Monk Solves the Million Dollar Case | Monk

[@inanimatesum4945]

I love how it just takes complete social acceptance for Monk to be so comfortable that he forgets he has problems with socializing.

[@Simqer]

as someone with social anxiety, I can confirm that it helps connecting to a strangers when you're appreciated.

[@TheAlps36]

Bravo to Natalie as well for her help with disarming the murderer

[@Tone_Roye]

Natalie consistently put herself in harm's way to protect Monk!

[@a_wise_man7701]

yes. inbred siblings tend to do that

[@legendx8365]

@@a_wise_man7701 what!?!??

[@MustertheBrohirrim]

Pretty slick

[@richa.s9912]

I went deaf and I was born premature baby 3 months too early and born hard of hearing wearing hearing Aides and she re-deafness back to my ears by surprised screaming 😱 when I wasn't prepared safely.

[@AD-fb6qf]

'He's completely obsessed, and not in a good way like me ' - Monk

[@CatwortRambullKerr]

The villain of this episode holds the record of being the only nameless villain on the show.

[@Glum1964]

Is that true, or are you guessing? I mean, sounds right, but it’d be fun to try and find another.

[@CatwortRambullKerr]

@@Glum1964 A lot of the murder victims were nameless; THAT, I'm sure of. Either way, I've done this research project before. I'm pretty sure I'd remember if there were two or more nameless villains.

[@CatwortRambullKerr]

@@Glum1964 Actually, I've re-done some of the research...and I think that the hotel maids in the "Takes a Vacation" episode count as nameless villainesses.

[@CatwortRambullKerr]

@@Glum1964 The lieutenant governor of California, too, in the "On the Run" duology, it seems, was also nameless...although he wasn't the worst villain in that duology.

[@CatwortRambullKerr]

The groundskeeper who tried to blackmail Philby in "Goes Back to School" is also nameless.

[@carlh2342]

Monk’s little happy dance when he keeps getting strikes is adorable

[@dubliners0999]

I loved this episode. I loved that Monk was good at something other than solving crimes. I also loved that he became part of a work crew and seemed appreciated. The end was a bit of a downer when things returned to normal and he felt like an outcast again.

[@beterbomen]

Yeah, well, those guys are jerks.

[@khanyimodiba2454]

That’s always been my one complaint about Monk. Everytime things look up for him, they go back to normal. He never caught a break until the last season

[@NoXeB1995]

Honestly I would say that it's kinda realistic haha I often feel like I got the same sort of pattern, things go better, then they come back to being like it was before - not great. When you are having deep psychological issues, patterns in life occur and you can't seem to escape them, at least it's like that for me for years now

[@crystalgl2110]

I swear monk's face while nat is flirting 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 priceless

[@Don-ii4vm]

Isnt it amazing how walls turn to glass from different angles? 1:50 When they meet in his office, the guy has regular windows. 7:25 When they view his window from the cafeteria, the guy has floor-to-ceiling windows.

[@TheJunkymagi]

2:25, you get a view of the cafeteria, 7:26, you can see that the desk is blocked along the bottom and the chair on right side of desk is also blocked by the walls. Same windows in both scenes. If it was floor to ceiling windows, you'd be able to see the whole desk. Cafeteria is only one floor lower than the office.

[@jeandonaghue2150]

​@TheJunkymagi 2:25 from inside the room you can see the wall is higher than the top of the table. At 7:26 the view is from below, so there is no way you should be able to see any part of the table from that angle. From 1 floor down or even if you was just 1 ft below that wall you would never see the table, its not possible that they are the same window's

[@Wordsley]

1:23 The look on the Captain’s face is priceless.

[@stashagarcia101]

Screaming into the mans hearing aid was brilliant

[@wandasewell4501]

I can watch MONK 24/7 and never get bored, this show is so funny with great Actor's. One of my favorites!

[@Tolinar]

Hearing aids cause unbearable pain if you get too close to shrill noises. Very accurate reaction!

[@globbyakaweirdjellyguy954]

Monk’s forced smile is so painful to look at.😓 Also, I always laugh when Monk holds up the toothpick and says that the suspect chews them to try and look tougher while Stottlemeyer has one in his mouth.😂😂😂

[@sophiabeatty3270]

I absolutely do not like to see a man with a toothpick in his mouth and working it about for no reason. It’s so disgusting.

