I love the way he says it. Also, when the answering machine comes on and Monk enters the code from merely hearing it once, the way how the father-in-law reacts is a pretty neat detail.
This episode is particularly poignant as the producer is Trudy's father who, along with his wife, still treated Monk like a son and were sympathetic to Monk's quest to find Trudy's killer. The fact that he could help the only father figure in his life was particularly special.
Yeah, I liked that they were not adversarial toward him over their daughter's death. Not that there was any reason for them to be, but it might have been written that way for some cheap drama.
I think the woman in the middle deserves the money, I mean Monk cheated to prove his theory so he’s disqualified and Val is arrested so all the money would go to her due to the fact she’s the most honest player in the game show
@@johnboehmer8604 Well she's going to be invited back anyway, because she won. One guy was arrested and the other dropped out without answering any questions. Hell, just make her the new host.
@Tamar Harrington Do they really have strong evidence, though? Im no expert, but let's say a lady who had just had a car accident believes it was ol Roddy here. You can say she's guessing, or she wouldn't have got into a car she knew for sure was sabotaged. Was she thinking straight? The dude feared for his reputation after her speculative message was recorded, so he agreed to help this guy cheat under pressure of blackmail. ...at least a lawyer could argue all of this. Unless they actually find evidence of sabotage, I'm not sure it's so open and shut.
@@paksta that message amounts to a dying declaration. And it is 100% admissible in court. Not only would it not be thrown out on a hearsay objection but the cover up that followed would be proof of it's veracity. ^_^ Also while the car was totalled, if it wasn't scrapped there would prolly be some proof of the brakes being cut. (People don't investigate accidents that closely if there isn't an obvious need like life insurance or etc) Furthermore, i would bet that during their talks, once the blackmail had started the host might have admitted it to the blackmailer which could serve as damming testimony for a reduced sentence. Basically there is a lot of proof out there. ^_^
lol ok. "I've studied every frame and he doesn't blink at all. No gestures or voice changes at least not that I can see. You were there, did you notice anything?" Monk: "No" And none of the audience or crew noticed either. This card thing was EXTREMELY obvious to see and it would never work irl because they would be caught instantly.
And who's also about to host a remake of "Split Second". Which is to say nothing of John's work in the "Pitch Perfect" trio of movies alongside Elizabeth Banks, who would go on to host a remake of "Press Your Luck".
I used to love watching this show but there's no way the blackmailing contestant couldn't have figured out that Monk knew the code was the way the cards were being held. The fact they were both answering before the questions were asked should have been a red flag to the host and his blackmailer. All fun to watch, as usual, though :)
I fully agree. The first thing the host would have done is to stop using the code. And monk's revelation act would be gone. It doesn't stop me from enjoying the show, but it is a major plothole (to me) for an investigational/deduction series.
@@cnaizhen to be fair they had been doing for what 3-4 'shows', and the habit would probably have set in that he would hold the cards that way simply out of habit, though the contestant DID know after the first couple, problem is the show was still running and he wanted his money
@@Guardian582 hmm. I would think that the first instinct would be to abort the mission. One will rather not get caught and keep the job, particularly when it's obvious that monk has caught onto the code. It is critical to deny monk of any proof. Pretty sure that the host will not be holding the card 'out of habit' in a real life situation. Then the host will simply resume the fraud during the next episode of the show when monk is not around, with a changed code, and maybe with a different cheater guest (they can split the money three-way)
@@cnaizhen I think the producers of the show could just check earlier tapings of the show with these two and confirm Monk's theory. I would compare it then with the tapings before Val was a contestant, to show that there was no system before. It would be harder to prove than catching them red-handed, but not impossible. Still, good point, they should've abort their scheme as soon as Adrian was guessing without even hearing the question
@@Robi2009 What you said is exactly right. The host and the witness would be caught no matter what, given the previous recording as well as the voice message. It's a pity that the script writer tried to hype up the case investigation reveal during the game show and sacrificed slightly on the realistic/logical behavior aspect. Hope I don't sound overly negative above, because I really still enjoy watching this clip.
