Aaron Larkin

Angry Mother

Doris

Dr. Climan

Emily

Housekeeper

Mr. Sheckman

Mrs. Sheckman

Newswoman

Sarah Larkin

LOL! Good one, Bubba --

And thank you, Crystal.

I sed spoyler.

Ok, some info...

Very cool, Thanks!!

I know. This season sounds like a lot of fun.

Thanks Gertrude.

Wow Gertrude, that's really cool. starts filming his part next week - can't wait!

Eeeekkk!!! I cannot wait for this new season to start already!

Thanks CrystalSmith and Gertrude
Harold is back, Monk acts like a boy...and gets a frog! Ha! I can't wait...

Ask Ausiello:

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Thanks Metacomet for posting this

I can't believe this answer, Tony is the best actor nowadays and ever than where is the problem if he wins all of the awards, he deserves all of them!!

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I loved Richard Schiff in the West Wing as Toby Ziegler (sp?) i'm looking forward this episode, i'm sure it will be great

Thanks for the link metacomet

Oh dear the poor boy is jealous of Monk....seems he would like the adulation for himself...rather like Monk's jealosy of Natalie in the Lotto episode....

Tony is obviously good...good...good..thats why he keeps winning...don't think Ausiello has won anything....oh dear what a shame...

Quinnie

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Larger versions of the photos...I like the one with the frog and with Monk and Natalie
I hope you like it

I'm cautiously avoiding plot-spoilers for this one, though this looks to be a good one. I find that the eps where Adrian "becomes" someone different tend to be up there among my favourites (except for Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine, for some reason...).

Thanks for the photos Alex, they look great. Cant wait for this episode. Am yet to watch the previous one though , will do so in the next couple of days

Yeah, that's my favorite, too. I hope they didn't handle one frog too much. That could irritate the frog's skin. But that is a cute picture!

I can hardly wait for this episode!! It is going to be hilarious!!

The half-season finales are always great because the writers don't feel pushed to give us a big dramatic exit, and they can pull off something kinda playful, with plenty of memorable jokes and scenes.
Think of Takes His Medicine, Rock Concert, and Little Monk. Up All Night was pretty serious, but still had Captain America Randy, and we all remember that All those are half-season finales, and all of them have some of the best quotes and memories of the show. In my opinion. . .
Gets Hypnotized sounds like it will live up to these standards of fantastic comedy.

Thanks for the pictures! This episode looks GREAT! I like the frog one too.

Bump...cant wait...only 1 hour to go...

I'm just gonna post now, even though I haven't seen it, yet! From the previews, I think it's going to be interesting to see how similar grown-up Adrian might be to the 9-year-old Adrian he's going to regress to ...

Plus, "Who's Annette?"

Plus, Richard Schiff!

Signed,

Tami, Chief Sheep, Sycophant and Mindless Gusher ... Oh! Lookie the Emperor's New Clothes ... oops, I mean the New Monk Eppy is simply Marvelous!

Two hours and 41 minutes to go here! I can hardly wait! I know this is going to be one of my favorites!!

Wah!! *tears* I don't have cable, I haven't even seen the 100th case. Is there anyway to watch these online?

Sarah;-)

http://www.usanetwork.com/series/monk/video/fullep/

This episode is hilarious so far. I don't think I've laughed this much at Monk in a long time.

I'm biting my tongue.......

Please don't bleed on the page!

I liked it! Tony really has a range.

The fake "here's how it happened" wasn't as great as Alice Cooper and the wingback, but still pretty funny!

I won't...I swallowed my tongue.

Yech! Taste good?

He was adorable as a little kid!!! I loved it.

The gum on the shoe was soooo sooooo bad!!!!

Oh that was so gross - I just cringed - DON'T PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH!!

"DisherMint" was funny. I hope Randy gets more lines. Like the episode where Monk couldn't sleep - the Capt and Randy were wonderful in that one. But I digress....

My favorite part of the episode was the exchange between Monk and Capt Stottlemeyer when he said the husband was lying and to look at the wet umbrella. THAT was outstanding - perfectly written, perfectly timed in delivery - worth watching several more times again! I love Ted Levine + Tony Shalhoub.

Now for the sadder moments - Monk's "I don't get it" moments with the rainbow and the birds. I do get rainbows and birds but I have those " I don't get it " moments alot. Don't get the joke, don't get the point, don't get the nudge and the wink that everyone else seems to have picked up on..... *sigh*. That made me sad for him.

Personally I was very pleased with this episode. I hope the actors and writers never get tired of it because this show continues to be such a treat. There's nothing else like it.

