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S4 EP 6 Dallas - The Venezuelan Connection: The"You Hate Me Because You Ain't Me" Episode
What happens when ambition meets family rivalry in the high-stakes world of Dallas? This episode of SoFloid unpacks the explosive dynamics of season 4, episode 7, "The Venezuelan Connection." We kick things off by exploring Bobby Ewing's ascent in the oil business and the intense jealousy it sparks in his brother Jr and father Jock. We'll also dissect the tensions at home, especially between Bobby and Pam, whose work-related disagreements are tearing them apart. Sue Ellen's ongoing saga adds another layer of drama, making her the perfect second-rate Disney villain's assistant in our story.
Ever wondered how family ties get tangled in business deals? Our nostalgic trip takes us through Bobby's audacious move to buy a refinery, much to the chagrin of his family. This decision sends shockwaves through the Ewing clan, particularly when Bobby starts partnering with unexpected allies. We reflect on Pam's emotional odyssey after discovering her adoption, contrasting her search for identity with Cliff's pragmatic approach. Through humor and sharp observation, we reveal the intricate power plays and personal conflicts that keep the Ewing family in a perpetual state of chaos.
Get ready for a rollercoaster of lavish parties, therapy sessions, and sibling rivalries as we navigate the Ewing family's latest escapades. Lucy's extravagant pool party and Sue Ellen's revealing therapy session with Dr. Elby showcase the stark contrasts within the family. Bobby's assertion of independence against Jr and Jock highlights the ongoing battle for control and respect. As we peel back the layers of envy and success, we promise to keep you entertained and enlightened about the deliciously chaotic world of Dallas. So grab a drink, settle in, and join us for a thrilling exploration of family loyalties, business rivalries, and the absurdities that define the Ewing legacy.
You can have a whole party for less than like 70 bucks. If you do it right, it's no big deal. Especially back in the day they could probably do it for like 20 bucks. So I'm like, oh well, why would she need to mention that? Maybe she just wants to ensure that no old fogies come trickling out while all the young hot bodies are out.
Speaker 1:Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome and welcome back to SoFloid, the official gathering place for newbies, novices and OG diehard fans of the golden age of primetime. I'm your host, chad, viewing and reviewing one of 1980's finest soap operas. That's right, we're back in Dallas, season 4, episode 7, the Venezuelan Connection. So, whether you're new to this or true to this, sit back and enjoy. Tell the kids it's time to play outside or out of sight. Tell babe. No questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25 to 35 minutes, everyone else in earshot. Be cool, be quiet and be packed in the house. Baby, I'm watching my stories. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is Soap Lore. Hello party people, welcome or welcome back to another fun-filled edition of Soap Lore. I hope your day is shaping up well this week. If not, I promise you it's about to get a whole lot better full disclosure. This is my second time running through this episode and I accidentally caught the title for the next episode, the fourth son. Okay, one bite at a time, right, one bite at a time episode.
Speaker 1:The Venezuelan connection has all kinds of unnecessary drama. Have you ever been minding your own business, taking care of whatever needs to be done within your own power? You're not bothering nobody, you're not lying on anybody, you're not stealing, cheating. Basically, you're being an average or good person at best. That's what Bobby's doing. Bobby is very much just minding his own business and the entire world seems to be hating on him for doing it with his chest up, chin out, or chest chin up, chest out, making money moves. It's a problem. Success seems to be a problem if your name is Bobby Ewing. This episode has a little bit of it all. We have pity and pool parties. We have the Lulu wives who's barely 10 seconds away from being homeless, but now you got problems with people. You got the North Texas Lolita not reading the room, or her man Ellie silently threatening jock, and a whole lot more. So settle in, grab yourself something refreshing and let's jump into the Venezuelan connection. Aka you hate me because you hate me. I'm not even sure where to begin on this one. It's just so egregious.
Speaker 1:The overarching through line of this entire story is Bobby's doing a good job. Jr and Jock feel threatened by that Surprise, surprise, surprise, bobby and Pam are fighting because of guess what? Because of work. Oh my gosh, how original. It's not like they've been fighting over that exact same topic for the last four seasons, but it is what it is. It works well for them. Sue Ellen is god bless.
Speaker 1:You all know how I feel about Sue Ellen, so you know what. Let's go ahead and start with her. Those the particulars are. If Bobby is doing well and it's just it's not boating well at home. He's riding high off the fact that he was able to not only buy a refinery, which was Jock's lifelong dream. Apparently, he bought it without doing anything wrong. He didn't lie, he didn't steal, he didn't cheat. So he is in a celebratory mood.
