Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan - S6-E1
Continuity mistake: Near the end, when Ringel pulls a gun on Monk and Marcy, he reaches over and closes the venetian blinds. There's no gap in the shuttered blinds when he walks away from the window. Then there is. Then there isn't again. (00:34:30)
Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: When Monk is eating dinner, he spills ketchup on his shirt, but in the next shot his shirt is clean.
Mr. Monk and the 12th Man - S2-E9
Other mistake: In the scene where Mr.Babcock is murdering the woman in the cinema, we see the woman has a big bucket of popcorn. As he starts strangling her, only a small amount of popcorn falls out. When the camera turns toward the floor there is a lot more popcorn on the floor and it it is spread right across the screen.
Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show - S4-E10
Continuity mistake: When the fashion designer draws a sketch on the newly painted wall, the drawing changes between shots, from four lines to about seven.
Mr. Monk and the Naked Man - S6-E3
Character mistake: SPOILER. Arlene Boras murders Vicki Deline in order to stop her telling Peter Magneri that he has an aortic aneurysm. Boras wants Magneri dead to clean up by short selling the stock in his company. Boras is a medical professional, and she would know that an aneurysm can burst if the patient is under stress or is shocked in some way. Allowing Deline to tell Magneri that he is in danger of dropping dead on the spot would kill him, which is exactly what she wants.
Mr. Monk Fights City Hall - S7-E16
Continuity mistake: Season 7: "Mr. Monk Fights City Hall": Monk tells the councilwoman that he knows how the vote went last week because he was there. Yet a few days later, when he and Natalie arrive at city hall for the next meeting, he has to ask which room and which floor the council meets on. (00:07:50)
Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike - S5-E2
Factual error: The newspaper with the front page headline about Jimmy Cusack's death comes out the same morning that he is found dead. In reality, since it's said later that the cleaning crew found his body around 7:00 AM, it would be way too late for his death to have appeared in that same morning's edition of the San Francisco Chronicle. It would more likely appear in the next day's paper, by which time Monk had found out that Cusack had been murdered. (00:05:05)
Mr. Monk Is on the Run (2) - S6-E16
Continuity mistake: Monk kicks an oil drum across the floor toward Rawlins. In the master shot, it rolls half the distance and passes a black line on the concrete. The angle changes to a view from behind Monk and Natalie as the barrel keeps rolling and almost reaches Rawlins. But when the master shot returns, the barrel is again just passing the midway line on the floor. (00:25:00)
Mr. Monk Is on the Run (1) - S6-E15
Continuity mistake: Natalie's "smoothie" is an extremely unappetizing pitcher full of dark brown glop. But when she pours it out into a glass, it has turned white. (00:33:00)
Mr. Monk and the Naked Man - S6-E3
Factual error: While the police are investigating the murder at the start of the episode, the police make numerous mistakes with the crime scene. First there is no sheet over the body and/or tent to cover the body. Being they are on a beach it would make sense to cover the body from any debris or sand disturbing the body. Second, the sun is shining brightly would not help with preserving the body for the coroner. Finally why have the police only cordoned off a small area around the body. Being a crime scene and potential evidence could be found it makes little sense why they wouldn't cordon off the beach or most of it from the public.
Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink - S5-E7
Continuity mistake: When the cleaning woman's body is found, she's lying on the floor face up. A short time later, despite repeated admonitions that nothing should be or has been touched, the corpse has somehow turned itself over and is now lying face down. (00:02:05 - 00:07:45)
Continuity mistake: Monk and Natalie question the landlady, Sylvia, about the missing guest. Every time the camera angle changes, Sylvia's arms change from being crossed in front of her to hanging loosely at her sides.
Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When Monk is lost in the street crowd after getting pushed into the subway car, his left shirt collar is sticking up over his coat. It's still up when he puts his hands to his head, but is tucked neatly back in in the next shot, though he still has both hands on his head. A few seconds later, it's the right collar flap that's sticking out instead.
Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital - S5-E16
Continuity mistake: In the hospital corridor, when Stottlemeyer orders Monk to go home, the items on the nurse's station counter shift positions completely every time the camera angle changes. (00:25:30)
Mr. Monk and Little Monk - S4-E8
Continuity mistake: When the kids are standing in front of the lockers, one of them is holding Monk's clarinet. The position of the instrument in his hand keeps changing between shots, from bell-up to bell-down, then bell-up again.
Mr. Monk and Little Monk - S4-E8
Continuity mistake: In the flashback scene of the kids in the school hallway, the autographed photo of Patty Duke disappears and reappears twice on the inside of Little Monk's locker door as the camera angles change.
Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic - S3-E13
Continuity mistake: In the beginning of the episode, right after Ray Galardi kills Steve Marriot, Galardi puts him in the passenger side door of his VW Beetle and drives him up inside the dump-truck. Galardi puts him in the VW driver's seat, and walks around to the other side of the Beetle. This is all well and good, but, Marriot's head switches positions from the time when Galardi puts him in the car to the time he walks around and starts the engine.
Mr. Monk Goes to Jail - S2-E16
Continuity mistake: The large blue Nazi/Swastika tattoo on the left side of the head Nazi's neck changes from being neat and symmetrical to uneven during the course of the episode. This is most noticeable when comparing the exercise-yard "you stole the watch" scene to the black-and-white "solving the case" flashback scene.
Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic - S3-E13
Revealing mistake: The VW Beetle that slides out of the dump truck and rolls over is noticeably not the same car the victim was driving earlier. It's a lighter color, and is already badly dented, even before it's wrecked.
Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine - S3-E9
Continuity mistake: In Stottlemeyer's hospital room, a medicated Monk finishes off the leftover pudding from the food tray. Then, while he's talking to them, the pudding smeared on his upper lip disappears and reappears between shots.
Answer: The two men are trying to work out a secret deal between them without involving the union, which means the workers' interests aren't being represented and defeats the whole purpose of a union. The mayor would lose labor's support and Cusack's union troubles would just be starting.
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