The WORST episodes of Monk
Every episode of Monk ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Monk!
An ex-cop suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder solves crimes with various (and usually exasperated) sidekicks. The 'defective detective' may have an abundance of phobias (heights, crowds, and even milk), but also razor-sharp deductive skills, which he uses to help the San Francisco police with especially baffling cases.
#1 - Mr. Monk and the Actor
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/7/2006
While working on a double murder, Monk finds that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery when he finds that an obsessive method actor has been cast to play...Adrian Monk in a new movie.
#2 - Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/6/2004
A law student (Rachel Dratch) offers to get Monk reinstated to the police force in exchange for his help in finding the kidnappers of her beloved grandmother.
#3 - Mr. Monk Goes to Jail
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/5/2004
When a death row inmate is poisoned to death 45 minutes before his scheduled execution, Monk is brought in to find out why and runs into his nemesis, Dale the Whale (Tim Curry), who will offer Monk information about Trudy if he finds who killed the inmate. The suspects, however, are endless, including the prison librarian (Kathy Baker), another inmate (Danny Trejo), and even neo-Nazis.
#4 - Mr. Monk and the Game Show
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/13/2004
With Sharona in New Jersey to visit her ailing mother, Monk is left in the very incompetent hands of his annoying upstairs neighbor, Kevin Dorfman, but the prospect of a week with Kevin is eased somewhat by a visit from Trudy's father, Dwight Ellison. Dwight invites Monk (and Kevin) to spend the week with him and his wife, Marcia – and at the same time investigate gameshow host Roddy Lankman, who appears to be involved in a conspiracy to allow one of his contestants, Val Birch, to win every game. Despite the memories of Trudy aroused by spending time with her parents in her former home and the questionable help of Kevin, Monk discovers evidence that Lankman visited Birch's house – and that Birch visited the site of the accident that killed Lankman's assistant, Lizzie Talvo. To discover exactly how Lankman and his crooked contestant are communicating – and possibly prove that they're involved in something much worse than cheating – Monk becomes a contestant on the game show. His knowledge o
#5 - Mr. Monk and the Naked Man
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/27/2007
Monk must confront his prejudice against nudists when he's called to investigate a murder on a nude beach.
#6 - Mr. Monk Is at Your Service
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/2007
When Natalie suspects foul play in the deaths of her parents' wealthy neighbors, Monk goes undercover as a butler to investigate.
#7 - Mr. Monk and the Rapper
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/20/2007
Monk is hired to clear the name of a famous rap star who is accused of murder.
#8 - Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized
Season 7 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/12/2008
Monk agrees to undergo hypnotic therapy as treatment for his OCD and reverts to a different persona.
#9 - Mr. Monk and the T.V. Star
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/30/2004
Monk suspects the star (Billy Burke) of a popular CSI-based TV crime show of killing his ex-wife so that he doesn't have to share his enormous paychecks with her.
#10 - Mr. Monk and the Captain's Wife
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/13/2004
A tow truck driver is shot dead by a roadside sniper. His truck then careens off the road and crashes into Karen Stottlemeyer's (Glenne Headly) oncoming van, leaving her in a coma. Monk, most interested by the fact that the shooter and the driver were barefoot, must find out what really happened and keep Leland from doing something that could cost him his badge.
#11 - Mr. Monk and the Astronaut
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/3/2006
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.
#12 - Mr. Monk and the Blackout
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/9/2004
Three deaths during a city-wide blackout result in a joint investigation by Stottlemeyer, Monk, Sharona, and Disher, with the unprecedented cooperation of the FBI and the help of power company spokeswoman Michelle Rivas, an attractive brunette who is inexplicably attracted to Monk. While Sharona and Dr. Kroger pressure Monk to call Michelle, Disher follows up on Monk's suggestion that the power outage is connected to a '90s radical named Winston Brenner. Everything fits--the handwriting in the note, the phrasing, even a pair of photographs. Everything except one small detail at the end of the report--Brenner died in 1995. When the FBI acknowledges the possibility that Brenner may have faked his own death to avoid a trial, Captain Stottlemeyer presents a tree-hugging former friend of Brenner's with the evidence that Brenner is still alive and reminds him that this particular power outage is also a homicide. When the tree-hugger is murdered, it becomes clear that the killer is indeed Bre
#13 - Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa Claus
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/2007
Monk becomes a social pariah when he shoots a man dressed as Santa Claus. Then he must clear his name and foil a larger criminal plot, all in time for Christmas.
#14 - Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/25/2006
Monk goes to a rock concert to look for Captain Stottlemeyer's son and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation.
#15 - Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2005
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.
#16 - Mr. Monk and the Miracle
Season 7 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/28/2008
When three homeless men seek Monk's services at the holidays, Natalie convinces him to investigate their friend's death; Stottlemeyer's faith is reawakened after a visit to a monastery fountain rids him of crippling pain.
#17 - Mr. Monk Buys a House
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/18/2008
Monk finds himself forced to move into what he hopes will be his dream house... which is anything but.
#18 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/10/2006
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.
#19 - Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/12/2005
Is Monk hallucinating or is he really seeing Trudy?
#20 - Mr. Monk Gets Drunk
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/5/2005
Monk goes to a wine-tasting and finds it a bit more than he bargained for.
#21 - Mr. Monk Gets Married
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/27/2004
When Randy's mother gets married to an antiques store dealer (Nestor Carbonell), Randy becomes suspicious of his new stepfather and asks Monk and Sharona to look into him.
#22 - Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2005
In the middle of the night, Monk receives a phone call from a drunken Stottlemeyer, who has gone to Las Vegas with Disher for a fellow officer's bachelor party. Stottlemeyer believes that a wealthy casino owner has murdered his wife, but he needs Monk's help to prove that the death wasn't an accident. Unfortunately, when Monk arrives in Vegas with Natalie the next morning, Stottlemeyer can't remember anything that happened the previous night – including how his pants happened to be thrown out the window. As Monk and Natalie explore the elevator where the woman died, interrogate witnesses, and reenact the death scene (with Monk in the role of victim), Stottlemeyer tries to retrace his steps and deal with Disher, who has become addicted to blackjack and fallen hopelessly deep into debt. When Monk, at Stottlemeyer's insistence, takes Disher's place at the blackjack table to win back his money, he figures out how the murder occurred as he simultaneously places winning bets, but the casino o...
#23 - Mr. Monk and the 12th Man
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/22/2003
When a rash of unusual attacks and murders strike, Monk is called upon to find the link between the victims and stop the killer before the next murder.
#24 - Mr. Monk Meets Dale the Whale
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/26/2002
When a local judge is found murdered, all the evidence points to one man: an 800 lb (360 kg) reclusive tycoon named Dale "The Whale" Biederbeck (Adam Arkin). However, due to his extreme obesity, he is unable to leave his bed.
#25 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/1/2003
Sharona's sister Gail (Amy Sedaris) lands a part in a local play that any actress would kill for. But when the actor playing her love interest literally dies on stage after Gail apparently stabs him with a real knife that was switched with a prop knife, the police are convinced she's taken her role a little too far. Sharona and her mother (Betty Buckley) urge Monk to step into the spotlight and find the real killer before the curtain falls on Gail for good.