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Episode 104: Changing of the Guard
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Alett]
Donna to Ellie: "You aren't interrupting me.....I
welcome the interruption."
(Well, Donna, which is it?)
Pam Award: Tie between Phyllis, Pam, and Holly.
Angelica Award: Afton's white trash dress.
Bobby Award: Sly's new hairdo is rather unflattering. Bobby is back to his old tricks again too.
April Award: Sue Ellen for moving back to the ranch to "sort out her feelings".
- JR is so preoccupied with things that his grammar is failing. He tells Sue Ellen to come home to Southfork "where [John Ross's] mama and daddy is". Is? That should be 'are', as in "Jay Are".
- Sue Ellen has a really weird day. She's still wearing the same clothes at the beginning of this episode as she did at the end of the last episode - that's as it should be. But she has a new hair-do! She had time to get a new hair-do at the hospital?
- That's not all. When Sue Ellen is in the hospital, she gets a coffee from the machine and then proceeds to throw it away. I understand that - it was probably really lousy coffee. But where's her purse? How did she pay for it? And how did she pay for the hair-do? [I suppose JR could have paid for that, but why?]
- Speaking of which, where's Afton's purse? I realize she left in a hurry when the paramedics arrived to whisk Cliff away [at which time she had no purse] but certainly, when she arrives the next morning in that god-awful dress, she should have a purse.
- When JR goes to Sue Ellen's place to get John Ross's things, why doesn't he ask Miss Chambers to pack some of Sue Ellen's things? Surely, he expects Sue Ellen to stay at Southfork - this would force her to stay at the ranch. Doesn't this seem like something JR would do?
- When Afton and Sue Ellen are jawing at each other, she says that she belongs to Cliff until he throws her out. Way to be positive, Afton. I hope that after this episode there's no more wondering why Afton is attracted to Cliff even though he is admittedly such a loser.
- Christopher has now turned into Eric Farlow, in whose body he will remain until his mother starts dreaming.
- In a rather surprising twist, Dr. Holliston, who examined Digger a few seasons ago and diagnosed him with neurofibromatosis, is the same doctor who examines Cliff, and he even has the same name. Amazing. Ordinarily people on this show change family doctors more often than their underwear.
- The Cattlemen's Club invested in some new non-slutty uniforms for the waitresses.
- Nice to see that the Ewings have finally allowed Raoul and Theresa to talk. And they are finally the real Raoul and Theresa.
- When Pam first arrives at the hospital, she, Afton, and Rebecca have a scene at Cliff's bedside. At the end of this scene, the camera cuts to Cliff, and Ken Kercheval's jaw moves slightly. I understand how difficult it must have been to shoot this scene, but certainly this is egregious. Cliff is supposed to be in a coma! Comatose people don't move their jaws, or anything else. They don't feel any sensation or pain.
- I understand the need to give Lucy and Muriel some air time and create a little bit of suspense over Lucy's pregnancy. But if Lucy is so concerned about the news getting out [and she obviously is] then why didn't she just go get a home pregnancy test? I'm sure they had those in 1982.
AHN Alett's corner:
- I can see Cliff's ordeal being in the paper, but I doubt it would make the headline of
the front page.
- Donna in shorts. Is this a first? I don't remember seeing any of the women
dressed this way.
- Sue Ellen, Sue Ellen. Not only is she a broken record by first telling Ellie that
she doesn't think it would be a good idea to move into a guest bedroom and then 10 seconds
later telling her how much she'd like to do it, but it's clear she wasted every penny
spent on Dr. Elby. As Clayton so aptly points out, what difference does it make if
Cliff has brain damage or dies? The facts about JR haven't changed. Even Ellie
is annoying here. She's enabling this whole mess. She should be clear-headed enough
to realize it's all voting shares, and Sue Ellen would be better off away from JR.
- That was a great scene with Bobby nailing JR in the nursery. The new Christopher
cries right on cue. Amazing! You'll never see it
again. Usually Eric Farlow is quiet as a mouse.
AHN Val's corner:
- On leaving the Krebbs' place, Miss Ellie thanked Donna for the tea. Problem is, she
didn't drink any. And I don't blame her. Miss Ellie's glass of "iced" tea lacked
the ice. Warm tea on a warm day. Yuck!
- I'm sure everyone noticed Sue Ellen's abrupt hair style change at the hospital. Along
the same lines, Pam seemed to have found time to do some lounging around the pool during
her and Bobby's fact-finding mission to California. Her skin is much tanner than in
yesterday's episode.
AHN Jason's corner:
- JR makes a comment that only people with Southworth and Ewing blood should attend the
meeting of the voters. Uh, JR, that would mean your mama won't qualify. Good point! Hadn't even thought of that.
- Empty purse meter- Pam, Afton, and Rebecca at the hospital. Afton has two I think.
Sue Ellen and Pam at SF. Sue Ellen with Clayton.
- Southfork looks real today. Seems to match the theory someone had about only
shooting on the real one for the first half of the season. It stands to reason. I figure that on average, more than five episodes
worth of footage is shot as Southfork. Probably closer to the first half of the season is
shot in Dallas, and then they move to California. Hence the need for the mid-season
contract renegotiations. It also explains why Morgan Brittany is absent until Episode 120.
- Where were all the yellow flowers JR sent Sue Ellen? I didn't see any roses in her
apartment when JR came to collect John Ross's things. Maybe
Mrs. Chambers forgot to put them in water and they all died.
- Watch Ellie's shoulder strap of her purse. It mysteriously comes off during her
talk with JR by the pool.
AHN Mike's corner:
- Typical JR . First he drops the bomb on Mrs. Chambers about John Ross moving
permanently to SF (putting her in fear of losing her job), then he's condescending to her
and heads straight for the bar.
- Rhetorical question: Why do the Ewings need two refrigerators in the kitchen when hardly
anybody touches a meal, let alone finishes it? For
Theresa and Raoul. Raoul doesn't have that gut by accident. He must eat all the leftovers
and Theresa helps him.
- Bobby greets Kendall at the new offices as though she been there all the time. But isn't
this the first time we've seen her staffing the Ewing suite of offices? Maybe she worked on another floor before and got promoted.
- Another rhetorical question: Why is everybody concerned that Cliff may have a
personality change or brain damage if he recovers? Wouldn't this be an improvement? Also,
in order to have brain damage, isn't it a prerequisite that you must HAVE a brain? Well, the last point is debatable, but I also considered
the first point. I think any change would be an improvement, for sure.
AHN Pam's corner:
- Mrs. Chambers made a very boneheaded remark when J.R. came in: "Are you
alone?" Well did she SEE anyone else with him?
- Mrs. Chambers was loading the dishwasher in Sue Ellen's apartment. Why? Sue
Ellen and John Ross weren't there to make any dishes. I daresay if these dishes were
in the sink since the last time they ate there, I think Mrs. Chambers must be taking
lessons from the Ewings' staff. Or maybe they're
her own dishes. We have a new theory that the STAFF eats more than the Ewings, hence the
number of dishes. It also explains Raoul's girth.
- I have a question about the passage of time. Pam and Bobby found Lucy at Roger's a
couple of episodes ago. It may have only been two weeks ago at the most. So
how would Lucy know that she's pregnant? It seems a little early to tell. Even
physicians pregnancy tests weren't this advanced in 1982. I have to agree with her,
under the circumstances, I'd have an abortion too. I
was confused by this too, but I think what happened was that Lucy got pregnant by Roger
BEFORE she was kidnapped. Then while she was kidnapped he raped her. The child was not
CONCEIVED by the rape, but the psychological scar is there.
- I wonder if Donna was adlibing a bit during the iced tea scene with Ellie. When
she asked Ellie if she'd care for some lemon, BBG seemed confused for a second before
answering.
- The prop guys must have gotten a deal on the those plain glass pitchers and glasses...or
they just keep rinsing them out. Ellie used the same pitcher and glass for her
lemonade that Donna used for the iced tea. The Farlows used this same set at the
Southern Cross last season.
- Once again, John Ross is way too quiet for a three year old. Ellie asked him if he
wanted eggs, and his yes was barely audible. Then when Sue Ellen came in he didn't
scream with excitement to see his mother. Then he didn't even interrupt Ellie and Sue
Ellen during their conversation. This is completely unrealistic. Christopher
seemed to have the same problem until Bobby hit J.R., then he cried, good boy.
Christopher is also going through the same crib syndrome that John Ross did. Get
this child out of that room and outside for some fresh air. Absolutely. It's amazing how these kids turn out to be reasonably
well-adjusted preteens.
- For once Bobby followed the rules of the road. He actually used his turning signal when
turning in to Southfork from the road. I don't think I've ever noticed this before.
Also, they've put in little decorative lights along either side of the drive
leading up to the house. They've also added the tacky spotlight shining on the
house.
Episode 105: Where There's A Will
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Alett]
> John Baxter : "So you said you were waiting for your attorney. Some kind of legal problem?"
[courtesy of Jason and Sara]
> Aunt Lil's letter "Your father, Amos Krebbs..."
Pam Award: Pam visiting Cliff.
Angelica Award: Bobby's friend Carl nudges out Afton and Rebecca's ugly dresses.
Bobby Award: I don't like Lucy's mane, but Sue Ellen's hair still isn't great. Ditto for Bobby.
April Award: John Baxter for being a schmuck and not realizing JR and Serena are setting him up.
- When Sue Ellen comes to see Cliff in the hospital, an establishing shot indicates that it is very late. Aren't visiting hours long over? Otherwise Afton would still be there in a bad dress, right?
From Jack_Ewing: The view from Harve's window with that weird, ugly building, is the same as the former view from Bobby's office (before they remodeled.) Geeze, they're not consistent at all. Make's you wonder why they didn't just rent office space in a few different buildings...they wouldn't have to build sets that way, or worry about continuity.
AHN Dave's corner:
- I'm not sure, but I think JR dials 8 numbers when he calls his
female assistant. Yes. The last might have
been one of the "line" buttons, but he should push that BEFORE dialing the
number.
- They got a vanity plate for the exercise bike?!!!!! Miss Ellie has a bit too much time
on her hands. I thought it was kind of cute.
She probably got it as a present or something.
- That huge book is a will?! Does Jock account for every cent and atom of property? I think the big book represents all of Jock's wills over
the years. He probably changed it more than once, as his sons were born. And Harve says
that he's been Jock's lawyer since before JR was born.
AHN Jason's corner:
- If I were Sue Ellen, I would think twice about leaving John Ross at the ranch.
Even if Ellie promises to watch him, I wouldn't put it past JR to pull some sort of scam
to prevent her from moving him off is she wanted to.
- Empty purse meter- Ellie at lunch with Bobby, Sue Ellen at Southfork, Millie at
Ewing Oil, Afton, Pam, Sue Ellen and Rebecca at the hospital, Afton again at the
hospital,
- I thought it was strange that Phyllis would sit down at the meeting but some of the
department heads would stand. At the very least, shouldn't she sit on Bobby's desk
or something so they can have her chair.
