearing a championship ring.
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* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murderer rigs a fan's Chet's charcoal grill to explode by adding in gasoline that he siphoned out of his own car to silence this particular fan (Long story short, the murderer was afraid that the fan in question had either witnessed his murder of the backup star quarterback or was privy to the out-of-order playbook because he was in close proximity to the quarterback shortly before he was bludgeoned and killed.) Although he certainly succeeded in having the grill ignite, actually having the fan killed by the explosion wasn't nearly as successful, as the only real damage he did to the fan was burn his right hand (a good substitute for an ice pack or bandage is to put hand, and the fan just reacted by putting a rubber foam glove over it). Also, unlike most cases, it wasn't PlayedForLaughs.
* HiddenInPlainSight:When After killing David Gitelson is killed by his limo driver, Gitelson, the driver hastily hides the body in plain sight, disguised as a passed-out fan. Monk was only able to ID him because he was wearing a championship ring.
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* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cats salesman (ie. the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself).
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Natalie's subplot (going to the police station to find Randy trying to watch the game on a big-screen plasma TV wedged in the stairwell) has little impact on the main murder investigation.
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Natalie's subplot (going to the police station to find Randy trying to watch the game on a big-screen plasma TV wedged in the stairwell) has little impact on the main murder investigation.
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* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cats cat salesman (ie. the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself).
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Natalie's subplot (going to the police station to find Randy trying to watch the game on a big-screen plasma TV wedged in the stairwell) has little impact on the main murderinvestigation.investigation.
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Correctly interpreting Gitelson's last words is crucial to the plot. Chet tells Monk that he heard Gitelson yelling "out of order" that morning as he stormed out looking for someone. Monk initially thinks that Gitelson's words referred to some kind of machine. He was actually talking about the pages in the playbook and he suspected (correctly) that this meant his driver had stolen and copied it.
* SuspectIsHatless: When Monk confronts the killer about trying to eliminate potential witness Chet Walsh, he describes Chet as a drunk, yelling Condors fan dressed in a football jersey. The killer points out that such people are a dime a dozen at tailgate parties.
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Natalie's subplot (going to the police station to find Randy trying to watch the game on a big-screen plasma TV wedged in the stairwell) has little impact on the main murder
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: Correctly interpreting Gitelson's last words is crucial to the plot. Chet tells Monk that he heard Gitelson yelling "out of order" that morning as he stormed out looking for someone. Monk initially thinks that Gitelson's words referred to some kind of machine. He was actually talking about the pages in the playbook and he suspected (correctly) that this meant his driver had stolen and copied it.
* SuspectIsHatless: When Monk confronts the killer about trying to eliminate potential witness Chet Walsh, he describes Chet as a drunk, yelling Condors fan dressed in a football jersey. The killer points out that such people are a dime a dozen at tailgate parties.
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* AsHimself: Bob Costas.
* AlliterativeName: The Condor's defensive coach, '''B'''rian '''B'''insack.
* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it away from the Wildcats coach and some guards after Monk grabs it from their locker room.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Natalie's subplot (going to the police station to find Randy trying to watch the game on a big-screen plasma TV wedged in the stairwell) has little impact on the main murder investigation.
* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it away from the Wildcats coach and some guards after Monk grabs it from their locker room.
* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it away from the Wildcats coach and some guards after Monk grabs it from their locker room.
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* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Natalie's subplot (going to the police station to find Randy trying to watch the game on a big-screen plasma TV wedged in the stairwell) has little impact on the main murder investigation.
* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it away from the Wildcats coach and some guards after Monk grabs it from their locker room.investigation.
* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it away from the Wildcats coach and some guards after Monk grabs it from their locker room.
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* BusmansHoliday: Monk and Stottlemeyer go to a playoff game with tickets for the press box with Bob Costas (AsHimself), but Monk discovers an attempted murder involving a rigged grill and murdered quarterback David Gitelson being Hidden in Plain Sight by being dressed as a passed out fan.
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* BusmansHoliday: Monk and Stottlemeyer go to a playoff game with tickets for the press box with Bob Costas (AsHimself), AsHimself, but Monk discovers an attempted murder involving a rigged grill and murdered quarterback David Gitelson being Hidden in Plain Sight by being dressed as a passed out fan.
