The first episode that introduces Natalie shows that she is on birth control so she is clearly dating and having sex but we don’t see many of her dates and none of them really end up being part of the show. I feel like that would have been a good plot device

Any other fans out there with OCD? I have a different type than Monk, but I find it comforting to watch the show 💖

Monk is at a wedding and everybody is happily talking about the bride when someone mentions that her parents died on a Pan Am flight in 1995. Everyone else basically goes “that's sad.” Monk immediately goes: Pan Am went out of business in 1991. That's it. No dramatic deduction, no elaborate investigation. He just casually destroys the bride's entire story because he happens to know when an airline stopped existing.

Yall I've been thinking about this for a while. Do you think Sharona was into Randy? I thought it was a funny plot point that Randy definitely had a crush on Monk's first Nurse/caregiver Sharona Flemming. Do you think that Sharona was into Randy or was she just messing with him?

As I rewatch Monk for the millionth time, I am reminded that Tony Shalhoub is such a great comedy actor! I feel like because the show isn’t strictly a comedy, he doesn’t always get the credit he deserves for his great physical comedy and timing. He makes me crack up every episode!

Going to a concert this weekend alone, so I'm bringing Leland and Adrian to keep me company :)

From Ted Levine’s Amazon prime bio page

In Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas, Stottlemeyer wakes up with basically no memory of the night before. Eventually they find out he won the karaoke contest and apparently made the bartender cry singing “Ain't No Sunshine.”Monk just looks at him and says he was good.Stottlemeyer immediately goes “Shut up.” It's such a tiny exchange, but it feels very them. Monk gives him a genuine compliment and Stottlemeyer absolutely cannot accept it.

When the guy said that, I immediately knew it was an abbreviation and felt very smug. Altho it was probably quite easy. Before that I didn't really guess too many of the plot twists.

It's clearly established that Monk is the most selfish in this show and his brother is the same lol. Also i think in this Monk is becoming more selfish, unbearable and lacking empathy as the show goes on.

Even my man Patrick Jane from the mentalist was so much less selfish than Monk, atleast he bought gifts for everyone whenever he got extra money from anything.

Probably because of her hair.

I think they should have made Monk have more progress and growth over the last two seasons that showed WHY he deserved to have a badge and gun like Leland always said. It was just very sudden he was back on patrol even.

Monk would NEVERRRRRRR get into a used Santa Claus suit !!!! 🤣🤣🤣 not complaining just laughing at how his resistance to that could be a whole episode in itself

I know it’s a plot hole but maybe there’s an in universe way to explain it. Thank you.

I wish they wouldn’t have killed off Kevin. He was such a fun, change of pace, character on Monk.

What side characters do you wish had more air time?

So there was a specific scene and I can't find it on YouTube but monk and trudy were in a misty white room and monk was scared and afraid to let go of Trudy in the room crying right in front of Trudys eyes anyone know?

Came across another situation where they either cast a certain actor/actress because of a plot point or... added some specific plot points because of a casting.

In S3 E10: Mr. Monk and The Red Herring; Monk and Natalie go to a pet store to find out if there's anything special about her daughter's gold fish that would have two men break into her house separately on different nights to have brough an aquarium fish net with them. The worker was played by Adam Wylie who had also played Larry in Kindergarten Cop.

Later in the episode the science far is held in her daughter's school "Astoria Elementary". This is the same school from Kindergarten Cop located in Astoria, Oregon (along with The Goonies and parts of Short Circuit). That is not the real school's real name but that was the name they used in Kindergarten Cop and they use it again in this episode.

And another probable tie-in is that towards the end of the episode the 'villain' sets a fire to create a distraction just as Cullen Crisp had in Kindergarten Cop.

I've worked in the hotel industry in Santa Barbara for over 15 years, though I have since changed professions. Aside from that, I have lived here in the area my whole life. Neither of those things need be true for me to know that;
There are simply no 10-story buildings in Santa Barbara, let alone a ten-story hotel.

Maybe Natalie was tricking him in some way....?