you buy only sierra springs water
You go to San fransisco to try to find the monk

Keep going I want what everyone thinks makes you a true fan(except for The actor who became monk)

You go out and buy 'wipes' by the gross.

- When you keep thinking to yourself "There's never hope"

- When anything is not straight on the table it starts to bug you

- Your new favorite phrase is "Here's what happened!"

You know you're a Monk fan when they all know your name on the official fan site. (Yay us!)

Hey Hello,
You know you are a Monk fan when you have all the DVDs and
you watch all the episodes over and over and
you know all the dialogues by heart

You come to this board one day to check something out, and end up moving in.

-when you clean your bathroom thinking if Monk would feel safe to come in;

-when you watch over and over the episodes and laughs again to the same funny parts;

-when you watch over and over the episodes and still finds other scenes to laugh at;

-when you repeats alloud what Monk says in Mr Goldberg books, just to try to make it sounds exactely like him;

-when you think on the actors during the day, trying to imagine what scene they are shooting and what they are doing;

-when you cannot be one day without checking in here;


Mi

all you talk about is monk.

you go up to total strangers and ask them if they watch Monk.

if they don`t you tell them why they should.

you tell your brother to never let his wife call when it`s time for Monk.

you straighten grocery displays and pick up trash off the floor.

have dreams about meeting Tony. ( By the way he said in my dream, he won`t be getting together
with Natalie.)

you start praying for Monk, for real.

you tell everyone that everything is dangerous. (Well, I`ve been doing that for years.)

you tell everyone weeks in advance that your not avaiable starting July 18th until the seeason is
over. I have about a hundred more.

- when Tony says in interviews that the series do not have millions of fans, but the ones they have are completely obsessed by it, you feel hugely flattered.

-When you think about nothing but Monk
-You find yourself singing "It's a Jungle Out There" all day long
-You dream of meeting Tony in person instead of just in my dreams
-You freak out if the simplest thing is the least bit out of order
-You watch the episodes over and over again and never get tired of it, and you laugh at all the same places
-When you see someone who made a guest star appearance on Monk, you know exactly what episode they played in the character's name as well as the name of the actor/actress
-You find yourself working with even numbers and even time frames

That's how Star Trek started.

And it spawned 3 spin offs, a multitude of movies, novels of every shape and size including ships and crews unique to print, as well as international recognition for advancing cultural awareness and understanding.

And most of those original Trek episodes are 60 times as cheesy as the worst episode of Monk.

Monk has just begun.

-M

P.S. - Wouldnt it rule if Monk was as influential as The Blue Collar Comedy Tour?

It is very flattering isn't it! Hey Tony, I'm proud to be a completely obsessed Monk fan!!

...when anger starts building up you go out and buy a green yo-yo and repeat over and over, 'these things happen.'

...you turn off the lights and take the phone off the hook when MONK is on.

...all the clothes in your closet are shades of brown.

...when you have a dream like this: you're back in school and you notice that Tony Shalhoub
is sitting at one of the desks. Then you notice that the teacher is his assitant
(neither Sharona nor Natalie). You're like WOWWW!! You ask Tony: how's season 7 going,
when will it come??! Tony just smiles and his assistant sais: when you'll buy a bunch of
flowers, when they burst into blossoms, then drop them and die, then season 7 will come!

It's kinda hard to explain, but this is a weird weird dream I had some time ago.

When watching Marci Maven is like looking into a mirror.

When a complete stranger in a restaurant calls you Monk because you are busy cleaning the table and silverware. (yes this happened to me a couple of months back)

... when you notice, that you cannot stop thinking about Monk.

... when you begin to notice all kind of monkish things all over.

... when you notice, that you has a urge to clean up places outside your home.

... when you in fact begin to organize things to their proper places outside your home (for example in shops).

... when you notice all kind of dirty and disorder, which hasn´t troubled you before.

... when you get upset when your relatives and friends don´t know who is Tony Shalhoub or why Monk is so phenomenal. (´Isn´t it about that weird neurotic guy... ´ arghh.)

... when you almost stop watching anything else shows, because they are not Monk.

... when you are dreaming, that you really meet mr Monk

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-when you do something and then say "You'll thank me Later" at least once a day

This is so true...You know your are a Monk fan

When: Your husband starts calling you Adrian while your straightening your table settings at dinner...

When: You go to the bookstore and you cant stop yourself from lining up all the books on shelves and making displays look neater!

When: You tell your co-worker that they are being Monkish and they are looking at you like your from another world

When: You pick up the bathroom and must wash your hands at least 3 times (my least favorite thing is that people forget what a trash can is for..)

I cant help that I get obsessed about a task and just wont stop until the task is done or the job is perfect!...folding clothes is one thing my husband lets me do because of this rule..

I just love my Monk!

