S3 Ep16 Knots Landing: Silver Shadows-The "I'm Loudly Judging With My Side Eye & Silence" Episode

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If you've ever wondered about the blurred lines between opportunity and opportunism, "Silver Shadows" delivers a masterclass in navigating relationship dynamics when wealth, age, and attraction collide.

When Abby Cunningham catches the eye of aging Hollywood director Andrew Douglas, who believes she's the spitting image of his long-dead love Terry Clarington, what begins as curiosity quickly evolves into a mutually beneficial arrangement. Andrew showers Abby with priceless gifts while she provides companionship and the nostalgic echo of his lost love. But as Gary and others question her motives, we're forced to consider: who's really taking advantage of whom?

The episode brilliantly parallels modern controversies about relationships between wealthy older men and younger women, reminding us of figures like Anna Nicole Smith and J. Howard Marshall. Through Andrew's character – a once-influential artist now trapped in a body that's failing him – we witness the poignant reality of aging creative minds and their search for meaning in their final chapter.

This isn't just about gold-digging or exploitation; it's about agency and dignity. As Andrew directs his own death scene with cinematic flair, we're reminded that everyone deserves the right to make their own choices until the end, questionable as they might seem to others. Meanwhile, subplots exploring Karen's budding relationship with Larry (who initially pursued Abby) add delicious layers to the neighborhood dynamics.

Ready to dive into this vintage primetime gem that tackles issues still relevant today? Listen now and join our discussion about how we view relationships, aging, and autonomy. Text us your thoughts or email [e-mail] to share your take on this captivating episode!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm really tired of eating Diana's dry food.
I'm finna.
Go have me a good time.
She's been dead long enough.
It's time for me to startshowing out a little bit.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys andgirls, welcome or welcome back
to SoFlor, the officialgathering place for newbies,
novices and OG diehard fans ofthe golden age of primetime and

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OG diehard fans of the goldenage of primetime.
I'm your host, jett, stillviewing and reviewing the Sophia
Sezia's primetime storylines of1982.
That's right, we're back on theWest Coast, about to get into a
little vintage film noir.
I don't think I have to put allthose words together, but I
just did so.
Sit back and enjoy.

(00:41):
Tell the kids it's time to playoutside or out of sight.
Tell they have no questions,suggestions or concerns for the
next 25 to 45 minutes.
Ha, everyone else in the airshot.
Be cool, be quiet or you willbe put out.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys andgirls, this is Soap Lord.

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What's up party people?
Welcome or welcome back toanother fun television of Soap
Lord.
Hope your day is shaping upfantastically.
I have no complaints.
I messed around, made myself adelicious hydrating concoction
after almost passed out in thisheat, and I hope you are taking

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care of yourself as well.
You know, the older I get, themore I start to appreciate the
little things in life, not just,you know, smiles from people
you love, not warm embraces frompeople you love or away from a
stranger.
I'm talking about treatingyourself.
Can we normalize buyingyourself a piece of jewelry

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because you want to not like oh,I earned this.
It doesn't matter if you did ornot.
Are you using your money?
Even if you're not, even if youare proudly slamming down a
gift card from your grandma foryour birthday baby, do it with
pride.
I started to realize, maybe ayear or two ago, that a lot of
my friends, a lot of mygirlfriends, are always in this

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position to well, you know, Ican go on this trip.
I'm just going to say don'texplain why you need to save and
snip and do the things.
Go because you want to go.
You owe no one an explanationas to why you are going to enjoy
a nice thing for yourself and,dare I say it, that might just
be the theme of today's episode.
So go ahead, grab yourselfsomething bubbly and bright,

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pour it up and let's jump intoseason three of Knott's Landing.
We're back on the West Coast.
This episode is called SilverShadows.
Season three has proven to be alittle bit more of a hodgepodge
, but again it makes sense.
If you're just talking about arandom neighborhood in middle
America, it's not middle America, it's on the West coast.

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You're talking about mid tierwealth, late century in SoCal.
There we go, that's how we'regoing to frame this.
I'd also like to tell you alittle story, a little lore,
from my great state of Texas,about a young girl from Mahea.
So get comfortable as we jumpinto a vintage primetime soap

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opera about film noir presenceand having your cake and eating
it too.
First piece of fan mail is justa quick little line from Amy in
Arizona I think Amy might havewritten in before she sent a
text this time and she just saysshout out to those desert kid

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burns.
I have at least three on onearm from my elbow accidentally
touching a buckle in our 87Chevy and I still give them to
this day.
Amy, I hear you and, dare I sayit, I feel like back in the day
maybe I was just more consciousof it.
I was more conscious of wherethe seatbelt was, what side of
the car you got into, but I feltlike that still happens now,

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like I'll just get comfortableand forget because my windows
are tinted.
Yeah, and don't let this desertsun catch you slipping, or
don't even let a warm day catchyou slipping.
That seatbelt burn is somethingvicious.
Fellowial marcus from dallaswrites that he grew up knowing
all about dallas but didn'tactually watch it until he was
around 10 or 11 years old whenhis grandmother insisted one

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summer that he sit through herentire box set with her.
He's like for the first time inmy life I fell in love with
some stories.
I still technically watchstories and he puts wrestling is
in parentheses and he wants toknow if I ever got into watching
wrestling as a kid and, if so,who were my favorites.

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Also, what was your afterschool television?
I guess he means what was myfavorite show to watch after
school TV.
I said that so backwards Y'allknow what I'm saying After
school TV.
Okay, thank you so much, marcus.
Shout out to your grandma forputting you onto these earlier.

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It sounds like she was a littlebit of a super fan and I can
only imagine living in Dallas.
How fun that was.
Anybody living in Dallas orDenver specifically, I wonder
how exciting that would be.
Of course I have family in bothand I had no idea that Dynasty
was from Denver.
I just thought about that.
My mom was still living inDenver when this show came out,

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so I don't know how this hasnever come up in casual
conversation or maybe it's oneof those things.
I just didn't realize what theywere talking about because up
until three years ago I had noclue what the show was about
other than a few memes.
Okay, first question, marcus,let's see, I'm going to go ahead
and answer the programming orafterschool TV shows.
So for a long time my dad wasvery serious about not watching

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too much TV, love for us to readbooks and stuff my books, but I
liked watching TV.
So when it was monitored, whenwe were very, very little, I'm
sure it was like PBS, readingRainbow, stuff like that is
coming to mind.
Like I can kind of rememberwatching Sesame Street and some
sort of cartoon, a sort ofblurry.
As I got older I would watchmaybe the Simpsons, sometimes

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Designing Women.
It just kind of depended onwhose house I was at.
My grandma picked us up.
My grandma lived right nextdoor to my aunt.
My aunt's kids were older, so Icould watch whatever I wanted
and I think I would just watchwhatever was on.
So it was probably stillDesigning Women.
I think the Simpsons eventuallycame on later on.
I don't remember there being alot, but I can tell you I used

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to watch Saved by the Bellbefore school and sometimes
Family Matter.
There we go.
I'd watch like Family Matters.
Gosh, I'm trying to rememberwhat else.
Sorry, I didn't answer that alittle better, but I watched a
lot of Designing Women.
I used to like LifetimeIntimate Portraits.
The more I'm saying this I thinkI'm just making an excuse that
I chose to watch old peopleshows, even when I have the

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opportunity not to.
That's what I'm gathering fromthis, because yes, there was
TGIF Friday, but that wasn'tright after school.
That was like way later in theday, right, that didn't come
until like after seven, if itwas between 3 30 and like 7 pm.
I'm watching an old lady show.
I'm watching man.

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I made old lady choices.
As far as wrestling goes, youbetter believe it, as a kid
loved me, some like triple a.
I remember the rock came out.
Um bret hart edge.
What's his name?
Um randy orden oh, my gosh.
Yes, let's see, I still peekfrom time to time.

