The BEST episodes written by Tom Scharpling

Mr. Monk Is on the Run (1)
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7.99
517 votes

#1 - Mr. Monk Is on the Run (1)

Monk - Season 6 - Episode 15

Monk is arrested for murder, and finds that he has to go on the lam to clear himself.

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Mr. Monk and the Three Pies
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7.97
606 votes

#2 - Mr. Monk and the Three Pies

Monk - Season 2 - Episode 11

During the investigation into a carjacking over a cherry pie, Adrian is called by his estranged agoraphobic brother Ambrose (John Turturro), who is convinced that his next-door neighbor murdered his wife. Adrian must rebuild his relationship with Ambrose while investigating the neighbor at the same time.

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Ancestry
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7.96
1341 votes

#3 - Ancestry

What We Do in the Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 10

Nandor visits one of his living descendants, and a lover from Nadja's past re-emerges.

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Mr. Monk Fights City Hall
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7.95
610 votes

#4 - Mr. Monk Fights City Hall

Monk - Season 7 - Episode 16

Monk becomes involved in the disappearance of a city official that could have ramifications concerning Trudy's murder.

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Mr. Monk's 100th Case
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7.93
690 votes

#5 - Mr. Monk's 100th Case

Monk - Season 7 - Episode 7

As Monk and his friends watch a TV news magazine piece on the solution of his hundredth case, he realizes that one of the victims was murdered by a different killer.

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Mr. Monk and the Kid
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7.93
608 votes

#6 - Mr. Monk and the Kid

Monk - Season 3 - Episode 16

After twenty-two-month-old Tommy Graser finds a severed finger and gives it to a policeman, Monk walks through the park with Tommy trying to retrace the child's steps. He finds no body or other incriminating evidence, but he does discover a surprising affection for the placid and intelligent toddler, who constantly repeats Monk's name and quietly submits to having his hands wiped when he touches "nature". A lab technician identifies the finger as that of a twenty-five-year-old man, and Monk deduces from a callus that the young man played the violin. After visiting the home of Daniel Carlyle, a musician who fits this description, Monk concludes that Daniel's mother and her other son, Jason, killed Daniel and that Jason is masquerading as his brother. Meanwhile, little Tommy is temporarily removed from the custody of his foster parents, and Monk surprises everyone, including himself, by volunteering to care for him for two weeks until his new adoptive parents can take him. With Tommy in...

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Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger
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7.87
652 votes

#7 - Mr. Monk and the Red-Headed Stranger

Monk - Season 1 - Episode 12

Country superstar Willie Nelson is arrested for murder, but Monk thinks he is innocent.

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Mr. Monk and the Badge
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7.84
664 votes

#8 - Mr. Monk and the Badge

Monk - Season 8 - Episode 14

Monk is put in charge of tracking down a serial killer.

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Mr. Monk and the Three Julies
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7.76
542 votes

#9 - Mr. Monk and the Three Julies

Monk - Season 6 - Episode 13

Monk searches for a killer who is apparently targeting women with the name Julie, a name which Natalie's daughter shares.

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Mr. Monk and Sharona
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7.74
661 votes

#10 - Mr. Monk and Sharona

Monk - Season 8 - Episode 10

When Sharona returns to San Francisco to handle legal issues related to an uncle's death, Monk suspects foul play and is torn between the differing styles of Sharona and Natalie.

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Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic
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7.63
650 votes

#11 - Mr. Monk Gets Stuck in Traffic

Monk - Season 3 - Episode 13

When Monk, Natalie, and Julie get stuck in a traffic jam after a multi-car collision blocks the freeway, Monk gets out of the car to investigate. He soon deduces from the absence of skid marks and other clues that the young man in the overturned Volkswagen that caused the pile-up was murdered and his body placed in the car to make his death look like an accident. But the highway patrolman in charge of the "accident" scene wants nothing to do with Monk (or the not-very-successful lawyer who has latched onto him), and the mountains blocking the signal prevent Monk from calling Captain Stottlemeyer for an authorization to investigate. Monk briefly returns to Natalie's car, where he finds Julie in need of a bathroom and Natalie nursing an injured wrist. Unfortunately for them, Monk's mind is on the fatality, and he returns to the Volkswagen. The angry officer gives him the victim's name and occupation (environmental activist), but he still refuses to listen to Monk's evidence. Meanwhile, t...

