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Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci in Monk (2002)

Goofs

Mr. Monk and the Actor

Monk

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Continuity

[task=nm0001804]'s character organizes some small statues and bottles while rehearsing a scene for the movie. He is shown arranging them to be 1-2-2-1, but in other shots during the scene they are 1-2-1-2 and 1-1-2-2.
During the second therapy session, Dr. Kroeger puts his glasses on twice.
When Jack is breaking into the pawn shop at 12:19, the hole in the wall is basically round with the bottom about waist height. In the restaurant Sketches at 13:28, the hole in the wall is shaped like an upside-down pear with the bottom at Randy's chest. In the next scene in the pawn shop, the hole is rectangular, still about chest height.
When Stanley Tucci and the others are doing the scene impersonating the Monk characters, the arrangement of the knick-knacks goes back and forth several times between shots, even when Tucci has his back to them.
While the impostor Monk is holding Jack Leverett hostage, he cocks the hammer of his revolver. After a cut, without firing a shot, the hammer is uncocked and cocked again following another cut. When real Monk (unwittingly) acquires the weapon, the hammer is again uncocked.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs

Randy and Stottlemeyer surprise Monk and Natalie with the news that a movie is being made based on the events of Mr. Monk and the Astronaut (2006), with an actor portraying the role of Monk as closely to real life as possible.

However, the studio would have needed to secure Monk's life rights (image, name, mannerisms, etc.) long before going into production, so it's odd he didn't already know about it. For that matter, they should also have done the same for Natalie.

This is a very common misconception. No one needs a person's permission to make a movie about their life. The producers of the movie are not using Monk's actual likeness or image, and neither a person's name nor mannerisms can be copyrighted (in most cases).

Revealing mistakes

Stottlemeyer describes the incident to Monk and Rusk: "Orlon ran up the stairs, confronted the doer. There was a struggle. The doer grabbed the gun and got off one shot. Then he ran out the front." He had no way of knowing any of these details. All they knew was that Orlov was dead, as a result of a single gunshot wound.

Character error

Monk pulls on his jacket sleeve so he doesn't have to touch the auto showroom door handle, but it retracts and he ends up grabbing it with his hand anyway.

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