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S4 EP6 Knots Landing: New Beginnings-The :Sugar Mama Drama" Episode

• Jett Shae • Episode 339

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A fortune that feels like a slap. That’s the spark that sends Gary Ewing from hot-headed to clear-eyed, as Jock’s will leaves him the interest on ten million and a lifetime of doubt to unravel. We follow him from Bobby’s brick towers with baby Christopher to the fence line at Southfork, where the sight of Jock’s car finally lets him trade inherited shame for chosen grief—and that shift changes everything. Meanwhile, Abby moves like a strategist who can do the math and read the room. JR barges into the luxury suite with that signature mix of charm and menace, admitting a truth only a brother would say out loud: Gary’s anger, once focused, could be dangerous. The triangle becomes a hallway tableau when Val steps out for her book party and crosses paths with Abby just as Gary arrives. No fireworks, just a clean, human moment—Val turns away and chooses her dignity. Even JR’s reveal that he owns her publisher doesn’t rattle her; the tour, the posters, the line of readers all point to a new center of gravity she controls. Back on the cul-de-sac, ambition takes a different shape. Ciji's golden demo hits a label with empty pockets, a crisp reminder of how fragile the 80s music machine could be. And then there’s Chip, the smooth-talking sugar baby who upgrades from Bess Riker’s sofa to Lily Mae’s heart with past-life patter, only to set his sights on Diana. We break down how cons work—mirroring desire, feeding fantasy, isolating targets—and why Mac’s protective instincts spark fresh friction. It’s messy, funny, and a little bit cruel, which is to say, perfectly Knots Landing. Come for the crossover intrigue, stay for the character pivots: Gary finding a cleaner story about himself, Val writing hers in ink, Abby and JR sharpening their edges, and a con man testing the cul-de-sac’s defenses. If you enjoy smart character drama, vintage soap scheming, and big feelings with sharp analysis, hit play, follow the show, and share your take—whose move landed the hardest? And if this breakdown hit home, subscribe, rate, and leave a review so more listeners can find us.

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Welcome back to another function of South More. I hope your day is taking up well evening rather. Your girl is finally recording in the evening. I picked up a single, not a single serving, a little cheap bottle of something, something, because I'm tired of not feeling wrong. I'm watching all the dynasties. I have a frame of reference. I can talk cash crazy about the modern television remake because I have been there. No, I'm just feeling real good this evening. I hope you guys are too. No matter what time of day you are watching, thank you for joining, watching. Thank you for listening to me. I made a mistake in the intro. We are on episode six of Knots Landing. So go ahead and pour yourself up something bubbly and bright. We're gonna go ahead and jump right on in. This one is we're gonna watch it blind. Maybe we're gonna watch it blind. Let me go ahead and watch the first 10-15 minutes and see if I can just usually with this show. I get so enamored, I just have to kind of sit and watch all of it. That's happening a lot lately, actually. We're gonna see how it goes. So far, so good. I don't know anything about this one. It is pause. It is called New Beginnings. That is so generic. That is so generic. Something that happened yesterday kind of made me think I need to go back and see how many times we've had episodes called the trial. I know Naz Landing has not had any. Thank God. But every other show they've been in court a few, two, three, four, five times. Matter of fact, I think we need to get go down the baddies list and see who now has a rap sheet, who's out on bail, fresh out of jail. Okay, on Dallas, Sue Ellen has been arrested. JR has been indicted, never really arrested. He's been called in for questioning. Cliff has been arrested. Dang. Okay, that's not bad, Dallas. I thought it was more people. On Dynasty, Blake has been arrested. Blake has been indicted. Blake has been charged. Steven has been in court, never arrested. Alexis has been in court arrested two times. Dang, how'd she get arrested two times? Oh, yeah, she left the country. That's right. Okay. That's unfortunate. I think by and large, Falcon Crest is gonna take the cake. Dynasty might be in court all the time, but we've got how many felons? How many felons do we have on the property at Falcon Crest? Lance is fresh out of jail. His mama has been to jail two times. Melissa did a little stint in the pen for a little bit. Cole has been in jail a couple times. I think I'm forgetting somebody. Okay, I like my Falcon Fiend felons. West Coast is where is that? Alright, y'all. Let's see what they're talking about on this episode. Season four, episode six. New beginnings. Speaking of wine. Okay. Oh. I had to add some ice. That's actually much better cold. When I first took a sip, I'm not gonna lie, y'all. This tasted like hot dog and shitlin water. But now, we'll with a little frost on it, perhaps I can see the appeal. Perhaps. Millennials, I don't think we drink wine like that. I really don't. I think we say we do, but we all know what we drink. I can hear my mom saying, you don't eat chitlins. You're right. I don't eat chitlins, but if you have okay, let me let me let me explain really quickly. I realize we're not all like born and cornbread bred in the South Southwest. Chitlins or chitterlings are the intestines of a pig, of a swine, if you will. It is an African-American delicacy which is cooked down and rendered into some sort of deliciousness. Allegedly, I don't know because I don't mess with them like that. Never gonna be in my gut. If you've ever had menudo or anything else in the Southwest, there is a very similar thing called tripe, which they add into soups. It's just it's it's a rubbery texture to me personally. I'm not a fan, not at all. But chitterling, chitlins come in this big old paint bucket, just like you would get at Home Depot or Lowe's or wherever. It comes in this big old bucket, and you get the distinct honor and privilege of cleaning them suckers out. Anyone who grew up in the South or has a southern grandma or somebody who just happens to like chillin', Lord, you know what I'm talking about. You know what it smells like. The bucket is it's filled with some sort of water, and then it takes you 17 business days and a lot of elbow grease to clean them to the point where you can cook them. Oh