[@chloepainter4064]

I don’t understand how it’s supposed to make you look tough in the first place? What’s tough about keeping a tool for dental hygiene in you’re mouth? It’s just weird

[@raiveresterok]

​@@chloepainter4064" Mr. Monk Takes a Vacation" the same thing happened.

[@dmf1301]

@@chloepainter4064 it’s an old fashioned 1920s film gangster thing. It was cigars back then, but the world didn’t know that smoking was dangerous. So now it’s toothpicks. On the screen, anyway - I have no idea if criminals chew toothpicks in real life, because I don’t know any. 😛

[@sandrawilson6031]

I loved how he spoke through clenched teeth. So funny. Tony deserves all the awards he obtained. If he were a movie star I'm sure he'd be an Oscar winner. He's that good.

[@Robi2009]

10:33 that's some quick thinking from Natalie 👍

[@anarky1765]

Between his smile and his laugh, Monk would’ve made a great Joker

[@sergiomora5702]

I might be wrong but I think when Natalie says he looks like he had an industrial accident, it's a reference to how the Joker became like that

[@senhowler]

@TXSTDMMY Jack Nicholson?

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

​@@txstdmmy9774if we ever get a live-action Dark Knight Returns, Dafoe should definitely play Joker in it.

[@CareyKuhlmey-qj5vi]

DNA on toothpick?? This, man chews on pieces of trees!

[@SeriousDragonify]

More like Tim Drake as The Joker jr.

[@nikkicole3331]

Thanks for posting. Would love to see full episodes of Monk on here. This show always makes me smile.

[@mikeclemets863]

If ur a prime member u can see them

[@slovnicurling9808]

"Would love to see full episodes of Monk on here" yeah I bet. Everybody loves stuff for free. I wonder if you would even turn off your adblock if there were episodes for free.

[@TheBalisongBear]

They post this stuff on KZbin to get people to buy a peacock subscription. It's genius, actually

[@Batman44456]

​@@mikeclemets863not available in my country sadly

[@adamtajyar]

It’s on Amazon prime or Peacock app

[@theadaptationstationmaster]

This is one of my favorite scenes in the whole series.

[@stephenwoehr6500]

I notice Monk wore his own shoes while bowling. I wish we had heard that conversation with the counter person.

[@oopomopoo]

Ddodnt happen, that's why he was eating alone at the end - the other team called him out and he didn't want to swap shoes so his coworkers kicked him out of the group 😔

[@ArkhamKnight-uj6ww]

Monk would have made an excellent ventriloquist with the face he’s making

[@Wolfbane8]

2:35 Monk does not approve

[@knallkasten5159]

One of my favorites. Such an interesting case

[@aidanevans5239]

Mystery aside, this episode is so sad. He just wanted to be a part of a group, but it wasn’t meant to be.

[@tiisetsothato9082]

Monk's face at 2:36🤣🤣 and at 2:52🤣🤣😭

[@ajayaju7801]

Best character ever written in TV Shows - Adrian Monk!

[@a_wise_man7701]

yes? what about game of thrones?

[@ripscort1896]

@@a_wise_man7701 from all examples of good writen characters in media, did you seriously say Game of Thrones?

[@a_wise_man7701]

@@ripscort1896 well there's Sherlock Holmes, Adolf Hitler

[@TheBalisongBear]

​@@ripscort1896 I was gonna say it if you didn't 😂

[@HannahHamilton-vu8eg]

Monk's face when he's explaining here's what happened:) It looks so funny but also painful

[@Nugire]

"You look like someone who had some sort of industrial accident." Jack Nicholson: "Am I a Joker to you?"

[@MCCT-N]

How about his face when Natalie and Mr. Kemp were laughing together? 🤣

[@yogibear6363]

He bowled a 294? Really? Eleven strikes in a row and then a 4 count? A four count is hard to get.

[@decimation9780]

Not impossible though, and after eleven strikes in a row, Lady Luck probably decided to screw him over.

[@crushywanna]

I was pretty confused about it too, but I've seen a guy get 292. He was so nervous he just dropped the ball on the 12th shot, solid 7/8 hit (lefty). Still a little on the unbelievable side.

[@mikedawolf95]

It’s always greed, if the deaf guy just got a nice chunk and cashed out he’s be free.

[@robbiegarber898]

Man it's weird to see Eddie McClintock as anyone other than Pete Latimer.

