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The Worst Episodes of Monk

Adrian Monk was once a rising star with the San Francisco Police Department, legendary for using unconventional means to solve the department's most baffling cases....

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  1. 5.4/10(7 votes)

    #1 - Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk

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    S4:E6

    Is Monk hallucinating or is he really seeing Trudy?

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  2. 5.7/10(7 votes)

    #2 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding

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    S4:E7

    Needing a date for her brother's rehearsal dinner, Natalie resorts to asking Lt. Disher.

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    Director:Tony Palmieri
    Writer:Liz Sagal
  3. 5.8/10(8 votes)

    #3 - Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa

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    S4:E9

    When an officer dies after drinking poisoned wine sent to Captain Stottlemeyer as a Christmas gift, the captain suspects Frank Prager, who tried to shoot him outside a bar several months earlier. Searching the crime scene for clues, Monk notes that the bullet holes seem to form a pattern, but neither he nor Stottlemeyer can figure out the message they're intended to convey. After trying unsuccessfully to talk with Prager's young daughter, Monk goes under cover as Santa Claus. This time he learns that Prager is hiding in a church with ""three ladies"" in front of it. But when Prager is caught and interrogated, it's clear that he had nothing to do with the poisoned wine. With the other suspects on Disher's list also eliminated, Monk and the captain are back to square one. But when Monk opens the card accompanying his gift from the Christmas party, he finds the clue that solves the case.

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  4. 6.1/10(7 votes)

    #4 - Mr. Monk and the Other Detective

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    S4:E1

    Monk appears to have met his match when a fellow detective shows up at a crime scene knowing all the answers.

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    Writer:Hy Conrad
  5. 6.1/10(7 votes)

    #5 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Fashion Show

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    S4:E10

    Monk is facing a crisis: he's down to five shirts. But Inspector No. 8, the only shirt inspector who can meet Monk's criteria for perfection, is not up to her usual standards. Sensing that something is wrong, Monk visits No. 8 on the job. The inspector, Maria Ortiz, informs him that her son, Pablo, has been imprisoned for murdering a fashion model, but she's certain that he's innnocent. Monk is chiefly concerned about his shirts, but Natalie persuades him to talk to Pablo because ""it's the right thing to do."" The conversation uncovers just one clue: Pablo can't read English. When Monk realizes that the killer must have been able to read an emergency exit sign, he's convinced that Pablo is innocent despite the DNA evidence used to convict him. With Stottlemeyer and Disher in tow, Monk and Natalie attempt to talk to the model's former roommate and the fashion designer she worked for, Julian Hodge. But now there's a new problem: Hodge wants thirteen-year-old Julie to model for him. Watching the rehearsal for a fashion show in which Julie will make her debut, Monk discovers a clue that points him to the real killer. When another supermodel is found dead, it's imperative that Monk find new evidence to prove his suspect guilty of both murders and set Pablo free--and for Natalie to get Julie away from the person committing the murders.

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  6. 6.3/10(7 votes)

    #6 - Mr. Monk Goes Home Again

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    S4:E2

    Monk is reunited with his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, after the murder of an armored car driver.

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  8. 6.3/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Mr. Monk Stays in Bed

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    S4:E3

    Monk feels too sick to work until a case gets him out of bed.

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    Writer:Hy Conrad
  9. 6.3/10(7 votes)

    #8 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Office

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    S4:E4

    Monk goes undercover as an office worker to solve a case.

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    Director:Jerry Levine
  10. 6.4/10(7 votes)

    #9 - Mr. Monk Gets Drunk

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    S4:E5

    Monk goes to a wine-tasting and finds it a bit more than he bargained for.

