History Recap / MonkS4E15MrMonkGoesToTheDentist

* CassandraTruth: During the dental procedure for a legitimate toothache, and while being placed in novocaine, Randy ends up witnessing a brutal confrontation between the dentists and a bald man demanding "Barry Bonds" and saying that "he was worth $13 billion," and tries to report it to his co-workers, only to be laughed at and/or met with disbelief (the fact that he was doped up on novocaine when it was happening did not help matters much), eventually being fed up at not being believed and quitting the force. It later turned out that Randy was actually quite correct in what he saw (barring the "Barry Bonds" thing, as that was actually "bearer bonds" stolen in an armored car heist a few days earlier where two guards were shot and killed, a case Randy and the others were investigating).

** The cops' insurance plan. Monk realizes that Jardeen was a former cop, so he went to Bloom because the man was part of his insurance.
** Dr. Bloom says that people see and say all sorts of things when they're under sedation. It turns out Denny Jardeen spilled the whole story about the robbery and the bearer bonds while in the dentist's chair.

* DepravedDentist: Dr. Oliver Bloom and his assistant Teri. They're not actually depraved prior to the events of the episode, but when an armored car robbery happens, an ex-cop involved in the robbery named Denny Jardeen is punched in the face while fighting the two guards and comes to Dr. Bloom to get his tooth fixed. While under anesthesia, he divulges the details to them without his knowledge. Dr. Bloom and Teri, rather than calling the police, get greedy and steal the loot from Jardeen's house. When Jardeen finds out, he confronts them while they are operating on Randy for a toothache, and Teri strikes Jardeen multiple times with a giant plastic tooth, then they dispose of the body. Intending to now fence the stolen bonds, they kidnap Monk and torture him with a dental drill, intending to figure out whether the fence they want to sell to is under police surveillance. Not only is the scene similar to Dr. Szell's torture conducted in ''Film/MarathonMan'', but Dr. Bloom and Teri even compare it to that.
* TheDissTrack: Randy's song "I Don't Need a Badge" consists mostly of jabs against "the man", the police, and Stottlemeyer (though he never uses the name). Understandably, the captain doesn't like it much.
* EurekaMoment: Randy realizes that the dentists were talking about bearer bonds and not [[UsefulNotes/HistoricalPeopleToKnowInMLB the baseball player Barry Bonds]] when he sees a newspaper article about them being stolen.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Stottlemeyer figures Randy isn't going to the dentist because he wants to use his sick days for when he isn't actually sick. He finds Randy doing just that in [[Recap/MonkS5E8MrMonkGoesToARockConcert "Mr. Monk Goes to a Rock Concert"]].
* {{Gaslighting}}: The dentist and his assistant trying to convince Randy the murder he witnessed was a hallucination while under anesthesia. Randy's friends also say it, but in their case, they sincerely think so; they aren't intentionally trying to gaslight him (and they eventually believe him).
* IdiotBall: Jardeen confronted the dentist and his assistant during the day, with a witness in the waiting room ''who is a cop''. Even though Randy was sedated, he heard enough to figure out there was something fishy.

* InterrogatedForNothing: Believing that the buyer for the bearer bonds is being monitored by police, Dr. Bloom and his nurse torture Monk for information. Unfortunately, Monk had no idea about what they were asking, so all they end up doing was incriminate themselves while exacerbating Monk's already crippling fear of dentists.
* MuggingTheMonster: Ex-cop Denny Jardeen is part of a crew that holds up an armored car. In the fight, one guard manages to punch Jardeen, breaking one of his teeth, before he is shot dead. Jardeen goes to Dr. Oliver Bloom, his dentist, to get his tooth repaired, but under anesthesia, he divulges everything about the robbery to Dr. Bloom without knowing it. Instead of going to the police, Dr. Bloom and Terri go to where the loot is being stored and steal it. But Jardeen figures it out, and a few nights later, when Dr. Bloom and Terri are operating on Randy for a toothache, Jardeen barges in confronting them, and they kill him in a fight.
* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Randy, suffering a toothache, steps away from the crime scene for a bit to weep and moan from the pain privately. Natalie, who's heard that one of the dead guards was engaged, thinks he's upset about the senselessness of it all and encourages him that {{its okay to cry}}. Even when he mentions his tooth, she doesn't get it, because she'd been talking about them coming up with an excuse to save Randy's pride over his sensitivity. When Stottlemeyer tells her Randy's been complaining about the tooth for days, she slaps Randy for "lying to her." The lieutenant protests that he tried to tell her.

