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Why would Monk go to group therapy?
As in the Mr. Monk and Sharona topic...waiting for Gertrude's spoiler

I guess Andy Breckman said that Adrian runs over his session limit or something like that, maybe that's why he should go to a group therapy...
Thanks for the info BTW

I think that's right, Tonyfan. Tim Bagley (Harold Krenshaw) is in this one and he tells me they're filming this one right now and for the rest of the week.

Doug Nabors on his Twitter account wrote yesterday that they're "working in Marina Del Rey today since 6am. Monk, Natalie and Dr. Bell on bicycles. Later today, Monk drowns a woman in her own pool"
That can be also in this episode but I'm not sure

Wow, Thank you all for the information! This episode sounds great!

Wow, that sounds...weird.

Ok, some info

Thank you!!!

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!! Harold did it!

No? Okay, so he probably didn't do it, but I suspect the guy is someone the group session (besides Harold and Adrian) that it has something to do with either the chair she was sitting in, or they are bothered by her and the other patient that gets killed and want to get them out of there. Maybe they have are on a waiting list to get into Dr. Bell's group sessions and they are trying to move up the list faster rather than wait for a spot to come open. Maybe they have a very severe case of OCD and they are trying to arrange the way the other patients sit at the sessions. Possibly they really are very disturbed and in more dire need of psychiatric care than anyone knew. Vendetta against Dr. Bell? Trying to get Dr. Bell's group sessions stopped? This is their deranged way of striking out at their HMO? Or maybe they aren't crazy and there is a reason they want the office space that Dr. Bell is using.

All joking aside, this must be the episode that Andy Breckman mentioned in one of the interviews I saw the other day.

Gertrude, You're awesome. You need to move up in the ranks from newbie to I don't know, pro finder or some such title of greatness. Thanks for all the spoiler news on the shows! I have a difficult time navigating that site. Thanks for the great stuff. Please post when the pics come out!!!

Where does Gertrude find these spoilers? Adrian's not going to want to talk about the more personal stuff that he does one on one. Monk and Harold in the same group therapy session? This will not go well.

Alex Castillo is a co-star in this episode but I don't as who...yet..

Is Krenshaw finally going to die? I really, really, hate that guy.

...oh I hope not!I would like to see them get along well ,with each other at the End...

Monk and Harold are funny

Mr. Monk goes to group therapy promo

TY for posting

Thank you Alex!

Oh...this is sooooo relavent to our current situation here! An HMO tells you to go here or there and to get referrals for everything or they wont pay...Guess this can even happen to Monk! It should be a great episode!

LTM

I'm having a diffcult time believing that you could get therapy of Drs Bell/Kroger's calibur on an HMO. Especially for more than 10 years.

Some photos of the episode:



http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/search/label/Monk

My professor in publishing arts looks exactly like Dr. Bell. LOL.

Great photos and link...thank you

Quinnie

Thanks for the information on the site but overcome by a numbing sadness I simply couldn't continue to watch Randy's interview till the end.

KF

You put it so well.."overcome by a numbing sadness"...that so describes how fans feel as the end gets closer!!

That's right! Life will be strange and sadder without Monk!

Thanks for correcting my poor spelling!
KF

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/video/v...6017&ref=nf
scene from the episode

Terrific episode!! And oh my gosh, one of THE funniest "Monk" episodes, IMO! Harold telling Adrian "I still think you did it" LOL!!!

Kudos to the cast and especially to Tim Bagley - he was great in this episode!! And Adrian during Harold's here's what happened made me LOL out loud!!

Also, Happy Birthday, Tony! You're the best.

Harold's "Here's what happened..." made me laugh and then I realized how easily Monk could have been blamed. It was a really well done episode. I really liked the scene in the trunk. I'm glad that Monk is really growing as a person.

I loved the scene showing Monk lifting the guy over his head during Harold's summation. retty good episode overall, but not enough Randy and Stottlemeyer. I wonder if this will be Harold's last episode? If so, I'm glad they ended Harold and Monk's relationship on a friendly note.

