Mine has to be this exchange from Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs:

Captain Stottlemeyer: That was funny! Where's that guy? Adrian Monk: Trudy died. Captain Stottlemeyer: Yes, Trudy died, but you didn't die. You're alive. Adrian Monk: Alive is a funny word.

I had a vague memory of a commercial for Monk that is a parody of the Shaft Theme Song sung by Isaac Hayes. The lyrics are changed to suit Monk and is a bit of a video montage of events from the show. An example of the most memorable part is:

"who's the one who can? something something something hand... MONK."

This would have been produced at a time where Isaac Hayes was a very active voice actor so I would assume permission was expressed through his participation. I also recall that this got a lot of air time on the USA Network.

Does anyone else remember this ad?

Netflix just took down Monk. They have personal Beef with me now and this subreddit i hope.

They shouldnt come between me and Daddy Stottlemeyer 🥊🥊

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Okay so I’m currently in my first watch through and I’ve definitely been bingeing the show. I’m currently on s4 e14. I love so much about the show however, I continuously get so frustrated with the captain, Disher, and Natalie. Several episodes every season Monk will say he knows who the guy is and they just flat out don’t believe him. Like, when is he ever wrong??

I really do love the show for the most part but that part just irks me every time it happens. I just needed to say this to other people that have seen most of if not all of the series.

1. The series ended on a very positive note, but they ruined it by portraying Monk as a suicidal old man who ultimately went back to square one. All that character progress down the drain. I mean, they dedicated an entire episode of the eighth season to Monk overcoming his claustrophobia (Mr. Monk Goes to Group Therapy) and I personally think it was a major character development because the guy was buried alive at one point!
2. The plot twist was absolutely flimsy. I knew from the start that the measuring tape had been replaced or tampered with, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. What else could it have possibly been? They even showed Trudy Jr.’s fiancé (I’ve forgotten her name) measuring it himself—twice, I might add. They practically spelled it out!
3. I have no idea how they managed to convict Eden (a.k.a. Bezos) on the basis of tampered measuring tape. Anyone could have done it, and even a law student could’ve shredded that case in court—let alone a ‘gazillionaire’ who probably has an entire law firm on his payroll.
4. I didn’t care much for Trudy Jr., much less her fiancé. It would’ve been a bit more impactful if the bride had been Natalie’s daughter or if the victim had been Stottlemier’s kid or something. Something personal. I mean, I felt for Kevin Dorfman as a character—who they just killed off mid-season in some random episode like it was nothing!
5. Eden/Bezos tried to bribe Monk with $1Bn?!
6. How in the world did Randy Disher manage to become sheriff? Seriously, that must be a poke at bureaucracy! The guy didn’t even deserve to be a lieutenant, though I understand they needed a token dumb guy in the cast to drive some of the jokes. Still...

Overall, all they did was beat a dead horse. Personally, the series ran out of steam at around season six, but they kept milking it. Now, it’s still nowhere near as bad as The Big Bang Theory or The Walking Dead, and the ending was surprisingly good—but they just had to ruin it with this movie reunion thing!

After Monk did she go onto bigger or better things?

It’s the only show my German shepherd watches consistently and falls asleep too. It’s the only thing that calms her down. I’m doomed if Netflix removes it 😭.

They were both on Morning Joe this morning talking about their new fictional podcast “It Happened Here 2024”. Loved seeing them together again, makes me really yearn for another Monk movie where Ambrose makes a return. Link to the interview in the comments.

It is considered a great episode here?

While a bit improbable, it has some great moments such Leland going bananas in the interrogation room trying to see/get the monkey to shoot the gun.

Then the monkey shows up at Monk's place because Sharona wanted to save the monkey and didn't know where else to put the monkey.

So...that monkey at Monk's place monkeying around and ruining his home has to be one of the most frustrating, yet funny things I've seen on the show. I wonder how many takes the Monk crew needed to get the right shots with that monkey in there.

I'm actually surprised Monk's therapist showed up at Monk's place. I always remember the (original) therapist, Dr Kroger, trying to avoid Monk as much as possible outside of the office. Maybe that's for later on. I love that original Monk actor and I was so sad when he passed away. RIP. The new therapist actor wasn't too bad either, but Dr Kroger and Monk had a great chemistry that is not replaceable/replicable.

