A TRIP TO THE MOON
Maddie and David have been together for a month, and she is wondering where their relationship is going. David tries to resolve the situation by taking her out on a proper date. They get a late start on the evening and end up at a laundromat, where they discuss their relationship, dance to the Muzak, and express their love for each other, but she still doesn’t know what she wants. Maddie leaves David in the laundromat saying she needs to be alone and think. She goes home, and the next thing you know, she’s on a plane, flying off into the sunset.
There are three fantasy sequences in this episode. Maddie receives relationship advice from Dr. Joyce Brothers. David gets relationship advice from none other than Ray Charles while he sings and plays the piano in David’s living room. And the third is an homage to The Honeymooners filmed in black and white, in which Cybill, Bruce, Allyce, and Charles Rocket play the leads from the classic Jackie Gleason 1950’s series.
GUEST STARS: Charles Rocket, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Ray Charles & The Raelettes, Harold J. Surratt & Stephanie Shroyer
COME BACK LITTLE SHIKSA
David is feeling good about the night before in the laundromat and even tells Agnes that he finally has Maddie “in a relationship.” He is unaware that Maddie has left Los Angeles and is now at her parents’ home in Chicago.
Donald Chase arrives and wants to hire Blue Moon to locate a woman whom he met at a charity event. He doesn’t know her name; he only has one of her valuable earrings and reports that she has a beauty mark on her face.
Maddie’s parents are immediately suspicious given that she has turned up unannounced at their home and is not being forthcoming about the duration of her stay.
David and Bert begin to investigate the Chase case and track down the woman he’s looking for in a department store. Melissa reveals to them that she is on the run from her very dangerous husband and believes that David and Bert are out to kill her.
Because Maddie has disappeared and the case reflects his dilemma, David becomes enraged and smashes Maddie’s BMW in the underground garage. This episode includes another fantasy sequence, in which Maddie and David are depicted in Claymation.
GUEST STARS: ROBERT WEBBER, EVA MARIE SAINT, JOHN GOODMAN, KAY LENZ & FRANCES E. NEALY
TAKE A LEFT AT THE ALTAR
David is saddened that he hasn’t heard from Maddie, as it has been a week since she left. Maddie’s parents are worried about her, believing she is hiding something due to her mysterious behavior.
In the meantime, Blue Moon is hired by a man to find a groom who went missing on his wedding day. The man is the bride’s brother and wants David to find him and for the groom to go through with the wedding. So David and Bert get on the case. While they are on this man’s trail, David and Bert find out that the groom is already married. Subsequently, the groom is found dead, and they believe that the client is the chief suspect.
GUEST STARS: EVA MARIE SAINT, ROBERT WEBBER, TERRY O’QUINN, AMANDA PLUMMER & JANE DALY
TALE IN TWO CITIES
Alexander and Virginia Hayes are still concerned about their daughter. Maddie evades any questions and won’t explain why she is avoiding going back to Los Angeles. They attempt to cheer her up by throwing a party at their home, which only makes her more agitated. At the party, she meets the doctor from across the street. As an excuse to leave the party, she asks the doctor if he wants to go for a drive because she hasn’t been out of the house in a week. During this drive, she informs him that she’s been feeling off-kilter of late. She sleeps all the time, yet she is still tired. The doctor offers to give her a checkup, as he has to stop in at the hospital to see a patient anyway.
Back in Los Angeles, David continues to brood. Bert and McGillicudy fight for Agnes’s affections, and Bert is enraged as feels he has lost Agnes for good.
Maddie finds out she is pregnant and decides to call Agnes and let her know. Agnes isn’t home, so Maddie leaves a message on her answering machine but emphatically states that she is not to tell David.
GUEST STARS: Robert Webber, Eva Marie Saint, Jack Blessing, Cleavant Derricks, R. H. Thomson, Walter Olkewicz
COOL HAND DAVE
Agnes is so excited when she hears the message that Maddie left her on her answering machine about being pregnant. She arrives at work covering her mouth to ensure she doesn’t spill the beans. Unfortunately, she can’t keep it to herself for long, as Bert knows that she is keeping something from him. She tells him but states in uncertain terms that he is not to tell David.
Despite promising Agnes that he will not tell David, Bert can’t help himself and goes straight into David’s office to inform him of the news. Upon hearing Maddie is pregnant, David races to the airport intent on booking a flight to Chicago. However, in the airport lounge, he is tricked by convict Scott “Mad Dog” Hundley, on his way to prison, and they switch places. The guards refuse to believe that David is not the prisoner, and he ends up going to jail in Hundley’s place.
Agnes is giving herself a facial with avocado when she realizes Bert is below her window with his Uncle Phil’s band, serenading her with the song “Sexual Healing.” She lets him into her apartment and tells him that she is worried because Miss Hayes said that Mr. Addison never showed up in Chicago. They end up making love. David is escorted to solitary confinement.