And on a related note, spiders are the opposite of tall buildings.

Hehehe! I'm afraid of both so what would the opposite of that be?

This episode is fantastic. The Harold "here's what happened" and Monk in this summation. That look on his face..love it, the group therapy sessions and Harold...the trunk scene. Monk and Harold friends? I couldn't believe it when I first heard about this but when I watched this episode - yep it is true, they can be friends and they're friends...now. It's very nice of Harold to find another therapist so Monk can have Dr. Bell's sessions alone...
The next week episode Happy Birthday Mr. Monk looks great.

Your last comment makes me wonder how many closures remain and will they all end in such a warmhearted manner?

KF

...sooo wonderful!These two guys finally are friends...YES that feels goooood!!!

Yeah that was so sweet the way it ended. I'm so happy for both of them.

In addition to the trunk scenes and the maniacal facial expressions during Harold's "Here's What Happened", I also loved the scene where Monk is panicking in Dr. Bell's private session room at the beginning. I like how he was leaning back and squirming (I guess? Don't know the right word) like a fish out of water in reaction to Dr. Bell's leisurely pace. I couldn't stop laughing when Monk said "Bees in blenders" and I can't get the imagery out of my head.

I loved that part, too!! It was hilarious with Monk trying to solve everything in the 48 minutes he had left!!!! Forgetting to be neat and just throwing those cards like "crazy!!" ....I could not stop laughing!!! I loved how they concluded the Monk and Harold relationship!! This episode was really good!! Darn! I am really just beginning to warm up to Dr. Bell with this episode!! He was really excellent in this one and now it's almost the end!!

Tazzy is correct!!

Next time Stotts calls Randy stupid on duty, Randy should punch him in the moustache.

I loved this. This does prove what I was just saying yesterday and have said before that Monk can be made to doubt himself, even go as far as to make him question whether he is innocent or not! Of course, I was suggesting that maybe a criminal would make him start thinking maybe he was the person to kill Trudy, but I can see how that could be hard to work into an episode and that would be getting maybe a bit too dark for an episode of Monk. But it can be done!

Wait, I guess that means I have more in common with Harold than I thought. Eh, whatever. Great minds freak out alike.

I loved everything in the trunk of the car! The first thing I said was, "That must be a Lincoln. They have two body trunks." And you know what? It was!! I have a new, really un-useful superpower, now, I can identify cars by how many bodies you can fit in their trunks. Okay, maybe just Lincolns. My husband and I had an old Lincoln, we bought a freezer a couple pf years ago and brought it home in the trunk of that car. We jokingly told people for years that we had a two body trunk. My father in law, however, bought a van from a funeral home years ago, it had the velvet curtains in back windows and the curly silver things on the sides, but it had very low mileage and a *lot* of room in the back, and these handy rollers on the floor so it was ideal for my inlaws because they liked to go to auctions and buy antique furniture. They called it The Meat Wagon. I wouldn't have wanted to own it, but I thought it was hilarious. And they got the most morbidly hysterical vehicle award, and for the number of bodies that will fit in the back because there had actually been real bodies in the back of their vehicle. Not that anyone was aware there was a contest. I have a gruesome sense of humor.

But I guess that Truck Therapy is way better than Cave Therapy! And I wish now that we still had that Lincoln. I have been threatening my kids for years on road trips that I was going to lock the two of them in the trunk if they didn't stop bickering. They would probably just continue doing it in the trunk, too, the way that Harold and Adrian did at first- "This is my side...He's on my side!!"

Harold's summation was pretty funny,wasn't it? I loved the expressions on Monk's face in the summations, and the "Monk drowned a woman in her swimming pool today," comment makes a lot more sense now. The actual murderer didn't make a lot of sense, mind you, but it was still a funny, fluff episode.

He wasn't pedaling the bike, he was leaving it all up to Natalie. Typical Monk. Sometimes I don't know why she puts up with him. At least he gave up and joined the group easy enough.

