Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan - S3-E1
Corrected entry: The captain refers to the DA as a "guy" just after the New York policeman calls her "she", indicating she is female. (00:09:45)
Mr. Monk and His Biggest Fan - S6-E1
Corrected entry: In the scene where Randy hits Ringel with the timber, it was originally the same length as all the others. Then at the moment Randy strikes, he hits the timber with a flat palm. In real life, it would just return into its stack without touching Ringel at all.
Correction: No, just as in the game he played with the kid he was looking for one piece of timber that was loose enough to slide through the stack and hit Ringel just as it did.
Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa - S6-E10
Corrected entry: Why is everyone talking about the gun piece as if it's evidence, even the police do. 1st they don't know who called in the tip. 2nd the reporter touched it with her bare hands and kept it for over 24 hours before turning it over to the police, and 3rd the chain of evidence is completely messed up. It would never be considered evidence by police.
Correction: It may not be admissible in court, but it can still be used in the investigation in order to determine who is guilty. Subsequently, additional evidence can be gathered.
Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend - S6-E4
Corrected entry: When Mr. Monk is doing his summation, he mentions the moving truck being towed. However, he would have no way of knowing about this because he wasn't there when it happened, and he couldn't have heard about it from Stottlemeyer because he wouldn't talk to him about the murder.
Correction: The moving truck was impounded outside the police station. Additionally, Monk found a rental form for a moving truck in Linda's house. He probably saw the impounded moving truck, then saw the rental form. After leaving the house, he and Natalie likely went over the records to determine where the impounded moving truck had come from, and that's how they learned it was towed from in front of Linda's house.
Mr. Monk Is on the Run (2) - S6-E16
Corrected entry: When Mr. Monk and Natalie escape from the Sheriff at the car wash in Sparks, Nevada, they end up taking the Sheriff's car. They are first seen after this with this car as they are checking the Sheriff's briefcase on the side of the road. Then, the very next scene is with Natalie and the man behind bars at San Quentin (just north of San Francisco and at least a 2 to 3 hour drive from Sparks, Nevada). Then they are seen with Natalie's car at the parade in Riverton, CA (a town between San Francisco and San Quentin). The only way this could have happened is if they drove all the way back to Sparks, Nevada and then changed cars and returned to Riverton, California (at least 5 to 6 hours driving). Since the parade was happening that day, there would not have been enough time to do all of this driving and get to the parade on time.
Correction: They only took Rollins' car to escape and so he couldn't follow them. They had plenty of time to get Natalie's car once they were safe. Mr. Monk was already lying low while Natalie went to San Quentin, and Natalie got a camera put in her purse. So they did several things prior to Natalie going to the jail.
Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show - S4-E10
Corrected entry: It is implied in this episode that Monk only wears one style of shirt, but in other episodes he has worn different shirts (albeit similar).
Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater - S2-E6
Corrected entry: When Sharona is talking to her mother at the table and her mother spells out S-T-O-L-E, Sharona says he (Benji) can spell, he's 11. This episode aired in 8/2003. In the pilot episode, which is from 7/2002, she says he's 11 in that episode, too, which is impossible because it's 13 months later.
Correction: This can not be a mistake unless they actually say what year it is in the show, or confirm that a more than a year has passed within the show. Just because 13 months has passed in real life it does not mean that much time has passed in the show.
Mr. Monk and the Red Herring - S3-E10
Corrected entry: The guy who put the moonrock into Julie's tank replaced it with an exact replica, but he was never alone with the moonrock long enough to make a replica.
Correction: You don't have to be alone with a rock to make a replica! A good set of photos will do the job just as well.
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Corrected entry: After Monk has accidentally pushed the close button on the panic room door, Captain Stottlemeyer tries to guide Monk to pushing the open button on the wall. After a couple of minutes the captain puts his hand through the hole to open the door. The scene doesn't make sense, however. Stottlemeyer makes no attempt through the whole scene to try and open the door up for Monk, who is having trouble with the locked room. He can see the buttons and would easily be able to see he could reach it or at least try to reach it.
Mr. Monk and the Bad Girlfriend - S6-E4
Corrected entry: Why would Linda kill someone knowing most likely Monk would be investigating it? She knows how good he is and that he solves impossible crimes all the time.
Correction: She even goes the "extra mile" and commits the murder in another county making sure it is outside our Stottlemeyer's and i.e. Monk's jurisdiction.
Yes but knowing Monk she should never had tried to seduce him and she made the captain suspicious by claiming Monk tried to blackmail her for sex.
Correction: Characters doing stupid things isn't what qualifies as a stupidity. Why would anyone kill anyone knowing there's a chance they could get caught? Linda's personal motives for killing outweigh the fear of being caught.
Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa - S4-E9
Corrected entry: The title of the episode does not match the plot, since in the show the gifts are not given secretly. As the name suggests "secret Santa" is when the identity of the person giving the gift is secret. In the episode, the names are drawn out of a hat and are then handed by the person giving the gift to the recipient. The identity of the giver is not secret. More correct would be "randomly allocated Santa".
Correction: The gift exchange itself was not a secret, but the murderer sent the bottle of port to Stottlemeyer under a fake business name. The murderer was the Secret Santa.
Correction: Actually it would be called secret Santa because the identity of the giver is not known until the gift is given. The game is called secret Santa because it is a secret who Santa is until the gift is given. In different areas of the country it is done and named differently. Some you must even guess who gave you the gift, which I think would have been a more interesting plot but probably too long to make.