I loved this episode. I like the DisherMint Gum and the reaction of Stottlemeyer when Monk ate it from the shoe... Hoppy, the Frog..sweet little...frog...
Natalie called Monk Adrian again, for the first time since ... wow...first episode she was in if I remember well... "Adrian how old are you?" . Dr. Bell was at Monk's house, for the first time... I think he wasn't happy of Natalie not calling him...
Harold Krenshaw...OMG...the first scene he appeared was really funny but the second one..OMG...everyone know what I'm talking about. I'm curious if we going to see him again
I like the scene on the swing...and the realisation of Monk how old he really is...
and the end of the episode with the birds...really good...
What a shame it's the end of the half of the season. I can't wait 'till christmas episode.
New book will be out in December so this year is going to be very interesting...

I know, I was laughing during the entire show. Once again, Tony has proven his fine acting abilities.

I hope they mention Hoppy again sometime. Too adorable.
And it was too bad Richard Schiff was only in one scene too, but ah well. The return of Harold! Hahahaha.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/34411/monk-mr-mo...case#s-p1-so-i0

You can watch 100th Case here.


Tony has done it again! I can't say he amazed me because I've come to expect superb acting from him, and he always delivers.
The whole gum thing was so funny, especially when the Captain spit it out so violently, then wondered where it went. I was waiting for the moment when Monk would remember where that gum had been. He will be rinsing his mouth out for a very long time.
What a cute happy child he was, before everything went bad for him. Adorable.
When he was first hypnotized, moving back through the years, and became upset because he was going to go through losing Trudy again...very well done.

One thing--why was he still hypnotized when he left the hypnotist's office? Seems like they kind of glossed over that or did I miss something? I can see why Harold was left hypnotized, he was an adult, but Monk had regressed to a child, don't know why he'd be left that way.

Dr. Bell did say that he'd been cleaning up the hypnotist's messes... so he probably is a quack.

That's right! The guy was indeed a quack, that's why. Do you need a license to hypnotize people?

Now that I've stitched up my tongue, looks like I have to put my bullet proof vest on...because as much as I loved last week's eppy, I hated this one. For me, it was as bad as MR MONK BUYS A HOUSE. And that's pretty bad.

Halfway through, my hubby sat down to watch it with me, all pumped up after last week's great eppy, and when it was done, he turned to me and just dead-panned: "Is THIS the same show we watched last week?"

The eppy was a caricature from the get go. I've been hypnotized. That was not hypnotism. And it was predictable. The minute Randy did his spiel about the gum, I knew what was to come, and my tummy dropped. And it got worse.

As much as I love and adore Ted Levine, I wish they would give him something more to do than just arch his eyebrow and look exasperated.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly, I wish they had switched shows, played this one last week and 100th CASE last night. That was the show to end this part of the season with.

Count me a very disappointed Monkophile.

Post Episode Commentary (Spoiler alert)

I had thought this might be a fun one -- and I was right. I'm watching the episode again (third time as I write), so I don't leave anything out.

I had some initial apprehensions. The episode descriptions had said he was going to revert back to his nine year old state -- when he was happier. And that kind of bothered me. His father left when he was eight, and we saw in the previous episode that he was holding the family together at that point -- how could that have been a happier time? My other concern was that they showed him being messy and silly -- and from depictions in past episodes, we learned he was anything but. But I thought they handled that well -- explaining that it was a wish-fulfillment, and that I could understand -- and even identify with.

I think 'Takes His Medicine' was another episode that dealt with wish fulfillment -- eating hamburgers, swimming in a pool, etc, and 'Gets Hypnotized' followed in the same vein. I had often wondered how Natalie might have responded to 'the Monk', and had hoped that she would have been more compassionate and understanding of that. And I think she was -- to some extent. She made him pancakes -- even offering him some after he was out of it. I would have suspected that, after she realized what was going on, that Natalie, who had been encouraging him to have more wonder at the world, would have supplied him with more resources to explore his fantasy childhood. And perhaps she did -- someone had to buy him crayons or paint to decorate Hoppy's box. And I do like to see Monk experiencing the things he never did.

Randy was good in this episode. For those who love to see him do well -- proficient in his job and not a total goofball, this was good one. He was authoritative and sounded like a cop for a good portion of this episode (shall we call him a gum shoe?) but was still Randy enough to be chewing gum the whole eppy, and to give Monk 5 dollars to eat it off a shoe.

Harold is always fun to see -- I am wondering, along with several others from last night's chat, if he will now start seeing Dr. Bell, since his first therapist resulted in his arrest.

Now, I thought Disher-mint was funny, but I knew when Stottlemeyer spit it out, that it was going to end up in evidence somehow. (Side note: Apparently now Disher has a basement -- I thought he had been living in an apartment.) And I also suspected when Susan was missing, that she had set it up. When the husband was killed -- I knew it was premeditated murder. But the mystery didn't disappoint me, somehow. I was a little surprised that neither Disher or Stottlemeyer recognized the gum on Susan's shoe -- but I think that can be attributed to their distraction with Monk.

