Soap Fiends!!!!
This is what it's all about. Drama , intrigue , attempted murder and pure unbridled hate for the most lovable bad guy in Television history! We've made it to one of the most ICONIC episodes of television every produced. 10 plus suspects, 2 shots and one major question....who shot J.R?
The list of suspects is amazingly crafted but the true star of the show is JR's unapologetic , overly inflated ego . Amazingly he manages to systematically destroy his victims in less than 3 moves. The cast is playing checkers while JR has dominated chess. This episode is a master class in super villain-ary .
Who could forget the cliffhanger that had everyone asking, "Who shot JR?" Join me, Jett, as we relive the infamous 'Dallas' season 3 finale in our latest podcast episode. We'll get into the nitty-gritty of JR's cunning and the shockwaves sent through the Ewing family, proving why this episode is a pinnacle of television history.
As your guide through the treacherous waters of Southfork Ranch, I unpack JR's devious financial maneuvers and the betrayals that nearly toppled his empire. We'll dissect the emotional family drama, with Bobby's departure plan tugging at heartstrings, and Sue Ellen's internal battle—a cocktail of despair and defiance. It's a rollercoaster of high stakes and familial bonds stretched to their breaking point.
To cap things off, we'll juxtapose "Dallas" against other iconic third-season finales, examining the art of the cliffhanger and its grip on audiences across decades. No need to wait with bated breath for the next episode; I've got your fix of drama right here, so pour yourself a drink and indulge in a toast to the show that taught us all how to love the villain.
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Soap Fiends!!!!
This is what it's all about. Drama , intrigue , attempted murder and pure unbridled hate for the most lovable bad guy in Television history! We've made it to one of the most ICONIC episodes of television every produced. 10 plus suspects, 2 shots and one major question....who shot J.R?
The list of suspects is amazingly crafted but the true star of the show is JR's unapologetic , overly inflated ego . Amazingly he manages to systematically destroy his victims in less than 3 moves. The cast is playing checkers while JR has dominated chess. This episode is a master class in super villain-ary .
Who could forget the cliffhanger that had everyone asking, "Who shot JR?" Join me, Jett, as we relive the infamous 'Dallas' season 3 finale in our latest podcast episode. We'll get into the nitty-gritty of JR's cunning and the shockwaves sent through the Ewing family, proving why this episode is a pinnacle of television history.
As your guide through the treacherous waters of Southfork Ranch, I unpack JR's devious financial maneuvers and the betrayals that nearly toppled his empire. We'll dissect the emotional family drama, with Bobby's departure plan tugging at heartstrings, and Sue Ellen's internal battle—a cocktail of despair and defiance. It's a rollercoaster of high stakes and familial bonds stretched to their breaking point.
To cap things off, we'll juxtapose "Dallas" against other iconic third-season finales, examining the art of the cliffhanger and its grip on audiences across decades. No need to wait with bated breath for the next episode; I've got your fix of drama right here, so pour yourself a drink and indulge in a toast to the show that taught us all how to love the villain.
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No, no, no, no, you're not gonna. No, never, ever, never, not, never ain't never gonna happen. I'm never giving you that money. It's not happening. It is what it is.
Speaker 1:And to quote you, sir, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome, or welcome back to Stoke, florida, the official gathering place for newbies, novices and OG die hard fans of the Golden Age of Prime Time. I'm your host, jett feeling and reviewing the selfiest sexiest. Actually, let's be real, I'm viewing one of the most iconic prime time soap opera episodes in history, season 3, episode 25 of Dallas, a house divided. So, whether you're you know what, stop the music, stop the music. Whether you're new to this or true to this, you must sit back and enjoy. I would implore you to go back and listen to all of season 3 so that you don't miss a thing. Or, if not, jump on Amazon, jump on Apple TV, watch this thing completely, watch all of season 3 so that you can get the full surround sound effect. But if you are already caught up, sit back and enjoy. Tell the kids it's imperative. You must play outside artiscypuses, it's a very important episode. Tell Bae absolutely no questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25 to 35 minutes. Everyone else in the earshot. Be cool, be quiet, or you will be kicked out, because this is iconic TV at its finest. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is soap lore. Season 3, dallas finale. Welcome back party people to man.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying we're making history here, but one moment, one time to be alive. I'm so grateful for the streaming networks. I don't know if I could have made it back in the day. Happened to wait another eight to nine months to see what happens. I guess we kind of go through that today, but this is different. This is one of the few episodes I actually knew about, going into this whole project. Mind you, never seen Dallas before. I started watching it recently. But everybody has heard about this. My, actually, let me be real I didn't hear about this as a little kid. Maybe I knew about it, maybe I don't think I did. I think this happened before I was born. Actually, I did watch a lot of the age one, so I know this is one of those hundred greatest moments in history on TV blah, blah, blah. And it is so exhilarating to watch it in real time.