- Lil is called Lilly today. I don't think she is ever referred by this name again.
- Just a note.. Harve must have some really young siblings. Harve said to JR that he
was Jock's lawyer since before JR was born.. that was 1939. That means Harve was probably
at least 24 or so at that time. Say 1917. John here looks to be about 25 at the most
in 1982 .. Let's assume his wife is the same age. Born in 1957 or so. So
assume Harve's sibling was born
30 years earlier... 1927.. I guess it would work but just seems to be a big age difference
between uncle and niece.. Same thing with Harve and Anita. Seems like they should
grandfather and granddaughter instead. That's
questionable. I have to think about it a bit.
- Just a note. Charlene Tilton was pregnant in real life at this point. I
don't think they will show her stomach again for a while since she will start to show.
I remember reading an article in a tabloid (in 1982) about how she converted
over to being a Born Again Christian and how (allegedly) they were going to write her
pregnancy in to the show. Apparently they decided against having any more kids running
around SF.
- I have to wonder why JR doesn't go in his office with the will... or at least turn on a
light to read it. He reads it in the dark while sitting on Phyllis's desk. I guess it's more for effect than anything else. Good
point.
AHN Val's corner:
- When Donna went out to the range to see Ray, she brought him a can of beer to drink.
First of all, when doing hard cowboy labor in the hot Texas sun, beer is not that great of
a thirst quencher. In fact, alcohol has a dehydrating effect on the body. Secondly, since
it is most likely the middle of the word day, Ray shouldn't be drinking on the job. Donna
should have known better and brought her man a thermos of water or a bottle of Gatorade.
Tsk, tsk, tsk, Donna! Frankly, Val, do you think
Cro-Magnon Man cares?
- The Cirrus Room appears to be a high class joint. It's located in a high rise building,
and has a great view of the city. The place seems to be frequented by JR, as the waitress
called him by name! So why, oh why, oh WHY does the high-flying Cirrus Room have such
CHEAP, tacky dining chairs?!?!?! And I'm not talking about the big, red upholstered ones
in which JR was sitting. I mean those hideous brown things. You know the ones: heavy gauge
metal frame, covered in ugly brown vinyl, with a cut-out on top to aid in moving the
chair. These are commonly found in the local hole-in-the-wall diner or hotel banquet hall,
not five-star restaurants!
- When Miss Ellie was riding her stationary bike, the background sound effects used
sounded more like someone barreling up the driveway (a la Digger Barnes in the
"Reunion" episode). I halfway expected a confrontation, but alas it was only Sue
Ellen coming to pick up John Ross!
- There's something strange about Bobby's new office door. Oh yeah! It's actually an
EXTERIOR front entry door, commonly found on houses in upper-middle class suburban
neighborhoods built during the early-eighties. (When I was a child, the house across the
street had one just like it.) The set decorator must have known someone in the
construction biz.
- Cliff got a new phone. He got tired of his old yellow one and stole the white one off
the counter of Sue Ellen's townhouse.
AHN Alett's corner:
- All of Pam's tough love berating Cliff for his suicide attempt is a bit hypocritical.
Her swan dive off the top of a building was only prevented by Bobby. Again
all this about everyone making mistakes but they bounce back is annoying too. Her
bounce back was because of Bobby and Christopher not her own efforts. She even
brings in "Mama". She never thought about what her suicide would have done
to Mama.
- It doesn't seem very realistic that Ewing Oil is cutting everything back by 25% but
Bobby doesn't want any cut backs on the crews. Saint Bobby is going to pay them all
full wages when they're only doing 75% of their jobs. And
that's why you and all the other girls love him, right?
- Aunt Lil's letter says they still can't afford Amos's care even after he was moved to
the charity ward. Doesn't charity ward mean that the state is picking up the tab?
She doesn't say it's just the original bills they're still paying on. I'm not too sure about that - I would assume that the
charity ward means Medicare, but perhaps not.
- I'm surprised Harve has a daughter young enough to have married John Baxter. I wonder
just how old Harriet is! Maybe Harve's wife is
younger too.
- Pam's not very tactful when she asks Lucy if she knows who the father is. She
should have just said, "Who is the father?" Now that the thorny issue of
abortion is being brought up again, I wouldn't be surprised if we see Lucy taking up horse
riding. LOL! Fortunately that won't be the case.
AHN Sara's corner:
- How the hell did John Baxter not hear JR loudly entering the condo? Clearly his brain is still focused on Serena's goodies.
- Surprising that new Smithfield and Bennett employee John Baxter knew all about the terms
of Jock's will. It's probably been a topic of
debate around the office. I'll bet there was a scene between Harve and John, just before
JR arrived, that was cut.
- Lucy needs to get a new doctor. Dr. Grosvenor discussed her and his concerns about
her to Pam, an obvious violation of his confidientiality oath. Lucy may have said that it was alright, since Pam came with her. I
suspect that some of this might have been cut too.
AHN Mike's corner:
- Christopher is wearing a shirt with what appears to be a huge alligator logo on
front. Izod designer baby clothes?
- Was that the actress who later played Dora Mae who waited on the Ewings and the
Andersons? I wasn't looking that closely but I
doubt it. I'll look again.
Episode 106: The Billion Dollar Question
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Alett]
> Ray: "Instead of mailing that [the book] to the
post office."
(Ray, she's mailing it to the publisher, not the post office.)
Pam Award: Pam in her tight pink dress.
Angelica Award: Sue Ellen's striped swimsuit.
Bobby Award: Bobby by default.
April Award: Nothing too terrible. Jason suggests Cliff for trusting Marilee's job offer.
- Yet again, Bobby only dials six numbers when he calls Harve Smithfield. Please, Bobby, try. Try for us, the fans.
- Ray has a brain spasm when talking to Aunt Lil. She ends her conversation by saying, "It'll be nice to see you." Ray responds, "me too." Now I understand that everyone does this sometimes - I do it a lot, when I'm idly making small talk with someone. So it's not a real nit. I just thought I'd point it out.
- When JR is talking to Nelson Harding, Nelson asks JR if he's being asked to do anything illegal. This is in plain hearing of the waitress. I'd want to keep this sort of question quiet if I were him.
- When John Ross comes to the Southern Cross, we see him happily swimming in the pool with Sue Ellen. So she left some of his clothes, including swimming trunks, in San Angelo? Or did JR bring them with him? Odd.
- And speaking of which, why is Sue Ellen constantly in a bathing suit at the Southern Cross? Is this at Clayton's insistence?
AHN Val's corner:
- Miss Ellie stated that she'd been thinking about the Oil Baron's Ball since having
DINNER with Punk and Mavis. This is incorrect. She and Bobby had LUNCH with the Andersons.
As they sat down at the restaurant, one of them even pointed out that it had been awhile
since they had lunch together. Good call. I
completely forgot about that.
- Donna said she was going to the post office in Dallas to mail her manuscript. Why not
just go to the post office in Braddock? It's closer. And from what I've seen, Braddock is
a large enough town to support a post office, and I'm sure it has one. Maybe the Braddock office is unreliable. Or maybe [snicker] Bonnie
works there!
- When they arrived at Southfork, Mavis declined Ellie's invitation to come inside, citing
that Punk doesn't like it if she's not there when he gets home. Something disturbed me
about that comment. Mainly, I wondered how Punk might react if he did come home to an
empty house. Would he throw a royal fit and resort to violence when Mavis finally did come
home? I think our Punk Anderson has a dark side to which we viewers are not privy. I was never really fond of Punk but he's rather popular
amongst the viewers. No clue why. That WAS sort of an odd comment.
AHN Alett's corner:
- The invitation is to The Oil Baron's Ball. This means there is only one oil
baron. It should read Oil Barons'. Yes it
should. I think I'm guilty of this too.
- They're very careful to keep saying this is a "therapeutic" abortion. It's
not, so this just seems to be a way to cover themselves as a hospital. If anyone was
going to have a therapeutic abortion, it would have been Pam. She's under no obligation to
confess this to Lucy, but it again does make her seem a little hypocritical. Lucy
never does receive the counseling she should have before making such a serious decision. Tough call. It is psychologically therapeutic, if not
physically.
- It seems goofy that Lil says, "Raymond, this is your aunt, Lil Trotter." She's
recently written to him. No one else calls him Raymond. She should just say,
"This is your Aunt Lil." Yup. This is
just for the two people in the Ukraine who wouldn't have been able to figure it out.
AHN Jason's corner:
- Empty purse meter- Pam and Lucy at the doctors, Holly at dinner with Bobby,
Ellie with Mavis, Pam and Lucy at the hospital, Afton and Rebecca with Cliff. Pam
may have had another empty purse when she went to collect Lucy from the
hospital. I honestly lost track.
- Pam tells Lucy that she had the same empty feeling when she had her miscarriage... uh
which one? Perhaps it doesn't matter, but I
see your point. Probably the second one, in which she told Sue Ellen she felt empty.
- Some more good continuity here. Lucy is to meet Dr. Crane, an OB, I believe.
I am assuming this is the same Dr. Crane who was Sue Ellen's delivery doctor Season
One. If not, amazing coincidence.
AHN Mike's corner:
- Have you noticed that huge ceramic coffee pot used in the SF outdoor sequences the
last two days? Why do the Ewings need such a large container? Nobody ever takes more than
a few sips of coffee before leaving their entire breakfast on the plate and running off.
- Is Pete the ranch-hand beconing a semi-regular? First he drove Miss Ellie to Donna's and
we heard him called Pete. Then he's walking horses with Ray and is called Pete. Or are all
SF ranch-hands called Pete, just like all the household staff must be named Raoul and
Teresa? It's possible. Or maybe Pete is a family
member of one of the crew, and so he's cheaper than hiring different actors every day.
- Bobby is a real high class guy, eating dinner at a place whose outside sign says
"Restaurant". Even if Pam was at the hospital with Lucy, why wouldn't he go home
to eat with the rest of the family. Oh? He read the script and knew Holly would be there? Apparently he did.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Alett]
> Dusty : "The problem wasn't physical."
> Sue Ellen : "Are you telling me it was psychological?"
Pam Award: I vote for Holly at the ball. All the other ladies looked pretty ordinary.
Angelica Award: Donna's mint green ensemble she wore on arrival to Aunt Lil's house. Or Holly's boob-flattening top she wore on the boat. Sue Ellen's ball dress was bad.
Bobby Award: Frank Crutcher.
April Award: Aunt Lil for complaining about her wayward son but not having the gumption to DO something about it, like be a parent. I'd give a special mention to whichever writer came up with the Frank Crutcher character.
- I have only one nit for today. Why is CLAYTON at the Oil Baron's Ball? Certainly he's an Oil Baron and he deserves to go, but if he was going, why wouldn't he have mentioned this to Sue Ellen? She's discussed going to the ball ad nauseum. You'd think they'd have talked about it.
AHN Alett's corner:
- Linda seemed to be a pretty decent sort until that bit about naming their first little
girl "Sue Ellen". Is this a little passive-aggressive of her or just plain
dumb? No woman in her right mind would name her child after the husband's old
girlfriend. I'd say she's just dumb.