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I like roman reigns.
I like the uso twins.
I think they have differentnames.
Now I watch ww, the, the divasof wrestling, so so of course I
like those girls.
Yeah, I'm a fan of wrestlingand I see what you're doing
there.
Wrestling is your stories.
I totally agree with that, 100%.
The drama, the injury, oh mygosh, chyna yes, I remember

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Chyna and there wasn't as manywomen then.
I can remember being very, veryyoung and my cousin loved Hulk
Hogan, macho man, randy Savage Ican remember his like toys, so
it all kind of runs together,man.
Thank you so much for listening, marcus.
I hope you enjoy.
All right, guys, that's enoughjaw jacking.

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You ever just wake up and belike dang.
I look good today.
Hair sitting right, outfit fitsproperly.
You just are kind of feelingyourself.
This may or may not have beenthe case morning of this
particular episode ofnon-slanding called silver
shadows.
At the top of the show we seeAbby Cunningham minding her

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business in some little boutiquestore or some store I don't
know if it's a boutique or not,so abby is just shopping when
she's approached by this manasking her size four body to try
on some pajamas for his mama,specifically robes.
He has this big furry, salmoncolored robe first and abby's
like I don't work here.
He goes, I know, but you looklike you're the right size, you

(09:21):
better fork.
It's just like, yeah, I amactually.
So she tries on the robe, whichturns into another, which turns
into another.
I feel like this is God's wayof telling me I need to go ahead
and make the purchase.
There are so many robes sittingin my basket right now.
I need to go ahead and make ithappen.
Dynasty made me want one.
Falcon Crest, let me know Ineeded one.

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Oh can.
Cress, let me know I needed one.
Oh my gosh, they're soglamorous, so gorgeous on here.
Anyway, abby tries on all theclothes he asked, including this
little nightie.
Now she calls it lingerie.
I think by today's standard itis quite demure.
But it would be a spaghettistrap silk sleeper.
Now she don't know this is forhis mama at this point.
So after he buys all this, shedoes ask you know it's just for

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your girlfriend.
He doesn't know it's for.
She's like you buy your mamalingerie?
He's like no, no, no, it ain'tlike that.
I suppose the rest of theirmorning goes well.
It just occurred to me now thatAbby is shopping while she's on
the clock.
Am I judging her?
Absolutely not.
I've done that so many times.
But I know she's on the clockbecause meanwhile at Knott's

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Landing Motors, karen isfinishing up with this wealthy
older gentleman in his GothamCity villain car and his
chauffeur.
It's more of an aristocratic car, he's very rich, you can tell.
The chauffeur is wearing a hat.
They're older gentlemen.
He has on gloves and a fullpenguin suit in the California

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heat.
His car keeps confusing methough.
Just picture 1925 car right,let's go 1930.
It appears like the middle partis missing in some scenes and
other scenes.
It doesn't Like straight on.
It doesn't look like anything'swrong or it's not wrong, it's
just designed that way.

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But when you see him talking,like when the chauffeur gets out
and he opens the door to allowhim in or out, the carriage
itself seems to be very, verysmall, almost like a
confessional booth almost.
But then you can see thedrivers.
You can see the steering wheelin some scenes.
I don't know if it's areflection off the glass, but it

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looks like you can almostremove the middle and allow the
sun to rest on what exactly?
I don't know.
Y'all watch it for yourself.
I'm sure I'm not explainingthis right.
It's weird.
This gentleman is telling Karenabout his not so fun diet, his
death proof diet, whichbasically means no meat, no
sugar, no fun.

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And as he's talking about it,abby arrives with the mama's boy
in a green two seater beater.
Because, poor paint job or not,abby don't drive.
If she don't have to touch awheel, she ain't going to do it.
Moneybags McClure, whosegovernment name is Andrew
Douglas, director extraordinaireof Ago, is like wow, who's that

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?
Karen's like oh, that's AbbyCunningham.
Abby Cunningham.
He's like wow Now, some peoplesay a lot, some people don't say
much.
Some people's face says a lot.
His chauffeur, henry's face,says a lot.
Henry seems to be kind ofgiving side eye, rolling his
eyes a little bit, like healready.

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He's seen this scenario playout more times than a little bit
.
So the next thing we see is Abbygoes into the into North
Landing Motors after her freshshopping spree and she can hear
Gary talking about the gas haulsituation.
Well, karen wants to come inand tell her like girl, guess
who's got a crush on you?

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Old man Rivers, back there, islooking at you.
But Abby can't hear becauseGary who's, by the way, still
wearing JR's safari jacket, istalking about.
He needs some gas to haul money.
Twenty thousand dollars for gasto haul money this is starting
to sound like a pipe dream, gary.
It sounds like a money pick,gary, every time we turn around
there's an issue.
Now this isn't Abby saying that.

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This is good old Jep, so Abby'sdealing with that.
She didn't actually hear Karentell her that this old director
of a Go has a crush on her.
So later on that day, I suppose,or it could be the next day
there's not really any specificsto let me know.
Abby and Olivia are unloadinggroceries from the back of their
automobile in their driveway attheir home.

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Moneybags McClure, aka AndrewDouglas, director extraordinaire
, and his chauffeur come pullingup Chauffeur, hops out of the
driver's seat, walks around tothe car.
Mind you, I just said Abby andOlivia are unloading groceries
right, which means they havetheir arms full.
He looks at Abby and he goesma'am, could you come here?
Bruh, I'm okay, abby isunbothered.

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Abby is remarkable when the guyin the store that morning I
guess it's morning, I justrealized she says well, this is
twice in a day.
When the guy, larry, thatmorning asked her to try on
clothes, she didn't blink twiceabout it.
She was like okay, sure I don'twork here.
He goes, I know, cool, I'm asize four.

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When the chauffeur and the oldman told her to come to the car,
she was like sure, chauffeuropens the door.
Hi, madam Abby Cunningham, I'mAndrew Douglas.
Would you do me a favor?
Now, in 2025, if an old man inan old car with a chauffeur
opens a door and he's in a verysmall cabin.

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Chauffeur opens a door and he'sin a very small cabin, I mean,
I'm not saying anything couldhappen, but I wouldn't be
surprised if that door openedand I could see his elderly
knees and, um, unpainted leg.
I can only imagine what hewanted to show her.
Luckily, perverts weren't hereyet back of a day, an old man
could just be an old man.
He says says, could you do me afavor?

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And he cracks open a JuliaRoberts beauty box and he's like
could you try on this veryexpensive, rare couture, vintage
jewelry, my dear?
You know, it's real right, Idon't do costumes.
She's like sure, I'll try it onin my purple sweats, no problem
.
Now, if that happened to me,I'd be like God, my booty was
really bouncing today.
I just must be killing.

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I don't know what I did.
I don't know if it's oil of thelay, I don't know if it's the
dusting powder, but Abby's scentis out there.
She's like absolutely, shetries it on.
And this is when the old manreveals his intentions.
No, he didn't want to show herhis favorite body part.
He thinks she looks just likethis woman he used to know,

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terry Clarington.
Now, don't that sound familiar?
Mind you, this is 1982, sameyear the Dynasty comes out.
Terry Clarington was a silentstar back in the 20s.
And man, abby, you look justlike her.
She's like oh, ok, that's sweet, thank you, this necklace is
gorgeous.
He goes.
Why don't you go on and keep it?

