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[[File:srm_4278.jpg|frame|Chaotic, neurotic, peculiar and amazing.]]


[[Monk|Tony Shalhoub]] is Ian Stark, a fun-loving horror writer with a penchant for practical jokes. Henry McNeeley, played by [[Neil Patrick Harris]], is obsessive compulsive, afraid of everything, insistent on working when there is work to be done, and Ian's new editor. Their [[Incredibly Lame Pun|starkly]] different approaches to work and life clash as they work together, which apparently involves a lot more hanging out than actual writing or editing.

They are joined in their hijinks by Ian's typist, Jake Donovan, who's not too bright after years of recreational marijuana use; Maddie Keller, a bartender and college student who [[Hollywood Homely|somehow has difficulty attracting men]]; and Henry's girlfriend, Tess Farraday, who is every bit who you would expect to be with an obsessive compulsive, phobia-ridden, super-serious book editor.

The show, an NBC [[Sitcom]], ran for a single season, 1999-2000. Despite being both clever and funny, it suffered from clashing styles with [[Frasier]], which followed it in the next time slot, leading to its time-slot bouncing and subsequent cancellation.

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* [[Death of the Author]]: [[Played With]] in ''The Grade''. The professor in question insists Ian doesn't understand Ian's own books, though he doesn't know it is Ian at the time.
* [[Epunymous Title]]: Ian Stark is '''Stark Raving Mad'''
* [[Hypno Fool]]: Ian and Henry hypnotized Jake and Tess to respectively believe they were Romeo and Juliet. Turn your back on two people believing they're hell-bent literary lovers that died in Shakespeare's play, and look what happens.
* [[I Was Young and Needed the Money]]: Ian once starred in a {{spoiler|cheesy musical.}} He is so [[Old Shame|ashamed of it]], that he is willing to let people believe he was in a mental institution during that time.
* [[Unwanted Gift Plot]]: Jake receives a heavy bead necklace from his then girlfriend, which he must wear for the rest of the episode because he "loves" it so much.

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