Look, Hulu is showing all of &#34;Moonlighting&#34; now. We&#39;re watching it. It&#39;s a lot of fun. We talk about it episode by episode every Friday. We&#39;re Kevin and Ces. Sponsors, please Venmo us cash immediately!

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Remember &#34;Just One of the Guys&#34;? Remember &#34;Mrs. Doubtfire&#34;? Remember your high school class ON &#34;Twelfth Night&#34;? Keep all those memories close and fond to your heart because &#34;My Secret Santa&#34; is about to try and steal the plot points from them all. In fact, we got so confused we&#39;d routinely forget the name of this movie, constantly but not purposely referring to it as &#34;Just One of the Santas.&#34; What does that say about just how memorable this movie—whose title escapes us once again—is? Well, &#34;Mr. Doubtfire&#34;—which we now almost referred to as &#34;Mr. Belvedere&#34; and whatever happened to the actor who played youngest son Wesley on that show and now we&#39;ve completely forgotten about what movie we&#39;re talking about. Again. That is to say this podcast goes off on A LOT of tangents because once a movie&#39;s main character seems to forget that both social security numbers and the Internet exist, we can only focus on it so much. But really, thank you for tuning in to another year of our reviews! We hope you have a very happy holiday and a very great new year!

"My Secret Santa"

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From 2007 to 2009 Harlequin Books published FORTY NASCAR-sanctioned romance novels with such titles as &#34;Checkered Past&#34; (Get it?) and &#34;Speed Dating&#34; (GET IT?). Now Hallmark has one-upped the sports cross-marketing machine with not only a series of NFL-licensed &#34;Holiday Touchdown&#34; Christmas movies but a veritable MCU-style shared universe of characters—including an ever-present Santa! It all started last year with &#34;Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story,&#34; which we did not watch. But we come back strong with this year&#39;s &#34;Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story,&#34; featuring a huge roster of past and present Buffalo Bills players, a rather sizeable role for the Bills coach, and a story that features absolutely none of the Bills in the titular romance no matter how much you may have shipped the teammates. But if you like football, &#34;Sopranos&#34; cast members, and fall within that rather specific Venn diagram of &#34;ER&#34; and &#34;Parker Lewis Can&#39;t Lose&#34; fans, then THIS is the yuletide treat for you. Point is, watch &#34;Parker Lewis Can&#39;t Lose&#34; again. It was a great show. Happy Sportsball!

"Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story"

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Sometimes you come across a modern streaming Christmas movie that just does it better than most. Yes, it has all the tropes. Yes, you know what will happen. And yet somehow with multiple Chekov guns, SEVERAL sidekicks, and a woefully under-budgeted CGI bunny, this week&#39;s holiday film—&#34;Champagne Problems&#34;—proved a complete joy to watch. HOWEVER, &#34;Champagne Problems&#34; was not our first choice for this week&#39;s movie. That was &#34;A Very Jonas Christmas Movie,&#34; in which three very rich, full-grown men somehow can&#39;t get across the f***ing Atlantic in time for the holidays. We got 20 minutes into it before we tapped out. But we talk about those twenty minutes, so you don&#39;t spend minute one with that movie.

"Champagne Problems"

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Have you ever wondered what “Fight Club” would be like as a Hallmark Christmas movie? So did we for about two acts of &#34;A Very Merry Ex-Mas.&#34; But what this film lacks in Tyler Durden it more than makes up for in Chet. In fact, whenever Chet isn’t on screen all the other characters should be saying “Where’s Chet?” So come for a family’s one last Christmas together amid narratively-mandated secrets. But stay to see if the movie ends with Chet and Helena Bonham Carter holding hands as they watch the literal collapse of the capitalism debt structure.

"A Merry Little Ex-Mas"

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Male striptease—is there anything it can&#39;t make better? From helping unemployed steelworkers in &#34;The Full Monty&#34; make some crucial money and save themselves to helping a family in this week&#39;s &#34;Kevin and Ces Annual Holiday Movie Quadruple Feature Podcast&#34; feature make some crucial money and save their performance venue, male stripping has been the backbone of our economy and our nation. Well, two nations, England and the USA. Well, probably several more nations. Okay, this is getting unwieldy. Anyway, join us as we question the business practice of a 365 day-a-year Broadway Christmas show and inadvertently celebrate Rex Manning Day with the yuletide revue &#34;The Merry Gentlemen.&#34;

"The Merry Gentlemen"

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It&#39;s a Pentatonix Christmas movie as Pentatonix plays Pentatonix singing Pentatonix Christmas songs while helping two Pentatonix fans find true Pentatonix love at a Pentatonix show during this most cherished Pentatonix holiday season in a charming film about the importance of securing concert tickets as quickly as possible.

