Gaffes

When Monk and his co-workers get on the elevator, they mention that it is only 2 floors. Other scenes show the office as being located on the 2nd floor and visible from the ground floor cafeteria. However, the elevator displays "9" on the door frame, indicating the 9th floor.

The entire plot is based on the position of the window of Kemp's office in relation to the food court area where the bad guy reads his lips. However, throughout the scenes from Kemp's office, you can see that the windows are placed about three feet from ground level, making it impossible for the bad guy to see Kemp having conversations on his desk.

The scenes from the food court provide a view to his entire office indeed, but the windows are different because you can see the entire office because there is no wall below the window.

While Monk is explaining the solution to the case, the flashbacks show the decorator measuring the window for curtains. In that scene, you can see up to her heels, but when Mrs. Teeger is having a conversation with Kemp, the three-foot wall is back.

When Natalie speaks with Mr. Kemp in his office, the windows for the office start about 3 feet off the floor. But later shots of the office seen through those windows from the courtyard show the lower part of Mr. Kemp's chair and feet completely visible, a view only possible if the windows in that office went all the way to the floor.

[24:00] When Chilton Handy bowls a strike, as shown from behind the pins and the next scene shows him jumping for joy, the alley, and the pin setter picks up at least five spare pins and sweeps the pin area.

[29:30] The same scene of the strike is reused again.

As his "colleagues" are persuading Monk to try his hand at bowling, there is a woman wearing a blue shirt walking in the background who changes direction after each shot. First, she's walking to the left, then suddenly to the right, and then to the left again.

When Monk discovers the tire iron, he says that it is metric and that all the cars are American. The two metric and standard sizes of the lug nuts of nearly all passenger cars are interchangeable. 3/4 is nearly identical to 19mm and 13/16 to 21mm. The tire iron was simply the smaller size. American cars have been metric since the 80s anyway.

The flyer on the notice board refers to an 'Inter-Office Bowling' competition. Since the teams all work in the same office, it should be 'Intra-Office Bowling'.

The photocopy of an employee's buttocks posted on the break room bulletin board would have drawn complaints as creating a hostile work environment (especially in San Francisco) and would have been taken down by management.

When Monk is told he can't wear street shoes for his final bowling frame, he refuses to use anyone else's because of his disorder. So his team has to forfeit. However bowling rules, as well as virtually any alley, will allow you to bowl in your socks. Perhaps a bit awkward but no worse than street shoes, which he'd been using the entire game.

Almost no bowling alley will allow you to wear socks and no shoes. There are too many liability issues if you slip and fall wearing only socks. Additionally, oil and sweat on your socks can ruin the lanes. And there are plenty of other reasons. Most bowling alleys have a sign that says "No bowling shoes, no bowling" or something similar.

When Chilton calls out Monk for not wearing the proper shoes, Abby says "Okay, stop saying 'Here's the thing.' Just put on these shoes for 20 seconds. Then you can take 'em right off." This audio is out of sync with her lips.

When the office employees are going to lunch, they all get onto the elevator and tell Monk to join them. He gets in and then immediately gets back out. As he does, you can see the cross made of tape on the floor at his feet used to "mark" his position for the scene.

In the parking garage, Monk says that all the cars there are made in America, but the blue Chrysler Crossfire convertible was built in Germany. The Crossfire was based on the Mercedes-Benz SLK.