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Monk Murphy is the deaf son of Bleeding Gums Murphy.

When Lisa found out that Bleeding Gums had a son she didn't know about, she tracked him down and introduced herself to him. When Lisa tried to play him the song that his father had written for him, "Monk's New Tune", Monk told Lisa that he couldn't enjoy the song as he was deaf. Monk then explained to Lisa that he was born deaf and the cochlear implants were too expensive for his father to afford for him. Therefore, Monk learned to lip read and use sign language to communicate with other people.

When Lisa told Monk about the Springfield Lottery using Bleeding Gums' song in an advert, Monk got annoyed as his father hated gambling. Lisa then told Monk that they would get royalties from the song being used by going to the publisher and demanding justice. Lisa then took Monk to The Jazz Hole where some of the musicians who performed there recognized Monk. Etta Pryor told Monk that she had written songs about him when he was a baby. Monk then discovered the album Broken Elevator Blues on the wall of the club and found that the publisher was Treasured Artists Publishing...