[@kkkkkk320]

McClintock was a regular on a short lived sitcom called Stark Raving Mad which also starred Shalhoub. Shalhoub played a horror novelist and McClintock played his assistant.

[@nadrewod999]

A lot of the Warehouse 13 crew don't seem to have too many prominent roles on other shows.

[@ellenpcwang]

Natalie certainly learned a few tricks from Monk. She is also street smart which Monk lacks. I always prefer Natalie over Sharon.

[@macmcleod1188]

Would have been nice if they made bowling team references in later episodes. He was good at it, he might have kept doing it.

[@SerathDarklands]

Putting a pillow in front of a gun does not significantly suppress the sound. It's used in _CLOSE RANGE_ shots to prevent/limit blood spatter. What a waste of a fine pillow.

[@diehardrvdfan22]

Maybe he doesn't like Italian pillows. He was killing the pillow too.

[@Cramblit]

If you stuff the gun against a pillow, wouldn't that technically potentially also stop the spread of gunpowder to your hand?

[@SerathDarklands]

@@Cramblit Depends on the firearm. The bigger the cartridge, generally the more powerful the gas escaping is. A 9mm, for example, will have significantly less than a .357 magnum. Revolvers are also a little different, due to the way they're loaded, gas, and thus powder, will escape around the cylinder. That's why revolvers are so notoriously difficult to suppress, because that gas and explosive energy is escaping from more than just the barrel. It's hard to get a good look at the pistol in that scene, but it looks like a compact, so maybe 9mm or .22? Either way, not a ton of power in the cartridge, so probably not too much there.

[@k9thundra]

The editing has gotten way better in recent monk clips. Nice work.

[@terbrylewis6400]

@10:31 ~ That's some street smarts right there!

[@christoph44396]

Miss this show

[@magicalpasta5462]

It's on peacock

[@samsung40_media87]

this was a good one

[@lisazampino2131]

I watch Monk every day Monday through Friday on Cozi TV😊

[@pj2345-v4x]

They didn’t even have to disarm him. It’s a public restaurant, if he pulls the gun out or shoots them he’ll be caught immediately.

[@jbfarley]

You're not a smart person

[@AlexThePharaoh]

yea he'll be caught but they'll be dead

[@ResettisReplicas]

Would you bet your life on the guy with the gun being a rational thinker?

[@jaimeduncan6167]

Yes but you still be dead.

[@MannyCoon]

I thought it’d be about bowling

[@westwardmedia9375]

What Was His Plan Once The Guy's Hand Heals?????

[@mikedawolf95]

Break it again

[@joelwillems4081]

Why he shot the decorator. No decorator, no idea of changing the entire room around.

[@Zak6009]

He would have had the info he needed by then to execute whatever he was planning to use it for.

[@westwardmedia9375]

@@Zak6009 he was doing insider trading Getting info constantly He wouldn't want it to end

[@Zak6009]

@@westwardmedia9375 well his actions were also compromising the guy and getting him in trouble, not sure if intentionally framing but if so then he didn't plan for it to go on forever since eventually someone was gonna go down for it.

[@nedludd7622]

The joke about Natalie screaming was apparently "borrowed" from an episode of "Fawlty Towers" British TV series of the 70's. John Cleeze of Monty Python fame used the same trick.

[@hsimin]

Very subtle thing at 0:22: "Hear what I said?" Foreshadowing the person being hearing impaired/lip reading.

[@picklebob8036]

How are there 5 ad breaks in an 11 minute video.

[@AlexThePharaoh]

idk I only got one in the beginning

[@benjaminh.morgan3193]

Eyy, I only just now realized that Kemp is Lattimer from Warehouse 13!

[@tobyfitzpatrick3914]

I suspected Chilton in this episode. I thought _he_ was 'the guy'...

[@dmf1301]

Monk looks like he wants to stab Natalie when she’s flirting with the guy! If looks could kill… 🤣🤣

[@MrJ0mmy]

best show ever

[@kieranclarges2514]

Surely Stottlemeyer should know not to throw his toothpick on the floor inside an active crime scene...

[@ztyy8185]

That screem 😱

[@KTPurdy]

love the scream

[@scenariosinthedark3969]

Leland is so great. I'm very curious about the new movie this year with the entire cast. I wonder what Ted Levin looks like today?

[@damiangilz]

Wait, what movie?

