hi you all!

I know there is a similar topic around here, about moments that kinda break you heart in Monk´s seasons.
But in this very topic I would like to share some moments in Monk´s seasons that make me feel embarrassed if I knew Monk personally. Let me explain it: I would like to share those moments that I really feel sorry for him or other characters, but not in a pity/sad/lonely/misery way, it is something like to be sorry because of self-exposure and ridiculous actions.
Not ridiculous in a bad sense, please, it is like jumping from fiction to reality: this scenes prove I could never be an actress, cause I would never hold the emotion when feeling I am exposed that way! It is like when you step on the character´s role and feel what he/she´s feeling....and then you cheers God this is only fiction and they are actors! Brilliant ones, óff course, otherwise I wouldn´t feel this way!
So in summary, I would like to share moments when Monk or other characters were so exposed that we are glad they are just characters (played by brilliant artists,let me say that again!), otherwise we will feel really ashamed for knowing them personally.

So, there is a scene that is stuck on my mind, in the Actors´s episode, when Monk already knows they will make a film about him, and Natalie instructs him to "act naturally" when Stott and Randy tells him the news he already knows, and he goes like "UH....HO....UHH...." trying to show surprise with the news and expliciting he already knew about it...
If I was a Natalie there, really, I would love to stuck my head in a hole on the ground to avoid the awkward and uncomfortable situation Monk - and she - was on it!
This is certainly a situation I would feel really embarrassed at!

Hugs
Mi

In Monk takes his medicine episode when he's in the pool shooting squirt guns.........I be like I don't know him look.

In the Leper episode, I'd die blushing if I thought I had to scrub my mouth out after kissing a leper.

Mr. Monk makes a friend, where he's jumping on the sofa because the phone is ringing.

Yes, and when he is lying there staring at the phone and waiting for it to ring like a preadolescent girl. It really is pathetic.

When he overacts - overdoes his dective thing for the actor in the episode that Michelle mentioned - its embarassing/painful.

If the writers included too many of these moments it would be too hard to watch, wouldn't it?

Yes, it would be hard. There is another moment I feel sad, at Gets Fired, when the agent humiliates Monk in front of eveybody, and force him to leave without looking back....sad and embarrassing.....

I am behind on the Season Six episodes so I watched Mr. Monk and the Man who Shot Santa last night for the first time. Boy that had some painful moments. Watching him during his interview was bad, like when he faced the camera and said, "There is no Santa".

Watching him then proceed to bite the head off the Santa cookie didn't help much either.

Like Stot, and Dish and others watching you just want to do it for him because he just can't figure it out on his own.

The shopping scenes! When the crowd turns on him. Ouch.

I just saw Shot Santa last night too. And I was embarrassed. I wasn't embarrassed for Monk or Natalie, or Disher who apparently just found out Santa didn't exist. It was probably the one episode that I was really embarrassed for the writers.

In the opening shots we see the museum with the big diamond, and then Santa on the roof of a nearby building. It's not much of a mystery when you can solve it yourself in the opening scene, and it takes the great detective Adrian Monk the whole episode. It's easy -- Santa's pulling a heist.

It can't be that easy, I thought. There has to be a twist. But no -- they just give us more and more evidence leading to the obvious. The walkie talkie was obvious enough. Why did it take Monk so long to put it together? How did they let that one get past them?

A better twist would have been to have Santa killed by one of his accomplices, and then they frame Monk. Or have Santa killed by the gift shop lady in self defense.

Okay, it's not my least favorite -- that goes to Rapper. But it's right down there. The only redeeming quality in this episode for me, at least was the shipping potential of several scenes.

Am I wrong (there are still 3 episodes I haven't seen) or is this the first time that Natalie uses the "L" word personally to Adrian? "I love you." I know she's said "We love you" in Makes a Friend, but it was kinda' nice to hear it in the singular. (Okay anti-shippers - I'm not stupid. I know there are different kinds of love.) But I liked it. I also liked the scene at the end with Monk, Natalie and Julie -- very family-like. Natalie taking off his shoes...and was she rubbing his leg?

I'll watch this one again when it comes on (I'm thinking of skipping Rapper entirely), but I'd be embarrassed to show this episode to a non-Monk lover.

I guess I am not as quick, but I didn't figure out what the walkie-talkie meant until Adrian did. I first understood when Stot and Randy are at bad Santa's apartment and you see the files of his former probationers. Maybe its because I am sick with a sinus infection (and therefore online in the middle of the day! ) that I didn't get it. I can't spell worth beans with this headache.