* ProperlyParanoid: Monk has a crippling fear of dentists due to a bad experience, a fear so severe, in fact, that he was completely unwilling to go beyond the waiting room while Disher and Natalie investigate a murder that seemingly happened while Disher was getting his appointment regarding a seeming kidnapping of "Barry Bonds," and later had to be pried off when he was literally frozen in fear in his seat during the wait (presumably from hearing a drill whirring in the background). Turns out he was very much justified in this fear, as he ends up being abducted and then tortured by the same dentists about potential clients for the bearer bonds and whether the police had them monitored (an incident that also resulted in his fear of them being heightened as a result to the extent that he refuses to go to a dentist even after one of his teeth was chipped).

** When telling tales about what they dream of under anesthesia, one officer said that he dreamt he was a ''Franchise/GreenLantern''.
** Monk is tortured by Dr. Oliver Bloom and Teri, two dentists involved in stealing bearer bonds worth $13 million from an ex-cop who himself had robbed them from an armored car and killed two guards, and then later, killing said ex-cop when he figures out what happened, and barged in on them for information regarding one of their clients, in a manner very similar to the infamous torture scene in ''Marathon Man''. Terri even lampshades it by saying Monk is going to live through it.

* VillainBall: Even after taking the allegation semi-seriously and investigating Dr. Bloom on Randy's behalf, neither Stottlemeyer nor even Monk finds any reason to suspect him of anything...until Bloom and Teri decide to kidnap Monk near the end, obviously incriminating themselves the moment his friends come looking for him. They justify it as needing to figure out if their buyer is being watched. When Monk tries to tell them what he thinks they want so they'll release him, they try to torture him further.
* WorkingTheSameCase: Randy's account of witnessing Dr. Bloom and Terri kill a man is connected to the armored car robbery. The man was one of the robbers, who visited Dr. Bloom after one of the guards knocked out his tooth and talked about the stolen bearer bonds while under anesthesia.

* StylisticSuck: Most of Randy's music, but especially the hilariously slipshod, badly animated music video he presents to the others at the end.

* BigDamnHeroes: Thanks to Randy realizing that what he heard was 'bearer bonds' instead of 'barry bonds'' under sedation, he, Natalie, and Stottlemyer arrive just in time when the dentist and his hygenist were about to pry out Monk's teeth.

* InterrogatedForNothing: Believing that the buyer for the bearer bonds is being monitored by police, Dr. Bloom and his nurse torture Monk for information. Unfortunately, Monk had no idea about what they were asking, so all they end up doing was incriminate themselves while intensifying Monk's already crippling fear of dentists.

* InterrogatedForNothing: Believing that the buyer for the bearer bonds is being monitored by police, Dr. Bloom and his nurse torture Monk for information. Unfortunately, Monk was completely unaware of their criminal activity, so all they end up doing was incriminate themselves while intensifying Monk's already crippling fear of dentists.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Natalie is frozen in horror when she sees Monk strapped to a dentist's chair and tortured. She goes to him and frees him immediately.

* VillainBall: Even after taking the allegation semi-seriously and investigating Dr. Bloom on Randy's behalf, neither Stottlemeyer nor even Monk finds any reason to suspect him of anything...until Bloom and Teri decide to kidnap Monk near the end, obviously incriminating themselves the moment his friends come looking for him. They justify it as needing to figure out if their buyer is being watched. When Monk tries to tell them what he thinks they want so they'll release him, they try to torture him further.

