December 17, 2025 • 40 mins
A grandma, a helicopter, and a runaway softball shouldn’t add up to a custody chess match—unless you’re in Dallas Season 5. We dive into “Showdown at San Angelo,” where JR trades stealth for spectacle, Sue Ellen protects peace at the Southern Cross, and Ellie faces a split-second test of principle: win ugly or walk away clean. The move fails, but the message lands—power doesn’t always beat preparation, and reputation can make you predictable. We also track the quieter tremors that make Dallas so addictive. Donna wants the dirt under Ray’s boots, not the cologne on his cuffs, while Ray insists growth doesn’t cancel grit. Afton dazzles with the wrong vibe in the right room. Rebecca returns with money, guilt, and an offer: Cliff should fix a stagnant oilfield-supply company that ought to be printing cash. It’s a sharp take on Texas economics—the shovel sellers in a gold rush shouldn’t break even—and a chance for Cliff to be more than a spoiler. Meanwhile, Pam’s single-focus push for a baby leads her and Bobby into a blunt reality check about adoption, choice, and access that even Ewing money can’t shortcut.Jock’s absence is handled with care, sending him on a government mission that keeps him revered and out of sight while Ellie pedals toward strength and clarity at home. The emotional center belongs to Sue Ellen and Dusty: tenderness is intact, limits are real, and love becomes a practice, not a pose. When Southern Cross refuses to be outplayed, JR is forced to rethink the only game he trusts. Stakes stay high, but the episode asks a deeper question: what do you sacrifice to win, and who do you become if you do?Stream the full breakdown, share your take—Team JR, Sue Ellen, or Ellie?—and if you’re new here, follow the show, rate it, and drop a review so more Dallas fans can find us.
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welcome or welcome back toSoapflore, the official
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the golden age of primetime.
I'm your host, Jeff Toby andReviewing one of the Stopia's
Sudden Crimet Storylines of1981.
We are back in Dallas and we'vegot so much to talk about.
So whether you're doing it inour three minutes, sit back and
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enjoy.
Tell the kids it's time to playoutside or out of sight.
Tobey, no questions,suggestions, or concerns for the
next 25 to 35 minutes.
Everyone else in the archivalneeds to be told to be quiet or
empty all the way through theout because we are watching our
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys andgirls, so this is so full.
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Welcome and welcome back toanother fun field edition of
Soapboar.
How y'all doing today?
You good?
I hope you feel good.
We got some things to discuss.
It has hit me like a ton ofbricks that Dallas has been
playing in my face for five fullseasons, and I'm tired of it.
We're jumping into season five,episode three today.
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So go ahead and pour yourself upsomething bubbly and bright as
we discuss showdown at SanAngelo.
My goodness, how very rude ofme.
Where are my manners?
How y'all doing?
Good?
Anybody put anybody in achokehold lately?
This shopping during theholidays is not for me.
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I learned that a long time ago.
Thank God for Amazon and otherdeliveries.
I can't do it.
I can't be in line for 45minutes over stuff I don't
really want to buy.
I can't do it.
But what I can do is settle inand catch up on some shows I've
been wanting to watch and startmy Christmas movie playlist.
Funny enough, none of my moviesare on Hallmark.
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As a matter of fact, very few ofthem are Christmas related, with
the exception of Home Alone andThis Christmas and Maybe Die
Hard.
And of course, the the divas ofthe 80s has been slipped into
there this year.
But most of my shows have been,I don't know.
I like to go a little bit morenostalgic.
I like to watch things I hadn'tseen in a while.
So for me, that is Drop DeadGorgeous, which was darn near
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impossible to find.
These aren't Christmas movies,but they they make me feel good.
We ain't worried about thattoday, y'all.
We got to talk about this theshowdown at San Angelo.
I never know when do you at orin.
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It seems like if you're in atown, that's what it would be
called if San Angelo was like apoint.
I get whatever.
Neither here nor there.
We're of course we're gonnastart out with the bitty bit
players today.
I don't want to call thesestories brittle, but they need
come on now.