The idea of Monk shooting someone was a great distractor and the fact that even Stottlemyer didn't understand at first added to the confusion. I enjoyed parts of this episode, like every episode. Especially when Monk is told not to wipe his hands and he keeps trying.

Julie is a little too compliant for me. Shouldn't she do some eye-rolling or teeth-sucking when told to get in the car?

P.S. I still have six episodes of season six to see. Can't wait for the DVD to be released in June.

Yes, that´s what I think also. I was showing Monk to my hubbie, trying to make him like it, but I was caught by the destiny: at the very day they were showing The Rapper. Terrible, my husband quit watching it when Monk comes back from the meeting wearing Rap stuffs, with a golden teeth. Terrible!!! I was so embarrassed.....

Hugs
Mi

Although, going back to the Shot Santa episode, my favorite line was "Heathen's love bunnies", and the idea that his lawyer wants to fill the jury box with witches because they hate Christmas. Hysterical.

Yeah, Michele, i know what you mean. My dad hardly ever watches Monk but I got him down one night to watch it and it happend to be the Rapper. Ug! The Grille (sic?) was aweful! That one made me embarrassed for Tony to have to go through that one!

LOL! I have been watching too much 'House'. When I read 'the "L" word', my first thought was, "She said something about lesbians?" There was at least one episode of House where he kept talking to Wilson about watching some show called 'The L Word' and apparently, that is what it's about. Lesbians, not love. Well, maybe lesbians in love, I don't know.

Why didn't you guys like Rapper? I thought it was hysterical. Monk is caught halfway between being terrified to death, and wanting to act cool, like he fits in. I thought the grill was hilarious. The most uncool man in the universe meets the coolest - and they respect him! Too funny.

Sorry, but its not really my cup of tea! I guess think it was in poor taste. I don't like all the skimpily clad ladies hanging around the whole episode. I thought the plot was cool but not the whole rap 'scene'.

I hate the whole rap culture and its glorification of drugs and violence. (Personal opinion--I know) I found it difficult to laugh at it. There wasn't much enjoyable for me in the whole thing.

One thing that makes me feel better is knowing that only a great actor like Tony could go through a moment like this for the sake of the plot, without refusing it, and doing it so brilliantly!
But even so, i didn´t like it at all!!! No, I enjoyed only one tiny little bit part of it: when Stot and Monk go to the rapper´s house, Stot goes something like " You, you personally takes care of him, he is my friend" to a rapper's 'bodyguard'.
Anyway, I hope next season they avoid so mean and cruel embarrassing moments like the ones we mentioned.

I feel sad for Monk alot of times. He is like a little child who can`t help himself. He doesn`t realize he is embarrassing other people. I find this quality so endearing and sweet. Nothing he does has ever embarrassed me. I thought it was funny when his old friend came to his house for help in Mr. Monk Little Monk and he said, "tell her about Trudy, tell her we went all the way". LOL

I was kind of embarrassed for Adrian during the "Office" episode. He wants to fit in and yet when they all go bowling together, he refuses to wear the shoes. Okay, I can understand not wanting to wear rented shoes, but from what I remember he wouldn't even let them buy him new ones. So then they ended up forfeiting the game and they all turned against him. It was sad, but I think he might have been able to spare himself some embarrassment.

Andrea

in mr.monk takes his medicine when he is in the pool playing marco polo and they all leave the pool i would feel so embaressed if that was me! also in mr.monk and the bird and the bees when he has to talk to julie about all of the changes she is going through i think that would be embaressing too

Mr. Monk and the Red Headed stranger, when he's supposed to play the clarinet then that guy puts his mouth on it and Monk whisles instead.

(if anyone ever put their mouth on my french horn i would die! ugh!)

I had an arguement with someone about that very thing the other day when the epi aired. I played clarinet for 4 years and I am certainly not using a mouthpiece or reed right after someone else. Gross.

I played for 6 years, and I never did/would either. It kind of makes me wonder where Monk got a new reed when he played the "rosewood" clarinet the first time after seeing it lying out. Remember, they said they had a new mouthpiece. So he pulls the mouthpiece out of the box, and like a second later, he's playing it. There's no time to get a reed, put it on, or tighten a ligature. Not to mention, Monk's going to need his reed straight.

But they did better than some TV shows. I've seen people hold it using the wrong hands before.

I remember reading somewhere that he actually did play it for the show, but the final at the graveside you could see his fingering didn't line up with what was being played. So I'm not sure if he played it, and they edited it funny -- or if someone else played it, and he just moved his fingers.

Georgia seemed authentic -- even a little squeak in there.

But I felt embarrased for him there in the studio. Every time he gets a chance to shine, somethings gotta happen.