Mr. Monk and the Critic
- Episode aired Sep 18, 2009
- TV-PG
- 43m
After a critic pans Julie's performance in a play, Natalie tries to convince Monk that he committed a murder during the show.After a critic pans Julie's performance in a play, Natalie tries to convince Monk that he committed a murder during the show.After a critic pans Julie's performance in a play, Natalie tries to convince Monk that he committed a murder during the show.
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- Officer Darden
- (as Keith Robinson)
- Julie's Friend
- (uncredited)
- Theatre Patron in Restroom
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe marquee of the Vinton Street Theater's Center For Performing Arts, the venue of the community theatre musical that Julie Teeger is performing in, reads "Showtime! The Vinton Street Players Go Broadway!" The solo number that she sings, "Away," is an original song written by series creator Andy Breckman for an earlier work of his from 1994, "Proud Dad".
- GoofsWhen Natalie is arrested, Disher says that they can't match the bite mark on the strawberry pastry in the hotel room to the half-bitten Chinese dumpling Natalie retrieved from the killer's trash because they couldn't get a cast made as the strawberry was too soft. However, DNA forensics would have revealed that both bite marks came from the same person.
- Quotes
[Natalie wants to hire Monk]
Adrian Monk: Oh, this check's no good.
Natalie Teeger: That's sweet of you to say, but...
Adrian Monk: No, I mean it's literally no good. You can't cover this.
Natalie Teeger: Sure I can. I just deposited my paycheck on Wednesday.
Adrian Monk: Right. But I happen to know that that check is going to bounce. So this check is pretty much worthless.
Natalie Teeger: You wrote me a bad check? How could you do that?
Adrian Monk: I might ask you the same question.
Natalie Teeger: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Your check was bad first!
Adrian Monk: Natalie, there's no right and wrong here. It's all tangled up. One check, another check. It's like the chicken and the egg.
Natalie Teeger: No, it's not! There... there's no egg here. There's no egg. This is all chicken!
- ConnectionsReferences The Wizard of Oz (1939)
I can't speak for people who have never seen Columbo, but for us devout buffs of that milestone show, Monk has little to offer as a mind game. The clues and the reasoning are so basic that one wonders why these cops even need someone like Monk to solve the crime.
I know, I know... This is not to be taken seriously as it's nothing more than a detective comedy. But we actually HAVE seen great shows like Moonlighting which have managed to be extremely original.
From Natalie's perfume smelling to the bite on the chocolate covered strawberry, every bit of information we are fed places us too much ahead of the investigation. I mean, you need to pay absoultely NO attention to be surprised by such gotchas!
Okay, it's a decent show. But I simply refuse to elevate it to the level of classics like Columbo OR very recent, highly successful examples of the genre like HPI.
- muratmihcioglu
- Dec 22, 2023
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