Monk Season 4
Some terrific episodes here, although I do note that the comedy aspect has been the focus as compared to the detective aspect. For example, in the Mr Monk Goes To A Wedding episode, Randy Disher is run down by a speeding car while escorting Natalie to her brother's wedding. Despite severe injuries including a broken arm and broken leg, he is still staying at the hotel where the wedding is taking place.
Other bits are obviously anachronistic. In the Mr Monk and Mrs Monk episode, the apparent Mrs Monk rips the film out of Natalie's camera. In 2005? The scene is especially obvious because in the prior episode (Mr Monk Gets Drunk), a digital photograph is erased the modern way, by deleting it from the camera's flash memory.
And in the otherwise charming Mr Monk and Little Monk episode, there are two gaping flaws. One, the girl from Monk's past whom he rescued from being accused of theft, remembers him instead (according to her husband) as never having taken gym class. First, if somebody helped you out in eighth grade by finding out who really stole the money, wouldn't you remember that as the most significant thing about that person? And second, in my school years, gym was segregated by gender, so the girls would have no clue what I did. I don't have a clue what the girls did in that class either.
But aside from these flaws, the Fourth Season is terrific and (as I said at the beginning) very funny.
