"boink, boink, boink, boink, boink......"

an allnight radio dj fakes his own murder so he can keep his affair with the station owner's wife going. he lives. the owner dies, at the hands of the station manager, who wants the wife for himself.
this is the kind of investigation that ONLY could go to bluemoon. maddie didn't want the case because there were no payng customers. dave wanted it because he felt it would be great publicity for the agency. they ended up with three paying customers, one of which was the killer. so they only got paid by two and front page publicity.
dave is never wrong. well, except he thought the dj, paul mccain was the killer. maddie thought it was the wife. nobody thought it was the station manager. he told on himself.

rated: 6

I remember this one! :cheer: Go me!

Question: Did Maddie take an "interest" in the DJ? I think I remember that being brought up. Anyway...

David: "You stick the stick pin in, you pull the stick pin out, you stick the stick pin in, and you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself about. That's what it's all about!"

:lol: Love that line! :biglove:

I don't recall enough to give it a rating, but I did like it a lot. (Then again...what episode do I not like a lot?)

~Lauren

:sheep

maybe.
maddie did not want this case. but she took some of his tapes and listened to them driving and at her house. and by listening to what he said, she could tell the kind of person he was. dave accussed her many times of getting the hots for a "dead guy".
then when mccain caught her spying on him, they talked all night and she got to really know him. in person, instead of from the tapes.

wait til the next one. see if you remember it.

Originally posted by bry
dave accussed her many times of getting the hots for a "dead guy".
then when mccain caught her spying on him, they talked all night and she got to really know him. in person, instead of from the tapes.

Getting the hots for a dead guy? How could I forget that? :D I liked this one a lot!

~Lauren

:sheep

One of my favorite episodes. Is it just me or does that cheeseburger that cook is frying at the beginning look really really good? LOL At least it does until part of the ashes from his cigar falls on it.

gee, i finally get some time off and now i can't sleep. so maybe i'll do a moonlighting marathon and post away.

this episode can only be described as bliss for me.

i loved the story the all night dj told about the girl with the 7 beating hearts.
the editing in this episode is seamless. simply flawless.
the movement in the acting in this episode was like watching a dance. amazing.
the back and forth discussing between david and maddie is just fun. 'did too, did not, did too, did not.'
i learned that maddie is moral and one of those essed words. and she only wants clients with morals. in a detective agency!

in a way this episode feels like a set up.
i learned maddies type is blond, soft spoken, well mannered and as david said 'deep, grand canyon', in other words everything david is not.
i was really surprised that david called her every 15 minutes and was concerned that she was in love with the dead dj and was hurt and insecure about it. from the 'wrong way' sign in the opening credits, i think that david might be in emotional danger.
i think that david has his work cut out for him and it's just dawning on him, because even though maddie only feels 'stiff and tense' around david, she not remotely close to thinking of him romantically.
don't they look great driving in a car together at night?

I liked this episode. I though Cybill did a good job. This episode showed David's jealousy - he had already fallen for her, folks.

Was it my imagaination, or did the voiceover in the beginning sound like Bruce disguising his voice? You remember -- when he talks about a girl who is "like milk".

Wow! I never noticed that. Now I have to go back and listen to it again!!

I will check it out too!!

I enjoyed this episode :) Good insight into both David and Maddie, made me like both of them even more :) but I don't think that it has any really sparkly, fantastic bits.

Looking forward to tomorrow and the next installment :D

This episode was one of the best television shows I've ever seen.

It was an awful lot like reading a really good book, where you see yourself as the character. I got so caught up in this episode that I felt like I 'was Maddie" on her adventure.

An how is it possible to not like a television show that starts out with a radio host in a deserted building in the middle of the night telling a story to his listeners on the Heartbreak Hotline. I actually got caught up in his story. And while he's telling the story, you see all sorts of night people going about their business listening to their radios, and then there's a shot, and the radio just has this errrrrr sound.

And then it goes into comedy with David and Maddie going back and forth--as David said "this case has everything, sex, violence and hit tunes" and Maddie "who's the client?"

And then Maddie starts to fall in love with a dead man (who was the type who would be very easy to fall in love with).

And then it went into a real whodunit.I did not know and was curious to find out.

And we got to see Maddie and David arguing about 'boinking'.

Really very good tv.