Speaker 1:I'll tell you what season three, season two, season one JR has been consistently icky. He's been consistently completely unself-aware. He has been the bad guy that you want to like. He's the bad guy you can't. You hate yourself for loving him. He's the bad guy you want to like, you, even though you know he's a schemer, scammer and all things horrible. But I dig him and this episode is no different. It starts out with a bang and would never lose esteem all the way through.
Speaker 1:Kind of makes me wonder, going into it, if they had played with the idea of having him kind of shot, if this was another contract negotiation thing or if they were just that show at this point in time and they decided you know what, let's shake things up a little bit. This make people a little bit nervous. Grab something iconic. This is a special occasion. So if you drink grape juice, put a few ice cubes in it. Put it in a pretty glass. If you drink something grown and sexy, that's your business, put that in something cute. This is this is too cute for us to just be sitting around drinking that. Plastic cups and whatnot.
Speaker 1:Season three, finale of doubtless episode 25 house divided. When last we left the coldest scheme, we're in Texas. He had Okie, doke his way into a billion dollar deal. He had a guy, a do-dirt guy in the South of Asia, who was keeping an eye on things. He was basically letting him know there was going to be some sort of insurrection. The rebels were we're going to take over. It was going to be real, real bad for anyone doing foreign business over there. So JR did the only thing he could do. He reached out to the cartel who had been in the asleep, eyeing him for a while from a distance, because they didn't jump on the deal originally. But now, all of a sudden, all those guys who wanted to get in were all up. They were ready. They were ready and willing. So when he presented them with a once in a lifetime, very small window opportunity to jump in and get some of this good money, they jumped in. They jumped in both feet forward because they know how much money he'd make. Now, what a difference a day makes. The sun rose and set on that day. The next day, when the sun rose again, all hell had broken loose. It was all over the news that things had gone completely haywire in the South of Asia. All that good old oil money was gone, gone, gone because the rebels had had enough, enough, enough. They were taken over and they wanted foreign companies all the way out.
Speaker 1:Now Sue Ellen is viewing this from bed. I forgot that she had had out. She's not quite the night, remember. She thought she saw dusty, but it was really mark from dynasty, without his beer, which I totally get it. They kind of sort of look alike. I think Mark's a little bit hotter, but it doesn't matter. She's probably halfway through an amber bottle by the time she saw him. She thought he was her lost love. She's drinking it in, remember. He decides he's going to call up some of his friends. They're going to have a gangster party a little later in a hotel room but somebody luckily the bartender reaches out and he calls Bobby and Ray. They come running down there to get in the fist fight and they drag her sloppily back to South for where she can recover. So she's viewing this on the news.
Speaker 1:Everybody in their mama knows about this matter of fact. There's a press conference at JR's office. They're all talking about it. Everybody in Dallas is wondering. They're not wondering if the evenings are going to be okay. They want to know how much money did you lose? Basically, ie, are y'all still that family? Have you lost all your fortune? Is this one of those Texas tragedies we hear about, or is this one of those secret success for us unbeknownst to the public at large? Right now, nobody knows that JR has sold off most of the shares and gained a great deal of money. Only the cartel really knows that and they're showing up left and right cussing them out.