"Meet Me Next Christmas"

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Did you ever watch Frosty, the Grinch or Heat Miser and think &#34;I&#39;d do him&#34;? Well, then Netflix—and the Kevin and Ces Annual Holiday Movie Quadruple Feature Podcast—bring you the perfect tepid mug of cocoa with this year&#39;s streaming smash, &#34;Hot Frosty.&#34; Yes, when a young widow places a used scarf on a six-pack snowman, the sexy Faulknerian man-child of her dreams comes to life. Throw in seasonal shenanigans, holiday hi-jinks, part of the cast of &#34;Brooklyn Nine-Nine,&#34; and inadvertent simulated sex with—not in—a car, and you have the makings of a Christmas classic your family can listen to Kevin and Ces talk about year after year (but mostly this one). Here&#39;s hoping you all find your own Frosty this season. Enjoy!

"Hot Frosty"

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It&#39;s been a hell of a season two—David&#39;s brother, Maddie&#39;s parents, Agnes almost certainly still keeping a baby that doesn&#39;t belong to her. Casinos in Buenos Aires, flashbacks to the 1940s, trips to the, um, mall. Whoopi Goldberg! Orson Welles! Cousin Larry from &#34;Perfect Strangers&#34;! Magical leprechauns, massive Rolodexes, multiple fourth-wall breaks. Funerals, faked funerals, funerals for a fake spouse, funeral car chase. SO MANY BIG-FINISH CHASE SEQUENCES. And now we close out the season with not only another big-finish—TWO episode recaps that each include their own chase—but also our podcast&#39;s own big BREAKING NEWS that you can only get here before reading it in the &#34;Moonlighting&#34; paper of choice, the Los Angeles Tribune, or scoring it like hot gossip at the next California Investigator’s Annual Banquet and Ball. So put on your most satin sleepwear, sit on your biggest whitest couch, look up at a portrait of Maddie (or yourself if you bought one with office funds), and reflect with us on the wonderful times we&#39;ve had together before we get an offer from Lou LaSalle we simply can&#39;t refuse. As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.

"Funeral For A Door Nail" & "Camille"

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When an escort’s mob-connected client mumbles upcoming hits in his sleep, she tells David, who in turn uses the intel to catch the killers. Or stop them before they commit the crime, which is sort of like the first draft of “Minority Report” minus eye-replacement surgery. Soon David is the toast of the town, beloved by the police, the mayor, and the entire city of LA. In fact, the only person who isn’t happy is Maddie, who feels having sources and employing data is cheating when it comes to detective work. Oh, will these two ever get along? Well, briefly, until Maddie punches David so hard he goes through a wall. It all comes together in an episode that will having you asking “What?” saying “But…” and knowing that using Pet Shop Boys’ “West End Girls” must have been pretty pricey in the mid-1980s.As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Sleep Talkin' Guy"

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David is on the lam! When an elderly man frames David for his murder (to avoid his death being labeled a suicide and invalidate his life insurance because, uh, comedy), David does what every fugitive from the law would do if they were nine-years-old. He hides at his friend’s house. Then he hides at his friend’s place of work. Then he probably hides in a toy store or wherever they sell candy. Near his friend. Can Maddie prove David’s innocence before her partner gradually, inadvertently makes it out of his own zip code? Kevin, Ces, and yet another notoriously ineffectual “Moonlighting” homicide detective are on the case! As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Witness For The Execution"

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As the great John Mayer said, “Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters &lt;mumble&gt; &lt;mumble&gt;.” Maddie learns this first hand as she is faced with the question of whether her father and her mother’s husband are the same person. Corporeally? The answer is yes. More morally? That answer is no. Poppa Hayes is having an affair. The mother suspects it. Maddie denies it. And David—in a surprisingly mature and confusingly good way—finds it out. So down some champagne and discover if being a “good man” is enough to keep a family whole in “Every Daughter’s Father Is A Virgin.”As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Every Daughter's Father Is A Virgin"

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Revenge is a dish best served cold—and lifeless—when a magician swears to kill his wife from beyond the grave, which is either a remarkable feat or stunning case of poor time management. But when the magician dies mid-act, his wife hires Maddie and David to watch over his corpse until it’s cremated, to ensure he can’t fulfill his promise. Does the body escape? Well, let’s just say the Blue Moon Agency wouldn’t be invited back to the Detective Ball if it weren’t for a stunning third-act, tertiary character reveal as we dissect “In God We Strongly Suspect.”As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"In God We Strongly Suggest"

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Weary of a life of jelly donuts and Vanna White, Agnes longs for some excitement, some romance, and maybe, just maybe, a cruller instead. Little does she know Maddie&#39;s ticket to the Private Investigators&#39; Ball (a Detective Prom minus the DJ playing &#34;Forever Young&#34;) gives her all that and more as she is literally swept off her feet in a classic Hitchcock tale of mistaken identity, complete with attractive mysterious strangers, pursuing bad guys, dead bodies, prolonged applauded PDA, hot bowling AND laundry action, and our favorite supporting character since Liam in &#34;A Christmas Frequency.&#34; Just how long can Agnes hold her breath? Find out in &#34;North by North DiPesto.&#34;As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"North By North DiPesto"