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I sure couldn't take it backafter I've seen it on your
gorgeous neck.
She's like well, don't mind ifI diddly do, thank you.
Old man, money bags.
He drives off and Olivia andher, just like girl, you see
this, look how beautiful.
I wonder if Olivia thinks, ifolivia thinks herself dang, am I
gonna be a baddie like her?
If I'm gonna be like aunt karen, I hope I'm a baddie like my

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mama, because this free jewelryand stuff.
I want to just be unloadinggroceries and old men drop off
money to me too.
I'll take it.
Okay, I can describe the carbetter for you now.
So imagine, like a generalsedan, you have the back seat,
you have the front seat andnothing separates that it's all
under one roof.
Well, he seems to have somesort of tri-car.

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I don't know if that's what itis called properly, but he has
his seat, which is in the veryback.
The middle is open or removedso that there's space.
So I guess if he had otherguests they could ride in the
middle and have their ownpersonal conversation.
And then the drivers in thefront.
This feels like old money, thisdriving.

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You don't want to talk to thehelp at all at all.
You put a whole balcony in themiddle of your car and let those
people talk, and then you sitin the way way back, make sure
your chauffeur come around andlet you out.
Now this doesn't for the work,the working class, the blue
collar family, because childrenwill be jumping out of the
middle.
You can't pass things backproperly.

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It's a whole thing.
I'm also excited to report thatin this scene, right after he
leaves, abby is looking atolivia like girl.
Look at your mama.
This, this how you be a badbaby girl.
This is how you do it.
She's touching the necklace,but in the background I can see
the beautiful camper Shout outto my new friends, bob and his

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Jupiter.
Oh my gosh.
So I got an email about thecrystal air place and we tried
to do this over text, but whenyou see me in text through the
show note, it doesn't allow youto send pictures, which is a
bummer.
But, um, I got sent a video byjupiter driving through the
cul-de-sac.
Oh my gosh, I love it so, somuch.
It makes me so happy.

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It's like, oh my god, this is areal, this is a real place.
Once I finish this show, I wantto go back.
I really, really, really needto understand their shooting
schedule.
Or, if I get to ask Violene andmyself that's going to be my
only question that I got to runout of the room.
Oh gosh, decisions, decisions,decisions.
Remember, you can send me atext.

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You just check the show notesif you're listening on your
phone, your iPad or whatever.
You can check the show notesand send them there.
Send me a text link.
Or you can send me an email tosoplorepodcast at gmailcom.
That is,s-o-a-p-l-o-r-e-p-o-d-c-a-s-t at

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gmailcom.
Well, the good times keep onrolling.
What a day, what a day.
Abby is a brand new owner of avery old necklace and she met a
little cutie this morning.
Her cutie's name is Terry LarryI just made that up.
There's too many rhyming names.

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His name is Larry.
Larry is 42.
He's an engineer.
He travels a lot.
Hopefully he flies.
Just because he has a greenbeater with a poor paint job
Doesn't mean it's not a good car.
Just leads me to believe hedidn't have a lot of time for
that.
But I mean, he's an engineer,he can definitely afford it.

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Anyway, we're learning aboutLarry because he comes over that
night for a little nightcap.
Him and abby are booed up onthe couch.
He wants to know everything.
Are you irritable?
Do you hate junk mail?
Blah, blah, blah.
She's like yep, yep and yep.
Do you like me?
He asked yeah, I like you, Ilike you, I like you a lot.

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Well, the very next morning Abbyarrives at work, I'm assuming
after a shopping spree andsomebody gave her a ride, only
to find part of the office justfilled with all those gorgeous
flora.
Somebody cleared out a flowershop and had it sent to Abby.
Now abby's thinking it's larrylike oh my god, my engineer, he

(20:28):
must really want to be with me,reads a card, turns out it is
from andrew, director andrew.
He wants her to have lunch withhim.
So, uh, yeah, quickly, larry'sput on the back burner.
So you got to think about this.
She has the options here.
She's got an old man with oldmoney who thinks she looks just
like his old flame, and thenshe's got this new guy.

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Well, our girl's got to haveoptions, right, she goes ahead
and she takes him up on lunch.
She goes to Andrew's house andit is all every bit as fabulous
as you would think a director ofhis caliber's house would be.
It's huge.
He's giving her a tour in everyroom and she seems like she's
kind of into it.

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He's a man who's lived a longand very interesting life doing
sort of iconic things, so he hasa lot of stories.
He's like oh, this was senthere, this is from this.
Then there's this big oilpainting on the wall of his
paramour.
She didn't look like Abby to meat first glance, but it really
is all in the eyes once theyzoom in a little bit.

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Later he tells her yes, this isTerry, she was painted by Gia
Berti.
Now I'm starting to think wait aminute, these are a lot of
coincidences.
All these names are matching up.
Did somebody from Falcon Crestlook at this, write down a
couple names and then create astory after this?
Maybe, maybe not.
You got to remember before like19, let's say 1957, there were

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only like eight names inrotation.
I'm exaggerating, but you knowwhat I mean.
For instance, would Chase GBirdie's dad's name be Jason?
I doubt that this man wouldhave been born in like 1920.
How many 100-year-old Jasons doyou know?

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None.
Would his name be Chase?
Not a chance.
Anyway, abby is enjoying hertime, but you can't help but
notice Henry, the mother butlerslash chauffeur, is in the
background, still not sayinganything, but his judgment is so
loud.
Abby's being really kind andengaging and they decide it's

(22:38):
time to sit down and have alittle tea.
So Henry is watching silentlyand very loudly, judging her.
Meanwhile her 42 year old booshows up to non-slanding motors
looking for her.
He tells karen that abby toldhim she would kick his teeth in
if he didn't come buy a new car.
So that's what he showed up todo.
Karen's like well, listen, Iain't gonna turn down nothing

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but my collar.
Why don't you come?
Look at this blue coupe.
It's very cute, very suitablefor taking out little fast women
.
We're probably going to leaveyou in the next episode or so.
Back at the mansion, andrew andAbby are having a good old time.
Henry brings out this reallygorgeous, really kind of over
the top sterling silver tea set.
Andrew tells Abby it was a giftfrom Jack Barrymore, as in Drew

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Barrymore'sgreat-great-grandpappy or
something like that.
Anyway, andrew's having a goodtime.
He's enjoying getting to tellthese stories to a new person.
He looks at Henry and tells himto scram skedaddle.
Abby's going to pour my tea.
Now I suppose this is some sortof honor, but it feels like a
lot of work to me Again,different times.

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I don't know how this works itseems like it's probably an
honor.
Now Henry doesn't sass him, hedoesn't say anything, but the
look on Henry's face says oh,wow, it's like that.
Apparently he's not moving outof the room quick enough for
Andrew.
So Andrew insults him.
Now notice throughout the restof the show.
Every insult he throws at thisman is like a feather pun.

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That's his thing.
He wants to insult you withfoul references.
So he says well, look at himhanging around.
If he had wings he'd becircling like a buzzard.
Seems a little excessive andkind of rude in front of company
, but Andrew don't give a damn.
Once Henry finally leaves theroom, andrew tells Abby about

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Terry's unfortunate demise.
Looks like they were kind ofhaving a little bit too much fun
, he and Terry.
Back in the day they had a caraccident.
She died at Laurel Canyon in LA.
He misses her terribly, misseseverything about her, from her
eyes to the way she laughed, tothe way she lit up the silver
screen.
But most of all he misses howthey used to outdo each other

(24:51):
with affection She'd buy him agift, he'd buy her a gift back
and forth.
And he even said he knew thateventually she wouldn't be able
to continue to do that becauseher acting career would be much,
much more short-lived than hisdirectorial career.
But he enjoyed their timenonetheless.
And let him tell it, they wereplaying.
God made a couple of mistakesand she's no longer here.

