I am – Hercules!!
“Do bears bear? Do bees be? Do ducks duck? Do flies fly? Do math majors multiply? Do eggs get laid? Does Spock beam up? ”
“Just when I think you've gone as low as you can go, you find a basement door!”
“I remember when they told Sylvia Plath, ‘Hey, Syl, cheer up!’ I remember when they told e.e. cummings, e, baby; use caps!’ But did ol' e listen? No. Little n. Little o.”
“Well, let me remind you Mr. Addison, that one case does not a detective make.”
“Well, let me remind you Ms. Hayes, that I hate it when you talk backwards!
Tuesday last we spoke of how the merging of Knotts and Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show” constituted the perfect marriage of actor and role. It was no less true of Bruce Willis and David Addison on ABC’s “Moonlighting.”
If you listen carefully, you can hear David Addison’s voice in series mastermind Glenn Gordon Caron’s two terrific, subsequent series – CBS’ 1999 sci-fi series “Now and Again” (deserving, by the way, of its own DVD season-box as soon as humanly possible) and the current NBC smash “Medium” – but it was Willis, the Jersey bartender who came out of nowhere, who knew how to squeeze every ounce of funny out of Caron’s dialogue.
David Addison wasn’t only funny. He was cool. Cooler than the Fonz and much, much funnier. We laughed at David Addison, but we also wanted to be him when we grew up. (Some of us still do!)
If you liked the first four seasons of “The West Wing”? If you liked the first five seasons of “Gilmore Girls”? There’s an excellent chance you’ll embrace “Moonlighting,” the 1985 series that pioneered the laugh-out-loud hourlong.
For some reason, a reason for which we cannot account, the first two seasons of “Moonlighting” - by many estimations the best two seasons of “Moonlighting” - had to wait until May 31, 2005 to be issued to DVD. Until now only the pilot was deemed DVD-worthy!
Caveat emptor! Herbert “Booger” Viola was not added to the cast until season three! But still. 32 hours. $34.99. $1.09 per episode. Plus commentary, docs, deleted scenes and bloopers. Likely one of the ten finest TV shows ever engineered.
Hey folks, Harry here... The past 3 days I've been diving into 3 DVD TV sets. The 2nd Season of SUPER FRIENDS, 1st Season of AIRWOLF and the 1st & 2nd Seasons of MOONLIGHTING. 1st - I just have to say how ungodly badass AIRWOLF is. It's just stunningly fun. Then there's MOONLIGHTING which... gosh, I haven't watched it in a million years... and I don't remember Bruce Willis being that young. But the thing that comes through these first two seasons is just how amazingly dynamic, alive and vital he is here. Makes me want to see a little more of Bruno in one of his films, cuz Bruno is all over David Addison. This set is absolutely fantastic. I second everything Hercules says about this. Here ya go...
More season-box DVD headed your way:
Last Week
Airwolf 1.x
The Andy Griffith Show 2.x
Baa Baa Black Sheep 1.x
Batman: The Animated Series Vol. 3
The Batman 1.x Vol. 1
Chapelle’s Show (Uncensored) 2.x
Combat 4.x
The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Complete Series
Fat Actress 1.x
The Job 1.x
Law & Order 3.x
M*A*S*H 8.x
NewsRadio 1/2.x
Samurai Jack 1/2.x
Samurai Jack 2.x
Speed Racer Vol. 3
Super Friends Vol. 2
Voyage to the Planets and Beyond
May 31
Danger Mouse 1/2.x
Dark Shadows Vol. 18
Dukes of Hazzard 3.x
Home Movies 2.x
Moonlighting 1/2.x
The Rifleman Vol. 4
The Tomorrow People 1/2.x
June 7
Davey and Goliath Vol. 1
The Dead Zone 3.x
Degrassi Junior High 2.x
Dragnet 1967 1.x
Father of the Pride 1.x
Frasier 5.x
Frasier 1/2/3/4/5/11.x
Home Improvement 2.x
I Love Lucy 1.x
Lois & Clark 1.x
MacGyver 2.x
Newlyweds Nick & Jessica 2/3.x
Quincy 1/2.x
Rescue Me 1.x
Sanford & Son 6.x
The Sopranos 5.x
The Thorn Birds 2: The Missing Years
Too Close For Comfort 2.x
Wanted: Dead or Alive 1.x
Wonder Woman 3.x
June 14
Good Neighbors 1/2/3.x
Highlander: The Raven 1.x
The King of Queens 4.x
The League of Gentlemen 2.x
The League of Gentlemen 3.x
Little House on the Prairie 8.x
Northern Exposure 3.x
Rambo, Vol. 1
Rambo, Vol. 2
Reno 911 2.x
Rosemary & Thyme 1.x
Saved by the Bell II 3.x
Tilt 1.x
Two's Company 3.x
Walker: Texas Ranger 9.x
What's New Scooby-Doo, Vol. 5
June 21
Bewitched 1.x
Degrassi The Next Generation 2.x
Oz 5.x
Tabitha 1.x
June 28
The Daily Show: Indecision 2004
Danger: 50,000 Volts! 1.x
The Doris Day Show 1.x
The Even Stevens Movie
Game Over 1.x
Homicide 7.x
House of Eliott 1.x
La Femme Nikita 3.x
Ren & Stimpy 3.x
Spencer For Hire: The Movie Collection
A Touch of Frost 6.x
The Twilight Zone 3.x
July 5
Fantastic Four 1.x
Monk 3.x
Starship Troopers 1.x
Tour of Duty 3.x
July 12
Butterflies 1.x
Hercules 6.x
Hunter 2.x
The Nanny 1.x
Sealab 2021 3.x
Tales From the Crypt 1.x
Titus 1/2.x
Wire in the Blood 1.x
Wire in the Blood 2.x
July 19
All Creatures Great & Small
Cleopatra 2525 1.x
Dead Like Me 2.x
Def Poetry 3.x
Earth 2 1.x
Laguna Beach 1.x
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 1
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 2
Lost in Space 3.x Vol. 2
Saved by the Bell 5.x
Sliders 4.x
July 26
America's Funniest Home Videos, Vol. 1
The Brady Bunch 2.x
Cold Feet 3.x
Errol Morris' First Person: The Complete Series
Dark Shadows Vol. 19
Gilligan's Island 3.x
Mary Tyler Moore Show 2.x
Remington Steele 1.x
Silk Stalkings 3.x
Star Trek: Enterprise 2.x
3rd Rock From the Sun 1.x
August 2
The Cosby Show 1.x
The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons
August 9
Columbo 3.x
Dallas 3.x
Greatest American Hero 3.x
McCloud 1/2.x
McMillan & Wife 1.x
Profit 1.x
Roswell 3.x
Thundercats 1.x Vol. 1
What's New Scooby Doo, Vol. 6
August 16
'Allo 'Allo 3.x
The Simpsons 6.x
Undeclared 1.x
August 23
Boy Meets World 3.x
Codename: Kids Next Door, File Two
1st & 10 1.x
1st & 10 2.x
Kung Fu 3.x
Life As We Know It 1.x
The OC 2.x
Once and Again 1.x
Once and Again 2.x
Six Feet Under 4.x
21 Jump Street 3.x
August 30
Chef 1/2/3.x
Garfield Vol. 4
Nip/Tuck 2.x
Roseanne 1.x
The Saint 1.x
September 6
Lost 1.x
September 13
SCTV Vol. 4
September 20
Crime Story 2.x
Desperate Housewives 1.x
October 4
Three's Company 5.x