@@wojtek1582 it is on youtube though i forget how its titled however they werent IN the howse, just ouside leaning in cause they didnt want to "break and enter"
unlike modern voicemail (which is provided by the phone company), back in the day many people used answering machines. it is just a box that "picks up" the phone after some number of rings and records what the caller says (often to a cassette tape!) pretty much all of them had this feature of letting you punch in an access code so you could check your messages without having to be at home
You have the dying words of the woman who died. A quick investigation of her car will reveal the sabotage and then the other needs to explain why he had that message on his answering machine and never told anyone. I'd say the blackmailer is definitely gonna confess since he really had nothing to do with the murder. The most they get him for is Blackmail and Obstruction of Justice. Maybe Conspiracy to conceal after the fact but he's out I'd say in 10 years-15 and they will offer him less time to flip. Send the other guy away for life
"Some homicide detectives are outside. They want to talk to you." Wow, they got there fast! Even for patrol cops that would be fast, but ... someone's got to receive notice that the detectives are needed, someone's got to decide who to assign to the case and give them the order to go. The detectives have to leave the police station and travel to the TV studio, then they have to inform someone of their presence, and that information has to be passed on to the guy who said, "They want to talk to you." All in just about two minutes.
@@frix8773 I can honestly imagine Stottlemeyer being one of the waiting detectives. He's turns the TV on to watch the game show, sees Monk as one of the contestants, and makes the assumption that he's there to investigate a crime and should thus be down there himself, ready to arrest the culprits when Monk solves the case.
@@tacticalochoa1310 yo I could even see this exchange where Randy calls Stottlemeyer about it. “Captain, Monk’s on TV.” “What? What did he do now?” “You know the game show Treasure Chest? He’s on there as a contestant.” “You’re pulling my leg.” “No really I’m looking at him right now” And then Stottlemeyer turns on the tv, sees Monk, and puts two and two together about why he’s there because why else would Monk do that?
There are four corners on a card.... Every different corner was either ABCD... So if the answer is A.... The host will hold the card in the right upper corner to indicate the answer is A.... For answer B let say the right lower corner
I guess he cut a deal with some contestants to do this trick with others as a one off thing in exchange for some money, since he was going bankrupt. But then Lizzie found out, he bumped her off, Val found out and put Roddy in the thumbscrews.
Man, I've been trying to figure out where I've seen the game show producer who is working with Monk: He played the prison warden in "Shawshank Redemption"!
Plus cheating on a game show is a federal crime so the second something was fishy all Dwight had to do was call the feds and it have been game set match but if they did that we wouldn't have an episode
Here's something I don't understand. If the cheating we see and know of on the show is for the purpose of the blackmail, what was the context of the cheating that she was killed over to begin with?
He was cheating with other select players too for a small portion of their winnings. He was losing money and this was a way for him to make extra. The girl found out and was going to turn him in and so he killed her.
Monk has a really good memory. He remembered the answering machine code from when he was snooping around the guy's house earlier in the episode and therefore was able to dial in the operator code to hear the messages.
You could do that with the old machines. It wasn't like voice mail today, could actually call your own number and put in a code and it would play back the messages from the tape so you could check them when you're away from home.
Roddy should have stayed with castrating cows from his other movie... he ended up with the car and the woman at the end of that show. :-) (Monte Walsh)
I don't follow the course of events in this episode: Lankman was cheating with Val Birch by feeding him the answers to pay him off for keeping his mouth shut about the host's assistants' car crash. But before dying the girl said that Lankman cut her brakes 'cause she knew he was cheating. With whom? Val wasn't on the show before her death.
With some other contestant. The whole reason why he was cheating was because he was broke and was likely helping other people make money and getting a share of that money. The blackmailer found out about it and now he is also cheating. Except this time, the host is not making any money and all of it is going to the blackmailer
Im not sure honestly, they might have just thought it was him holding it differently every time to be different. The backstory was he was using this system now and then with other contestants so he did hold the cards differently previously so they would just think it was his thing. He hide the code in just how often he did it. Monk was looking for the code so found it, no one else was looking.
The fact that he could do that just by remembering the touch tones is something. It's not an unheard of skill, but because he's Monk, there is no sense that it's weird he should be able to do that.