Speaker 1:How dare you do this to me, you, son of a bitch? I can't believe you have all that. You take my good old money. Got to use some of it. Jock's there and Jock's not having it because, remember, jr told Jock, if you get the last episode, that they're going to be good. Maybe we said we made it do what it do.
Speaker 1:We are going to come out of this sitting, pretty ironically, the same bank manager who denied them alone when Jake screwed over his entire family by putting South work up for whatever, put together an extra mortgage on it or something. They almost lost it. That same bank manager who told him you know, this is just business, it is what it is, I can't do nothing for you. He comes bursting into the office like how dare, how dare you betray me? You owe me 20 million, 20 million dollars and I want to in cash. I want to right now. But Jock's like hey, do you remember that time of not? I mean once upon a few times when I needed money from you and you basically told me no, this is me paying it forward. No, no, no, no, you're not going to know. Never, ever, never, not, never, ain't never going to happen. I'm never giving you that money is not happening. It is what it is and, to quote you, sir, it's just business.
Speaker 1:He's super pissed. He's so distracting to me because he looks like that guy off of Dexter. Remember when Deb was dating that older guy? It's not the same one. Clearly. They've got to be cousins or something. They look way too close. There's a lot of doppelgangers and I'm seeing off of Dallas. I'll have to put them up on a different episode. Needless to say, the word is out. People are super pissed and Bobby, who is always a little bit slow to the plate in me, bobby's always the last to know. You would think this is what thing that the kind of this distracts me and disappoints me about.
Speaker 1:Bob, you've been raised by Jock, who I thought for a very long time was clearly not a good old cowboy. Jr gets this from somewhere somehow. You're raised with JR. You've been in the oil business. He's a smart guy, but he always seems to be three steps behind when it comes to his brother. Now, sometimes he finds out in the nick of time, but he never does anything about it. What do you think is going to happen when you let a rabbit dog off the leash? Are going to do what they do? He can't help it. It is in JR's nature to act up the way he does.
Speaker 1:So in this scene is Bobby JR and Jock in the office, and bank manager has just left without $20 million, notary notably, and Bobby is staring at them back and forth like JR. I'm listening to this story. Seems to me like you knew something was gonna pop off. I know you well enough to know the. There's no way that you just you didn't know anything. Now, jocks, jock is.
Speaker 1:Jock is a thorn in my side, jock sitting there and you could tell as Bobby saying this. He's like hmm, I should probably at least ask so I can get it off my plate. I know, I know an honest inquiry when I see one. This is not one. So he's like boy, tell me right, tell me right now. Did you know about this? Did you know about those rebels? And he's like no, sir, obviously, no daddy, no, bobby storms off, walks out of the office. Okay, it's strange that he would be upset by that, but when cliff and his family were going through what they were going through, he's always quick to attack cliff and never JR. But for whatever reason, this one, maybe because it's so public, maybe because he feels like this is just schemer and slimmer than anything. You've basically cut, you've burned the bridge between us and the cartel. Maybe that's why he wanders, maybe that's why he cares. Maybe Bobby's not such a boy scout.
Speaker 1:After all, side chick Kristen Kristen continues to entertain and disappoint me every single episode. This is a bright young woman, a bright and promising woman who had an engineering scholarship to UCLA, but she chose to be the side chick waiting for her sister's husband To dump her sister so that she can step into that place. Now you would think this you're bright, she's bright, but she's young, she's inexperienced. Do you know what I'm saying? This is clearly her first kill. Maybe she's dealt with little boys. She's never dealt with men. Anyway, this episode she seems to be a little bit more savvy. She's not surprised when she looks at the paper and it says that the Ewing empire is crumbling. She's not worried about that. When euphoria, aka allen bean, comes over with the paper, she's like don't even trip.