my gosh. And we all know what hot dog water smells like. Okay, so maybe the vino is not that bad, but I am ignorant to the ways of storing and keeping it, and I just got a little bit curious. This was on sale, and I'm like, I'll probably pour this in a sauce. I do not see there being more than one glass, but I get it with the little ice with it cold, I sort of get it. Also, in my haste, I forgot about Leather Pants Pam. Leather Pants Pam was arrested at the end of last season. I don't know if she actually went to jail or not because she allegedly got in a car accident two or three days after that. So it sounds like she was just sort of okie dote. I feel like I'm forgetting one other person too. Oh, um, Florida man. What's his name? Aunt Terry's ex-husband. Joel. Yeah, he definitely Lord, he's been in and out of jail. He's the reason the TV show cops is always in Florida or somewhere in Vegas. Think about it. Y'all, I forgot they were in Dallas this episode. Okay. I love the subtle sort of understated version. This the I like the subtle, understated version of this song. The opening. Totally forgot about that. So what happened last episode? I was thinking that was a Sengali one. She was not. This is the last episode we saw was not the episode where Sue Ellen was on the Mike Douglas show, right? What the heck was the last episode? Oh man, I'm drawing a blank. Okay. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no. That's where he got body oiled up and down, down and up. That's right. We're Karen pulled the okey doke on the mafioso type. So the mafioso secretaries are probably in jail. Oh snap! I forgot about that. Sted got arrested when that girl tried to blackmail him for a hundred dollars. That's right. And there was a little bit of a court case. Daggum it. I totally forgot about that hair. They don't make a habit of it. I've always thought this about Abby. Abby's hair has never given me 70s or 80s. Like if she walked down the street today, she wouldn't stand out in an odd way due to her hair. She looks I don't know how she does. She just she doesn't look out of place on this show at all. Interesting. I wonder what the choice was behind all this. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Okay, wait a minute. I guess it doesn't really matter. So Gary just walks. We see the ranch, right? We see South Fork. Gary walks into that fever dream of a nightmare, of a terrifying just hellhold of a nursery that belongs to John Ross, Ewan III, only the baby in there is not John Ross Ewan III. That is a chubby little toddler. Baby Christopher is at South Fork. Okay, so this is what we know. I'm so I'm kind of glad this happened. Didn't really make any never mind, but what are the odds? What are the freaking odds? This kid would be verbally introduced on the episode I just watched of Dallas, and now I'm looking at him here on this episode of Knott's Landing. I guess that's not that far-fetched since it is a crossover. Okay. And I'm not surprised. Okay, so he's there. I'm thinking to myself, if I had not seen that episode of Dallas, I would have assumed Pam and Bobby had a baby. But that's Kristen's little boy, right? Kristen and God knows who else's baby. That's the reality. But you know what's so cute about this baby? First off, he is so chunky, monkey, so chubby, so cute. But you can tell he has been crying his eyes out, and somebody had to hand him a graham cracker so that he could behave for the rest of this scene, and he's still crying. He's the upset. He hates that freaking room. That's why he's crying. But you know who's crying even louder? Uncle Gary. Uncle Gary only got$10 million. Jock's will. Let me take the baby voice out of that. Gary's not pumped about that, and I get it. It's not the amount per se, it's the reasoning behind it. Now, y'all all know how I feel about baby blue booty shorts to Gary, but I'm always going to be fair, okay? I can understand being upset that the man, your father, never realized that you could be a responsible man. Now, I don't listen, I don't have nothing to say, Gary, about the way you do or don't spend money, spend money. I don't know. That I don't know yet. You had the Weedahall dream. I don't know if anything has come up to that. Are you hookerish? Are you a himbo? Yes. I actually don't even think that's a bad quality. I just hate how you play my girl Valen, and I'm I'm over it, but I'm not through it. I guess I'm over it and I'm through it, but I just think you're kind of a trash dude, period. But in business, he seems to do okay. But I'm realizing nobody in Dallas knows that. Nobody knows that because he didn't want to be in the family business. So many, many things can be true at once. You can be an astute businessman, you can be good with money, you can be emotionally irresponsible and immature, you can be a bad hopper, you can be one hell of a vice president over a car dealership. A lot of things can be true. You could be a good man to a bad woman, or bad man to a good woman, who knows? Or an eye dude to a wonderful woman. Time will tell. But Gary explains to us, Gary and Bobby explain to us that Jock's will was read. Sounds like Bobby and JR got some stock, at least, in ewing oil, or at least they own half of it, if I'm understanding it right. Because Bobby, okay, let me paint the scene. Bobby's playing on the floor with baby Christopher. Well, baby Christopher is trying to compose himself after having a hell of a fit. But Bobby is building this beautiful faux brick castle thing. Playing with the baby. Gary comes in and he's like, hey, I'm gonna bounce. I need some fresh air. I feel like I'm suffocating here. And Bobby's like, gosh, you look pretty depressed for a guy who just got$10 million. Gary says, I didn't get$10 million. I got the interest on$10 million. Bobby's like, dang, bro, I know that's rough, but if you eat a lot of ramen noodle, maybe make your own bread, you might be able to scrape by and get a night job. Hearty har har. That's when Gary expresses, it's not the fact that I got the money, it's the fact that daddy thinks I'm too irresponsible to actually hold on to$10 million, live off of the interest. I'm a grown man with a trust. Do you know how embarrassing that is? I mean, well, yeah, I do know how embarrassing that is. That'll suck. But Bobby says, well, listen, if you really wanted half of ewing oil, you I'll definitely give you half of my half. But I thought he said, I'll give you half of my half of stock, but I think he means he owns half of ewing oil. And he's like, No, I'm not playing. I'm like, this isn't hyperbole. I'll give you half of it. If you won't have, I promise you you can have