- I guess Donna is fidgeting because she's concerned about Ray, but it looks weird that
she's only wearing one glove at the funeral and playing with the other one.
- Since we're told Jock loved going to the ball, it's odd we've never seen one before
especially since this is the 30th one.
- It sounds like Holly's date is from an escort service or something. He doesn't
even rank high enough for her to introduce him using his full name. He's just
"Jordan". Do YOU want to know more about
him? Actually, I think we see him again.
AHN Val's corner:
- Mickey has the yellowest teeth I've seen since that whitening toothpaste commercial
where a woman at a party takes a liking to a guy across the room. Until he smiles.......
AHN Jason's corner:
- Empty purse meter- Sue Ellen, Pam and Ellie at the ball. Ellie and Mavis at Southfork, Sue Ellen at Southern Cross
- Margaret Krebbs died in 1961 and then sent 15 year old Ray to Jock at SF. Didn't Ray get a piece of land in 1978 for 20 years of service to SF? Maybe I have the amount of years he worked there wrong. No, I think you're right.
AHN Mike's corner:
- I don't own The Cowboy's Dress Code Guide, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't call for a
WHITE cowboy hat at funerals like Ray wore. Maybe
he only brought his white one...but he knew he was going to a funeral, so he could have
prepared. Good call.
- Ray mows Lil's lawn with a hand mower? Wake up Ray, you're a friggin' multimillionaire.
Buy Aunt Lil a power mower and maybe Mickey would use it occasionally and we wouldn't have
to look at you (again) with your shirt off. I hear
you, but remember that Aunt Lil has no clue that Ray is Jock's son. That would upset the
delicate balance of Emporia.
- And why did Ray miss the OBB? Shopuldn't he have been there for the Jock scholarship as
one of Jock's (albeit half-breed) sons? I guess it
wasn't so important to him. Usually the OBB, like barbecues, is for showing us the way
relationships are changing. This had nothing to do with that.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of me]
> Pam: "What would Jock have to hide from his
family?"
Yikes! Where do I begin?
[courtesy of everyone else]
> Mickey: "Better than doing time..."
> Donna-: "You mean in jail?"
Pam Award: Pam in her lil' black dress.
Angelica Award: Donna's goonish bandanna when arriving home from Kansas. Lucy and Sue Ellen's outfits got mentions.
Bobby Award: Frank Crutcher. This is gonna be easy while he's around.
April Award: None.
- Harve's glasses have earpieces today, which is odd. Ordinarily he just pulls them off his nose.
- Sue Ellen got rid of that stupid horse statue by the door and replaced it with a lamp! Good!
- I'll defer to the car buffs on this one because I can't tell exactly what Ray is driving when he goes to the gas station, but my hunch would be that it's quite a guzzler. If Ray wants to fill it up, shouldn't it take a lot longer than the few moments Mickey has the pump in it? It takes me longer than that to pump fifteen dollars into my minivan.
- There's some non-Theresa maid serving drinks at Southfork. Who is she?
- When JR and Sue Ellen are talking about his foreknowledge of what's in Jock's will, she tells him "I know what I'm talking about." I think this is a first! Usually Sue Ellen doesn't know what ANYONE is talking about.
- Two things confused me about Jock's will. First, Harve says that a trust will provide for all the grandchildren [other than Lucy] when they reach the age of 21. It will be divided amongst them depending on how many there are at the time. What time would that be? If there are any other Ewing grandkids, they will all become 21 at different times. So which time? When John Ross, the eldest, becomes 21? Or perhaps the youngest? How long will they wait? This doesn't make sense. Even when John Ross reaches the age of 21, it is possible [though unlikely] that more grandchildren will be born. Any one of the Ewing sons could marry a younger woman and make that happen.
- And second, why didn't Jock allow for Amanda, his first wife, in any of the trusts? Remember when he told JR that he wanted to set it up, in the second season? So why didn't he? And if he did, why not mention her?
AHN NIS submitted: Jock's will stated that nobody but a Ewing shall own Ewing Oil. I wonder if it was legal when Bobby sold the company to Lee Ann de la Vega. I don't think Jock meant this in 'legal' terms - I think he meant that no member of the family should ever sell their share to a non-Ewing. Bear in mind that the Ewing Oil we know ceases to exist in 1987, and then Bobby revives it as a new entity which happens to have the same name. So even if there was a legal issue, Bobby could just say that it was a different company, not the one talked about in Jock's will.
AHN Jason's corner:
- Lucy dials five or six digits to call Blair.
- I was surprised to see Sue Ellen and John Ross at her place. I thought
that they moved to Southfork and then Sue Ellen went to see Clayton. Did TNN cut
out some scenes where she decided to move back to her condo? I
think so. She moves back until the wedding.
- Empty Purse: Sue Ellen at SF
- Not even a mention of Val or Abby at the airport when Gary arrives. I think I
read somewhere that Donna Mills was originally supposed to guest star on this
episode but something happened last minute that prevented her from coming.
I remember hearing that on an episode of Knots, they show a scene where JR and
Bobby meet with her after the will reading, supposedly in Dallas. JR and
her have some plan going where she was to marry Gary for
his money and this "deferred" interest thing in the will somehow
affects it.
- Notice that the second cowboy mysteriously appears up the walkway as Ray and
Mickey arrive at the bunkhouse. Only one cowboy was seen coming out of the
house.
AHN Alett's corner:
- Harve seems to save the pince-nez for when he wants to look lawyerly, like in
court. Otherwise he's in those "adoption lady" style brown
frames.
- There probably aren't many flights out to Dallas. Amazingly Aunt Lil has
the flight schedule memorized!
- I'm surprised that the issue of declaring Jock dead never deals with the
obvious issue of what's happened in the cases of the pilot and others in the
helicopter. Have their families had them declared dead yet? I would
think that would play a key role in the judge's decision. Another
very excellent point! Hadn't thought of that at all.
AHN Sara's corner:
- JR and Sue Ellen must have stayed out really late because when they get back
to Sue Ellen's place you can see that it's daylight through her window. I
thought so too but figured it might just be some weird lighting.
- Ray's not sure if he can get a plane back in time for Jock's will reading. He
should ask Bobby for some help, because he can get a plane to anywhere at
anytime.
- Jock is declared legally dead "in places unknown, in the jungles of South
America." I think they could have been a little more specific than
that. They at least knew what country the plane crashed in if nothing else.
AHN Mike's corner:
- Hypocrite award: Pam preaching to Lucy about depression, etc. Lucy by the way
is an absolute blimp in this episode. She looks like she's about to explode and
that red clown outfit she's wearing in the living room accentuates her blimpness.
I guess she was pregnant during these episodes. Actually,
I think she's had the baby and is trying to lose the weight. In most of her
kidnapped episodes, and scenes with Muriel, she's only seen from the boobs up.
- And why were JR and Sue Ellen dancing so close to the trumpet player? He was
practically playing into JR's ear.
- Punk wears a regular suit and tie to dinner!
- Once again the mail arrives at SF before breakfast. Those Ewings must have
some pull in Braddock County to get the post office to be that efficient.
- Just to make sure Sue Ellen has no second thoughts about Dusty, JR is now
wearing Dusty's scarves.
- Harve is wearing a humongous pinky ring and trots out the full glasses for the
will reading. But how come Harve is not being seconded in court by his
son-in-law? It would have been a nice touch to have JR's co-conspirator there
for the hearing to get the will read. I
suppose you're right. I guess it's so they don't have to pay him, but this was
the season when the producers opened up the vault, so that doesn't make a whole
lot of sense.
- On the trust fund for the grandchildren, the amount of the trust was
noticeably not mentioned. No, because the
producers have no idea what to say about it. I'm frankly amazed they mentioned
it at all because the whole idea was handled so poorly.
AHN Val's corner:
- During their drive through Emporia, Ray told Donna that they controlled the train signals from "that house". What house? They didn't pass any houses between the tracks and the gas station.
I wasn't too sure about this either. I think someone was hallucinating.
- When they returned to Sue Ellen's house from their date, JR hung his hat on the horse statue by the door. I thought that was a funny way of hiding the ugly.
- After she answered the phone, Aunt Lil told "Ray" that the call was for him. Until now, she had been referring to him as "Raymond".
It's possible that Ellie asked for "Ray". That's a great one! Can't believe I missed it.
- Ray has curtains on his garage door windows. What's the point? Donna must be REALLY bored.
AHN Pam's corner:
- The whole idea of Ray going to talk to Mickey must have given Donna the creeps
since she felt the need to change her clothes. When he left, she was wearing tan
pants, a blouse with cranberry stripes and a high collar with a small ruffle and
her hair was pulled up. When Ray returned she was wearing tan pants, but a
shade darker, a blouse with teal stripes with a teal polo underneath for the
very popular 80's layered look, and her hair was down.
- Does J.R. have a stash of clothes at Sue Ellen's place? They arrived
together at Southfork the morning after their 'date' and J.R. was wearing a
sport coat, a scarf from the Dusty Collection and a hat. When he picked
Sue Ellen up the night before, he had on a tux. After the whole wedding
invitation thing, I assume he got lucky and spent the night. So where did
he get the clothes?
- Mrs. Chambers is completely incompetent. She told J.R. she was having
trouble getting John Ross in to his chair for dinner. I realize she is the
hired help and not his mother, but let me ask this, who is the adult and who is
the child? If neither of his parents were around and it was meal time and
John Ross was being 'difficult' what would she do, let him starve? John Ross
didn't seem 'difficult' I would think he'd be screaming bloody murder if he
wanted to play rather than eat. He also should be jumping all over J.R.
when he walked in and not wanting to eat because he's too busy screaming
"Daddy's here! Daddy's here!" Quite
right all around. She must subscribe to the Aunt Lil method of parenting:
shrugging your shoulders.
- Someone mentioned once that sliding doors don't have locks that can be opened
from the outside. This is true, I have one and I can't unlock it from the
outside. So do Donna and Ray have some special sliding door? She
asked Ray for the keys and he handed them to her and she opened the sliding
door. Which also brings up the point as to why Donna didn't have a set in her
empty purse, she had plenty of room for them. They
must have done something special on this particular door.
- Empty purse meter: Sue Ellen when coming home from her date with J.R.,
Sue Ellen at Southfork, Donna when arriving home from Kansas, Gary had an empty
suitcase at the airport, Ray took his and Donna's empty luggage out of the trunk
when they arrived home. Mickey's duffle bag actually looked full!
- During the opening scene, it looked like Bobby almost slipped and then caught
himself on the way upstairs to get Ellie.
- Lucy was so depressed that she was sitting around watching game shows in her
nightie, but not too depressed enough to skip fluffing her hair and dipping
heavily in to the cosmetics.
- Ellie greeted Sue Ellen and J.R. with a hearty "Good morning" and
asked if they'd had breakfast. She should have noticed that they must have
'slept' in very late and should have wished them 'good afternoon' and asked them
if they'd had lunch. The sun was directly overhead indicating that it was
at least noon or later.
