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Today, at long last and at a particularly poignant time in Bruce Willis’s personal history, the entire 67-episode run of Moonlighting —fully remastered — lands on Hulu for your nostalgic viewing pleasure. After so many decades collecting imaginary dust in the theoretical Disney vault¹, where it likely played Go Fish with all the animated movies awaiting their brief furloughs and considered a torrid affair with Beauty and the Beast, Moonlighting finally gets its day in the sun — but the hype around finally getting to revisit it has grown enough that there’s always the chance that the thrill will be gone. About a decade ago, I bought Kevin the DVDs of seasons 1-3 for Christmas, so I decided to revisit a slew of random episodes this weekend to gauge whether Moonlighting does in fact hold up, or whether it’ll let us down.

Moonlighting premiered in 1985 as a two-hour pilot — so that they could call it a TV movie if it bombed — and starred Cybill Shepherd as former model Maddie Hayes, whose …