it. Gary's like, nah, man. How did you, how did you turn out to be like a good person? We're kind of a trash family. Bobby's like, I don't know. I don't know. But here I am. It also looks like Valen might be in Dallas. I'm gonna be quiet and listen. Right, folks, I decided to go ahead and finish it. This is a fantastic episode, but it did leave me saying, What the now what is really, really going on here? So let's get some of the bit players out of the way first. First and foremost, we got CG and Kenny. Kenny, the producer extraordinaire. Kenny plays the demo that he went behind Andy's back. Andy's a dude who was a little bit sweet on ginger when she was in her music career era. I don't know what she's doing now. But Andy runs whatever the name of this record company is that Kenny works for. Kenny and CG are sitting in his office with her flaring over the speakers one moment. Thank you guys for letting me know that this girl really did have an album, but don't look it up. Like finish watching this season and then think about it later. Although Andy thinks that CG sounds fantastic, what he breaks down to both her and Kenny is I can't give you a record deal. Kenny keeps trying to talk fast. Man, what are you talking about? We can't just sit on this. This is a superstar, we're gonna blah blah blah blah blah. And he's like, that's all wonderful and great, but all the things that you are describing to me require financial backing, and we are poor. This whole operation is probably gonna be shut down within a month. Kenny seems to breeze over this fact, and he just keeps on talking. Well, me, well, that doesn't matter where the money will come, don't worry about it, bro. Now, I had heard the man say that this record company is about to go kerplunk in four weeks' time. CG hears, no, but shop around because you're talented. Kenny hears, uh, keep asking me the same question over and over, and we'll we'll go ahead and sign her. But what I'm understanding is that Kenny, he's telling you you're not gonna have a job in four weeks. You also, you are part of the record company I'm talking about that don't have any money, which means if you're expecting a check, homie, that's not happening. Kenny doesn't clock that. CG is dressed in a way that makes me remember why I hate the 80s, and I'm so glad she did it. It's not horrible, but it's the first time in a long time I'm but I've been like, ah, oh, okay, that doesn't really quite work out. So CG and Kenny are basically gonna go shop around for another record deal or for a record deal for the first time for her. Boom boom boom boom. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, our favorite, favorite headache. Diana is feeling herself or smelling herself as the old people would say. One of the first scenes we see at Karen's house is her and Mac in the kitchen. I guess he comes over all the time or he stays the night. I don't know. He wants to take her on a camping trip. And she's like, I don't know, I don't think it's a good idea. Michael and Eric come in. Now Eric is getting bigger. Michael is, well, no, no, hold on. Eric is a middle boy, right? Eric's in the middle, Michael's a baby. Michael is getting big, he's catching up to Eric, and Eric's feather dust rubber mustache is still struggling and is fighting for its life. For whatever reason, it's just not gonna happen. Maybe Michael mustache is coming in a little bit quicker. I noticed, but the scene isn't really about them, it's about Karen and Mac. And Karen has noticed that there is an issue within her household. Surprise, surprise, everybody's favorite pain in the behind does not like Mac. Mac's like, what do you mean? Your daughter loves me. She absolutely does not love you. She can't stand you, actually. And I would like for you to work this out with her. Diana managed to get all she hadn't gotten under my skin in a while, but she was really under my skin in this one. So the first walks into the kitchen, Karen and Mac still discussing whatever they're discussing. I ain't gonna lie, her little outfit is cute, cute. She has on some little bitty shorts, makes her waist look like like the the eye of a needle. She's tiny, but where are you going, girl, in these booty shorts? She comes in there with an attitude demanding$10. Karen is like, I'm not giving you$10. Max makes a slick comment, and Diana rolls her eyes, and I kind of get it because who when nobody's talking to you, perm. I'm talking to my mama. But she really can't call him perm because they have the same haircut. So maybe it's that whole thing. Maybe on the West Coast, men and women hate when they each rock a perm because now they're in battle with each other when they normally don't have to think about it. So he's looking at hers like fake. She's looking at his like dry. And she once again says, as I was saying to my mother, I need$10, mama. No, and actually, she said, I need$20. I need to go to the cleaners. I need to do X, Y, and Z. And I'm gonna take Brian and Olivia out for hamburgers. They're going to a party tomorrow, and I think they need some beef before they go. Mac is still running his mouth. Karen has, she's like, All right, why don't you ask Abby to give them the money? Abby's not here, mom. I need the money for the kids. I don't want to do something nice for the kids. Karen's like, cool, I'll do anything for the children. But if this was for their mama, I won't do it. Matter of fact, tell Abby to give me my money back. I love the pettiness and she's right. And another thing, why is this woman floating all over the world? She's either hanging out at Gary's house, getting a babysitter. Why do you need a babysitter and you ain't got no job? Answer me that. Why are you flying halfway across the United States of America to go sit in Dallas, Texas when you got two kids at home? You know why? Because Diana and her booty shorts are gonna raise those children. Karen and her attitude are gonna raise those children. They're gonna talk cash crazy about her. But she knows somebody's gonna raise them kids. Abby, get home and raise your babies. She's too busy being butt-naked in bed waiting on Gary to come back. But I guess the million or potentially millions and millions of dollars will make you do that now, won't it? Mac eventually gets over his hair and bee and corners Diana as she's leaving. Surprise, surprise, Abby's house fresh off of a babysitting gig. He asks her, you know, what do you not like about me? Your mom thinks she dislikes me. She goes, Well, actually, I do. He goes, Okay, well, tell me what it is. She's like, I don't like how you judge people. It's like, I'm sorry, I'm like a prosecutor. I have to