Moonlighting 3.03

Symphony in Knocked Flat

Maddie is tired of guys who don't put out, enough effort when taking her out on date. David finds out about this and suggests that she let him take her out. He promises to make it worth her wild but in return she has to go on his kind of date. She agrees to his terms. 

David runs around town trying to get tickets to something (think ballet or opera) that Maddie would like. He winds up buying a couple tickets off a scalper, not realizing that the seats aren't together.

David picks up Maddie in a limousine. They go to a concert but things get awkward when David realizes that the seats aren't together. They wind up getting kicked out of the music hall.

The next day two pairs of FBI agents come to see Maddie and David, separately. David and Maddie decide that one of the pair's of agents must have been fakes. They rush over to Maddie's home, without saying anything to either pair of FBI agents, real or phony. Maddie finds a parking stub in her purse.

The parking stub leads them to a car, which the phony FBI agents steal from them. David and Maddie go to see a boxing match that night. It is between an American and a Russian.

David and Maddie sense that the boxing match is the thing that the FBI agents, real and phony, tried to warn them about. Maddie and David knock out the phony American boxer and his trainer and take their places. David gets in the ring with the Russian boxer, who is considerably taller than David, in the hopes of preventing an international incident.

Thoughts

Don King is in this episode, playing himself. Steve James played the part of Mohammed "Boogaloo" Brown, the boxer who David replaces in the ring. I've seen him most recently in I'm Gonna Git you Sucka (1988). The Temptations appeared in the opening scene, which had nothing to do with the rest of the episode.

Linda Thorson played one of the phony FBI agents. She played a Cardassian in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that was directed by Johnathan Frakes but that I have yet to see. She was also in an episode of Schitt's Creek that I have yet to see. She best known for replacing Diana Rigg on The Avengers.

I love the moment at the symphony. I love how they use the music (Beethoven's Fifth Symphony) in the scene. The visual and physical comedy in this scene and in the episode as a whole made me laugh more than once. They play some music that is similar to the theme to Rocky during the scene at the boxing match.

This episode was a lot of fun and the first one so far this season that I've really enjoyed. The plot is kind of convoluted but in a Moonlighting sort of way.