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S4 EP17 Dallas: The New Mrs.Ewing:-The" T'Challa, Topeka ,T-Somthin Like That" Episode

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What's up Soap Fiends!!! Welcome back to another fun filled edition of Soap Lore!!

Sue Ellen's world shatters when she discovers Dusty isn't dead after all – but his paralysis creates an impossible choice between duty and desire. Her heart-wrenching dilemma forms the emotional backbone of this riveting Dallas episode that examines how our deepest wounds shape our decisions.

Ray and Donna's wedding should be cause for celebration, but nothing at Southfork stays joyful for long. When the newlyweds arrive for their reception, they become unwitting catalysts for an explosive family confrontation. Miss Ellie's environmental activism and Jock's business interests collide spectacularly, revealing how completely this power couple has been working at cross-purposes without basic communication.

Meanwhile, Lucy's modeling breakthrough thanks to Pam's connections creates unexpected tension with Mitch when her $1,000 advance check dwarfs his hard-earned $60. Bobby's political star rises as he makes the shocking decision to hire Cliff Barnes as his aide – a move guaranteed to infuriate JR. But Bobby has more immediate concerns when he discovers Alex Ward has been pursuing Pam during their marital rough patch.

The episode crescendos with Miss Ellie's blistering takedown of Jock and JR's misogyny and destructive business practices. Her declaration that "everything you touch disintegrates to filth" lands like a thunderbolt, finally giving voice to tensions brewing beneath Southfork's polished surface.This landmark episode masterfully showcases Dallas at its best – weaving personal relationships with business machinations to create a rich tapestry of ambition, betrayal, and the complicated bonds that tie even the most dysfunctional families together. Subscribe now to dive deeper into the golden age of primetime soaps!

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It makes me mad. Dusty cared enough about her to crawl over imaginary mountains. I'm gonna let that be what it's gonna be Soap tax, soap tax, soap tax. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome or welcome back to Soap Lore, the official gathering place for newbies, novices and OG diehard fans of the golden age of primetime. Plays for newbies, novices and OG diehard fans of the golden age of primetime. I'm your host, chet, viewing and reviewing the Sophia Sudsy as primetime storylines of 1981.

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We are back in Dallas. Buckle in, because this is an exhilarating ride. I enjoyed every moment of it, probably for the wrong reason. So, whether you're new to this or true to this, sit back and enjoy. Tell the kids to play outside or out of sight, tell babe no questions, suggestions or concerns for the next 25 to 35 minutes. Everyone else in the air shot. Be cool, be quiet or be completely kicked out because we've chitter-chatter, chat, chat about our stories, stories. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, this is Soap Lore. So welcome or welcome back to another fun-filled edition of Soap Lore. I am absolutely beside myself because I watched two episodes of my vintage primetime soap opera this morning and I really enjoyed everything that came from it. Okay, now, the last time we went down to Dallas, I left out major plot lines because it was all about Sue Ellen.

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Sue Ellen happens to be my favorite person in Dallas and I try not to be. I try not to have favorites, but I do. There's something so just magnetic about her to me. There's something so interesting. I think she represents a lot of women who aren't honest with themselves and so you see the, the demise of the life they thought they were going to have. You understand how people become like bitter old women and I hate to use those terms because it's like no, nobody becomes bitter for no reason. You have to acknowledge why they got there, and Sue Ellen is just. She's a prime suspect. She is the best case you could ever study. I am fully, fully enjoying her.

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I want you to go ahead and grab something bubbly and bright, grab some ice, grab a glass, put on your finest silk robe and let's enjoy season four, episode 17 of Dallas, called the New Mrs Ewing. I hope you're watching this on Amazon Prime. If not, find a way to do do it. I feel like Dallas seems to be. If I'm being honest, dallas seems to be the most tangible soap opera of this era. Falcon Crest is extremely hard to find Dynasties out there, and that's landing wants you to buy all the DVDs. And now they put it on Amazon. It's a whole thing.

