"you wanna know..where our relationship is going...?"

this one starts with a fight. they fuss at work, until david tells all the employees he's falling in love with maddie. they go on a date. they end up in a laundromat at 2am. and they fuss.
maddie then leaves and catches a plane.

whata ya know...no case on this episode. just david and maddie.

"the blumooners" segments were well written as the conversations had everythnig to do with the episode. that made the segmenst so good.

loved the fight scene david did with himself outside her door. and the ray charles segment was great. these two scenes made the episode a tad better.

rating: 6

I liked this episode but I didn't love it.

I thought Bruce tried a little too hard outside Maddie's door, and the scene made me cringe.

I liked the bedroom scene. I loved the "plastic flowers" scene and the following office scene, of course.

The truth is that I really didn't like the episodes that focused mostly on Bruce. Watching Bruce and Cybill together was just about the best stuff I have ever seen. Bruce seemed to try soooooooo hard in some of the following episodes to carry the load that he overdid it in some of those episodes IMO.

I love the argument at the beginning and continuing in Maddie's office. (David/Bruce looked pretty good coming out of the shower!!) I also loved the laundromat scene. The Honeymooners parody was cute. Unfortunately, much of the rest of the episode seemed like filler to me. And the scene with David in front of Maddie's door did go on way too long.

i liked the opening sequence for its creativity.
when maddie was putting on her lipstick and david was in the shower, her bored reaction to him was the moment (for me) the chemistry was lost between them. it came back about half way later on in the series. it was also the moment i stopped recognizing maddie.

Hey the scene in front of Maddie's door with David was supposed to be uncomfortable and supposed to make us squirm.... it was the moment that we realized to just what lengths David would go for this relationship.

I have always liked this episode.... except Maddie leaving. Love the two self examination scenes...Maddie with Dr. Joyce Brothers, David with Ray Charles. What perfect choices for the two!

I like the laundromat scene...except something about it leaves me unsettled. I think it is I wanted to spend more time with the two of them together than just the argument in the car and that bit in the laundromat.....

I too like the Honeymooners parody and think all 4 cast members did great work in that.

Originally posted by CindyK
Love the two self examination scenes...Maddie with Dr. Joyce Brothers, David with Ray Charles. What perfect choices for the two!

Yes...

I too like the Honeymooners parody and think all 4 cast members did great work in that.

and yes! :D

But really, I loved the Dr. Joyce Brothers/Ray Charles scene...so creative!

I didn't think the scene at Maddie's door was too long, I remember lughing and laughing over and over... and I just couldn't stop. I loved that scene.

The scene at the laundromat was too short for me, I also wanted to see them together a little more. It's just that they're not really together, never. I just wanted to enjoy seeing them together for a little longer :( And the part when Maddie leaves... it's just too painful for me :(

"I love you Maddie"
"I love you David"
"Then let's keep trying...."

*sigh*

all my recent posts were from notes i had taken over a weekend a couple of weeks ago. and this is what i wrote about this episode:


i only watched about half of this one and then called an emergency summit of all of my moonlighting friends. this was a pretty diverse group, it's sunday afternoon and they brought their relatives along too. we decided to have a potluck and moonlighting discussion.

my feelings were that it was just possible that the writers had taken moonlighting in a direction that was not moonlighting and i did not want to go there.
so i asked, and everyone said yes. and people said that they felt i'd be disappointed in the show from this point on.

so for me, moonlighting will end with 'to heiress human' with maddie kissing david in the car.

good news is that i got copies of every episode from pilot to heiress and two of atomic shakespeare (in case the unthinkable happens and the tape breaks.)

i don't know the story lines these people were talking about but here are
some thoughts from the moonlighting crowd here (43 people)

hated the soap opera type story line.
hated the 'dead baby'
hated 'walter'
really hated 'annie'
hated how maddies character was completely screwed over (really?)

86 year old woman told me during it's original run when her husband was alive, he had to go to bed early after whatever it was maddie said to david after she came back from chicago.

