I'm all for "The butler did it" style mystery. But that isn't what you get here. Instead, you get a stupid mystery. With stupid humor. Honestly this feels like a stupid mystery that anyone with a gumball sized brain could solve.
A greedy rich guy kills his stepmom because he found his dad dead, and the will was changed so she and her daughters would inherit everything.
I smell the scent of "jokes over mystery" thing again. Because everything feels like a first draft that someone put together. But it was so important to make a joke making fun of Monk's name. Which, oh my god! The humor can be so bad on this show that you'd think they use that joke early on, but NO, they were saving it.
I feel like this was going to be a bigger story. I mean there is something to be said about young women marrying older men for their money. So why wasn't the stuff with the step mother and her daughters be explored more. If I had to guess, there wasn't a lot of drafts written for a "good" episode, however there was a gain of quality in this episode, but only a tiny one. If I had to guess, I think it was going to be that the character Sean Astin plays would've been blackmailed by his step-sisters and not his butler for the death of their mom. Because it might have been revealed that the mother and her daughters were a black widow style like crime family that seduces old wealthy men then marry them and inherit there money. I think that was the original idea, that Sean Astin's character murdered his step mom after finding his dad dead. Or maybe it was murder? Maybe the step-mom did something to make it look like a heart attack. Anything would be better.
This episode just reminds me of why I utterly dislike the one percent.