Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-121.54.32.138-20150104085930/@comment-25862208-20180821233959

Just following up on my last post and replying to the one above; I wish after the episode aired, I had asked the writers about how Rosalee's name appeared on her ultrasound, but despite that episode and appearance of her name (it's notable, however, there's no hyphen between Calvert and Monroe), the name Monroe has appeared in Grimm scripts as his first name and was confirmed early on by Silas Weir Mitchell himself to be his character's name (link for reference here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120707232423/http://blogcritics.org/video/article/grimms-silas-weir-mitchell-speaks/). The mystery of his last name became a bit of a running gag on the show, and I have a feeling the writers definitely teased the fans with it every so often... great example -- during Rosalee and Monroe's wedding ceremony, right as Judge Mason is about to reveal his last name ("I now present Mr. and Mrs...."), Trubel interrupts the wedding! There were other moments throughout the show where the camerawork cleverly obscured Monroe's last name on official documents as well. It's certainly not a coincidence that Monroe's parents, Alice and Bart, never had their last name revealed either, nor anyone on the paternal side of Monroe's family. (Even the NBCGrimm twitter account made reference to Monroe's unknown last name once: https://twitter.com/nbcgrimm/status/567379071592448000?lang=en) Come to think of Alice and Bart, it would be highly unusual for them to refer to their son by his last name. Think of Monroe as just a one-name moniker... like "Cher" or "Beyoncé" lol. I wish I could offer theories about Monroe's last name, but after reflecting on it, I like that it became kind of an inside joke.