8 year old boy told me that he is a fan of the honeymooners and that there had been only 39 episodes of the honeymooners and that i had decided to stop watching moonlighting after 39 episodes. he said jackie gleason of the honeymooners said most great shows can only do 39 episodes, out of which only around 30 are really good. (8 year old boy who had seen every single episode of moonlighting told me i was a smart lady to quit now)

they really hated the way moonlighting had become a parady of itself.

whew!

well, this is where i sign off. it's been a real pleasure for me to post here and i have my christmas episodes and my shakespeare episode, and other episodes to suit any mood. thank you all. it's been fun.

Marla

I understand what you are saying, but I have to say if you stop now and never see another episode you will be missing some real treats...just to tantalize you a bit.... The finest performance Bruce Willis gives in all of Moonlighting occurs in a fourth season episode coming up named Father knows Last. And then late in the fourth season there is a very very hilarious totally screwball romance type episode named Maddie Hayes Got Married. There are also some very fine scenes scattered throughout the fourth season, particularly if you are a fan of David Addison. The fourth season is really his season.

And even in the final season there are some jewel scenes scattered around.

I really think you will be selling yourself short if you bail completely now. Trust me....among the ruins there are indeed some very fine moments.

don't tell me you're leaving us.....yeah, it's been fun but don't leave the party. stay here with us.

Marla, I am going to miss your comments. Please don't leave us. I agree that Moonlighting changes after A Trip To The Moon, but if you leave now, you are going to miss some fantastic scenes from season 4 and season 5. You just have to wade through the episodes to find them.

To borrow from Maddie, "I think this series is taking a turn..." It definitely changed after this one, but I agree that there were still some gems to come, particularly late in the 4th season (and even a couple in the 5th). Despite the unfortunate storyline with Walter Bishop, I still think they ended the 4th season strong.

I videoed this epi last week on abc1 and for some inexplicable reason, there's no sound on it. Grr. I think there's something wrong with the video I used, as I've videoed lots of epi's recently with no problem. Strangely enough, you can get a real sense of what's happening without sound... It's still really sad in the laundromat. Oddly, the sound came back again at the end, when Maddie was going to the airport.

I'm not bothered about videoing the next few epi's, I think I'll wait till Father knows last to start again, as I hate the first few eps of Season 4 the first time around. Really painful...and I hated not seeing Dave and Maddie in the same room... :(

Mul

I forgot to switch the TV on and missed the first 15 minutes :doh: and its seems from these posts that I missed some good parts. Love the laundromat though

I'm posting up a storm on here! Anyway, I don't remember seeing this episode in the eighties but when I did finally see it last year, I hated it; thought it was depressing and dismal. Didn't David say he was happier than he's ever been in his whole life in "Trip" or was that in "Heiress?" Anyway, Maddie actually says in response that that she felt empty inside. Empty inside. Does anyone understand what she means? I could see if she said overwhelmed and wanted to put on the breaks for a bit while she 'thought about it all' but emptiness? That's a very passionless cold word and this is the second instance in the episode where I thought something was very wrong with the direction this previously dynamic relationship was taking. Maddie seems clinically depressed about being with this man and I'm thinking - so after three years of 'is you is or is you ain't,' this is the payoff? Sure, they were physically intimate but despite the big broo-ha-ha the media made over it, that wasn't all I wanted to see or the end of the story. Where was the affectionate togetherness minus all forms of angst after doing the do? We got about 40 seconds of that in "Heiress" and never again. I'm not saying they shouldn't spar, but "I feel empty inside!" is not sparring. It's...well, empty.

I was beginning to worry. The first alarm bells actually went off during the bedroom scene when Maddie seems disgusted when David is happily singing in the shower - as if right then in the middle of applying her lipstick she's wondering why she ever bothered with this obviously unsuitable guy. The expression on her face was not nice and I didn't like her at that moment. Little did I know that the writer(s) had only just begun to ruin David and Maddie.

David's playacting at the door went on way too long for me and seemed like total filler that could have been used for more interaction between D/M. Like, why??

As much as I like Ray Charles, the two vision sequences were again fillers eating up D/M emoting time. Eh.

However, I did like David in a towel, David in a sweater, their fight at the office, David saying "Life's a b**ch" after Maddie runs out of the car, and the date at the laundromat.