#Mr. Monk

[telecomtowerlights]

Sparkle on!!!!!! his pose reminded me of this meme lol. don’t know if this has been done before💔

[mismess]

please I need some more cat boy monk

He is my little uncoorportive meow meow. He has feral tendencies cause he wasn't socialized enough as a kitten.

[blumin-reblogs]

Monk, Season 1 Episode 6, Mr. Monk goes to the Asylum

[whispers-into-the-void]

i find it so interesting that every time sharona romances a guy & monk catches a lie they tell, she's like. "everybody lies on their first date." "maybe he's just trying to impress me." but she's trying to impress them too & she always tells them about benjy, and about monk.

so she doesn't lie but she expects even a decent man whom she would date to lie.

and it reminds me of natalie teeger's intro episode where monk says he can't lie and she says if you're a man then you can lie: "That's what men do." and we see this woman with such sheer bitterness for men and it makes you wonder

what experiences did these two women have that so completely shattered their expectations and opinion of men

[churippu]

(I’ve been trying to upload this all day)

! SAD MONK EDIT !

I wanted to try my hand at the edit thing and made this. I just had to get it out of my head! Bluebird is Dead by Electric Light Orchestra reminds me of Monk soooo much. Took forever to scrounge around for the clips to use!

[karihighman]

BTS FROM MR. MONK’S LAST CASE AKA: THE MONK MOVIE PREMIERING DEC. 8 ON PEACOCK 😀🧼🔍 | 📷: IG linked here.

Also enjoy this pic of Tony Shalhoub at the Packers vs. Chiefs game yesterday via WWE IG:

[mothdogs]

The hardest thing about watching Monk is that it’s ostensibly a comedic show—and it does have its funny moments—but the narrative constantly, quietly debases and humiliates Adrian due to his disability and these moments just pass by, largely unremarked upon. In the Willie Nelson episode, he can’t bring himself to play the clarinet because someone else touched his mouthpiece, and you see Sharona and Stottlemeyer wincing, but he just stands there humiliated and accepts it. In the episode with the murdered billionaire, someone asks him if he’s ashamed of himself and he says “Oh, every day.” It’s so desperately sad. You want Adrian to get mad at the way people look at him and laugh at him. You want him to defend himself but he just… never does. 😞

[sherolck]

captain leland stottlemeyer

monk (2002).

[system-of-a-feather]

Man finally got around to watching the "Mr. Monk's Last Case" that I've been meaning to watch since it came out and I always forget just how relatable Monk is to me and how it really just hits home a bit too much how Monk lives and views himself

Like I'm sure a lot of people read the show like its a "haha OCD so funny" gag and I know some people get really mad because "OCD is treated like the butt end of the joke and no one with OCD is actually like that" but it really never felt that way to me as someone who has OCD - particularly because I cope with it the same way.

I totally understand the people that do not relate to it, OCD has a wide way of presentation and an even wider way of coping with it and that is not taking into account co-morbidities, the one in particularly that I think is most important when judging Monk - is C-PTSD and the MAIN one, while not directly mentioned, autism.

Cause the way they DO handle Monk's mental health, both in the original series (which I've watched at least 5 times over in my life) and the newest movie, while silly and haha at times, has always been so realistically done to me that it unironically is the only show or series or movie or game that had nearly made me physically cry because when it DOES get real into Monk's mental health, it gets pretty real, arguably too real.

I think if you are to talk about it as JUST OCD and treat this as "media representation of the average individual with OCD", people are right to say that its not good because I agree, Monk isn't the average individual with OCD and it does play into harmful stereotypes and generalizations of OCD. Monk is advertised as that a lot, so that advertising I disagree with. But if you actually watch the show, the show does little to hide that he has co-morbidity with PTSD / C-PTSD and while they don't outright say it, he is obviously autistic.

And as someone who's dad is has C-PTSD, Autism, and OCD and as someone who ALSO has C-PTSD, Autism, and OCD.... It's really really really fucking accurate and hits home. Something my mom, who lived with THREE people with that matching set of co-morbidities, loves and agrees is super relatable to how it was like living in our house.

And that is where it really gets me when people say "its a bad representation of OCD! OCD doesn't looks like that" cause... yeah it does, for at least three people I know with OCD. Are we a specific minority within the group of OCD? Probably, but we still have OCD.

I dunno man, episodes with Monk's mental health being talked about gets me in ways few things do and I will die on the hill that Monk's shit is very well done and accurate albeit to a specific subset of people with OCD.

And also on the point of it "being the butt of the joke"...

For me, my OCD and literally all my mental health conditions are often used as the butt end of the joke. And I'm not saying that people are wrong for being upset, but chronic mental illness symptoms after you get really used to them and adapt your life to them and just embrace your unique way of living.... it's kind of hard to not find a lot of the quirks in light humor?

Like my fiance always said it about his year with severe Chrons "at a certain point when you are in the hospital having shit come out both ends, you just have to laugh at it cause thats funny shit right there."

I don't think I would have survived recovery with any of my mental health disorders if I didn't take some of the quirks that came out of my adapted life style to be funny and love them anyways.

As long as there is a balance between "this is a serious thing that gets in the way of a persons life" which they DO do very well in Monk, I see very little issue at exploring the kinda funny things living with a chronic mental health condition does.

[beatrixacs]

Damn, the Monk movie broke me... 😭😭😭

[theragamuffininitiative]

MONK MOVIE

MONK MOVIE

[aloeverawrites]

One day Sharona will find a man that isn’t a cheater, criminal, married or all three but today is not that day- nor probably is tomorrow nor probably is-

[patoslover]

Manifest with me:

I'm not getting brainroted over another series' brilliant detective over 50 I'm not getting brainroted over another series' brilliant detective over 50 I'm not getting brainroted over another series' brilliant detective over 50 I'm not getting brainroted---

[love-thefanwhocan-t]

where is my adrian monk being a father figure compilation

[salz999]

I believe in what I can see

I believe in what's in front of me

[gloomyfilm]

there's this mr. monk's last case movie that i've been eager to watch if only it wasn't limited to US streamers. This show was huge in Europe and my country still airs episodes weekly and I love the dubbing version, so it's kinda disappointing that nobody would want it to reach a bigger audience.