History YMMV / Monk

** In "Mr. Monk Goes To A Fashion Show" Monk is revealed to send letters of praise to his favorite clothing inspector, who happens to be a mother who wants to clear her son's name, and she even happily frames and mounts the letters he sends her.

** "Mr Monk and the Actor" is about someone [[ShowWithinAShow making a movie dramatizing an earlier case]]. When the actor portraying Adrian has a mental breakdown attempting to portray Adrian via method acting he decides to drop the film and play a character that is "less dark and depressing"...and he drops acting so he can do theater and play ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Monk being compelled to wash his hands for a long time due to mysophobia and OCD in "Monk in Quarantine"? A little sad because he starts crying. Monk washing his hands while singing "100 bottles of beer on the wall" and getting all the way to 35 bottles before sobbing? Hilarious.

** Monk being mysophobic and scared of getting sick became this when Tony Shalhoub revealed that he and his wife contracted COVID-19 in 2020, albeit a mild form and they recovered nicely.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: While Adrian Monk does have several symptoms of OCD (germaphobia, compulsive behaviors), he also exhibits symptoms of other mental and behavioral disorders, like autism, that don't necessarily fit with OCD. When Natalie explains Monk's odd behavior to others, she occasionally describes him as "persnickity".

%%** "[[Recap/MonkS5E15MrMonkAndTheReallyReallyDeadGuy Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy]]": In a series full of murderers, Dr. Leven stands out as among the pettiest and most vicious. He chooses a lonely street musician and puts him through a gruesome RasputinianDeath: the guy is bludgeoned, injected with poison, suffocated, stabbed, shot, and run over with a car--and the morticians can't tell which of these actually killed the man, so he may have been alive for a while and feeling every moment of horror. Leven then sends phony messages about being a [[SerialKiller mass murderer]] known as the "Six-Way Killer," which puts the entirety of San Francisco on lockdown. It turns out that Leven is using a SmokescreenCrime to cover up his first murder from that night: Jean Garnett, a woman he'd met at a conference in town and taken on a date. When she refused to let him sleep with her, he ''beat her to death with his bare hands''; he then hastily found another victim and created the illusion of a serial killer being loose in the city to prevent the medical examiner's office from doing a full autopsy of Jean's stomach and discovering the one-of-a-kind dessert that she and Leven had shared that evening, which would allow them to trace his movements. So to recap: Leven brutally kills a woman just for turning down his advances, then kills again, completely at random, to cover his tracks.

** "[[Recap/MonkS5E15MrMonkAndTheReallyReallyDeadGuy Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy]]": In a series full of murderers, Dr. Leven stands out as among the pettiest and most vicious. He chooses a lonely street musician and puts him through a gruesome RasputinianDeath: the guy is bludgeoned, injected with poison, suffocated, stabbed, shot, and run over with a car--and the morticians can't tell which of these actually killed the man, so he may have been alive for a while and feeling every moment of horror. Leven then sends phony messages about being a [[SerialKiller mass murderer]] known as the "Six-Way Killer," which puts the entirety of San Francisco on lockdown. It turns out that Leven is using a SmokescreenCrime to cover up his first murder from that night: Jean Garnett, a woman he'd met at a conference in town and taken on a date. When she refused to let him sleep with her, he ''beat her to death with his bare hands''; he then hastily found another victim and created the illusion of a serial killer being loose in the city to prevent the medical examiner's office from doing a full autopsy of Jean's stomach and discovering the one-of-a-kind dessert that she and Leven had shared that evening, which would allow them to trace his movements. So to recap: Leven brutally kills a woman just for turning down his advances, then kills again, completely at random, to cover his tracks.