[@danteghazizadeh1656]

@@damiangilzthey made a monk movie

[@billcook4768]

His skin looks perfect as he’s been harvesting it

[@eyobelyekarawork139]

short answer DNA

[@AlexThePharaoh]

longer answer: it's useless unless the man had committed a crime before and had his information in the police database

[@Cramhead43]

1:10 A crossfire? oof

[@becuzimbrucewayne9337]

Lip reading is pretty hard. Even the best out there still has a hard time reading lips.

[@h.a.s.7612]

Breaks someone's hand just to make the hold the phone in the other hand?

[@kaboomwinn4026]

yes, to read lips of inside secret of stock sells and buys.

[@chrisd1746]

I don't understand why you'd agree to leave the public space because a gun was flashed. The guy doesn't want to be discovered so around as many people as possible seems like the safest place to be

[@potsdam28]

Unless he decides “screw it I’ll kill you here” or “I’ll shoot someone else if you don’t come”

[@circomnia9984]

So.....who did she call first?

[@darthhiro7425]

I'm sorry, but if the guy left a chewed toothpick, won't that be DNA evidence??

[@dorcasmalahlela2805]

Yeah. It seems like a level of stupid a killer should not have.

[@msomgmsomg]

That only works if the DNA is already in the system.

[@nadrewod999]

There is another way it could work: log the toothpick DNA as evidence, and then compare it to each suspect that you can get a warrant on. If nothing else, it would prove that they were in the parking lot that night.

[@johngulino2651]

We don’t see his hand while at the desk. 🤔

[@catherinehubbard1167]

This one really irritated me. Monk’s helper is talking to him right in front of the killer while he watches them in the restaurant. Monk told her the guy is the one and that he can read lips, but she keeps jabbering away about what Monk has discovered. Of course the killer sees it because he is staring at her. They should have left the restaurant and called the police as soon as Monk figured it out. It’s bad, lazy writing and it killed any enjoyment I might have had. Two of the things that soured me on this series were the way Monk’s female helpers (first one and then the next) and the captain’s sidekick detective are written as total idiots and recipients of exposition dumps to push the plot forward. It got really old and despite enjoying Tony Shaloub’s performance, I just couldn’t stomach any more. Seeing this clip reminded me.

[@arielgonzalez1636]

When Kemp is flirting with Natalie and Monk is just filled with disapproval

[@Z_MIB]

If the guy had an implant, why could read lips? He didn't sound deaf, implying that he got the implant very young. This means that he never would've learned to read lips. Also, screaming in his implant shouldn't have startled him. An implant isn't like a hearing aid which makes stuff sound louder, its a device which sends sound to the cochlea at a normal volume. A person can change the volume, but I'm fairly certain that most people would set it at a normal volume.

[@TaylorRoberts14]

Those implants did have a volume issue, I don't know the brand but a kid I went to school with had one that looked like that, and they frequently had to take it out because things got too loud.

[@Z_MIB]

@@TaylorRoberts14 Modern Implants still look like that, though the volume issue might've been resolved, You can raise and lower the volume. I used to have a deaf coworker, and her implant seemed to work fine.

[@AmandaYee-yn9dk]

This Sherlock Holmes with a pinch of ocd

[@genshinsbizzareadventures]

not a pinch sir

[@Cramhead43]

a couple scoops of

[@Junereth]

Couldn’t they have tested the toothpick for dna?

[@glpikachu1336]

7:41 10:32

[@Match25]

We never learned the name of this bad guy

[@NathanShike-xy4ec]

Who do you guys think is worse Monk??? Or Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory?????

[@KaristaSwiss]

Wow that's good

[@straightfacts5352]

Monk needed to wear full finger gloves for handling the ball, to contrast against the usual fingerless gloves normal bowlers wear. That was a miss from the script writers.

[@lynnmaureenshevshenko8254]

no gloves, he's not wearing any gloves

[@billcook4768]

In general, a bowling alley is the last place an extreme germaphobe would be, gloves or no gloves. But a side plot in the episode is that Monk is able to overcome all his anxieties, at least temporarily

[@Alphoric]

Is that the guy from men in black the alien that regrows his head

[@hands-to-work1601]

Yup. Tony Shaloub.

[@AlexThePharaoh]

great actor

[@davidforthoffer9180]

Famous last words: “I’ll let the cops sort it out.”