Wow, that was a group of people who should *never* have been put into group therapy! They should have just built a ring, folded up all the chairs and handed them to the patients as weapons! It was seriously like watching the WWE Lite, but only because no one actually smacked anyone with a chair and no one was wearing spandex, thank God. Bring Harold back to Group Therapy in his Frisco Fly outfit!That could be fun. But I did have a huge "AWWWW!" moment at the end when Harold and Monk became friends, finally. The only way it will last is if they never spend more than a couple of seconds in each other's company again, but it's still sweet while it lasts. God forbid if they ever try to play a board game together, it'll be World War III.

HAROLD: 'Trunkaphobia' is a word!! It is!! And it's a triple word score, too!!

Best lines of the night:

"Neven didn't vote for you, suck on that!"

"I'm gonna rezone your neighborhood! I'm gonna put a Kentucky Fried Chicken on your roof!" (Is KFC a new sponsor?)

"Are you crying?" "No, I have allergies."

"There is no Opposite Killer, if there were, you'd have been killed by a falling rocket scientist years ago." Okay, I don't think Randy is stupid, but I do think he should sometimes think a bit more about what comes out of his mouth (admit it, we all *think* things like that, maybe for a second, we just don't *say* them! or not all of them) and that was still pretty funny, no matter who he was saying it about. Randy just needs a few very good filters that he seems to have been born without.

"If I was going to kill somebody, this is how I'd do it, with cleaning supplies." "These aren't your brands!"

"Tell me, how is it up there in Neven's butt? You get lonely? Afraid of the dark?"

"Dr. Bell, I don't know what to feel! Tell me what to feel." "Confused?" "Confused! I can do that."

This episode did need more Stottlemeyer and Disher, though.

Why did Natalie stay right there over the bucket full of bleach and ammonia? I would say it was stupid (Okay it is) but I actually had to stop a woman older than myself from mixing up bleach and ammonia in a bucket of mop water a few years ago. When I yelled, "Don't do that!" She asked, "Why, will it explode?" Sometimes I feel like I should have told her, "No, why don't you go mop the closet, make sure you get the corners really well."

did anyone else notice that amy aquino had already been on the show? i think it was red herring, where monk looks for a replacement for sharona. and she smokes in his house (which starts the fire that nat puts out)... it was interesting that she also had something to do w/health care in this epi, also.

anyways, awesome episode! i can't believe there's only a handful left:(.

I thought I had seen her on the show before, but was too lazy last night to look that up. Thanks for the info. I wonder if it was supposed to be the same character. Guess it doesn't really matter though since she is dead now.

I've loved this episode, when Harold said here's what happend it was so funny!! I was worry for Natalie but fortunately Monk was here for safe her Monk and Harold friends it's great!!!

Thank you! Thank you! It was driving me crazy the whole show! I was sure she was in another episode, but I couldn't remember which one or her character!

[quote name='Liv' date='Oct 10 2009, 03:36 PM' post='1212733']
I loved this. This does prove what I was just saying yesterday and have said before that Monk can be made to doubt himself, even go as far as to make him question whether he is innocent or not! Of course, I was suggesting that maybe a criminal would make him start thinking maybe he was the person to kill Trudy, but I can see how that could be hard to work into an episode and that would be getting maybe a bit too dark for an episode of Monk. But it can be done!

Wait, I guess that means I have more in common with Harold than I thought. Eh, whatever. Great minds freak out alike.


Liv, I was thinking of your post as soon as Harold accused Monk!!!!!!

it's a little easier for me to recall most episodes cuz i've only seen them all since last january! i'm a new fan, so i bow down to those of you that got to see all the epis when they first ran, in order, and w/time in between to digest. in my case, i was lucky if i even got to watch the shows w/out reading them (two kids sleeping is when i watch most so i always used mute!).... you're all so lucky to have been through all 7 years so far w/them, on a weekly basis, etc.

and btw, i can't recall her name in the other episode, but i know monk would have recognized her (even if she didn't recognize him) cuz he remembers details like that.... but it is weird she was a medical-related biz in both epis.

