The letter Mr. Monk wrote to Inspector #8 reads:
Dear Inspector #8,
I wish to express my deepest and warmest thanks for your stunning performance as clothing Inspector. It's a pleasure to deal with someone who possesses such artistic integrity. Your job aptitude is something to be admired and inspired by. Every item which passes your inspection is impeccably produced and presented. The buttons are perfectly straight. The stitching is even and orderly. There are no hanging or pulled strings, marks or wrinkles. The finished product is perfectly folded.
Your job aptitude is something to be admired and inspired by. Every item which passes your inspection is impeccably produced and presented. The buttons are perfectly straight. The stitching is even and orderly. There are no hanging or pulled strings, marks or wrinkles. The finished product is perfectly folded.
Thank you again. My appreciation knows no bounds.
Sincerely, Adrian Monk
Dear Inspector #8,
I wish to express my deepest and warmest thanks for your stunning performance as clothing Inspector. It's a pleasure to deal with someone who possesses such artistic integrity. Your job aptitude is something to be admired and inspired by. Every item which passes your inspection is impeccably produced and presented. The buttons are perfectly straight. The stitching is even and orderly. There are no hanging or pulled strings, marks or wrinkles. The finished product is perfectly folded.
Your job aptitude is something to be admired and inspired by. Every item which passes your inspection is impeccably produced and presented. The buttons are perfectly straight. The stitching is even and orderly. There are no hanging or pulled strings, marks or wrinkles. The finished product is perfectly folded.
Thank you again. My appreciation knows no bounds.
Sincerely, Adrian Monk
Scott Adsit, who plays Gordo the medical examiner, also played a medical examiner in Mr. Monk Gets Fired (2004). However, the character is not named.
At 26:15 minutes, Captain Stottlemeyer calls to Randy Disher: "Fabio, go borrow a notebook and borrow a pencil, and start talking to neighbors" as this is now a homicide investigation. "Fabio" refers to Fabio Lanzoni (b. 1959), a famous Italian-American male super-model whose career included fashion, advertisement, and being on the cover of hundreds of romance novels throughout the 1990s. Disher had been strutting around in a fancy Italian suit and admiring himself in a mirror, saying he did not bring a notebook because it was "ruining the lines" of his suit.
When the team is talking to Natasia Zorelle and Julian Hodge at the beach, Monk says they are "probably just tilting at windmills." Natasia asks "Windwills?" and Hodge answers: "It's a literary reference. From a book." The book is "Don Quixote", a Spanish 17th century novel by Miguel de Cervantes, in which Don Quixote, the main character, attacks some windmills that he believes to be ferocious giants.
Wilson Cruz and Malcolm McDowell have both appeared in the Star Trek franchise. Malcolm McDowell appeared as Dr. Soren in Star Trek: Generations (1996) while Wilson Cruz appeared as Dr. Culber in Star Trek: Discovery (2017).