"Monk" Mr. Monk Stays in Bed (2005)

Director:

Philip Casnoff

Writers:

Andy Breckman (creator)
Hy Conrad (written by)

TV Series:

"Monk" (2002)

Original Air Date:

22 July 2005 (Season 4, Episode 3)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Mystery | Crime

Plot:

When Natalie finally catches up with the pizza guy who mistakenly left her $50 in change, she finds him dead in his car. She feels compelled to solve the murder but Monk, sick in bed, offers little help. |

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | Murder | Widower | Multiple Actors For One Character

Cast

Tony Shalhoub	...	Adrian Monk
Traylor Howard	...	Natalie Teeger
Jason Gray-Stanford	...	Lt. Randall Disher
Ted Levine	...	Captain Leland Stottlemeyer
David Valcin	...	Reggie Dennison
Lennie Loftin	...	John DeLancy
Jimmy Palumbo	...	Mr. Gorman
Emmy Clarke	...	Julie Teeger
Frank Novak	...	Marv Chastwick
D.J. Harner	...	Mother
Yvans Jourdain	...	Criminalist
Gentry Sanz-Agero	...	Eating Detective
Eric Artell	...	Tommy
Sean McDermott	...	Kevin
Skyler Gisondo	...	Kyle

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Portugal:M/12

Company:

Mandeville Films

Goofs:

Plot holes: In this episode we see a captured Natalie bound with duct tape around her wrists. While Monk rushes in to save her by fighting off her attacker, Natalie disappears for a few moments. When next we see her, she saves the day while operating some machinery with both hands free.

Quotes:

[Natalie is helping Monk re-paper his walls]
Natalie: Mr. Monk, it's level. See? The bubble is right in the middle.
Adrian Monk: I think it's broken.
Natalie: Mr. Monk, the level is not broken! It's a bubble on a stick.
Adrian Monk: Let's just make sure...
[He unwraps a second level and holds it next to the first one]
Natalie: You have two levels?
Adrian Monk: I use this level to check the other levels. It's my level-checking level.
Julie Teeger: [deadpan] How do you know that one's not broken?
Adrian Monk: That's a good question. I take my level checking level to the hardware store twice a year to have it re-calibrated.

Good Mix Of Humor & Suspense

A pizza men is 40 minutes late delivering a pizza to Natalie, her daughter and Monk. Natalie notices the man left her a $50 bill by mistake, rushes out to tell him, but he had just driven away. She follows him and discovers him parked in the middle of the city, dead in his vehicle....but he's not the guy who delivered the pizza. She spends the rest of the show trying to find out what's going on here.

There is another story, a bigger one that all the cops are in on as a prominent female judge is missing. Capt. Stottlemeyer has to bring all the evidence into Monk's bedroom so he'll look at it and help solve the case.

Much of the show is devoted to how Monk's illness which, of course, he makes into a huge production. His carrying on and actions while suffering no more than a bad cold are pretty ludicrous, as you can imagine if you've seen this show before.

The ending is suspenseful and the episode overall is very entertaining.