- Shouldn't Punk have been referred to in the codicil as Marvin Anderson, his
legal name, not Punk Anderson? This is a handwritten document, but Jock referred
to himself as John Ross Ewing Senior, his legal name so I should think he would
do the same with Punk.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Jason]
> JR: "I have a battle ahead of me."
> Sue Ellen: "Against Bobby?"
Pam Award: Sue Ellen on her walk with Clayton, or Holly.
Angelica Award: Rebecca's frumpy "as big as a" housedress.
Bobby Award: Rebecca again.
April Award: Rebecca for giving Cliff another chance even though no one else, including Cliff, wants him to get back at JR anymore.
- Punk says that he was with Jock when he made the decision about the contest for Ewing Oil and added the codicil to his will. But a few days ago Harve said he did that before he left for South America. Punk and Harve should talk.
- Pam's blue dress at the beginning of this episode is recycled from a few days ago. And speaking of recycled, I don't think Afton has taken off that blue blouse since Cliff came home.
- Christopher is definitely not played by Eric Farlow today. I don't seem to recall the producers playing musical babies at this point, but I guess I'm wrong.
- And while we're at it, that non-Theresa maid makes another appearance today.
- I have a question to ask the guys out there. When Pam asked Christopher whether he wanted to take a bath with her, did anyone else raise his hand or blurt out "yes"? Just curious.
- When Pam tells Bobby about the upcoming adoption hearing, he grabs her and they fall onto their bed - which looks like two boxsprings without a mattress. That's not going to be very comfortable.
From Moran: When Pam and Miss Ellie are talking, Teresa informs Pam that she has a phone call. She calls her "Pamela", which seems very informal.
AHN NIS submitted: When Pam goes to see Bobby at Ewing Oil, it's daytime outside. Inside they said they were going to dinner and it was dark outside the window. Yes it was.
AHN Jason's corner:
- Lucy should be ticked that her dad didn't spend time with her in the last episode. It is the last time they are ever seen together on Dallas. Yes, I believe that's right. But of course it would be too much to ask of her to go to California, wouldn't it?
- Empty purse meter (hold on tight...)
Pam at SF, Rebecca at Cliff's, Sue Ellen with Clayton, Lucy at Blair's, Pam at
Rebecca's, Afton with Cliff at his place, Afton with Cliff eating ice cream, Pam
at Southfork again, Pam at Ewing Oil, Afton at Cliff's again, Sue Ellen at
dinner with JR.
- Is that the same Wade Luce? He looks kinda different. I
think he shaved the mustache.
- Loved it when Rebecca said, "When my son needed me, I wasn't there
for him." Gee, what else is new? Yeah,
I missed that.
AHN Val's corner:
- Punk wore a regular necktie today, instead of a bolo tie.
- WILL DIVIDES EWING OIL made the front page of the Dallas Press. The most likely place for this story would be on the front page of the BUSINESS section.
- Rebecca was buying "the entire assets, goodwill, and name" of Wade Luce Oil Company. What on earth would she want with the name?
I'm not positive. It might have to do with the company's status in the cartel.
JREwing354 adds:
What Rebecca said is redundant because goodwill includes the name. For
example, let's say she bought the company for two million dollars when it was
only worth 1.5 million dollars. The extra half a million is considered a
payment of goodwill. Rebecca paid this because she received an established
business, customer base, loyalty, product lines, location, and name, all of
which could be very valuable.
- Something bothers me about the layout of Cliff's kitchen. The range and refrigerator are right next to each other. While I'm not an architect, I would think that such placement would cause those appliances' respective functions to counteract each other. For instance, if Cliff had the stove and oven running full boar (it could happen), wouldn't the heat generated require the
adjoining refrigerator to work twice as hard to keep the food inside cold? I would think so.
I've never really thought about it. We had this kind of setup in our last house and my mom didn't seem to mind. No idea.
- Cliff had the brown and browner placemats today.
AHN Sara's corner:
- When JR walked into his office for the first time since being fired his
computer was on.
- Pam should watch what she says around Miss Ellie. Today she mentioned
that Bobby was meeting with some Canadian oil people at Fairview hotel.
How does she know that Miss Ellie won't accidentally tell this to JR? This
is a great point from an objective standpoint, but as you know, Pam doesn't give
a damn about the whole contest.
- The ice cream lady appeared to have forgotten to put her clothes on, instead
going out in public and selling ice cream to children and Afton wearing
lingerie. It seemed that way...sort of. I
think in fairness it was really a thin lacy blouse and too-short shorts. Street
walker stuff.
- The ice cream lady also got Afton's cones in record time. I
can imagine chocolate not being tough, but I don't think pistachio is near the
front of the freezer.
AHN Mike's corner:
- Once again Punk opts for a normal tie and sportcoat but is wearing some
sort of metal tips on his collar tabs. Have you noticed that Punk has completely
lost that hard, even nasty, edge he had in the prior two seasons? Now he's Saint
Punk. Must be Mavis's influence.
- JR returned to a completely redesigned and refurbished office.
- If the reading of the Ewing will was front page news in Dallas, how come no
reporter covered the trial either inside or outside the courtroom? The divorce
certainly got its share of manic media types scurrying around. Excellent
call. They may all have been kept outside.
- Only a loser like Cliff would like pistachio ice cream. Did you notice that
Afton had a napkin around her cone and handed Cliff the one without a napkin? In
the final exchange of dialogue, you can see the melting ice cream actually had
dripped down the cone and into Cliff's hand. And, of course, in true Dallas
tradition neither of them touched their cones. I
didn't notice the dripping. I wonder how many takes they did of this.
AHN Pam's corner:
- There was one empty purse missed. Ellie also carried one while she
was walking with Punk. Pam was also carrying an empty bag when she arrived
at Southfork.
- Ellie's 'stationary' bike seems to move all over the place. Yesterday
she was riding it near the breakfast table. Today she was riding it near
the driveway. So much for the bike being 'stationary'. I'd
like to see Raoul carrying it around - just once.
- Sue Ellen must be moving her things in to Southfork. Ellie snagged her
plain beige placemats for the breakfast table outside. Also, when Ellie
remodeled the house she bought new outdoor china. It used to be plain
white. But today when Bobby lifted his coffee cup at the breakfast table,
there was a peach flower with green foliage on the cup.
- Bobby played a Ewing grandchild today when he left nearly a full plate of food
at the breakfast table. I think it would be great to see Raoul and Theresa
clear the table after a meal and watch them start chowing the leftovers. No
question they do. That's why Raoul's so fat.
- Pam brought Bobby that really cool mock J.R. punching bag and he asked Phyllis
to put it in his office. I think she took it home because I don't believe
we ever see it again. I don't believe so
either. Probably JR had it removed.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Jason]
> JR: "I have a battle ahead of me."
> Sue Ellen: "Against Bobby?"
Pam Award: Pam at home with Bobby. Carol Driscoll looks pretty good too.
Angelica Award: Lucy's Hamburglar outfit during her modeling session. Pam's clown outfit when talking to and meeting Rebecca. Sly's blue dress was rather unflattering.
Bobby Award: Even Frank Crutcher can't outdo that dude who takes Carol's money after the accident.
April Award: Carol Driscoll for trying to pay her way out of an accident.
- Bobby is really being nice about the split of Ewing oil fields. He allows JR to take fields 1 through 17, and he takes 18 through 34. Doesn't he remember that Ewing 23 partially burned up? Or are the other fields more valuable, and this makes up for the deficiency? Or is there a new Ewing 23? This is never addressed.
- I love John Larroquette. I think he's a fantastic actor and Dan Fielding from Night Court was one of my favorite characters ever on television. But there is a nit as to his presence on the show. Why isn't Harve or one of his associates representing Lucy in her divorce? If there was just a need to get Larroquette on the show, they could have had him be one of Harve's employees, couldn't they? Just seems kind of odd.
- Here's something I found weird. When speaking to Sue Ellen and
Miss Ellie, Pam refers to Rebecca...as Rebecca. Why? Shouldn't she call her 'mama' or
'mom'? I never refer to my mother by her first name. Strange family, that Barnes clan:
they refer to Digger as 'Digger' too. Bizarre.
- ANDY BRADLEY SPEAKS! We'll start chalking this one up on the tote
board.
- Why is there that wild music playing during Lucy's modeling session? Is it supposed to be mood music? How come we've never heard it in any of Lucy's other shoots?
- And speaking of the shoot, why in the world would Dan Fielding...I mean, Mr. Colton call Lucy there? Why would he not have called Southfork and left a message? Where did he get the studio's number?
- This one is pretty egregious. Bobby Ewing, co-president pro tem of Ewing Oil, the largest independent oil company in Texas, needs to hear about Wentworth Industries' acquisition of Luce Oil from his SECRETARY after she reads the evening paper? This is the kind of thing he should know at 9:06 AM the day after the sale is completed. It's his business.
- Rebecca claims that she was seventeen when she left Digger and the kids. Jason will have more to say about this, but let me just point out this one thing. If she's telling the truth [and there's no guarantee of that] then she is, roughly speaking, sixteen years older than Pamela. It's been established that Pamela was born in 1953 so is twenty-nine. So Becky is forty-five? Right. Tell me another one.
- Carol's driving accident is way too over-the-top. Yes, she's jerking that car around rather quickly, but by the way the camera was moving it seemed to be like she was doing sixty [that's thirty-five for you folks in the States] in the PARKING LOT. And unless that "drunk" guy's skin is made of some sort of brick, there's no way that such an accident could cause Carol's windshield to shatter into a billion pieces the way it did.
- When Bobby arrives at the restaurant to meet with the McLeish boys, he sits down and suddenly Thornton moves his chair closer to his brother's. This was to get a better camera angle but it looks really weird.
- If the Driscolls have a maid, why did Walt have to answer the phone when JR called? [Good help must be so hard to find in Dallas.]
Julia Cinemar submitted: The big day has arrived: Donna's book has been published! I love it how she referred to the book as "600 pages of blood, sweat and tears" and yet the finished product is about 400 pages short. Not only that, but while Dave was paging through it, it looked like 40% of the work was pictures. You'd think that after all that blood, sweat and tears, Donna would be ticked off that her book is the size of a Nancy Drew novel.
AHN NIS submitted: Walt Driscoll doesn't notice the windshield on his wife's car is cracked in a big way? Maybe he didn't park next to her. Good point! Harry did say that she tries to get home early before he gets there, but this would have been difficult to hide. Maybe for a day or two, but eventually Walt would notice, right?
AHN Dave submitted: Why is Ellie on the side of the dinner table instead of across from that guy? (What's his name?) Frank Crutcher? I really dislike this guy. This is a good question - he doesn't look like the kind of guy I'd want to get too close to. With him as an alternative, Clayton Farlow's looking mighty good.
AHN Jason's corner:
- I found it humorous that Afton said Marilee was so nice about letting Cliff
leave her job.... Like he did anything for her anyway. She was probably
glad to get rid of him.
