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Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum

Season 1, Episode 6, Aired Aug 09, 2002

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After breaking into his old house to prepare an anniversary dinner for Trudy, Monk is taken to an asylum for 48 hours, and becomes involved in a murder.

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Ken Cheeseman

Manny
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Desmond Campbell

Oliver
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Kris Ryan

Dr. Conrad Gould

Tony Shalhoub

Adrian Monk
Bitty Schram

Sharona Fleming (episodes 1-38)

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A funny episode where Monk is put out of his comfort zone...

8.3

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By kkj228elbo, Jun 24, 2011

This epsisode, like every other Monk episode, is a classic. Manny adds humor to it and since Sharona is in this episode, it makes for a "different" kind of episode. Monk is stunk in an Asylum. His roommate, Manny is a true believer in Santa Claus and stays up every night waiting for him to come. Monk is seeing Dr. Lancaster and trying, while at the asylum, to try and solve the murder of Dr. Gould. This episode is not all focused on Monk, but none the less, this is a great episode.moreless
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After being discovered in Trudy's old house, Monk is temporarily institutionalized. Once committed, he stumbles upon a decades-old murder.

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By willie01, Jun 24, 2011

The episode, \"Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum,\" is one of my season one favorites. The episode is peppered with an assortment of interesting and funny characters. These characters/inmates compliment Mr. Monk's quirky personality and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Manny, Mr. Monk's roommate, suffers from delusions. He claims to have seen Santa Claus on several occasions. Captain Leland and Lieutenant Randall are not highlighted in this episode, but Sharona helps solve the crime.

The story rests on Mr. Monk's character. The writers can pull this off because Adrian Monk is a well-thought, multifaceted character. Plus, any story in which \"Santa Claus\" is a murderer is definitely funny.
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this was a good ep

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By cube2k8, Jun 24, 2011

monk is preparing dinner in his old house but does not know it at the time and he calles his asstiant to find something but she realizes he in the wrong house and he gets sent to asylum for being looked over but turns out there had been a murder comited there but never solved. and monk and a help of two others must solve the crime it also featurs a celbirty apperence it was a really good ep i thought and man that thought he saw santa . such a good ep and that is why i gave ita 8.5moreless
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- Patients in psychiatric hospitals are not allowed phones. How did Monk manage to smuggle one in and call Sharona at the end of the episode?
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- Trivia: On the back of Trudy's picture, written in glow-in-the-dark ink, it reads: "In Oct 1988 board of directors appointed Gould new director of the institute - Lancaster protected - wrote numerous letters denouncing Gould. You're in danger! Get out"
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- Mental health facilities such as the one in this episode are careful to keep all doors and windows leading outside carefully locked to prevent patients from wandering off. The second-floor window of the room belonging to the patient with the Santa fixation would certainly have been locked to prevent patients from doing exactly what he did, climb out onto the roof.
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- The house that Monk wanders into in "Asylum" when planning to cook Trudy dinner was Trudy's old house, not Monk and Trudy's. Monk was celebrating not their wedding anniversary, but the anniversary of when they met--so it makes sense that he would return to the house that Trudy owned while they were dating.
  The house Dale Biederbeck supposedly uses to stash his pornography collection is the house Monk and Trudy bought after they were married, into which they both moved in together. So it's two separate houses that got referred to, in two separate episodes.
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- A patient in a psychiatric hospital would not be allowed to keep or wear a necklace.
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- Dr. Lancaster: You do know it's supposed to be a self portrait? Manny: That's me right there (indicates a small boy at the bottom of the painting). Dr. Lancaster: Why do you look so small? Manny: Everybody's small compared to Santa.
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- Manny: Dr. Lancaster! Dr. Lancaster! Guess what I'm painting? Everyone (except Monk and Dr. Lancaster): Santa Claus! Jane: He actually stays up all night and waits for him. Manny: He's coming soon. It's definitely getting colder out. Jane: It's August, whackjob!
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- Cop: Drop the gun, Santa!
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- Monk: You mean it's a communal bathroom? Every--everyone uses it?
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- John: This is the Monkey Room. There's a funny story behind how it got that name. Monk: What is it? John: I don't know. But it must be a funny story.
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- Sharona: I can't protect you here. Monk: What could happen? It's a hospital.
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- Monk: Hang on, Manny. They're coming to get you. And Merry Christmas.
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- Monk: There's a lot of, you know, gravity out there. Falling is bad. You know that, right?
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- Monk: That's a marlin, isn't it? Dr. Lancaster: Yes. One of two things I caught in Mexico. Monk: What was the other? Dr. Lancaster: Dysentery.
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- Monk: (to Sharona) Good news. I'm seriously considering you for employee of the month.
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- Manny: It was Santa. As big as life. He was standing by the big chimney, getting ready to slide down. And then, his cell phone rang.
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- Manny: There've been over four hundred documented sightings of Santa Claus. Scientifically documented. And it's on the Internet, so you know it's true.
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- Manny: What do you want for Christmas? Monk: I just want two and two to be four again.
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- Dr. Kroger: Judge Hackman says you're lucky those people didn't press charges. Or shoot you.
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- Monk: That's a lot of laundry for a man who just got here yesterday. John: Thank you. Thank you very much.
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- Sharona: You're in the wrong house. Monk: Are you sure? Sharona: I'm looking at my caller ID. Adrian, get out of there.
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- John: You know, sometimes I wish I'd joined the Rolling Stones when they asked me.
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NOTES (5)
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- The majority of "asylum" exteriors for this episode were shot at The Shouldice Clinic in Toronto, Canada--a clinic specializing exclusively in the repair of hernias.
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- Music: "They're Killing Dr. Gould", "Back Safe At Home", "Losing It?" and "Monk Escapes" by Jeff Beal
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- The character Jon Wurster was named after Tom Scharpling's real life comedy partner, Jon Wurster.
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- David Breckman, who co-wrote this episode, is the younger brother of executive producer Andy Breckman.
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- Despite their up-front billing as regulars, neither Jason Gray-Stanford nor Ted Levine appears in this episode.
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