do that. You think you're better than us? She names two or three things, and he's like, Listen, I will try my best to be cool. Sometimes I talk a lot because I get nervous and I'm trying to overcompensate for things. Like, he comes, he seems so self-aware that you can't really be upset at him. And he wins Diana over. She's like, Alright, alright, Mac, I see you. Well, now tell me, what do you not like about me? He says, I don't like anything about you. That's what he says. I don't like anything about you. And I was like, I kind of agree. Her face drops, and he's like, No, I think you're absolutely perfect. So maybe he meant to say there's nothing that I don't like about you, but in reality, come on now. Maybe it's a watered-down Vino, maybe it's just yet another brainchild. I got an idea, guys. I think you guys should totally start recording yourself watching a show you've never seen before. It's actually kind of awesome. So remember at the top of this episode where I said Abby's hair is timeless. Not in the oh, I'm it's so classic, it's so just she wears it natural enough to where you don't really notice it. Well, this episode she changed. I don't know if it is the pursuit of this man who was now a millionaire. I don't know if it's the Texas weather. For whatever reason, Abby got her hands on a pair of hot rollers and and went ape-ish. I thought it was Valen for a split second. I'm like, where'd all this where all these poofy doofy doofies come from? It doesn't look bad, it just didn't look like Abby. Also, her hair is falling right at shoulder length. What does that mean, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls? If you are a longtime listener, you know my theory. Only wives wear that length of hair. You need to be respectable and all the things. So is Abby trying to be Mrs. Gary Ewing? Hopefully in the state of California she is because that means she's gonna get oh hold up, I didn't think about that. Okay, let me finish my thought. State of California, you get halves, state of Texas, where Gary and Valen were married. Now I I'm thinking 1982, 83, she's probably still gonna get at least half. She's probably still gonna get a good chunk of that. Although she don't really need it, because my girl is on a countrywide book tour, and the book is killing it. Okay, do I want to continue to talk about that? I might as well. So, Gary, newly minted millionaire Gary. Or is he newly a millionaire? He grew up as a millionaire, but I guess it was his dad's money. It's still his daddy's money. So Gary has come into more money than he had before he got off that plane. Let's just say that. He can't shake the fact that his daddy stiffed him, though. He can't get over the fact that his dad left a grown man basically an allowance. And he he feels he feels slighted. He walks into his hotel room after he leaves Bobby and baby Christopher, and he is greeted with a little bouquet, and it's from JR, and it says something like success and happiness or something like that. He tears up the card, or actually tosses a card, hits the corner, and Abby is butt-necked in bed waiting on him so they do what they do. After they hump, he harumps. He's pouty, and Abby is saying, Well, babe, I mean, that's nothing to stick your nose up. That's still, you know,$10 million. You still got$10 million. And I understand how you feel. You feel slighted because your daddy didn't think you're a man and could handle it. And Gary's like, I don't need an interpreter. I do not need an interpreter, Abby. I know how I feel. And she's like, I know, I'm so sorry. Sorry. We see him two or three more times sulking in different areas of this gorgeous hotel room. One time he's by the window, Abby's still like, yo, I just calculations. You're gonna come into a lot of money. That's at least a million dollars a year. I don't want to talk about it, Abby. Could you just shut up about it? Another time he's lying. He's on, you know, he's just he's sad. Blah blah blah. Well, she finally has enough of it and she keeps making these quips. I got a million reasons why I like you, Gary. Blah, blah, blah. They're about to hit bedroom round number five or six when in walks J.R. Just walks in. Now, J.R. feels entitled to do that because it is his money to pay for this luxurious suite. JR claims that he came by because he feels like you need to go and visit mama. Now, funny enough, Gary had already talked about that. Him and Abby were going down to dinner. They were waiting in the hallway on the elevator. And he was saying that he needs to go and see his mom. He feels bad for rushing out after the reading of the will. He wants to spend a little bit of time with her. Abby tries to go alongside him. He's like, no, I don't really think you should go right now. She goes, all my old boyfriends used to love showing me off in front of their mama. But for whatever reason, he doesn't want her to go. She backs off eventually, like, nah, I mean, you need to be with this is a family situation. It's probably the best time to introduce someone new. You go be with your family. So back to JR. JR says, I'm gonna send a limo for you tomorrow morning. You can go visit mama, and then I'll need your country, but on a plane back to California with quickness. Gary says, Well, I was gonna go see mama regardless for why are you trying to rush me off now? Why do you need me to leave so quickly? He was like, I don't want you getting any funny ideas about living in Dallas. Gary is like, who the hell wants to live in Dallas? Listen, I don't know about Dallas in 1982. Looking at it, I probably wouldn't want to live in Dallas in '82. I'd live in Dallas today. It's cool. Actually, I live in Fort Worth. What Gary really hears is a threat. And that's that thing. That's the thing that happens in families. Somebody, your sister could walk by and say, Oh, you're wearing that, and you hear all the context behind that. Your best friend can walk in and say, Oh, girl, you wearing that. And it you don't hear it's like you don't want to punch her in the face, but you want to fight your sister. Gary hears, get out of my town, boy. You ain't welcome around these parts with your broke ass. So sweet little irresponsible Gary needs to get on the plane and go bye-bye. Gary gets mad. He says, First off, I decide when I leave, and why do you think I want to live in Dallas, Texas, of all places? JR, being the older brother, can't help himself. He says, Well, you've always been influenced by other people. And we know how you feel about mama, and mama definitely wants you here. So I just need you to remember California has beaches and lots of water and no dust storms. So, I