While talking to "Dale the Whale," Lt. Disher's bagel keeps changing size and shape between camera angles.
When Monk is in the clothes dryer, he opens the dryer door all the way. In the next shot, the door is only ¾ open and again pushes it open all the way.
When Ray Kaspo is dying on the floor of his cell, the first shot is of his left cheek and no salivary foam is visible. In the next cut, foam has run down his right cheek. In the last shot, when he has died, the foam is only on his left cheek.
Death row inmates are not served their last meal by unescorted fellow prisoners.
The medical examiner tells Sharona that Ray Kaspo's blood type was AB- with D antigen. Randy tells Sharona the same about Lambert Lawson's blood type.
This is, however, impossible. The - means the blood has no D antigen. If Kaspo's and Lawson's blood had D antigen, their blood type would have been AB+.
Plus, people with blood type AB with D antigen are universal recipients for blood or organs; therefore, Lawson would have had many possible donors even if he would not have had D antigen, and he would not have died just because one organ donor with the same blood type was murdered.
Plus, people with blood type AB with D antigen are universal recipients for blood or organs; therefore, Lawson would have had many possible donors even if he would not have had D antigen, and he would not have died just because one organ donor with the same blood type was murdered.
It's remotely possible that a quadruple murderer like Spyder Rudner *might* have got some kind of permission slip, but prisons don't generally let their prisoners have personal possessions like wristwatches. They're kept in storage and given back when they're let out.
Type AB blood is the universal recipient (that is to say, a person with that blood type can receive a transfusion from any other blood type). Type O is the universal donor (in other words, a person with that blood type can give blood to anyone but receive it only from another person with Type O).
There are a number of unrealistic situations portrayed inside the prison. An inmate scheduled to be executed in less than an hour would not be left so unattended as to require the trustee to yell for help when he went into distress, or to allow the inmate and trustee to exchange objects. A chronic rule-breaker like Spyder Rudner, who had just "put a guy's head through a wall," would not have gotten just one day in solitary confinement with no other loss of privileges. Lody and the other Nazis would not be allowed to wear swastika lapel pins.
An inmate is looking for the remote control to change the channel. The TV, which supposedly dates back to the late 70s or early 80s, is not operated by remote control; therefore, the remote control Monk found would not be compatible with the TV.
When Monk picked up the TV remote, he didn't use anything to protect his hand (like he did with the phone earlier).
At the end when Monk & Sharona walk out of the Dale the Whale's cell, the grate on the floor moves when Sharona steps on it. In a real prison, the grate would never move.
Tucker never made it back to his cell the night he died in the freezer. Yet in this secure prison, his empty cell was not noticed that night.
If Ray Kaspo was supposed to be the only victim of the poisoned chili, the inmate Tucker would have only spiked the chili on his tray and not the entire pot like they showed in the flashback. He wasn't going to eat that entire pot all by himself.
It's not explained how Spyder finds Monk when Monk was being attacked by the Nazis. It's also not explained how he even knew that Monk needed his help. It's also highly unlikely that he'd have the freedom to just wander around the prison in the first place.
When Monk is told the warden needs to see him in the rec room, he opens the door with his hands as he leaves the prison office but then uses his sleeve to open the gate/door to the rec room.