I knew I had seen her on an episode before too, but I hadn't had the chance to figure out which. But there's a very good chance that she wasn't playing the same character at all in this episode and in Red Herring- they frequently bring back the same actors from previous episodes and reuse them to play different people in later episodes. For instance the guy that played Fraidy Cop in Billionaire Mugger played the cop who initially found Tommy in the park at the beginning of The Kid. Gail O'Grady played Miranda St. Claire in the pilot episode, and then played Lovely Rita in The Birds and the Bees. Erica Yoder played Beth Landow, the teacher that was killed in Back To School, and then played Helen Hubbert, the angry, alcoholic PE teacher who bought a house from Linda's dead partner in Dead Girlfriend. Chet Grissom plays Detective Chasen in three episodes, most notably dying in Secret Santa, and then he comes back again to play Detective Burns in Playoffs.

Some actors have taken that quite a bit further, most notable Brooke Adams (Tony's wife), who has played three roles (Liegh, the poor flight attendant in Airplane and 100th case, Mrs. Carlisle in The Kid, and Sheriff Butterfield in Farm, as well as Micheal Shalhoub (Tony's brother) who played Ronny Abrash in Missing Granny, Ned the beekeeper in Bumps His Head, and will be playing a minister in Best Man later this season. Also Lance Krall, who is a friend of Tony's, who played Flappy the Clown in Circus, the Bingo caller in Three Pies, and Sal the car salesman in Takes His Medicine. Teresa said she thought she saw him in Takes the Stand, (I believe that was the episode) this season. This list isn't comprehensive, I'm sure there have been other actors who have been in more than one episode playing more than one character. It's just a sampling to illustrate the point. I think it's gotten to be something of an in-joke or something, maybe to see if anyone will notice. I find it kind of funny considering that there have also been single characters that have been played by multiple actors, like the two Benjys, three Dales, two Trevors and two Trudy's. Or maybe it just means that Adrian isn't very good with faces.

It was so increadible that the writers found an easy way to make Adrian and Harold become friends. That's something I've never thought could be possible.
I loved to see that who helped Harold to calm down in the trunk was Adrian. It's good to see he's becoming better. And the scene Adrian and Harold got out of the trunk was when I believed those two big men were really in there. That car trunk is really large!
Tony and Tim had excellent comedy time in this episode. Tim was wonderful and very funny. I also loved Dr. Bell. It was good to see Hector had enough time on screen. By the bicycle scene we could see he is in a really good shape. And so is Traylor. It may not be so easy to ride that kind of bike with someone behind, especially if this someone doesn't help you at all . I admire the fact the Tony and Traylor gave all their physical efforts on that scene. We know they had stunts on the dangerous parts, but even so, we can't deny their dedication to make the best. I would never be able to ride a bike up on a hill like Traylor did.
There were so many funny moments. I loved the scene Natalie said "you're still smiling" to Adrian and the way she tried to put Adrian's hands together, not pointing at himself and then when she made him think straight. That was the Natalie we knew in the first years...Ok, it was so stupid of her to be close to the solvent frasks...that was not the smart Natalie we know, but, well, the story needed a motive to have Adrian alone to be knocked out...And again, before that, we could see the physical delivery of the actors again: Adrian carrying Natalie to the chair. That was so sweet... .
And the Leland's "allergies" moment, OMG, they were all trying hard not to laugh... Randy is so silly...
I thought all the actors were so tanned, especially Ted Levine, who was really red in his face. Is this summer so hard on LA? Well, if so, they so should wear hats more frequentely
Loved the episode and all the actor's performance. We can see they act so smoothly and easily after all these years. If this was Harold's last participation on the series, it was a great one. Congratulations to all!

i'm not worthy!
~~jl <bowing down to liv>