Monk ( 2002 )

Continuity mistake: When Monk is trying to overcome his fears with Natalie and Julie's help, the blue pillow on the couch beside him alternates from lying flat to sitting upright, without being touched, throughout the scene. (00:17:00)

Continuity mistake: Monk drops the harmonica onto the coffee table, and it lands in a horizontal position. Monk doesn't touch it again, but it moves to a diagonal orientation and then back to a horizontal one between takes. (00:18:15)

Continuity mistake: At the end, the unconscious Cousin Joey changes positions on the roof. Though no one's touched him, he somehow shifts from lying curled on his side to flat on his back. (00:37:30 - 00:41:35)

Continuity mistake: When Joey hands the kids back the poster they drew, it's folded in his hands. In the next shot, it's rolled up.

Bishop73

Continuity mistake: During the fight with Harold's cousin Natalie's shoes are on and off her feet several times.

Rob245

Continuity mistake: When Natalie's fighting with Harold's cousin on the roof she loses her shoes. A shot later, and they're back on her feet.

Rob245

Mr. Monk Is Up All Night - S6-E9

Continuity mistake: Gulliver makes a bet with Monk and puts $50 in bills on the bar. When Monk puts down a $50 bill to match the bet and slides it across the counter, Gulliver's money has changed positions, rotating 90 degrees without being touched. (00:22:30)

Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa - S6-E10

Continuity mistake: At the end, the glass of egg nog Julie and Natalie leave on the floor disappears after they stand up to talk to Monk. (00:40:40)

Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa - S6-E10

Continuity mistake: The amount of stuffed animals on Natalie's hood change depending on the camera angle, as she and Monk are talking before he goes up to the roof.

Bishop73

Continuity mistake: Ralph has his hand on Monk's shoulder during the applause, but after a cut, his hands are both suddenly stretched into the air. (00:21:50)

Mechanic1c

Continuity mistake: Just after Stottlemeyer and Natalie pull up to the curb to snatch Monk off the sidewalk, the boy and girl cult members instantly switch positions between takes. (00:27:00)

Continuity mistake: After Dr. Kroger tosses Trudy's picture to the floor, Monk drops the book he's been holding onto the mattress and kneels to retrieve the photo. In the next shot, the book has jumped to a spot on the floor beside him. (00:34:00)

Continuity mistake: At the end, the grocery bags Natalie carries change shape and orientation several times during Monk's confrontation with "Father." (00:41:00)

Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank - S6-E12

Continuity mistake: The living statue street performer holds a water bottle in his left hand while Randy questions him. When his alarm goes off and the shot cuts, the bottle jumps to his right hand. (00:08:15)

Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank - S6-E12

Continuity mistake: When Monk is trying to convince the old woman to use the other pen so the ink in them will be even, in the shots from behind him, the pen's chain is hanging down below the counter. In the shots from in front of him, the chain is pulled taught. (00:23:45 - 00:24:15)

Captain Defenestrator

Mr. Monk Goes to the Bank - S6-E12

Continuity mistake: One of the large safety deposit box doors is standing wide open when Monk is curled up in the vault's corner. But when the camera angle changes, the door has closed itself. (00:30:45)

Continuity mistake: The broken side mirror that a distraught Stottlemeyer finds dangling from his damaged car wasn't there when Natalie pulled up to the first crime scene. And it disappears again when Natalie runs back to the car and races off to the second crime scene. (00:03:10 - 00:07:15)

Continuity mistake: In the police station, Julie's hair is neatly combed over her left shoulder. Then it's disarrayed and partially falling over her right shoulder, too. Then it's neat and only on the left side again. (00:27:45)

Continuity mistake: The damage to Stottlemeyer's new car doesn't remain consistent from shot to shot. The dents change configuration and the angle of the torn fender also changes. (00:40:15)

Continuity mistake: In the very first scene when Natalie is running to Stottlemeyer's car, she throws the walkie talkie through the open side window into the car. But in the next two shots it is back in her hands.

MartyyK

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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.

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Suggested correction: Sharona was searched first by the female guard.

In fact Sharona breaks away from the female guard to go to Monk. She has NOT been searched.

The correction is correct. The female guard already finished patting Sharona down before the male guard even had a chance to start his pat down of Monk.

Bishop73

Yeah, the correction is correct. I went back six times through that clip: Sharona and Monk both get searched, and then Sharona touches Monk.

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Adrian Monk: Unless I'm wrong, which, you know, I'm not.

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Trivia

Mr. Monk Goes to Mexico - S2-E2

Trivia: According to co-producer Tom Scharpling, the Mexican homicide cops are purposely written as parodies of Stottlemeyer and Disher, right down to their attitudes, their ranks, their suits, and Captain Alameda's mustache. Even the bumbling lieutenant's name is a little joke on Disher. Plato means "dish" in Spanish.