mean, sold. Although in this version of Dallas, they have hurricanes in yeah, inland like that. That's wild. Gary says, I had enough of you, JR. Take your threats and go on and get the hell on out of my room. JR says, but this is my room. I paid for it. I don't care who paid for it. You can take your threats, you can take your hat, you can take whatever you need to, and go on and bounce. Get out, kick rocks, bro. JR just has to get in one last little one last little dig. Get dick gum, Gary. I'm so proud of you. Abby, you really rubbed off on him. I ain't never known Gary to have any guts. Daddy would have been proud to know you had a pair. Too bad he died before he saw it. Alright, JR. That's quite enough, Mr. Ewing, Pasley. JR has a quick little meeting with Abby on the next day. The scene isn't really anything, but it it I I think. I think we get to witness the masterminds of each show. So Abby asks JR if Gary is so inept, if he's this just bopping through life, screwing up left and right, why is he a problem to you? Why are you so threatened by him? JR says that man is filled with a lot of hate and a lot of anger, and if he ever decided to focus that one day, he could be a huge problem for me. So let's get philosophical for a moment. That is still a ewing, that is still J.R.'s little brother. J.R. knows what he's capable of, he knows what Bobby's capable of. Ain't no way Gary ain't capable of the same thing. You know what I'm saying? Maybe it's one of those things where he always saw Gary's potential and you just gotta kind of kick him while he's down, make sure he remembers he's low. He sees his strength, he sees his weaknesses. Gary doesn't see all of his strength yet. So it's easy to sort of keep your thumb on somebody if you keep them insecure, right? But I thought it was interesting that Abby was asking these questions because she is putting two and two together. If I've learned anything about this woman, is that she don't miss much. She's like I said, she and Lily May are the same people. They're clocking everything all the time. Maybe they have their moments of weakness, but she is she don't miss much. She's gonna figure out what what is the threat here and how to capitalize on it. I know that I'm speaking it right now. However, something about this scene kind of irritated me, not irritated me, has me a little bit concerned. So Abby says to JR, well, congratulations to you too. You're back in Ewing Oil. Now he's been kicked out several many times. Based on where what I'm watching right now, he's the head of Ewing Oil. Bobby is not really all that interested in it. And based on the the beginning of this episode, Bobby didn't seem all that interested in ewing oil. He also didn't seem pressed. So maybe there's nothing to worry about. Because for a second I thought, wait a minute, is this from when he almost went to jail for the foreign oil thing majig? No. So I'm assuming he's gonna get in trouble again, which I mean that tracks as a TV show that's on through the 90s. So I mean, yeah. But he said he just called the house, and Sue Ellen said that Gary hadn't made it yet. Because Abby and JR were wondering why Gary didn't take the limo JR sent, and they just assumed he was so proud he took the cab. And that's when JR says, Oh, well, he's he must be really slow about it, because Sue Ellen said he's not there yet. But here's the thing baby Christopher is in John Roshi Win III's nursery. Maybe she came in for the reading of the will. I don't know. Damn. Because that would mean something with her and Dusty. I don't know. Okay. I don't think this ruined anything. It just put questions in my mind. But luckily, I'm pretty open-minded. A perceiver, if you will. Tons of different scenarios are always running through this head of mine. So what's one or two more? But I don't know. I guess they could, they could be working it out. Wouldn't be the first time Sue Ellen left him and came back to him. Wouldn't be the third time she left him and came back to him. But after this time, girl, come on. Unless Dusty turns into a douche. I don't know. Dusty's being real cool at the moment. Let me focus on this show. I'll worry about Dallas here in a little bit. JR decides to pay his favorite sister-in-law a visit. The one who is jet steadying now. She's zipping and zapping across the country, signing her book. He pulls up on her just to mess with her a little bit. I forgot to mention that Valen is staying in the same hotel as Gabby and Aaron Gabby and Erin. What's her name? Not Gabby. Abby and Gary, not Gabby and Aaron. She's actually staying right around the corner from them, but they're like ships in the night. They don't even realize they're in the same place until the end of the show. JR stops by the signing, tells her, make out my book to your favorite brother-in-law. She's like, Bobby ain't here. What are you doing, JR? Oh, you know, I just want to say hey to my little author. People keep thinking I'm upset about the book, but I love it. Especially since I own the publishing company now. Yuck yuck yuck yuck. I'd forgotten about that. And she's like, Well, hell, by the way, Val's hair is very toned down this episode. She looks so good. She got a regular bust down, looks fantastic. And I mean, even despite the news that JR now owns the pup part of the publishing of her precious, precious book. She maintains a cool demeanor. Even through the end of the show. So it's she's been signing books all day. It is about time for her to go to bed for the night. But there's a whole they're having like a cocktail party in her honor. They got her poster up. So Gary should have clocked this earlier that she was there, but I guess he's he's distracted. You know, he's his dad's dead, so he didn't see it. Actually, let me rewind just a little bit. When he gets back from the ranch, he says that I want to make sure I don't minimize this. So Gary had actually gone to the ranch, and the reason no one saw him is because he didn't actually go through the gates. He stopped at the fence and he just stared at it. And he says that at some point one of the cowboys starts driving Jock's car, drives it out like out to the road. And he looked at the car and he's like, it was the first time that he realized that his dad was actually dead. Like he was actually dead, he's gone. And he got sad and he started thinking even more if my dad is dead and gone, so are all his thoughts and opinions good, bad, or indifferent about me or anyone else. And it made Gary realize that he'd actually been angry all of this time. So he hadn't mourned his father because he was so angry. Angry because part of him agreed with Jock about how