To be continued . . .
FATHER KNOWS LAST
Maddie’s mother has guessed that Maddie’s pregnant due to her constant morning sickness. Meanwhile, back at Blue Moon, the furniture is being repossessed, as the bills haven’t been paid in David’s absence and the employees begin to rebel. Herbert’s dictatorial leadership skills are not helping the situation so the employees demand, “No work and pay!”—and walk out. David returns to Blue Moon to find Agnes and Bert in an empty office. Maddie’s father turns up to speak to David. He’s found out about the pregnancy and wants David to “do the right thing.” David has a fight with Agnes back at Blue Moon, which makes him realize he needs to fully explain the situation to Mr. Hayes. He rushes to the airport and boards the same plane as Mr. Hayes to explain his relationship with Maddie in real detail and to tell him how much he loves her. They resolve their differences on the plane. Mr. Hayes apologizes and gives David a check to restore Blue Moon’s financial situation. The next morning, David arrives at Blue Moon being rolled in on Maddie’s desk by men replacing the furniture. He makes a speech about how the business is now back operating as normal. The episode ends with David reading a book on fatherhood.
LOS DOS DIPESTOS
When Agnes’s mother, Clara Dipesto, arrives in Los Angeles for a visit, she has just come from a holiday in Mexico. While she was there, she was given a complimentary souvenir on a tour, which she brings as a gift for Agnes. Unbeknownst to Clara, stolen jewels have been planted in the statue to be smuggled into America.
Agnes approaches Mr. Addison for a raise, as she wants to look after her mom for the duration of her visit. On their way back from brunch, Agnes and her mother are followed, and hence a Moonlighting car chase begins. Agnes avoids the car that was chasing them but returns to her home to find that it has been ransacked. Agnes leaves her mother at Blue Moon to keep her safe while she and Bert begin investigating the case.
Several unsavory characters are on the trail to retrieve the statue and are willing to do anything to get it back. A funny hallway sequence ensues to the music of the William Tell Overture. Agnes and Bert save the day and capture the thieves in a very unusual and creative way.
Cybill Shepherd does not appear, and Bruce Willis appears only at the beginning and end of this episode.
FETAL ATTRACTION
With fatherhood possibly on the horizon, David is overcome with emotions and all that he has to learn and begins to research as much as he can, even using Bert as a guinea pig. He even asks Agnes about motherly instincts.
He decides to enroll in a Lamaze class, but unfortunately, the instructor says he is unable to attend as he has no partner to work with. But then an unwed pregnant woman named Terri shows up at Blue Moon asking for help. The Lamaze instructor told her that David didn’t have a partner to practice with, so she thought they might be a good match. They agree to be partners in the class.
The relationship becomes a little complicated when Terry develops feelings for David. Maddie receives a package in Chicago from Blue Moon full of childbirth books. She calls Agnes and finds out it was David who sent them. Agnes updates Maddie on what David has been up to with his research into having children.
As Maddie is packing in her room, her mom walks in surprised to see that she is leaving. Maddie explains that she needs to return to Los Angeles to attempt to work things out.
TRACKS OF MY TEARS
This episode begins with several dream sequences that include guest star Pat Boone as the future David. After these dreams (and nightmares), Maddie wakes up and she is on the train traveling back to Los Angeles. She is still unsure whether or not she and David should resume their relationship.
Maddie then meets a man on the train named Walter Bishop, and they tell each other about their lives, even though Maddie does blur the truth a little.
You finally see Maddie walking down the hallway to Blue Moon. She’s apprehensive, not knowing what sort of welcome awaits her there.
As soon as they see Maddie, the employees roll out the red carpet; they’re so excited to see her back at work.
David is so happy that she has finally returned but they get into an argument when she says she needs more time. David has had it with waiting; he has been waiting for four and half months. They both apologize and say that they have missed each other. David thinks things are now going well until Maddie drops the biggest bombshell ever to be imposed on Moonlighting fans.
EEK! A SPOUSE!
David insists he’s perfectly fine with Maddie’s surprise marriage to Walter Bishop—but only because he’s convinced it isn’t real. Determined to prove his theory, he begins testing Maddie’s feelings at every opportunity, even calling her “Mrs. Bishop” in front of clients. Maddie is furious, while Agnes quietly admits she’s heartbroken that the couple she always believed belonged together may never be. As Terri prepares to give birth and Herbert starts digging into Walter’s mysterious past, it’s clear that nothing about this marriage adds up.
Meanwhile, Blue Moon takes on what appears to be a straightforward case involving a wife who shoots her husband after hiring the agency to pay off his mistress. But when new evidence emerges, Maddie and David uncover a far more complicated conspiracy. Their investigation culminates in a classic Moonlighting car chase featuring a Mercedes convertible, Maddie’s BMW, and an unlikely post office van, delivering the perfect blend of mystery, comedy, and chaos.
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