- Why did Harve give Punk the letter to read after the "final" audit
when that is a year away? In terms of the show, this will mean that the
viewers would have had to wait a calendar year to find out about that letter.
Rather long for them to hold on about a little detail like that. But
at least that letter isn't thrust on us out of nowhere. I'd say this is a neat
little nuance.
- Pam's phone call to Rebecca sounded fake. She seems to dial 5 or so
digits then after a ring starts to talk without hearing a "hello". I'll
look at this again. I was too busy paying attention to Pam's clown outfit.
- Empty purse meter- Sue Ellen at SF and the restaurant, Pam and Rebecca
at her house, Lucy at her lawyer's, Carol at the salon (although she must have
had keys and cash in it although we don't see it.)
- I have to wonder even if Mitch was the type of guy to want Lucy's money, would
he get part of her inheritance months after they have split? I am not sure
inheritances are community property. Technically
he could have a claim. Terri Thomas tells me that when a couple is married or
even common-law, unless there are special provisions made or specific contracts
drawn up, all property is considered to belong to "them". A divorce
ends this "themness" so that neither has any claims over the other's
property. Mitch would have to make a pretty good case that some of the money
belongs to him but he could take Lucy to court over it.
- Rebecca claims to have been 17 when she left Digger and the kids. I am not
saying it is impossible but from what I have seen, she sure didn't look that
young in the flashback in #52. Also, this means that she had 4 kids by that
age, since Pam was born before she left Digger. I also find it hard to
swallow that she couldn't read or write but was able to teach herself these
skills (according to Clayton) and then put herself through secretary school and
then work her way into becoming Herbert Wentworth's secretary. Not bad for a 17
year illiterate bigamist.
AHN Val's corner:
- Rebecca told Pam that she plans to fence the pool for when Christopher comes to visit. Good idea. EXCELLENT idea. Too bad said fence never materializes. Oh wait...I know
why...BIDLC!!!!!
- Mrs. Driscoll goes the the hair dresser EVERY OTHER DAY!?!?! So she's dumb, shallow, AND has too much time on her hands! Most women I know (myself included) are lucky to get to the hair dresser once a month!
- The decor of the Cattleman's Club (specifically where Sue Ellen and JR were seated) looked
exactly like the apartment kitchen on "Three's Company". The orange-yellow plaid wallpaper and wood ice cream parlor chairs were a dead giveaway.
- JR asked Harry if he'd gotten Mrs. Driscoll's license plate number. I'd think he'd already have it, considering how much he's been digging into her personal affairs.
He was just being morbidly funny, I think.
- The exterior, nighttime shot of the Krebbs' house shows Donna's OLD car (a Lincoln Continental, similar to Jocks). She has since gotten a new car--a Lincoln Town Car.
AHN Mike's corner:
- The Steve Kanaly school of acting was prominent in the craps scene with
Mickey and the boys, Kanaly gritted and spoke through clenched teeth the entire
scene.
- Laughable dialogue: Walt Driscoll to Harry McSween on the hit and run accident
- "Sergeant, we're awfully sorry.". Yeah, that's the ticket. A sincere
apology will get you off the hook for this one.
AHN Pam's corner:
> Empty purse meter: Pam and Rebecca during their meeting, Sue Ellen
at Southfork, Afton and Rebecca at Cliff's office, Marilee and Sue Ellen at the
Cattleman's and Lucy at her lawyer's office.
- Speaking of Lucy's photo session, the photographer, Annie I believe, said it
was their first session together. So WHY was the CLIENT sitting there??
Lucy and Annie should have spent some time together BEFORE bringing in a client.
Also, if I were trying to sell 'Texas Cola' I wouldn't dress Lucy up like a
matador ready for a bull fight. I'd probably dress her in some type of
cowboy outfit from the Ray Collection. That
would have been at the client's insistence, for sure. Why they're there is a
good question. Obviously it's so Lucy can meet Bill Johnson, but there's no
other good reason.
- Mrs. Driscoll goes to the hairdresser for a two hour appointment twice a
week?? I don't know ANYONE who does this. I don't even think Sue
Ellen or Pam does this. She's also really getting ripped off! Her
hair was definitely nothing special that she couldn't do with a curling iron
like most women did back then. Also, her salon didn't seem like it was in the
best part of town. I should think that if she were going to a salon twice
a week, she'd be there with some pretty wealthy women who would not patronize a
shop in that neighborhood. These last few
are great points. Maybe she's from the wrong side of the tracks too, and just
keeps going to the old salon.
- Walt should have suspected something was up between J.R. and McSween.
When McSween first arrived, they acted as if they barely knew each other,
acquaintances. J.R. called him McSween and McSween called J.R. Mr. Ewing.
Later, J.R. called McSween Harry. This should have tipped off Walt to
their plot, because it all seemed very phony from the first second. I
guess Walt was just too concerned over his blonde ditz to notice. I
also noticed that but I was making notes so I figured I might have missed
something.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Alett]
> Jordan Lee [on phone to Cliff] :
"Can you make it over to the Cattlemen's about now?"
(Well, not unless Cliff can fax himself over there.)
Pam Award: Pam's lil' black dress again.
Angelica Award: Lucy's pregnant six-year-old outfit. Unanimous decision.
Bobby Award: Frank Crutcher.
April Award: None.
- Let's see. Ellie's at the custody hearing. Rebecca is at the custody hearing...why isn't Cliff at the custody hearing? Instead, he's busy trying to cut oil deals. Serves him right. Then again, did Pam even invite him?
- Ray doesn't close the back on his pickup truck when he goes riding with Mickey. I guess he knows every bump on the road at Southfork and realizes that there's no darn way any of his stuff is going to fall out the back of the pickup. Yikes.
- During the poolside celebration at Southfork, who is that non-Hispanic maid holding Christopher while the family celebrates? Was Theresa in the bathroom or something?
- Let's take a look at Ray's day. He goes to the DOA meeting with Donna, presumably for lunch. Then he comes back to his house and changes. He goes out to the bunkhouses and finds that Mickey is not around. He heads over to the ranch house to celebrate the adoption with the family. Then that evening he finds Mickey at the bar. So he waited all day to head out and find his cousin?
- Pam's lil' black dress shows up again [thanks, wardrobe guys!], but it's recycled. At the dinner with Punk, Mavis, and Frank, both Pam and Sue Ellen's dresses are recycled as well.
- And of course, ANDY BRADLEY SPEAKS.
AHN NIS submitted: Why didn't they just tell Bobby that his parts order was canceled over the phone? But then we couldn't see Bobby rough up somebody. Yeah, we needed a scene like that! I love it when he tells someone he's going to 'tear them apart'. It's really corny.
AHN Mike's corner:
- Have you ever noticed that nasty scar on Ken Kercheval's nose? It comes up
pretty clear on a big screen. I'm surprised he never got that fixed.
- That looks like a fake big screen TV on JR's office wall - a panel pasted to
the wall that LOOKS like a TV. I actually
thought it was a projection screen.
- Another great example of how totally self centered Sue Ellen is she asks
Clayton to move to Dallas to be there for her. Then she shows how totally
clueless she is by asking him to give away the woman he loves to the man he
hates at her wedding to JR. Two more royal smackdowns from the queen of smacking
Clayton down. I can understand asking to
be given away - Sue Ellen is that dumb and inconsiderate. But I cannot fathom
why the heck she wants him to move to Dallas. I guess she doesn't realize that
the Southern Cross might actually MEAN something to him.
- Couldn't help but think of Ray and Lucy when the camera panned to the top of
the barn and it said "Stud Barn". You
and everyone else.
- Today was the first time I've ever heard Ray say Y'all".
- Apparently Braddock is full of bar floozies. Even Mickey is picking them up
two at a time, beating Uncle Ray's time. Worse yet, the floozies mistake Ray for
Mickey's "daddy", showing Ray he is past his bar floozy prime. Where's
Bonnie to set these whippersnappers straight?
- Punk gets into the Dusty scarf collection today and has a long horn tie clip
on it. He looked like his clothes were two sizes too small for him.
- Since when does Donna have to speak for Miss Ellie? Since
Miss Ellie decided that this is a wimpy scene for her. She stood up to Rebecca,
and I think that's her tough scene for the week.
AHN Jason's corner:
- Eric Farlow is back as Christopher. And he has a full head of big
blonde curls.
- Rebecca and Ellie sit really close to each other at the adoption hearing.
I was kinda surprised. Again, this is very
"Dynasty". When it comes to family matters, everybody clings to each
other on that show. I didn't much care for it.
- Is that a new courthouse in Braddock? It's
a new sign, that's for sure.
- The Reunion tower where Pam and Cliff have lunch looks like the same
restaurant where Pam and Cliff had lunch in #8 when Bobby was shopping with
Jenna #1. I believe you're quite right.
- Empty purse meter- Pam at SF, Pam at lunch with Cliff, Rebecca at lunch,
Donna at the lawn party, Sue Ellen with Clayton (questionable), Ellie has no
purse at lunch with Rebecca, Pam and Bobby.
- When Ellie asked the whole family to be present at dinner for Frank, Ray and
Donna were present yet they did not wind up going to dinner. I find this
rather strange, considering how much Donna seems to hang out with Ellie. (Maybe
there wasn't any coffee for them to mooch.) Also Lucy did not show
up for dinner either. Well, in fairness,
Lucy wasn't around when the big dinner was announced. And I guess Ray and Donna
just sort of excused themselves.
- I wasn't sure but it looked like Afton didn't have any food in her bowl at her
place setting at Cliff's, yet she appears to make motions to eat.
- Watch Donna and Ellie's car scene. As you face Donna, the hair on her
left shoulder moves back and forth during the different camera angles.
AHN Alett's corner:
- In disgust, Pam throws the money Cliff left off the table. WHY?
All this achieves is that the poor waiter will probably lose his tip.
- That Frank has sharp eyes if he's able to spot antique silver all the way from
the living room. Very bizarre. Or else he
assumes that any silver in Southfork must be antique.
AHN Val's corner:
- When they left their celebratory lunch, Miss Ellie told Bobby that she would be taking a taxi home. How? She didn't have a purse for cab fare, and I don't think her dress had pockets.
Maybe she'll just tell the cabbie that's she's Ellie Ewing. And if he says "Who?" then he will suffer the fate of Kent Jackson.
- When Rebecca got into her car to leave the restaurant, Miss Ellie just stood behind the car, dazed as Rebecca started the engine. She should move or Becky's gonna back right over her.
Good call. Totally missed that. Or maybe she's sending a message daring Rebecca to try it.
- Cliff still has the brown placemats. (Please, Cliff, let the Krebbses have a turn with them!)