Monk was snooping around the guy's house earlier in the episode. He learned that he was planning on leaving the country and heard the dial code to operate the answering machine. He recognized the dial tones and knew what numbers to press to get in from the phone the game show gave them at the end.
That doesn't mean anything. First, how could she have possibly known? And second, this does not proof anything. Yes, maybe they will be able to tie him to the cheating on the gameshow, but apart from that, they'll need more evidence than that.
Dude. The way they recut the same clips and repost is incredibly offensive to their fans, and poor taste for a channel. I love Monk, got me through the Summer when I broke both my arms. But this is ridiculous, yall should unsub and try to not watch these when they pop up on the feed.
"can we go to commercial?"
"ya do and you're fired"
i just love that bit
It should have shown how guilty he is
I love the way he says it. Also, when the answering machine comes on and Monk enters the code from merely hearing it once, the way how the father-in-law reacts is a pretty neat detail.
This episode is particularly poignant as the producer is Trudy's father who, along with his wife, still treated Monk like a son and were sympathetic to Monk's quest to find Trudy's killer. The fact that he could help the only father figure in his life was particularly special.
So that's why he's so understanding of Monk's quirks. Thank you for explaination.
Yeah, I liked that they were not adversarial toward him over their daughter's death. Not that there was any reason for them to be, but it might have been written that way for some cheap drama.
@@TanzDerSchatten I agree. I love that they don't blame him for Trudy's death.
I love the buzzer press at the end that basically says, "I got you."
JustWasted3HoursHere
The buzzer doesn’t say “I got you”😊
@@lookingforahookup Well, this was a family show. I was being nice...
@@JustWasted3HoursHere
Well, in that case the buzzer went “wrong”
I laughed SO hard at that......... like I had never seen it before. This show truly stands the test of time.
Boss move by Monk.
I think the woman in the middle deserves the money, I mean Monk cheated to prove his theory so he’s disqualified and Val is arrested so all the money would go to her due to the fact she’s the most honest player in the game show
😂😂yeah Gotta love Monk tho
That makes sense i agree with you or maybe invite her back with two new people and a new host
I think she would at least get 40,000 and some forms to sign to not sue or seek more money from the show.
@@johnboehmer8604 Well she's going to be invited back anyway, because she won. One guy was arrested and the other dropped out without answering any questions.
Hell, just make her the new host.
Monk could care less about the money; for him it was about truth and justice.
4:33 Dwight knows what good television is. That’s why he threatened to fire that guy with termination if he went to commercial.
Oh, yes, let's just ignore that Monk said if he didn't call them out at that moment they may have destroyed the evidence.
@@harringt100 Even if they went to commercial, the studio audience would still be witnesses.
I only knew Bob Gunton from the Shawshank Redemption. Seeing him play a nice guy is nice.
@Tamar Harrington Do they really have strong evidence, though? Im no expert, but let's say a lady who had just had a car accident believes it was ol Roddy here. You can say she's guessing, or she wouldn't have got into a car she knew for sure was sabotaged. Was she thinking straight? The dude feared for his reputation after her speculative message was recorded, so he agreed to help this guy cheat under pressure of blackmail. ...at least a lawyer could argue all of this. Unless they actually find evidence of sabotage, I'm not sure it's so open and shut.
@@paksta that message amounts to a dying declaration. And it is 100% admissible in court. Not only would it not be thrown out on a hearsay objection but the cover up that followed would be proof of it's veracity. ^_^
Also while the car was totalled, if it wasn't scrapped there would prolly be some proof of the brakes being cut. (People don't investigate accidents that closely if there isn't an obvious need like life insurance or etc)
Furthermore, i would bet that during their talks, once the blackmail had started the host might have admitted it to the blackmailer which could serve as damming testimony for a reduced sentence. Basically there is a lot of proof out there. ^_^
This is one of my favorite solves and just the sheer horror and panic on Roddy’s face when he realizes he’s busted.😉😊💕
That smile.
"He's figured it out."
My favorite part is when she just randomly guesses :D
Mine is the "LUCKY GUESS" 😅😅
You would think he would have stopped holding the corners when he noticed Monk figured it out.
