Spoilers

“Brother Can You Spare a Blonde”

The second season of Moonlighting kicked off with David and Maddie sitting on her desk and addressing the viewers. This was a technique they used several times over the years. Breaking the fourth wall was a common occurrence on Moonlighting, and their joke was that the episode was too short so they needed to fill time. That actually may not have been just a joke, knowing how some of the backstage issues caused problems for this show.

This episode was the first of the family members to be introduced of our two lead stars. In this case, Charles Rocket guest starred as a David’s huckster brother Richard, who had found a briefcase full of $100,000 and came to run David’s nose in it.

Of course, more than that happened as the actual owners of the money came looking for Richard and found David instead.

The jealousy between David and Richard was clear and when Richard took a shining to Maddie, well, it made David all the more crazed.

The story of the money is way down the importance of this episode. The story itself was underdeveloped. The most important part was how David and Richard’s relationship was and how that affected David’s relationship with Maddie.

This was never my most favorite episode of the series and I was never much of a fan of Richard Addison.