Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa
- Episode aired Dec 2, 2005
- TV-14
- 43m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
1.3K
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The department flies into action after one of their own is poisoned by a secret Santa gift at their very own Christmas party.The department flies into action after one of their own is poisoned by a secret Santa gift at their very own Christmas party.The department flies into action after one of their own is poisoned by a secret Santa gift at their very own Christmas party.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe first mention of Randy Disher's band, "The Randy Disher Project."
- GoofsIn the opening, the killer is shown poisoning the bottle of port by using a syringe to inject the poison through the cork and into the port, but when Detective Chasen opens the bottle and pours a drink, the bottle has a typical port stopper: a cork stopper with a hard plastic cap. The syringe and needle would not have penetrated the plastic cap.
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Christmas is many things, and this episode is many kinds of joy
This is a good Christmas episode. For one it establishes the Christmas present Monk never opened from Trudy which would become prominent in the series finale, and it's has such great acting and character development.
The stuff with Alice Westergren is good, although personally if I wanted to really go for it, I would've made the revaluation that the reason she poisoned and killed Detective Robbins was because he left her when she revealed that she was pregnant. It would've been a much more deeper and honest reason why she did it, plus it would've been a great parallel between Settelmeyer being officer who does care about the people he's affected, as oppose to detective Robbins who left a woman pregnant and alone and didn't care about her. It would've been a great parallel if the had done something like that. But the episode as is, it's still great, the comedy works, the dialogue is nice, and it's just a sweet reminder of how good people can be around the holidays, even in troubled times.
The stuff with Alice Westergren is good, although personally if I wanted to really go for it, I would've made the revaluation that the reason she poisoned and killed Detective Robbins was because he left her when she revealed that she was pregnant. It would've been a much more deeper and honest reason why she did it, plus it would've been a great parallel between Settelmeyer being officer who does care about the people he's affected, as oppose to detective Robbins who left a woman pregnant and alone and didn't care about her. It would've been a great parallel if the had done something like that. But the episode as is, it's still great, the comedy works, the dialogue is nice, and it's just a sweet reminder of how good people can be around the holidays, even in troubled times.
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- snickzella
- Jan 20, 2023
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- The Spot - 2139 South Pacific Avenue, San Pedro, California, USA([17: 19]Murder attempt on Captain Leland Stottlemeyer; exteriors)
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- Runtime43 minutes
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