This episode marks the final television appearance of Stanley Kamel before his death on April 8, 2008.
The second of two times Adrian Monk tries his hand at art. He did so previously in Mr. Monk Goes to the Asylum (2002).
Monk picks up an LP record in the junkyard, asking: "It's 12 inches, right?" He uses it to measure the pole on with Bennie died. The record is "The Sound of Magnificent Mandolins" by Dick Dia and His Orchestra, produced and released by Audio Fidelity Records in NY, 1957.