Monk Solves the 'Sketchy' Actor Case | Monk

In this episode, Monk solves the case of the murderer who memorised sketches of people in a bar.
Season 5, Episode 1 "Mr. Monk and the Actor": After Michelle Cullman lures Jack Leverett to her apartment for an illicit tryst, Jack becomes furious when he discovers a hidden video camera. Jack and Michelle struggle over the camera, the fight escalates, and Michelle winds up dead. Jack wipes away his fingerprints, grabs the camera, and flees the scene. The next day, Monk and Natalie arrive at Michelle Cullman's apartment to investigate. In addition to Capt. Stottlemeyer and Lt. Disher, there's a new face on the scene: a big-time Hollywood actor named David Ruskin. Ruskin is set to play Monk in an upcoming movie, and he wants to follow Monk around as research for his new role.
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Monk Synopsis: Adrian Monk (Emmy®-winner Tony Shalhoub) was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases. But after the tragic and still-unsolved murder of his wife, Trudy, the devastated Monk becomes obsessive-compulsive. His psychological disorder has caused him to develop an abnormal fear of virtually everything: germs, heights, crowds... even milk. Monk's condition costs him his job, but he's back as a police consultant despite the unique challenges he encounters in his everyday life. These challenges lead Monk to hire a personal nurse, Sharona Fleming (Bitty Schram), who is always there to offer her assistance, even with the simplest of tasks (like organizing his sock drawer). Her less-than-subtle prodding keeps the "defective detective" on track in his investigations, as well as in his efforts to convince Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) to allow him to return to the force.
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[@MikeMJPMUNCH]

Stanley Tucci was so brilliant in this episode it is funny to think he was originally considered to actually play Monk

[@djmocha7]

cAn’T iMaGiNe WhY..

[@The22ndDoctor]

Let's be honest, Stanley Tucci is brilliant in every role he takes.

[@orbison]

What's really funny is that Michael Richards was also considered. But the funniest thing in retrospect is that anyone but Tony could play that role. Tony IS Monk!

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

​@@orbisonWasn't Alfred Molina considered for the role as well?

[@gustymaat7011]

You know.... I'm starting to wonder..... who was originally considered to play Adrian Monk? So many different ideas here... so... I'm guessing... THAT GUY who is playing Adrian Monk... obviously, is the original consideration.... because he was cast as him... jeez

[@ughmazing8073]

That female officer telling Randy "I know" cracked me up 😂

[@keithbannister9271]

Yes, that was funny, but I like how she was nice about... 😊

[@celesasheldon6931]

Horrible

[@ughmazing8073]

@@celesasheldon6931 You're horrible.

[@tajniak4335]

OMG look at the cars in this episode. This scene takes place in a car dealership. It was originally aired in 2006 or 2007. There's a VW Golf Mk4 and Jetta Mk4 and New Beetle in this scene being offerend as almost new cars. I feel old.

[@rutu1011]

Cult!😅

[@whyphy2213]

On IMDB it is said that Stanley Tucci won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series" for this episode

[@keithbannister9271]

WOW, that is hard to believe, he wasn't that good... 🤔 I think if anyone should have won an Emmy it should have been the Chess Champion, who murdered both of his wives?

[@theadaptationstationmaster]

I love how after Monk has distracted Ruskin and gotten the gun from him, he gets distracted himself and lets him take it back, and then =Ruskin just puts it away and they both forget it for a moment. "The guy" confessing to Michelle's murder was also hilarious.

[@JF-um3wz]

Monk easing down his doppelgänger with “she wouldn’t want this” ends up being a great reflection for the finale, given Monk is put in a similar situation with the correct killer.

[@CriticalPotato]

This has to be the most confusing Monk clip to stumble upon out of context lol.

[@alexiswilliamsinc]

THANK you!! I loved it but had NO idea what was going on. 😂😂😂

[@lclyd]

@@alexiswilliamsinc iirc the "fake" monk was an actor who had to play Monk in a movie, so he started to think like him to be fully into the role but ended up thinking he was indeed Monk himself, hence his obsession with trying to solve Trudy's murder case

[@globbyakaweirdjellyguy954]

I always love the classic trope of mistaking a person for someone else, then the real person winds up being behind or next to them.😂

[@lukacunningham342]

Also something very funny in this episode that makes me laugh: *David decides to not do any depressing roles, so he decided to play Hamlet 😂*

[@iganpparamarta8813]

Can you explain please? I've googled it but didn't know what to look for.

[@arthurbriand2175]

@@iganpparamarta8813 You googled Hamlet and didn't find anything? It's the main role of a famous Shakespeare tragedy. The fact that it is a tragedy should tell you it doen't have a fun ending for the main character.

