Monk 7/14/06 "Mr. Monk and the Garbage Strike"

[trainman]

Fun SAT analogy: Monk is to garbage as Trainman is to fake cable cars on fake San Francisco streets. It's a good thing I didn't have to try to solve a murder while I was watching this episode!

[lambertman]

Alice Cooper and "the an-tique wing-back Cu-sack chair!" were great. :)

[BeanMeScot]

I'm surprised Stottlemeyer ever got him back out of that clean room :D

[rcobourn]

The scene where Doctor Kroger confronts Monk about shipping him his garbage... maybe the funniest thing I've seen on tv in years. :)

[betts4]

I kept waiting for him to straighten the computer panels that were on the table in the 'clean' room.

[MitchO]

How come Stottlemyre has never used this little favour before? Monk's been in bad shape several times.

[Church AV Guy]

The scene where Doctor Kroger confronts Monk about shipping him his garbage... maybe the funniest thing I've seen on tv in years. :)
I have to agree with you. From the moment that scene started, I said to my wife, "Gee Kroger has as bad a look on his face as Monk does." Then he finally confronted Monk, and she and I laughed so hard we had to back up the Tivo to watch it again.

If Monk had the money, he'd put a clean-room into his house.

The Alice Cooper "antique wing-back chair" theory was SO far out, I wonder how the writers ever thought of it. They must have been really, REALLY proud of themselves for that one. It scored a ten out of ten for off-the-wall weirdness.

The garbage men will never tell Monk that they would do "whatever he asked" again, not after having to sweep up the confetti.

I was proud of Natalie standing up to Monk's lying.

Chi McBride gets around, doesn't he. I really doubt he would completely burn down San Francisco and rebuild it all though. :rolleyes:

[sushikitten]

Quick question: how did this episode start? Our show is cut off, but it appears (to me) to be in the middle of the episode (Psych also did this). Ours started with no credits, jumping straight to a scene of Natalie and Monk and Monk is saying something about the garbage strike still going (I think). Does that ring a bell for anyone?

I am one of those people who can't watch a show if even a minute is missed at the beginning.

(Doh, I just realized I could FF to see at what point the episode ends (to see how much was cut off), but I'm feeling lazy.) :)

ETA: Okay, we watched it, as it must have just cut off a moment or two at the beginning.

[YCantAngieRead]

This episode fell mostly flat for me until the Alice Cooper part. That was SO freakin' funny it totally saved the episode. :)