I stopped watching the show in its third season, as they kept piling on phobias to the point that any real person so afflicted would have been a gibbering idiot in a padded cell.
Having a monkey throw shit onto him ought to be enough.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Psychologically Annoying
Monk, the detective with more psychoses than are listed in the DSM-IV.
I stopped watching the show in its third season, as they kept piling on phobias to the point that any real person so afflicted would have been a gibbering idiot in a padded cell.
Having a monkey throw shit onto him ought to be enough.
I stopped watching the show in its third season, as they kept piling on phobias to the point that any real person so afflicted would have been a gibbering idiot in a padded cell.
Having a monkey throw shit onto him ought to be enough.
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I've had OCD, I still do but I have it under control. My youngest suffered with it for years. I never thought Monk was funny. I watched it once and almost threw a chair at the TV. Yep, one reason I stopped watching TV.
ReplyDeleteHe's like an extreme Hercule Poirot. And Poirot is NOT amused.
ReplyDeleteELL, there is a long tradition in television of playing up characters who are "different" for laughs, usually at the expense of the character (and those similarly situated).
ReplyDeleteI guess you can view it as a form of bullying.
Once they said he was "afraid of milk," I tuned out. Come on, man.
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