We're gonna need to add a littlesomething to this.
Just a little bit.
Bit player number one is now thenumber one side piece in all of
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Dallas.
That's right.
The death of bad girl Kristenhas left yet another opening in
the troubled young woman whofall for the wrong men type of
situation.
And that goes to none other thanafter she is singing over lunch
specials.
People are either chugging downmojitos or sucking up jello.
But either way, she is singingher little heart out every day,
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all day, in this dark littlelounge.
Something caught my eye thisepisode that I hadn't really
noticed before.
You know, they have a b-rollwhere they, you know, they show
the outside of Ewing Oil, theoutside of the ranch, etc.
This particular restaurant looksexactly like the restaurant in
that movie Sideways.
You ever seen that?
With what's it, Giamatti?
I can't, Paul Giamatti and thatother guy.
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Excellent film.
I might throw that in myChristmas watch list as well.
But the the restaurant that theykeep meeting up at, where he
ends up sleeping with that girlbecause he's a former soap opera
star.
Yeah, it looks exactly like thelounge that Afton frequents.
She is giving, I almost calltheir girl CGI.
I gotta remember it's CG likeFiji, giving CG a run for her
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money, and she ain't even got nosprinkles.
Sprinkles?
What do they call them?
Sequence.
So picture this.
It is probably 3 p.m.
The place is hopping.
It is wall to wall, and Afton issinging her little country and
western heart out.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.
It's a special occasion becauseher big brother Mitch has
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graduated from med school andhe's brought all of his med
school nerds, they're sippingdrinks.
Some of them are looking orsitting very uncomfortably,
facing the opposite direction ofAfton and looking over their
shoulder and trying to drink.
That's a lot going on.
Why you don't just put thatchair around?
I don't really don't know.
She's singing like she isCleopatra and Whitney Houston
all together.
And all of Mitch's friends werelike, Wow, you didn't tell us
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that she was such a star.
Your sister's really beautiful,and man, she's got a wonderful
voice.
Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo.
She's killing it, y'all.
She stops her set just for asecond to pay homage to her big
brother.
Ladies and gentlemen, my bigbrother Mitch has just graduated
from medical school.
Can we give it up for Mitch?
Clap, clap, clap, clap.
Yes.
Mitch is now a doctor.
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Shout out to you, Dr.
Mitch.
She then proceeds to follow upwith a song about broken hearts.
My man left me for beddy boobs.
She gave them boobs and lots ofboobs.
She's a beer broad in broaddaylight.
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Sipping my beard through all ofmy tears.
Girl, that ain't no.
Come on, now we're here tocelebrate.
In my mind, this is the momentthat whoever was working on rap
was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is our time to shine.
The whole world was collectivelywatching the number one show on
television at the time,probably.
I'm not really sure about seasonfive, but everybody's watching
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the show.
Girl, you do not follow up.
But congratulations, big brotherDr.
Dr.
Mitch, with the beer and boobsand tears and lube.
And I'm lonely again.
This is how rap music in my mindgot its start.
We need something jumping, baby.
Give him a proper send-off.
Don't in between tears andbeers.
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Shout out to my big brotherMitch, the doctor.
The classic case.
A great talent, but the wrongvibe.
You're not bringing what weneed, baby girl.
She does take a few minutes totell him he's stupid for leaving
his super hot, super rich wife,but I mean, what's new?
Speaking of right look, wrongvibe, ah, Ray's really not doing
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it for Donna anymore.
She didn't sign up for this.
She was married to an older,wealthy gentleman.
He had the money, he had thebrains, he was savvy at
business, he was savvy inpolitics.
She's already lived that life.
The only thing that kept herwarm while her ex-husband's body
was growing cold was the factthat one day, as soon as the man
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was buried and the checkcleared, she was gonna get
herself a young, strapping, dumbcowboy.
She was long gone in the dayswhere I sit at the foot of a man
telling me about business andstuff.
I don't want to hear all that.
I want I want somebody thatsmells like dirt and livestock.
So she picks who?
Good old-fashioned Ray.