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If you're watching this, I left it a lot because I, first and foremost, you're not going to convince me that someone coming back from the dead is more important than anything else is going on. I didn't give a damn about episode 16 after I figured out that Dusty wasn't Dust and I started to look at Sue Ellen a little bit differently. Like this is a girl who was raised to be Mrs Texas. She was raised to marry a rich man, but the truth is her mom didn't marry a rich man, she married a broke man, and she just instilled in Sue Ellen all of the lessons that she learned. If your husband isn't a hard worker, you're going to be in poverty. If you don't have something for yourself, you're going to be in poverty. Only, sue Ellen doesn't pick up on that. She's like I have to be pretty, I have to be prim and proper, I have to marry a rich man. But they, she had no idea. It's very clear that she had no idea how absolutely draining that would be. So can you imagine living this life for eight, nine years, meeting a man who actually speaks to your soul, only to find out that he's dead, only to mourn that and then only to find out later on that he's not really dead. That is the worst mind trick, as far as I'm concerned, that she's ever experienced. As most people, most people don't get the added closure that the person you were mourning is alive. That's rough. It's a lot to think about. It's a lot to deal with.

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Okay, what I left out on the last episode is that the rest of the Ewing family are battling over non-communication. Donna, who has moved into Ray's little cabin that he finally built on top of the dead body that Digger Burns killed, suddenly one morning he's burning pancakes. Burning pancakes, baby, you can't eat burnt pancakes. And Donna's like yo, we need to save this swampland. And Ray's like no, we can't save that. So they discuss among each other that Ray says Jock is behind the swampland and Donna's like oh my God, that can't be right, because Ellie is behind preserving the Swampland. And Donna's like oh my god, that can't be right, because Ellie is behind preserving this one.

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And they're arguing and they realize like wait a minute, this ain't really got nothing to do with us. Why don't we keep it cute? Because we are. We are fresh back into each other's arms. I'm not trying to mess this up, donna's not trying to mess this up, and they're like okay, cool, both of us will keep our mouths shut because we are sort of the periphery players.

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If you think about Dallas, they're not really in the mix like that, but Ray has been on the Ewing land for at least since he's 15 years old, and Donna is a multimillionaire who has fallen in love with Ray, but she doesn't seem to come from money, so that's an advantage. These are regular degular people who happen to be in a situation where they are privy to knowledge than most people aren't privy to. Donna is a wealthy woman. Why would she waste her time with ray? I know he's hot or whatever. He's a cowboy, but it being with him means I need to live on this ranch. That is a problem. Is that not a red flag, right? Why does she need to stay on their property? That's the part that bothers me. The part that doesn't bother me, though, is the ism, one of the few isms that I am okay with. It's not okay to be sexism, racism, equalism that's weird, but if nepotism is in the picture.

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Suddenly I'm all aboard. So pam has decided. Or lucy approaches pam's like I need, I need to make some money because otherwise I'm gonna have to wake up and sponge down sinks and toilets and all kind of gross stuff. Gross pam, even though she grew up in poverty, is like girl, I can't have my niece scrubbing toilets. Let me hook you up with somebody. So she hooks her up with Alex and he's having this whole audition for Miss Dallas. Miss Young Lucy walks in mind. You, lucy is, she's not even five foot tall. If I, if I'm not measuring, I'm a tall woman. I'm like five nine. I'm looking at Lucy. Lucy's probably 4, 11 at best. She's always wearing candy, she's always wearing the mule candies. I don't know how really tall she is. She's between like four foot eight and four foot eleven. She is killing the suspender game for 1981.

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And when she walks into Alex's office she don't have no portfolio, she don't have no, no business card, nothing of the sort. But he's like okay, call this guy, get your pictures made and I bet I can make something work for you. Then he calls him Pam. Pam comes in in a leopard dress and he's like just vibrating, just love. Pam goes on to say listen, I didn't want her to get any special treatment, I just wanted you to look at her. And he says you know that's cute or whatever, I'll play along. Even if she weren't your niece she would be in the running because she's such a beautiful girl. Pam, just know that I want the best for you.

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And it's the whole weirdness that I didn't want to really just compound on in the last episode. Alex wants Pam, just like Dusty wants Wellen, just like Bobby wants to be a bigger man, bigger than Ewing Oil, just like JR want Leslie to want him. However, it's presented in this episode as if Pam is innocent. I just don't buy that. I don't buy that at all. She knew exactly who he was, she knew exactly what he did. She knew exactly what that could mean for Lucy. She still presented Lucy in front of him.

