MOONFIGHTING

MOONLIGHTING
1985-1989 ABC

MAD #264, July 1986
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

Mystery-comedy-drama show with Maddie Hayes (Cybill Sheperd) and David Addlestein (Bruce Willis) running the Blue Moon Detective Agency and the “will they or won't they” tension between them (spoiler: they eventually did). The premise established early on is that Maddie is a former model who bought the agency as a tax write-off and ended up working there). The posters on the wall are of past film noirs and screwball comedies that influenced the series. (The buttons on in the Thin Man poster are references to William Powell and Myrna Loy) Their receptionist, Agnes DePasto (Allyce Beasley) answered the phone in rhyme.

During the time Mort Drucker also did the comic strip Benchley, he would give the character a cameo in every one of his parodies. The falling duck is a reference to You Bet Your Life.

The program would have the type of dialogue one would find in a Howard Hawks movie. David would often hint at sex, suggesting the two of them “boink”.

GOONLIGHTING
Cracked #226, March 1987
w: Stu Schwartzberg
a: Bob Fingerman

Bruce Willis did commercials for Seagram's wine coolers. (see above)

Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist had the detective show Remington Steele, she played Laura Holt.

The Cabbage Patch Kids' names are changed but not the Garbage Pail Kids.