Speaker 1:I knew this was coming because I've had guests and I also happen to have a tape recorder that I'm very, very good at using and I captured some of their deep, dark secrets Not that that really matters, because it's splashed all over the page. So this seems like too little, too late for me. So she and allen bean, who were both equally scorned by jr, decide that they're they're, they're not giving up on this. We have got to get to the bottom of this. So we already know that things have popped off in southeast asia. We already know that a lot of people lost a lot of money, but it doesn't look like jr lost a lot of money. How can we leverage this? So they go back and forth sparring ideas and they both decide. You know what this feels a little. It feels a little bit too calculated, don't you agree? They agree with each other, right? They agree because they both work closely with him. I'm like, hmm, he definitely knew. How can we prove that? He? We knew Well christen, who was ever the, the uh, administrative assistant?
Speaker 1:She has a rolodex in her head. She didn't even have. I'm super impressed because she didn't go to rolodex, she didn't pull up like a piece of paper out of her wallet, she didn't have anything scribbled on the back of a phone book. She just had, from memory, a number of a guy in southeast asia and she beep boop, beep, beep boop. She calls him up and it's jr's dude dirt guy. This is her super mistake. She tells the kid hey, jr wants to make sure those papers are shredded, but he doesn't trust you to do it. So you need to send him over to the condo with with quickness so that I can destroy them for him. We can't afford it going to the office because that's too suspicious. We needed to come to the condo and I'll get rid of it myself.
Speaker 1:Well, this guy is super pissed Because he's he's been a good guy, he's been the perfect dude dirt dude. He called jr as soon as things popped off and he basically saved him millions and millions and millions of dollars. So he calls up jr and he's like you know what, if you want to do business, that's one thing, but don't ever treat like I'm something competent. Fool some mean compute. I did you a solid. How dare you treat me like an imbecile. And jr is like what are you talking about? He's like oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, now you don't know, you want me to send over all the dude dirt receipts to the condo. I know what I'm doing.
Speaker 1:So jr quickly puts it together like oh my god, kristen, my side chic sister-in-law knows all about my deep, dark, devious schemes. Now I gotta get rid of this little wench. I was gonna let her live. Now I gotta toss her off the side of a building or something, or seems to go. Uh, an administrative assistant on Dallas, remember Julia? Yeah, I remember when Julia went splat a tat tat off the side of that building. I certainly do.
Speaker 1:This is where super villainy rubber meets the road. Either good at it or not and jr is great at it he knows a psychological game because he's not going to slap around chris and he's not going to threaten her life. He goes over to her apartment, his apartment, and it quickly reminds her that she is simply a side chick. She's not as smart as she thinks she is. And you know what? Why don't you disappear, little girl? He reaches in his pocket, pulls out a fist full of hundred dollar bills, slams him in her face and is like hey, why don't you go to South America? It's taking no time to find a wealthy business in there. Shake you about a year and then they'll get tired of you. Then maybe you can come back.
Speaker 1:Basically, he's calling her, you, a whore, whore, whore, and you need to disappear. Peer, peer, south of the equator, preferably get out of my face, you hooker. She's all jr someone someday, somebody's gonna, somebody's gonna make you pay for this. And he's like uh, that's cute. Whatever next on his list, he seems to have a road next himself Is allen being. He sends some muscle this time, muscle I've never seen before, or. But the muscle seems to quickly find allen and brings them to the office.
Speaker 1:Now allen is a beast of a different kind. Allen is not quite jr is equal, but he's gonna get there very quickly. He's a lawyer, he is ruthless, he is scandalous and he has learned from the best. He has been his apprentice for a very long time, so he knows all of his scheme. He's gotta hit this just differently. This is a lawyer lawyer, after, after all. He can't just send him out into the abyss with without consequence.
Speaker 1:So he says you know what, allen, you should probably disappear, or else that woman you raped from last month is gonna come out and allen's like where you talking about? I've never raped anyone in my life. And jr was like, yeah, you totally did remember. And he tells do dirt guy, don't you remember that girl? And do dirt guy says something to the effect of what hair color is like? Basically, pick a girl, I'll make her disappear, I'll make her appear. This would ruin this man's, not only his career but his whole life. He's like jr, this is team too much. What are you talking about? Jair's like test me, I dare you, get out of town.