[@nuduce123]

"You dont look like you're in love. You look like you've been in an industrial accident." Priceless

[@Fiduciariesonio]

A Deafish Guy who uses Reading Lips for Crime 😂

[@anemaniacs1]

Sadly no sound

[@mariaferreras4369]

Tony Shaloub is the best!

[@34stzoo]

Not knick picking but can't they run a DNA test on the toothpick?

[@henrymaccabee7988]

It's possible this person wasn't in a database if he hadn't committed any crimes before.

[@harrismazari5484]

considering you lack both the basic knowledge of how DNA works to catch a criminal and the basic knowledge of the word nitpicking you should never nitpick.

[@touchedouche8806]

Natalie is much much better than Sharona

[@shannonsmith4174]

I DON'T NO WHY PEOPLE CHEW ON THAT IT MAKES THEM LOOK STUPID.......

[@mq5276]

Shouting makes you look really insecure.

[@robertaphelps]

poor baby leland thinks he's being " attacked " i think it's a i don't smoke anymore device . Like kojak with lollipops . the guy starred with shaloub on a short lived series stark raving mad

[@arnoldmuvadi2364]

So there was no DNA...😮😅

[@DARTHMARC0720]

Monk has great mysteries but words cannot describe how much I hate all his quirks and tendencies

[@pacarter7169]

The woman who was shot, sorry but it appeared that she was preparing to get shot… and took a position knowing she would get killed? Me I would have made a quick move to duck and hide!

[@AlexThePharaoh]

a lot of people freeze in near death situations. your mind might be racing, buy your body is stiff

[@g.t.g1111]

Why did Monk just leave to talk to Natalie!! Plus, Monk gets on my nerves 😬 sometimes.

[@deepthib2710]

Why can't they get the dna from the toothpick??

[@bertblue9683]

Love me some monk

[@Hallands.]

There wasn’t much I didn’t like about this series back then.

[@Francesc2000]

A pillow can help silence a gun, like a fart can help silence a gun. This show is so silly.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

I don't know, farts can be pretty loud... 🤔

[@Zak6009]

I think they fixed that problem in the submarine.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

@@Zak6009 I hate to be in that submarine when some blasts a loud fart...😒

[@RabbiHerschel]

Believe it or not, a pillow actually does work as an ersatz suppressor. It doesn't *silence* a gunshot, ofc, but it's still interesting to know.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

@@RabbiHerschel I would imagine ANOTHER way to kill someone is to FART on THAT pillow and then smother them with that SAME pillow... 🤔

[@ranjanivaradpande381]

why they have to kill the interior designer in the story ,could have threatened her or injured .........

[@inanimatesum4945]

AH, I just realized the scene error where Kemp interviews Monk and Natalie but his room is set up where its far from him being visible through the window, has the elevated side below the window, and there's no possible way he would have recognized Monk or Natalie through there.

[@finnypaul7748]

Monk the joker

[@Chr.U.Cas1622]

👍👌👏

[@andrewyoung2796]

If i had a NATALIE....

[@seabase1]

☆☆☆☆☆

[@paulmarden3301]

How would he read her lips in a mirror? A mirror image of her lips would be gibberish wouldn't it? I don't read lips so I wouldn't know, but surely that's the equivalent of trying to listen to someone in rewind.

[@Zak6009]

You can't be serious right?

[@ulutiu]

as you said you can't read lips (neither can I). but I'm pretty sure lips are symmetrical even when talking, so mirror or not it doesn't matter

[@MrYfrank14]

I would assume, since the whole mouth is used to form words, a mirror would not make a difference. If a word was formed from the side of the mouth, if only half of the mouth was used and it was a different sound if you use the other side of your mouth, then everything he read would be backwards.

[@macmcleod1188]

A lip-reader responded and another thread and said that generally the mouth forms words symmetrically.

[@bagoon1313]

He shouldn't have been able to read Natalie's lips in the mirror because it's reversed...

[@hz3701]

Since the mouth movements are symmetrical with English words, it actually doesn't change much. Amazingly enough, those of us who read lips can often read them sideways and upside down... just like written language. The biggest challenges are mustaches, people with partial paralysis, and those with regional dialects who drop syllables.

[@bagoon1313]

@HZ That's so cool!!! I only assume it would be mirrored like written words based off nothing at all haha. Totally my bad, but thank you for the education!