inept, about how inept he was himself. So as he watched the car go away, he acknowledged that he had new feelings, and he decided in order to make room for those new feelings, he needed to release the old ones. No point in being upset with someone who's never gonna have another thought again, and who can't really do any harm to you unless you allow them. So he goes back to the hotel and he tells Abby all about it, and she reassures him, she's like, you know, he was wrong about you. Those may have been his thoughts, but that didn't mean that they're the correct ones. And he was like, I know, I know. I was struggling with that because I believed that for a long time myself, but right now I'm I'm just gonna I'm gonna allow myself the ability to be sad, but it's almost like he's excited to be sad, and I get that. Sometimes you can be so consumed with a thought, you don't realize how heavy and how how much bearing it really, really has on you. So to be able to release that, even if it means you have to embrace a little bit of sadness, is a certain amount of freedom. You can embrace the sadness, but by also embracing that, you're also solidifying the fact that person's thoughts no longer have any power over you, and you chose not to think those thoughts about yourself. So, on the one hand, good for you, Gary. That is actually quite beautiful, and I'm I'm happy that he's able to reach that because the mental burden is is terrible. Not seeing yourself in the best light is a horrible, terrible, awful I wouldn't wish on anybody. It sucks. Back to my girl Valen, who probably has gone through those similar stages of mourning. She's not necessarily mourning jock again, but that's okay. She survived, she found another form of strength, she found another thing to focus on, and I think she's doing okay. I say that because Valen is contemplating whether or not she's gonna show up to her little party or whatnot. And she starts heading downstairs. Abby starts heading downstairs, and they're actually coming out of different elevator bays. So Valen's probably on the one on the north side, Abby's on the one on the south side. The intercom in the hotel is paging Mrs. Ewing, pages Mrs. Ewing, Mrs. Gary Ewing. Why they had to put his whole government name there, I'm sure I don't know, considering this is the Valen Ewing book tour. But everybody's waiting on her to be at this party, and right as she comes out of the elevator, so does Abby. They cross paths. They both seem shocked to see each other, but not upset. No animosity, they've never been best friends. But you see the look on Val's face, she's like, hey Abby, hey. Quick little congratulations, but before too much can be said, Gary comes out of the elevator. He sees Valen. Valen sees him, and she has to skedaddle. She's only so strong for so long. So very interesting. Sometimes you need Valen seems to need a distraction to move forward through her pain of losing him. And he needed to release the anger he had so that he could properly mourn his dad. Different emotions, different set of needs on both sides, but at the end of the day, there's a certain amount of power that the wrong emotion can hold over you. It does. Look at us growing and stuff through vintage primetime soap operas. Go ahead and cancel your session with your therapist tomorrow. Just listen to the show twice. You'll be fine. You know who else is gonna be just fine? Lily Mae. And somebody I didn't expect today, Chip. Chip is a whore. Let's just go ahead and put that out there. Chip isn't actually a whore. Chip is what she would call a sugar baby. This is definitely the sugar mama episode. There is no other way around this. So let's talk about love since we're on the topic. Gary's now in love with Abby. Abby's now in love with Gary. Valen's falling in love with literature and her new life. Love is in the air. Mac and Karen have a new thing going. Is there another relationship budding on the blog? Something like that. But listen here. Remember the last time we saw Chip? Chip was lying through his teeth, lying left and right, lying when the truth sounded better. He's telling Valene that he is that dude. He's gonna put her on all the best things, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. He's telling Bess Riker, the PR lady, yeah, Valen got a whole nother book. She let me read a little bit of fire. It's gonna be so good. Chip lies so fast. You can't even keep up with it. I don't even believe his real name is Chip. You know how Valen's on tour? Well, every hotel she goes to, she's picked up. She's picked up from the airport. Every hotel she goes into, every room she has is a suite. There is a beautiful bouquet of flowers awaiting her when she leaves the airport. She is picked up in a limousine. She is rubbing elbows with mayors and baseball players and all this. All the fancy people. We know this because Lily May is so pumped that her baby girl is living the high life that she is compelled to go to the Best Riker PR agency and thank them in person. She happens upon an argument one day, but she doesn't really realize it. Lily May shows up unannounced to the Best Riker Agency while Bess and Chip are in the other room having a very heated art conversation, not even an argument. Bess wants to know where all these expensive charges are coming from. Where are all these bills? First off, Chip, I can tell that you are fluffing these. I can tell that these are fake charges. You better tell me what the real ones are. You better tell me right now. Now he, Bess, you're you're overreacting. These are regular charges. Well, here come Lily Mae. She comes in and she's like, Well, I just want to say thank y'all so much. Valen called me and she told me she met with the mayor of this city and she met this baseball player. She even met Videl Sassoon or something like that. And Bess is like, oh word. Oh, okay. Lily May continues. She gets picked up by a limousine everywhere she goes. Bess is like, oh, real, oh word, limousine. Is that so Lily May? Oh, wait, you said she has flowers? Really? Bess immediately knows where all these charges are coming from. Now she knows the truth. And she's like, okay, that's cute. Well, Chip doesn't want to get in trouble. So he says, Lily Mae, thank you so much for coming by. Let me go ahead and give you a ride home. Do you have time for lunch? I'd love to take you for lunch. We're so proud of our girl Valen. He skedaddles out of the door before Bess can continue to bite his hat off. He drops off Lily May and he walks her to the door because he's a gentleman. He says, Lily Mae, did you know that we we met each other before? Lily Mae is racking her