two bits

I kind of feel sorry for the television shows that came and went before the internet. They are missing the documentation that later shows have in spades.

After a watching Californication with friends and then discussing television couples with great chemistry/tension, I started re-watching Moonlighting from the beginning.

There are several witty, fast-paced dialogue sequences that are not referenced anywhere on the web (fast-paced for the time, at least. The show is surprisingly slow by today’s standards.) Post-internet shows that have great dialogue (like Buffy and the Gilmore Girls) are quoted everywhere, but if you miss the mark by a couple years, you get nothing, not even a “Quotations” page for each episode on imdb.

Here’s my contribution to the transcription of the series. I wish there were a YouTube video to embed*.

Maddie: David, David, David. All this blood, and violence!

David: I know. I get giddy just thinking about it!

Guy: Tell me – how does the Blue Moon girl get involved in something as gruesome as this?

Maddie: Just lucky, I guess.

Guy: No, no. I want to know. who are you guys working for?

Maddie: Working for?

Guy: Working for.

Maddie: Working for. (to David) He wants to know who we’re working for.

David: What for?

Maddie: What for you want to know who we’re working for?

Guy: Why not?

Maddie (to David): Why not?

David: Why not what?

Maddie: Why not what for you want to know who we’re working for?

David: What?!?

Maddie: What?

* I wrote this and then I found it. My quote starts at 1.44. What was I thinking? Everything exists on the web!