3x06 Big Man on Mulberry Street

Dream/Dance Sequence
Song: Big Man on Mulberry Street - Billy Joel

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Moonlighting
• David
• Addison
• Maddie
• Hayes
• Bruce
• Willis
• Cybill
• Shepherd
• Sandahl
• Bergman

[DaftSwank]

The only show on TV today that even approaches this level of creativity is 30 Rock. Moonlighting was a true classic and Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd were absolutely magical in it . . .

[paperkite03]

Somehow Bruce made dancing look manly.

[blachubear]

@MrTsingo If you do, get Season 1-3. The last two season went down hill from there. Great show though.

[MrTsingo]

I've never bothered to watch a single episode. This video will soon change that.

[CitySkin09]

This whole dance scene is like a metaphor for all my relationships in my 20's. Getting seduced by some very hot woman, getting dumped, and eventually finding someone better. Genius.

[heaterific]

This is so great, it is my favorite episode. I saw or when it aired, it is so ground breaking for tv. Now they do musical numbers all the time on shows but not before Moonlighting. Every time I listen to this song I see this sequence in my head. Billy Joel wrote it about the David Addison character.

[verydeppobsessed]

OMG how cool to find this here on Youtube! I remember being absolutely transfixed when I saw this when it first aired back in the 80's, and it blew me AWAY. This is the only song of Billy Joel's I like, and I don't just like it--I love it! This dance routine was amazing back then and the whole series was the best, most clever, scintillating show on TV back in that era--I never missed an episode. I could listen to this song over and over and over a hundred times. Now THAT is music.

[necktieguy1]

WOW! Stanley Donen? Really? I am stunned. I did not think he did tv stuff. I know him well from the movies you mentioned and others. This is real dancing--not that junk on weekly tv now. Thanks again for posting this. You got to give Bruce Willis credit for doing a good job. Ms. Bergman did a spectacular job.

[magentalady]

@necktieguy1 It was choreographed and directed by the amazing Stanley Donen. He is best known for Singing in the Rain, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and The Pajama Game.

[necktieguy1]

Incredible! Who choreographed this? Thanks for this post. I love this. Don't ever take it away.

[Tolstoy111]

@paperkite03 Gene Kelly didn't already do that? Men have always danced.

[hibob418]

I remember when this aired, and this scene was really looked at as ground-breaking TV, even though it was a throw-back to any number of movies, or golden-age television shows. The next day it was all anybody talked about, and it just shows how novel a staged musical number was on network TV in 1986. Thanks for posting this. In a lot of ways, it seems like only yesterday...