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. But after the tragic (and still unsolved) murder of his wife Trudy, he developed an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Now working as a private consultant, Monk continues to investigate cases in the most unconventional ways.
In the beginning, you’re lead to believe that a woman’s beloved dog has been hit by a car and is seriously injured, but the dog is seen alive and unscathed a few moments later.
In S4E2, a pigeon is seen eating crumbs near a body at a crime scene. Later, Monk finds the same pigeon dead and says it could have been poisoned. The dead bird is shown on screen for a long while as Monk convinces his coworkers that it is the same pigeon. It is even flipped around and then taken in as evidence. In S5E12, Monk fires a rifle as a warning and accidentally kills a quail up in a tree. It is not seen being shot, only falling from the tree and its body appears in the background for a few scenes afterwards. In S5E14, a farmer’s pig is killed. It’s briefly shown alive, then later its body is found but not seen.
In a circus-centric episode, it is very briefly mentioned that the lion tamer has a gun ready backstage in case anything goes wrong during a show. I guess this may imply abuse of the lions and other animals at the circus, but none of it is shown.
Monk finds a dead pigeon and take it with a stop sign, and shows it to the captain and disher. In S05E14 there is a big pig who dies and is lying on the ground
Technically yes, but only spoken about in the past tense and everything is offscreen. A woman comes into the police station to report that she disposed of her roommate’s dead body. A few minutes into her interrogation, it’s revealed that the “roommate” was her new hamster. There’s no cause of death mentioned, but she does say that she flushed the hamster down the toilet. Nothing is shown!
No, but Monk is in a situation where he very clearly doesn’t want to have sex with someone and she’s expectant/sort of pressures him, but nothing ends up happening. It sort of seems like this situation is supposed to be at least semi-funny
There are lots of murders including some quite unpleasant ones but no graphic images are shown
Mostly all is shown is blood with no more detail
In the episode Mr Monk is the Best Man there are pictures of a body that has been burnt
Not sure why people are saying no, there’s an entire episode about a main character traumatically losing their eyesight after having acid thrown in their face.
Nothing is shown, but a woman is found dead with blood on her neck/throat. It’s shown in a flashback that she was stabbed in the throat but the scene is shot from behind her so you only see the general motion, no details or blood/the wound
A man is forced to break his hand by having it slammed in a car door. His arm is in a sling for the rest of the episode and he mentions that he broke 11 bones
A man is forced to break his hand by having it slammed in a car door. His arm is in a sling for the rest of the episode and he mentions that he broke 11 bones
No, but a character receives a voodoo doll of them self with its head cut off, so they’re convinced they’re going to be decapitated and are terrified and paranoid. There’s multiple mentions of decapitation, but again, it doesn’t actually happen
A man is essentially ripped apart in a trash compactor. The top half of his body is all that’s left (nothing graphic is shown, only a half/person sized lump underneath a tarp)
However, there is an episode where the main character is almost be tortured by a dentist. The dentist talks pretty non-explicitly about what he’s going to do to him, and it never happens.
There’s no trigger category for getting pulverized by a trash compactor, so I’ll put it here. Monk discusses somewhat in detail the process/order of how the man who was killed. It was too disturbing for me to listen to/think about so i skipped the scene
Yeah. He says that he doesn't have it but 'relates to some parts of it' They depict Monk as having OCD but show it just REALLY BAD representation and basically make him a charicature of ocd instead of a full person
There’s a scene where Monk is in a hospital room and there’s a sudden sound offscreen. It made me and my sister jump but it may not be a jump scare for anyone else
The show is safe. Mr. Monk himself is emetophobic haha. There is one episode where he’s afraid he might throw up but it never comes close to happening, just mentioned.
In part 1 of "Mr. Monk and the End" a character is interrogated and beaten offscreen with a laptop by Captain Stottlemeyer, a character normally portrayed as "one of the good cops". It's played for laughs and treated as justified.
Mr Monk takes a medication that puts him through what looks like depersonalisation. I'm pretty sure there are some other occurences of derealization too, like when he talks with his dead wife as a way to cope. He seems pretty aware of it not being real though (?)
No. A man mails a bomb to his own house, but his alibi was set up so he wouldn’t be there, so no. His maid says that she always opens his mail (she’s unharmed) so he may have been trying to kill her
There's a larger theme of him trying to find out how and why his wife died- which was the event that triggered his 'severe OCD'
Is use quotation marks because I really don't like how they portray OCD in this show
I don't know if they mean to portray Monk as having PTSD specifically, but it may remind people of their trauma, y'know? Also there's not flashbacks of a traumatic event, but there's flashbacks of happy times with his wife before she died, and they show the parking garage and car where she died (at least as far as I've gotten in the show)
There are at least one or two scenes where a lot of people are in Monk’s space and he’s deeply bothered by their presence (and them being loud with moving around, talking, eating, etc)
*possible spoiler* in the last couple of episodes, it is revealed that before Adrian and Trudy met, Trudy got pregnant by her professor. She was led to believe that the baby died very soon after she gave birth, but that ended up being false. Nothing was shown, only Trudy telling the story on videotape/Monk and Natalie’s reaction.
A woman is murdered because she reveals that she is pregnant to her married boyfriend. She’s not showing or anything, but a positive pregnancy test is found in her apartment and that leads Monk to solve the case
In a couple episodes scattered throughout the series, a man named Dale is bed-ridden due to how fat he is. It is mentioned he couldn't fit through the door of his bedroom anymore. He makes jokes about his own weight, as do other characters.
A Hugh Hefner-inspired character makes a comment about how women aged 19-21 (ish) are the best age (the man appears to be in his late 40s, maybe early 50s)
There is an episode where Dale the Whale makes Sharona dress up in a maid costume and wait on him. It’s not explicitly sexy but was uncomfortable to watch with my mom lol
Lots of scantily clad women who are essentially playboy bunnies. Also, overt coercion and exploitation occurs (e.g. bribing a woman to say she was having sex with a man to alibi him, threatening to publish lewd photographs of a character from when she was a sex worker)
No, but multiple people think that Monk is homeless because he has amnesia and is wandering around an unfamiliar place with no money and covered in dirt
It’s not necessarily R- rated level gore, but murders are often shown at the beginning of the show. I would say it’s just a little bit darker than Psych in that way. In Psych the bodies are often portrayed in a more lighthearted, comical way, while Monk sticks to making it more realistic yet not too much for the average viewer.