[@micahbush5397]

​@@iganpparamarta8813 Hamlet ends with everybody dying; David evidently finds that less depressing than Monk's life.

[@iganpparamarta8813]

@@arthurbriand2175 sorry not into Shakespeare. Thanks anyway

[@iganpparamarta8813]

@@micahbush5397 ahh now it makes more sense. Thank you

[@railroadverdigo1665]

i lost it at them using the gun to get the bubbles out xD

[@lukacunningham342]

“I was here ten minutes ago when Monk was explaining it to you” 😂

[@Rensune]

Monk using his Own weakness against the Method actor was brilliant

[@iganpparamarta8813]

3:30 The cult of Monk haha and later he 'joins' a cult.

[@JJ_R]

“This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!”

[@djmocha7]

“Always two, there are. No more, no less.. A master and an apprentice.”

[@oz_jones]

"Are you in some kind of a cult?"

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

When he says that Trudy wouldn't want him to kill the guy, it reminded me of the scene from a later episode where the man who made the bomb that killed Trudy is in the hospital and Monk stops the flow of his pain blocker.

[@kimberly11091]

Previous episode. That was season 3 premiere

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

@@kimberly11091 Oh, really? I haven't seen many whole episodes, but had assumed the story arc that revealed the answers to Trudy's death unfolded over the last few episodes of the series. Thanks for the correction.

[@sarahlelys9268]

@@KZbinallowedmynametobestolen You're actually right, the identity of Trudy's killer is not revealed until the final episode. It was a long quest, however, and they uncovered several criminals in order to get to the person who ordered Trudy's death. You see, the person who made the bomb that killed her was "just" a random criminal who took his orders from somebody else, a.k.a the person who wanted Trudy dead.

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

@@sarahlelys9268 Thanks, Sarah. That makes it very clear.

[@captaindreadeye6264]

​@sarahlelys9268 Seven? There was the main killer of course, Frank Nunn as the guy who did it, Warrick Tennyson who built the bomb, and I guess Dale Biederbeck got involved after the fact, but who are the other 3?

[@PimpMacSlickBac]

I love when the scramble fight starts, they both drop to the floor and the two obvious stunt doubles fly into the scene, and its obviously not Tucci and Shaloub until Monk has Not-Monk against the sign with his leg in a quick cut 😂

[@jjryan1352]

Imagine how many Monks were on set that day! 😂

[@PimpMacSlickBac]

@@jjryan1352 and they were all doing what tucci's character is doing...😅

[@h.a.s.7612]

0:46 "I was here 10 minutes ago when Monk was explaining it to you." Nice try, Randy.

[@Frankly_Amazing2000]

I love how this scene has not one, not two, but 4 Monks in it

[@TheWasif]

This might be the funniest scene of the consistently hilarious show. And if you haven’t seen the pair in The Impostors together (even though the heavy lifting is done by Tucci and Oliver Platt, Tony has a juicy and hilarious part as well), you’re missing out. 🤗

[@mohd88zarif7]

Stanley Tucci can play Monk so good

[@Skypost4ever]

I didn't realize i could be sad and laughing at the same time.

[@Sunny-xn1rw]

So many hilarious lines. "Oh my God, there's another one?!? What are you guys, from some cult!? Help, somebody!" Stottlemeyer: I can't believe what I'm seeing.

[@MaryAKottackal]

this one was was crazy. I cried laughing.

[@Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

Climbed into Monk's head, and the hole was too deep to climb back out.

[@lukacunningham342]

I like that if you look closely in the background when Monk enters the shop, he uses his sleve to open the door

[@sarahberkner]

Honestly I usually use my arm to push open doors rather than touching them with my fingers

[@bongtzeyong7540]

OMG, Stanley Tucci really stole the show here.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Won an Emmy!

[@sampathn4429]

monk is sumtotal of everything,the script, the dialogues,the direction,the actors...or else how can every episode be top notch, masterclass!

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

5:32 -- "I can't believe what I'm seeing." And I can't believe you wouldn't just send someone in there at this point. Ah, but that would spoil the fun, right?

[@MaryAKottackal]

yes exactly! I thought they would send someone in when Ruskin got distracted with the car label.

[@terracottapie]

5:08 Super Monk Fighter II Turbo palette swap (Monk vs. Monk)

[@oz_jones]

Isnt that Knom?

[@algordo1997]

Poor Disher. He's the Jerry of Monk.

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

Jerry?

