I worked for Ron Moore. A lot. 
I turned on USA last night and all I got was a 60 minute commercial for Sleep Inn.
I didn’t know it was a real joint.
Is the UFO model real?
I wondered if there’s anything that will do that. I can see it being suspended from a remote controlled black plane perhaps, but otherwise I thought that (and most of the rest of the episode) was pretty weak.
Not enough interest for it’s own thread probably, so if nobody objects I’ll start one here: What are some of your favorite all-time Monk moments?
I have several of course, but one is when he went to the genetically engineered foods lab and beheld the square tomatoes.
MONK: A square tomato… a square tomato…
NATALIE: How do they taste?
MONK: Who cares!? It’s a square tomato… every piece the same size!
[then to the lab worker]
MONK: You’re doing God’s work on Earth…
It was like a scene from THE TRUMAN SHOW wasn’t it? “He only had to buy one bag of cleaning supplies… that’s his version of a five star review!”
My favorite is the episode “Mr. Monk and the Actor”, when the actor hired to play Monk on TV is starting to actually turn into Monk. He sees two beakers with liquid in them, and when everybody else leaves the room, he begins trying to “even out” the liquid. Natalie has to go back to get him, just like she usually has to do with Monk. Also, when Monk, Stottlemeyer, and Randy are watching the actors playing them. The look on Randy’s face when he sees that not only have they changed his character to a woman, but that “Randi” and the captain are now romantically involved is priceless!
I stopped watching it when they gave him that obnoxious neighbor, the one who hit the lottery, and who married two different golddiggers.
I didn’t want to watch a show full of quirky characters. ONE quirky character is about my max, and even then, I didn’t want to watch mostly his quirks.
I am watching this final season, to the point where I insist on watching it on the better TV, in the more comfortable room. My husband has to just Suffer for an hour a week. He can’t stand Monk.
Kevin Dorfman only appeared in a few episodes, including once last season. He wasn’t always unbearably annoying, and I actually grew to like him.
This isn’t as elaborate as Monk, and has no photographs.
And they killed him off.
I figured that Kevin Dorfman was gonna be there for good, after watching a few episodes with him in the show. And I figured that the show wasn’t worth watching, for me, if I had to put up with watching that asshole.
I’m glad that they killed him off. GLAD, do you hear?
:dubious:
He wasn’t even in sequential episodes:
- Mr. Monk and the Paperboy (16 January 2004) - Kevin Dorfman
- Mr. Monk and the Game Show (13 August 2004) - Kevin Dorfman
- Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk (12 August 2005) - Kevin Dorfman
- Mr. Monk Is on the Air (2 February 2007) - Kevin Dorfman
- Mr. Monk’s 100th Case (5 September 2008) - Kevin Dorfman (uncredited)
- Mr. Monk and the Magician (13 February 2009) - Kevin Dorfman
I got a kick out of the UFO episode, plenty of laugh out loud lines. Excited for an all new episode tonight.
Maybe it’s because this is the last season, but I seem to be savoring each episode a bit more this season. Tonight’s episode was not great, but it was amusing to see Monk play gangster with his moll Natalie Teegerb. A funny ending too!
I can’t help but wonder how Sharona would have looked in that red dress…
I have to say that I really love Tim Bagley–he was probably my favorite thing about Will & Grace, and he’s an absolute riot as Harold Krenshaw. I’m glad they haven’t overexposed his character over the series run, but I wouldn’t mind a few extra appearances as we go into the final stretch.
Weird case of retro-nition (recognizing somebody once it’s pointed out). I’d never placed him as half the party-guys-turned-yuppie-soccer-dads gay couple from WILL & GRACE until you mentioned it then I instantly “recognized” him.
One of my favorite episodes was when Dr. Kroger retired and Monk and Harold were acting as his dual stalkers. Tony Shalhoub’s expression at Kroger’s “He just took a bullet for me!” line was one of classic comic despair.
I hope that they don’t reinstate Adrian at the end of the series. While satisfying in terms of plot perhaps it would be completely unrealistic because as brilliant as he is in analytical skills he’s also proven in pretty much every episode that if it involves any of his 312 phobias he’s not going to be able to function as a cop. Per Leland even when Trudy was alive it was still a problem- he drove his partners (including Leland) barking mad- it just wasn’t nearly as much of a problem. (IRL, I wonder if there’d be a way of hiring him full time as a consultant [so that he could get benefits/retirement/etc.], or if his extreme OCD would be protected by AWDA.)
I’d like to see Adrian become a full-time private detective who commands some rather handsome fees. He could still serve as a consultant for the SFPD. It would also mean that Natalie could continue to serve as his aide-de-camp for years to come.
I’d also like to see Randy get a few more moments to shine. When the series ends, I’d like people to remember him as a cop who still proves his worth, despite his bizarre thought patterns.
Oh, and while I don’t want to see a romance between Natalie and Randy, it’d be nice to see her shoot him a look of appreciation. Y’know… hinting that he’s not so bad after all, without actually developing a romance.
As for Leland, it’d be nice to see some closure to his divorce. Maybe a hint of a relationship with someone else. Someone who’s not a murderess.
Did Louis Lombardi, Edgar from 24 play one of the mobsters?
Yeah, the show is kind of mean to its supporting characters (Leland’s girlfriend being a killer, killing off the annoying guy upstairs [though he’s probably less annoying to neighbors than Monk], Harold Krenshaw almost being killed by his cousin, etc.). In interest of time, this being the last season and all, I’d be content to see Leland reconcile with his ex-wife. Meanwhile they could have a crossover episode with Reno 911 that would see Randy meet and impregnate Raineesha (Niecy Nash), giving them both a love interest and him a possible venue for post Monk appearances as Randy.
I’ve wondered before with actors like Jason Gray-Stanford how irksome they feel career wise. Randy’s a cute character but he’s such a doofus and he’s rarely the focus of an episode and more often than not he’s just around for a moment of non-sequitur "Randy Disher Project dot com!"ic relief- it can’t be that satisfying for an actor. OTOH, it beats playing Salieri in an all nude production of SCENES FROM SHAFFER at the Hole in the Wall Players in West St. Louis for $25 per night, and he wouldn’t have to look further than any week’s non-special guest stars to find talented actors who are still working day jobs, and with any management at all when it’s over he should have a nest egg that will keep him from having to work at Ruby Tuesday’s while pursuing his next gig, though on the other other hand he’s in danger of typecasting. Would Randy Disher be something an aspiring actor would long for or fear?