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The next day they're at Knott'sLanding Motors.
Karen is sitting down doingsomething and Abby's just
basically telling Karen aboutthis Andrew guy, like man, he
used to do this.
He was the director of that.
He's so kind, he just seemskind of lonely.
She's just kind of filling herin on the whole thing.
Karen says well, your littlefriend came by yesterday, larry,

(25:34):
somebody or another, and thisis for you.
She hands her a check.
She gives Abby a commission offthe car she sold and Abby's
like well, girl, that's great,I'll just add this to my
collection this week, you know,I got a new necklace right.
Karen's like okay, that's allfine, well and good.
But if you got this, larry guy,what are you doing with this

(25:55):
old guy?
What's really going on?
Abby's like why can't I justhave friends, karen?
I can't just have friends.
I have to always have somethingup my sleeve.
She walks off.
While she walks off, karen'slike yep, you always got to have
something up your sleeve, mindyou, she just said she had
nothing up her sleeve.
Abby goes to talk to Gary andthey got to get to the bottom of

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this gas a whole situation.
This is new technology.
People aren't really biting.
Plus, there's so many kinks towork out that they didn't
anticipate it's starting to costa lot of money.
So Abby presents Gary with thenecklace.
He's like dang, how much do youthink is worse?
He's like well, north of$20,000.

(26:39):
So if push comes to shove,worse comes to worse.
She implies that the necklacecan be sold and or hawked.
I don't know how they're goingto do it.
Gary's like well, I mean, yeah,this is a business, this is
kind of a funny business.
So things it could either workor it couldn't work.
Abby is cool and relaxed, aswhere Gary seems a little more
curious.
Abby tells him she thinks theirmoney problems are about to be

(27:00):
all the way over.
She thinks she found apotential investor in Mr Andrew
the director.
It's all sort of making sense.
Doesn't feel like she's usinghim.
To me, however, if he wants toshower her with gifts, who would
she look a gift towards in themouth?
Gary immediately is like no, no,no, I don't like that.
He's an old man, he doesn'tknow what he's doing.

(27:21):
I beg to differ, sir.
He's an old man, so he probablydoes know what he's doing,
barring the potential dementia.
He's lived a long life homeboy.
This ain't his first rodeo.
He probably knows investmentsbetter than most, I would think.
But Gary's like nah, nah, nah,old rich dudes like that.
They don't take a lot of risks,they only deal with AAA bonds
and blue chip stocks.
I am far too removed from thatto know what he means, but it

(27:45):
sounds wealthy Gary goes on tosay he didn't mess with anything
outside of that.
Abby's like well, he messes withme.
Maybe that's why Are youjealous?
No, I'm just going to say this.
I keep going back and forth.
She says that again later inthe show, but again Gary's not
giving a lot of emotion, he'snot showing this or that.

(28:07):
So it's actually starting topiss me off, are they or are
they not?
Because I'm 90% sure at thispoint that nothing's going on.
I hope they don't drag out likeflirtation.
She even kisses Richard in themouth this episode.
So maybe I'm just I don't know.
I don't know how people got downin 1982.
Seems a little too friendly formy liking.

(28:29):
Remember, remember when umscooter kiss Laura right in the
mouth, like when she firststarted working at the company,
started making good money.
Kissed her right in the mouthfront of everybody.
She's in the middle, middle ofeating, like an egg salad
sandwich or something.
Um, is that just normal then?
I don't know.
Seems like she's teasing him.
Plus, she's got other interestswhich we'll get to here in a

(28:50):
second.
But Gary just kind of lookslike not jealous, but just like
I don't like this idea.
This is an old man.
He's probably going to say noAt this point.
If you are bleeding money everyother week again, we're not
going to look a gift horse inthe mouth.
Let me paint a picture for you.

(29:11):
It's a fall in 1991 in easttexas, more specifically
southeast texas, around thehouston area.
A young mom is in the scriptclub being a midnight ballerina,
doing what she's got to do tomake a little change.
She is fresh off of a divorce.
She is quite striking,beautiful in the face.

(29:33):
Matter of fact, she's been told, she looks just like Jane
Mansfield, mariska Hargitay'smama.
Anyway, she is at her normalshift, putting the baby oil and
glitter on, putting on her shoes.
She's about to bust it down toGod knows what song.
That night, when an old mancomes wheeling into the strip

(29:53):
club, he sees her, she sees him.
He says darling, come home withme.
Now listen, she don't want toshake everything.
You know she don't want to keepdoing.
Being a midnight ballerina canbe difficult.
I assume you know what I mean.
You got to be creative.
You have to keep your head on aswivel.
You can't have a bunch ofunsavory type.
You never know what kind ofclientele you're going to get in

(30:15):
on any given night.
All she wants to do is makeenough money to feed her son and
get the hell out of Mahea.
Well, she didn't move in thatnight, but they do move in
together.
Years later they have a wedding.
He is wheeled down the aisle,she puts on a big old 1990s
wedding dress and they aremarried until his untimely, or

(30:42):
rather very timely, death in1995.
Now the young woman, theballerina that is, is none other
than the late great Anna NicoleSmith, and the wheelchair-bound
husband of hers is none otherthan the infamous J Howard
Marshall, an oil tycoon out ofTexas.
Anna Nicole was once Vicki LynnHogan.
She lived a rough-ish, not verywealthy life.

(31:03):
And wouldn't you know it?
One day a wealthy man comes inand says hey.
And wouldn't you know it, oneday a wealthy man comes in and
says, hey, come home with me,come live with me, we'll be
wonderful together.
Now a lot of people might say,no, you're just taking advantage
of him.
That's an old man, you can't gowith him.
He doesn't know what he'ssaying.
He knows exactly what he'ssaying.

(31:24):
He was just old, that's it.
He's just been around a longtime, which means he's had
several opportunities.
Now I bet you're thinking, jet,we know you like to hang around
geriatric people.
Are you saying that 20something you know 23, 22 year
old woman should be runningafter 87 year old men?
No, that's not what I'm saying.

(31:44):
But what I'm saying is thatsometimes old men make decisions
that other people don't like.
That old man decided to go to ascript club.
He was sound enough minded togo to the script club.
Here's my thing, though when Ithink of Anna Nicole and that
whole fiasco that turned out theway that it did, I think of
this.

(32:04):
Even as a kid I rememberthinking this probably isn't the
most romantic relationship, butthere's probably a sense of
safety with this man that she'snot going to get anywhere else.
She was objectified.
She understood that peoplewanted to see only one version
of her.
He saw that when he walked in,but you know what else?
She had some security.

(32:25):
Now we're all grown adults here.
We can go back and forth.
Well, what does she have to dofor that money?
That man is 87 years old.
She probably had to do nothing.
You know what I'm saying.
She probably was doing a wholelot of nothing, a whole lot of
sitting around letting him tellher about his glory days, how he
started his petroleum club, howhe started his business, how he

(32:46):
used to farm, how he used to doX Y, z.
This man would have been bornin the yeah right at the turn of
the century.
He had nine decades worth ofstories to tell this girl and he
was kind to her and her son,which seemed to be a hell of a
lot more than she got from anyrelative who claimed to love her

(33:07):
.
Now the other side of this is MrMarshall had full grown kids,
kids who were grandparents bythe time Anna Nicole and he got
married.
So they didn't like this onebit because you know what they
were in line to inherit this.
Now, in the same breath, I'mgoing to keep the same energy.
I'm keeping the same energy.
They felt a way about therelationship because they were

(33:29):
expecting something.
I don't the same energy.
They felt away about therelationship because they were
expecting something.
I don't think that's wrongeither.
This man, j Albert Marshall,got to decide where his money
was, wasn't going to go Back toAbby.
Abby has decided that, ifnothing else, andrew is

(33:49):
interesting, andrew is charmingand she enjoys listening to him.
Now, from time to time, he willforget that she's not Terry.
It's little fluffs here.
It's like when he gets excitedhe starts talking about, you
know, maybe, a film that theydid back then and he's like I
remember Terry, and I mean shelooks just like the girl.
So one say is he senile, is helosing his mind?

