Mr. Monk Is At Your Service - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When Paul shoots his butler, you see him raise his arm up straight out, but in the next shot, his arm is lowered with his elbow bent.
Mr. Monk Is At Your Service - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When Natalie drops Monk off at the mansion, there is a bush in the background. Suddenly a gardener appears.
Mr. Monk Is On The Air - S5-E13
Continuity mistake: When Monk and Natalie are getting out of their car at Max Hudson's house, there is a woman on the sidewalk walking past the house. As soon as Monk asks, "What station is he on?" the camera angle changes to a view from Max's porch, and said woman suddenly disappears, when she should be seen walking across the driveway. (00:07:55)
Mr. Monk Is On The Air - S5-E13
Continuity mistake: As the murderer is arrested at the end, the collar of his jacket changes from turned up in back to turned down, etc., several times between takes. (00:39:30)
Mr. Monk Visits a Farm - S5-E14
Continuity mistake: Natalie carries a large box full of house plants into Monk's kitchen and starts placing them one by one on the counter while he answers the phone. Each time the shot changes, a large red flower switches itself from the left side of one plant to the right side and back again, and sometimes disappears altogether. (00:09:00)
Mr. Monk Visits a Farm - S5-E14
Character mistake: When Randy Disher is having Chinese food in his apartment with his new girlfriend in 3-12 "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", he gets a fortune stating that he is going to get money from his uncle, and says that he doesn't have an uncle. In this episode Randy inherits a farm from his uncle who appears to have committed suicide, but was actually murdered.
Suggested correction: Randy says when that uncle dies that they were never close, so his leaving him the farm comes as a total surprise. It's still a character mistake, however, Randy is established as the sort of person who could "blank out" a relative that long-lost.
Randy says he can run the farm because he went there and helped his uncle every summer.
Mr. Monk Visits a Farm - S5-E14
Continuity mistake: In this episode, Randy says that his uncle left him a farm in his will. In the episode "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever", Randy stated that all of his uncles are deceased. Kind of hard to be given a farm from a guy who's been dead since Season 3.
Suggested correction: Not necessarily, as in many cases when someone is trying to claim someone else's inheritance it can take years until such a case is finally resolved by a judge's ruling.
The point of the mistake is Randy said all his uncles are dead, but then later, Harvey Disher is alive. The farm wasn't in some probate court for years, Harvey had died the month before.
True. Obviously my bad! Thank you.
Mr. Monk Visits a Farm - S5-E14
Continuity mistake: When Jimmy is talking to Harvey, after Harvey refuses the money, he puts his hand on Harvey's shoulder. But the next shot, it's off. It switches to back on depending on the camera angle.
Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy - S5-E15
Plot hole: In this episode, Monk doesn't know to open a cell phone to answer it, but in "Mr. Monk and the Kid", he used a cell phone with the ransom drop with no problems. (00:04:25 - 00:05:05)
Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy - S5-E15
Factual error: The FBI agent runs a computer check and prints out a list of all the pet stores in San Francisco selling ferrets. But he shouldn't have been able to generate any list at all. Pet ferrets are illegal in the state of California, and are not sold in pet stores there. (00:15:00)
Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy - S5-E15
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Monk mistakes the plasma TV for a blackboard, he writes the words "BODY MOVED" on the screen. Initially, he writes the "B" with an extra long vertical stroke; the next time we see the text, the vertical stroke is of a normal length. The text reads "BODY MOVED" when Monk stops writing, but when the FBI agent walks over to the screen to try to wipe it off, it has changed to "BODY M".
Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy - S5-E15
Factual error: In real life, the FBI does not have jurisdiction over routine homicide cases, which are almost always left to the local police. They have no jurisdiction over serial murder at all, unless a federal employee is a victim or one of the murders gets committed on federal property (like an army base, federal prison or national park, or on sovereign territory like a reservation). The only time the FBI would be involved in a homicide is if the individual crossed state lines in committing the crime.
Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy - S5-E15
Visible crew/equipment: Inside the CSI van, when the investigators all turn to look at Randy, an equipment shadow sweeps across the wall at the upper right of the screen.
Mr. Monk and the Really, Really Dead Guy - S5-E15
Factual error: Monk typing the address into his laptop would not affect the trace the agents are doing, it definitely wouldn't pop up on the agent's screen as the result of the trace.
Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital - S5-E16
Character mistake: The doctor remarks that his patient has rheumatoid arthritis early in the episode, and later he says osteoarthritis. These are two different conditions. (00:19:15 - 00:28:40)
Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital - S5-E16
Continuity mistake: When Monk, the Captain and Disher talk to Dr. Scott during his cardio test, the doctor's hospital gown is falling off his left shoulder in about half the shots, but is pulled up to his neck in the rest. This alternates several times throughout the scene, though he never touches or adjusts the gown. (00:19:30 - 00:21:30)
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 Goes to the Hospital - S5-E16
Factual error: The doctor says Monk is losing "cranial fluid" when speaking to the interns. He means "cerebrospinal fluid." There is no such thing as "cranial fluid", especially in medicine. (00:28:50)
Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital - S5-E16
Audio problem: When Monk is saying "motive" in the phrase "this one had a motive", the word is spliced in two, as they used two different takes and combined them. Very robotic. (00:28:55)
Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital - S5-E16
Revealing mistake: When Monk and the others are examining the crime scene, the "corpse" can be seen breathing (his abdomen is rising and falling) and blinking. There are various shots in this scene taken from behind the body looking into the room, and some of these are pulled back so that the body is visible while others are zoomed in so that it is not; this is not a mistake, but suggests that maybe the actor was told he would not be visible in these shots and so did not need to hold his breath.
