Klarinet Archive - Posting 000480.txt from 2002/11

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Monk plays clarinet tonight on ABC
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 23:55:08 -0500

Claudia Zornow wrote,
>ABC is rerunning the Willie Nelson episode of "Monk"
>tonight (10:00 p.m. Pacific Time). The scene where Monk
>desperately wants to play his clarinet is priceless.

Thanks for the heads-up! I didn't even know they'd switched the series to
"Monkday" and probably would have missed the episode if you hadn't mentioned
it. Great scene when Monk tried to convince himself to play the clarinet
after another man put his mouth on it, although the setup looked too
contrived. Hard to imagine somebody sticking somebody else's clarinet in his
craw without asking-- although I find "social kissing" hard to believe, too,
and even more repellant, and people do that all the time.

Did anyone else think that clarinet looked like a marriage? I could have
sworn the bell and barrel didn't match the sections. The sections looked
shinier to me. The script made a point about the clarinet being "rosewood,"
but I thought the sections looked like plastic. I wonder if the script
called the wood "rosewood" because the writers knew too much, in a way--knew
that grenadilla's related to rosewood and figured the word "grenadilla" would
only confuse the majority of the audience that presumably wouldn't know?

That timeslip when the brand-new, untouched-by-human-lips mouthpiece
mysteriously acquired the reed was odd enough that I think I would have
noticed it even if someone hadn't mentioned it after the first broadcast.
Also thought there were holes in the plot big enough to fit a contrabass
through. The biggest: totally bogus that the police and Monk didn't notice
right away that the "blind" woman reached out to shake hands with her left
hand before anyone said anything about the detective's right arm being in a
sling! Shaking with the left is too unusual. I noticed the handshake and
Monk is supposed to be hyper-aware of that sort of thing. I enjoyed the
episode anyway, though--the characters are delightful.

Lelia

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