The irony of the scene in which Stottlemeyer tries to rip the toupee off the Police Commissioner's head is delicious in that Ted Levine is actually bald and wearing a toupee while Saverio Guerra is not.
Molly Hagan interviews Monk for a job as a fact-checker. She previously appeared in the FOX show "Herman's Head," in which the titular character...was a fact -hecker.
Monk tells a Marmaduke joke during his job interview. In Mr. Monk and the Paperboy (2004)(#2.10), Monk reads a Marmaduke comic strip out loud.