Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: The angle of one of the victims' heads visibly changes from shot to shot while Monk is investigating the scene. (00:05:30 - 00:06:25)
Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: There is a shot where Randy is trying to cross the police tape and an officer stops him, and he can be seen briefly arguing. However, when it cuts to the next shot, we see that argument happening again in the background, repeated. (00:07:20)
Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: In the scene where the two guys are playing chess, the guy with the black hat knocks over the chess pieces after losing. He then starts scrambling up the pieces and leaving his hands near the chess board. When the shot changes to a wide shot of Monk walking away the guy suddenly has his hands on his head.
Mr. Monk Takes Manhattan - S3-E1
Continuity mistake: When Monk is lost in the street crowd after getting pushed into the subway car, his left shirt collar is sticking up over his coat. It's still up when he puts his hands to his head, but is tucked neatly back in in the next shot, though he still has both hands on his head. A few seconds later, it's the right collar flap that's sticking out instead.
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: Just after the Captain presses the button to open the panic room door, his arms are both down. When it cuts to a shot looking at him from inside the panic room, his left arm is up against the door. (00:14:10)
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: When the Captain and Monk are standing in front of Randy's desk, there is no bag on the table. After a cut, a black bag suddenly appears and the Captain's hands are on it. (00:15:30)
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: Whilst Randy and Sharona are in the kitchen feeding the monkey you can see near the start of the shot that Randy has his right arm leaning against the kitchen counter top. In the next shot his arms are suddenly folded.
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: Darwin the chimp pulls a large blue bowl from Monk's kitchen cupboard and throws it on the floor, breaking it. We cut to a close-up of Darwin spinning, then pull back as he starts pulling out glasses - and the blue bowl is back on the shelf, intact. When the angry landlord enters, Darwin pulls the same bowl from a different shelf and throws it again.
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: Stottlemeyer has taken things like a banana and a Monkey Joe out of a black leather bag and places them on a table while interrogating Darwin the chimp. One shot while he's acting like a monkey shows the table's bare and the bag's closed.
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: When Monk gets a glass out of the cupboard, he closes the door. When he picks up the phone, the door is open.
Mr. Monk and the Panic Room - S3-E2
Continuity mistake: When Monk and the Captain are in the recording studio room, the candles next to the framed pictures are lit. When Monk walks past them, they're unlit. They're lit again in the next shot.
Mr. Monk and the Blackout - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Sharona is trying to comfort Monk after he gets off the elevator, she's holding his hand and rubbing his arm. When Michelle walks away, in the next shot, Sharona's hands are on Monk's chest and shoulder.
Mr. Monk and the Blackout - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When the second bomb is being placed (after the restaurant scene), the bomber is holding the bomb by the ends (the short side). In the next shot it's being held by the front (the long end).
Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, the orange-and-white scarf that Paul Harley uses to blindfold Lorissa changes positions and color patterns repeatedly between shots as he escorts her from the pool to the garage.
Continuity mistake: When the commissioner is getting into the car, he opens the door pretty wide. In the next shot when his hat gets taken, he's seen opening the door again.
Mr. Monk Meets the Godfather - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Monk meets Salvatore Lucarelli (Philip Baker Hall), Lucarelli is cutting up fisheads on a cutting board. Throughout the scene the fish on the table constantly change between shots. One of the notable changes is when Lucarelli is discussing the case he has for monk there is a shot of a fish, and when the shot changes you can now see the fish's head has all of a sudden been chopped off.
Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: About midway through, the new nurse is sitting on Monk's kitchen counter eating a sandwich. She puts the sandwich down on a plate as she hops off, the shot switches to another angle to include Monk as she walks away, and the sandwich has suddenly jumped off the plate and is now lying on the counter a few feet away. Neither of them had time to pick it up or move it.
Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: At the end, when Sharona and Monk are leaving, Sharona opens the car door. But in the next shot, it's closed.
Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: When Sharona sets the two grocery bags on the counter, the position of the items change after they tip over and after she picks the one on the floor up when talking to her ex.
Mr. Monk and the Girl Who Cried Wolf - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: After Sharona's class, she's holding her book upside down when talking to the teacher (so the binding can be seen). In the next shot, the book is held right side up. Afterwards, when she's walking away, the book is upside down again.
Answer: Notice also that in the opening credits scene when he is touching parking meters her also wipes his hand on his clothes each time he does it.