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Misuse. The former is simply Skewed Priorities (and even if it was missing the point, it was comedic, so not this trope) and the other has nothing to do with missing the point
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint:
** When a beat cop jokes that the dead lotto girl's "number came up," Lt. Disher gets angry. Not because it's disrespectful to the dead woman, but because Disher came up with the same joke just a minute prior.
** Disher tries a lot of lottery-related humor of varying quality before advising Billy of his right to remain silent (one of the MirandaRights). Billy retorts "I will if you will."
** When a beat cop jokes that the dead lotto girl's "number came up," Lt. Disher gets angry. Not because it's disrespectful to the dead woman, but because Disher came up with the same joke just a minute prior.
** Disher tries a lot of lottery-related humor of varying quality before advising Billy of his right to remain silent (one of the MirandaRights). Billy retorts "I will if you will."
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Not this if it wasn't actually them.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Given that Malcolm writes about the lottery at length, Monk deems it unlikely his suicide note would be just three words.
** Monk hates being touched and normally won't allow it, but when Natalie leans on him after the scandal breaks, close to tears, he lets her, despite being stiff with discomfort the whole time.
** Given that Malcolm writes about the lottery at length, Monk deems it unlikely his suicide note would be just three words.
** Monk hates being touched and normally won't allow it, but when Natalie leans on him after the scandal breaks, close to tears, he lets her, despite being stiff with discomfort the whole time.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
** Given that Malcolm writes about the lottery at length, Monk deems it unlikely his suicide note would be just three words.
**OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Monk hates being touched and normally won't allow it, but when Natalie leans on him after the scandal breaks, close to tears, he lets her, despite being stiff with discomfort the whole time. time.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: Given that Malcolm writes about the lottery at length, Monk deems it unlikely his suicide note would be just three words.
** Given that Malcolm writes about the lottery at length, Monk deems it unlikely his suicide note would be just three words.
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* OutOfCharacterAlert: Given that Malcolm writes about the lottery at length, Monk deems it unlikely his suicide note would be just three words.
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Misuse. This trope is for being rewarded for doing something nonsensical, and punished for doing something rational. This is just pointing out that a plan has holes, and that Natalie shouldn't have been suspected
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* UnprocessedResignation: Presumably Stottlemeyer's resignation from the San Francisco Police Department after winning the lottery. After he leads Monk to discover who the real lottery cheat is, his superior officer probably regarded the resignation as null and void. In a sense, Natalie's quitting as Monk's assistant is also unprocessed, since Monk just takes her back without comment after she's fired as lotto girl. Though that could also be understood as satisfying Monk's ultimatum. Regardless, Stottlemeyer and Natalie returning to their jobs serves as a ResetButton that [[StatusQuoIsGod restores the show's status quo]].
* ViolationOfCommonSense: The People in charge of the Lotto blame Natalie completely for putting an extremely strong electro magnet in a speaker, ignoring the facts that 1.) She has no experience in that field and displays the fact when she trips over the wire (when she's upset by firing the technician, its obvious she's trying to say that it might be more important than she made it appear) and 2.) that the most likely culprit was the obviously angry/on-edge technician with a history on-set, who was upset at Natalie for ''tripping over the wire leading to that very same microphone he was working on right before the next lotto happened.'' Not only that, but being fired gives him probable cause, his fingerprints were likely somewhere on that magnet, and he's publicly ''hanging out with his collaborator'' afterwards. All and all, it was a exceedingly sloppy plan - which has a hasty murder on top of it.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: The People in charge of the Lotto blame Natalie completely for putting an extremely strong electro magnet in a speaker, ignoring the facts that 1.) She has no experience in that field and displays the fact when she trips over the wire (when she's upset by firing the technician, its obvious she's trying to say that it might be more important than she made it appear) and 2.) that the most likely culprit was the obviously angry/on-edge technician with a history on-set, who was upset at Natalie for ''tripping over the wire leading to that very same microphone he was working on right before the next lotto happened.'' Not only that, but being fired gives him probable cause, his fingerprints were likely somewhere on that magnet, and he's publicly ''hanging out with his collaborator'' afterwards. All and all, it was a exceedingly sloppy plan - which has a hasty murder on top of it.
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* UnprocessedResignation: Presumably Stottlemeyer's resignation from the San Francisco Police Department after winning the lottery. After he leads Monk to discover who the real lottery cheat is, his superior officer probably regarded the resignation as null and void. In a sense, Natalie's quitting as Monk's assistant is also unprocessed, since Monk just takes her back without comment after she's fired as lotto girl. Though that could also be understood as satisfying Monk's ultimatum. Regardless, Stottlemeyer and Natalie returning to their jobs serves as a ResetButton that [[StatusQuoIsGod restores the show's status quo]].
