Mr. Monk and the Candidate (1) - S1-E1
Factual error: When the rifle is identified as a "Weatherby Fibermark", Monk and Randy say it's a British rifle. But Weatherby is an American company.
Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum - S1-E6
Factual error: The woman who accuses Monk of stealing her necklace shouldn't have the necklace inside the asylum in the first place. For both safety and insurance reasons, patients in mental facilities aren't permitted to keep any potentially harmful jewelry, including pins, broaches, earrings, belts, beads and necklaces.
Mr. Monk and the Airplane - S1-E13
Factual error: Though anti-freeze is lethal it does not kill quietly and fast but rather agonizingly, painfully and slowly, inducing vomiting and fever. (00:30:30)
Mr. Monk and the Airplane - S1-E13
Factual error: When the flight attendant announces that "they have been asked to return to the gate" the French pilot and his mistress are already celebrating with a glass of wine, but that is impossible since drinks are only served after the take off phase when the plane has reached its traveling altitude. (00:41:15)
Mr. Monk Goes Back to School - S2-E1
Factual error: In the cold opening, Derek said that his wife is very smart and got a 1680 on the SAT. This episode takes place in 2003, the writing portion that was added to make the max (2400, not 1600) was in 2005.
Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico - S2-E2
Factual error: Monk states that one of the reasons he suspected Dr. Maduro was because the doctor stated the amount of fluid in the victim's lungs in pints, which meant the doctor had worked in the US. But even in the US, the medical profession uses the metric system.
Mr. Monk and the Very, Very Old Man - S2-E5
Factual error: When Stottlemeyer backs up the video tape at Monk's house, we can hear the sound chattering backwards. Only a huge industrial (studio) machine would do that. Little home VCRs, like Monk's, mute the sound during in-play rewind and fast forward modes. (00:34:30)
Mr. Monk and the Sleeping Suspect - S2-E7
Factual error: After Monk has thrown the bomb into the toilet and the Feds arrive, Randy warns Stottlemeyer that the Feds arrive from 3 o'clock when in reality they are approaching them from the left, which would be 9 o'clock in "military terms." (00:25:04)
Mr. Monk and the Three Pies - S2-E11
Factual error: In this episode, when Sharona and Monk arrive to visit his brother, they talk about the swing set. Monk tells Sharona that his father put up the swing when he was 8 years old but this is a much newer swing set. Look at the curved plastic seats: these have come about in the last six to eight years. It also doesn't look at all rusty like a 40 year old swing would.
Suggested correction: Ambrose is obsessed with leaving the place "exactly the way dad left it for when he comes back." Hoarding old newspapers for him would be a character mistake, but things like keeping the old swingset maintained and up to current safety regulations so everything's perfect "when he returns" would be a thing he'd find to do around the house. His agoraphobia might not be so bad in the yard. Alternately, he could pay someone for yard upkeep, which would include the swingset.
Mr. Monk Gets Married - S2-E15
Factual error: Disher gets the armoire open and recoils from the smell of the dead body inside, despite it being wrapped in plastic. But he somehow didn't smell it before getting the door open, despite it providing hardly any protection from a smell like that.
Mr. Monk Goes to Jail - S2-E16
Factual error: When Monk visits the prison for the first time, he is searched, passed, and has a mini-panic attack because people have touched him. Sharona steps forward to comfort him, and she puts her arms around him. This is a very serious breach of procedure and it is not possible for the guards to miss it, because Sharona has not been searched. It's a common technique for trying to pass contraband called 'a touch through' - a person with an item to be smuggled into the prison (drugs, usually), passes them on to a person who has been searched and is therefore 'clean'. Monk would be taken back to the guard's station to be searched again. He would not be allowed leniency because the guards happen to know or to like him - visitor ingress and egress is always done under CCTV and the guard would know he was being watched - quite possibly by someone who doesn't know who Monk and Sharona are.
Suggested correction: Sharona was searched first by the female guard.
Mr. Monk Goes to Jail - S2-E16
Factual error: Death row prisoners cannot donate organs. No doctor participates in an execution and after the lethal injection the medical examiner must wait at least fifteen minutes to test for cardiac activity before pronouncing the prisoner dead. This is enough time for hypoxia to render the heart, lungs and kidneys useless for transplant. Apart from this, organs intended for transplant must be removed within minutes of the death of the donor. Prisoners are not executed in operating theatres.
Mr. Monk Goes to Jail - S2-E16
Factual error: Further to the fact that they cannot remove organs from a deceased death row inmate for transplant, it would not matter if they could. Pancuronium bromide is used to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest, and potassium chloride to stop the heart. The damage these chemicals cause to the heart and lungs renders them useless for transplant, and it is specified in the episode that the dead man's heart and lungs are required.
Mr. Monk Goes to Jail - S2-E16
Factual error: There are a number of unrealistic situations portrayed inside the prison: 1) An inmate scheduled to be executed in less than an hour would not be left so unattended as to require the trustee to yell for help when he went into distress, or to allow the inmate and trustee to exchange objects. 2) A chronic rule-breaker like Spyder, who had just "put a guy's head through a wall," would not have gotten just one day in solitary confinement with no other loss of privileges. 3) The neo-Nazis would not be allowed to wear swastika lapel pins. 4) Death row inmates are not served their last meal by unescorted fellow prisoners.
Mr. Monk Goes to Jail - S2-E16
Factual error: The murdered man is killed by poison while having his last meal just before they execute him that night. Death row inmates have their last meal one to two days before they're executed.
Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan - S3-E1
Factual error: In the episode the victims were murdered with a .22 caliber firearm. However, a short shot of the crime scene focuses on an empty shell casing which comes from a larger caliber firearm, most likely a 9mm parabellum. (00:05:30)
Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan - S3-E1
Factual error: The .22 caliber shots would be a higher pitch.
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Factual error: Disher hands Stottlemeyer a pistol and tells him that he just unloaded it, but Stottlemeyer just takes his word for it instead of double-checking it. You NEVER, under any circumstance, take anyone's word that a gun is unloaded; you always check it yourself. As a police officer, Stottlemeyer would know that.
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Factual error: The cops gain entry to the panic room to be faced with a chimp waving around a loaded handgun, apparently having shot a man, and shrug and make jokes about reading him his rights, instead of expressing the slightest concern that this animal might shoot them. Cops shoot remotely aggressive dogs all the time, but an ape with a gun doesn't even make them raise an eyebrow. Plus the police never did a gunshot residue test on the chimp. Standard procedure, and would've proven they didn't shoot.
Factual error: As Monk is removing the crumbs off the keyboard, he flicks one crumb away from the backspace key. It gets flicked up and lands near the 0 button on the numeric keypad. Yet when this happens, the screen then says "Do you want to delete files?" as if he hit the delete button.