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* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murderer rigs a fan's charcoal grill to explode by adding in gasoline that he siphoned out of his own car to silence this particular fan (Long story short, the murderer was afraid that the fan in question had either witnessed his murder of the backup star quarterback or was privy to the out-of-order playbook because he was in close proximity to the quarterback shortly before he was bludgeoned and killed.) Although he certainly succeeded in having the grill ignite, actually having the fan killed by the explosion wasn't nearly as successful, as the only real damage he did to the fan was burn his right hand (a good substitute for an ice pack or bandage is to put a rubber foam glove over it). Also, unlike most uses of this trope, it wasn't PlayedForLaughs.
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* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murderer rigs a fan's charcoal grill to explode by adding in gasoline that he siphoned out of his own car to silence this particular fan (Long story short, the murderer was afraid that the fan in question had either witnessed his murder of the backup star quarterback or was privy to the out-of-order playbook because he was in close proximity to the quarterback shortly before he was bludgeoned and killed.) Although he certainly succeeded in having the grill ignite, actually having the fan killed by the explosion wasn't nearly as successful, as the only real damage he did to the fan was burn his right hand (a good substitute for an ice pack or bandage is to put a rubber foam glove over it). Also, unlike most uses of this trope, cases, it wasn't PlayedForLaughs.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: The missing (and actually dead) quarterback is right there in the parking lot, dressed like the large crowd of fans surrounding him as a disguise. Monk was only able to ID him because he was wearing a championship ring.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: The missing (and actually dead) quarterback When David Gitelson is right there in killed by his limo driver, the parking lot, dressed like driver hastily hides the large crowd of fans surrounding him body in plain sight, disguised as a disguise.passed-out fan. Monk was only able to ID him because he was wearing a championship ring.
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* HiddenInPlainSight: When David Gitelson is killed by his limo driver, the driver hastily hides the body in plain sight, disguised as a passed out fan.
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* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it away from the OpposingSportsTeam coach and some guards after Monk grabs it from the Wildcats' locker room.
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* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it away from the OpposingSportsTeam Wildcats coach and some guards after Monk grabs it from the Wildcats' their locker room.
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* ChekhovsGun: Bob Costas gives Monk all-access passes, which Stottlemeyer comments in awe would even allow him in the locker room. Monk doesn't think he'll use that feature, but it later comes in handy to retrieve vital evidence from the Wildcats' coach before he can destroy it.
* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murderer of the week in "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs" attempts to invoke this trope by rigging a fan's charcoal grill to explode by adding in gasoline that he siphoned out of his own car to silence this particular fan (Long story short, the murderer was afraid that the fan in question had either witnessed his murder of the backup star quarterback or was privy to the out-of-order playbook because he was in close proximity to the quarterback shortly before he was bludgeoned and killed.). Although he certainly succeeded in having the grill ignite, actually having the fan killed by the explosion wasn't nearly as successful, as the only real damage he did to the fan was burn his right hand (a good substitute for an ice pack or bandage is to put a rubber foam glove over it). Also, unlike most uses of this trope, it wasn't PlayedForLaughs.
* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murderer of the week in "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs" attempts to invoke this trope by rigging a fan's charcoal grill to explode by adding in gasoline that he siphoned out of his own car to silence this particular fan (Long story short, the murderer was afraid that the fan in question had either witnessed his murder of the backup star quarterback or was privy to the out-of-order playbook because he was in close proximity to the quarterback shortly before he was bludgeoned and killed.). Although he certainly succeeded in having the grill ignite, actually having the fan killed by the explosion wasn't nearly as successful, as the only real damage he did to the fan was burn his right hand (a good substitute for an ice pack or bandage is to put a rubber foam glove over it). Also, unlike most uses of this trope, it wasn't PlayedForLaughs.
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* ChekhovsGun: Bob Costas gives Monk all-access passes, which Stottlemeyer comments in awe would even allow him in the locker room. Monk doesn't think he'll use that feature, but it later comes in handy to retrieve vital evidence the playbook from the Wildcats' coach before he can destroy it.
* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murdererof the week in "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs" attempts to invoke this trope by rigging rigs a fan's charcoal grill to explode by adding in gasoline that he siphoned out of his own car to silence this particular fan (Long story short, the murderer was afraid that the fan in question had either witnessed his murder of the backup star quarterback or was privy to the out-of-order playbook because he was in close proximity to the quarterback shortly before he was bludgeoned and killed.). ) Although he certainly succeeded in having the grill ignite, actually having the fan killed by the explosion wasn't nearly as successful, as the only real damage he did to the fan was burn his right hand (a good substitute for an ice pack or bandage is to put a rubber foam glove over it). Also, unlike most uses of this trope, it wasn't PlayedForLaughs.PlayedForLaughs.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The missing (and actually dead) quarterback is right there in the parking lot, dressed like the large crowd of fans surrounding him as a disguise. Monk was only able to ID him because he was wearing a championship ring.
* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cats salesman (ie. the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself).
* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murderer
* HiddenInPlainSight: The missing (and actually dead) quarterback is right there in the parking lot, dressed like the large crowd of fans surrounding him as a disguise. Monk was only able to ID him because he was wearing a championship ring.
* NoodleIncident: Monk only got the tickets because he helped Bob Costas with a case involving a demented cats salesman (ie. the cats are psychotic, not the salesman himself).
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* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it safe after Monk grabs it from the Wildcats' locker room.
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* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it safe away from the OpposingSportsTeam coach and some guards after Monk grabs it from the Wildcats' locker room.
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Monk and Stottlemeyer's male bonding experience over the Condors game grinds to a crawl when Monk finds something suspicious in the explosion of a barbecue grill in the parking lot. While Stottlemeyer tries to enjoy the game, Monk makes his own play to find the dark secrets behind the pyrotechnic prank, a missing player, and the unusually effective playing from the Condors' opponents.
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* BusmansHoliday: Monk and Stottlemeyer go to a playoff game with tickets for the press box with Bob Costas (AsHimself), but Monk discovers an attempted murder involving a rigged grill and murdered quarterback David Gitelson being Hidden in Plain Sight by being dressed as a passed out fan.
* ChekhovsGun: Bob Costas gives Monk all-access passes, which Stottlemeyer comments in awe would even allow him in the locker room. Monk doesn't think he'll use that feature, but it later comes in handy to retrieve vital evidence from the Wildcats' coach before he can destroy it.
* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murderer of the week in "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs" attempts to invoke this trope by rigging a fan's charcoal grill to explode by adding in gasoline that he siphoned out of his own car to silence this particular fan (Long story short, the murderer was afraid that the fan in question had either witnessed his murder of the backup star quarterback or was privy to the out-of-order playbook because he was in close proximity to the quarterback shortly before he was bludgeoned and killed.). Although he certainly succeeded in having the grill ignite, actually having the fan killed by the explosion wasn't nearly as successful, as the only real damage he did to the fan was burn his right hand (a good substitute for an ice pack or bandage is to put a rubber foam glove over it). Also, unlike most uses of this trope, it wasn't PlayedForLaughs.
* HiddenInPlainSight: When David Gitelson is killed by his limo driver, the driver hastily hides the body in plain sight, disguised as a passed out fan.
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Natalie's subplot (going to the police station to find Randy trying to watch the game on a big-screen plasma TV wedged in the stairwell) has little impact on the main murder investigation.
* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it safe after Monk grabs it from the Wildcats' locker room.
!! This episode includes examples of the following tropes:
* BusmansHoliday: Monk and Stottlemeyer go to a playoff game with tickets for the press box with Bob Costas (AsHimself), but Monk discovers an attempted murder involving a rigged grill and murdered quarterback David Gitelson being Hidden in Plain Sight by being dressed as a passed out fan.
* ChekhovsGun: Bob Costas gives Monk all-access passes, which Stottlemeyer comments in awe would even allow him in the locker room. Monk doesn't think he'll use that feature, but it later comes in handy to retrieve vital evidence from the Wildcats' coach before he can destroy it.
* GrillingPyrotechnics: The murderer of the week in "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs" attempts to invoke this trope by rigging a fan's charcoal grill to explode by adding in gasoline that he siphoned out of his own car to silence this particular fan (Long story short, the murderer was afraid that the fan in question had either witnessed his murder of the backup star quarterback or was privy to the out-of-order playbook because he was in close proximity to the quarterback shortly before he was bludgeoned and killed.). Although he certainly succeeded in having the grill ignite, actually having the fan killed by the explosion wasn't nearly as successful, as the only real damage he did to the fan was burn his right hand (a good substitute for an ice pack or bandage is to put a rubber foam glove over it). Also, unlike most uses of this trope, it wasn't PlayedForLaughs.
* HiddenInPlainSight: When David Gitelson is killed by his limo driver, the driver hastily hides the body in plain sight, disguised as a passed out fan.
* NotImportantToThisEpisodeCamp: Natalie's subplot (going to the police station to find Randy trying to watch the game on a big-screen plasma TV wedged in the stairwell) has little impact on the main murder investigation.
* KeepAway: Stottlemeyer and Monk throw the playbook back and forth to keep it safe after Monk grabs it from the Wildcats' locker room.