AHN Pam's corner:
- I read your nit about the fact that Bobby got Ewing 23, I thought about
that too. But I didn't remember about the fire part of it. What
struck me about the fact that Bobby got Ewing 23 is that under the terms of the
document that Cliff found after Digger's death, Ewing Oil is required to pay
Cliff half of all the profits made from that well. Unless things changed
somewhere, which I don't believe they did, Bobby would still be obligated to pay
Cliff a share. So you're absolutely right, Bobby is being VERY nice about
the division of at least the wells. Also, it was mentioned that all of the
wells produce differently. So I find it a little hard to believe that J.R.'s
control over wells 1-17 would be at the EXACT same production level as Bobby
controlling wells 18-34. Maybe it would somehow all balance out in the end, I
don't know. Also, here's one other point. When Bobby resigned as
president a couple of seasons ago, he, Jock and J.R. all signed a contract in
which Bobby asked for certain things. I believe total control over Ewing
23 was one of them but the big thing I remember is that he got a 12 1/2% cut of
whatever business the refinery did. I would assume that the terms of that
contract would still be in effect. I would assume that he would make money
off of refinery business done by both he and J.R.. Does the will somehow
supersede the contracts signed a couple of years ago? I wouldn't think so.
Any thoughts on any of this? I think the
producers really hoped we would forget about all this.
- It was another hot day in Texas while taping. Ray had a big sweat stain
under his arm when he lifted it up while sitting on his horse.
- Bobby waited until what seemed after work or at least late afternoon to let
the family know he had rented a room for a special dinner?? Isn't this
something he should've told Ellie earlier in the day so that Teresa wouldn't
prepare (snicker) a meal?? Unless he was considerate enough to tell her himself
the servants won't be subjected to leftovers but rather the whole meal tonight.
- After Bobby took off in the helicopter and the phone rang, Pam practically ran
to answer it. I guess she just knows that Teresa and Raoul are either
slacking off somewhere or have their heads buried in the refrigerator. Or
in each other.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Jason]
> Sly:
JR, are you there?
Of
course he is... he just answered you a minute ago.
Pam Award: Pam and Bobby's swimwear.
Angelica Award: Afton's blinding gold blouse. Sue Ellen's checked blouse while eating with JR.
Bobby Award: Frank Crutcher continues his streak.
April Award: JR for using Sue Ellen to entice Gil, and Bobby for telling Macklin about the Canadian deal.
- When Punk comes to Bobby's office, what the hell is he wearing? Look at the jeans. They have white stitching down the outer leg and around the pocket. This is something a teenager, albeit a nerdy one, would wear - not a corporate executive!
- On a personal note, I found one line very interesting. Miss
Ellie says to JR, when they're discussing Frank Crutcher, "there's no need for me to
live like a hermit."
This is quite interesting. First of all, Miss Ellie IS a hermit! She
rarely if ever leaves the ranch - maybe to go and have lunch with someone, but that's
about all. The only other times we see her she's lounging around Southfork or riding her
bike or something like that. Face it, Ellie - crabs have nothing on you.
But the other reason is that Barbara Bel Geddes, in real life, truly is a hermit. She
moved to Nepal or some place like that and is living in seclusion in the Himalayas. Must
have been difficult to get this line out.
- There's another non-Theresa maid shown wandering around Southfork today.
- I found it rather ridiculous that Punk Anderson would talk to Bobby about his concerns over what JR is doing. If he wants answers, why not ask JR? Why the end run? That doesn't seem like Punk's style of operation, and it sure as hell wasn't Jock's way of doing bidness.
- When JR arrives at Sue Ellen's place, he puts his hat on the horse statue again.
- In this episode, Afton mentions going back to "her place" after sleeping with Gil. So she still has a place? Hard to believe since we ALWAYS see her at Cliff's apartment.
- At the end of this episode, there are some brutal continuity problems. First, we see JR with his head leaning back on his chair, glaring at Cliff. Suddenly there's a cut and he's sitting upright and laughing mockingly. Then we cut back and his head is tilted again and he's all serious. JR is not given to mood swings, so the cameraman deserves a raspberry for this.
AHN Dave submitted: Why in the world is JR trying to prostitute Sue Ellen? Why not go to an old faithful like Serena? An outstanding point, which everyone picked up on. I'll have more to say in the "I think" this week, and I'm bringing back the Poll of the Week for this one.
AHN Jason's corner:
- Empty purse meter- Afton at Cliff's (2X), Pam at Rebecca's.
Sue Ellen and Pam at the wedding dress shop.
- Here's an interesting nit that only Knots Landing viewers would know. JR
claims to have never been involved with off-shore drilling on the west coast
before. This is Nov/Dec 1982. Yet in the second episode of Knots
(aired Jan 1980), JR guest stars and Gary, Val, Karen and the gang try to (and
are successful at) preventing him from drilling off of their beach. JR doesn't
in fact drill off of Knots Landing but he clearly made references to the process
in that episode and had done it before. Thanks
for the tidbit. That's kind of interesting. I wonder whether he's just playing
coy with Macklin.
- Horrible cabbageing on Punk's part about the will and contest. Even Bobby said
so.
- I have to wonder, if Gil is so wealthy, why doesn't he just buy some
"friendship". He clearly has no problem about making it clear
that he wants sex, not love. No clue. This
whole thing is very strained.
AHN Val's corner:
- JR wanted Sue Ellen to treat Gil Thurman like royalty. So he suggests serving COCKTAIL WEENIES for appetizers?!?!? I'm sure JR's never set foot on the cocktail weenie aisle of the grocery store.
- When seeking JR's opinion on attire for the "big dinner", the second dress Sue Ellen held up was the one she wore to dinner in yesterday's episode.
- Sue Ellen came out of her funk awfully quickly after the Gil Thurman fiasco. She and JR got romantic almost immediately! JR set up that awful scenario, and Sue Ellen was plenty mad at him for it. She had every right to be. I'm not surprised that she forgave him so quickly. But I am bothered at the extent to which she forgave him. Sue Ellen managed to put the incident behind her so fast and that she was quite willing to get romantic with JR. In fact, they probably spent that night together, too. I'm sure most women would agree with me that we wouldn't be forgiving our signifigant others that much that quickly. In fact, I'd that in most households, someone would be sleeping on the couch for awhile!
This whole episode seemed kind of surreal. It's like we took a detour for an hour or something. I felt really disoriented.
AHN Mike's corner:
- "Two wrongs don't make a right and two but's don't sound right"
department: Cliff says to the cartel members "Nothing would give me greater
pleasure than to kick JR's butt, but...". Didn't the scriptwriters ever
read these lines aloud to see how they sounded? I
guess not.
- Bobby's taking his co-presidential role seriously from a sartorial standpoint
ended quickly. He's now wearing boots, jeans and a loosened tie again in the
office.
- What is that huge white fabric hanging on Cliff's office wall behind Gil
Thurman? Looks like a tattered blanket.
- Bobby is worried about moving off SF and "leaving Momma to JR's tender
mercies"? I don't understand what he's talking about. JR isn't going to do
anything to his mother, except maybe coerce her out her voting shares. But why
should Bobby care, since his reason for leaving would be to extricate himself
from Ewing Oil? I think he means that his
mother would really be isolated if he left the ranch. It's not like JR really
spends that much time with her or anything. I agree that JR isn't go to DO
anything to Ellie, but neglect can be just as bad.
AHN Pam's corner:
- It was mentioned early in the episode that J.R. and Sue Ellen's wedding was
only a week away. So why the hell was Pam asking Sue Ellen if she'd picked
out a color for her dress yet?! Not only should the color be picked, but
the dress should be nearly completed. I realize J.R. and Sue Ellen threw this
wedding together quite quickly, but she should've had her color picked at her
first fitting and they should've begun making the actual dress shortly
thereafter.
- Sue Ellen was going over the menu with J.R., presumably for his approval.
So why did she have a bottle of 'his daddy's favorite wine' sitting around the
house? I guess it just goes with the fully stocked liquor cabinet.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Pam]
> Sue Ellen: Why don't you and John
Ross move in here after the wedding, just until the battle for Ewing Oil is
settled."
> J.R. "You mean live here with you?"
Pam Award: Pam's button-up pink dress. I'll bet it's as nice going on as it must be coming off.
Angelica Award: Pam's wedding dress is pretty bad. Sue Ellen's ain't so hot either.
Bobby Award: Rebecca by default.
April Award: None.
- Clayton already has sweat stains when he disembarks his chopper. Odd for December. And some non-Raoul takes his bags.
- The Ewings must really love a wedding - any excuse to redecorate! There's a brand spanking new green carpet in the living room. Looks very nice but it's an awfully sudden change.
- Why the heck is everyone so shocked when JR says that Bobby is going to be his best man? Who else would JR consider? Gary? Ray? Wally Hampton?
- It's well established that it is December in Dallas right now. Yet Holly's wearing a bathing suit when JR comes to visit her. Was 1982 an El Niņo year as well?
- Lucy says Sue Ellen started to become a better person while she was away from JR...how the hell would she know? Like she and Sue Ellen have even spoken in the last forty episodes.
- There's a continuity blip towards the end of this episode. Afton and Rebecca have their conversation, and it appears to be mid-morning, around 10 AM or so. Then Ellie and Donna talk and it's quite evident that it is very early morning - not too long after sunrise, because the shadows are much fainter and longer. An easy thing to miss during shooting.
- Where is Christopher during the wedding? John Ross is happily camped next to Miss Ellie's chair in the front row, but where is Pam's little uggie-wuggie snookums?
AHN NIS's corner:
- December 3, 1982, the date of the wedding, was a Friday. Yet JR invites Cliff to a gala affair on the 'weekend'. I suppose late Friday afternoon could be considered the weekend, except for the fact that the sun sets at about 6 PM in Dallas in December! Unless everybody took a holiday from work just to be at Southfork this is absolutely ridiculous.
- Blair Sullivan, that hip dude, finds nothing wrong in dialing only five numbers on his rotary telephone in order to make a long distance call to Bill Johnson in Galveston. You're really cool, Blair.
- Clearly, from Miss Ellie's conversation with Punk, several oil men were invited and didn't come. If no oil men showed up, why were all of the seats taken?
AHN Jason's corner:
- Mickey seems to have stuffed his pants a bit during his chat with Ray.
- Sue Ellen wears a recycled dress at the beginning of the episode.
- Watch Lucy's hair at Blair's. It starts to look a lot flatter midway
through her chat with him.
- Bobby wants long range effects of JR's pumping on Ewing Oil. He makes it
sound like this is for years down the road. I think I remember a nit from
the Dream Season where it was said those kind of effects are very hard to
determine. Well, I don't see why, frankly.
"Gee, Mr. Ewing. I'd have to more research but my best guess would be that
if we pump all that oil we won't have as much in a few years." I find this
pretty dumb.
AHN Alett's corner:
- Ellie is surprised there are no other oil men at the wedding besides Punk and
Clayton. WHY? Don't these people return R.S.V.P.'s? Whoever set up
the chairs realized it because there are no empty ones.
- So Mickey believes RAY is saying a grubby ranch hand can't have anything to do
with Lucy. If Mickey only knew the irony of this! You
know, that didn't hit me at all. And it didn't hit Jason either. As far as
denial goes, Ray could give Sue Ellen pointers.
