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“Every Daughter’s Father is a Virgin”

We get to meet Maddie’s parents in this episode, but the episode is not the happy reunion on might expect.

Turns out that Maddie’s father, Alexander Hayes, has been having an affair. Maddie’s mother, Virginia, confided in Maddie that she suspected the affair. Maddie was upset and decided that she would follow her father and prove that he was not cheating. However, David talked her out of it by offering to do the job instead.

We had a whole sequence set to “Poppa was a Rolling Stone” by The Temptations where David followed Mr. Hayes around Los Angeles, ending up at a hotel where Hayes had a room where his mistress was.

Finding out the truth, David told Maddie, who immediately wanted to tell her mother. David and Maddie once again engaged in a verbal joust about lying.

In the end, Maddie did not tell her mother, but confronted her father in a rageful manner.

Cybill Shepherd was excellent in this episode. She was given a pretty meaty role in this episode and she excelled at it. Bruce Willis really showed David’s concern for his partner and that he was actually good at following a mark.

Robert Webber and Eva Marie Saint played Maddie’s parents and hit every note pitch perfectly. That is why you cast this quality of actors in these roles.

The tone of this episode was much more serious than many of the Moonlighting episodes, though it was bookended by silliness, kicking off the episode with David and Maddie addressing the audience once again (with David wearing a McMahon headband???). They read letters from viewers all wondering when they were going to kiss.

The end of the episode included a major 4th wall breaking as David spoke directly to the camera.

This was an episode that showed that Moonlighting could go in a different direction than what they had done prior.