I respectfully disagree. It wasn't until I read the typeclassopedia and the article on the Haskell category (that goes into the Monad laws, the Functor laws, &c...) extensively did I really start to understand Monads.

At first, reading all of these "tuts" or "analogies" I always thought, "Oh! It's just like an object in Python!" but boy was I wrong - no one told me I was wrong, I just figured it out after reading the more formal presentations of what a Monad is.

It was also mind opening to understand the basics of Category Theory and learn that every Monad is a Functor.