- Yes, another boom problem. In the first livingroom scene, as the camera
pulls back to show Pam pouring drinks, the boom makes a slight "bob"
over JR. Oh, man. I missed it again. Damn.
AHN Mike's corner:
- Clayton does have a stain on his right rib cage when he exits the helicopter.
That's an odd place for a sweat stain though, since there weren't any other
stains in more common places. However, once he gets to the patio, the stain is
mysteriously gone.
- Did you notice that impertinent waitress called JR by his first name instead
of "Mr Ewing"? I noticed. Guess
she knows him.
- Mrs. Chambers must be a few bricks short of a load. She makes a pot of coffee
for JR and Sue Ellen, but instead of leaving it on the hot plate under the
coffee brewer, she puts it on a tray to get cold. Who know how long it will be
before the lovebirds come down stairs?
- Miss Ellie has a short memory when she says to Donna "I'm always glad to
see you." It was only a few episodes ago she was avoiding Donna over the
book controversy.
AHN Pam's corner:
- Empty Purse Meter: Afton at Rebecca's, Rebecca and Ellie at the
restaurant with Cliff, Donna and Mavis at the wedding. Clayton's suitcase
was definitely empty when he got off the helicopter.
- Cliff is really CHEAP! When J.R. came to his office, notice the sign on
his door behind J.R.'s head. It should say Cliff Barnes, or C. Barnes or
something. But does it? NO! It says PRIVATE! Huh? I
rewound the tape several times to be sure. So where is his office?
In a broom closet? I never noticed that.
Good one.
- Bobby entered the living room by saying that Jordan had come to his office
that afternoon. During that meeting in his office Bobby was wearing jeans,
a pale yellow dress shirt and a camel colored sport coat. The establishing
shot of Southfork right before Bobby entered the living room showed him turning
in to the Southfork driveway from the road. But when Bobby walked in to
the living room he was wearing a black suit with a white dress shirt and a
tie. Where did he get the suit? He came from the side, like he was
coming in from outside, he didn't come from upstairs. Does he keep a suit in the
closet in his office in case he's running late for dinner?
- Afton and Rebecca have become very friendly all of a sudden. Until today
Afton always referred to her as Mrs. Wentworth. During their conversation
when Afton told her about Cliff saying Sue Ellen's name in the hospital, she
called her Rebecca. I noticed that too. I
wasn't 100% certain if this hadn't happened before, though.
- Sue Ellen asked Pam after the rehearsal if she wanted to go in to town with
her for her FINAL fitting?! No woman, and I mean NO WOMAN would go for the
final fitting of her wedding dress the day before her wedding! Most women
I know would be panicked if their dress wasn't hanging in their home (or their
parents home if the couple lives together) by this point. Miss "J.R. you
handle stress much better than I do" is way too cool here.
- Sue Ellen asked J.R. if he and John Ross would like to move in to the
townhouse with her until after the wedding. So does that mean Sue Ellen's
been living at the townhouse by herself and she's letting John Ross live at
Southfork with J.R. until the wedding? She's been there a lot too.
Maybe they're only using the townhouse for their nights of passion and to
squeeze slime balls like Gil Thurman. J.R. could've strung her along
without marrying her a lot longer than this. I
see your point. Hadn't considered that.
- WHY would J.R. have at Sue Ellen's of all things PAJAMAS?? The robe I
can understand, but pajamas?? I can't believe he's actually sleeping in
them while he's there. And I can't believe
I missed that.
AHN Val's corner:
- Donna blew Dave a kiss as he left her place. Strange behavior for a step-mother.
These two are REALLY weird. Few stepsons
are this affectionate.
- The Cirrus Room got rid of those tacky brown metal framed chairs and replaced them with much classier beige upholstered ones.
- Miss Ellie wore heels on her walk to the stable. Heels are uncomfortable enough when walking on solid surfaces, but wearing them in dirt requires a high pain threshold AND good balance.
- Sue Ellen had said that she wanted the wedding guest list to stay small--just the family and close friends. It looks like she and JR invited most everyone they've ever known! The number of people was comparable to a Ewing Barbecue. Even still, none of the oil men showed up.
I wondered about that too when she said it last week. Maybe this IS small by Sue Ellen standards.
- And speaking of the guest list, where was Patty Shepherd? It's one thing that she not attend the wedding. What with Kristin's death at Southfork, and all. But her absence should have been somehow explained away by Sue Ellen. "Mama is simply too busy to get away from Albuquerque right now" Of course, we all know that's not true, but it would suffice.
Ordinarily I would agree with you, but who the heck cares where she is? I'm sure you agree with THAT.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Bill W.]
> Ray: " I'm really worried about Miss
Ellie."
> Bobby: "Mama?"
Pam Award: Bobby and Holly in their poolside scene. Not much to pick from today.
Angelica Award: Same as yesterday.
Bobby Award: Mr. Eugene.
April Award: None.
- After walking out on the wedding ceremony, Cliff goes over to the mobile bar and pours himself a drink. Where is the bartender? Certainly he wasn't invited to sit in on the ceremony, was he?
- Before Cliff makes a scene, Pam tells him that he's dis-invited. Uh, no, sweetie. That's UN-invited.
- When JR calls Mac Carruthers, he seems to dial eight numbers on the phone. The last one may have been a 'SEND' button, but I don't think it's a cellular-type phone - they didn't have those back then.
- That scene with Bobby and the OLM dudes probably will get the "ball peen hammer" award of the week. The cabbageing here is painful. "We think JR is selling the oil to an embargoed country." "An embargoed country? You mean one on which our country, the United States, has placed an embargo?" "Yes, and the Justice Department will not be happy if it is true. This country could be in the Caribbean." "You don't say?" And on and on...
- When Harry Perkins calls Bobby the second time, it's a really bright day. When Phyllis tells Bobby he has a call, it's a bright day. Suddenly Bobby picks up the phone and it's dark.
- When Bill Johnson arrives at Lucy's hotel room, her bed is made very neatly. Yeah, right. Raise your hand if you think that Lucy's ever made a bed in her life.
- Ray Krebbs is still going through his 'macho man' phase. If you recall, in Episode 111, he leaves the back of his pickup truck open because none of his gear would dare fall out the back during his trip out to the fields. Well, today, he's taking on the sun! After Dave Culver leaves his house, we see Ray go over to an open cooler and pull out a beer. Why not close the darn thing, Ray, so that the beer actually stays cold? Or have your intimidated the sun into not heating up the area in the vicinity of your home?
- JR's last comment, "You can try, Bobby", was clearly dubbed. I guess they realized how dumb it is to have JR just stand there silently after Bobby threatens him.
- AHN NIS pointed out that when JR and Sue Ellen arrive home, Sue Ellen carries one suitcase out of the car. Why isn't it in the trunk with the others?
AHN Jason's corner:
- Afton threatens to leave Cliff at the wedding, but how would she get home?
Call a cab and pay with the nothingness in her empty purse? Or will she
sing for her ride? Hope she doesn't have
to go far. Actually, I'll bet most cabbies were [and are] willing to take you
home and then let you go inside and get some cash.
- Empty purse meter- Sue Ellen at refinery, Afton at wedding, Sue Ellen at
SF.
- Looks like a new Raoul.
- If I was Mr. Eugene, I wouldn't be too sure about my company not being
involved with this exporting oil mess. Sally isn't exactly known for her
scruples. Speaking of which, where is she? Having another plastic surgery?
Maybe he's taken a bit more control of the
company since that whole thing.
- Why didn't Dave call Donna? He drove all the way to Krebbs Manor just to
say, "The bill passed. You got a job." A
perfect example of Tom Fuccello, among others, having a contract to work X
number of episodes.
AHN Val's corner:
- How did Mickey get invited to the wedding? He's not a friend of JR or Sue Ellen. And from the way JR talked to him, he's not even an acquaintence. Did Ray bring him along to keep an eye on him? If that's the case, then Ray's a poor excuse for a babysitter. Mickey wasn't about to be torn away from that bar.
I suppose ALL the ranch hands were invited. That might explain it.
- The music played during the Bobby/Ray and Clayton/JR conversations sounded exactly like the Sanford and Son music played during Sue Ellen's baby-buying saga in Episode 10.
I missed that completely.
- During the pool fight, a piece of tile was missing from the edge of the pool.
- Holly knew Bobby was coming over so she conveniently changed out of her tennis duds and into a swimsuit. Real subtle, Holly. Reeeeeal subtle.
It's a shame that after that Barnes woman gets out of his life, he forgets about her. Bobby and Holly would have been a great couple.
- How is it that Ray is having to do maintenance on his roof? That house is only a few years old.
Well, remember who built it in the first place.
AHN Mike's corner:
- Where were JR and Sue Ellen the day after the wedding, at some Ewing vacation
home on the Gulf or a large lake? Don't believe we ever saw this place before or
after this episode. No, I don't believe so
either. I have no clue. Probably somewhere near the Gulf.
- In Ray's roofing scene, he's dry as a bone when he comes down from the roof
but sweating bullets when he moves to the shady table and starts sucking down
the beer. I never realized beer-swilling was such hard work.
- How lame was Lucy's client? All he's getting are signs to back off and he
keeps clumsily barging ahead. First he's getting zero response kissing her (in
fact, looking at that made me want to give up kissing entirely). Then he
immediately jumps to trying to unbutton her blouse? Jeez, buddy, get a clue! Of
course, Lucy's startegy to not protest but not to cooperate either made little
sense. With respect, please tell me the
last time you thought that Lucy's strategy about ANYTHING made sense.
- The honeymoon is definitely over as JR and Sue Ellen return to SF. Sue Ellen
has to carry her own bag and JR isn't the least bit embarrassed when Ray offers
to carry it for her. And as if to underscore his victory, JR breaks out a scarf
from the Dusty Farlow collection for his triumphant return with the bride. I
think it's safe to assume that JR knows nothing about Sue Ellen and Ray. Even if
he does, it's obviously been taken out of the history books.
AHN Pam's corner:
- Sue Ellen took an obviously empty suitcase out of the car at Southfork.
- Mickey was drinking the ever popular brand known as "BEER" with
the very poorly hidden Bud label.
- I can't believe Holly was swimming in those huge red earrings with the gold
trim. She had them on with the black and white swimsuit. I don't
know any woman that would swim in earrings of this size. She must have
really wanted to look her best for Bobby....especially since she was also
swimming in full makeup.
- Sue Ellen must have brought along her white china coffee service on her
honeymoon, she and J.R. were using it at breakfast. This is also the same
coffee service Ellie used for indoor breakfasts at Southfork before she
remodeled. Dr. Conrad also used this set during her therapy sessions with
Pam.
- Sue Ellen did not have her engagement ring soldered to her wedding band before
the ceremony. This is not a nit, just an observation because her huge rock was
visible when she lifted her hand to for J.R. put on her wedding band. The
problem with this is that when a woman has an engagement ring that is not
soldered to her wedding band, wedding etiquette states that she move the
engagement ring to her ring finger on her right hand during the ceremony so that
the groom can place her wedding band on her left ring finger. After the
ceremony she is supposed to move it back to the left ring finger in front of the
wedding band. This is done so the wedding band will be the closest ring to
the bride's heart. I would think Sue Ellen of all people would be very
conscious of proper wedding etiquette.