Speaker 1:Or else horrible, now sprinkled within the oh, oh, oh. Oh, here's the best part, not that I forgot, but Cliff kind of fades in and out of my consciousness on the show quite a bit. He's not really in the picture for more than two episodes. I tend to forget he's there. I had all but forgotten about him finding out about what was it?
Speaker 1:Ewing 26, this contract that Jock and Digger Barnes had written on a napkin X amount of years ago. So Cliff comes in smiling like the Cheshire cat, slams a piece of paper down and says read this, you fools. He sells this to Bobby and to JR. Bobby reads it. He's like hey, this, this, this looks like a legit contract. Jr didn't pay it, he pays it dust. It's like you have right, it's phony, clearly. Well, cliff was totally prepared, because he too is a lawyer. He reaches in his breast pocket and he's like no, I had it authenticated. I thought you might say that. So, just so you understand me, and Pammy, pam, own half of Ewing 26.
Speaker 1:Now Bobby's like dang, yeah, open that last month. So, oh well, oh well, I mean, you got one over on this. He doesn't seem all that upset about it. Like, what's, what's one? Well, out of like 300 who cares, right? And plus, the money's coming back to him regardless, because he's married to Cliff's sister. This is a win-win situation. Only it's not JR is. He's already ruined two to three to at least ten people's lives this morning. Why not add another to that list? So he gets on the phone, he calls his whoever, his lawyer, whoever runs a whale company, who I don't know, it doesn't matter. He makes a phone call, okay, makes a phone call and he tells whomever picks up the phone hey, ewing 26, shut that down. Shut it down. I don't want any oil being pumped out of that sumbage for the rest of my life, shut it down and Cliff just eats it. And I'm like Cliff, you knew this was gonna happen. I wish he would have quietly just like filed the paperwork and let it. He should have only went to Bobby, but Bobby is such a lap dog. He would have went to JR and his daddy. That's the whole problem. The dynamic is off. The power power structure is very inadequate, it's very unequal and it's just disappointing. But it makes for great TV.
Speaker 1:Yeah, speaking of Pam, don't really know why they brought her up this episode. I'm being perfectly honest. She's still kind of on a mission. So she gets down to Corpus Christi and she is on the street. That, basically, is the last whereabouts of her family, of of Digger and her mom and of Cliff, when Cliff was like six years old five years old, something like that and she happens upon an elderly woman who claims to have lived there her entire life. At first she didn't remember Pam's mom, but then she's like oh yeah, you look like her. Well, she was here, she was really nice, and then one day they just disappeared, which is nothing right. That's absolutely no information. That it's not really inconsistent with any other stories, but it's also not a revelation.
Speaker 1:Pam goes down to the what is it? The office of vital records and she starts looking for a death cert. There's no death cert. I would like to point out you know who else doesn't have a death cert? The guy that was buried on South Fork for 25 years Doesn't seem to be on anybody's priority back in the day, back in the 50s, especially in south Texas, to make sure that people are properly buried. Who's to say she's not off the side of a balcony? Who's to say that seems really insensitive. I swear I'm not that sensitive in real life. But come on, no news is not good news here. There's barely any paper troll for anything. Either way, this has sparked new hope in her. She's not going to give up on this. But by the time she reveals it to Bobby, it doesn't matter, because he's starting to have second thoughts about the schemie scammer blood running through his vein. He's starting to feel a way about his dad and his dad son, his big brother. So it seems that the world is crumbling all around South Fork and Dallas.
Speaker 1:The banker who came over, the banker who looks like the guy from Dexter, turns out he was in some lone fraud scheme. He put all his money into these foreign oil wells for it to go. This is a perfect time. Bobby has brought in the newspaper to show Jock and he thinks it's a great time to bring up Cliff. He's like dad, do you remember signing paperwork with Digger Barnes about signing of like a? Well, and Jock's like yeah, we signed a hundred of them. I did it so many times I can't even tell you which one he goes well, ewing 26. He's supposed to get half of it.