(34:13):
Does he have a little touch ofdementia, or does she just look
so much like his love that he'sgetting a little confused?
From time to time?
Two things can be true at once.
Abby decides she's going tostick around and see what's what
, while she is spending more andmore time with Andrew listening
to his stories and just kind ofenjoying his company.

(34:34):
Larry, the 42 year old engineerwho travels, seems to have
enough disposable cash to buy afresh new car day after meeting
a woman who's trying on roadswith his mama Seems to be I
don't want to, I don't want touse the word fiending for, but
he seems to have a yearning forwomen of the Fairgate clan.

(34:55):
He stops by Abby's house onemorning before she goes to work,
which means he probably wasn'tgoing to work that day and he
asked her if she can attenddinner or something with him.
I might be mixing up thetimeline, but just understand,
it's either before work or rightafter.
Abby's going to go hang outwith Andrew, so she has to tell
Larry she can't make it.
This man literally gets in hiscar, drives about I don't know

(35:19):
30, 40 feet away to Karen's door.
Karen is getting out of her car.
You know they were friends.
She sold him a car, so he runsup to her and he's like hey, you
want to go to dinner friends.
She sold him a car, so he runsup to her and he's like hey, you
want to go to dinner.
She's like, yeah, sure, she'sabout to take her groceries in
the house, but Abby has seenthis and she's like I know this
wench, wait a minute.

(35:39):
Absolutely not Abby.
With the boldness of a womanwho just kind of like Alexis on
Dynasty, when dexter burst inand caught her with rashid, she
was like excuse me, what are youdoing in my room?
Not like, oh my gosh, I'mcheating on you.
I'm so sorry.
She didn't care.
What are you doing here?
That's how abby is.

(35:59):
Abby's like wait a minute, karen, what do you call yourself
doing?
That's my man.
Karen's like I'm.
I know he said that you hadsomething to do, so he asked if
I would substitute for you fordinner tonight.
Karen, don't get no funny ideas, okay, I'm don't play with me,
that's gonna be my man.
So stop playing with me.
Karen's just like listen.
A girl's gotta eat.

(36:20):
I've been at work all day.
I'm really tired of eatingDiana's dry food.
I'm gonna go have me a goodtime.
She'd been dead long enough.
It's time for me, thirstshowing out a bit.
That's kind of was my thought.
I was really surprised that shesaid yes, but again, I think
that the invitation waspresented so casually.
Plus, karen's had a lot ofpeople coming and going.

(36:41):
She eats.
She'll go eat with you.
She'll go have a good time.
Okay.
Abby heads to Andrew's house andthey end up watching a silent
film with her doppelganger enter, hayden Henry.
Henry comes in talking aboutbedtime.
Andrew gives like kind of big.
I don't know if he's a Leo, Idon't know what he is, but he is

(37:02):
not one to be interrupted.
He's like Henry, go away, I'm abig boy and stay up as late as
I want to.
He was getting excited becausehe's like we need to have a
party.
You know, he just saw his loveon screen.
He's sitting there with Abby.
He wants to show all hisfriends this woman who looks so

(37:22):
much like Terry.
He knows they're going to get akick out of it.
So he starts naming off people.
Oh man, you got to call thisactress, this actor, call
chaplain.
Oh my gosh, is he here?
Is he in France?
If France is dead, yes, he's inFrance.
It's becoming a little bit moreuncomfortable.
This is when Henry reiteratesit's time to go to bed.

(37:44):
The doctor had very specificorders.
You're supposed to be in bed bysix o'clock.
It's almost 10 pm.
Oh my gosh, that was absolutelythe wrong thing to say.
In five, four, three, two, one,andrew fully crashes out.
He has just this really intensemoment of going off, and I felt

(38:04):
him.
I would be so pissed off if Imess around and live almost nine
decades and somebody comes andtell somebody that I write a
check for, comes in telling me Igot to go to bed at 6 pm.
The sun's still out.
What are you talking about?
Plus, he put on his wholepenguin suit to hang out with
Abby Shut up.
And that's what.
That was his whole point.

(38:25):
You're embarrassing me in frontof Abby.
You're being disrespectful toher.
Just shut up.
He's really pissed.
And then you know what elsepisses him off even more All his
friends are dead.
He can't really even show heroff like that.
Henry is still standing therelike, okay, throw your fit, put
your toys away.
Abby's got to go home.

(38:46):
You're going to bed, mister.
March up those stairs and youbrush your teeth and you get
right in that bed.
But, like I said, andrew washaving a full on fit.
Andrew looks at Henry and hesaid do you watch yourself?
Mess around and get besideyourself.
He basically tells him to watchout.
I'll fire you or I'll clobberyou, or both.

(39:06):
Number one, we got to bringback the word clobber.
It is.
It's a really good descriptorwhen you're thinking about a
fight.
I like that a lot.
Henry doesn't appreciate thesentiment.
He's looking, he's silent, buthis eyes say I'm not an owl,
mind you.
They're both wearing suits.

(39:27):
I don't know if it would cometo fisticuffs.
I can't imagine two 88 year oldmen in suits are gonna do much
damage to anybody.
Once henry finally does leavethe room lest he be clobbered or
and or fired and released fromthe will, andrew confesses and
he's like oh gosh, this sucks somuch.

(39:48):
If I follow the doctor's orders, I'm gonna live for a month.
If I don't, I'll be dead in 30days.
That's an old country saying.
I used to hear people say well,it's six one way and half a
dozen the other.
I love stuff like that.
He feels like I can't doanything fun, so I'm not gonna
go to bed at 6 pm and I reallywant to have a party, but dang

(40:09):
it, I don't know nobody, no more.
So while he goes to put on hispajamas, abby is hanging out in
his bedroom looking at this meanvase.
Like dang, it's nice.
Andrew comes out of thebathroom in his lemon, pepper,
mustard gold robe and I'm justimmediately like, okay, I'm
getting a robe if I don't doanything else.

(40:30):
But the scene is so good becauseyou start to see a couple of
things.
This is a man who was just Imean, think of like of a Steven
Spielberg or Martin Scorsese,somebody like that, just living
at the top of the top.
This is what what you do.
You create art.
You are constantly aroundpeople.

(40:52):
You're constantly meeting newactors and new actresses,
different studios.
You're working with people,from the sound guy to the
catering company.
You are surrounded by life allthe time, only to come to the
end of your life, no longer havethe love of your life and not
even be able to live the lifeyou want.
You are reduced to.
I need to go to bed at 6 pm.

(41:14):
I can't get too excited.
I can't even have a freakinghot dog if I want.
So having this woman come backin, if nothing else, it is
breathing new life back into him.
Love her or hate her new lifeback into him, love her or hate
her, call her gold digger or not.
He approached her.

(41:34):
He approached her.
So I'm watching this and yousee Henry in the background,
always silently, very loudly,judging Henry's pissed.
He didn't got cussed out.
He's probably a little bitembarrassed that this happened
in front of Abby.
Plus, he's been this man'sbutler for many, many moons.
We know this because andrewcontinues to talk his ish.

(41:56):
Henry is pissed.
He is quietly telling andrew tokiss his watertight arse by
aggressively folding blankets.
He's like rage choring in thebackground and andrew's um
talking about how boring henryis like.
This is the most boring old manever.