She wants the Ray who broke upwith her because she used too
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many smart girl words.
And she had too many monies forhim.
She wants the biddy bidi biditype of Ray, not the money,
money, money Ray.
I mean, she's she's giving himdirty looks the whole episode.
So Ellie comes home.
We'll get to Ellie here in asecond.
They're in the kitchen makingone of the most hideous pots of
chili I've ever seen in my life.
Ray comes in fully dressed.
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He's got on like pants and ashirt and a sports coat.
The freaking audacity.
No doo-doo on his boots.
He is fresh to death.
He is a business man.
He walks in and he slaps her onher butt and she's on, she
almost vomits.
I can't believe this fooltouched me.
How dare you! Just soft hands,no calluses, no nothing.
She's struggling with this.
And I'm struggling to believeit.
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This is what I'm saying.
Dallas, this is where you wereplaying in my face.
By all intents and purposes,yes, Ray is a traditional
cowboy, but he's not just acowboy, he runs the freaking
ranch.
Is that all the different fromwhat we would call maybe like a
project manager today?
Is it so hard to believe that aman who spent every day of his
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life since he was 15 years oldmanaging or working on a ranch,
learning the ins and outs,learning to buy cattle, buy
feed, pay people, hire people,onboard people, create
relationships, find uh buyersand sellers and make repairs.
Is this so hard to believe thatif someone said, Hey, would you
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help me sell homes, is it hardto believe it?
It's not to me.
I don't feel like it's that bigof a leap.
But for whatever reason, Donnacan't stand it.
She's like, this fool don't wearjeans anymore.
He smells like Irish Spring.
I can't stand this.
Ellie, for no other reason thanyou know, being old and hateful
sometimes.
She's dry hating from thekitchen.
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She sees the way Donna recoiledwhen he popped her on her booty
or lack thereof.
No shade.
It's the 70s, 80s.
They didn't have booties backthen.
She says, Hey Donna, how do youlike that businessman of yours
now?
Well, I liked him better when hewas a cowboy.
And Ray's like, Dang, can't acan a brother come up?
Damn.
Still a cowboy.
I just, I mean, I got a littlemore money now.
Ellie is like, is it really acome up?
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Miss ma'am, miss ma'am, makeyour bland chili and mind your
business.
Never mind the fact thateverybody's in your house.
But girl, which one do you want?
I know what it is.
She's still mad that it ain'tGary the loser in her kitchen.
She's like, I'm I know I said Iaccepted you, but I still got to
draw hate from time to time.
But wouldn't she also the onewho was like, He, you love the
land.
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I love that you love the dirtand all that.
Girl, money trumps dirt everysingle time.
Sort of a weird hill to die onwhen you think about Donna
Culver and Mitch, especiallyconsidering their backgrounds.
Yeah, maybe Donna didn't comefrom a lot of money, maybe she
did, I don't know.
Mitch, now that he's graduated,he can't very well hang his hat
on.
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Oh, I'm here for the poverty.
Sir, no, you're not.
You would have been a missionarysomewhere in foreign fields if
that was the case.
You would have you'd have been apriest or something if you
insisted on not having themoney.
The problem here is Donna Culverand Mitch Bet Not Have No Money,
Mitch.
They're in love with theaesthetic.
You see, they both want a dumbblonde.
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You want a dumb country blonde,an impoverished one, preferably.
And the moment you found outthat they are wealthy, wealthy,
it was a problem.
Hey, here's some advice for you.
Here's some advice for all ofyou.
If you want a poor, dumb blonde,hang out in poor, dumb blonde
places.
Mitch met this girl at SouthernMethodist University.
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That is a private school.
Who do you think goes to privateschools?
Tell you who don't, poor girls.
Tiffany from the trailer parkdid not make it to SMU unless
she had boobs and brains and$70,000 in student loan debt.
Donna Culver don't hang aroundthe wealthiest family in Dallas
and think that the guy who runsthe whole thing ain't gonna have
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a little pocket change.
They're dumb blonde haters.
They're dumb blonde fetishizersand money shamers.
Shame on you.