Speaker 1:Well, jock gets super pissed. He's like there's no way, I'm never, I'm never, I'm never gonna say I'm never gonna share anything with him. Cliff Barnes, I'm never gonna run him down. Bobby's like but I mean, there's legitimate contract. What do you mean? Jr finds this to be the perfect time to mention that. Oh, no, no, no, there was a contract. I shut all that down, dad, I shut down those wells. So Bobby's pissed because he's like okay, wait a minute, hold up, wait a minute. And remember when I was minding my business, I wanted to be a real cowboy and just work on the ranch. But, daddy, you told me that I needed to go back to the office to keep an eye on this fool here. How come he gets to make these decisions without me and his dad's like well, I mean, I didn't say that, bobby, he made the right decision, he did the right thing. I would have done the exact same thing.
Speaker 1:And Bobby is gobb-smacked. It's almost as if he's seeing the sun for the first time. Clarity clouds his eyes, his shoulders slump forward, he begins his eyes well, with tears and he's like God, dang, damn, damn damn. I've been disappointed a lot in my life. I've had a hunch, but it just hits the difference when the person you respect disrespects you to your face. So he's like I just okay, wow, this sucks. And he's right, jr is running shop, but he's running the business the way Bobby wants him to. So he gets up to the bedroom and he's like you know what, babe? He's telling Pam, who's dressed in leopard. I don't know where she's gonna go, but he's like you know what? I just can't take it. I just I. For the first time in my life, I really understand who my father is.
Speaker 1:He is JR senior. No shit, sherlock Pardon, my French Is his name, not Jock Jr. Really, what is Jock's real name? What is JR's name? Holy cow, how have I gotten 180-plus episodes into this? I don't know this kid's name. Oh yeah, I do remember. I remember John Ewing the third, john Ewing the second John Ewing's are scumbags. You better keep your eye out for that toddler.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it doesn't matter, because Bobby's like I've had my fill. I've had it up to here. I'm not gonna take any more of this riffraff. We're getting out of here. We're leaving Pam and she's gotta be the voice of reason. She's like you know, bobby, when you're crushing my dreams left and right, you always tell me don't make a decision right away. Cool off a little bit, sleep on it, babe. If you feel the same way in the morning, I'll pack my teens and get the heck out of here with you. Probably really quickly she should go knock on Sue Ellen's door and tell her to hey, hey, girl, you wanna leave, we can leave. Oh, I also forgot Sue Ellen.
Speaker 1:So after JR called Kristen all kinds of hukary-duckary whores, he goes home and I guess he's still fuming from the fact that Kristen okey-doked him and found out about his scheme and he decides to call Sue Ellen out of her name. He calls his wife an SLUT to her face and she gets so upset that she starts throwing and damaging things around her own bedroom, which would be a terrible idea if she wasn't filthy, rich and there were maids to pick it up. If I wanna throw a fit and break things in my house, you know what? I gotta come back and clean it up. So I'm apt to not do those sorts of things. But tis the privilege of being pretty and rich, I suppose? Either way, she's super, super pissed, and she's meant I in this pistol, as she was flinging things about the bedroom. She sees this pearl handled revolver in the dresser and she's like hmm, hmm, hmm, maybe I'll tuck this away and maybe I'll use it for a rainy day or tomorrow morning at breakfast, depends on how I feel. Hope he doesn't say anything to piss me off between now and then, because he's gonna be on and popping, quite literally.
Speaker 1:So the next morning Pam and Bobby are dressed to the nines I still don't understand why. Anyway to wear a sports coat casually, but he does. They've got hideous luggage. They're lumping down the stairs and they go into an equally hideous dining room full out with lime green table mats and peach and green floral decoral. Anyway, you denounce for that. You can watch it on Amazon Prime if you want.
Speaker 1:But he lets his mother and his father know that I'm leaving because I hate you and JR, dad. And you can see Ellie's eyes. She's like oh my God, she wants to act up, she wants to flip it. Oh my God, I'm a baby. No baby, no baby, no baby, no, how? Oh, oh no, you already know, I've watched this long enough.