(42:17):
He's been so boring since hegot his gallbladder out.
What was that like?
1968, 67, that was the mostexciting thing that ever
happened to this guy.
Henry don't say nothing.
Andrew also tells Abby thatshe's kind of the how does he
put it.
She's like a joy, but she'salso the symbol of everything
wrong, because, as much as helikes her and as much as he

(42:39):
wants to show her off, all hisfriends are dead.
Yeah, he could throw a party ifhe wanted to right now, but
would nobody come.
Abby's hearing this.
She's like well, don't worryabout it, you can't.
Okay, maybe I can't meet yourfriends.
You know what I'm saying.
I'm going to be alive, at leasttill 2025.
I, you know, maybe my friendscan come over, or at least my

(43:01):
frenemies, people I can bullyand they're coming over or come
over you.
You don't worry about nothing,I'll have everything set up.
We're going to have us a goodold time.
Well, he's delighted.
Finally, a little something,something to look forward to,
absolutely so, once he's tuckedinto his y'all, his bed matches
his robe.
Did I tell you that His bedmatches his robe?

(43:22):
I got to get my life together.
Well, after he's tucked into bed, abby and Henry go walking down
the stairs.
I guess he's walking her out tothe door and she's basically
poking him.
Like man, you really don't likeme, huh?
All the gifts he's given meover the next, over the last
couple of days, and if hecontinues to give me gifts, you
might be out of your inheritance.

(43:43):
Huh, you don't like having mearound.
Henry's unbothered.
He like lady, whatever, I mean,I've seen this a hundred dozen
times.
I'm not worried about it.
One way or another, we'll see.
Basically, he tells her, we'llsee.
And she's starting to wonderlike dude, what's your mind?

(44:03):
You, I keep in mind.
Picture this whole interactionbetween abby and a mother butler
, a very unbothered one, who'sbeen keeping his mouth shut.
All he wants to do is go to bed, because if Andrew's bedtime is
6, his can't be any later than6.37.
So that's probably why he's socranky.

(44:23):
Picture this whole interaction.
She's digging, trying tobasically basically say I'm the
new thing in town.
He's like I've seen a thousandof you picture all this with a
mean vase under her arm.
She's walking out with yetanother gift.
So he's a.
Let me tell you something.
Let me explain something to you.
This man don't have a lot oftime left.
Baby girl, I want you to takewhatever gift he gives you.

(44:48):
You take it and you enjoy it.
Okay, you have the night youdeserve.
Abby Cunningham.
I was wondering, hmm, why didhe say that?
I don't know how to take that.
But I think if somebody saidthat to me I'd be like oh, you
know something I really reallyreally don't know.
So the next couple of scenes isjust the gang basically deciding

(45:08):
whether or not they're going togo to this party.
Val's making breakfast.
Lily Mae is eating a likehungry man.
Oh boy, have you ever seenthose guys from Scotland and
other parts of the world?
But Scotland is sticking out tome.
I feel like there was morestrongmen from that country.
I could be mixing that up.
The strong men.

(45:29):
They lift trees out of theground and stuff.
These men are built.
They're really big.
They're usually well over sixfeet kind of stout I guess you
can be tall and stout right.
They're thick and they alwayshave a keg.
And it's like strongmen likethat always need a keg.
And they showed some of theirbreakfasts.
It might be like 15 eggs, twoand a half pounds of bacon just

(45:54):
outrageous, outrageous amountsof food.
Tell me why lily may look likeshe's eating for strongman
competition.
She has a comically large pileof jimmy dean sausage on her the
sausage patties, not the linkson her plate.
She's eating toast.
Uh, just going on and on abouthow she can't believe andrew

(46:17):
douglas is here.
She used to.
When she was a girl intennessee, lily may used to go
to the movies all the day long,watching andrew douglas movies.
They were so romantic.
She would just be crying,hooting, hauling snot, droggling
and wiping her face.
She's telling all this to Garyand Val, who are very much not
listening, because Gary's tryingto convince Val to want to go

(46:40):
to this party Because, you know,abby says it's going to be good
.
I know, you think it's one ofAbby's schemes.
Val ain't saying nothing, she'sjust trying to make breakfast.
That's all she's doing.
And when he finally stopstalking, she's like well, yeah,
I want to go.
You don't know, I don't likethe party.
I want to party.
I want to go to a party.
Which makes me think why are youtalking so much?

(47:01):
Why are you selling this sohard?
I'm not going to worry abouthim right now because I have
other things to worry about, butI'm looking out the side of my
eye.
I don't think nothing's goingon, but I'm like why are you
acting so weird?
Acting weird, gary, maybebecause he knows that she's not
really crazy about Abby and Abbyis scheming, and it could be

(47:21):
that it's an old man.
I just thought about that too.
It could be that this is an oldman's house and it would appear
that this is her boyfriend.
He's not crazy about it becausehe thinks it's kind of weird to
take advantage of it and he,I'm sure, okay, he's probably
thinking val thinks the samething.
Well, they end up going, val andlily may end up going over to
karen's house.

(47:41):
They're all talking about theparty, phone rings and it's lar.
He wants to go to dinner, butKaren can't go because she has
to go to a party.
And she almost slips to say tohim that it's Abby's party, but
she doesn't say anything.
So here's the deal.

(48:01):
She and Larry went out to dinner.
They had a really good time,but I guess somehow in the
conversation they didn't get tothe particulars about each other
, until he comes to drop her offfor the night.
That's when it's like he'sshe's explaining how she ended
up running Knott's LandingMotors.
She asked him once they're inher house what he does for a
living.
I don't know what they talkedabout all night.
He tells her she's an, he's anengineer.

(48:23):
She thinks it's kind of weirdthat he's not married because,
like, engineers are married, Iguess.
But he's asking about Abby,abby, abby.
He says Abby's name three times.
You know what Karen's like.
You know what?
Um, I don't want to talk aboutAbby.
Won't you go ahead and leave?
He leaves, but he kind of ispopping up a little bit more.
I guess I don't know they'vehad a couple other interactions.
He was calling to see if shewanted to hang out not calling

(48:44):
Abby, but calling.
So Karen hangs up after shetells him oh I'm so sorry, I
can't make it, maybe anothertime.
Lily, mae and Valene are at thekitchen table and they're like
okay, girl, you, I mean you,smiling, you'd have been out
with this man a couple of times.
What's really going on?
Karen's like that's.
You know Abby really likes him.
So I can't really date him likethat.

(49:05):
And to my surprise, val andwell, I'm not surprised about
Lily Mae, I am surprised aboutVidalia.
Vidalia and Lily Mae are likebros before hoes, dude Hoes
before bros.
That's not even your realsister for real.
Like that you can date whoeveryou want.
Plus, isn't she dating this oldman?
Ladies and gentlemen, I amparaphrhrasing, but they're like

(49:29):
, I don't see any.
If she has two scoops, I don'tsee why you can't dibble, dabble
in just one of them.
Lily may tells karen call himback, girl, call him back and
take him to the party.
That's actually a genius move.
That's actually reallybrilliant, because he would get
to see firsthand that she'salready dating somebody and he's

(49:49):
old.
So he'd like, you know,whatever it clears the air for
karen now.
I don't know if this is anangela channing, where there
will be a consequence for thatlater, but right now this is
what's gonna happen.
Okay, so val, lily may and garyKaren are all set to go.

(50:10):
Richard is at the house.
Ok, I don't know if Richardkept the house and Laura is
visiting or Laura kept the houseand Richard is visiting.
I tend to believe that Richardkept the house because we saw
Laura leave.
Plus, she said Richard, Icalled you, said you weren't
going to be here, so I assumeshe thought she'd come over and

(50:32):
pick up Jason and leave.
She's also very big, pregnantnow.
She's like six months at least.
He invites her to Andrew'sparty.
She's like well now, why wouldI do something like that?
I don't want to go with you.
We're not together, we're notmarried, we don't live together,
we'll do nothing.
Feeling in the audience he, Iknow, but it's a mansion and
he's old.

