Tony Shalhoub's character in Stark Raving Mad claims in this episode to have once had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and to have been cured by hypnosis. "Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized" is about an obsessive-compulsive person (Monk, coincidentally played by Shalhoub as well) trying hypnosis to cure him of his disorder, although instead, it causes him to start acting like a six year old.