Maybe I'm being too hard onthem, maybe not.
There is that old saying, moremoney, more problems.
But one person who happens tohave plenty of money and plenty
of problems that don't have todo with money is none other than
Miss Rebecca JG Wentworth 877Cash Down.
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Rebecca's problem is that shehated being poor and she hated
being married to a poor dude whowas also drunk, was not really
conducive to the life she sawherself in.
So she said, you know what?
Let me drop this five-year-oldboy and I'm gonna go ahead and
push out this, my jump offsbaby.
I'm gonna leave the kids with adrunk, and then I'm gonna go
make them something of myself inHouston.
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And that's what she did.
And when her husband died there,she is wealthy.
But the thing is now she feels alittle bit guilty.
Now she's gotta figure out thesebig grown children, cultivate a
relationship, and and try tosalvage what is left of the
family she left behind.
So Rebecca's biggest problem,Rebecca the Rolling Stone, that
is, as in Papa was a RollingStone, mama was, is that her
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kids don't seem to care abouteach other.
So Pam.
Pam is walking around, damn nearcatatonic.
Her whole personality hasflipped.
All she cares about is the baby.
Baby this, baby that, baby this,baby.
I can't believe I can have nobaby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
Rebecca's like, I know this isrough.
I know you're going somethinggoing through stuff, but I mean,
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what about Cliff?
You're not talking to Cliffabout this?
Pam says, Listen, I used to takecare of Cliff.
I used to run in behind him.
I don't have time for that rightnow.
I need a baby.
I need a baby now.
I need a B A B why?
I need a B A B Y.
I need a Bambino.
I need a small person.
I need an egg.
I need I need a little toddler.
Something.
I don't care about that fool.
He he can care about himself.
I'm caring about this baby.
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Rebecca's dismayed.
She can't believe it.
This this is what my childrenhave come to.
This is what they care aboutnow.
One's obsessed with a baby,one's obsessed with power.
This just can't be.
It's almost as if they didn'thave a tender touch from a
mother.
Let me let me take it easy onher.
So Pam is all but resolved tozone the F out until somebody
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puts a freshly born fetus,preferably nine months old, in
her arms.
Bobby has clocked the fact thatPam is catatonic and he said,
Hey darling, I know you don'twant to have a baby.
Why don't we go ahead and adoptone?
And she's like, Oh my god,that's the best idea ever.
So instead of going to anadoption agency, it's almost as
if they go to like health andhuman services.
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It's some building and it'slike, it says something about
the elderly and food.
They go to like a to to thestate, basically.
This is a very not so subtle PSAto America, slipped into one of
America's best televisionprograms at the time.
So Bobby and Pam are sitting inthis lady's office, and Bobby's
pissed.
He's like, What do you meanthere's a shortage of babies?
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The woman all but looks at thecamera and says, Yes, that's
right.
With access to abortions andbirth controls and single
mothers having the audacity toraise children by themselves,
we're we have a shortage ofbabies.
Now I'm not trying to be funnywhen it comes to that, but also
why would they go to the statethey're rich?
Again, Donna Culver or Mitch meta rich girl at a rich school.
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Rich people don't go to poorplaces.
Well, maybe they would.
They maybe they did because theythought it probably would be
easier and they could save acouple bucks.
But come on now, you're notfinna tell me this is a dead end
for you.
No way.
Anyway, the woman continues tosay, you know what?
I'm sorry, there's just a shortof a baby's.
We don't have any.
It sucks.
Pam continues to be catatonic.
Her personality, albeit a littlebit extreme, the more I thought
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about it, I'm like, no, Dallas,you're playing in my face.
She actually always acts likethat.
She always looks a little bitdazed and confused.
She's just babbling a little bitmore.
It's not the fact that she'scatatonic.
That's weird, it's the fact thatshe's talking so much about the
exact same thing.
Even as I say that, that's noteven true.
Is Pam one-dimensional?
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Did it take me five seasons torealize that Pamela Ewing is
completely one-dimensional?
She threw me off with the RickJames mullet that one time.
