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“Atlas Belched”

I am into a stretch of Moonlighting episodes that are just awesome. This episode guest starred Mark Linn-Baker of Perfect Strangers fame.

Baker played a down-on-his-luck assistant who did not lock away in the safe a rolodex of numbers containing some of the most important phone numbers possible. The office is robbed that very night and the rolodex was gone.

He met David in the bar, also drowning his sorrows. David found out that Maddie was preparing to sell Blue Moon Investigations to Lou LaSalle, detective to the stars. David and Linn-Baker, who played Phil, decided they would find the rolodex.

Bruce Willis and Mark Linn-Baker had some fun chemistry between them and worked well together. The sequence at the dump (to the dump, to the dump, to the dump dump dump dump dump dump dump) was very funny and well-written.

When Maddie sold the company, it did not take her long to realize that she missed it and that Lou LaSalle did not really want Maddie as anything else but a figurehead.

This was a great episode. I also appreciated that the show did not feel as if they need a major twist or a silly chase scene. While I enjoy a silly chase as much as the next guy, breaking the typical Moonlighting formula is good too. It helps to keep the show fresh and unpredictable. This episode continued to show the relationship between David and Maddie as it deepened through the conflict.