Mr. Monk and Little Monk

Questions that are asked in comments...Adult Jimmy is played by Brett Cullen as James Duffy, it's in the cast info. And the pic in Adrian's locker is Patty Duke, that is in the trivia info. This was a fun episode. I wish IMDB never got rid of the message boards, they were fun to read.

Monk is called upon by old friend Sherry Judd (actress Donna Bullock) to solve a mystery. Monk had a huge crush on her when they were classmates in junior high school. In the present, burglars break into her home when she is not there, and kill the housekeeper, but appear not to have stolen anything. However, on the way out they inexplicably spray paint a mustache and goatee on a prized painting. The police are stumped, so Sherry comes for help to Monk, who demonstrated his detective brilliance to her years earlier.

In flashbacks, we see young Monk's agony as he longs for the teen girl, who is friendly but seems impossibly out of reach. When young Sherry is accused of the theft of the bake sale money, young Monk (actor Grant Rosenmeyer), convinced of Sherry's innocence, tackles what may be his first case, and of course his brilliant insights save her from the clever scheming of the bully who framed her.

Natalie can see that Monk still has feelings for Sherry, and encourages him to make his move, but unfortunately Monk as an adult has as little self-confidence with women as he did as a teen.

Any episode where you get to see Monk as a child is a winner, and this one does not disappoint. His mother (actress Rose Abdoo) does a tidy job of suggesting to the audience where some of Monk's personality quirks come from. Any real fan of Monk will make seeing this episode a top priority.

Monk solves all mysteries, past and present, but loses out on the lady under circumstances eerily similar to what happened in the past.

Hello friends, here is another blunder they make in a very good episode of Monk. It is about the following when the murderous thieves commit the act of killing the maid,One of them went to the picture with a spray paint and painted glasses that here too circles for not symmetrical,He also draws mustaches which are again not symmetrical, one longer with an arc, the other is just a line. Later, however, when Monk is in the house looking for clues, the painting is seen to have two perfect circles for glasses,And two perfect mustaches, who and why he erased and then redrew it is not clear to me. This is another blunder in another episode.

Not so much a review as it is a question. First off,I love how we see the way Mr. Monk developes his "habits." Nice and creative. Secondly, they did a great job with casting the young Adrian Monk So, my question is...when young Monk is at his locker trying to ask Sherry out, there is a picture that appears and dissapears from the inside of Monks locker. Who is she&why does it dissapear?

A couple of men break into a house and vandalize a painting and take nothing with them. Because the housekeeper wakes up and catches them, they get into a scuffle and the housekeeper is accidentally killed.

The woman who owns the house wasn't home that night, but comes to Monk to solve the case. It turns out to be Sherry Judd, somebody Monk had a crush on in junior high. He somewhat returns to age 13 in her presence, which is amusing. Stottlemeyer thinks that maybe Sherry herself may have done it for the insurance money for the painting. Monk says no, because Sherry got a very large settlement when she divorced her husband which includes 20 thousand dollars a month in alimony. Monk is acting like he is still interested in this girl from his past but, alas, the painting restoration guy she takes the vandalized portrait to is also somebody she knew in junior high and they are hitting it off all over again. Meanwhile, in an amusing flashback, there is a mini mystery as Monk is shown as he was in junior high when he saved Sherry from being falsely accused of stealing some school funds.