When going out on a Friday night during the season is NOT an option.

you pick lint and hair off complete strangers clothes

you find a dog hair in your sandwich and suddenly lose your appetite (when it had become a fact of life)

you spend the whole day with a bottle of 'Lime-off' and 'Q-tips' cleaning the grout between your tiles

it takes you over an hour to wash your picture window

you notice the dog scruffed the nap on your rug and you jump up to make it lay down even with the rest of the nap

you take a trash can outside to the parking lot and start picking up the trash

When you're cleaning your hands with lever 2000 wipe and that feeling is great .

Sorry Adrian i had to try it, i opened my wipes and i use one of them and than i was thinking... just 39 wipes stay there oh it's so uneven. What should i do now??

editing:
When you use the word "wipe(s)" more than once in a sentence.

...also when you go to the hospital or so and try to hold up your breath during the visit.

I just use gloves and a mask for this.

yes! and when I go with my baby to the doc, even there, I try to keep him on my lap, for not touching anything, and I tell him to breath very smoothly.....I do not allow him to play with other kids over there, you know, if they are there they might have some health issue....
I wash my hands and my baby's with doc's soap right after he finishes the clinical exams, then right after we get oof the office, I wipe our hands again...
Poor boy, I hope he can understand me one day....

It's funny you mention this one because I just got into an argument with my brother last night. He wants to go see The Dark Knight Friday night and I was like, nope can't do it, gotta be home Friday night. Some people just don't understand.

You know you are a Monk fan when...

• you try to work Monk into any given conversation.
• your Mom asks you to go to a live theatre performance and you make sure she does not want to go on a Friday night. (She told me it started on July 18, and I told her I would go any other night except Monk nights.)
  
• you carry the Monk novels with you and hope someone will ask about what you are reading. (I am just looking for any excuse to mention Monk.)
  
• you write a Monk Fan of the Week entry and do not submit it because you keep editing it until it is perfect.
• it takes forever to post a message because you are constantly editing it.
  

I had to laugh at your last one because that is SO true for me too. LOL

WELCOME TO THE BOARD!

The Friday one is true for me as well!! I had an offer to babysit a little b oy in my preschool class and I said, as long as it's not on Friday the 18th, I can babysit any time.and they thought I was nuts when they learned I wanted to watch a TV show, but Monk's not really a TV show, it's a way of life!

This actually happened to me this morning. A friend of mine asked if I could babysit her kids this weekend. I told her I had plans Friday night but anyother time I was free. She looked at me like I had lost my mind when I told her what my plans were. Monk IS a way of life. If people can't understand that, then it is there problem. LOL!!

Thanks for the welcome, MJ. I am glad I could make you laugh.

Welcome Monkster! This is a fun place to hang out.

I know I am a Monk fan, because I have my books and DVDs all lined up in order, in a place of honor,

And because when we stayed in a hotel two weeks ago I had to sanitize all the door knobs and especially the REMOTE before my husband could touch them! He thought I had lost it - but really it is just common sense to do it!

I have more to add.

...you go to a hockey game and the scratches and smudges on the glass bother you so much that you cannot fully enjoy the game. (I am a huge fan of my local hockey team. Now, this mainly bothers me temporarily because I have learned to refocus myself on the game.)

...you buy the OCC (Obsessive Compulsive Collection) on DVD and still watch the same episodes on USA over and over again while tolerating the commercials. (even though it would be faster and more enjoyable to watch the DVDs)

Thanks Monkophile1! I am having fun already. I agree; it does make sense!

Referring back to my earlier quote: "you carry the Monk novels with you and hope someone will ask about what you are reading."
It happened today...I went to the dentist today, and I was reading Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants. I asked my dental hygienist if she had ever seen Monk. I told her about the series, and she is going to check it out because I had piqued her curiosity.

...when you start watching. LOL. It only takes 1 eppie, IMO.

AND you know you're really sucked in when you find yourself here, at the boards, in some way , shape or form....posting or lurking......you ARE sucked in. AND it is good.

B
Monk does SO rock!

I wore one of my Monk t-shirts while visiting my grandfather in the hospital back in May. One of his doctors walks in and sees my shirt and says "oh you are a Monk fan?" I jumped right in - "you betcha, you watch the show too?" and we had a good 10-minute discussion about the show. My poor grandfather looked at me and the doctor at one point like, excuse me I'm the one in the hospital and you are discussing a TV show?? Ahhh the Monk community is far reaching. It's a beautiful thing.

Gosh you do know my obsession lol

When you go on vacation and have to take a laptop because you can't stay away from Monk while you are gone.

You straighten the pictures on the wall in the hotel room before you unpack.

You only use numbers in increments of 10.

Doing anything other than watching Monk on Friday night is not an option, the phone isn't answered, no one is invited over, and nothing else is on TV!

You find yourself washing your hands, using sanitizer or wipes all the time.

When you see a birthday cake, you begin to think a cellophane.

