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Monk was an U.S. comedy-drama detective mystery television series
created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the titular character,
Adrian Monk; it is set in San Francisco, California, U.S. It originally ran
from 2002 to 2009 and is primarily a mystery series, although it has dark and
comic touches.
António Martins, 22 Oct 2011, quoting from
the English
Wikipedia
I’m watching the last season of Monk now; the episode
“Mr. Monk Falls in Love” concerns a fictional Eastern European
country called Zemenia. The flag is clearly based on
Croatia’s, but in its arms the
checkers are blue and white,
the “zoo” is green and blue,
and the stripes are green-white-blue. Below the shield is a scroll with a date.
(And to make things more odd, the family crest of one Zemenian includes the
Ukrainian arms.)
Nathan Lamm, 11 Aug 2009
Since the tricolour and coat of arms are such clear
plagiarism of the Croatian national flag (probably a
vector drawing for the printing of the Croatian flag was simply recoloured).
Well, I believe it is a shame on the series producer to have hired such an
uninventive crew that can not even design a mock up country flag properly!
Željko Heimer, 11 Aug 2009
The (fictional) district of San Francisco called “Little Zemenia”
seemed to have a gate with the coat of arms of the country (as on the flag)
mounted on it.
Nathan Lamm, 11 Aug 2009
The year in the arms is 1522. See the bottom of the page
here
or the photo from the Monk series directly
here.
Željko Heimer, 11 Aug 2009
I was wandering weather the scroll and corn ears are
also taken readily from some easily obtainable vector
graphic coat of arms — vaguely similar to the wreath from the
Socialist Yugoslavia coat of arms, I guess it
would have been too much work for the “designer” to
change it just so much…
Željko Heimer, 11 Aug 2009
I believe that this would be punishable by law in Croatia, and I believe
that such an obvious disfiguration of the Croatian national symbols, Croatian
embassy in US should have at least protested! Even though US have very liberal
laws regarding what you can do with a flag of your choice, I believe that the
international diplomatic conventions, in theory at least, provide protection
over such desecration of foreign national flags. Not that I think anyone would
do much about it…
Željko Heimer, 11 Aug 2009
This YouTube
posting reports this episode «causing some controversy amongst
Croatian viewers», as predicted by Željko.
António Martins, 22 Oct 2011
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