Speaker 1:Now, in my personal opinion, you know I'm not particularly super fond of Bobby. You know I like him but I'm not like kind of neutral to him. He's not being braggadocious, he's not actually doing anything out of the ordinary, he's not even overly excited. He's just like man. I can't believe that actually happened. I was really nervous there for a second, but it happened. Oh my gosh, it's happening.
Speaker 1:So let's get to Sue Ellen. Y'all know that is my girl. That is my favorite person on this show, next jr, of course. But she is just sort of lurking in the background like some two-bit second rate disney villains assistant. She's taking notes. She's making grimacing faces, mind you, nobody cares because nobody's looking at her.
Speaker 1:But I'm thinking so well, what's the whole problem here? What difference does it make to you tell you what clearly she hadn't got back in good with the daughters of the alamo, because she has way too much time on her hands. She's just kind of hanging out and come to find out she's pissed off because she feels like bobby has stripped jr of his rightful throne and I just I'm listening to this thinking where is this coming from? But then I remembered, never mind the fact that they have literally been through the fire, never mind the fact that he made her sing she was forced to sing at rope or gunpoint, I can't really remember In her bathing suit. She has been humiliated.
Speaker 1:Her baby sister is living the good life on the West Coast, allegedly carrying her husband's baby. She was in putting the clink. She was put in the mental asylum. She was, you know, love of her life, died in this plane crash. She was kicked out unceremoniously. She was living on the streets just two short episodes ago, but on this episode, no, no, no, no, no. That's all irrelevant. If Bobby would just get somewhere and sit down, then JR would take the throne, because he's a king, he's a man, but he's not though. But he is, but he's not. You know what I'm saying. So she has an attitude this whole time. So it opens up with Bobby. Jock, I'm mixing some of this up. It is really irrelevant.
Speaker 1:Jock is upset that Bobby purchased this refinery by selling off Ewing assets. Now I am, you know, I'm no business maven. Here seems like good business to me to be like OK, let me put up a little collateral. We're going to get all this money back. They're always doing that. They're always borrowing money or spending money or doing you know, their hand over fists. They seem to make it back, but JR is in his feelings, and now Jock is in his feelings, which I was I was a little bit surprised by, because I didn't realize that at least on this episode, it appears that Jock is also threatened by Bobby.
Speaker 1:Not so much that Bobby is successful, but maybe it's because Bobby isn't really relaying any information to him. He's not coming to Jock for advice, he's just handling the task at hand and he's doing it well. Jock is threatened by that. Jr is also threatened by that because he's like well, he's only supposed to be taking care of this. I wanted him to look bad, so that when I came back I looked extra good. So jock confronts bobby about selling off viewing assets and he's like relax, old man, I got this in the back, don't even trip, don't even worry about it. Goes to the office. And this is when my 10 year old self appeared out of nowhere and my heart was absolutely broken. Bobby, now you know they don't.
Speaker 1:The Ewing's now own a refinery. Refineries need something to refine. Ie crude oil will turn it into whatever it is he. He bought the refinery but he doesn't have the oil to fill it to capacity or whatever the lowest rung is on that production level. He needs to get just enough oil to do that. So he calls up. Look at my notes here.
Speaker 1:He calls up the Bullocks an elderly man and a redheaded woman. At first sight I thought wait a minute. Isn't that Ray's main squeeze husband? He died a couple seasons ago. No, it's not him, it's just another old man or hell, maybe it is him. I hadn't bothered to look into it. But the old man and his much younger wife, surprise, surprise are business partners. Old man's like, hey, I let her handle the business now because I'm old and tired. I'm really trying to do all that.
Speaker 1:So she and Bobby start talking.
Speaker 1:She seems to think this is a great idea. But as she's speaking, my 10 year old self jumped out of my body. I was like, wait a minute. And I'm like, oh, my god, you're right. That is her guess. Who's playing what is? Her name doesn't matter, mrs bullock, sally, I believe. Ships sinking.
Speaker 1:Sally, it is rose, not from the titanic, but rose from. It's rose from one of the most iconic movies in my catalog and my mental personal favorite catalog. Don't tell mom the babysitter's dead, it is miss. I'm right on top of that rose in the flesh. So immediately I'm like, oh hell, yeah, she's solid.
Speaker 1:She hired a 17 year old and she wasn't even going to do anything about she's solid. You could, yeah, you can, trust her, bobby boy. Was I wrong? So they will. In a deal. They make up this deal, that, okay, she knows people in Venezuela and she's going to have them ship the oil to galveston, to the refinery. Bada bing, bada, boom, boom, boom, bam, boom. Everything's gonna be great. We're family here, right? So, fiends, I guess I can tell you this.