You would think other people would also catch on
It's a very obvious code. No chance Dwight wouldn't be able to figure this out on his own.
@@TheNethertyp Well, it’s not a code I’ve seen people do before, so to me I found it brilliant!
Plus he was still being blackmailed so he had to continue to cheat
If he did stop holding the corners, then Val would be seen not knowing the answers all of a sudden.
The writers of this show are real geniuses
lol ok. "I've studied every frame and he doesn't blink at all. No gestures or voice changes at least not that I can see. You were there, did you notice anything?" Monk: "No"
And none of the audience or crew noticed either.
This card thing was EXTREMELY obvious to see and it would never work irl because they would be caught instantly.
"Was I right about the blinking
Was I close"
He's my favorite character after Monk
not sure why they got rid of him
He was actually pretty close
It’s always greed that get people. If that guy just paid off his debt and gotten a little nest egg, no one would’ve gotten so suspicious.
That's how it happened on Who Wants to be a Millionaire in the UK. They were only supposed to go as far as £250,000.
That is why I stopped robbing banks after my 6th one. I'm now retired .
Lol Monk holds the phone w/a wipe, "I'd like to call that guy, the winning champ Val"
John Michael Higgins, who actually hosts a game show for real. "America Says"
And who's also about to host a remake of "Split Second". Which is to say nothing of John's work in the "Pitch Perfect" trio of movies alongside Elizabeth Banks, who would go on to host a remake of "Press Your Luck".
Buy tickets to watch a live game show, end up being front row to a murder conclusion.
Now that's value for money
I love how quickly they start buzzing in with the woman in the middle knowing she's screwed and just putting her head down in resignation lol.
This is one of the most hilarious moments in whole series 🤣
Another one is the circus episode where the clown keeps interrupting the investigation. I don’t think i’ve ever laughed so hard.
"I knew it, do-over!"
I knew it... Do Over! 😂
That poor woman really should get a do over. 😆
She should get the prize money, she's the only one who didn't cheat!
Kevin is my fav character i am sad that he died in a later episode although he was annoying Monk adored him
Monk ensured the evidence can't simply be erased by getting it to play on TV. Thousands heard it.
These days you can use you're own device
That poor lady in the middle. She had no clue what was going on.
Whenever they say you can't prove any of this, that's pretty much admitting you did it.
6:14 Those audience members just became witnesses.
Same for everyone watching the show on their TVs.
B B BBBB. On TV it looks easier. 🤣
Great episode.
I used to love watching this show but there's no way the blackmailing contestant couldn't have figured out that Monk knew the code was the way the cards were being held. The fact they were both answering before the questions were asked should have been a red flag to the host and his blackmailer.
All fun to watch, as usual, though :)
I fully agree. The first thing the host would have done is to stop using the code. And monk's revelation act would be gone.
It doesn't stop me from enjoying the show, but it is a major plothole (to me) for an investigational/deduction series.
@@cnaizhen to be fair they had been doing for what 3-4 'shows', and the habit would probably have set in that he would hold the cards that way simply out of habit, though the contestant DID know after the first couple, problem is the show was still running and he wanted his money
@@Guardian582 hmm. I would think that the first instinct would be to abort the mission. One will rather not get caught and keep the job, particularly when it's obvious that monk has caught onto the code. It is critical to deny monk of any proof. Pretty sure that the host will not be holding the card 'out of habit' in a real life situation.
Then the host will simply resume the fraud during the next episode of the show when monk is not around, with a changed code, and maybe with a different cheater guest (they can split the money three-way)
@@cnaizhen I think the producers of the show could just check earlier tapings of the show with these two and confirm Monk's theory.
I would compare it then with the tapings before Val was a contestant, to show that there was no system before.
It would be harder to prove than catching them red-handed, but not impossible.
Still, good point, they should've abort their scheme as soon as Adrian was guessing without even hearing the question
@@Robi2009 What you said is exactly right. The host and the witness would be caught no matter what, given the previous recording as well as the voice message.
It's a pity that the script writer tried to hype up the case investigation reveal during the game show and sacrificed slightly on the realistic/logical behavior aspect.
