# Monk Messes Up! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994 "2005-08-28T17:37:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/21 "2005-08-30T01:48:20Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Earlier, when Monk gets cut off by a different trucker he calls to report it. He says “We’re on the 101 just past \.” > > Bzzt. Nobody in Northern California adds a “the” to the beginning of highway names. That’s strictly a SoCal thing - “the 405”, etc. We wouldn’t call it “The 101” - it’s just 101, 280, 92, 85, etc. What if the person doing that is a transplant from the Southland? ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/22 "2005-08-30T02:02:30Z")
I suspect their are a whole bunch of deliberate errors in this series. :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/23 "2005-08-30T02:14:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What if the person doing that is a transplant from the Southland? I could let it slide, except the character of Monk grew up in the Bay Area. There was a flashback episode recently where a woman turns up to ask Monk for help with a case, as she remembers him from when they both went to 7th grade together - locally. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/24 "2005-08-30T11:52:10Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Now every time I hear Capt. Stottlemeyer, I’ll be shouting “PUT THE FUCKING LOTION IN THE BASKET!!” There was an earlier episode (“Mr. Monk and the Blackout”) with a nearly unrecognizable Judge Reinhold playing an enviromental activist up in a tree and they passed things up to him in a basket. I know there was another silly reference to _SotL_ somewhere but I’m drawing a blank right now. Maybe it was in “Mr. Monk and the Godfather” when Sharona dates a guy who used to be fat and someone makes a “great big fat person” reference? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/25 "2005-08-30T13:08:09Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > There was an earlier episode (“Mr. Monk and the Blackout”) with a nearly unrecognizable Judge Reinhold playing an enviromental activist up in a tree and they passed things up to him in a basket. I know there was another silly reference to _SotL_ somewhere but I’m drawing a blank right now. No, it was also in the blackout episode, when Monk was staggering around his house wearing night-vision goggles trying to find the killer, who was in his house, and Sharona was knocked out on the floor. I laughed my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/26 "2005-08-30T13:54:05Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > "Damn it, Randy! Do you want the hose again? I keep hearing: “Come in Candycane.” ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/27 "2005-08-30T15:39:06Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#): > > No, it was also in the blackout episode, when Monk was staggering around his house wearing night-vision goggles trying to find the killer, who was in his house, and Sharona was knocked out on the floor. I laughed my ass off. :smack: That’s right. How could I have forgotten that? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/28 "2005-08-30T15:57:03Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > I new Capt. Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) was the killer from SOTL, What, Ted Levine was Buffalo Bill? Shirley you can’t be serious. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/29 "2005-08-30T17:30:04Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > What, Ted Levine was Buffalo Bill? Shirley you can’t be serious. According to IMDB, yeah. Holy cow, I never made that connection before. And I even thought, during the blackout, “wow, how Silence of the Lambs.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/30 "2005-08-30T17:50:59Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > According to IMDB, yeah. Holy cow, I never made that connection before. And I even thought, during the blackout, “wow, how Silence of the Lambs.” :smack: How can you possibly respond to something like that without adding “And stop calling me Shirley?” It’s practically a requirement. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/31 "2005-08-30T18:27:15Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > How can you possibly respond to something like that without adding “And stop calling me Shirley?” It’s practically a requirement. A requirement? What is it? ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/32 "2005-08-30T18:29:52Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > How can you possibly respond to something like that without adding “And stop calling me Shirley?” It’s practically a requirement. Maybe as a courtesy he was waiting for me to do it. 🙂 Or maybe it was an entirely different kind of post. Altogether. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/33 "2005-08-30T18:44:06Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > A requirement? What is it? A necessity or prerequisite. But that’s not important now. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/34 "2005-08-30T19:06:51Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Maybe as a courtesy he was waiting for me to do it. 🙂 > > Or maybe it was an entirely different kind of post. Altogether. Or maybe it was an entirely different kind of post. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994/35 "2005-08-30T20:53:33Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > > [@tdn](#): > > > > A requirement? What is it? > > A necessity or prerequisite. > > But that’s not important now. > [@tdn](#): > > Or maybe it was an entirely different kind of post. Sublime. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monk-messes-up/318994.md?page=1)