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  11. 6.4/10(7 votes)

    #10 - Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage

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    S4:E12

    During the investigation of a murder in a junkyard, Captain Stottlemeyer punches a cop named Ryan Sharkey, who claims to be having an affair with the captain's wife, Karen. The only witness to the murder, a homeless man named Gerald or Jerry, has disappeared, but Stottlemeyer suspects businessman Michael Karpov, who is facing charges for money laundering and had a motive for killing the victim, who was scheduled to testify against him. Removed from the case and ordered to take anger management classes, Stottlemeyer asks Monk and Natalie to follow his wife, whom he suspects of lying about her whereabouts. They discover Karen having lunch with a man but are only able to photograph him from the back before being interrupted. Meanwhile, the homeless witness has been stunned and thrown from the third floor of a building but survives the fall, thanks to a corrugated refrigerator carton. Disher places Karpov in a line-up otherwise composed of police officers, including Sharkey, but Stottlemeyer, still enraged at Sharkey, disrupts the line-up before the procedure has been completed. An apple provides the clue that Monk needs to solve the murder case, and Karen reveals the identity of the mystery man she had lunch with. Unfortunately for the captain, it isn't Sharkey.

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  12. 6.7/10(7 votes)

    #11 - Mr. Monk and Little Monk

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    S4:E8

    Monk encounters an old crush from junior high when she hires him to discover why her housekeeper was killed and her favorite painting vandalized.

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  13. 7.0/10(7 votes)

    #12 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist

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    S4:E15

    During the investigation of an armored car heist involving the deaths of two drivers and the theft of valuable government bonds, Lt. Disher tries to convince Captain Stottlemeyer that he witnessed a murder while under anesthesia in the dentist's office. When one of the highjackers, Denny Jardeen, is found murdered, Disher insists that Jardeen is the man he saw Dr. Bloom and his assistant kill while he was sedated. Stottlemeyer still thinks that Disher was hallucinating, and Disher angrily leaves the force, deciding to revive his high school rock band, the Randy Disher Project, as an alternate means of earning his living. Meanwhile, the only clue to Jardeen's murder is two pairs of bruises each ten inches apart on the dead man's chest.

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  14. 7.1/10(7 votes)

    #13 - Mr. Monk and the Big Reward

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    S4:E13

    Low on cash because they haven't had a homicide to investigate in three weeks, Monk and Natalie search for the stolen Alexander Diamond, hoping to win the million-dollar reward. Unfortunately, they have competition in the form of a retired Scotland Yard investigator, a bounty hunter, and a gadget-loving private detective, all of whom want the reward money for themselves. Monk quickly figures out that the heist was an inside job and that one of the robbers was under five feet tall, short enough to hide inside a roll-top desk. He also discovers a clue linking a perpetrator to a transcendental meditation retreat. With their competitors close behind them, Monk and Natalie head for the retreat, where they find the thief, who is unfortunately dead. Meanwhile, Disher is having to interrogate a strange young woman who keeps turning herself in for such ""crimes"" as stealing pens or murdering a hamster. Monk tells Natalie that he's solved the case and they race to the police station with the other detectives following. The only thing left is to find the diamond before their competitors do.

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  15. 7.1/10(7 votes)

    #14 - Mr. Monk and the Astronaut

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    S4:E14

    When Captain Stottlemeyer suspects that a suicide is really a murder, Monk confirms his suspicions by discovering that the victim, Joanne Raphelson, was too short to have used the stool she supposedly stood on to hang herself. But the next clue, the remains of an olive, a cherry, and a cocktail onion on a stirring stick, leads Monk to suspect that the murder was committed by an astronaut, Steve Wagner. A little research reveals a motive--Joanne was about to publish a book revealing that Wagner had abused her five years earlier. Now all Monk has to do is to prove that Wagner could commit the murder when he was in outer space.

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  16. 7.3/10(1.5k votes)

    #15 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert

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    S5:E8

    Monk goes to a rock concert to look for Captain Stottlemeyer's son and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.

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  17. 7.4/10(7 votes)

    #16 - Mr. Monk Bumps His Head

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    S4:E11

    Suffering from amnesia, Monk wakes up believing he is the husband of an eccentric resident of a small town.

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  18. 7.4/10(1.6k votes)

    #17 - Mr. Monk and the Rapper

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    S6:E2

    Monk is hired to clear the name of a famous rap star who is accused of murder.

