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Not only is milk way up there, he is more afraid of milk than death. Week-old milk delivered intravenously would presumably render him catatonic.
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And mushrooms are WAY up there. Cream of mushroom soup would be instant death. (which, of course, would not be as scary as the mushrooms or the cream in the soup)
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The cumulative effective of reading Peanuts just about every day from the ages of about 8-12 has, among other things, resulted in me misremembering exchanges like that as being about a "happy dance."
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Papa Moose, When imagining me doing a jig, please keep in mind that, with my current recovery from ADEM, I cannot jump off the ground. Ha ha. So now, I am imagining myself doing a jig. OK, I am going to get up and try it now.
OK, it's scary.
And I must scream:
WHAT, NO SHARONA???????
And then I must add a line from the last time he had a "stand-in," who was Neecy from Clean House, or the (forget her character's name) black woman from Reno 911. Hysterical.
(about the bathroom in his apartment):
"Um, that isn't really a public rest room."
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My name is Adrian, my daughter's name is Natalie. This is just weird. It's like, cosmic or something - we were meant to watch this show! Posts: 14428 | Registered: Aug 2001
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Okay, I just watched the new episode of Monk. If you've taped it and won't be watching it until later, or if it hasn't yet aired in your timezone be forewarned--thar be Spoilers ahead! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Okay, that done, I think I must have missed something--why were the guards searching everybody at the science museum? I had the impression that he's swapped out the moon rock with the fake without detection, so what's the deal? What am I missing/misunderstanding/whatever?
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Spoilers . . . . . . . . . . . Because it's very valuable, and some one might try to steal it. Better to catch them in the act. It would actually be easy for a museum worker to take it otherwise.
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So do they search all the employees every night, or did this guy have the bad luck to try stealing it on the night they decided to institute the search policy?
Also, if that rock is worth untold millions why don't they have better security for it?
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On second thought, the miracle of life is sort of contained within the list:
germs(obviously, lots of germ capability in childbirth) needles(those dang blood tests) milk(breasts tend to drip with it) death(orgasm referred to as "little death" by Shakespeare) snakes(I hope this one is obvious) mushrooms(you know, sort of like the end of the snake) heights(of ecstasy) crowds(that chaotic race of sperm to fertilize the egg) elevators(going up? then coming back down)
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I especially loved the way it ended. "No I can't come over tonight, I've got my daughter. Ok, calm down..how big is the spider?"
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Elizabeth, I'm completely with you there. I liked the character well enough, but I'm not sorry to see the accent go at all. And I like Natalie. However, if they set it up for a romance between them, I'm gonna get upset. For me, at least, Trudy is a big part of the show despite the fact that she's not actually a character.
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But I'm a little concerned about the "mystery" part of the show. Tom Davidson commented on this awhile ago. I had the "mystery" pretty much figured out a little over halfway through the show.
They've got to do better. Monk can't just be cute and odd. This has to be a show that when he smiles and says "I know what happened," we don't know what he's going to say.
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yeah, I had that one figured out pretty quickly too. And I agree, I like for the mysteries to be something that really surprises me at the end.
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I agree that a romance between the two would be wrong, but I love to see him go on dates.
As for the mystery, I miss a ton of shows, and tend to ignore that part of the series. It is more a stand-alone for me. I realized when the 24 hour marathon was on that I had missed most of last year's episodes.
For some reason, I really like the hokey aspect of the show.
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Does anybody know when that episode will re-air? I was busy elsewhere when it aired, and I really want to watch it.
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See, hokey doesn't appeal to me. Wacky people living their wacky lives and being smart-asses to each other? I can get that at home.
Wacky people solving mysteries in a brilliant way before I do, even though all the necessary information's been shown to the viewer? That's impressive.
I would like Monk to start impressing me again, and concentrate less on the guest stars and the cute spit-takes.
I mean, you know it's gotten lazy when Christy and I looked at each other and said, almost simultaneously, that we found it almost impossible for Monk not to have considered the rocks in the fish tank when performing his analysis. Even if he hadn't figured out the whole moon rock angle, he'd've sifted through the rest of the rocks looking for diamonds or something.
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I really was sort of bothered by the miracle of life being pegged as a top-of-the-list phobia. If they are trying to get nerds to watch this show, then they better realize that we will remember, if not the exact order, the fact that this alleged phobia was not mentioned previously.
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Which means that we need a whole society of Monk apologists out there, like they have for Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek.
So if the miracle of birth wasn't at the top of his list, what happened to put it there -- or was he lying about the order, and if so, why?
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Well, if you read my post above, you could argue that the miracle of birth phobia was contained within the top phobias.
Or, did the loss of Sharona, whose presence symbolized for him a womblike comfort, feel like a birth to Monk? The cold slap of reality, you know?
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I'm sorry, Tom and Dan, but I think adoption would be close to the miracle of birth. Think, guys, think!
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OK, has Tom poisoned me, taking me out of my "I love hokey" existence, or was that the worst Monk EVER ?
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Actually, Elizabeth, I liked that episode a lot. Better than last week, anyway. And I loved how it ended.
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Look, like most other hard-core Monk fans, I enjoy the quirky plot details about him.
And so I was able to enjoy the episode.
But I suspect a lot of viewers who were not so hard core figured things out about 30-35 minutes into the episode.
Unless they get back to writing real mysteries that aren't solved until the very end, I'm afraid that the ratings will drop. Even though it won't lose me as a viewer.
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