(50:52):
He's probably going to die.
Don't you want to have firstdibs to sell the house?
I think that's I.
She doesn't say like yeah, butI'm sure she's like, well, I
mean, he's not wrong.
Plus, it's many director'shouses.
Next thing we see the party ispopping off and I immediately

(51:14):
have beef with kenny.
Ladies and gentlemen of theaudience, how okay you can be a
bad dancer to difficult things.
How are you screwing up ragtime?
You don't know, baby you.
It's almost impossible.
This I'm not even gonna Baby.
It's almost impossible.
I'm not even going to get intoit because it's going to piss me
off when Kenny's dancing istrash.

(51:41):
But Ginger, listen, I know aclub girl.
When I see one, I know a go-godancer.
I know somebody who could peepup on a handstand if the
occasion called for it.
Ginger was a party girl, Idon't know.
I forget what Ginger'sgovernment name is, the actress.
I know a club kid when I seeone.
I'm not saying she was dancingfantastically, but that's the

(52:04):
girl on the dance floor fromopen to close, I guarantee you.
So she's cutting the rug andkenny is just I don't know what
he's doing.
He's doing like the goofy danceyou ever watch the mickey mouse
club and they start doing thehot dog.
He messing that up.
How do you mess that up?
Let it go, jet.

(52:25):
Let it go.
I'm not gonna get them, okay.
And then also, this is the party.
Let me get my thoughts together.
This is the other part, a partof the story where abby asks
gary if he's jealous jealous, weall know I'm not letting that
mexico kiss go.
Something is gonna come up.

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It doesn't seem like it's goingto happen anytime soon.
But if you keep talking aboutit now, I have to keep thinking
about it, because why would youbring it up in a show,
especially a show like this?
Nos Lanning does not seem tothrow away things, dynasty does.
We'll talk about that on thenext episode.
We're going to talk aboutBlake's birthday party, but oh
episode.
We're going to talk aboutblake's birthday party, but oh,

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I don't know.
It pissed me off too.
It was probably kenny's dancingthat triggered it and I'm like
I'm just not in the mood for anymore riffraff.
Okay, the party is a smash hit.
Everybody has a good time.
Lily may bulls out her bob ross,richard simmons wig and she's
skeleton baby, she, skeletonbaby.

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She kind of wanted to sing forthe director.
I guess she thought he wasgoing to put her in a movie, but
I would love for somebody totap her shoulder and be like
girl.
He makes silent movies, or atleast some of them.
Next, lily May know, nevermind.
If there's an opportunity tosing and put on that jerry curl
wig, baby, count me in.

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So the party is going well and,dare I say it, hateful.
Henry seems like he's kind ofaccidentally having a little bit
of a good time.
Him and the rest of the helpare probably drinking a little
champagne in the back.
I did see him like turn andlook at one of the maids booty
one time, so maybe they werehaving a good time.
He and Abby come.

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Oh, oh, oh.
I forgot this part.
This is the most important partof this.
This is a mansion.
There's music, there's ragtimemusic.
People are dressed very well.
Ginger did not get the memo.
She should have worn a dress.
She got on hot pants andplatforms and a candy cane
striped shirt.
Ginger wanted to shake it fast.
Maybe two names was really drag, really, really cramping her

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style.
But abby comes downstairs in a1920 easter sunday dress, I'm
supposing, or probably like a1914.
You ever see the titanic?
You know how they dress right,not not the kate winslet,
titanic, the poors, the peoplewho was down man, side note,

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sorry y'all, I'm getting excited.
When you saw Titanic, tell methat you didn't want to kind of
go hang out with the Irish kidsin the basement.
They were having a time.
That was the club they washaving a time.
So she's wearing an outfitmaybe that one of them would

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wear, not the Kate Winslet's,but you know, maybe a little
more.
You know a common person, butshe looks just like Terry.
It seems a little bit rude, butalso it could be, you know,
granting this man's wish.
He wanted to see, he wanted toshow her off.
So it's only right that shelooks like Terry.
Well, they're having such agood time.
Once the party wraps up.

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It seems like everybody wasrespectable.
The party wrapped up kind ofearly so Henry could go to bed.
Oh, I forgot about Henry.
Henry have another quick littleexchange and they seem to just
kind of make peace.
She's like dang, don't you wantall this?
When he passes away, henrybreaks it down.
He's a baby girl.
Most of this man's money isgoing to go to charity.

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Anything else, I mean, I'd besurprised if there's $1.2
million worth of stuff leftafter everything.
Abby's like no, no, no, thehouse alone has to be worth more
than that.
He's like taxes, this isAmerica.
No, no, no, the house alone hasto be worth more than that.
And he's like taxes, this isAmerica.
They're going to tax your assto death, even when you're dead.

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And she's like oh, okay, you'reright, you're right, but don't
you want everything that's left?
And he goes, don't you?
And she's oh, they clinkglasses and carry on.
Well, once the party's over,everyone's gone except Abby,
Henry and Andrew.
Andrew had a time.
He he wants the party to keepon going.
She's dancing with him, butshe's probably getting a little
bit tired too.
Andrew's like no, no, one morerecord.

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Abby's like well, I mean, who'sgonna pick you up off the floor?
Abby, that was a little rude.
Yes, he's old.
Yes, he's on his last leg.
Yes, he could very well passout on the ground, but you had
to say that out loud.
He gets super pissed and hecalls her like a clucking hen.
All of his insults revolvearound some sort of verbs and
he's like where are you, theclucking hen club?

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Where is your beak?
Where is your feather?
He said in the exact same tonethat Mimi Leakes told Kim
Zolciak on the reunion showwhere is your scooter?
Where is your scooter?
He said it just like that.
Where is your beat?
Where are your feathers?
I'm putting that on a shirt.
An old clucking hen, jesus, I'dbe insulted if I were 400 years

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old.
Well, he's pissed.
He's like you know what theparty's over.
I'm going to bed, henry, I'vebeen putting myself to bed for
the last 150 years.
And abby's like, well, damn,why not that thing?
And henry, now it's allstarting to make sense.
Henry's looks, henry's side eye.
He has been with this for yearsand years and years.

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This is a random thursday nightfor him and he don't say much,
but the look was like what Itell you tried to told you.
Oh man, I was a littleembarrassed for andrew, a little
bit disappointed for him,because it's just one of those
moments.
He was just having a good time.
Everybody else is rememberingthat he's old and decrepit.

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He don't want to think aboutthat every moment of the day.
Let things happen, naturally.
Let the party carry on until hewants to pass out.
It wasn't going to be muchlonger than that, but
unfortunately, abby's, I mean, Iwouldn't call it a premonition.
I wouldn't even call it magicalforesight.
It's just one plus one is two.
And sure enough, maybe theparty was a little bit too much

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for him.
He was kind of shaking it alittle too hard on the dance
floor.
Next thing you know, boom, boom, boom, he has some sort of
attack.
It's just like when yourparents tell you not to do
something.
Actually, one time my dad toldme I think I was dumping a bag

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Can't even remember what it was.
He was like well, roll thewindow all the way down.
If you try to just do like alittle bit, it's going to blow
back on you.
I wasn't, oh, I know what itwas.
It was like one of those do youremember those candies that we
used to come in, like this longwhite pouch and one part of it
was like a, a stick.
Looks like a doctor saying theyput on your tongue like a white
stick and you're supposed tolike lick it and dip it in the
sugar part.
I didn't really like those, butI needed the pouch to hold my

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gummies like.
So he was like okay, tear thepouch and open the window all
the way to pour it out if youtry to do just like a little
inch or two worth of window atthe top.
It's just gonna go blow up.
It's gonna blow back on you.
I wasn't trying to hear thatbecause I knew everything, and
sure enough he.