Speaker 1:I was slightly embarrassed for about 10 minutes because I thought she said she was going to have someone drive up from Venezuela and I was thinking to myself like I guess it's not that unusual. We can drive to Mexico, we can drive to Canada, but I never think. I never thought about anybody driving from South. She didn't mean we're going to put in the mail. It doesn't mean like we're just going to put it on the. They're going to actually put it on the ship. Why did it take me almost 40 years to realize that's what that word meant put something on a ship? I'm quite embarrassed. So a plan is fully in play. They're going to ship the required oil to the refinery and all is well.
Speaker 1:Now this is an information that Bobby is sharing, and this was one of Jock's problems with Bobby, like why isn't he telling me everything? But then I remember it made a lot of sense and more of the episode went on well, because he can't trust anybody. He literally can't trust anybody but his secretary. No, I don't like the way they're looking at each other. Miss Bright Eyes is looking at him a little bit too admirably. He's looking back at her like yeah, yeah, you know, he didn't seem to be super into it yet, but it's only a matter of time. It's only a matter of time. She's looking a little too lovesick for my liking. I don't like it, and neither does pam.
Speaker 1:Pam, sitting around waiting for a man to get off all the time, bobby, we went to dinner, all you wanted to talk about was well, woke up, that's all you want to talk about as well. He's like babe, I'm so sorry, you know we'll go to dinner. He's making these promises and she's upset, but not super upset, because in the meantime, in between time, she's been doing her due diligence to find her birth mother, or Rebecca, which is Cliff's birth mother too. She's not super heavy in this episode, pam isn't, but that's the long and short of it. She has a PI who's been working on locating her mom and the clues are starting to align with exactly what digger barn said on his deathbed. Which why would he lie on his deathbed where he's. Like you know, your mom left me. She moved outside of galveston so apparently she's she's they believe, they being the pi and pam that her mom lives. Probably she lived at least I don't know if she still lives there in a little town about 30 minutes outside of Galveston, so she didn't go very far.
Speaker 1:Pam is elated when she finds out this information and she shares it with Bobby and he he's apprehensive, like babe, please don't get too worked up about this, because I don't really have time to worry about you and all my business. And she's totally offended by this, which I get like oh okay, I'm okay. I'd hate to interrupt your busy schedule to, you know, draw attention to myself and my long lost mother. After I just found out I was adopted when my daddy died. I mean, by all means go sell your dirty oil. And she's hoping to get a better reaction out of Cliff. But Cliff is like I ain't got no mama, that's his whole thing. What who's mama? I ain't got no mama. Pam's upset. She's coming from a place of.
Speaker 1:I thought Digger Barnes was my dad. He's not, so now I don't really know who I am. It is very important that I find a connection to my past, because now I don't have one now. I grew up with two parents. They're my birth parents. So I can openly admit I don't know what it feels like not to know who they are. I can only imagine how earth-shattering that would be to find out as an adult, to find out that one of them wasn't who I thought they were, or that they weren't my parent. That's that has to suck.
Speaker 1:But I disagree with her review of this situation. Whether or not Digger Barnes was her birth dad, that's the only dad she knows. He she was fully, fully raised by him. She's raised with Cliff. Um, cliff is your connection. You can't just say, well, my mom's my only connection. No, cliff is your, he's your connection too. That's my personal opinion.
Speaker 1:Cliff is like I, I don't care about this woman. This woman abandoned us, left us with a drunk who treated us I mean, he treated us fine, but we were constantly in survival mode. We both have ptsd. It's remarkable that we came out as normal as we did. Good riddance. She left us in a hellhole with a man who wasn't even your daddy. Since you bring it up, I'm like oh, he didn't say that. This is me extracting the essence of the scene Clips basically saying let go of the past. You and Bobby pack up your tings and move. Get away from this cesspool. This sucks for you. I don't like watching you worry about these things. I must admit that I agree with Cliff's sentiment. I understand you're looking for your mother. I understand it's important, but let's not put too much emphasis on this relationship, not just yet, not until we know who she is because my whole thing is like was it? Weren't Chris? Chris, what's her name?
Speaker 1:Cliff and Pam were raised by Auntie Auntie and while Digger was out being a drunky, drunky Auntie, auntie raised them. Nobody slipped up and Pam is at least 27 years old. I can't tell how old people are back in the day because everyone is directed respectfully. Everyone wears buttons. It throws me off as a millennial, even if I'm an elder millennial. It throws me off when people aren't wearing t-shirts. I can't tell the youth from the elderly. Everybody looks exactly the same to me, but I'm going to assume that Pam is around 27 years old. She's a grown woman. She's lived a little bit of life. So has Bobby, which brings me to my next point.
