best moonlighting clips aka bruce willis hoisting that entire show on his back and carrying
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- recently, i have been thinking about Bruce Willis a lot and risked my computer by going to a sketchy website to rewatch the best episodes of moonlighting. my grandma showed me a few episodes when I was 11 and i have loved David Addison ever since. i am an adult now, with such an appreciation for the writing of his character, as well as Willis’ delivery. here’s a question, will nbc take this down? let’s have a little fun
i really just realized i only included scenes up until the end of season 3. also these are all out of order and out of context, so i don’t think this could possibly spoil anything for anyone. just in case someone else wants to go looking for a sketchy website to watch for the first time. i think it’s worth the watch if just only that first season. never fails to make me laugh when they talk over each other.
love, a lifelong moonlighting fan
One of the most criminally underrated shows of all time. Moonlighting was ahead of its times. The writing, acting, and over all production was Absolute perfection.
I couldn't agree more. The "Taming of the Shrew" episode was monumentally exemplary, too Funny thing, though... apparently, that episode "had the least viewership". I guess primary audiences were too dense to even begin to comprehend the comparison, style, etc. 🙄 I guess they all thought "West Side Story" was its own thing and same with "Kiss Me, Kate", lmao.
The writing and acting were cutting edge for the time. The show was a true joy to watch.
It was impossible not to fall in love with David Addison or with Bruce Willis. What a man.
true for sure
He’s staying cool even with dementia, according to his family’s Instagram. 👏
Their chemistry was off the charts.
Its amazing considering how much they hated each other in real life.
Its legendary about the on set stuff that went down between those 2-it was okay the first couple years but when Bruce blew up with Die Hard it went crazy.
Bruce Willis was like no one I had ever experienced on TV. He was brilliant and had me in his back pocket the first episode I saw.
I’m heartbroken about his Aphasia diagnosis.
One of my best friends has it. Seeing her struggle with speech and cognitive skills is so difficult.
Doing what he’s done his whole life, it’s more difficult to imagine Bruce’s frustration dealing with this cruel disease.
Everyone is mortal. And despite all the writers, costumers, make-up artists, lighting designers, editors, directors, and more... if it ain't old age, it's gonna be ailments of various yet heinous types.
Still... at least he had an extremely lucrative and popular career.
They were dynamic ❤ I used to watch in my early 20's...im 61 now and i still laugh. 😊
Me too
I was a REALLY young kid when "Moonlighting" aired. But ironically enough, I knew WTF was going on from the moment I saw S1E1. And once the "Taming of the Shrew" episode galloped on it seasons later, I had utterly been blown away from every performance. Cybil was gorgeous yet mysterious and interesting; vulnerable but assertive; classy yet still rough and tumble. I mean, what the HELL?! WHO ELSE IS LIKE THAT EVEN TODAY?! And Bruce's character was charming and aloof but also a complete jerk for a cheap laugh. This was PERFECT to chisel away at the "Maddie Hayes, supermodel, business queen, real estate tycoon" motif. 😂 What a crazy but celestially FUN show.
Bruce was a timing genius. Nobody else could have delivered those lines as well. His writers had to love him.
It's heartbreaking to know what he is going through now.
God Bless Bruce Willis
All he did was act as an exaggerated version of himself, whereas Cybil played the comedy far subtler while being able to slip into drama and pathos at the drop of a hat. She's way underrated.
They played off each other, but he was hysterical.......ducks duck..........nothing like this show ever again.....Donna in Toronto
Just because Cybil Shepard played an opposite type of character does not mean that over-the-top Bruce Willis Hoisted the entire show on his back.” The whole fun of the show was the conflict dynamic between them. She played the exact same role in a previous drama: the 70’s Classic “Taxi Driver,” where Robert deNiro chases her continually, but never gets the girl. Sheppard deserves plenty of credit for carrying Moonlighting. Respect.
A show way ahead of its time
No doubt. And you know what's funny? Over the decades, I've been in these "writers" groups online. Every single occasion where I'd mention this show, people in these groups either never heard of it, or they hid behind some thin veil of haughty disdain, claiming that the writing was sheet. 😂 I was always replying "ARE YOU DAFT?! Do you have any idea how successful that show was? Season after season?"
Meanwhile, I'm an award-winning author and creator of my own series now, and I can't say I've heard hide nor hair from those finicky folks in those so-called "writers" groups. 🙄 Must give us pause.