brain. Like, really? I don't remember. Because we must have met in a past life. When two people are as comfortable together as you and I are, it's because they met in a past life. Now she is all but a puddle on the floor. She is just melting under his words. No, is this still cute boy flirting with me? Oh my god. I still got it. And she does. She's cute. You know what I'm saying? Well, you know who else is cute for their age? Miss Bess Riker, who happens to be housing Chips a Ho. Chip goes back to her crib. Comes in very comfortable, slings a sport coat over her nice furniture. She comes out of the bedroom in a robe. He happens to look down. He sees two mismatched pieces of luggage, if you could even call them that. Two duffel bags. He says, What is this? She says, cheap luggage. Yours, of course. You didn't have to do him like that, Bess, in your fanhouse. You didn't have to say that. He's like, okay, well, what's going on? She's like, Oh, you're moving out, my dear. It's time for you to leave. And once you're gone, also don't don't bother coming by the office. You don't work there anymore either. Bess has been banging Chip all this time. Chip needed a warm place to stay, and he got beside himself. He bit the hand that fed him. Now Bess, who usually has a slick back bun that would rival any ballroom dancer, slick back her. She got her hair loose. She is in a robe. She looks like she just had a great massage. She feels fantastic. She goes and lies on the couch and he goes, Okay, yeah, you you you want to get rid of me now. Why? She goes, Well, quite frankly, I'm sick of you. He goes, You're sick of me now, but what about those long lonely nights where you can't sleep? And you want to cuddle with something pretty. She says, Chip, I have never in my life had trouble sleeping. And then she thinks for a second. Matter of fact, I've never had any trouble scooping up a little something pretty. If I'm in the mood for something pretty, can we just take a step back and acknowledge how powerful that statement is? Baby boy, I do the choosing. If I choose somebody pretty, then I have somebody pretty. If I choose for you to live in my house, you get to live in my house. If I say you are now homeless, you are now homeless, homeboy. That's how that works. But she says, I think I'll manage me and my old decrepit, unattractive self. She is absolutely none of the above. She relaxes on her money bag's couch because she got it like that. She put in the work. This is the best Riker agency, not the Chipsaho agency. Tells him to go on and get out. Well, you know where he goes. Not back to his original apartment like I thought. Chip pulls up to Valen, the Vidalia Onion Queen's crib, with both of his double bags and a smile. Lily Mae answers the door. She stops her whole scrapbooking project. Really quick aside, she's using glue out of like a jar with the little brush on it. I used to want to use those so badly. I'd watch Brady Bunch all the time as a little kid, and that's what their glue looked like. Mine didn't look like that. It looks like it looks now, the little Elmer's glue and the little orange top. Oh man, I used to want to use that other glue so badly. I guess it meant to me as a little kid, it meant you were an adult. And I really wanted to be an adult. Anyway. Lily Mae is scrapbooking. Chip comes to the door and she says, Well, come on in, baby. Valen is thinking back on the last episode where she told Lily Mae this was for her tour and she wanted to do a dolo. She wanted to be by herself. She's feeling bad about that. So she calls the house and she's like, Mama, do you want to come out on tour with me? I feel kind of bad about you being there alone. Well, girl. No need to worry about that because Chip is in the background washing dishes. Lily May is, oh sugar pie, don't worry about it, darling. I love you so much. I'm doing well. I would not want to go on tour with you because I would just steal your shine. I can't do that to you. Valena's like, who's shine? Who's shine? She didn't say that. Lily Mae says, Don't worry about it, darling. I want you to enjoy this trip. And remember, Lily May loves you. Not mama loves you. Lily May loves you. So Lily Mae hangs up the phone. Chips with no dip comes out of the kitchen. Well, who was that, Lily Mae? It was Valen, darling. Valen is so moved that you decided to part ways with the best rocker agency. She said you can go on and stay up in our spare bedroom. I can stay here. They start spinning around all happy and joyful, whatnot. Takes one to know one, doesn't it? She running game. He running game. But they running game on Valen both of them at the same time. Chip looks deep into Lily Mae's starlit eyes and he says, Lily May, I don't know how many lifetimes we've spent together, but this one is gonna be the best one yet. Planting that seed, making sure that she's gonna be thinking about him all the live long day so that he can stay indefinitely. You want to talk about nightmare on Elm Street or Nightmare on Seaside Drive? Guess who Chib Zahoy has his eye on? You ugh, you guessed it. Diana is quite frankly minding her business. She is collecting groceries out of the back of a car. Actually, she's taking groceries into Abby's house. She is doing a heck of a lot of work for Abby. I hope her rate is sky high.$15 an hour minimum at this point. She's getting groceries and chip. I guess he smells fresh meat from the living room. I don't know. He comes busting out of Valen's house, uh, running across the street, and he's like, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, baby. Hello, hello, baby. What's that, baby? Hold that position right there, right there. She's bending over in the car. This is so inappropriate. I have to remember, she's not a child. She's not a child, but she's definitely a child. He's like, hold that position right there. I want to remember you just like that. Like looking at her booty. Now, Diana has found an incredible amount of booty shorts and waist-lenching outfits. It's Summer. I get it. She's outside. She looks cute. She ain't really trying to provoke nobody, but it's drawing all the wrong attention. So Chip is flirting with her, like, yeah, I'm real good friends with Valen. You know what I'm saying? I'm her manager, and I decided to move in because she needed a man around the house. What's your name, sweet thing? I like you and your twin across the street. Y'all show it's fine. I like what your body looked. Just creep him a creep. He's so gross. He but he snatches some chips so that she has to come back and she's like, Those are my my cousin's favorite chips. Chip eating chips. How corny. He introduces himself one