Speaker 1:Once again, I must reiterate that the overarching theme of this episode is that Jacques and JR are a little bit insecure about Bobby's business acumen. He's good at it, he's honest with it, he's clever, he's doing all the things he needs to do and, by God, he's making dreams come true in record time. I can see how this is a little bit intimidating to people who have been trying to do the same thing. I don't know if JR's ever actually tried to make a refinery happen. I think JR enjoys being boss hog and I think Jock enjoys being Jock, even though he had these dreams he saw oh, my boys will work together, even though you know they can't stay on one another.
Speaker 1:You got one running off drinking. You got one running off being a hoe. You got two technically being a hoe. This is what actually irritated me on this episode. So we're gonna get back to my girl, sue Ellen.
Speaker 1:But there's this whole scene. You know the Ewings are super codependent. They can't have dinner without one another. So everyone is chilling waiting for the rest of the respectable family to get home for dinner and Lucy walks in and she's enamored. She's like granddaddy, can I please have a barbecue? We can have a party for my boyfriend. He works, he parks cars, he has a job. I don't know why, I'm sure I don't know why she's not telling them that he parts cars amongst 17 other jobs like he's Jamaican or something because he is trying to make his way through medical school. She leaves that very, very important part out. But he's amazing, he's a real man. He works really hard. Granted, they're going to have this party for him. They're going to have a little barbecue for him. Do you mind, please, please, please this party for him? I'm going to have a little barbecue for him. Do you mind, please, please, please.
Speaker 1:Now, in my middle-class mind I'm thinking that's not a big deal. We'll get a couple of hot dogs. We'll get a couple of pounds of ground beef, maybe 20 pounds. Pat out some hamburgers. Let's do a little thing. Got a pool, no big deal. Pour some Lipton tea in a jar, set it on top of a car that's how we do it in Texas. Make some sun tea, cut a couple lemons. This is not a big deal. You get some tomatoes, some jalapenos, you get some cilantro and you make some salsa. You get some tortilla chips. You can have a whole party for less than like 70 bucks. If you do it right, it's no big deal, especially back in the day. They could probably do it for like 20 bucks.
Speaker 1:So I'm like, oh well, why would she need to mention that? Maybe she just wants to ensure that no old fogies come trickling out while all the young hot bodies are out? This is the thing Soap memes. This is especially for the newbies and the novices like myself. I am not accustomed to this, or at least I have never separated it in my mind that there comes a point within a series where the network starts to understand who is sexy and who knows it and they need to amplify this persona at some point.
Speaker 1:I've seen it on Falcon Crest. That was a whole bad girl Melly, mel, the manimal and of course, the renegade Lorenzo Llamas. He's got to be greased down, dripped up every single time you see him. But I hadn't really seen this on Dallas because, remember, while this is season four across the board, it is 1981 or 1980 on Dallas, it is 1983 on Dynasty and it's 1984 on Falcon Crest. So they got a little bit of time to think about it. The world is changing rapidly. Think about how much it changes now. Okay, well, let's get back to this pregame. Lucy's like oh my god, can we have the same now?
Speaker 1:The, the Azul King jock, who is the the cleanest geriatric I've ever seen in my life. You know what I'm saying and my big force he's like let me put on a full. Let me put on a full texas tuxedo. Only it's not denim, baby, this is the finest. I don't know what. It is probably cotton or wool or something. God, I hope it's not wool. In texas, in north dallas, I don't care where you are in texas it's hot as hell. You cannot be putting on wool or any heavy things. So let's just for the sake of this argument is a breathable material. He's got fat on, he's got on a matching tie, he's got his chesticles out, he's got his chest hairs roaring through the top of his v-neck and then he has on the Alabama Bama's, the big sepia colored.
Speaker 1:My husband has a temper type glasses that I have seen every. Oh my gosh, it didn't occur to me that there was only like four styles of sunglasses through 1960, through about, probably about 1989. I swear I've seen these 150 times with old ladies. I have pictures of my grandparents, pictures of my great-grandparents, great-grandparents, great-aunts, in these big sepia colored sunglasses and Jossier or Jock Ewing, the original. The Jock Ewing is no exception. So he tells his grandbaby sure, sure, darling, you can have whatever you want. Great, great, great. Now, mind you, the whole family gathers for dinner.
