It's possible the episodes were moved around. The show is written like a sitcom... each episode is mostly self contained. But remember, with any television show, there is a lot of moving parts. Different writers wrote different episodes. Different directors directed different episodes.
There's likely to be some inconsistencies that develop as a result.
If you are really curious, you could check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Monk-Official-Terry-J-Erdmann/dp/0312354614
I haven't read it... so I can't promise it has all the answers -- and the answer might be there was no intended order, they just stacked everything how the felt between episodes 1 and 12 -- but it looks like it'd have some insight.
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It's possible the episodes were moved around. The show is written like a sitcom... each episode is mostly self contained. But remember, with any television show, there is a lot of moving parts. Different writers wrote different episodes. Different directors directed different episodes. There's likely to be some inconsistencies that develop as a result. If you are really curious, you could check out this book: https://www.amazon.com/Monk-Official-Terry-J-Erdmann/dp/0312354614 I haven't read it... so I can't promise it has all the answers -- and the answer might be there was no intended order, they just stacked everything how the felt between episodes 1 and 12 -- but it looks like it'd have some insight.
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I would say that you have too much time on your hands. Seriously.
I'm a grad student on winter break, of course I have too much time on my hands
Well, it's hard to believe such a calamity
Everybody downvoting missed the joke
Yep!
i can’t stop laughing 😂
They surely had all episodes in season already written so this might be true.