She almost had an affair, butit's either me and Bobby's
marriage is on the rocks becauseone of us is spending too much
time working.
Andor a family problem, usuallyhers.
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Or his.
Either way, it's got Rebecca JGWentworth and a Tizzy.
She can't figure out, you know,what do I do?
What do I do to help?
So she invites Cliff over for ahome-cooked meal.
This is her extending the olivebranch.
This is her opportunity toreconnect with her firstborn
child, to get to know him.
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He gets to know her.
He likes her for a change.
And I think it's thief.
She actually likes him too.
She's concerned that he is sortof spiraling because he lost his
job.
She can immediately see thathe's brilliant.
He's smart.
No reason a man like him shouldbe without work.
Although she does think he's alittle bit too obsessed with the
ewing, she can totally see that.
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Okay, there are there areobviously some hurdles that you
need to hop over, and it'syou're gonna need a little bit
of help.
She also has a side missionhere.
She wants to get Cliff good andthick.
He's a little too skinny for herliking.
So she's gonna make sure she'smaking a pound cake and extra
spaghetti and all these carbs.
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She's gonna make sure he's goodand thick by summer.
He's gonna be real fine.
She wants that thing singingwhen he walks away.
She wants people flipping theirhead back to be like, dang.
She wants Cliff to have a dunk.
Forgive me.
I've lost the mission here.
What was I talking about?
Oh yes.
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Yes.
Cliff being smart and whatnot.
So with their little dinner, shesays, Cliff, baby, I'm concerned
that you and your sister aren'tconcerned with each other.
He's like, I mean, we care, butI mean, this is what we do.
We're siblings.
Rebecca says, Well, you know,she can have a baby.
I don't know if she'll ever getover this.
Now, mind you, Cliff has beenthrough her through two
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different kid losses at thispoint.
He is being a little bit toocasual for my liking, but his
thing is that he says, She gotover you coming back from the
dead, so like I'm sure she'll befine if she didn't have a kid.
She'll be fine.
She always does this.
Pam always mad about something.
I guess that sat asides Rebeccafor a minute.
She goes, Well, here's anotherthing.
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See, I have this company.
He's like, Oh, word?
I didn't know you had a company,Ma.
She's like, Yeah, I inheritedit.
The thing is, it's run by thesetrustees.
I don't really know a lot aboutbusiness.
I was thinking maybe you couldrun my company.
Mind you, she asked him.
I'd like the record to reflectone more time that he has not
asked her for anything.
I do not like the narrative Pamis trying to paint.
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He even says, Mom, I don't knowanything about business.
I don't have any businesses.
She goes, but you your businesssavvy.
You understand checks andbalances and accounting.
I mean, you're a lawyer, itcan't be that hard.
I tend to agree.
It's probably not superdifficult.
So Cliff agrees to attend one ofher board meetings.
Now, why this woman hasliterally 20 men on her board,
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I'm sure I don't know.
It is some sort of um supplycompany.
So they supply all of the partsfor oil wells.
And as Cliff looks over therecords, he sees that they
actually haven't made any money.
And the chairman or the head ofthe board, whoever he is, he is
very proud of the fact that theytheir profits look exactly the
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same over the last X amount ofyears.
And Cliff's like, I ain't nogenius or nothing, but I thought
businesses wanted to increasetheir profits.
Now, this is where you couldtell that the rest of the board
ain't really feeling the chairguy.
Because they're like silentlynodding, they're dry snitching a
little bit.
Like, yes, please continue, Mr.
Cliff.
Please continue and elaborate onprofits, please.
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Cliff puts it to him like thisYou sell oil crap.
This is the oil mecca ofAmerica.
Why the heck aren't peoplefighting, beating down your door
to get your parts?
It's a good point.
I also don't own manybusinesses, but I do know that
in 1849, during the gold rush,the people who made the most
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money were the people whosupplied the shovels and the
dynamite and the pans and stuff.
Or those cool people on the EastCoast who I'm high key
fascinated with, those peoplewho hunted whales like in
regular boats.
I can't even imagine.