Speaker 1:Tell me why, sue Ellen Girl, I'm so irritated with Sue Ellen. I'm, I'm so pissed off, actually I'm getting upset. This is how I know I'm really into these soap operas. I am physically. It is a visceral reaction. At this point I wanted to slap the taste out of her mouth.
Speaker 1:Sue Ellen, my darling, you are two shakes and a lamb's tail from being a homeless woman. You were scouring the streets of Dallas. You were begging for booze. You were, you are, you're a joke. You have been disrobed. You are no longer Miss Texas, you are no longer the president of the Daughters of the Alamo. Here you are, drunk as a skunk, about to go to prison because your baby sister is banging your husband.
Speaker 1:But she forgot all of that. That's in the past. She has a better memory than I do, or a worse memory than I do, clearly, because she's listening to Lucy say okay, I want to have a barbecue for my boyfriend. I really want to impress him. That's what Lucy is saying. So Wellen's like. Well, lucy, I certainly hope you have better luck with men. You haven't had a great deal of luck with men in the past, so I hope this one is a good one. Okay, yes, yes, I hear you clutching your pearls. I, I, yes, that's what I said. Sue, helen, sue, ellen, hold Ellen, hold on baby, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
Speaker 1:Generally, at least in my day and age as a millennial, I feel like people who give advice have a successful track record. Please point to me, please point out to me. I'd love to be correct. I love good information. Please point out to me Sueen's healthy love life record. I don't think so.
Speaker 1:Now I know I scrounged through the records at the sanatorium where she was drunk, giving birth to a premature baby. I looked through the records where she was banging ray, where she was banging cliff, where, uh, she found dusty and then he disintegrated on the side of a mountain that does not exist between Dallas and San Angelo. I know for a fact. Now I looked high and low and I said, girl, I can't do all this polyester and pearls, I can't find any good. I can't run a record of you being a good woman, of you being in a healthy relationship. But she's on this new kick with her and JR. Jr is, he's the man boyfriend, according to her.
Speaker 1:Now, I don't really understand this. It kind of pisses me off. It really pisses me off that she has been drug through the mug every single season. We are only six to seven episodes into this season and baby girl is like well, you know, lucy, I hope you find a good man now. Lucy ain't one to play, because she's like you know what baby? You're new to this. I'm true to this. There's no version of this story where I'm gonna be put out on the street, so let me educate you. So she's like Suze. Yeah, sue, ellen, maybe I'll find a good man, just like you got then Ellie. That's enough.
Speaker 1:Now I'm really sick of Ellie's refereeing, if I'm just perfectly honest, because god dang it. At this point. These are grown men and women making foolish. They're embarrassing the family at this point. They're on the front page of every paper. It is time to embarrass these people. Lucy is right to be like uh, baby, when, when the last time you had a good man, I'll wait. Oh, that's right, never happened. Have a seat. Have a seat. Ewing by marriage. Have a seat.
Speaker 1:Well, baby, as the episode progresses, there's a scene where my girls do well, and this is the thing that kind of irritates me. I don't't know any good sidekicks name, but if you think about Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and there was, I guess it was Igor she's like Igor this episode. She's just looming in the background and she's big mad that Bobby has made this acquisition. I'm searching high and low, I'm digging into the depths of my pettiness to think okay, why would this be a problem? Because this is an acquisition for the family. This doesn't just benefit Bobby, this benefits the entire family that everyone is treating him like persona non grata, except Ellie, who's got a big mouth Anytime anybody wants to have an argument, but when it comes time to defend him outright, she's, she's, she's. You know, she's covert. So let's get to her first.
Speaker 1:That whole scene before dinner where Lucy and Sue Ellen low-key get into. Actually there's no getting into it. Lucy, the North Texas Lolita reads Sue Ellen the damn near out on her ass for filth. She reads her for filth real quick, Like you ain't never in your life had a good man. So please don't Cause you was kicked out of here to 10, 15 minutes ago. Remember we got your baby, don't forget I'm, I'm a nepo baby, don't forget that. But there was a scene after the fact where Bobby and not Bobby, excuse me where Jock and Ellie are sitting on the couch and Jelly Jelly oh, I love that name for them, jelly Jelly is sitting on the couch.
Speaker 1:Ellie is very pensive, because she is. She sees the success that Bobby has. She knows in her right mind that there's nothing wrong with the success, but it's starting to irritate the rest of the family. So she's like Jock. Bobby's doing a good job. Now Jock starts waxing poetic like God, I just can't believe. Bobby didn't include me in anything and you know this was JR's thing and JR's putting more of his life into it and blah, blah, blah. So Ellie's like okay, jock, let me put you your navy blue suit and your white beater glasses on notice.
