#david addison

[lesbianmaxevans]

Moonlighting || Pilot

[roboemma]

Moonlighting, Season 4, Episode 1

[wistfulwatcher]

Moonlighting | 1.01 "Pilot"

[dirtyriver]

Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd

[julia980]

Portrait of Maddie

S2 x E8 🔥

[emmynominees]

bruce willis as david addison in season two of moonlighting

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding lead actor in a drama series

[tavtiers]

A hypothetical god tier for David Addison from Moonlighting: the Bard of Heart.

A Bard of Heart is among those who alter the individual’s impact. They are motivated by others to destroy instinct. (x) The Bard of Heart gets angry when things don’t go their way and is invested in self discovery. (x) They are the Revolutionary Free Spirit, defined by outrage and instinct. (x) Their opposite is the Prince of Mind. Their inverse is the Maid of Mind. They share their personality with the Rogue of Rage. The Bard of Heart would quest on a planet similar to the Land of Mind and Heart, reigned over by Aphrodite (Goddess of Love) or Yaldabaoth (Trapper of Souls). They would rise to ascension on the wings of ladybugs. (x)(x)(x)

[boardwalk-absurdist]

so when i was in high school, I watched all of moonlighting with my mom and little brother. i remember really enjoying it and i remember that david and maddie had crazy chemistry and that agnes dipesto and herbert viola were my favorite side characters. now i'm finally rewatching it and the one thing i did NOT remember enough to prepare myself for is how fucking smoldering bruce willis is every time he's on the goddamn screen. the man is practically straight out of a fanfic the way he is constantly smirking. and cybill shepherd is so crazy gorgeous it's unbelievable and the chemistry is truly off the charts but like i really need bruce willis to cut this shit out bc i canNOT be falling back into my "crushing on actors before i was born" phase, it's too embarrassing. (plus, bruce boxleitner already holds the "80s heartthrob named bruce" place in my heart)

[izzythehutt]

I just remembered the existence of the episode of Moonlighting where David is extremely bothered that Maddie is an atheist.....talk about television plotlines that would never be written today...

[roboemma]

Moonlighting, Season 2, Episode 1

[im-on-speeeeeed]

Moonlighting but David where’s this the entire time

[julia980]

Jeff Reno addresses the whole Walter debacle and the ‘Moonlighting curse’ “bullsh*t” starting around the 20:00 mark.

I have to apologize to the writers as it seems the downfall of Moonlighting can largely be attributed to Glenn Caron himself, and plain happenstance to a lesser degree.

I have long suspected that a shift in the portrayal of Cybill’s character was born out of Caron’s personal animosity towards her at the time. Here the actual writers echo that sentiment.

The staff writers knew the show was Maddie and David together—not just in the same scenes, but truly together. If they weren’t able to change Caron’s suicidal trajectory for David and Maddie, it’s nice to know at least they tried.

[inevitablemoment]

“you don’t want to do that.”

Word Count: 723

Warnings: Captivity, locked in a closed-in space, broken bones, possible concussion, fainting

Fandom: Moonlighting

Pairings: David Addison x Maddie Hayes

I thought that I’d dabble a bit into June of Doom, and I left it up to a random generator to decide which one of my ships that I could use for each prompt. And first up is the OG “will they or won’t they” couple that walked so Mulder and Scully could fly. Fair warning: I don’t feel like I have a good grip on their characterizations, so if David and Maddie seem OOC, just bear with me.

Set in late Season 1.

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Maddie blinked blearily as her eyes open, only able to make out a few vague shapes before realizing that she was lying in complete darkness. Her calf muscles were aching, even worse than the time that she had to run in knock-off Prada heels that were two sizes small for her feet through Time’s Square, and her head was throbbing as if her brain and her heart had switched places in her body.

“Maddie? Maddie?” a familiar, husky voice echoed through her ears, even though it was such a small space.

On any other day, she would have groaned with frustration as if just the presence of the person whom owned that voice was causing her pain.

But now, it was almost an relief.

And besides, David Addison’s presence could not cause as much pain as she was feeling in that moment.

“David?” she almost slurred his name as she tried to lift her head, realizing that her head had been in his lap.

“Welcome back,” he greeted, brushing a lock of her hair away from her eyes.

Maddie began to try to sit up. “Wha... what happened?”

“No, stay down,” David told her. “What’s the last thing you remember?”

“Running,” Maddie told him as bluntly as she could. “An outrageous amount of running-- then something that felt like a hard slap to the side of my head.”

“That was Atkins,” David said. “He just grabbed that plank of wood and whupped you-- then some guy grabbed me from behind before I could catch you, and they dragged us in here. I tried to wake you up, but you were out cold!”

He raised his pointer finger, holding it inches from her face. “Follow my finger, follow my finger--”

“David, it’s pitch black in here,” she reminded him.

Even as he continued protesting, she began to sit up. However, she sat up a bit to quickly and began to feel dizzy, the pounding and searing pain in her head growing worse. She scrunched her eyes closed to try to take a moment before opening them again. She squinted as she tried to look for the door. She finally saw the light peeking in from outside.

Maddie pressed her feet-- now bare after having to discard her shoes while Atkins was chasing them-- against the wall, forcing herself to stand up. Her knees were wobbling-- even worse than when she had taken the runway for the first time.

But still, she stumbled towards the door as if she were drunk. She leaned against it and closed her eyes again, trying to will her head to stop hurting. Her hand found the knob and she turned it, but the door remained closed. Pressing one foot to the wall, she pulled and pulled with each ounce of strength she had left.

Maddie let out a frustrated cry that seemed to bounce off the walls and make her ears ring, pounding her fists on the door as if to seek some sort of catharsis for her frustration.

She turned around to look at David’s shape. “Get back-- I need momentum--”

“You don’t wanna do that, Mads,” David warned. “I-- I tried myself, but I-- I knocked my shoulder outta it’s socket.”

Though her chest tightened up a bit with concern upon realizing that David was hurt (and something in her heart twinged at the fact that even though he was injured, he still tried to make sure that she was okay), Maddie tuned him out, backing up and ramming her shoulder into the door.

Again. And again. And again.

She couldn’t remember how many tries it took before the door finally slammed open. The light was a shock to her sensitive eyes, worsening the throbbing sensation in her head. She turned around, holding out her hand to David. He took hold of it and she pulled him to his feet.

“I-- I loosened the-- the lock thingy for you,” he insisted.

Maddie scoffed, but she couldn’t help but let a little smile appear on her face. “Keep telling yourself tha--”

Before she could even finish the damn word, she felt herself falling forward, almost feeling as if her whole body was shutting down.

David caught Maddie in his arms.

They could forget about the Atkins case for now. He needed to get her to a hospital first.

[emmynominees]

bruce willis as david addison in season three of moonlighting

primetime emmy award winner for outstanding lead actor in a drama series

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