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DAE remember the time Monk got stuck in traffic and he ended up on the Korn tour bus?

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  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    No, I rarely watched Monk.

    He always seemed so helpless and not funny.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    image

    this is the only screenshot i can find
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I feel a detective in a detective show should either be competent in some way, or for the show and the character to be funny enough it doesn't matter.

    Monk was neither.
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    Monk was pretty competent at detectiving and also it was funny because the trauma of having his wife blown up caused him to have a breakdown that exacerbated his OCD to crippling levels
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    as show pitches go it is pretty "what the utter fuck were they thinking?" inducing
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    like, try to think up an elevator pitch for that wouldnt cause most people to just gape at you
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i'm thinking you'd focus on his attention to precise detail and how that made him the ideal supersleuth, and that would be your pitch

    i haven't seen it though
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    fun fact: it was originally a Touchstone Television show that ABC turned down, so they took it to USA and as a result Universal now owns the rights to the show that matter and USA is an actual relevant force in cable programming

    ABC has to kick themselves over this, but you know they'd have bungled it and it would have been gone after a season (though they did air reruns of the show during its first season)

    thinking about what ABC was like between the time they dumped the yellow-and-black look and the time the power trio of Lost-Housewives-Grey's debuted is so fucking weird
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    Tachyon said:

    i'm thinking you'd focus on his attention to precise detail and how that made him the ideal supersleuth, and that would be your pitch

    i haven't seen it though

    that is basically how the show goes

    the "laughs" come from how he has severe OCD and is neurotic as fuck because his wife got exploded

    so like there is this weird as fuck tension going on in the dynamic of the show because sometimes it plays this for drama and sometimes it's for laughs and it cant really work both ways

    fwiw at the end of the series he resolves his wife's case, which helps him get over things enough that he can get back on the force
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Tachyon said:

    i'm thinking you'd focus on his attention to precise detail and how that made him the ideal supersleuth, and that would be your pitch

    i haven't seen it though

    It never felt that way to me, but I rarely watched the show.
  • MissUtilisMissUtilis
    BEWARE OF GRRL!
    that tension is weird yeah
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I will say I liked the Randy Newman theme song
  • Obā-sanObā-san

    he solved pretty much every episode through his attention to detail, like a more obviously dysfunctional sherlock holmes
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    i was more speculating on how it ever got pitched in the first place

    it does sound kinda a weird premise
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    https://itself.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/its-a-jungle-out-there-the-precarious-labor-of-monk/
  • TachyonTachyon
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    naney said:

    a more obviously dysfunctional sherlock holmes

    now i'm kinda wondering whether this was an influence on subsequent more-obviously-dysfunctional-Sherlock-Holmeses (Cumberbatch, Downey Jr.)
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    I think that was more Gregory House
  • Obā-sanObā-san


    snoooooop
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Odradek said:

    https://itself.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/its-a-jungle-out-there-the-precarious-labor-of-monk/

    The Homestuck Fascist commented on this.

    He was trying to make friends in the same spheres I was reading back then.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
    https://i.imgur.com/7Iil2JW.png
    there was an episode where Snoop Dogg played a 2Pac standin named Murderuss and his rival (the Biggie standin) died, and the episode ended with Snoop Dogg rapping the resolution of the case to a rap battle audience.
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