* ViolationOfCommonSense: The People in charge of the Lotto blame Natalie completely for putting an extremely strong electro magnet in a speaker, ignoring the facts that 1.) She has no experience in that field and displays the fact when she trips over the wire (when she's upset by firing the technician, its obvious she's trying to say that it might be more important than she made it appear) and 2.) that the most likely culprit was the obviously angry/on-edge technician with a history on-set, who was upset at Natalie for ''tripping over the wire leading to that very same microphone he was working on right before the next lotto happened.'' Not only that, but being fired gives him probable cause, his fingerprints were likely somewhere on that magnet, and he's publicly ''hanging out with his collaborator'' afterwards. All and all, it was a exceedingly sloppy plan - which has a hasty murder on top of it.quo]].
* ViolationOfCommonSense: The People in charge of the Lotto blame Natalie completely for putting an extremely strong electro magnet in a speaker, ignoring the facts that 1.) She has no experience in that field and displays the fact when she trips over the wire (when she's upset by firing the technician, its obvious she's trying to say that it might be more important than she made it appear) and 2.) that the most likely culprit was the obviously angry/on-edge technician with a history on-set, who was upset at Natalie for ''tripping over the wire leading to that very same microphone he was working on right before the next lotto happened.'' Not only that, but being fired gives him probable cause, his fingerprints were likely somewhere on that magnet, and he's publicly ''hanging out with his collaborator'' afterwards. All and all, it was a exceedingly sloppy plan - which has a hasty murder on top of it.
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Stottlemeyer wins and so does Eugene Maddox (Brian Keith Russell). The two winners receive big cardboard checks on TV. But because Stottlemeyer knows Natalie, the lottery commissioner (Dinah Lenney) determines Natalie and Stottlemeyer cheated. So Natalie's fired, and Stottlemeyer's prize payment is suspended.
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Stottlemeyer wins and so does Eugene Maddox (Brian Keith Russell). The two winners receive big cardboard checks on TV. But because Stottlemeyer knows Natalie, the lottery commissioner (Dinah Lenney) (Creator/DinahLenney) determines Natalie and Stottlemeyer cheated. So Natalie's fired, and Stottlemeyer's prize payment is suspended.
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* UnprocessedResignation: Presumably Stottlemeyer's resignation from the San Francisco Police Department after winning the lottery. After he leads Monk to discover who the real lottery cheat is, his superior officer probably regarded the resignation as null and void. In a sense, Natalie's quitting as Monk's assistant is also unprocessed, since Monk just takes her back without comment after she's fired as lotto girl. Though that could also be understood as satisfying Monk's ultimatum. Regardless, Stottlemeyer and Natalie returning to their jobs serves as a ResetButton that [[StatusQuoIsGod restores the show's status quo]].
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* UnprocessedResignation: Presumably Stottlemeyer's resignation from the San Francisco Police Department after winning the lottery. After he leads Monk to discover who the real lottery cheat is, his superior officer probably regarded the resignation as null and void. In a sense, Natalie's quitting as Monk's assistant is also unprocessed, since Monk just takes her back without comment after she's fired as lotto girl. Though that could also be understood as satisfying Monk's ultimatum. Regardless, Stottlemeyer and Natalie returning to their jobs serves as a ResetButton that [[StatusQuoIsGod restores the show's status quo]].quo]].
* ViolationOfCommonSense: The People in charge of the Lotto blame Natalie completely for putting an extremely strong electro magnet in a speaker, ignoring the facts that 1.) She has no experience in that field and displays the fact when she trips over the wire (when she's upset by firing the technician, its obvious she's trying to say that it might be more important than she made it appear) and 2.) that the most likely culprit was the obviously angry/on-edge technician with a history on-set, who was upset at Natalie for ''tripping over the wire leading to that very same microphone he was working on right before the next lotto happened.'' Not only that, but being fired gives him probable cause, his fingerprints were likely somewhere on that magnet, and he's publicly ''hanging out with his collaborator'' afterwards. All and all, it was a exceedingly sloppy plan - which has a hasty murder on top of it.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: The People in charge of the Lotto blame Natalie completely for putting an extremely strong electro magnet in a speaker, ignoring the facts that 1.) She has no experience in that field and displays the fact when she trips over the wire (when she's upset by firing the technician, its obvious she's trying to say that it might be more important than she made it appear) and 2.) that the most likely culprit was the obviously angry/on-edge technician with a history on-set, who was upset at Natalie for ''tripping over the wire leading to that very same microphone he was working on right before the next lotto happened.'' Not only that, but being fired gives him probable cause, his fingerprints were likely somewhere on that magnet, and he's publicly ''hanging out with his collaborator'' afterwards. All and all, it was a exceedingly sloppy plan - which has a hasty murder on top of it.
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** On the other hand, Natalie, despite becoming a bit of a diva about the whole thing, also makes a good point. Monk often treats her very poorly, most notably by trying to short change her paychecks. A lot of people would have quit sooner than she did.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: When Monk complains to Natalie about her working the lotto, he claims if it wasn't her, the studio would have "hired some other bim-" and stops short. When Natalie asks him to finish that sentence, he says "...bimportant person".
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* LastSecondWordSwap: When Monk complains to Natalie about her working the lotto, he claims if it wasn't her, the studio would have "hired some other bim-" and stops short. When Natalie asks him to finish that sentence, he says "... bimportant person".
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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Natalie's newfound fame as the lotto girl causes her to grow noticeably more egotistical.