I love the 'boinking' conversation when Maddie throws David out of the car and her screaming 'get out of my car'!!!

Love Gem

Yes, this was a great episode and I just watched it again.

I loved the end too, with the backdoor and the scene at the radio station.

Laura, Paul, Laura, Paul

You first, no you first

hahaha, it's like you are watching two little children haha :D

I liked Maddie's interaction with Paul. They seemed very natural together. Chalk it up to more chemistry between Cybill and a male actor.
AND I still think that BW did the voiceover in the beginning with his voice disguised.


"I said bite, not eat!" :D
"From the bottom, all you men look alike." :eek:

I love this episode... It's classic ML - David getting jealous over a 'dead' man, Maddie feeling hemmed in and wanting to fly to another country and hide under the bed...

And I love how whenever they're on a case at this point, they hold hands all the time...great stuff..

Mul

And I love how whenever they're on a case at this point, they hold hands all the time...great stuff..


I love that too. It shows their closeness and their protectiveness of each other :D

Oh and did you see the hug they shared at the end? I LOOOOVED that hug :biglove:

I'm so gonna go and watch this episode again now!!

Love Gem

This episode consistently gets high marks from fans and even casual viewers. Many, many people that write into my fansite mention this episode as a favorite.

What is so great here is the mix between humor, suspense, drama and emotion. It has a totally romantic vibe to it concerning the case as well as the developing personal relationship between our two fav. detectives.

David is just so adorably jeolous in this that you can't help but feel for him. And Maddie seems so lonely that you are sympathetic to her character as well.

Yeah, it's just a great all round classic. It has everything that we love about Moonlighting without getting too serious.

Love Gem

Great Ep! I remember me LOL with this one... And I liked the whole case story...

A must see, no doubt!

from laura:

This episode was really interesting to me. It was very good just as a show, but what was interesting was what it revealed about Maddie and David.

I don't think that Maddie realized that she was lonely, until she started to fall in love with the dead Paul McCain. And it was really believable to see Maddie falling for him, because loving a guy like that would be fall off the log easy.

I don't think that David is ready to have a personal relationship with Maddie, but he doesn't want to lose her.

I think that David expresses himself threw music. If you want to know what he's thinking, listen to what he's singing. And when he was drunk in the bar he was singing Respect.
'What you want-baby I got it-
What you need-you know I got it.'
It's like he was readying himself to leap before he looked. He said he felt insecure and I think what Really bothered him was that here he is with a heartbeat, and Maddie falls for a dead guy, not David.

He went straight to her office from his drunk, and offered to take care of any 'urges, passions or desires' she had. As weird as that was, I think it took a lot of courage for him to do.
He later took the sober road, and asked her out to dinner.

This is very edgy, because, Maddie sort of goes her own way. David really can't pin her down.

Love the boinking song to Powerhouse B.

One of my favourite episodes this... I can really identify with the way Maddie is feeling here - she's restless, and she really identifies with Paul McCain and what he's saying "ever felt like going to another country and hiding under a bed?"..

I agree with Marla, David isn't ready to do anything about his feelings for Maddie, I don't think he's even admitting how he feels at this point. He only admits to anything when he's drunk.

We get a clue of how David feels about how he shouldn't have to say how he feels, when he can show someone. This comes out in 'I am curious..Maddie' -when he tells Maddie "I don't have to say anything, you know it and I know it, you feel it and I feel it".

Mul

Did anybody else notice that Maddie's comment about going to a foreign country and hiding under a bed comes up again in the 4th season in "A Trip to the Moon"? I think she says something like that in the laundromat scene and again to the ticket agent at the airport. Is this laziness on the writers' part or were they just reaching back to how Maddie reacted in the past when she felt stressed?

I think that was deliberate and used intentionally to remind us of an earlier situation where she felt like she wanted to get away from it all. I'm sure the writers realised at the time that there were some big fans out there who would pick up on it.

Love Gem

Wow, i didnt' notice that one!! Possibly becuase the only copy of Trip to the Moon I have, has no sound on it. It's amazing how much you can pick up from the hurt puppy look on David's face though!

I'd say that this is the way Maddie behaves when he's feeling stressed and out of control. She doesn't cope well with not being in charge of everything in her life and 'ole Daveroonie' makes her feel out of control...

:wave:
Mul