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I feel like this was Pam's opportunity to say hey, you dipped out on me early. Maybe something could have happened, maybe it didn't. I don't buy for one second that she is this purest of heart. Oh my god, I really want my mom, my husband, bobby. But she came into my life. No, he was gonna do something, he just left early and now that your niece needs a job, you're trying to spark up something else. It's almost as if she wants him to want her even though she doesn't want him. Although I think she wants him, I think she 70% wants him, 30% doesn't want him, but she needs him to 130% want her. So Sue Ellen was talking to who I think should be her husband, dr LB, and she's telling him, like yo, the guy I thought was dead is actually alive. I saw him. We spent a magical, amazing afternoon together, but he asked me never to come back.

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And here's the thing. I think no, I don't think I know I had forgotten about Sue Ellen being arrested and the clinkety clank. She lost all of her stand in Dallas. She has a face, all of this embarrassment in the news, and I kind of forgot about that because we remember when there was a whole paternity test, her face was splashed across tabloids. Even though she's the um head or chair or vice president or something of the daughters of the Alamo, she's still been embarrassed in Dallas, which is a big town, despite what Lucy says. Dusty cared enough about her to crawl over imaginary mountains. I'm gonna let that be what it's going to be Soap tax, soap tax, soap tax To make sure that she was bailed out of jail, that she had a little extra money if she needed it when people thought that she shot JR. But JR didn't really give a damn, and this is the hurtful part. She and JR were Gucci and golden. For a little while she was, she was helping him get back on his feet. It was a whole thing until he decided that someone else was more interesting.

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So at the top of this episode, sue Ellen is in the baby's nursery the whole fever dream of a nursery for John Ross, ewing the third and JR pops in. He's like oh my god, I'm so glad, I'm so surprised that you even remembered you had a baby. And she's like don't do that, please don't do that. But it's like why is he hateful to him? When he got shot she was nothing but supportive. Why does he feel the need to be hateful? And then you think about that. She knows all this time that Dusty is really alive. She could have a whole nother life. I don't think eliminating sex from her life was a big deal when you consider what she has to live through every single day. Plus, there are apparatuses, there are uh, there are other means to reach the promised land.

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Okay, so back to Dr Elby and she she's in his office explaining the whole Dusty situation and on the last, the last episode, I was a little bit annoyed at Dr Elby, but then I thought about it later, like this seems like a likely story. He didn't really know the full course of the situation when he, when she was like someone is following me. I guess it is his job to ask, probing an uncomfortable situation so that your client can kind of snap in or out of whatever they need to snap in or out of. So after she tells him the whole situation and that she could be OK with not having intimacy in that way, intimacy with Dusty, he's like so I'm really, really proud of you. I don't think you realize what you just did there.

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You, you're saying that you were presented with this man who you have this deep love for and you put his feelings ahead of yours in enough of a way to be like I will love you from a distance, out of respect for you. You, a way to be like I will love you from a distance, out of respect for you. You should be really proud of yourself. I also think that means that you have a lot more power within you that you can do this anytime. Basically, you're doing a great job. Now it's time for you to make some decisions. Are you going to stay with your husband? Are you going to reach out to Clint? Are you going to reach back out to Dusty? Either way, I'm supporting you and I'm proud of you and I'm like you know what. I'm proud of you, dr Obie, for snapping out, although I do think they make a great couple.