* DepravedDentist: Dr. Oliver Bloom and his assistant Teri. They're not actually depraved prior to the events of the episode, but when an armored car robbery happens, an ex-cop involved in the robbery named Denny Jardeen is punched in the face while fighting the two guards and comes to Dr. Bloom to get his tooth fixed. While under anesthesia, he divulges the details to them without his knowledge. Dr. Bloom and Teri, rather than calling the police, get greedy and steal the loot from Jardeen's house. When Jardeen finds out, he confronts them while they are operating on Randy for a toothache, and Teri strikes Jardeen multiple times with a giant plastic tooth, then they dispose of the body. Intending to now fence the stolen bonds, they kidnap Monk and torture him with a dental drill, intending to figure out whether the fence they want to sell to is under police surveillance. Not only is the scene similar to Dr. Szell's torture conducted in ''Marathon Man'', but Dr. Bloom and Teri even compare it to that.

* EurekaMoment: Randy realizes that the dentists were talking about bearing bonds and not a man named Barry Bonds when he sees a newspaper article about them being stolen.
* FatalFamilyPhoto: A variant; one of the armored car guards talks about how he and his fiancee are seeing the wedding planner that evening. Both of them die during the holdup.

* PlayingSick: Stottlemeyer implies the reason Randy doesn't want to go to the dentist in spite of a genuine toothache is that he wants to save his sick days on days where he isn't actually sick.

** Stottlemeyer asks for Randy to return to work. He says that he needs his righthand man to help him solve cases.

* CassandraTruth: During the dental procedure for a legitimate toothache, and while being placed in novocaine, he ends up witnessing a brutal confrontation between the dentists and a bald man demanding "Barry Bonds" and saying that "he was worth $13 billion," and tries to report it to his co-workers, only to be laughed at and/or met with disbelief (the fact that he was doped up on novocaine when it was happening did not help matters much), eventually being fed up at not being believed and quitting the force. It later turned out that Randy was actually quite correct in what he saw (barring the "Barry Bonds" thing, as that was actually "bearer bonds" stolen in an armored car heist a few days earlier where two guards were shot and killed, a case Randy and the others were investigating).
* ChekhovsGun: The cops' insurance plan. Monk realizes that Jardeen was a former cop, so he went to Bloom because the man was part of his insurance.

* DepravedDentist: Dr. Oliver Bloom and his assistant Teri. They're not actually depraved prior to the events of the episode, but when an armored car robbery happens, an ex-cop involved in the robbery named Denny Jardeen is punched in the face while fighting the two guards, and comes to Dr. Bloom to get his tooth fixed. While under anesthesia, he divulges the details to them without his knowledge. Dr. Bloom and Teri, rather than calling the police, get greedy and steal the loot from Jardeen's house. When Jardeen finds out, he confronts them while they are operating on Randy for a toothache, and Teri strikes Jardeen multiple times with a giant plastic tooth, then they dispose of the body. Intending to now fence the stolen bonds, they kidnap Monk and torture him with a dental drill, intending to figure out whether the fence they want to sell to is under police surveillance. Not only is the scene similar to Dr. Szell's torture conducted in Marathon Man, but Dr. Bloom and Teri even compare it to that.

* {{Gaslighting}}: The dentist and his assistant trying to convince Randy the murder he witnessed was a hallucination while under anesthesia. Randy's friends also say it, but in their case they sincerely think so; they aren't intentionally trying to gaslight him (and they eventually believe him).

* ProperlyParanoid: Monk has a crippling fear of dentists due to a bad experience, a fear so severe, in fact, that he was completely unwilling to go beyond the waiting room while Disher and Natalie investigate a murder that seemingly happened while Disher was getting his appointment regarding a seeming kidnapping of "Barry Bonds," and later had to be pried off when he was literally frozen in fear in his seat during the wait (presumably from hearing a drill whirring in the background). Turns out he was very much justified in this fear, as he ends up being abducted and then tortured by the same dentists in regards to potential clients for the bearer bonds and whether the police had them monitored (an incident that also resulted in his fear of them being heightened as a result to the extent that he refuses to go to a dentist even after one of his teeth was chipped).