Speaker 1:If my baby that is, bobby b-o-b-b-y leaves south fork, it's gonna be a whole problem for you, my dude. It's gonna be a whole nightmare for you. There is is no version. Let me be explicit in my thoughts. There is no version of this story where I will forgive you if my baby boy does not continue living on this here property. Don't forget baby, because my people planted this. If my baby boy disappears, I'm going to let you know, I can't lose more than one son. It's going to be a whole problem for you, jock.
Speaker 1:And bought jock, to my shock and horror is like, yeah, I don't want to lose another, I don't want to lose another cat either, you know. But he's in his feelings, jock and jr. Like I've said this from the beginning, I know like, I know, like, I know like the back of my hand. I've read enough books. So, no, there's something going on with this man now. Granted, this is a soap opera. You can, you can invent anything you want, but he has to get his jr. I mean, he has to get his tendencies from somebody. It's clearly not ellie. So, even though joock has mellowed out in his older age, he was probably hell on wheels back in the day.
Speaker 1:That is Jock part two, which is an apt name for him, which makes me want to go ahead and watch the newer versions of Dallas with John Ewing Thirt. I know it's going to be good. Anyway, they have this whole conversation and one of the one of the reasons that Jock is presenting to Ellie. He kind of feels like okay, jr has put in more time, I only wanted Bobby to take over until JR was fully healed, he's already on the mend, he's almost a hundred percent. I only wanted Bobby to do it because I wanted JR to come back. But you know Bobby was always out being, you know, sowing his royal oats. Don't do that. Don't do that Jock.
Speaker 1:What you're trying to say is that Bobby was whoring around. But you will not acknowledge that JR has been a hoe and never stopped being a hoe, never. And you too, don't forget, your wife is your first wife, is in a whole sanitarium. I refuse to believe that's the only time that's going to come up. I refuse, that's just me. But I don't like this, this, this rewriting of history where Bobby is written off as the ho-ish brother. I'm like, okay, so maybe he was. At least he had the decency to stop that behavior Once he became married to the incomparable Pam Ewing. You know what I'm saying. Anyway, we got to get to. There's probably okay, let's get to my girl, sue Ellen, then we're gonna get to Lucy and then we're gonna get to the the bada bing, bada boom of the whole situation.
Speaker 1:Let's go back to Sue Ellen being Igor. All of a sudden JR is. Jr is a solid man, he's a good man and I just can't believe. Now she is so enthralled with this new Delulu that she runs up on Ellie, remind you. Let me remind you, let me remind all y'all, just in case you forgot, south Fork only exists because Ellie grew up there. That's her people's land, you hear me. So anyone else who came in, they are brand new to this. She is true to this.
Speaker 1:Sue Ellen, former Miss Texas former out on her, a former baby mama. Now she's baby number number one, next to her baby sister, who's baby number number two Is all of a sudden feeling herself. She's smiling herself, as my people would say, and she runs up to Ellie and she's like you know what? The way Bobby is doing JR, it is just downright wrong. I can't believe he would do so.
Speaker 1:Now Ellie is cool as a cucumber because, honestly, she's like, first and foremost, can't nobody tell me that. You can't tell me nothing about b-o-b-b-y period. I don't care if he set the empire state building on fire. You can't tell me nothing about my baby. Bob is fantastic, don't ever get a twist in. But suelen was like no, no, no, no, he is robbing his brother of his rifle throne.
Speaker 1:And anthony's like now listen, ellen, let me, let me put you up on game, baby girl. Um, I'm a mother to both of them. I'm always gonna want what's best for the family. I would never pick one son over the other, although we know that's a lot, because she definitely likes bobby way more than she likes jr. I was actually convinced that ellie had shot jr for a minute. I was like 80 convinced. But sue ellen's, oh oh oh. So you're choosing side. So you're choosing Bobby and Ellie's, like Sue Ellen, sue Helen, let me let me remind you, baby girl, this is my house. I said I'm not picking one over the other. Okay, let it go be easy, be at peace, go with peace. And she saunters off. Now I'm thinking it's over, but the whole rest of the episode, sue Ellen isn't her Delulu.
Speaker 1:Now, mind you, this is very shocking. This doesn't make sense to me, even as a creative writer. It's like from season one to season four, there's no version of this story where she would believe that jar was a completely, totally and just changed man. We've seen this more times than a little bit. But she is sue ella, that is, she is maintaining her mental health.