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When I was a bartender in my mid 20's (51 now), a girl I worked with was very flirty with me almost from the start. My bartender buddies tried to ask her out but got shot down. They were not pleased to find out that I was her new bf, with her being a good 5 inches taller than me. About 6 months in, she said she had been drawn to me because I sounded like an unscripted David Addison. Turns out she was in love with Bruce Willis. I was unable to match him in looks or brawn, but the relationship lasted almost 2 years.
The more I watch this show the more I love it!
When Moonlighting came out I was 9 years old and it was the first show that I was emotionally invested in! I’m rewatching it for the first time since it went off air and I feel a deep sense of emotional attachment all over again. David Addison was my first crush🥰
I'm only now realizing that Micheal Weatherly was channeling Bruce Willis/David Addison with his Anthony Dinozzo Jr. on NCIS.
Good call
The Agnes DiPesto character was great, too.
When I was a kid I said I wanted to “be David Addison when I grow up.”
Is it not possible to be a big fan of Bruce Willis without hating on Cybil Shepherd?
The show was him, the show was her. Without either one of them that show wouldn't have happened. Regardless if people didn't like either one, you can't deny that. I've racked my brain who else could've played Maddie, Channing Tatum, Candace Bergen, Kathleen Turner and the chemistry wouldn't have been the same. Plus I admit I loved it when Maddie (Cybill) would loose her shit, that high pitch girl screech would send me cackling.
@@idarivera1308 Channing Tatum? Maybe you mean Stockard Channing?
@@s13rr4buf3 Damn I wrote that so fast with out proof reading I'm pretty sure I got Candace name wrong too 🤣 Stockard Channing is definitely who I meant
Great clips. Bruce is awesome, but so was Cybil. The writing team kicked ass.
Bruce carried nothing. He had awesome people around him.
Yes, the writing and the production were groundbreaking. That wasn't Bruce Willis's doing.
@s13rr4buf3 His acting was top tier. Hence, he became Hollywood A-list movie actor.
I hate his political association though. Sucks
@@sipnog3528 It's not good to hate. ;)
... and Bruce has always been classy about his politics, never trying to ram his ideas down anyone's throats as so many in Hollywood do. Also, from all I've ever seen he's generally just been a proponent of freedom insofar as his outspoken politics are.
At 3:30 or so you get the 1940s romantic film feel that was one of the reasons why this show was so big in it's day. The writing was top shelf clever and funny at the same time. They certainly had chemistry those two, the opposites attract kind that's sparks could start a fire on a blisteringly cold night. I was just a kid watching and learning and laughing. Good times.
That show was so funny, I can watch the clips over and over and still get a kick out of them.
I still won't forgive Mark Hammond for beating up David Addison.
Oh he's georgeous n cool even his voice is sexy n his smile would melt your heart just lv him god bless him x
It was a great show, but Willis did not carry the show by himself. Cybill handled the more dramatic scenes better while Willis was better at the comedic side. He relied on his timing and charisma while Cybill was a classically trained actress. Great show overall.
Have been rewatching on Hulu. Loved these two. Made me laugh…and cry. Best show of the 80’s. Nothing else came close.
Magnum PI ain't bad
"Moonlighting" was *SUCH* a great show. The writing was truly a style of its own. And the performances necessary from Willis, Shepard, and the supporting cast were precise (and rough). I have no idea how Cybil and Bruce did it, but their chemistry on set was genuine. Sure, maybe off camera and off scripted dialogue perhaps they had issues(?). But to this day, the show is intelligent, fun, well-paced, and LEAGUES better than any Hollywon't drivel from 202x. 🙄
In reality Maddie would have given it up in the first week.
Thanks for the Upload of a Classic 1980's Sitcom. Tuesday NIght on ABC was must see tv for mr.
His lines were phenomenal! Almost M*A*S*H like.🤣🤣❤❤
Another exemplary show where the writing was A+++ grade schtuff!
Cybill had merit here because she did fit well with him... but I agree how she could do the diva act on this show is amazing. I think now she regrets it but she was not the most important thing to this series.
She always insisted it was a Howard Hawks comedy. She imagined herself Katherine Hepburn. Caron didn't even know what that was. It was for the first 40 episodes a Marx Brothers movie. Willis was Groucho. Depesto was Harpo with rhymes. CS was the stiff stuck up broad.
Eventually Curtis Armstrong was brought in to be Zeppo so Bruce could have a junior buddy.
Even now, but especially in the '80s, nobody was interested in women trying to directly be the funny one. It was smarter to cast her as the straight man, which she was, and did great at.
