Two years before he was cast as Dwight Schrute in the American remake of The Office, Rainn Wilson starred in an episode of Monk that had one of the shows most bizarre cases. Monk was a very clever whodunit for the most part, and while it had a lot of tropes, it always tried to come up with fun and creative cases for its titular character to solve. Adrian Monk was described as the greatest detective of his time, meaning that the show always had to give him equally complex cases.

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