Though Big Little Lies’ second season was an all-around disappointment, the biggest letdown of all was Meryl Streep and Reese Witherspoon’s infamous ice-cream-throwing scene – captured by paparazzi and splayed all over the internet – which never actually made it to the screen. The cut didn’t go unnoticed. Calling the lost segment “the biggest lie so far,” the Eater website opined, “The biggest mystery of season two revolves around a food fight that never happened.” Thanks to some signage visible on neighboring buildings in the paparazzi pics, I tracked down and stalked Mother Moo Creamery, the adorable Sierra Madre ice cream shop where the cone-tossing scene took place, long before the sophomore season premiered. So the disappointment over its non-airing was particularly stinging for me. Though Streep assured fans the footage would be included in the Season 2 DVD extras, that did not come to pass. Oh, BLL producers, why are you holding out on us? Regardless, I figured Mother Moo was still worthy of a post and, since restaurants are just starting to reopen, decided now was the perfect time to pen it!
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Bright, colorful, and cheery, Mother Moo Creamery is the cutest little ice cream shop you ever did see!
Pinwheels in the planter box? Come on! So adorable!
It’s like the ice cream parlor of your dreams!
And it’s even more charming inside!
The ice cream offerings at Mother Moo are plentiful. The Grim Cheaper and I opted for a scoop of the salty chocolate and it was literally the best cone of my life!
Besides the divine scoops, Mother Moo also sells gifts, candy, and other sundries.
It is not at all hard to see how the darling shop wound up onscreen, especially on a series as picturesque as Big Little Lies.
While the cone-throwing footage never made it to to the airwaves, Mother Moo Creamery – or at least the exterior of it – did! In the episode titled “Kill Me,” Madeline Martha Mackenzie (Witherspoon) and her daughter, Abigail Carlson (Kathryn Newton), have a terse interaction with Mary Louise Wright (Streep) outside of the parlor.
We get a better look at the jeweler next door than we do Mother Moo in the segment, though.
Fortunately, we have those paparazzi photos which largely went viral thanks to a fan named Matt who posted one on Twitter with the caption, “I am praying Reese pelts Meryl with that ice cream,” to which Reese responded, “Oh Matt! No need to pray. I got her!”
Of course, I had to do it!
Shortly before Big Little Lies’ Season 2 premiere, Reese posted an Instagram photo posing with her television daughter at the shop, so I had to emulate that, as well!
Long before Mother Moo Creamery moved in, the storefront that houses it appeared briefly as an electronics shop in the 1982 horror film Halloween III: The Season of the Witch. It is amazing how little of the space has changed in the almost forty years since the segment was lensed!
I am fairly certain the site was an electronics store in real life during that time because, thanks to fellow stalker Walter, I learned that in 1986 it also popped up in the Season 2 episode of Highway to Heaven titled “Close Encounters of the Heavenly Kind” as Jack’s Video Repair, where Harvey Milsap (Harold J. Stone) attempted to get a job.
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Until next time, Happy Stalking! 
Stalk It: Mother Moo Creamery, from the “Kill Me” episode of Big Little Lies, is located at 17 Kersting Court in Sierra Madre. You can visit the eatery’s official website here.