# Mr. Monk Shelters in Place **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412 "2020-05-25T00:48:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/1 "2020-05-25T00:48:55Z")
How is Adrian Monk dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic? Tony Shaloub dons the defective detectives clothes once more, with help from Natalie, Capt. Stottlemeyer, and Randy, at a social distance. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CblHC5Dtiq4/hqdefault.jpg "Monk in Quarantine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CblHC5Dtiq4) Tony Shaloub and his wife Brooke had both contacted the Covid-19 virus and have since recovered. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/2 "2020-05-25T01:26:05Z")
Thanks! That was great! ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/3 "2020-05-25T01:53:21Z")
It always surprises me that Ted Levine (Stottlemeyer on **Monk** ) also played Buffalo Bill in **Silence of the Lambs**. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1_mCGgMm2Bw/maxresdefault.jpg "It places the lotion in the basket - Silence of the Lambs") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_mCGgMm2Bw) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/4 "2020-05-25T03:06:34Z")
Loved it. ---
**Author:** ![oliversarmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/eb8c5e/32.png) [@oliversarmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oliversarmy)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/5 "2020-05-25T03:25:17Z")
That was fun. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/6 "2020-05-25T04:14:53Z")
Incidentally, Tony Shalhoub’s wife is Brooke Adams, who at least when they got married in 1992 was better known as an actor than he was. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/7 "2020-05-25T04:24:31Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > It always surprises me that Ted Levine (Stottlemeyer on **Monk** ) also played Buffalo Bill in **Silence of the Lambs**. > [https://youtu.be/1\_mCGgMm2Bw](https://youtu.be/1_mCGgMm2Bw) Holy shit! I never realized that. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/8 "2020-05-25T07:12:15Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Holy shit! I never realized that. The moustache and shorter hair work wonders. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/9 "2020-05-25T08:16:40Z")
Holy crap, that was great. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/10 "2020-05-25T13:35:21Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/11 "2020-05-25T15:38:48Z")
Monk should’ve been wearing a mask during his teleconference. On the other hand, he was standing 6’ away from his computer. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/12 "2020-05-25T16:20:47Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Monk should’ve been wearing a mask during his teleconference. On the other hand, he was standing 6’ away from his computer. Monk would have been wearing a mask and asking the others why they weren’t. But, he has evolved - I was literally elloelling at that. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/13 "2020-05-25T16:33:55Z")
Thanks so much for that. Big Monk fan. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/14 "2020-05-25T17:51:18Z")
In a way it is funny, but I also think that reunion shows that take place years later and show little to no growth or change in a character to be pretty sad (a great example is the _Andy Griffith_ reunion movie with everyone elderly but still pretty much in the same place they were decades ago.) in this case, the last scene of the _Monk_ series finale implied that he was getting past some of his fears with the presence of Trudy’s daughter. This clip steals that all away. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/15 "2020-05-25T18:08:13Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Thanks! That was great! I’ll second that. It was hilarious indeed. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/16 "2020-05-25T18:50:24Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > In a way it is funny, but I also think that reunion shows that take place years later and show little to no growth or change in a character to be pretty sad (a great example is the _Andy Griffith_ reunion movie with everyone elderly but still pretty much in the same place they were decades ago.) in this case, the last scene of the _Monk_ series finale implied that he was getting past some of his fears with the presence of Trudy’s daughter. This clip steals that all away. Not to me. I just assume that the CV pandemic is enough to cause a temporary relapse in someone so OCD/germophobic. An short episode of Monk not being germophobic? What would be the point? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/17 "2020-05-25T19:03:37Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > in this case, the last scene of the _Monk_ series finale implied that he was getting past some of his fears with the presence of Trudy’s daughter. I don’t recall Trudy’s daughter. He certainly improved after finding her killer. Perhaps the covid 19 isolation caused a relapse. At any rate, it wasn’t in the program, it’s just an amusing little program. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/18 "2020-05-25T20:50:21Z")
I loved that. I was a much bigger fan of Sharona than Natalie, but that’s a minor quibble. On a different note, I loved that apartment. I wonder if it’s really theirs. And that Moroccan chandelier you could see in the entry hall is the same one I have in my bedroom (except that mine has mauve-colored beads). ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/19 "2020-05-25T20:57:32Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I don’t recall Trudy’s daughter. > He certainly improved after finding her killer. Perhaps the covid 19 isolation caused a relapse. At any rate, it wasn’t in the program, it’s just an amusing little program. Monk met Trudy’s daughter at the end of the last episode, after he found her killer. That is whom he was walking on the beach with, when she told him she was going to the Toronto Film Festival and would be back in a couple of weeks. (She was a film reviewer.) And he started boring everyone with all the pictures he had started taking of her. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412/20 "2020-05-25T21:05:07Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Monk met Trudy’s daughter at the end of the last episode, after he found her killer. That is whom he was walking on the beach with, when she told him she was going to the Toronto Film Festival and would be back in a couple of weeks. (She was a film reviewer.) And he started boring everyone with all the pictures he had started taking of her. Hunh. I just remembered he was wearing different clothes, but still wanted to check the pilot light when he left. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-monk-shelters-in-place/854412.md?page=2)