** Monk is tortured by Dr. Oliver Bloom and Teri, two dentists involved in stealing bearer bonds worth $13 million from an ex-cop who himself had robbed them from an armored car and killed two guards, and then later, killing said ex-cop when he figures out what happened, and barged in on them for information regarding one of their clients, in a manner very similar to the infamous torture scene in ''Marathon Man''. Dr. Bloom and Teri even lampshade it by saying Monk is going to live through it.

* VillainBall: Even after taking the allegation semi-seriously and investigating Dr. Bloom on Randy's behalf, neither Stottlemeyer nor even Monk finds any reason to suspect him of anything...until Bloom and Teri decide to kidnap Monk near the end, obviously incriminating themselves the moment his friends come looking for him. They justify it as needing to figure out if their buyer is being watched. When Monk tells them anything to be released, they try to torture him further.

* ShoutOut: Monk is tortured by Dr. Oliver Bloom and Teri, two dentists involved in stealing bearer bonds worth $13 million from an ex-cop who himself had robbed them from an armored car and killed two guards, and then later, killing said ex-cop when he figures out what happened, and barged in on them for information regarding one of their clients, in a manner very similar to the infamous torture scene in ''Marathon Man''. Dr. Bloom and Teri even lampshade it by saying Monk is going to live through it.

* VillainBall: Even after taking the allegation semi-seriously and investigating Dr. Bloom on Randy's behalf, neither Stottlemeyer nor even Monk finds any reason to suspect him of anything... until Bloom and Teri decide to kidnap Monk near the end of the plot, obviously incriminating themselves the moment his friends come looking for him. They justify it as needing to figure out if their buyer is being watched. When Monk tells them anything to be released, they try to torture him further.

* Gas Lighting: The dentist and his assistant trying to convince Randy the murder he witnessed was a hallucination while under anesthesia. Randy's friends also say it, but in their case they sincerely think so; they aren't intentionally trying to gaslight him (and they eventually believe him).

* Gaslighting: The dentist and his assistant trying to convince Randy the murder he witnessed was a hallucination while under anesthesia. Randy's friends also say it, but in their case they sincerely think so; they aren't intentionally trying to gaslight him (and they eventually believe him).

* AnythingButThat: When about to be tortured by the dentist and his assistant, what freaks Monk out the most, and the one thing he begs the dentist not to do, isn't the painful tooth extraction. It's the dentist performing the operation ''without washing his hands beforehand''.

* AnythingButThat: When about to be tortured by the dentist and his assistant, what freaks Monk out the most, and the one thing he begs the dentist not to do, isn't the painful tooth extraction. It's the dentist ''not washing his hands beforehand''.

* AnythingButThat: When about to be tortured by the dentist and his assistant, what freaks Monk out the most, and the one thing he begs the dentist not to do, isn't extracting a tooth without anesthesia. It's ''not washing his hands beforehand''.

* AnythingButThat: When about to be interrogated by the dentist and his assistant, what freaks Monk out the most, and the one thing he begs the dentist not to do, isn't extracting a tooth without anesthesia. It's ''not washing his hands beforehand''.

* PlayingSick: Stottlemeyer implies the reason Randy doesn't want to go to the dentist in spite of a genuine toothache is because he wants to save his sick days on days where he isn't actually sick.

* VillainBall: Even after taking the allegation semi-seriously and investigating Dr. Bloom on Randy's behalf, neither Stottlemeyer nor even Monk find any reason to suspect him of anything... until Bloom and Teri decide to kidnap Monk near the end of the plot, obviously incriminating themselves the moment his friends come looking for him.

* ShoutOut: Monk is tortured by Dr. Oliver Bloom and Teri, two dentists involved in stealing bearer bonds worth $13 million from an ex-cop who himself had robbed them from an armored car and killed two guards, and then later, killing said ex-cop when he figures out what happened, and barged in on them for information regarding one of their clients, in a manner very similar to the infamous torture scene in ''Marathon Man''. Dr. Bloom and Teri even lampshade it by saying Monk is going to live through it.