[@trippytigertony5520]

​@@marvinthemaniac7698rick and morty

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

@@trippytigertony5520 gotcha

[@marvinthemaniac7698]

I thoroughly enjoy seeing someone other than Mr. Monk doing the here's-what-happened segments.

[@CamThomasFanatic]

I actually never watched this episode Here I was thinking I watched every episode of MONK, multiple times at that smh

[@terracottapie]

Some of the episodes aren't in the syndication package.

[@pattaraponhomnan3419]

One of my favorite guests performance of this show

[@FutureDeep]

I'm seeing double here! Four Monks!

[@nickerskine6326]

now i'm really confused.

[@JLee-rt6ve]

Does that beat four aces?

[@nickerskine6326]

@@JLee-rt6ve i have no idea.

[@HannahHamilton-vu8eg]

"This is getting out of hands, now there are two of them"

[@Martysmarch]

Poor Randy...I loved him so...

[@thomashninan3825]

Guy dopplegangers are so creepy and scary 😱 but girl ones are sooo nice iam I the only one who thinks like that

[@bryantbass5045]

My favorite episode, Tucci was excellent.

[@larry-g8e]

So the police just stand around outside and do nothing? Bad script.

[@EmekaOffor-eu1bf]

Seriously, was that the best time for two OCDs?

[@Mikemartinez62]

Monk had to relive and rethink about truly case all bad but was a good episode

[@dazzlinghills3439]

Stanley tucci was so good he won an emmy

[@wr5488]

What’s the context here?? How’s the ‘not Monk’ know such intricate details about Monk?

[@WarrriorPoet]

Method Actors go deep into their characters. Some don't come back.

[@carlosantoniopinedasanmartin]

Monk y el actor

[@fareiefae]

Great episode!

[@hippocratesm.d.1543]

THE BIG NIGHT

[@warreng675]

Good work Randy, well done

[@zsitanca]

Nice R32

[@HamadAlhajr]

Cops eating popcorn while watching monk fight

[@shuga682]

“” it’s a gift and a curse”” four grown men at a crime scene trying to get the right tone of the statement 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@caseybennett1385]

Hrm. Methinks this should be some sort of actual interrogation technique.

[@jaxlaucius]

I didnt knew tucci was the first pick for monk

[@DavidThomas-fb8bq]

The guy at the car dealers thought, oh god, there's another one. They're breeding them..

[@RonaldMeadowd]

I don't know about u guys but I was pulling for Monk...

[@maxcoconato5579]

Hahah so great when they are both trying to fix the sticker hahahaha

[@JF-um3wz]

I’m so desperate for context.

[@ughmazing8073]

Stanley Tucci plays method actor David Ruskin (last name spelling?) In this episode. Producers were making a show/movie based on Monk, Randy and Stotlemyer. Ruskin played Monk's role, but gets so into the roles he becomes obsessed and soon thinks he is them. Hence him dressing and acting just like Monk.

[@danradfan12]

in the episode a movie is being made about one of the cases Monk solved (Mr. Monk and the Astronaut). Stanley Tucci's character is the actor that is supposed to portray Monk in the movie but Tucci's character is a super extreme method actor and always ends up adopting the personalities and habits of the roles he plays (i.e. in one film where he played a drug addict he literally turned into an addict and had to go to rehab). So basically as he tried to embody Monk for the film he started believing he was Monk hence the scene from this clip.

[@hapiphace6444]

These two were great in The Big Night 1996 movie

[@DrexelGregory]

2:50 Boom visible

[@flisko123]

lol at golf 4

[@jaxlaucius]

Multiverse😂

[@FrankLancaster-p5x]

Stanley Tucci deserves an award for this episode.

[@MaryAKottackal]

He did get an Emmy for this role. He was brilliant.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Want to see Peter Weller as Leland and Randy played by a woman!

[@robertaphelps]

no 👎

[@joshuaengleman1131]

# 137!!! WHOOOOOOO.... DOGGY!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@rayomcqueenlopez7624]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sanglunvaiphei9909]

I've been watching this show for a long time now and I realise how dumb and stupid it really is. Their plots become more ridiculous. It's gets dumber and dumber. Example: Trudy was killed by a car explosion. But her eyes were donated to someone and Monk sees and recognise it immediately. I don't care how good a detective is but there is noway he can identify someone's retina, which is on the back of the eyeballs.

[@MeepChangeling]

Hey, edgelord. Let people enjoy things.

[@martinkalmus3761]

Any other example why it looks dumb?

[@sanglunvaiphei9909]

@@martinkalmus3761 yeah the plot of every episode

[@sanglunvaiphei9909]

@@MeepChangeling yeah okay definitely 😁