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The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
Cheesy But Fun
It is a cheesy Fran Drescher vehicle that is essentially The Nanny set in Europe, but it doesn't matter because it's fun and cute and one of the few romantic comedies I can rewatch over and over. Some people like Hallmark movies. I like this. It probably helps that I first saw it as a kid. And it wouldn't work if someone tried this movie today. But it was the late 90s. It is funny and colorful and sweet. Drescher's comedy can be a bit cliche, but she still obviously has real comedic talent. I can't stand watching today's romantic comedies, but stuff like this is just classic and fun to watch. And scenes like the chicken being fed chicken are great.
Monk: Mr. Monk Goes Home Again (2005)
Requires more suspension of disbelief than I prefer
It's an entertaining episode, and I'm willing to suspend my disbelief a fair amount for this show. Usually. There are a lot of weird coincidences. But this one is a bit much. The pigeon Monk sees in the store parking lot just so happens to land in the neighborhood he's trick or treating in? In the front yard of a house he passes by? I know the poison was quick acting, and maybe the store is close, but that was a weird stretch. The bird could have flown in any direction. The other is when they think Ambrose is dying and he's in an ambulance but the EMT is literally just sitting off to the side staring into space making no effort to help his patient. I know there isn't supposed to be a cure for the poison, but wouldn't he at least pretend to be helping him? Otherwise why bother going to the hospital in the first place?
Oh, and to address another person's review where they note a supposed mistake: they seemed to think the police were interviewing the cashier about how she was at the check out with the killer, which would have been wrong because he was rung up by someone else. But the police were asking about the guy who got killed. You can tell based on her description of what happened in the parking lot. Not a mistake. Just the reviewer misinterpreting who they were taking about.