Mr. Monk Meets His Dad - S5-E9
Continuity mistake: When Monk is looking through the boxes on the trailer, on the first shot, the box marked "Tucson" isn't flush with the box underneath. But after, it's flush without anyone touching it.
Mr. Monk and the Leper - S5-E10
Continuity mistake: While Dr. Polanski talks to Monk and Natalie in his waiting room, he's gesturing with both hands held out in front of him. When the shot changes angles, he's abruptly standing with his hands clasped behind his back. Next cut, he's gesturing again. (00:05:00)
Mr. Monk and the Leper - S5-E10
Continuity mistake: Monk uses paper towels to grab the phone, dragging a length of white paper across the kitchen counter and leaving it there. But when he turns around to talk to Natalie, the counter behind him is bare. The paper towel trail has vanished. (00:05:40)
Mr. Monk and the Leper - S5-E10
Continuity mistake: Randy is desperately trying to pry his teenage acne photo off the doctor's wall. He knocks the photo underneath it crooked, but it rights itself in the next shot. Then he pulls his picture free, making a large hole in the wall, but knocks all the surrounding photos off onto the floor. There's no time lapse, but when he turns around, the fallen photos have all put themselves neatly back up on the wall, and the hole is gone. (00:32:30)
Mr. Monk and the Leper - S5-E10
Continuity mistake: When the body falls out of the balloon gondola, the weights that were securely tied to it have disappeared. The corpse also changes positions on the ground between shots, even though no one has touched it. (00:37:30)
Mr. Monk and the Leper - S5-E10
Continuity mistake: In the final scene, the pillows on Natalie's couch keep shifting positions between shots, from straight to crooked and back again. (00:40:30)
Mr. Monk and the Leper - S5-E10
Continuity mistake: At the meeting, the pencils on the yellow pad on the table keep changing position depending on the camera angle.
Mr. Monk and the Leper - S5-E10
Continuity mistake: In the very last scene when Natalie leaves for her date, her flowers go from her hands, to the table, back to her hands, and then she sets them on the table.
Mr. Monk Makes A Friend - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: When the murderer strangles his victim, her music box is dropped on the floor several feet away. Though no one has touched it, the music box is somehow lying only a few inches from her body when the police arrive to investigate. (00:01:20 - 00:04:40)
Mr. Monk Makes A Friend - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: When Natalie quizzes Monk on the finer points of ice hockey, a blue teapot sitting on the kitchen island beside her moves itself back and forth several inches between takes. (00:10:30)
Mr. Monk Makes A Friend - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: Monk leaves his front door standing open in anticipation of his new friend's arrival. No one goes near the front hall, but when Hal gets there, he lets himself in by opening a door that has somehow closed itself. (00:10:30 - 00:11:50)
Mr. Monk Makes A Friend - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: In the shot showing Monk, the playing cards in front of him are upside-down. When it switches to show Natalie, the cards are face-up. (00:33:00)
Mr. Monk Makes A Friend - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: Monk pushes aside a glass of milk on the table in his apartment. It is mentioned multiple times during the series that Monk is afraid of milk. He would never have any in his home, and certainly wouldn't have a neutral reaction to it. Also, the milk appears to have spilled a little as it was pushed, and yet in the next shot there is no milk on the table. (00:33:00)
Mr. Monk Makes A Friend - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: At the end, Monk points a gun at Hal. But between takes, the weapon shifts instantly from his right hand to his left and back again.
Mr. Monk Makes A Friend - S5-E11
Continuity mistake: The position of Gail's body moves at the crime scene from when officers cover her head with the tarp to when the Captain uncovers her a few moments later. At first, her left hand is under her forehead and covered by her hair, but then the hand is away from her head and not covered by hair.
Mr. Monk Is At Your Service - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: During the brunch scene with Natalie's parents, the rolls in the bread bowl change position several times. In some shots, there are four, in others, there are five. They also go from being piled on top of each other to being arranged in the bowl and back several times. They're out of Monk's reach, so he's not just "making them even" either. (00:04:50 - 00:06:35)
Mr. Monk Is At Your Service - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When Monk is inspecting the table ahead of the luncheon, he reaches out to straighten a crystal on the chandelier. The shot cuts to two people in the corner of the room, and the woman in this shot puts her hand on her forehead. At the right edge of the shot, you can see Monk in front of them straightening a plate on the table; however, he was inspecting the chandelier from the side of the table opposite these two individuals. (00:18:25)
Mr. Monk Is At Your Service - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: Monk finds the magazine from which the butler cut out words for his blackmail note, and matches a scrap with the word "Police" on it to the article it was cut from - only the left and bottom edges of the scrap don't conform at all to the hole cut in the page. They haven't been trimmed more. In fact, the whole piece is much too large to fit into the space. (00:36:30)
Mr. Monk Is At Your Service - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: At the end, the crime is reconstructed and in flashback, we see and hear the murderer makes his fake 911 call. But his words do not match the 911 tape played earlier in the episode. (00:40:00)
Mr. Monk Is At Your Service - S5-E12
Continuity mistake: When Paul shoots his butler, you see him raise his arm up straight out, but in the next shot, his arm is lowered with his elbow bent.