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He does raise interesting points. She's been solid this whole time. She's never lied, she's been telling the truth this whole time and now she's just like okay, you, I just did one of the hardest things I've ever had to do, so now I'm going to make other decisions for myself. So this episode she does end up driving back to Dusty's house and unfortunately it's up for sale. She climbs back into her automobile, goes to a payphone, makes a call to Clint I guess, clint, you're up, they meet for lunch and she's doing this sort of hand caressing thing, the same thing we saw on Dynasty with Dex Dexter. And what's the girl's name? The publicist girl, tori, whatever, tracy, maybe you can't. You can only be so sensual on television in 1980, 1981. So she's, you know I love you. We're not going to talk. This is Sue Ellen again, sorry, sue Ellen and Clint are eating at a restaurant which is not discreet at all and she's just kind of caressing his hands like listen, we're not going to make any major decisions today, although they do at the Hotel Motel Holiday Inn. We don't get to see it, obviously, and I didn't want to see it. But she, we don't get to see it, obviously, I didn't want to see it. But she's like oh, clint did last. That's where we're at with Sue Ellen this episode. Dusty's gone, clint, you're up, buddy. We got to jump back into Lucy. So Lucy was awarded the Miss Young Miss Dallas, which I'm assuming is going to be a magazine.

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My whole thing with Pam and Alex is that, okay, you knew he would give your niece a job. You knew that, okay, you knew he would give your niece a job. You knew that. You also knew you wanted him to know that you were there. I don't feel like she's playing like super innocent, but she is playing dumb. She definitely is keeping this guy on the string, as far as I can tell.

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So Lucy is so excited. She's like oh my gosh, she brings back some pictures of herself. One of the girls in the lobby was like hey, girl, you need a resume, you need a card. Go get you some glossy photos made. And she's like okay, thank you so much. These ladies are very generous with their information. She does bring back some photos to Alex and he's like you know what? You're lucky. A lot of people are pretty not everybody's photogenic. And I'm like damn, that is so true. Sometimes you ever hear just if people tell you you look better in person. Sadly, that means you're probably not that photogenic. So, anyways, he hands her a check for $1,000. Yes, I did the math. That is approximately $3,400 in 2025. What a day, right.

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She gets $1,000 advance and she's so excited that she runs. Hold on, I got to figure out how to tell this story. Okay, she tells Mitch, mitch comes home and she practically leaps into his arms. She's oh, my gosh, honey, I have to tell you something. Let me tell you my news. She's bibbidi-bobbidi-booing all over the place. He's like okay, I have news too, but you go first. So she sits on his lap, pulls a check out of her pocket. She's wearing suspenders again, they are so cute and it's like bam. And he opens and he's like $1,000. What is this for? She explains that she is the new Miss Young Dallas. It's an advance and that she's going to get paid. So now she can pay for the maid. It's so exciting, pull a little, mitch.

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Mitch also pulls out a check and it's like oh hey, it's for $60. She's like oh, what is this for? He goes well, I worked a few nights so that you could, so I could pay for the maid, and she was just like baby, I love you so much. Not you know what I get it. What a hardworking guy. This guy has 47 jobs. What a sweet kid. But damn, he was just just like. I've just never even held a thousand dollars in my hand, not one time in my life. You ewing's, whatever you touch, just turns to gold. He doesn't really seem mad, he seems more shocked.

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But also in lucy's defense, I felt like, and feel like she got that check the same way she got mitch. Well, not exactly the same way. She has a face card, and a beautiful one at that, and she, she's got paid handsomely for. She can't help that she's gorgeous. I mean, he can't help that he's gorgeous. It's the reason he's with her and she certainly can't help that. Her aunt is gorgeous. You know what I'm saying. That is generational wealth. They just have beauty on their side and their beauty pays dividends.

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There's a lot of crossover with this one little scene, so let's go to. Let's go back to Ray and Donna. Ray and Donna want to get married. They go down to the courthouse to get their marriage license and as they're coming down the steps, they're trying to decide who they want to be with them. It's not going to be anything big, but they definitely want someone there to witness it. So Donna, who's very close with Ellie's like well, why don't we do Jock and Ellie? Jock and Ray are close, ellie and Donna are close. It'll be a good thing. But Ray's like uh, me and Miss Ellie aren't on the best of terms right now. It's not Ray's fault. I don't know why I had such a problem with that statement. It's not Ray's fault that they're not on the best of turn.