I'm not saying this is the way I want it to be, but a lot of people over a lot of years have been saying that our society just can't handle a funny lady.
Maybe Lucy is the one exception.
It's disruptive to people's ideas of gender roles for women to show off their brains, which is what being witty is. They're supposed to be about youth, body mass index, and racial and sexual purity, classically. That's how we've defined beauty and value in a woman.
They're not supposed to challenge men on brains or wittiness. That's not considered to be attractive.
@@s13rr4buf3 watch the reverse. "The Lady Vanishes" Hammer remake in the early 80s. She's the goof and Elliott Gould is the straight man. You are right...that didn't work...however despite Caron saying he had never seen it, he must have as the last sequence of the Pilot on the clock tower seems awfully similar to the speeding train hijinks.
I thought Bruce Willis did a better Bill Murray than Bill Murray.
@@s13rr4buf3 I doubt all the sociology musing you did entered into the producers. People often give TV hacks more credit for planning or 'a cunning plan' than they merit. They just wanted funny.
Remington Steele, same producer the immediate years before, had the razor sharp intelligent woman...as did Honey West and The Avengers in 1964.
These clips are great, I loved this show when I was a kid. Full episodes would be wonderful.
Брюс Уиллис наверное один из самых недооценённый актеров в мире кино с огромным комедийным потенциалом!
Очень жаль, что его так подвело здоровье. Желаю ему всего самого лучшего! Мы помним и любил этого актера!
Always loved Bruce Willis.❤
Streaming on Hulu. First time the show has been available to stream.
Quand'è Bruce Wyllis aveva ancora un mare di capelli... Troppo forti questi due!!!
5:00 Yes. We all do.
I always watched this show, and as a huge X-Files fan I'm only now just realizing how much Fox Mulder's character seems to be based off of David Addison
In the tux at the 9:16 mark... sheesh..🔥
When two solids mean. Kaboom
Adorable
Bruce.in the Pilot episode, was the Coolest Actor ever
Well when Cybill Shepherd left the show because she got pregnant the show started to slip in the ratings it's funny how he didn't carry the show then
Любимый и самый харизматичный наш красавчик здоровье тебе очень жаль мы верим ты будешь здоров❤
Those were the days when a scriptwriter didn't have to censor every other line so that the crazy blue-haired feminists wouldn't raise hell.
Great show; great memories!
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Buon weekend Mauro di Serramonacesca
this show had ONE GREAT season and then.........the hype machine rolled over and before you knew it there was DIE HARD, and then he spiraled out of control into HUDSON HAWK and destroyed his rep which he only got back with PULP FICTION
look at his list of "work", it's all horrible except Die Hard, 12 Monkeys, Fifth Element, Sixth Sense and Pulp Fiction MAKE his rep
he also did BREAKFAST of CHAMPIONS
What kind of title is this? 🙄🙄
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I agree Bruce carried that series because Cybill Shepherd is little more than a model, with little charisma to match or keep up with Willis. Nevertheless, it was a great TV series, and I would semi-regularly tune in to it after my favorites like Cheers and Miami Vice.
@tj Bruce was superb in this. But he needed Cybill Shepherd as his foil. Her performance as Maddie Hays allowed Bruce to do his thing. She doesn't need a charismatic performance for this role.
Bruce was a relative nobody, a bartender/ comedian and singer who's only previous credited role was as a villain on Miami Vice. He needed this role to kick start his acting career at 29. Yo can tell in seasons 1-3 he put his all into it. Hollywood noticed.
CS still goes down as one of the highest paid TV actresses across her career. TV worked out better than film where she was a bit of pretty blonde fluff who just happened to work with legends like Scorsese and Peter Bogdanovic (RIP)
Cybil is unluckly not to get more film roles but her contemporaries are Meryl Streep, Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon!
On a side note Bruce was so good looking back then.
I think the script writers needed as meaty a part for Cybill.
Needed to write a more meaty part for Cybill. Women actresses get short changed.
@@thomasitataylor6450 It started as a comedy-drama show so this wasn't the vehicle for a meaty part. Meaty role wouldn't have worked.
"New" star Bruce Willis got most of the best lines as character got most of the dialogue and was the funnier role.
It obviously was a star making role for him as Cybill was already very established.
@@michelleannor6944 I wonder how Cybill’s part would have been shaped by talented female writers.
#cybill #goodjobbabe #china
Bruce was a douche. Cybill was the star.
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