I got this email the other day:
Hi Lee I am contacting you in the hope that you could pass on a story idea to the producers of Monk. My idea for a monk episode would be to have Mr. Monk meet Near from the comic book Death Note. Here is his charecter information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Death_Note_characters#Near.2FNate_River
Monk just wouldn’t fit in with the Deathnote crowd. He’s too old, he doesn’t have bangs hanging in his eyes, and a plate of sushi would send him screaming from the restaurant.
Now the kids are just fucking with you.
No, no, I know! I think Monk should meet Superman. In Texas. At a dude ranch.
Or Little Lulu. Yeah. Little Lulu. Mr. Monk should meet Little Lulu. That’d be cool.
Monk drawn in anime’? Sounds like a job for a creative kid and YouTube.
No, no, Monk should be a character in the next Spider-Man movie? He should be this super-smart dude? Who, like, helps explain things to Tobey Maguire? So he, like, understands them?
But he should be played by Ashton Kutcher.
Who is this Monk of which you speak?
Monk should go to the mirror universe to fight Bizzaro-Monk.
VG