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Ray hasn't changed anything. And think about this y'all. I was wiping down my kitchen table and I just started to think I was like man. Ray has lived with them since he was a kid, a fresh teenager who just lost the only parent he ever knew. Lucky for him, he found a letter or something that said go to this ranch and they'll help you out. And they did, but they knew who he was, even though he didn't know who. They were Not like that. He didn't know that that a jock was his dad, but they were content to let this guy live like a peasant on the farm. He's living with the farm hands, he's living in the little shack or whatever. Yeah, he worked his way up, but it's like you didn't even make any of your kids work their way up like that and you knew he was your son. How messed up is that? So, ellie, I understand how she's feeling.

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A lot of this rage is towards Jock. Unfortunately, ray is getting the residue from it, but I'm like he hasn't. He literally hasn't done well, he hasn't done anything to Jock or Ellie directly. He definitely slept with Lucy for a long time, which is very, very uncomfortable truth now. But he's like we probably shouldn't. Miss Ellie would probably not be super pumped to be at my wedding. So Donald's like okay, that's fair, let's do Pam and Bobby then. Or Ray suggests Pam and Bobby, pam and Bobby. Good old, neutral, pam and Bobby. They don't piss people off. Good looking couple. They're going to be happy for us, absolutely. So the wedding happens very quickly.

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After that, pam and Bobby show up. They're throwing rice. They're like, hey, let's go have a champagne breakfast. Pam can't do that because she needs to run back into town for a meeting. She just took off that morning to make sure she could be at the wedding. Donna looks lovely, you know, ray looks great. Everybody's super happy and I think, god, this was a good choice. You want genuine joy on your good day. So Pam excuses herself so she can run to her meeting. Bobby, I guess, takes them out to breakfast.

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They all go back to the ranch and this is where we see Lucy. So this must be the next day after she got the check. She's telling her grandparents, or at least Ellie, that she got this new job and she's super excited about it. I'm once again reminded how great the casting was. Ellie and Lucy really do look alike Like. I'd love to know if they did a little DNA test at some point. They got to be related on some branch of their family tree in real life. Anyway, when they show up, it's Ray and Lucy. It's Lucy and Ellie are sitting on the patio.

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Ray, bobby and Donna come up and Ellie is a little bit hard to read. Ray says Miss Ellie, I'd like to introduce you to the newest, and he almost said Mrs, but he caught himself. He said well, she ain't Miss Ewing, because I ain't no Ewing to the newest member of our family and Ellie goes you got married, just flat like that, you got married. But then she says, oh, that's wonderful, ellie is really going through it. But then she says, oh, that's wonderful, ellie is really going through it. Ellie's give a damn is a little bit broken. She's finding it hard to put up that happy facade Best. I can tell she really is excited about it because, if nothing else, she really does enjoy Donna. Donna's a smart, talented woman and they have the same vision when it comes to an unspoiled Texas. Hold that thought.

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We're going to backtrack just a little bit more. If you will recall, bobby has been hand plucked to be the newest state senator for Texas and apparently, even though this is a shotgun campaign, he did really really well. It's like God. I feel like they announced it one morning. By that evening he had all the votes. By the next day he's a new senator and they have this whole very awkward campaign celebratory situation where he gives a speech and they make the microphone sound like they did in Forrest Gump, so he's all.

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Hey, everybody, thank you for coming out. I won, we won. I'm going to do a good job. Blah, blah, blah. Well, Ellie's there, jock's there. Jock and Ray had been sitting with Punk you know the dude with the flawless bolo tie. They're Pump because they're like yes, we're not going to get any opposition with Bobby in office about the I'm going to say T'Challa, but I'll get the right name of this the T'Challa Project, topeka, t'challa to something Flashback to the campaign, like where Bobby's giving a speech and Ellie is telling Donna oh girl, this is wonderful. With Bobby in office, we're not going to have any resistance against saving those wetlands. Bum, bum, bum. So everybody's celebrating their happy.

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Bobby and Pam go home. At the end of the night. Pam pushed her Rick James hair back just for this one episode so she can look like a wife instead of a super freak for a second. They go home and they're sitting on the steps and she basically says you know, I'm happy for you, babe, I just wish Cliff could be involved in some way. Bobby takes that to heart and he does go and visit Cliff.

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A little later in the episode, cliff is packing his books and talking trash like Bobby. You are so not qualified for this. Please don't blame my face. What do you really want? Bobby's like I know I'm not, but you are. Would you come and work for me? It doesn't take Cliff very long. I thought he was gonna have to.