Mr. Monk and the Buried Treasure - S6-E6
Corrected entry: When Monk is in the captain's office watching the bank surveillance camera, it shows the security guard kill the robber with one shot. The captain even says he got off one round. Yet when Monk is summing up the case, the security guard kills the robber wth two shots.
Correction: This is Monk summing up the case: he was not there. So this is a character mistakes. He was just simply wrong about the number of shots fired.
Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus - S2-E4
Corrected entry: Throughout the entire show, Monk says he is afraid of milk (he says it in "Mr. Monk and the Candidate"). However in "Mr. Monk Goes to the Circus" he asks for milk and cream in his hot chocolate. But in later episodes his fear of milk is still there, so it's not that he's managed to make progress in that area.
Correction: Monk's fear of milk is not based on the taste of milk, but on its texture, and the way it slops everywhere when you pour it. Hot chocolate with milk in it has quite a different texture, and it wouldn't spill everywhere as Monk has no need to pour it.
Correction: It's an irrational fear, it doesn't have to be consistent.
Correction: Sharona actually says at one point "We've made a lot of progress with milk."
Correction: His fear of milk is because it's like human breast milk, therefore full of bacteria. Also from a naked breast, even if from a cow. The act of milk being heated up for hot chocolate is the same as cooking out the bacteria of raw meat. It doesn't have to make sense that all milk is pasteurized. He actually tastes that it is hot, so now clean.
Correction: And those chocolate drinks are made with water and a powder containing milk powder but not milk.
Mr. Monk Bumps His Head - S4-E11
Corrected entry: Debbie's pet bird is called a parakeet, but it's a much larger exotic bird. It's unlike Monk, whose other OCD eccentricities and obscure knowledge are in full force despite his amnesia, not to know the difference. Monk may not know every rare species by name, but parakeets (aka budgerigars) are household pets common enough that anyone would know Debbie's bird isn't one. Monk definitely would have known.
Correction: The term parakeet is used to describe any small-medium parrot species, like Debbie's bird, not just the commonly owned household budgerigar. Monk's identification was correct.
Mr. Monk and the End - Part I - S8-E15
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the season 8 episode "Mr. Monk and the End Pt. 1" the scene shows Monk and Trudy prior to the car bombing, together. Monk notices a new present under the tree. He mentions the present to her. However, in the season 4 episode, "Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa", he tells Natalie that he found the gift after Trudy died. Considering Monk's extraordinary gift for memory it seems unlikely that he would have forgotten how he discovered the gift.
Correction: Considering the trauma he went through that afternoon, it's perfectly understandable he would have forgotten. Add to that the fact that Trudy alters his gifts (He was never able to directly solve her murder), and his memory lapse can be totally explained.
Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico - S2-E2
Corrected entry: Monk and Sharona drive to San Marcos, a Spring Break resort town in Mexico. At the border, they're pulled over by Mexican authorities for a Customs inspection. Such inspections are performed on the US side of the border, but during the search, it's made clear that not only are they already in Mexico - they're also, conveniently, already in San Marcos. Spring Break resorts like this one, with pools, hotels, etc., aren't located at the border. (00:10:00)
Correction: Although they may not always take advantage of it, Mexican authorities absolutely have the right to perform customs inspections at their own border. And San Marcos is a fictional resort. There is no rule about where it must be located.
Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs - S7-E13
Corrected entry: At the beginning of this episode, in the scene in the police station, one of the officers is Terry, who is having a BBQ party for the big game and is handing out flyers with address and directions. But, Terry was killed off in Season Four in Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa.
Correction: While it's the same actor, he's playing a different character. In this episode he's Detective Burns, not Terry Chasen.
Mr. Monk and the Birds and the Bees - S6-E5
Corrected entry: During the scene where the police are investigating the crime scene, Monk walks around without any protective footwear. Everyone in the room is wearing them, presumably to avoid contaminating any evidence. Monk regardless of his problems, would not likely be allowed to enter the scene without them. It could even be argued Monk would prefer to wear something like this. Additionally, it's not as if no one noticed. The husband even asks about whether he wiped his feet before coming in and Monk shows his shoes to him. The captain is even watching and comments about his shoes being extremely clean.
Correction: Monk has gotten away with a lot of things that are not by the book. He once was allowed inside a jail without being searched by the guards, Monk is a talented detective and he is allowed a lot of slack.
Correction: The point of that scene was everyone's feet needed to be clean because of the rug so they put on footwear at the request of the homeowner for when they walked on the rug. That is why Disher took off his protective footwear when he went upstairs. All he cared about was the rug.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Monk, Natalie, Stottlemeyer and Disher open Cassie Drake's front door and find her body, notice that Disher pulls the front door outwards. Most front doors open inwards.
Correction: Not all front doors open in. Ours doesn't.
Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra - S3-E11
Corrected entry: In this episode Monk says that he never goes barefoot, but this is contradicted by an earlier episode, Mr. Monk Gets Fired. In this episode, Monk, after solving the case was 'doing a jig' and for the entirety of this scene he was barefoot.
Correction: When Monk was barefoot in the 'doing a jig' scene, he was distraught over losing his job and even more distraught over getting a new one. His mind was obviously miles away so he could be expected to have forgotten that he hates going barefoot.
Correction: He may have meant the man that the DA was going to help them meet with, rather than the DA herself. What the captain said was ambiguous.
Mechanic1c
It wasn't really ambiguous. But you're right, the Captain was referring to Warrick Tennyson. That was the whole purpose of the trip, to talk to him ("this guy"). The DA's office was the one that set up the meeting, so someone from the DA's office was going to meet Monk et al, but that's not who they were going to talk to.
Bishop73