EXTRA! EXTRA!

FROM THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (8/26/04):

(by David Bianculli)

"When the Olympics are over Monday, NBC's fall season will start - and so will a new wave of Extras from new first-run shows.

Extras, of course, are jokes producers bury within shows that are caught by eagle-eyed Daily News readers.

Meanwhile, to empty the current mailbag, here are some of the best Extras that have trickled in the last few months, since last season ended.

::SNIPT!::

Also from "Monk," Manhattan's Toby O'Brien - perhaps the all-time Extras champ - took the entire hour to catch what he thought was one long Extra joke.

For the episode called "Mr. Monk and the Employee of the Month," the setting was a store called Mega-Mart.

"With the vests emblazoned with 'May I help you?' and the fact that they sold guns and ammo, the store was a thinly disguised version of Wal-Mart," O'Brien writes.

"So I found it funny that, as the episode ended, the announcer said, '"Monk" has been brought to you by Wal-Mart.' I'm not so sure Wal-Mart knew they were sponsoring that particular episode, or if they were amused by the connection, but I sure found it funny!"

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Yep! That's me, folks!

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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/225712p-193867c.html