- Pam's wedding ring seemed was different today. The other day when she was on
the phone, she had on a large engagement ring with a wedding band.
Obviously an upgrade of her original plain gold band from Bobby. But today
when she hugged Lucy by the staircase, she had on a plain gold band surrounded
on both sides by a channeled diamond guard. Does she have more than one
wedding ring?? Perhaps she does. She's
been married twice.
- Someone asked the question as to why Mickey was invited to the wedding which
was answered that all of the ranch hands may have been invited. The real
question here is why is Mickey sitting in the FRONT ROW with the immediate
family? He's NOT related to either J.R. or Sue Ellen. Even if Ray
wanted to watch him like a hawk, I don't think he would've caused any trouble
during the ceremony. Ray should have been more worried about him during
the reception but seemed to have little concern for his whereabouts. He
should've at least been sitting behind the immediate family if not further back
in the crowd.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of me]
> Holly: "There's something you need
to know right away."
> Bobby: "Is it important?"
Pam Award: I thought that Marilee looked pretty decent today. Or Holly at the barbecue.
Angelica Award: Donna's butt-ugly hat. Rebecca's "as big as a" housedress returns. Pam's see-through dress is pretty bad too. Punk's brown ensemble with Al Bundy pants.
Bobby Award: Sly. What is she thinking?
April Award: Holly for wanting to entice a faithful husband by asking him to cheat on his wife.
- Well, it's good to see that Lucy's made productive use of her time - she's taken a speed reading course! When Mickey first comes to the ranch, she's near the beginning of her book. Suddenly, towards the end of the scene, she's near the end! She may have done this just to get rid of Mickey, but I think not - he probably would have noticed. What a lame excuse that 'I have to finish my book."
- Why doesn't Ray let go of Donna's hand when she's walking in to the committee's building? It's obvious that her gait is strained because of it.
- This one is so stupid. What government committee has four members? Or any even number of members? This is just stupid. For those who don't realize, the reason they're doing this is so the committee will be deadlocked on crucial issues at opportune times for the writers. It would be a great idea if it wasn't so preposterous! Why not add a fifth member, and then have them come up with some rule that says that at least four of them have to agree on significant legislation?
- And that's some committee! They pledge allegiance, take a vote on one issue, and then adjourn for lunch. How do I get on this committee?
- When Holly Harwood calls Bobby, he's busy typing in numbers on his computer. Then, when he prepares to leave, he hits one key on the keyboard - right above the numeric keypad! The only keys above the numeric keypad on keyboards of this time period are Num Lock, Scroll Lock, and Print Screen. None of these keys seems like a logical thing to hit when one is preparing to leave the computer for a while.
- Business must be good for Deltham Catering. Larry Deltham got a spiffy new van and logo! Good for you, Larry! Art imitates life. How refreshing.
- Since when has there been a TV in the Southfork livingroom?
- Remember what happened last episode? JR and Sue Ellen got married. What was the date? December 3, 1982. There were some nits about this last episode. Here are two new ones:
1. When Pam goes to Rebecca's mansion, some guy is raking leaves.
Raking leaves? In December? A little late, aren't we? Rebecca really needs to get a firm
rein on the hired help!
2. And while we're on the topic of season-inappropriateness, why is the Ewing barbecue
being held in December? Wouldn't springtime or perhaps summer be more appropriate for
this?
- AHN NIS suggested that if the oil men wanted to get to JR, they should have just headed over to Ewing Oil instead of calling. True, but this way Ellie gets to yell at everyone, and that's good.
- AHN Dave reminded me how silly Holly is. She tells Bobby she's looking for a man who will be faithful to her - so he wants him to cheat on his wife. No offense to Holly, who is a very lovely lady, but you're no Pam Ewing.
AHN Jason's corner:
- Those sure were very polite and patient reporters outside Donna's meeting.
They ask her one question at a time. Usually they all gab at once.
- I have a question about this Energy Commission. I believe you stated
that there were only 4 voting members but there are six people at the table.
Donna, the other three voters, the guy who reminded them about the 10 day wait
and a lady with one of those court room typewriters. I had assumed the guy was
the secretary by the way the lead guy addressed him but then if he is the
secretary, what is the lady? The recorder? Usually the secretary
takes the minutes at a Meeting, at least on the Board of directors I am on. Yes,
she is like the stenographer or something. The secretary will take minutes, but
the stenographer will make notes of everything that was said. Ordinarily you
would not have such a person there, because it SHOULD be the secretary's
responsibility. But oh well.
- Pam says something that caught me as funny. She says that she would
never let JR drive a wedge between her and the rest of the Ewing family. What is
she smoking? Remember #22-#25 when she left the ranch b/c she was
sick of JR's antics that caused Cliff to be jailed? I am sure there are
others but I can't remember them now. They're
coming up next week.
- There is a ranch hand seen standing behind Ellie during her chat with Ray.
I wonder if this was Pete, the talkative chauffeur working on being more than
just an extra....
- JR and Sue Ellen seemed dubbed at the BBQ in their first conversation.
Jordan's last line also seemed dubbed.
AHN Analise's corner:
- When the Secretary of the Energy Commission did a voice vote he addressed
each of the members by a Mr. or Mrs. except for George Hicks. Is this
because he disagreed with him? Perhaps.
Good point.
- Miss Ellie is talking maybe 2 inches from Larry Deltham. Hope each of
them used a breath mint.
- "Give me time to think", Rebecca says to Clayton and Pam. Gee,
it isn't like they asked her whether she should be the first woman to land on
Mars!
- The gas prices are $1.21 before JR cuts the prices. $1.21 is the current price
for 87 octane in Hoboken, NJ right now!!! But
in 1982 I bet they were quite a bit higher. I'll have to ask Mike, who would
remember.
- Why is Pam sunning by the pool during the day? Whose minding the
aerobics studio? Who is minding her precious Christopher? The
studio is capital-g GONE. I have no clue about Christopher.
- Donna walks to the Texas energy commission meeting with an empty briefcase and
no pocketbook. Like that's realistic? The
pocketbook is probably under that umbrella she calls a hat.
AHN Mike's corner:
- Pam tells Rebecca she has "a son-in-law who loves you". Say what?
Bobby has barely spoken to Rebecca in all this time. Is
that his fault? She won't come to Southfork. She won't come to Ewing Oil. She
hates anyone who was born a Ewing. How are they supposed to talk?
- Once again Dallas characters refuse to discuss something over the phone and
insist on a face-to-face meeting (Holly and Bobby. And did Mr. Eugene really
need to come all the way up from Galveston to tell Bobby what he told him?). Do
all these people think the phones are tapped or do they just like wasting time
and money on unnecessary travel? These
people have contracts to appear in a given number of episodes.
AHN Pam's corner:
- Pam and Sue Ellen were going to help Ellie write the invitations for
the BBQ, fine. But shouldn't they have done this before now?? After
the commercial J.R. commented that it had been a week since the first Energy
Commission meeting which was the same day and he said the BBQ was this Sunday.
So Ellie only sent her invites out for an event this large about a week and a
half before the event?? She's about a week or two behind! Lucky for
her that Texans RSVP quickly when free food and booze are involved. It
seemed she got her responses in record time because Sue Ellen said the phone
hadn't stopped ringing all week and Ellie had a stack of mail.
- Amazing! Sly, Phyllis and even Kendall weren't on the phone today when
Holly called Bobby. Phyllis buzzed him and said she was on line 1. Yeah,
that's amazing! I missed that.
- What gas station posts their gas prices on easel type signs next to the road?
None I've ever seen. Gas stations around me use those high-in-the-sky light up
signs so that everyone can see their pricing from the road a good distance away.
I guess getting one of these was way too
expensive for the producers.
- Ray and Donna haven't been to the house much for dinner lately. They
weren't even at the 'special' family dinner the night before J.R. and Sue
Ellen's wedding. But it's a good thing Ray was there to mooch a meal so he
could break up J.R. and Bobby.
- Mickey drank another bottle of 'BEER' while trying to hide the Bud
label.
- Empty Purse Meter: Pam at Rebecca's.
- Not only were the reporters very polite at Donna's committee meeting, they
were rather polite at the opening of J.R.'s gas stations. Again they asking him
only one question at a time.
- Holly's not married or even seeing anyone for that matter, she's too busy trying to put the moves on Bobby. So why didn't someone tell the actress to remove her ENGAGEMENT RING!! I couldn't tell if there was a wedding band with it, but it was very noticeable while she was dancing with Bobby.
Bonehead dialogue of the day: [courtesy of Analise]
> Sue Ellen [on seeing JR upset]: "Is that because of Miss Ellie's decision?"
Pam Award: Pam by default. Believe me, this is only because there are no other candidates.
Angelica Award: The real estate agent's jacket.
Bobby Award: Holly's new do is pretty bad.
April Award: None.
- Ellie asks Harve Smithfield whether he heard about what happened at the barbecue. Wait a minute: why wasn't Harve invited to the barbecue? It doesn't seem like the kind of invitation you would turn down, yet I find it hard to believe that Ellie didn't invite Harve. Bizarre.
- When Bobby gets the call from Donna to let him know that the commission voted in favor of JR, Bobby comes all the way over to JR's desk to take the call. Why doesn't he use the phone that sits on the small table near the liquor cabinet, especially since he's standing right near it? The real world answer: it's more dramatic for him to walk out of the office and brush past JR this way.
- The second time Pam and Bobby discuss the strain on their relationship, there's some bad continuity. During the scene, Bobby has just gotten up from his chair and Pam still stands behind the chair. Suddenly there's a cut and Bobby has moved a few feet towards a table, and Pam is a good three steps away from the chair!
AHN Jason's corner:
- Muriel and Mickey are credited but AWOL... HMM wonder who's plot was
cut today!!! Well, Lucy still got to do
more than Ray. I wonder what the heck Muriel could contribute at this point.
Hey, the summary pages tell me we see her once more, in 122. And she's uncut.
- Empty purse meter- Rebecca at Cliff's, Ellie and Pam at Harve's,
Afton and Mrs. Stockwood at Cliff's new place, Sue Ellen with JR, Ellie at new
lawyer's.
AHN Analise's corner:
- Bobby is now wearing a bolo tie in the first scene of today's
episode. He didn't have it during the BBQ in yesterday's episode. Are
you sure? I'll double check.
- Punk now remembers that he is the administrator of the will? Must have
forgotten that at Southfork.
- Cliff's looking for a new place to entertain? When did he ever do that
when he did move? Can't recall any time.
- It's morning at the Krebbs house and it looks like Donna slept with her hair
up and in that stale black dress.
- The real estate agent is a moron. Where is the wedding band on Afton's
finger which told her to call her Mrs. Barnes? Perhaps
she doesn't look at people's hands. I generally don't.
- Nice how Pam s