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    Director:Paris Barclay
    Writer:Dan Dratch
  19. 7.4/10(1.3k votes)

    #18 - Mr. Monk Falls in Love

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    S7:E6

    When Monk develops a crush on a model who is accused of murder, he is determined to prove her innocence, even though she confessed.

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    Writer:N/A
  20. 7.5/10(1.9k votes)

    #19 - Mr. Monk and the Psychic

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    S1:E3

    When a woman drives off the road to her death, her body is mysteriously found the next morning by a psychic known for fudging the truth. Monk must discover if she's telling the truth this time, or else let a murderer go free.

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  21. 7.5/10(1.5k votes)

    #20 - Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny

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    S2:E13

    Unable to pay for Monk's services as a private detective, middle-aged law student Julie Parlo offers him a trade--she'll help Monk become reinstated as a policeman with the SFPD if he'll help her find her missing grandmother. The only clue to the identity of the kidnappers is a roughly drawn lightning bolt on a note left at the grandmother's house, leading Stottlemeyer and Disher to suspect the former leader of an anti-Vietnam War group from the Seventies. But when the captain, anticipating Monk's reinstatement, invites Monk to help him with interrogation, Monk accidentally discovers that the suspect's tattoo doesn't match the symbol on the note--it has three humps instead of two. Meanwhile, the kidnappers order Julie to provide turkey dinners to the homeless in exchange for the return of the grandmother. Julie complies and her grandmother is returned safely, leading Stottlemeyer to put the case ""on the back burner."" True to her promise, Julie informs Monk of a loophole that will all

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    Director:Tony Bill
    Writer:Joe Toplyn
  22. 7.5/10(1.4k votes)

    #21 - Mr. Monk and the Election

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    S3:E15

    With her daughter's school about to be closed as a cost-cutting measure, Natalie becomes a candidate in the upcoming school board election despite Monk's fears that she'll desert him if she wins. Natalie's frustrations with a jammed photocopier and other defective equipment bought at a police auction are dwarfed by fear for her life when a sniper fires into her campaign headquarters, further damaging the equipment and killing a security guard. The only clues to the identity of the sniper are an oddly folded note demanding that ""Natalie Teege"" withdraw from the election and a bullet from a semiautomatic rifle made in Russia. Suspicion falls on Natalie's opponent in the election, Harold Krenshaw, whom Monk knows as a fellow patient of Dr. Kroger's. Although Monk thinks that Krenshaw is lying about his friendship with Dr. Kroger and Krenshaw admits to being an excellent shot, Monk is sure that Krenshaw is innocent because he wouldn't misspell Natalie's name. When Krenshaw passes a polygra

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  23. 7.5/10(1.5k votes)

    #22 - Mr. Monk and the Big Game

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    S5:E3

    Julie and her friends hire Monk to look into the suspicious death of their basketball coach.

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  24. 7.5/10(1.4k votes)

    #23 - Mr. Monk Visits a Farm

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    S5:E14

    When Lt. Disher inherits a farm from an uncle who committed suicide, he decides to quit the police force and start a new life in the country. But Disher soon suspects that his uncle was murdered, so Monk joins him on the farm to investigate.

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  25. 7.5/10(1.3k votes)

    #24 - Mr. Monk and the Wrong Man

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    S6:E8

    When a man he sent to prison years ago is cleared based on new evidence, a guilty Monk tries to help him adjust to life on the outside.

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    Director:Anton Cropper
    Writer:N/A
  26. 7.5/10(1.3k votes)

    #25 - Mr. Monk's Other Brother

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    S7:E10

    When Monk's delinquent half-brother, Jack Jr., escapes from prison and breaks into Monk's apartment, he manipulates Monk into helping him find the person he claims framed him for murder.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk" is the worst rated episode of "Monk". It scored 5.4/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Randall Zisk and written by David Breckman, it aired on 8/12/2005. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Mr. Monk Goes to a Wedding".