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I expected them to drag this out a little bit, but he was like hmm, you know what? Yeah, actually I will. And Bobby's like that's so cool, but Cliff goes. Are you sure you know what? Yeah, actually I will. And Bobby's like that's so cool, but Cliff goes. Are you sure you know how I feel about you and your family, right? He's like yes, I do, but also I think Bobby knows that nobody really hates Bobby. Nobody hates Bobby, and Cliff definitely loves Pam. And it's almost as if Cliff could read his mind. He's like listen, I'm not doing this for you or Pam, I'm doing this just to piss off JR. If for no other reason than to see the look on his face, that's the only reason I'm doing it.

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Okay, so the wedding happens right after that. Um, pam has to go back to work. Lucy's out at the branch. Donna and Ray show up. Bobby is with him. So, okay, all the celebration is going on. Let's back to miss ellie, donna ray. I want to have a party for y'all to not nothing big, just the family. It'll make me really happy. They're like great, we'll be there. Then lucy's like oh well, I have some news too. She hadn't told them yet. I'm gonna be the new miss young dallas and everybody's like well, congratulations, lucy, that's cool. Bobby pulls lucy in, gives her a little kiss on the forehead and he's like sweetie, this is so wonderful. When did this happen? How did this happen? And she goes. Well, that's why I'm here. I came to thank Pam. It was all Pam. She set me up with Alex Ward and that's all Bobby needs to hear. You see the look in his face like with who, who, and she's Lucy's going on and on. Bobby takes off.

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Bobby goes flying down to Pam's office, burst in. Her assistant has been working overtime. I swear this woman is just trying to do her job. Alex is calling, looking for Pam. Bobby's bursting in doors. She's like can I just please catalog this stuff so we can move on. He bursts in hey, where's Pam? She's in a meeting, mr Ewing, with Alex Ward. No, she's with so-and-so, and with so-and-so he's like all right, but I thought he was going to go burst into her meeting, which would have been extremely unprofessional. He doesn't. He drives clear across town to check Alex Ward. So Alex is in his office.

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Bobby comes bursting in and he's like stay away from my wife. Alex is like listen, it's no secret that I find her to be a complete and total smoke show. I love everything about her and if you have been taking care of home, I wouldn't even had a chance. I put the moves on her. Yes, I did. She rejected me. But let me tell you something I wouldn't have got as far as I did if you knew how to take care of your marriage. How absolutely embarrassing to be scolded by the potential side dude that, like dude, you need to take care of your wife, or someone like me, is going to come in there and scoop it up. Bobby had the nerve to be shocked Like what?

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So he confronts Pam about it a little later at home, right before the party, and he's like Pam, I saw Alex Ward today. You said you weren't going to see him again. She's like listen, it wasn't like that. Lucy needed a job. I knew he used models. That's all I'm saying. Bobby's like well, he told me that he tried to make the moves on you and that our marriage was in trouble. Is our marriage in trouble? And she's like it was. I'm so annoyed but I think about this. Bobby really has just been kind of busy, so I suppose on his end because he's not the one carrying the sadness and the loneliness I can understand how you could be a little bit oblivious to that, but if you ain't seen your wife in four months, there might be some things going on just below the surface that you need to attend to. Okay, I think we're getting to the very best part, in my personal opinion.

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So while Bobby and Pam are having this whole conversation you know how the family does there's always a pre-dinner drink down in the living room while the servants prepare a meal. Only on tonight it's going to be a party. So Pam and Bobby are having this. You know heart to heart about their marriage when Jock comes knocking on the door and he's like hey, they're here. So everybody goes downtown downstairs and the lovely, the new Mrs Ray Krebs and Ray show up and it's just. You know, it's nice. Oh, love you lovely, blah blah, blah. You love Ray Blah, blah, blah. Ray loves you.

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Okay, so Ellie's at the top of this episode. I said the rest of the Ewings are suffering from not communicating. This is the biggest case in point of said communication lacking. Ellie clinks her glass glass like why haven't announced it? That'll make donna very happy. The daughters of the alamo got an injunction today.

