"All Creatures, Great and...Not So Great"

[bry]

"i do some of my best work when my eyes are closed"

a priest hires dave and maddie to find the woman he fell in love with during confessional. in the end, we find out that she was using him to create a story of a woman that committed suicide. when all along, she was in cahoots with a man that killed his wife for an insurance scam.
dave and maddie have another great argument over religion. it and the fact that she confessed to dave that her psychiatrist fell asleep on her. then she accidentally went to confession and the preist fell asleep on her. then dave did as she talked.

after a lot of tension between herbert and agnes, she finds a rose on her desk.

jessica harper guest starred here. she was in the '70's movie "the phantom of the paradise", of which, i am probably the only fan that movie ever had.

rating: 6

[Tazmania]

I like this episode because David get 's really upset with Maddie in the church (" You think you see it all and know it all, but you don't !" ) and she is really upset because of that!
You don't see it get so serious very often.
I really feel sorry for Maddie when everybody falls asleep when she tries to tell what's on her mind.
Nice episode.

greetz Taz

[CindyK]

The opening confrontation between Maddie and David over him ogling the secretray across the way is my favorite scene in this episode. David is hilarious....and fakes contrition....Maddie leaves feeling she has won...and then when she comes back in to his office she catches him again with the binoculars.

And even funnier when she has him phone the woman to apologize and then the woman comes on to him much to Maddie's distress. "Tramp!" Maddie yells at the woman and slams down the phone.

Maddie is always hilarious to me when she goes nuts about David and other women. She really gets wildy jealous but then always has an excuse for why she is upset to keep from admitting to David how she feels.

[david&maddie4ever]

Originally posted by bry
it and the fact that she confessed to dave that her psychiatrist fell asleep on her. then she accidentally went to confession and the preist fell asleep on her. then dave did as she talked.

OMG, that's great.

[marla]

i'm still watching this with my group date.

i love priest confessonial mysteries. there's something so...secret about them.

maddie does therapy.
david does confessional.

again, i agree with both maddie and david. whatever works.

the telescope scene was really funny. something the men pointed out to me was that when david answered the woman on the phone-'yeah, i'm single'-he paused for a split second and first looked at maddie. of course maddie reacted, because of course he's not single-he's waiting for maddie to let him know he's not single.

david finds the priest case repugnant. and this told me how very traditional david is.

this is just my opinion, i mean no one else agreed with me, but when david was pretty intense with his objection it was because the woman the priest was in love with was married. i'm just convinced david has been married before, and has felt betrayed in that marriage. and also the way david yelled at maddie in the church. he already knew how she felt about religon. he was far too angry for that. this is so personal for him. this is how it felt to me.

loved the part where david kept falling on maddie the wrong way and he said that they were going to have to get one of those 'illustrated manuals'.

in a way this was my favorite episode so far. there's something about an episode with a priest/confessional mystery-with rain at night- and two people telling each other that they are closest to each other.

[CyBr]

This episode is a perfect illustration of what I love about Moonlighting. The opening scene is hysterical. I also love how unnerved Maddie gets about David and other women. Then it turns serious and becomes a continuation of "In God We Strongly Suspect" where we learned that Maddie is an athiest. We see that with all David's flirting and innuendo, he is very traditional in his belief system. I loved the scene in the car where Maddie reveals that she has seen a psychiatrist and David reaction into the camera! The scene in the church where David tells her off is very powerful. Then Maddie's confession shows that David has some influence over her after all and that she is struggling with her feelings for him. By the end, we know that neither really has any one closer to them in their lives. All in all, a very well written episode that showed why Moonlighting was known as a 'dramedy'.

[SweetCakes]

I love it when Maddie gets jealous of David and other women but won't admit it. Brilliant

I did like this episode. I didn't find it funny the way that everyone Maddie tried to confess to fell alseep, though. I just thought that it was trying to be funny. That bit didn't quite do it for me.

Oh, one thing, you know at the end, just after Agnes leaves Maddie's office, David and Maddie turn to each other and say something like,
"What'd we do that for?"
I don't really understand what they mean. What would they do what for? Anyone care to enlighten me?

[Tazmania]

Agnes wanted to leave but David and Maddie toldl Agnes how great she is and how much they need her at the office.
After she decided to stay MAddie and David ask eachother what they did that for..
In other words : We could have made her leave and now she's staying because of us.
(but I believe they really do need her...)

[Dutchie]

yup me too without Agnes we had to wait an even longer time before Maddie and David FINALLY got together

[kismet]

I loved Agnes.

[Tamm]

and I loved this episode