anyone else watch this? I haven't enjoyed a detective program as much since Columbo. there are some weak episodes, sure-- but overall, I find Tony Shalhoub's OCD detective to be completely entertaining.

I don't watch it weekly, but USA always runs those marathons and I'll easily fritter away a lazy sunday evening taking in a few.


Not Crap.

I love this show.

Shalhoub is a genius when playing this guy.

I miss Sharona though. I don't like Natalie.

Yes. This is a good show, but as you suggest, I too am delinquent in keeping up. I'll watch 6 in a row and then forget about it for months. It's not the sort of show that's a series insofar as they're individual episodes.

I've got a big crush on Natalie for some reason.

The idea of an OCD detective is so obvious it's brilliant and overlooked. You have to be OCD to get the details. They just ramp it up for comedy's sake and it works.

Maybe the one drawback is that it's always so obvious who's the bad guy.

I like it where he walks through the big vagina.

Lemuel Gulliver wrote:Maybe the one drawback is that it's always so obvious who's the bad guy.

which is why it reminds me so much of Columbo.

either of you see the episode with John Turturro as his brother?


fantastic.

There's an early episode where Monk has to fly somewhere, and there's this annoying kid sitting in front of him who asks him, "Pete and Repeat are in a boat. Pete jumps out. Who's left?" The look of agony on Shalhoub's face when he is physically unable to not say "repeat" time after time after time had me on the floor.

Also, Tony Shalhoub is a native of Green Bay.

NOT CRAP! This show is fucking gold.

kerble wrote:either of you see the episode with John Turturro as his brother?


fantastic.

No! Shit. I need to see that. Turturo is sort of a super Michael Cain: You know he could steal the show, but for some reason or other, he takes smaller parts and works magic with them. I'd put Hackman in this class to.

I cannot refute your point about Columbo. Perhaps it's because Columbo proceeded more from character traits than from physical evidence that I have this opinion.

Were they to make a movie of the Republic, Peter Falk would have to play Socrates.

Do you mean to tell me, Adeimantus, that justice is not good for the unjust man's soul?

I think Turturro's been on twice.

Also excellent casting: Dan Hedaya as Monk's dad.

Shalhoub's actual brother has been on the show too, as a suspect.

good show.

not crap.

basically: it's a tv show, it's not great. it's just a matter of whether or not it's amusing. it is.

not crap for a tv show. most don't amuse. like damn near all, when you figure in all the channels and all the shows. tv has a high crap to not crap ratio. like 99% of all of it.

Really enjoyable and often very funny.

There are definitely some clunkers, but not many.

The whole cast is great, especially Ted Levine as Captain Stottlemeyer. I keep waiting for the writers to give him a scene in a supermarket where he asks someone to put the lotion in the basket.

Natalie is hotter than Sharona. By far. Her kid is also less annoying.

I met the writer, Andy Breckman at a mcdonalds in manhattan. He cohosts 7 second delay, a funny call in show on WFMU. Me and the bassist from an old band tracked him down, it was some sort scavenger hunt they were doing on the show. The bassist was listening on the radio when I found him and collected my turkey. One of those you-had-to-be-there moments.