Speaker 1:She can't stand JR, son or no, she doesn't care for JR. She's like are you sure you can't work this out, bob? Can't you work it out, you and JR? And he's like nope, absolutely not. And I'm sorry, dad, you're part of the problem, the fact that you were on the same page as this person. It's just I can't do it. And so she starts crying and it's heart breaking. She's like Jock, do something. And he's like Bobby's like you know what? I can't do it. I can't fight both of you. You gave me a position, you told me to keep an eye on the kid and now you're backing the kid up. So I'm out, you can just figure out what to do. And Ellie is shaking, she's so pissed. I'm like I'm so sorry, mama, but I gotta get up out of here. I can't be in this house with Jock Ewing or Jock Ewing II or Jock Ewing III, iv, v or VI. I can't do it. I'm out, o-u-t out. But Jock's all like we're family. We gotta stick together.
Speaker 1:Tis, the older generation, isn't it? Not to crap on anyone, but writing or no, this is a little too close for home. This is very much obviously a lot of people of a certain age. You want loyalty but you can't be disloyal and expect people to respect you. I mean, I guess you can if there's a level of fear and respect, but it's hard when someone loses respect for you. You can't really ask much of them. You literally can't ask much of them. Oh, it's a beautiful little hug between Bobby and his mama. She's crying super hard again. Gary's gone. Her favorite son, her two favorite sons are gone. Now she's only left with JR and her idiot husband. Look at him. What a disgrace.
Speaker 1:Eventually JR comes down for breakfast and he's like what? There's a woman. It reminds me of that, that picture of the Joker. He was like why the long face? Or whatever he says. So he's like what's wrong with all y'all? And just the while I was like you, you, sir, you ran off both your brothers.
Speaker 1:Now we're all stuck here looking at you and he's like but I did, and this is why I love this guy. He's so you'd almost think he had no idea of anything happening. He's like why didn't want anybody to leave? Mama? That's not my MO, I would never. She's, I just can't stand you. Oh my God, no, I'm going to bed. I'm going to bed. It's eight in the morning and I'm going to bed for the day. He's got a piece of bacon in his hand like damn, so it's. I guess Sue Ellen's outburst reminds him. Oh yeah, by the way, you sound crazy again to me. You sound like a cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo. I'm going to reach out to that place and see if they have a bed for you, darlin'. So you might as well enjoy your last day here, baby, drink your coffee, drink your boozer.
Speaker 1:Out the door Got everything to lose and she looks determined like okay, god, this guy's a great actor. This is a fantastic scene. I almost want to leave a little bit out, but I'm not going to. But I do think I'm not going to blow up their spot. As far as who shot him, I don't know if I will. I feel like it's kind of a miracle that I don't know, even after all this time. But I don't know. Time will tell.
Speaker 1:Anyway, susan not Susan, kristen is back at her apartment. She's so good, some creepy old guy comes over and he's got a warrant for her arrest for being a hooker, which is so disrespectful. But then he's like well, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, what's the rush, sweet thing, you want to make a little money? Basically, if she incriminates herself and takes money, he'll be the one to pay her. You know what I'm saying? They're adding salt to the wounds. This is really unfortunate because I would assume usually if a guy has a side chick, she's probably not tangled within his family, but it appears at any time Kristen pisses off JR, then Sue Ellen pays for it, and every time Sue Ellen pisses off JR, kristen pays for it. Yeah, so she has 24 hours to disappear from down or she's going to be arrested for being a hooker. Jr gets on the horn, he makes sure that there's room at the sanitarium for Sue Ellen, and the guy who owns it is like I don't know, I just can't do that, but it doesn't matter. He makes room for her and we enter the climax. Guys, it's finally coming down to it.
Speaker 1:If you're keeping score, jr has pissed off at least 15 people within a 24 hour period. There's a number. Every single last one of them has threatened him in some way, except Bobby, if I had to guess I don't really know. One of the guys in the cartel committed suicide. So part of me is like, well, his wife would probably be a really good person. But when I had Erica on the show shout out to Erica she told me that after the season premiere, after the season finale, there was a rider strike. So people had to wait like another year or two to figure out who did it. So it makes me wonder if they had someone in mine or if they never did. I don't really know, but it's been worth the wait.