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We have stopped the tachaka, tachala, takapa that's what it's called the takapa project. And jock's like what, ray, damn. Everybody else in the house is kind of looking like oh, that's cute, what's that? And Jock says you did what. Ellie is none the wiser. She's like oh, I stopped the Tupaca, t'challa, I stopped that, whatever it is. And he goes I am Takapa. I have to think of it like Tukapi, feel I am Takapa. She's like what? Total lack of communication. But she's been successful. She's been quiet about what she's doing. He tried to sort of talk to her the morning after he wrote Ray into the will, but she wasn't trying to hear it at that point.

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I was going to leave out the part about JR, but I can't because it was. There's some funniness and there's a kind of an explosion a little bit from Ellie. There was a lot going on in this episode. This one was fat, full with just storylines. So JR is back at the helm and the cartel wants him to jump into this new project in the Rocky Mountain.

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Leslie Stewart is still working her magic. She doesn't seem to be recording him this episode, but she is quietly waiting, watching and listening. So she asked if she can be in on this meeting. Jr's like, of course. Now Jock is aware of this meeting because JR told him. So this looks like even more money, even more expansion for Ewing Oil, except when it comes time for the meeting, leslie sitting there, jordan Lee is telling JR how they have these coal mines and we own this land here and we own a little bit in Utah and we're basically going to do whatever we need to do. But Leslie jumps in and she's like isn't that illegal, isn't that? The people kind of look at that sort of mining as just ruining the land. Ewing oil can't be associated with something like that.

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Now, jr didn't say a lot. He just says I think you're jumping the gun a little bit here. But this pisses off the other two members of the cartel. They were like you know what we out. I can't believe you. Let her run this JR. Jordan Lee leaves. Jr tells Leslie listen, I care enough about you not to say anything in front of other people, but don't you ever do that to me again. She's like I'm just trying to help JR. He's like well, you didn't help and my dad's going to hit the roof when he finds out about this.

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Jock is chilling at the C, jordan Lee's pissed. He's like well, hey, how did it go? Jordan Lee's like what do you mean? How did it go? Jock says the meeting. Jordan Lee proceeds to say that that witch was taking over the meeting. I can't believe. Y'all got that uppity broad in there running Ewing Oil. She's leading JR on by the nose, so nothing happened. No, we didn't join y'all. Jock's like oh my god. So immediately when jr gets home, jock calls him into the office and he's letting him have it. Jr, get your head out of your butt. You are ruining things. We just got good with a cartel.

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A woman's place is in the bedroom, not the boardroom. Well, I'll tell you what he said. The wrong thing at the wrong time, because miss ellie opened the door just enough time to hear a woman's place is in the bedroom, not the boardroom. She's like oh, isn't that cute. So Jo goes.

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Oh no, miss Ellie, I didn't mean that. She said yeah, you did. Yeah, you did. You mean a woman's place is two steps behind a man, unless, of course, we're in a minefield, then of course it's two steps in front. She then says you know what? And of course it's two steps in front. She then says you know what? Quite frankly, you guys are ruiners. You're spoilers.

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Everything you touch disintegrates to filth. I'm paraphrasing here. You'll use anybody and anything, even your own family. Y'all are disgusting. Both of you make me sick and they look like well damn, miss Ellie.

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But that's basically the energy of this entire episode. There's so much tension between Jock and Ellie. There's a little more tension between JR and Leslie, because Leslie's running the long game. Here you can tell she's doing something. Sue Ellen is off doing her own thing, trying to figure out where her life's going to go, how she's going to navigate being a prisoner with very little freedom. Pam and Bobby seem to be on the mend and yeah, donna is the newest Mrs Ewing, but she's going to keep the crab name. All right, guys, that's it, that's all. Join me next time as we dive into some Nod's Landing. We have a few episodes we need to burn through, and I already know that's going to be a good time in the meantime. In between time, shut the door if you're going to call women bed wenches and broads and uppity heffas and whatnot. Or at least look over your shoulder, stay hydrated, stay moisturized, mind your own business and keep all of your drama on TV. Thank you, bye.