"It's a jungle out there"..Monk theme song.

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Pat Durkin - 31 Jan 2004 03:09 GMT

It seems strange to me that just this year I notice that song. I think this
is starting in the third year in which the show "Monk" has played, but I
only started hearing the song in the promos for this season. The lyrics are
captivating, as is the song style.

And I am so glad the show is still going pretty strong. The character is a
one-trick pony, but there is a lot of charm in the entire cast.

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Mark Brader - 31 Jan 2004 05:51 GMT

Pat Durkin:

> I think this is starting in the third year in which the show "Monk"
> has played,

Depends on how you count. <http://www.tvtome.com> lists 13 episodes
originally shown July-October 2002, 9 episodes shown June-August 2003,
and 7 episodes now being shown, January-March 2004. All these dates
refer to the original cable TV broadc--- er, showing, with broadcast TV
following later. The web site says that the cable network referred
to the 22nd show as the season 2 finale, but that season 2 properly
includes the later group of 7 episodes.

So Pat is correct if he or she is counting calendar years or if
counting seasons according to the cable TV people, but other people
may say that the second season includes a planned total of 16 shows
and is still going on, as would be my inclination.

> but I only started hearing the song in the promos for this season.

It's the new theme song starting with the second season. If you're
just seeing the second-season episodes for the first time now (as is
the case for broadcast TV viewers in the US, I think) -- starting
with "Mr. Monk Goes Back to School" -- then you won't have heard it
before.

> The lyrics are captivating, as is the song style.

Not surprising: it's by Randy Newman. Learn that name.

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Pat Durkin - 31 Jan 2004 19:48 GMT

> Pat Durkin:
> > I think this is starting in the third year in which the show "Monk"
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> with "Mr. Monk Goes Back to School" -- then you won't have heard it
> before.

I watch it on USA cable network. Because this is the second time it is a
series on its own (the first time it was a summer replacement), or because
the cable networks don't do the regular season contracts, it is in its 3rd
"season" on USA.

I just don't recall hearing that song before the promos for this new season,
which began in January, in the lead-up and starting credits in either the
first or the second season on USA. And the old kind of rinky-tink '20s
guitar melody still plays at the breaks, pauses and the end of the current
season's shows.

> > The lyrics are captivating, as is the song style.
>
> Not surprising: it's by Randy Newman. Learn that name.

I will try to remember it.

So, two more interestingly produced commercials have attracted my attention.
I love the soft-shoe dancing, the dancer and the song (probably gonna be
called "Rubber Band Man") in the Office Max ad. The song starts out with
the words (not the tune and meter) of an old song,
"Hand me down my walking cane" (next line Not From the Old Song:"Hand me
down my hat"). ( I think of the rubber band/elastics thread we had here
last week.)

For the second, I don't recall the product or even if there are words.
Shows how effective the ad is, though. . . promoting washers and dryers,
unisex clothing, some sody pop or other. Anyway a young black man with
dreadlocks is tap-dancing through a laundromat, escaping death and accidents
until he flings himself onto a chair, and morphs into a lovely white woman
sucking on a can of something. Maybe you know the ad? Now I think of it I
can't recall the tune, even.

(Or the producers/performers of either?)

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"It's a jungle out there"..Monk theme song.