# Natalie or Sharona? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256 "2005-11-03T05:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/21 "2005-11-03T19:31:17Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > **Natalie!!!** perhaps I should expound a bit I like the Natalie interacts with Adrian better. Sharona wasn’t always tolerant of his excentricities whereas Natalie is not only tolerant, but very sympathetic. Perhaps, because of her, they’ll bring my old college buddy back (have I mentioned recently that I went to college with John Turturro?). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/22 "2005-11-03T19:41:28Z")
That’s why I like Natalie as well. Sharona was a good foil for Adrian, but their relationship always seemed excessively confrontational to me. Natalie is no pushover, and yet she’s nicer and more sympathetic to his woes. Of course, being a widow herself, she’s more likely to sympathize with our tragic hero. ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/23 "2005-11-03T19:50:36Z")
Does any one know why they made the switch? ---
**Author:** ![BigDummy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@BigDummy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDummy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/24 "2005-11-03T19:57:23Z")
> [@Smokinjbc](#): > > Does any one know why they made the switch? Bitty Schram thought she should get more money, the producers didn’t agree. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/25 "2005-11-03T20:06:07Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Preference? so far, dead heat with 6 votes each. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/26 "2005-11-03T20:09:08Z")
> [@BigDummy](#): > > Bitty Schram thought she should get more money, the producers didn’t agree. And, like many before her, her career has taken off like gangbusters once she left the TV show that was holding her back. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/27 "2005-11-03T20:11:19Z")
someone please explain why in this thread, all about Monk, is the GoogleAd hawking \*\*Alan Alda’s \*\* autobiography? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/28 "2005-11-03T20:15:49Z")
A mystery worthy of Lt. Disher himself. ---
**Author:** ![Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meaty_Beaty_Big_and_Bouncy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/29 "2005-11-03T20:38:26Z")
Is **both** a pervy answer? ---
**Author:** ![Tisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6de8d8/32.png) [@Tisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tisha)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/30 "2005-11-03T20:42:06Z")
Sharona. I don’t like Natalie or her daughter. There has been too much of a change in Monk since Natalie appeared, and I don’t think it has improved the show. Of course, the writers had to create a daughter for Natalie since Sharona had a son. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/31 "2005-11-03T21:23:59Z")
> [@Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy](#): > > Is **both** a pervy answer? See posts #13 and #15. ---
**Author:** ![BigDummy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee59a6/32.png) [@BigDummy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigDummy)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/32 "2005-11-03T21:51:07Z")
> [@Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy](#): > > Is **both** a pervy answer? Short answer yes with an if, long answer no with a but. But yeah, I’d do either of them. That said, Natalie is really growing on me. It’s a different relationship, but an interesting one. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/33 "2005-11-03T23:48:51Z")
I like both (how is that for wishy-washy) but I think Natalie is doing a fine job and don’t miss Sharona half as much as I thought I would. I bet the kid who played Sharona’s son is one pissed off kid after Bitty lost the part due to greed. Through no fault of his own, the kid is now unemployed. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256/34 "2005-11-04T00:41:15Z")
Monk! 😃 …what? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/natalie-or-sharona/329256.md?page=1)