S1.E12

Mr. Monk and the Airplane

Episode aired Jun 7, 2003
TV-PG
44m

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Tony Shalhoub and Hedy McKenzie in Monk (2002)

Monk's first flight proves to be harder than he anticipated when he begins to suspect that a fellow passenger murdered his wife.Monk's first flight proves to be harder than he anticipated when he begins to suspect that a fellow passenger murdered his wife.Monk's first flight proves to be harder than he anticipated when he begins to suspect that a fellow passenger murdered his wife.

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8/10

The Killer Passengers

Monk goes to the airport with Sharona, and out of the blue she discloses to him that she will travel to New Jersey to visit her Aunt Minn. Sharona has bought a ticket and packed Monk's clothes and he accepts to fly with her. He disturbs the flight attendant Leigh with his paranoia while Sharona meets the star Tim Daly in the flight. Monk notes that the passenger Stefan Chabrol and his wife Barbara are not the same in the airport concourse, and he believes the man has killed her to flee to France with her fortune. He calls Randall Disher from the plane to help him in the investigation in the airport.

"Mr. Monk and the Airplane" is another funny episode of "Monk". The paranoid Monk in the airplane is hilarious, driving the flight attendant mad along the trip. Sharona's advice to Tim Daly is probably the funniest moment of the show, when he tells her that George Clooney accepted his role he had just declined, and Martin Scorsese would be the director. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "O Sr. Monk e o Avião" ("Mr. Monk and the Airplane")

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There were a series of interesting cameos: Sharona spots Tim Daly on their flight, and says he was on the TV show Wings (1990). Monk claims he never saw the show, and asks if the show was any good, and she responds, "Well, *he* was." Tony Shalhoub played "Antonio Scarpacci" on "Wings" for nearly the entire run of the show. Leigh, the flight attendant who is being driven to distraction by Monk's antics on the plane, is portrayed by Brooke Adams, Tony Shalhoub's wife in real life. Series creator Andy Breckman can be seen taking a seat in First Class near the beginning of Mr. Monk and the Airplane (2002).

Goofs
The type of aircraft changes (in the exterior view), multiple times during the flight.

Quotes
Sharona Fleming: That is Tim Daly I love him!
Adrian Monk: What is he some kind of actor?
Sharona Fleming: Yeah yeah he was on that show Wings!
Adrian Monk: Never saw it, was it good?
Sharona Fleming: Well, he was.