Speaker 1:This is a great episode. You can see where everybody's super pissed off Sue Ellen, in fact. She thinks it's her last day. So she changes clothes from breakfast and she starts looking around the house a little bit more. She's eyeing that pistol and she's like you know what? I'm just gonna put this in my purse real quick, just in case something pops off. She puts it in her purse.
Speaker 1:I mean, I guess I kind of have to agree. I think she would have. Would I say she has the most to lose? I don't know, I kind of lean against her because she still has the baby, and to shoot him means that she would absolutely never be with the baby. Unless she could do it under the cloak of darkness, where nobody knew about it, then she'd get away with it. Cliff seems like he'd be the first person they call If something goes wrong. I don't see Pam doing it. I don't see Bobby doing it. I'm putting money on Miss Ellie. I think Miss Ellie hates him for real, for real. That would be a great little twist. I don't think it'll happen, but I'm still kind of leaning towards Kristen's ex-boyfriend, that Rudy kid that showed up once. Who knows? Actually, a lot of people know, I just don't know because I've never seen it.
Speaker 1:So Ellen makes one last one, last-ditch effort at sanity. She goes to her doctor and she's like you know what, doc? Okay, I forgot this part. So she'd been at the doctor and she was telling him that Bobby was gonna keep JR from putting her in the sanatorium before. And he says Sue, ellen, I'm concerned about you because you're always wanting someone else to solve your problems. Not calling her lazy, but he's just. He wanted to point out that she is not taking her life. She's not taking her life into her own hands. She's not stepping out, taking control and manifesting destiny. Well, she goes back to him and she's like JR has been running shop in my life for far too long. I'm gonna make sure, dr Elby, the things go right by me from here on out. I promise you, I'm gonna make sure I'm the person, if I'm the only person, I can rely on. I'm gonna rely on myself. That's it. That's all for him.
Speaker 1:So, back at the office, it's later in the day. Jr is there, dolo, solo by himself, pouring over some sort of contracts. He gets a phone call but nobody's online. He continues to work and then he decides he needs a cup of Joe and ugh, oh my God, he drinks just coffee from the pot, no cream, no sugar, no nothing. It's terrifying, scariest part of the scene. He walks in, he pours himself a cup of coffee and then he waits. After he gets his cup, he walks over back to the hallway, like the way their office is set up. You walk in and you see the receptions and all of them right away, and then you can turn down this hallway. You make a left and another left and it's like a hallway with JR's office, bobby's office and joxt.
Speaker 1:He goes back in his office and he's just kind of milling about waiting to get shot when he thinks he hears someone. So we get that same view. We got on Falcon Crest where it's just you're behind the camera and it's sort of shaky like someone is walking in. So we get a good view of the office and they're kind of slowly lurking about. They hit that corner and out comes JR before they have a chance to make it down the hallway. Because he hears someone. They shoot him, pow pow and he collapses on the floor, drops like a cheapsuit, folded like a lawn chair, where someone would say he rightfully deserves. He didn't even make it out of his office. Really good, yeah, he gets shot twice. He lays out, that's it. That's all for season three of Dallas.
Speaker 1:Oh, iconic vintage excellence. This episode was entertaining from top to bottom. It's so fun to watch the bad guy be that bad guy. He pissed off so many people. There's so many angles, you really don't know who.
Speaker 1:I can only imagine people being at the edge of their seats and I would have been so incredibly frustrated to have to wait a full year. Oh, thank God, with our writer strike, our most recent writer strike, I wasn't really on pins and needles for any show. Couldn't imagine I could wait. This was fantastic. All right, guys. We've seen all the evidence. We've watched all three shows and I can't help but notice some blindingly obvious copycats. And that's okay, because what do they say? I can't remember the quote. Basically, when you copy me, you're flattering me. We'll get to that. Join me next time when we talk about all three season finales and see who did it best, who is the best in show for the tertiary season of these three iconic subs? In the meantime, in between time, take care of yourself as you deserve it and stay moisturized, stay hydrated, mind your own business and keep all of your drama on TV. Food Guys.