Speaker 1:She goes to visit dr lb and dr lb and I agree we had a cute little kiki in the back and I said dr lby, this woman is delusional. He's like jet, I know totally. She's tripping like I know. So when you go out there, I need you to talk to her. He's like bet, don't even worry about it. So he's, you know, pouring the water and sue ellen's sitting in the, in the chair and she's going on and on and on and on about bobby. So dr elby says sue ellen, I thought bobby was your, I thought that was your homeboy. Didn't he help you many times over? She's like yeah, yeah, he did. But now, now he's different. Now he's Robin JR.
Speaker 1:It should all be about JR. Dr Elby is looking with all the side eye he can muster, looking like a human elf. Right, he can only do so much. He said, well, no, wait a minute. Now, what is this? Where is this coming from? And she's like Dr Elba, you just don't know. Jr is so different, he's a different man, he's best. We so in love, we, the power couple, we're it. This is what I've been waiting on.
Speaker 1:Meanwhile, jr is on the other side of town with his regular, degular, scheduled secretary, who's you know. Therefore, a bang and not the haircut they're plotting and planning. Okay, I don't want to get too much more into this, but just know that JR is not pleased with Bobby. He confronts him at some point. I feel like this is going to trickle on for the rest of the season. That's just. That makes sense to me. These other little side parts are going to be bigger, or but big stories now they're going to dissipate at some point, but JR is not feeling the fact that Bobby is running things, so he has spies, of course. And then we go back to my girl I'm right on top of that, rose.
Speaker 1:Rose is a scoundrel. Our finger name is Sally, on the show. She is a scoundrel and she and JR have, of course, boinked more times than a little bit. And she's like okay, why are we having lunch? Like yo, I'm trying to be the king. She's like say less, I am so down to destroy somebody. That's literally the reason I breathe and live in order to disrespect people. So they go ahead and put a plan in place. Okay, mind you, bobby is none the wiser. He's writing these deals. He's like yo, gas guy, I need you to know that the oil will be here in four days, it'll go to my refinery and it'll be in your trucks. You have my word. You have my word Because he's believing I'm right on top of that rose, only she's a scoundrel. Okay, let's get to Lucy and then we're going to move on with our lives. Okay Now, lucy, the North Texas Lolita is is not versed in men.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's not like she's ever seen a healthy relationship modeled, but that's irrelevant. This episode. She decides okay, mitch, and she's trying her best. Mitch, you are a doctor in training. You need a lot of time to study. You need a lot of time to work. You need a lot of time to work. Let me think of a cool recreational activity that we can do together and get to know each other more.
Speaker 1:So she comes up with this idea that they're gonna have this pool party. That's the whole barbecue. Granted, you can have, it is all in point. Only lucy is blue blood. She's rich. So her version of a barbecue does not involve her walking out to the pit and firing up the girl herself. Now, lucy and I share the same sentiment. Although I am nowhere near a blue blood, I'm not really trying to be up there sweating to death. I don't have servants. Lucy does. So her idea of a small party is 40 of her closest friends and I counted about 30. I physically counted 30, and these are the hot bod people. This is a whole network reminding you that Lucy is a hot piece of tail. She's no longer wearing a pantyhose with her bathing suit.
Speaker 1:Let's feature Lucy and she comes out with the tatas on display. I don't know if they had push-up bras in 1980, but she figured out something, you hear me, and the network was cool with it. So the story goes she runs over to um Mitch's house and she's like hey, I want to have this little barbecue, I want you to meet some of my closest friends. So he, he's like. He asked a quintessential question, although this is a blonde haired, blue haired, blonde haired, blue eyed man. He asked the question that I would ask who all's going to be there. All of you who grew up with that sentiment in your house, you know if you know, you know Also if you are an introvert.
Speaker 1:This is listen, we all know who all going to be there means I really don't want to go. I'm slightly interested. If there's not going to be a big crowd, I'll show up. If there's a big crowd, I'm not going to go. That's what that means. But Lucy's like oh, just some of my close friends. Now, close friends to me entails at maximum 10. 10 is a lot of close friends. Nowhere in his mind is Mitch thinking there's going to be 30 people. But sure enough there is. So he pulls up in a Mustang and I'm like, oh, he's not a broke boy. A Mustang is kind of an expensive car. Maybe it wasn't back in 1980. So he pulls up, he's on his little shorts, he's ready, and there's like tons of cars. He's like what the heck's going on? Goes up to the pool. There is literally 50 people there.
Speaker 1:Lucy standing around her sandy candies from greece no, hey, everybody, hey, everyone. This is mitch, mitch, this is everybody, everybody. And everything's gucci and golden. They're having fun. They're splashing in the texas sun, which is, you know, it's a thousand degrees. I don't care what month it is. It's hot. So they're in the pool and they start playing chicken. Well, lucy wins a. It's hot. So they're in the pool and they start playing chicken. Well, lucy wins a match. There's other people in the pool, but it's irrelevant, because after Lucy wins the match, mitch is like having a good time. He's finally kind of let down his guard. He don't do crowds, he's not really into the big thing.