Hope I don't sound overly negative above, because I really still enjoy watching this clip.
It would have been great after Monk buzzed he said "Jail is correct".
Can someone explain how Monk was able to hear the guy's voicemail
Some phones allow you to dial a certain number to access the voicemail. I think he knew the password from the sound that each number makes.
He was in his house when phone rang, but details are now hazy for me. I am pretty sure that scene is also somewhere among Monk channel videos.
@@wojtek1582 it is on youtube though i forget how its titled
however they werent IN the howse, just ouside leaning in cause they didnt want to "break and enter"
@@mrroboshadow Yes, correct!
unlike modern voicemail (which is provided by the phone company), back in the day many people used answering machines. it is just a box that "picks up" the phone after some number of rings and records what the caller says (often to a cassette tape!)
pretty much all of them had this feature of letting you punch in an access code so you could check your messages without having to be at home
monk spots a smudge on buzzer in the begining :)
Well those guys are definitely walking free. Good luck finding a jury pool that isn’t tainted.
You have the dying words of the woman who died. A quick investigation of her car will reveal the sabotage and then the other needs to explain why he had that message on his answering machine and never told anyone. I'd say the blackmailer is definitely gonna confess since he really had nothing to do with the murder. The most they get him for is Blackmail and Obstruction of Justice. Maybe Conspiracy to conceal after the fact but he's out I'd say in 10 years-15 and they will offer him less time to flip. Send the other guy away for life
"Some homicide detectives are outside. They want to talk to you."
Wow, they got there fast!
Even for patrol cops that would be fast, but ... someone's got to receive notice that the detectives are needed, someone's got to decide who to assign to the case and give them the order to go. The detectives have to leave the police station and travel to the TV studio, then they have to inform someone of their presence, and that information has to be passed on to the guy who said, "They want to talk to you."
All in just about two minutes.
At this point they're just following Monk around. He'll catch a new killer once per week
@@frix8773 I can honestly imagine Stottlemeyer being one of the waiting detectives. He's turns the TV on to watch the game show, sees Monk as one of the contestants, and makes the assumption that he's there to investigate a crime and should thus be down there himself, ready to arrest the culprits when Monk solves the case.
@@tacticalochoa1310 Idk I kinda peg Randy as more the type to watch this game show than Stottlemeyer. 🤔
@@Boundwithflame23 Yeah, I can see that.
@@tacticalochoa1310 yo I could even see this exchange where Randy calls Stottlemeyer about it.
“Captain, Monk’s on TV.”
“What? What did he do now?”
“You know the game show Treasure Chest? He’s on there as a contestant.”
“You’re pulling my leg.”
“No really I’m looking at him right now”
And then Stottlemeyer turns on the tv, sees Monk, and puts two and two together about why he’s there because why else would Monk do that?
3:36 Theodore Roosevelt
I loved this show
I would re-watch this clip on May 2 😂
does anyone understand how the host was "cheating" on the show? i'm still not sure what it means if you realize the cheating can't be with Val Burch.
I guess before being Blackmailed, he was giving the same advantage to a few chosen people. But more scattered and therefore harder to prove.
There are four corners on a card.... Every different corner was either ABCD... So if the answer is A.... The host will hold the card in the right upper corner to indicate the answer is A.... For answer B let say the right lower corner
@@leeniemunah7088 I guess he was doing it to impress hot women
I guess he cut a deal with some contestants to do this trick with others as a one off thing in exchange for some money, since he was going bankrupt. But then Lizzie found out, he bumped her off, Val found out and put Roddy in the thumbscrews.
@@NorrisVaughn if you watch the entire episode.... He was doing it for the money
I would never trust that dude from Shawshank Redemption…
Man, I've been trying to figure out where I've seen the game show producer who is working with Monk: He played the prison warden in "Shawshank Redemption"!
Also the police chief in Demolition Man.
@@613harbinger316Ah yes!
Also played the Captain on Star Trek TNG "The Wounded."
My favourite episode
You think the host would stop cheating once it became that blatant, he doesn't have to keep holding the cards like that.
