When Mayor Nicholson leaves city hall by the back door and encounters Monk, he grabs the umbrella from his aide Cutler. When they cut away at the car, Cutler again has the umbrella and then back to Nicholson on the next shot.
When Monk enters the mayor's office, as he's facing the desk, he grabs the flag on the left side of the flag holder to push the trash into the can. When he's done, he replaces the flag into the right slot on the flag holder.
When Captain Stottlemeyer and Lt. Disher drive up to stop Monk from trying to pick up all the garbage on his own, they park the car behind a huge line of piled-up trash bags. The camera then cuts to Monk driving the garbage truck, and when it cuts back to the two getting out of the car, all the garbage is gone.
The date of Jimmy Cusack's murder is established as April 5th. When Monk and Natalie are in his office investigating his death, the calendar on his wall is turned to March. When Monk is explaining how Alice Cooper committed the crime, the calendar reads January.
After the strike when the trash truck is driving to Monk's building, the view from inside the truck shows the street is completely wet. The scene switches to an outside shot and the street is mostly dry.
Monk and Stottlemeyer would never have been permitted to enter a fabrication room, the "cleanest room in the world" that is "100% germ-free", without some sort of masks over their noses and mouths.
When Monk looks at the promotional flyer for the Alice Cooper concert, it shows that the date of the concert is April 5, which Monk says is a Monday. If this episode takes place in 2006, when it was filmed, then April 5 was a Wednesday.
The press hears the mayor is a suspect in a murder because the detectives were speaking in the "whisper spot." San Francisco's City Hall does not have a whisper spot. This feature is in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C.
While it might not have a "whispering spot" the rotunda is, in fact, a "whispering gallery" - a place where the acoustics are such that weak sounds can be heard from across the room due to the physics of the domed architecture. It is one of many such places in the U.S.
While it might not have a "whispering spot" the rotunda is, in fact, a "whispering gallery" - a place where the acoustics are such that weak sounds can be heard from across the room due to the physics of the domed architecture. It is one of many such places in the U.S.
The article about Jimmy Cusack's death is not real--it consist only of pseudo-latin text "An euisit...".
While Monk and Natalie are waiting for the mayor to exit City Hall, a cable car is visible turning the corner behind them. San Francisco City Hall is at least six blocks from the nearest cable car tracks.