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Monk and Natalie are sidetracked into a homicide investigation at a local music festival when a roadie turns up dead, due to a suspected overdose.
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TV-PG
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Trivia
Based on the teaser at the beginning, when Stork calls a copyright attorney, it seems that the San Francisco yellow pages lists a 24-hour copyright attorney.
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Goofs
As Monk and Natalie are walking past a row of five outhouses, Natalie's purse is on her right elbow. When they are looking at Stork's body a few seconds later, it's on her shoulder again.
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Quotes
Annie:
Uh-huh. I think so.
Adrian Monk:
Thing almost killed me. I hate that beachball.
Kendra Frank:
So it's true. They were right, he OD'D.
Adrian Monk:
I'm so sorry.
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They start to walk away. Monk stops to try to touch a heat lamp over another patient]
Natalie Teeger:
Mr. Monk, no! No-no-no-no-no-no! That's 400 watts!
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This episode was below par, the main reason being they wasted too much time doing nothing instead of working on the case. There was at least 10-12 minutes of the show where all we saw was Monk or Capt. Stottlemyer just wading through crowds of kids at an afternoon rock concert.
The case, a "roadie" being murdered by one of the rock stars who made it look like the victim OD'd, just didn't get enough air time. We also get the typical Hollywood parent-apologizing- to- child-despite-the-fact-the-kid-is-in-the-wrong routine. Since when is tough-guy cop Ted Levine (Stottlemeyer) wimpy? Only here, with his kid, who had skipped school to attend the concert. In TV and movies, parents are shown as bad guys more than good guys and the kids are usually smarter. Well, thankfully, my parents were smarter than me when I was 15 and yours were, too....but not in shows like this.
It's usually fun to see the arrogant killer get caught. That was true here, too, with the singer (who couldn't sing, either) who was shown to have no redeeming qualities as to make it even more satisfying. The problem was that Monk came up with the answers too fast and with no credibility. I mean, the rock star pretends he's the road and the acupuncture lady, who works right nearby, doesn't know the difference? Come on!
Many times these are far-fetched just to get laughs, and I appreciate that, but this was a very weak effort with few laughs and a story that had no believability. Hey, they can't all be winners.