I know nothing about hypnotism, but suspect that the type of hypnosis on this eppy is more akin to that which is seen in shows for entertainment. (There is an audio buzz in the background during most of the hypnosis scene. I'm not sure if it was supposed to be a part of the sound effects, but I found it a bit irritating -- but only after the third time I watched it.) I'm sure we'll get some experts on hypnotism sign up just to tell us what they did wrong, so I'll leave that to them. But he was a quack -- so anything he did was within the realm of my suspension of disbelief. I was willing.

I loved the frog -- and I loved the fact that "me and Natalie" were the only ones who could touch it. Now the balloon they didn't get enough mileage out of IMHO -- I was waiting for helium voice -- and we didn't get it. But Tony was great in this episode, as usual.

For those keeping score, I think this is actually the third time Natalie called him 'Adrian.' Once in 'Red Herring', and then again at the end of 'Gets Drunk.'

The childish false summation was classic Monk -- just as funny as the Alice Cooper-wing back chair summation. The actors portraying the Larkins were wonderful in that scene. I loved how that whole thing came down -- Susan lying on the mattress, exaggeratedly kicking her legs and taunting. The hubby hitting himself on the head. It was playing in Monk's head like hammy kids would act out the scene. Whoever thought of that gets a special award from me --- it was pure comedic genius.

I loved the line, "She is a liar, Stottlemeyer." And I loved Monk's juvenile detective skills. Figuring out that Larkin and his girlfriend wanted to "go on a honeymoon and kiss" based on the fact that he wasn't afraid of her cooties, was really hysterical, as was his conclusion that she was not locked up for three days since no one could survive that long without television, and his assertion that a girl couldn't beat up a boy. LOL.

And we got the line "Here's what happened" back again -- YAY!

But in the end, I would have suspected that he would have been slightly better after his exercise in wish-fulfillment -- happier, slightly better adjusted. I did like the fact that he got up to look at the bird outside his window, but I would have been happier and more encouraged had he smiled -- even slightly. But I guess that wouldn't be status quo, would it? -- and poor Mr. Monk must remain miserable for our viewing pleasure. "I don't get it" made me sad.

This will end up in my list of top ten favorites.

It goes to my top ten, too! I loved this episode!!

Oh I almost forgot to mention:

The fart joke! Being from a family full of people who love to giggle at noisy bodily functions, I absolutely loved it.

I loved this episode !!! The hour went by so fast. It is my understanding that there will be a Christmas or holiday episode and then new ones start airing in January, am I correct ?

It was funny, but not funny as I thought it would be. The first scene with Harold was weird because it was totally out of character to be civil to Monk. The second scene was hilarious! Being arrested for indecent exposure! LOL! I thought that was the funniest part.

As far as I know, that's right, 4thecaptain. A great Xmas epi, then a loooooooong wait for more new stuff to love.

Was gonna post my fave moments on the epi, but everyone else already pointed out all my LOL-out loud moments. I absolutely loved loved loved it all. IMO all of the epis are good in their own way, but this one for me was outstanding. Got interrupted for the first ten minutes of the first airing, so I watched it again at 11. Even hubby---who really dislikes Monk, and just doesn't "get it" about the show---LOL at alot of the childish stuff. Prolly cause he identified with the antics Monk was doing---I soooo can see the bald-headed old fart making the hand-farts and blowing himself backwards like Monk did.

Meme

I had just the opposite reaction, I loved this eppie but did not care for last weeks eppie as much ( I mean I like them all because after all it is Monk ) because of the way it was presented, just couldn't get into it for some reason, but still enjoyed the characters and seeing the Monk gang. Better than anything else on TV !! I do respect you and your opinion though, you know that by now. Guess you can't please everybody all the time, right ?

Did I miss something, or did Monk not react to the hypnotist saying "Leap and a net will appear"? I know that there are reactions to inconsistencies on Monk - can he swim, why does he react to some things but not others, etc., but that seemed like an oddly specific thing for the writers to put in and for Monk to not react to.

Did I miss something? I'm definitely going to have to watch it again.

Oh, and I thought that commercials said that Monk was being sponsored by Lincoln, but Natalie was still driving her Audi. Was anyone else driving a Lincoln?

Mr. Monk Buys A House unless another bad epsiode comes along that is the worst ever. I enjoyed Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized and even Sheila (my better half) who never watches Monk enjoyed the episode. Her other favorite was Mr. Monk Gets Married where Monk and Sharona pretend to be married.

Monk's reaction to the leap and a net will appear was to ask Anette who? I sooooo thought he'd say "A net will appear, my ass."