I have the same Victoreen Survey Meter as the prop that they used for one of the alien internet fan guys. Wish mine still had the knobs 😔. The thing he holds in his other hand and the light-uppy parts on the side aren't part of the original device, and it doesn't make the Geiger Counter noises. These can detect gamma and sometimes beta radiation, depending on the model. Pretty sure radiology departments used them a lot when working in X-Ray machines. Consider this my MonkMildlyInteresting post.

when they are locked up in the vault .Randy thank goodness I recorded my demo I'm gonna live thru my music 🎶😁 leland : 😵‍💫🥴.

This is just a random observation, but it occured to me that the number 18 is probably the most common number occuring besides the Monk favourite ones (multiple of 10's)

context: I dabble in writing, so I think a lot about how things are written

1. Why did the episode begin with that parking ticket thing? Jack Monk Sr could have easily showed up to the SFPD to tell Monk he suspected that his boss had murdered someone and that he needed his help. That would have been the more common way to write his return. We saw it with Trudy's dad in the game show episode. The parking ticket thing didn't advance the plot, took up time, and never paid off in any real way.
2. Is it just me or was the whole SFPD office laid out differently in this episode? Stottlemeyer's window had a view of the city, where in previous episodes his window faced another building.
3. It's interesting that Stottlemeyer was constantly forcing Monk to connect with his dad. It represents a pretty significant cultural shift between then and now. Nowadays it's pretty widely accepted that a child has every right to cut off an abusive or neglectful parent and everyone who cares for Monk would have affirmed his right to hold a boundary. Back then, not so much.
4. I know a lot of people hate Jack Monk and that's reasonable, but I think that has to do with the fact that in the show Monk's family members are the only really complex characters. Everyone else who is bad is just bad. Jack Monk Sr (and Jr for that matter) is bad in the way real people are bad, which is to say they are sometimes nice and even lovable which makes it more hurtful when they let you down. This may explain why the character of Jack Monk Sr is so hard to watch, because in the rest of the show all the other villains are cartoonishly evil, but Jack Monk Sr actually reminds us of real people which is far more painful
5. When Monk calls Julie at the Christmas party and asks to be picked up, she says that no one can drive because everyone has been drinking. Which raises the question: how were they all planning on getting home? Were they just going to have a big sleepover at the Teeger's? Stottlemeyer, Disher, and all those random SFPD extras? Freaky.
6. The broken brake line made no sense in the context of the plot. What purpose did that serve? Why did a brake line randomly rupture? There was no foreshadowing, no set up and it didn't even make it harder for them to solve the case. They just found another clue in a scene that wasn't even shown. Weird.
7. I think it's odd that there was no good-bye between Jack Sr and Adrian. You kind of want to see that story have an ending. Maybe Monk wants him to stay and be a dad but Jack tells him he can't, his life is elsewhere, something like that. The bike thing was super cute, but the lack of ending between them felt weird given how much time we spent watching them re-establish their relationship
8. Despite these things, I do love this episode largely because it's one of the few times we see Monk get a little bit of a break from his phobias. He's wearing his Dad's hat in the rig, he doesn't have his toothbrush or wipes or Sierra Springs water, but he's still happy, because he's with his dad. It goes to show that much (though not all) of his issues have to do with grief, and when he gets a temporary relief from that grief, his obsessions ramp down a bit. That's a very subtle but very nice piece of writing.
9. edit: it also just ocurred to me how terrible it is that Monk got to have a whole adventure with his dad and Ambrose missed out. That's so sad!

3 off the top of my head.

1. Paperboy. If Monk wasn’t the way he was, that kid would not be dead.
2. Sniper that took out Captains wife. (Auto accident). He was content that it was being blamed on the Union beef. But Sharona ran her mouth about Monk not thinking it was the Union so he went out and shot another person to cement it. (Did he kill the 2nd victim or just injure him? I can’t remember.) But that one really bothers me. Her flirting (maybe) got someone killed.
3. The guy that owned the rare coin store. He, Stottlemeyer, and Randy are 100% to blame for getting the guy at the train station killed.

How come Sharona is only ever attracted to criminals??? I’m only on season 2 but I’ve quickly learned that if Sharona is flirting with a man, he will surely be arrested later…

Title. Yet for Adrian's benefit, I will add a rating to their opinion, 10/10. https://screenrant.com/monk-season-3-natalie-sharona-replacement-good-saved-show/

I’ll start with mine:

The Big Bang Theory: I would LOVE to see him and Sheldon Cooper meet and have them compare their phobias, obsessions, and compulsions! Also, watch Monk’s obsessive cleanliness clash with Sheldon’s strict routines would be hilarious and I’m sure they would try to one-up each other over whose quirks are more justified a la Harold Krenshaw.

Was this Sharona's in the mr monk and the rapper epicode shortly after car bomb scene?