more time. And it was Chip. Nice to meet you, Diana. He turns around. Right about this time, Mac is driving up and he sees Diana outside. So he just kind of walks over and he sees a grown man talking to her. So, I mean, he does the thing you do. He walks over, Chip turns around and slams into him with a bag of chips and then walks off. Now, mind you, Mac is just now back in Diana's good graces. He makes a mistake. He goes, Who's the creep? She gets all beside herself. He's not a creep. He's actually a deep personal friend from my past. And she storms into Abby's house. Okay, wow, wow, wow. Well, later that night at dinner, Mac is talking to Karen's boys about like how he he got ended up in the line of work he did because he used to be a pool shark or something. He's telling them about his past. They're having a good conversation. Diana comes in. He uses the word creep again. Diana comes in and she goes, Man, you sure to call everybody you know a creep? And he's like, Diana, I'm sorry. I already apologized for calling your friend from long ago a creep. I'm sorry. And she smiles and he goes, He's actually more of a schleb. I don't know what a schleb is, but everybody in the house thinks it's funny except Diana. You're so immature. She storms off. Remember how I told you that Chip told Lily Mae that they had met in a past life? Well, she's taking this to heart. She's actually flipping through all of her old family albums to see if she sees anybody that looks like him. And wouldn't you know it? She finds somebody. Mr. Lwood P. Watkins. Now, Mr. L. Wood P. Watkins was the Justin Bieber of his day. And all the little star little songbirds wanted to be on the same bill as him. I don't think the picture looks anything like Chip, but she says it does, and that's all she needs to hear. So she goes upstairs to tell him, but he's not in his room. So she she walks in the room and she notices that his drawers are strewn all across the place, clothes all over the floor. She decides she wants to be helpful. She starts picking up clothes. She starts folding them and all that. He comes busting in. What are you doing, scooping in my room? Why are you all in my business? Lily man, I knew you would do this. She's like, no, no, I swear, I swear, I'm just picking up clothes. Look at this here picture. You look just like Mr. Elwood P. Watkins. I bet that's your granddaddy or somebody like that. We did meet in another lot. Maybe we didn't meet each other, but I met somebody like you. She's completely just over the fact that he went barking at her. He's studying her the whole time, realizing that she's not on to him. And so he softens up, showing him the picture. Ooh, Elwood is fine. What do you baby? He's fine. His baby hair. Fine as hair on the frogs behind. He's so he's good looking. My God today. Chip's like, oh, of course. And she said, No, don't be mad at me. I wasn't snooping, I swear I wasn't. Don't worry about snooping, Lily May. I have no secrets from you. You and I are close. She says, Yeah, of course. We shared past lives together. This fool says, if we could remember what we did, we'd be blushing. Chip. Chip is trying to get into Lily Mae's drawers. And I tend to think Lily May is one of them who definitely wears lingerie. She's she's all country western on the outside. And um Fredericks of Hollywood on the inside, and he is turning her on. He knows this, so he he capitalizes on her lust. And do you know what he does? He drags this woman back to his other jump off's house for a business, PR agency. And he probably steals contacts. I don't know what he's doing, but they almost get caught. He ends up taking a bunch of stuff. So at this point, Lily Mae is like, this boy is standing up my girl. He's making sure my daughter is having the best life she could possibly have right now. He has a thing for me, he kind of sweet on me. He's letting me keep all his secrets. She thinks they go together real, real bad. So she is heartbroken. When she stumbles upon him and dirty Diana from across the street, dancing poorly, might I add terribly awful, in Chip's guest bedroom. She is devastated. See, she had planned a romantic candlelit dinner. Now she's embarrassed when she goes upstairs and he's dancing with a with a baby. She can't compete with Diana, only she can, because Diana ain't got no job. Chip chases her downstairs, sees the beautiful dinner, and then starts feeding her. Uh not feeding her, what do we call her? Selling her these wolf tickets. Lily May, you bring so much hope. Look how much you've changed my life in such a short time. Please don't run away. She got so dramatic, y'all. She said she was gonna run off. Everybody would be better off without her. In behind Chip. She ain't even dipped with Chip yet, talking about she wanna leave. He assures her that nobody, and he means nobody can hold a candle to her. She's like, dang, you right? I am that girl. I am. You're right. You hungry, baby? Of course he's hungry. That's actually about it. The end scene is Val deciding not. Did I even finish that? I don't even remember. Val sees Gary with Abby and Abby's brand new necklace that he bought her. Like she turns on her heels because she can't stand to be in front of him. She looks at her poster right outside the the hall where her event is, and she keeps walking. End scene. Such a good episode. I did not see Chip being an F-boy. I mean I did, but not not in the romantic sense. I just thought it's gonna be like a sleazy little lying little twerp. But it seems to me he he likes a sugar mama. He likes an older woman with the with a warm house and and uh knows how to cook a good meal. I wonder if he's gonna make the moves on Balloween, obviously, right? Oh my gosh. You know Diana is gonna have a freaking heart attack if he doesn't fall madly in love with her. Lord. This is gonna be a nightmare. This is gonna be a complete dumpster fire. I never oh, do you think Lily Mae and Diana are gonna get into it? Lily Mae would mop the floor with that little girl. Is that gonna be one for the books? Alright, guys, that's it. That's all for this episode. Thank you for joining me for another fun filled edition of Sub Floor. Join me next time as we jump back into Falcon Crest. I think it's either gonna be Falcon Crest or Dallas. I really want to see how Apollonia is incorporated into the show. In the meantime, in between time, next time you're at the grocery store and the little fine young team comes waltzing up to you, telling you that we're lovers in the past life. Um real real close to your chest. Somebody needs some munchable money and a warm place to stay. Stay hydrated, stay moisturized, mind your own.