Speaker 1:But after that one of Lucy's home boys is like, okay, hey, what do we bet? $50? Now, first off, what kind of weirdo carries around cash in their swim trunks. That to me, is a sign of a sociopath. That's my personal opinion. But the dude pulls out money and Mitch is immediately uncomfortable. So Lucy's like, yeah, you're wrong. Well, the dude's like no, no, no, no, $50 is fine. Fine, I'm broke. Boy stuff, let's do 200 now.
Speaker 1:Mitch is immediately super uncomfortable and lucy's like, yeah, we'll clap it. She has loose. I don't know who's care, who has two, who first off? I don't care what year it is, why would you have a hundred100 bill, let alone two? What sort of weirdo jumps into a pool with a $100 bill. These people are sociopathic.
Speaker 1:So Mitch is immediately, his heckles are up. He's not feeling it. He's like, oh my God. Well, then it gets ugly because Lucy agrees to the $200 terms. But then all the dudes in the pool were like, hey, hey, mitch, why don't you put up some money for your girl? And he's like god dang, I work 75 jobs. Matter of fact, I got 20 minutes before I need to be in my next shift. He's uncomfortable. But Lucy didn't see that All she hears is her buddies, right.
Speaker 1:So Mitch ends up leaving the pool and he's like you know what? Y'all are too rich for my blood. Quite literally, I can't handle this. Lucy's running after him or whatever. Then a couple of days later she goes to his apartment and she goes, cuss them out Like how dare you leave? You better be glad I even came over here to talk to you. You are so stuck up, mitch, I can't believe you would even do this to my friends and I'm like girl, you're not even thinking. And as Mitch tries to explain to her, you're rich.
Speaker 1:$200. I didn't do the math this episode. Forgive me, guys, but I can imagine that's at least $600, $700 to a college student, to a guy in medical school with 14 miscellaneous jobs. You think he has money for that. He couldn't even buy the used version of the books. You bought him jobs. You think he has money for that. He couldn't even buy the used version of the books. You bought him. But you thought, okay, let me invite 50 people to pretend like we're the best, best and you're going to be cool with it as we slay down. You know, irrelevant, it's just so disrespectful to someone. And then here's the thing your wealth is not your fault. It you should be able to use it any way you want. But have some tact. When you're dating a dude who works 14, 15, 11 jobs and you want to slap down $200 in his face like it's no big deal, it's a whole problem.
Speaker 1:By the end of the episode, bobby is in a celebratory mood. Not only has he secured the refinery, he has secured oil from Venezuela to stock this refinery and he has secured a buyer of whatever is refined from said refinery. It is a wonderful day. Now there goes Miss Big Eyes, secretary. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. It Pam shows up because she's like hey, I thought we're gonna go get eat. I thought we're gonna go eat, we're gonna go eat. I thought we're gonna go get fed. And now Bobby's like oh, I totally forgot. Well, the phone rings and all of a sudden he gets news that the ship, that ship stuff ie the word shipping has sunk 18 million, 18 million dollars worth of oil is into the I would assume, the Gulf of Mexico, gone forever. Now he's in the hole. That's it. That's all for that episode. That's it. That's all for that episode.
Speaker 1:This one was a good one for me because it's it's finally where JR has done some crude things in the past. Bobby and Pam have had their issues in the past, but this is the first time where Bobby's actually stood up to not only JR but to Jock, and he can see that they're both jealous of him, that they're both plotting against him, and you see that Bobby is holding things a little bit closer to his chest so that he can um, you know, do what he needs to do to be a good businessman and by all accounts, intents and purposes, he's a wonderful businessman. Everyone who's doing business with him is cool with it, except I'm right on top of that, rose, who decided that's freaking stupid to me. I can't imagine why you would play yourself that way. I just really don't understand it. But I mean, she's banging JR. Jr cannot be that good lord.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna start a patreon or something so we can talk about this after dark. Okay, because we got, we. You know what I'm saying. I'm not gonna say it here because there's probably babies listening. Hi, baby, but that's it. That's all for this episode. Join me on the next one, another no doubt debaucherous prime, vintage, prime time soap opera saga. In the meantime, in between time, double, triple and quadruple, check your records. Don't tell me about your business taking the opposite, say hi, there, you stay moisturized, mind your own business and keep all of your drama. Outro Music.