The public toilettes arouse your suspicions.

When your little children know, who is Monk.

If you don´t get a even number, you feel yourself uncomfortable.

Vacations are hard to you, if you can´t be connected with Monk.

At home your computer is almost always open.

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I was working at front desk of the library, and the exact second I decided to sneak a peek at a Monk fansite, a patron walks up to the desk to return a Monk book and we simultaneously go "Oh my god! I love that show!"

When you walk past a light pole and can't help but touch it.

You alphabetize your DVD's and know immediately if one is out of place.

When your niece's first word is Monk!

When you are standing on the beach and you turn around to look at your hotel, checking very carefully for a murder to solve.

If a number isn't even you do everything you can to make it even.

You only eat M&M's in increments of 10.

1. When I personally have arranged my closet so that all of my clothes are in order:
From front to back:

Arranged by color, following the color spectrum....Primary colors first, Secondary colors second....etc. etc. etc.

All freshly ironed and/or creased after washing......

Right side of closet:

Long sleeve shirts with collars
Long sleeve shirts without collars
Short sleeve shirts with collars
Short sleeve shirts without collars/T-Shirts
Tank Tops

Left side of closet:

Dress Slacks
Khakhis
Jeans
Sweat pants (which i would change immediately if I were to actually sweat in them)

2. Everything on my desk at work is sqare and straight in relation to each other.

3. Cabinets in Kitchen have all the plates arranged by size and shape.

4. Cabinets in Kitchen have all glasses arranged by Height. Shortest in front to Tallest in Back

5. Cabinets in Kitchen have all coffee mugs facing the same direction with handles to the left.

6. Seperate food on plate so nothing touches. (of course)

7. Wash hands in public restroom, making sure to turn off water in sink with a cloth or paper towel so as not to touch the faucet with hands after hands are dry. Using another clean cloth or paper towel to exit the restroom so as not to touch the door handle, for fear that others did not wash their hands, and left bacteria on the bathroom door handle. Then, holding the door open with the tip of your shoe, and disposing of the paper towel in the waste recepticle before exiting the restroom.

8. Watching others in public restrooms to see if they washed their hands or not. Then, telling those that did not wash their hands that they are spreading diseases.

9. This list would go on forever, so I think I just better stop now before I go all the way up to 100.

You know you're a fan of 'Monk' when-

-You get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom/let the dog out/get a glass of water/had a weird dream/ect, and even though you aren't fully awake and you fully intend to go back to bed, you take a moment to check the various Monk forums, message boards and mailing lists you are on to see if anyone has posted anything new since you went to bed a few hours earlier.

-you have a 'Monk' ringtone on your phone, as well as 'Monk' wallpaper on your phone, desktop and laptop. Extra points if you train your dog to alert you when he hears your phone ringing, then live to regret it when he gets excited everytime he hears the theme music at the beginning of an episode. I turned my dog into a fan of the original themesong. Beat that, Marci!

-you get into a stupid argument with your teenager and get so irritated that you call her 'Harold'. Bonus points if she gets really, really, REALLY mad about it.

-your son gets two little dwarf frogs for the aquarium and names them Adrian and Ambrose.

-you find yourself 'recruiting' other people to watch the show, and you even have a list of people who you call on the nights when a new episode is on to remind them when it's on and what channel.

- you ask yourself 'WWMD'?

- you are well into your thirties, and you have a large Hoopfest poster with Tony Shalhoub hanging on your bedroom door like it's your dorm room. Also if you have framed autographed photos of the actors and autographed South Park posters displayed prominently in your living room, right above your Monk DVDs.

- you own more than one item of 'Monk' themed clothing.

- you own a 'backup' set of Monk DVDs that you can loan out to family, just so that you will never have to be without your own copy at any time. And you can't relax till you have gotten those backup copies back and have ascertained that they are still in good working order!

If you were a character in Monk, you would be Marci Maven.

LMAO Out Loud!

When watching Marci Maven makes you cringe, but you still can't stop obsessing over Monk.

I had a strange dream the other night that someone pushed Monk backwards out of a flying airplane without a parachute on, and at first, he was screaming, crying and freaking out as he was falling, but he kept on falling and falling for so long that he started to get a little bored with it. Then he started to wonder if the earth was there anymore, and started to panic and scream because he was afraid he'd never hit the ground. The alarm clock went off and woke me up before I could find out if he ever did hit the ground or what happened next. Maybe it was like a metaphor for the series ending, like maybe it never will. I think I prefer to think that's it.

That makes either you a Monk fan or a mother of a child under the age of three.

I know I have a problem with my love for Monk, because whenever I type a word that stars with "mon", and there are a few, I automatically type Monk first.

When a common phrase you hear from friends and family is, "quit Monking around."

When you hold your breath after someone sneezes.

When you almost call your girlfriend "Natalie" by accident.