Well he is being blackmailed so probably thinks he has no choice, even when its obvious that Monk figured it out
It was explained that the blackmailer couldn't return to the show if he lost, and said blackmailer is an idiot, so he couldn't win without the cheats.
Good episode
Why not the complete episode??
Dorfman was awesome.
No love for your old pal Val?
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there's gotta be some kind of time limit on that bonus question, isn't there?
Dwight then killed himself as he was found to be a corrupt jail warden
tv nerds would detect and confirm the cheating system half way through 1 episode
Plus cheating on a game show is a federal crime so the second something was fishy all Dwight had to do was call the feds and it have been game set match but if they did that we wouldn't have an episode
You posted this already
That is how good it is.
Here's something I don't understand. If the cheating we see and know of on the show is for the purpose of the blackmail, what was the context of the cheating that she was killed over to begin with?
i only just clocked this too! i guess that’s a small plot hole? unless he was cheating with another player
easy to explain just think, he was cheating with other people too.
He was cheating with other select players too for a small portion of their winnings. He was losing money and this was a way for him to make extra. The girl found out and was going to turn him in and so he killed her.
Why are the security guys walking like robots? 😂😂😂
Roddy graduated to America Says after getting out of prison.
So ummm......Anyone can listen to anyone's saved messages on their answering machines???......is that how it worked??
If you know the code yes.
Monk has a really good memory. He remembered the answering machine code from when he was snooping around the guy's house earlier in the episode and therefore was able to dial in the operator code to hear the messages.
@@ulyx9804 Thank you
@@ulyx9804 how did he know about the message though? He pulled that out of thin air.
How did he get into his answering machine
You could do that with the old machines. It wasn't like voice mail today, could actually call your own number and put in a code and it would play back the messages from the tape so you could check them when you're away from home.
Roddy should have stayed with castrating cows from his other movie... he ended up with the car and the woman at the end of that show. :-) (Monte Walsh)
Is leaning in the Constitution?
😂😂😂
I don't follow the course of events in this episode: Lankman was cheating with Val Birch by feeding him the answers to pay him off for keeping his mouth shut about the host's assistants' car crash.
But before dying the girl said that Lankman cut her brakes 'cause she knew he was cheating.
With whom? Val wasn't on the show before her death.
With some other contestant. The whole reason why he was cheating was because he was broke and was likely helping other people make money and getting a share of that money. The blackmailer found out about it and now he is also cheating. Except this time, the host is not making any money and all of it is going to the blackmailer
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Surely viewers would’ve noticed that method as it’s pretty rudimentary and very obvious
Im not sure honestly, they might have just thought it was him holding it differently every time to be different. The backstory was he was using this system now and then with other contestants so he did hold the cards differently previously so they would just think it was his thing. He hide the code in just how often he did it. Monk was looking for the code so found it, no one else was looking.
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anyone else recognize her from house md? i can't be the only one lol. she was a patient that stood out quite a bit. attire wise.
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Sooo....who is the game show model 👀
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Why 482?
That was the password to access Val's messages.
The fact that he could do that just by remembering the touch tones is something. It's not an unheard of skill, but because he's Monk, there is no sense that it's weird he should be able to do that.
Monk was snooping around the guy's house earlier in the episode. He learned that he was planning on leaving the country and heard the dial code to operate the answering machine. He recognized the dial tones and knew what numbers to press to get in from the phone the game show gave them at the end.
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She can return with a new cast and host
That doesn't mean anything. First, how could she have possibly known? And second, this does not proof anything. Yes, maybe they will be able to tie him to the cheating on the gameshow, but apart from that, they'll need more evidence than that.
*prove
@@mistermonologue2442 Thanks!
Still not valid evidence. He's gonna go home, erase the message, and the evidence "recorded in the studio" would be dismissed as inauthentic.
They can hold him, get a warrant to search is home, and get the message straight from the machine.
@@chrisfortin If Monk was in his house earlier they likely already had some evidence for the warrant if not the tape itself.
Dude. The way they recut the same clips and repost is incredibly offensive to their fans, and poor taste for a channel. I love Monk, got me through the Summer when I broke both my arms. But this is ridiculous, yall should unsub and try to not watch these when they pop up on the feed.