grady@ingres.ARPA (Steven Grady) (11/27/85)
Mere seconds ago I just saw something rather amazing on Moonlighting: Maddy is being interrogated by a cop. David bursts into the room and says "My client does not have to answer any more of your questions!" The cop says "You can't just burst in here!" David responds, "Tell that to the writers." You don't hear meta-comments in TV shows much these days.. Steven
brunner@sdsioa.UUCP (Rob Brunner X2830) (11/27/85)
> Maddy is being interrogated by a cop. David bursts into the > room and says "My client does not have to answer any more of your > questions!" The cop says "You can't just burst in here!" David > responds, "Tell that to the writers." > You don't hear meta-comments in TV shows much these days.. > > Steven In addition to that one, there were two other rather subtle allusions... 1) Near the beginnning of the show, I forget the exact dialogue but it was somewhere around the time when Maddie was telling Dave to get his hands off her behind, Dave mentions something about having to keep it clean or they'll have to go to cable. 2) After Maddie has been called to the police station (the first time) and she's on her way out the door, Dave is pestering her with several off the wall comments. She ignores him, as usual, and he says some- thing like "Give me a break, I'm running out of material." I don't recall the specifics of either of these, but someone with a VCR can easily check me on them. All in all, a very amusing line of humor. "Women can't live with 'em... Can't shoot 'em" Rob Brunner ..!sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdsioa
ables@mcc-db2.UUCP (King Ables) (11/28/85)
> Mere seconds ago I just saw something rather amazing on Moonlighting: > > Maddy is being interrogated by a cop. David bursts into the > room and says "My client does not have to answer any more of your > questions!" The cop says "You can't just burst in here!" David > responds, "Tell that to the writers." > You don't hear meta-comments in TV shows much these days.. > > Steven I didn't catch that one, but I remember the scene. I DID notice another one at the beginning of that same episode. David is getting a little affectionate with Maddie and has his hand on her "behind." She tells him to take his hand off her behind. They banter a little about the situation (he wants, she won't give). At one point she says something like "can you be more specific" and he says something like "if I get any more specific, they'll move us to cable." I almost fell out of my chair. I expected him to turn to the camera and wink. I've only become fan of Moonlighting in the last few weeks... makes me wish I'd been watching it before. -King ARPA: ables@mcc UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!mcc-db2!ables
waynet@tolerant.UUCP (Wayne Thompson) (11/28/85)
> > Mere seconds ago I just saw something rather amazing on Moonlighting: > > > > Maddy is being interrogated by a cop. David bursts into the > > room and says "My client does not have to answer any more of your > > questions!" The cop says "You can't just burst in here!" David > > responds, "Tell that to the writers." > > You don't hear meta-comments in TV shows much these days.. > > > > Steven > > I didn't catch that one, but I remember the scene. I DID notice another > one at the beginning of that same episode. David is getting a little > affectionate with Maddie and has his hand on her "behind." She tells > him to take his hand off her behind. They banter a little about the > situation (he wants, she won't give). At one point she says something > like "can you be more specific" and he says something like "if I get > any more specific, they'll move us to cable." I almost fell out of > my chair. I expected him to turn to the camera and wink. I've only > become fan of Moonlighting in the last few weeks... makes me wish I'd > been watching it before. > > -King > ARPA: ables@mcc > UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!mcc-db2!ables Hear, hear. This show is much under watched and deserves more attention. The above lines, although not typical, are NOT unusual. I hope the show lasts until -I- get tired of it. -- Wayne Thompson ..{bene,mordor,nsc,oliveb,pyramid,ucbvax}!tolerant!waynet source .disclaimer
wilson_3@h-sc1.UUCP (bradford wilson) (12/02/85)
> Hear, hear. This show is much under watched and deserves more attention. > The above lines, although not typical, are NOT unusual. I hope the show > lasts until -I- get tired of it. > > -- > Wayne Thompson > ..{bene,mordor,nsc,oliveb,pyramid,ucbvax}!tolerant!waynet > So now you're all discovering Moonlighting, huh? At last! Yes, the show contains some of the most original humor and meta-comments that have made it on network TV in years! One of my personal favorites come from an episode last year in which Dave and Maddie are on a train with a bunch of mystery writers (sort of one of those "there's been a fake murder and the game is to solve it only now there's REALLY been a murder and what are we going to do? type ot plot). In the climactic scene in which Dave reveals the murderer's identity, he is holding this letter-opener, which he throws down for effect into a table: CLOSEUP of LetterOpener, quivering. Dave: I bet you're wondering how I did that? Maddie: I'm wondering WHY you did that! ...Or maybe you had to be there. The Wombat .:. -------------------------- "I used to cut my peas in half; I wanted to hear them scream." -- Dave
barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (12/02/85)
I missed this week's Moonlighting (driving home for Thanksgiving), but
there were some good meta-lines in the black-and-white episode. I don't
remember any exact lines, but there was some line in which a common
cliche was modified or augmented to make reference to the lack of color.
Does anyone remember this tidbit?
--
Barry Margolin
ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmarmsf@rayssd.UUCP (Michael S. Frank) (12/02/85)
> Mere seconds ago I just saw something rather amazing on Moonlighting: > > Maddy is being interrogated by a cop. David bursts into the > room and says "My client does not have to answer any more of your > questions!" The cop says "You can't just burst in here!" David > responds, "Tell that to the writers." > You don't hear meta-comments in TV shows much these days.. > Right in the beginning of the episode, after Maddy is celebrating about her profit, the two of them are in a clinch, and David has his hand on her rear end. She breaks off, and says something like "Get serious!" to which David replies "If I got any more serious, we'd be on cable!" I thought those two lines were tremendous! -- ----------------------------- |\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ |\----------------------------- |\| Michael Frank | \| allegra!rayssd!msf | -----------------------------
steven@ism70.UUCP (12/02/85)
After Maddie tells David to take his hand off her behind: MADDIE Get your hand off my behind. DAVE Is that my hand? Is that your behind?? MADDIE Get serious. DAVE Hey, if I get any more serious, they'll have to move us to cable. Also, in the episode "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice," in Dave's dream sequence he says something like: DAVE I got to know her better. A lot better. But this is TV, so we won't go into that.
stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH) (12/02/85)
> > "Tell that to the writers." > > > Dave mentions something about having to keep it > clean or they'll have to go to cable. > > "Give me a break, I'm running out of material." > Believe Dave ad-libbed these lines and the powers that be decided they were too good to be cut, so left them in. Somehow they made the show more believable. -- whuxl!stu16 (mamawitch)