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A client—who boasts he has an American Express card, has read Playboy, and has told all the right lies to woo women—asks the Blue Moon Detective Agency to find him the perfect wife, thereby hiring the two most ill-equipped people in matters of relationships to secure him romantic bliss. Within moments Maddie and David are disagreeing on what a &#34;perfect&#34; partner means, each choosing someone who fits their particular tastes, levels of maturity, and idea of 80s hot. But it turns out their client doesn’t want someone. They just want some body. And so soon we&#39;re flying off to Connecticut, crashing funerals, and racing wheelchairs in an episode that proves the ideal person is out there so long as you don&#39;t feel like you have to kill everybody.As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"The Bride Of Tupperman"

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It&#39;s the holidays when Agnes gets the Christmas miracle of someone else&#39;s baby left under her tree. Well, hastily dropped in her clothes hamper. It&#39;s also a first draft of &#34;Home Alone&#34; when Maddie, David, and Agnes fight off criminals with toys. And it&#39;s also a season for good cheer with the arrival of Detective John Munch! Well, Richard Belzer, playing an entirely different character, thereby denying the show’s entry into the expansive Munch Television Universe (MTU). It all comes together with Three Judicial Kings, a fourth-wall break, and every single person who&#39;s ever worked on &#34;Moonlighting.&#34;As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Twas The Episode Before Christmas"

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Ever wanted to be your own boss? How about not be a boss at all? Both paths are taken when Maddie sells the Blue Moon Detective Agency and David starts his own investigation service. But will the former duo patch up their differences in time to find a Rolodex—A DOUBLE Rolodex—containing the only record of high-level professional and personal contacts belonging to the boss of &#34;Cousin Larry&#34; himself, Mark Linn-Baker, before David prank-calls Gorbachev? Join Kevin and Ces for a fast, fun-filled episode as we travel back to a time when a lost index card could mean financial ruin and people could have easily Xeroxed pertinent business information but apparently didn&#39;t.As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Atlas Belched"

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It&#39;s murder on the art studio floor when a mysterious painting of Maddie—complete with two hideous vases—results in the death of two brothers, the disappearance of the Blue Moon Detective Agency&#39;s slim profit margin, and the conclusion that if an artwork is about you then you can legally take it home, free of charge, no matter its crucial role in an ongoing police investigation. So pull up a chair, break out your copy of &#34;Janson&#39;s History of Art,&#34; stay for the spectacular corpse outlines, and come to the realization David never shuts the hell up as we unveil &#34;Portrait of Maddie.&#34;As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Portrait Of Maddie"

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It&#39;s not &#34;Singin&#39; in the Rain&#34; but it&#39;s also not the movie version of &#34;Cats.&#34; It&#39;s Jennifer Lopez&#39;s magical, musical magnum opus film fantasia &#34;This is Me...Now&#34; and we&#39;re here to hold your hand and heart through it all. Fear not—&#34;This is Me...Now&#34; has everything you could ever want in a rhythmic, self-reflecting, romantic experience: Steampunk cardiovascular operations defying all standards of OSHA, curiously understaffed &#34;Zodiacal Council,&#34; gigantic hummingbirds, countless cameos, numerous therapy sessions, and Ben Affleck in prosthetics. So join Kev and Ces as they count out their rose petals and embrace the J.Love of J.Lo in this very special episode of &#34;Moonies Never Say Die Hard.&#34;As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"This Is Me...Now"

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Had a lovely Valentine&#39;s Day? Well forget it all! Because according to this week&#39;s &#34;Moonlighting&#34; episode it&#39;s St. Patrick&#39;s Day when a leprechaun (pause for a moment to allow for your Lucky Charms joke) asks Maddie and David to protect her from people after her pot of gold (pause for a moment to allow for you to ask &#34;No, seriously. What&#39;s this week&#39;s episode about?&#34;) Is their client an actual leprechaun who may have killed a man with an ancient Irish curse said entirely in English? Is there really a pot of gold buried under a municipal rainbow in Los Angeles? Was it really that easy to enter an airport and ride the suitcase conveyor belt in 1985? This magic and curious child rearing never stops in this week&#39;s Moonies Never Say Die Hard.As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Somewhere Under The Rainbow"

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It&#39;s a sunny day for film noir in LA when David&#39;s ex—and &#34;China Beach&#34; star—Dana Delany comes waltzing into the Blue Moon Agency. David&#39;s heart goes pitter-patter but his ex has murder on her mind. And she&#39;s about to get away with it, too, thanks to the laziest police detective in investigative history. Will Maddie be able to put two and two together even when the detective wants to clock out by four, presumably to go home and watch &#34;The Jetsons&#34;? Tune into Season Two, Episode Six—&#34;Knowing Her&#34;— and you&#39;ll know how to sabotage your own balcony railing. And don&#39;t forget—it&#39;s Super Bowl weekend! So make sure to place your order with our sponsor Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant, where their eggplant mascots can be your own disconcerting halftime show. As always, this episode is brought to you by Zini&#39;s Italian Restaurant.Theme Song: &#34;Aerosol of my Love&#34; Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

"Knowing Her"

Look, Hulu is showing all of "Moonlighting" now. We're watching it. It's a lot of fun. We talk about it episode by episode every Friday. We're Kevin and Ces. Sponsors, please Venmo us cash immediately!