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Manhattan Night Club
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7.60
1522 votes

#12 - Manhattan Night Club

What We Do in the Shadows - Season 1 - Episode 4

The vampires venture into Manhattan, to make an alliance with an old friend who is now the king of the Manhattan vampires.

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Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum
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7.58
856 votes

#13 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum

Monk - Season 1 - Episode 6

After being discovered in Trudy's old house, Monk is temporarily institutionalized. Once committed, he stumbles upon a four-year-old murder. Along the way, Monk is aided by various other patients at the hospital, including a man (Kevin Nealon) who mirrors those around him, a woman who gets angry easily and lashes out at people and a man who is obsessed with Santa Claus.

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Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine
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7.57
679 votes

#14 - Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine

Monk - Season 3 - Episode 9

After Captain Stottlemeyer is shot in the shoulder by an unknown assailant, a somewhat rattled and very angry Disher is left in charge of the investigation. Although Monk is almost as distressed as Disher, he provides very little help with the investigation, even allowing a suspect to get away. Feeling depressed and helpless, Monk decides to try a new medication that controls his OCD and eliminates his phobias but also makes him insufferably egotistical, unempathetic, and oblivious to the details that are so vivid to the "normal" Monk. Meanwhile, the suspect Disher has been pursuing is proven innocent, and the bullet taken from the captain's shoulder is traced to a gun belonging to a dead woman. Stottlemeyer impatiently checks himself out of the hospital with his arm in a sling and arranges to interview the new suspect with the help of Monk, Sharona, and Disher. Monk arrives late, dressed in a loud Hawaiian shirt and talking like a "cool cat" from the 1950s. "The Monk", as he calls him...

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Mr. Monk, Private Eye
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7.57
614 votes

#15 - Mr. Monk, Private Eye

Monk - Season 5 - Episode 5

When Natalie convinces Monk to go into business as a private eye, his first case is a seemingly innocuous fender bender that leads to a far more dangerous investigation.

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Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater
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7.53
601 votes

#16 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater

Monk - Season 2 - Episode 6

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.

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New Patty
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7.50
202 votes

#17 - New Patty

Kevin Can F**k Himself - Season 1 - Episode 5

Allison pushes the limits to see what she is capable of. Kevin, Neil and Pete attempt to replace Patty after kicking her out of the group. An ominous Nick shows up at Patty’s salon. A new job opportunity opens up for Allison at Bev’s Diner.

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Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist
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7.48
544 votes

#18 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Dentist

Monk - Season 4 - Episode 15

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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Mr. Monk Goes Home Again
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7.46
696 votes

#19 - Mr. Monk Goes Home Again

Monk - Season 4 - Episode 2

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

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Mr. Monk Meets His Dad
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7.46
588 votes

#20 - Mr. Monk Meets His Dad

Monk - Season 5 - Episode 9

When Monk's truck driving father rolls into town at Christmastime, Monk joins him on the road, where they stumble across a very peculiar mystery.

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Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas
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7.44
643 votes

#21 - Mr. Monk Goes to Vegas

Monk - Season 3 - Episode 14

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...

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Mr. Monk and the T.V. Star
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7.43
630 votes

#22 - Mr. Monk and the T.V. Star

Monk - Season 2 - Episode 12

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.

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Buy Low, Sell Ty
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7.41
95 votes

#23 - Buy Low, Sell Ty

Krapopolis - Season 1 - Episode 12

With Tyrannis' support, Hippocampus overcomes his imposter syndrome and wins first prize for his invention at Hephaestus-Con, only to learn that Hephaestus selected him for his looks, not his intellect. Rebranding her image into the 'goddess of no hangovers', Deliria unintentionally starts a city-wide drunken riot while Shlub watches, afraid to confront her.

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Mr. Monk and the Big Reward
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7.41
700 votes

#24 - Mr. Monk and the Big Reward

Monk - Season 4 - Episode 13

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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Prometheus
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7.21
125 votes

#25 - Prometheus

Krapopolis - Season 1 - Episode 4

Tyrannis and Hippocampus release the only god they like, Prometheus, from his eternity on the rock, only to find he’s friends with Deliria. Shlub takes Stupendous to the cyclopes island to find her dad.

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