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I just wasn't all thatcoordinated.
All of thaty sweet crap wentright into my eyeballs.
I had a mild panic attack inthe back seat because I didn't
listen.
I didn't want to hear that.
I thought I could do it my way.
Andrew didn't want to listenand unfortunately his body's
like oh, you're cute.
30 days, guess what, now yougot 35 minutes.

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It's not funny, oh boy.
So Abby gets word of his attackand she calls Richard.
Like hey, richard, can you comewith me back to this mansion?
This old man that I've beenleading on a little bit, I think
he might have written me intohis will.

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Would you mind coming?
Just so it's legal, legal,richard's like sure, real quick,
larry.
Larry did end up going to theparty with Karen.
So now Abby knows that that's athing.
Well, karen is feeling guilty.
She thinks they're just reallygood friends.
He comes over.
They're about to go on anotherdate or get together, I don't
know what you call it.

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If she thinks they're friends,she thinks it's just hanging out
.
He comes over.
They're about to go on anotherdate or get to get I don't know
what you call it If she thinksthey're friends, she thinks it's
just hanging out.
He comes over.
She's like hey, let's sit downreal quick before we leave.
I know we're friends, you knowwe're friends.
I don't think Abby knows that.
I think it makes heruncomfortable and he goes.
Well, you know, I don't reallycare what Abby thinks, thinks I

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kind of want to hang out withyou and she's like oh well,
don't mind if I diddly do.
Back to Abby.
Abby and Richard make it to themansion just in the nick of time
to see Andrew in the bed.
He's not looking good.
There's a doctor who's like yep, got a few minutes here, doctor

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slash lawyer.
Because he mentions that thewill has been adjusted.
Oh, he pulls.
He pulls a will out of hispocket like it's an invitation
to a garden party.
And when she had walked intothe room, andrew announced oh,
there's my girlfriend.
So, okay, cool, there's agirlfriend, cool, oh, let.
Oh, let me go back.
Let me go back Just one little.
I want to get this right.

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I found it when Andrew insultedAbby Knight previous before
said attack.
He called her quote the nagcontrol, the sitting hen society
.
Where is your beak, where areyour feathers?
And then he had said to Henry,drive her home before she starts

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laying eggs.
My God, the nerf.
Well, now he in bed, about todie.
Once everyone else clears theroom, it's just he and Abby.
He told her that he did writethe codicil to the will, new
word added to your vocabulary,she, at this point is it's a
little bit too much, because youcan tell she did like him, he's

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a, he's her friend.
He wants to call her girlfriend.
Fine, there's nothing romantic,there's nothing sexual there,
it's just a good friendship.
She says listen, I don't wantyour money.
I feel bad about taking yourmoney, I really don't want
anything, I just want, come on,dude, like take some medicine or
something.
And he's like stop, listen, youdon't have to protest, girl,
I'm gonna give you what I'mgonna give you.

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She's like okay, I mean, Idon't mind if I do.
Then you twisted my arm, andy.
This man starts to die, but notquick enough.
This man starts to direct hisown death scene.
He's literally lying in bed,dying, dying in bed, and he's
like god, dying in this bedwould be a downer.
It would completely just bringdown the energy of the film.

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But a miracle at the end wouldbe.
Now, it's a little too sappy.
I don't like that ending.
And Abby's like to hell withthe downer.
Just do the miracle, take thepill, do whatever you gotta do.
And he's like nah.
Then he decides to render an Aand B selection real quick.
Only he gets about 10 secondsinto the A selection.

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Ladies and gentlemen, if youdon't know what that means, that
is an old saying where a choirdirector at a church or the
preacher at a church would belike can the choir give us an a
and b selection?
They need to sing two songs.
So he tries to sing the a and bselection.
Only he gets about 10 secondsinto it and dies.
Just look, she's like oh, ohcrap, oh no, no, no.

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Well, a few moments later we seeAbby on the couch.
This is a sad moment.
You know what I mean, but I wasa little distracted.
There's a lot of patterns onhis couch.
The pillows are a differentpattern.
Abby is also wearing everyavailable pattern from the.
It's a Small World rideatneyland.

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She's got on a ruffled shirt, atiered prairie skirt.
Looks like she's from denmark,mexico, galapagos islands, india
, australia, uptown, downtown,out of town, outside, inside,
kenya and tupelo, mississippi.
It's a lot, girl I can't.
Who made this?
Not a hard time listening, butI put on the closed captions so

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I can hear over these patterns.
And lawyer starts reading lawyer, doctor, I don't know what the
heck he is, so let's think aboutit.
Man starts reading the will andhe's like you know, blah, blah,
blah goes to charity.
All the assets in the house goto Henry the butler.
The codicil is that miss.
What it should say is AbbyCunningham.

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Only he messed around andforgot that her name wasn't
Terry Clarigan.
That's who he ends up leavingeverything to too.
And the kicker is that the willstarted off of I, andrew douglas
of sound mind and body.
Leave blop, blop, blop to terryclarigan.

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This is why henry was so smugand unbothered through the whole
show.
That's what abby grabs the will.
She's like like no, wait aminute.
No, no, no, no, no.
He talks about me.
He threw a party for me.
He was leaving this to me.
She was going to spliteverything with Henry.
Now Henry goes.
Now doesn't that say sound mindand body?

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Does a sound mind writesomething like that?
Does a sound mind write a deadgirl's name, a girl who's been
dead for 60 years.
At this point, that's not likea sane person to you, and she's
like, well, hell, at least shegot a mean vase and a necklace

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worth upwards of twenty thousanddollars.
You win some and you lose some.
This episode was kind of fun.
It is one of those like okay,what are they doing here?
They're just having a good time, they're just writing.
We'll figure out the detailslater, but I'm so glad this
episode happened because I wouldhave never noticed something

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that has kind of been dancing inthe back of my mind for a long
time Richard's voice.
I like it, I enjoy hearing himtalk.
I couldn't quite place it,though.
Had the director in the shownot been named Andrew Douglas, I
might not have noticed thatRichard sounds exactly like

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Michael Douglas, isn't that cool?
Yeah, this is a good episode,though, but it definitely
reminded me of Anna Nicole andthe baker Fluffle.
That poor woman.
So much was made of her, andpoint is, we could blame it on
the times, but then you got tothink about when Anna Nicole
passed away.
I remember her being drugthrough the mud when I was a kid

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, and then, by the time I was inlike early adulthood, she was
being drug in the mud forsomething else, and it all kind
of stemmed from this one choicehad she decided to just ignore
this old man who probably wouldhave just kept coming back to
the strip club over and over andover, or the dancing booth,
whatever.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, the strip club over andover and over, or the dancing

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booth, whatever.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, what if she had decidedto ignore this man?
She might have still had amodeling career, whatever, but
she wouldn't have had to beendrugged through the mud, through
this, this hideous trial, wherepeople basically called her
everything but a child of godbecause this was an old man.
You got with an old man like hewent after her.
She did not seek him out.

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She would have never in herlife bumped into someone like
him.
It would have never happened.
Abby, on the other hand, waslike you know what?
I am going to shamelessly allowthis man to shower me with
gifts, because you know what.
That's his choice to do, justthat.
That is his choice to do justthat.

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All right, guys, that was fun,that was wild.
I kind of forgot about that, Ithink really like as a little
kid I probably watched stuffPower Rangers Now it's all
coming to me after the questionwas asked long ago.
But the older you get, you knowyou just have other things to
add to school.
All right, guys, join me nexttime birthday party, my goodness

(01:09:00):
.
In the meantime, in betweentimes that it once thought that
again don't look a good horse inthe mouth, and also the quote
the millennial icon and modernpoet and author, nikki annosh
all around the world peace toAnna Nicole Smith.
Yes, my dear, you're soexplosive.
Y'all will be stuck.
Stay hydrated, stay moisturized, mind your own business and

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keep all of your drama on TV.