They made more the people whosold them like the nets and all
that.
It's always the suppliers forthe people who have the dream
make the most money.
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And he's right, like even toThis day who do um they call it
a hotshot.
So say you have like a duallytruck and there's rigs that are
digging out in the middle ofnowhere.
It could be really expensive toget things shipped, and then
plus it's you got to coordinatethings that don't really have an
address.
So hotshots are people withtrucks who'll put 10 or 11 pipes
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in their bed and drive it out toyou and make a ton of money.
You're always gonna make itbringing little things like
fittings and nuts and bolts andstuff like that.
So it would appear that Cliffhas a new job, at least for the
time being, with his mother.
I think that's the least shecould do for abandoning them oh
so long ago.
Gotta talk about the elephant inthe room.
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Jim Davis, aka Jock Ewing.
Now, for the last what uh sixepisodes or so, Jock and Ellie
have been enjoying a secondhoneymoon in lovely powdery.
It is time for them to comehome.
Since IRL, Jim Davis, is gone.
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The producers, the writers, andthe cast have to work around
this.
I suppose when this happens on ashow, you have two choices.
You either recast as quickly aspossible and hope by the next
season or so people tend toforget.
I think that's easier said thandone when someone just quits a
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show versus when they pass awayin real life.
You got to be a little bit moredelicate with it.
So in this episode, Jock is justout of sight.
He's super duper busy.
They're keeping him booked andbusy in places that make it
difficult for him to come homeeasily.
So he's not just out shopping,he's not just at the doctor,
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he's God knows where.
So let's rewind back to thebeginning of the show.
Ellie arrives at the airport,and Donna, Bobby, and Ray show
up to greet her.
Hugs and kisses.
Oh, mama, where's daddy?
When we were in New York, DavidCulver intercepted our flight.
I don't know how he knew we wereflying in New York, but he took
Jock to Washington, D.C.
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to talk to the government aboutsomething.
Jock's gonna call us tonight andfill us in.
The family's like, oh, okay,cool.
So Ellie goes, Well, where iseverybody?
Where is Pam?
Where is JR?
Pam's at home being catatonic,and JR is out running amok.
He's got a lot on his plate.
He has met his match.
Fast forward to dinner, wherethey're eating that hideous
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chili that Ellie prepared.
Phone rings, and it is Jock, andshe's oh yes, okay.
Oh, oh, okay, cool.
JR?
Yeah, he's right here.
You can talk to JR.
Passes the phone to JR.
He goes into the dining room totell the whole family that Jock
has been selected.
He's basically the oil avengers.
Him, Punk Anderson, a coupleother people have been sought
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out by Los Estados Unidos tohead down to South America to
teach South Americans how to tapinto these untapped oil wells.
They're gonna teach SouthAmerica how to drill.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Not terrible, but it, you knowwhat I'm saying?
It gives him a place to be.
It keeps him completely out ofsight.
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There is absolutely no timelinewith this sort of passion, this
passion, this sort of project.
And plus he's working for theU.S.
government, so it's supersecret.
Probably not going to know wherehe is most of the time.
That's how we're handling Jockat this time.
Now, just because Jock is out ofsight, don't mean he's out of
mind.
And it certainly don't mean helikes what's going on back in
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Dallas.
Now let's rewind just a littlebit more.
Let's say you're an elderlycouple who almost broke up,
cussed each other out, got backtogether all over to Chala
Swamp.
Wouldn't you feel kind of funnyif you go on a second honeymoon
and not only does your grandsonget kidnapped 1.5 times, but a
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whole girl who pumped lead intoyour son ends up dead in your
pool that everybody swims inlike nothing happened.
And your daughter-in-law hasfallen in love with the guy who
came back from the dead and ranaway.
They don't care.
Ellie's like, okay, cool, let'seat chili.
Matter of fact, Ellie has biggerfish to fry.
Actually, she's not gonna frythat fish this time.
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She's gonna bake it because ifParis taught her nothing, it's
not that her family's incomplete shambles and that they
are ruthless and weirdlycriminal.
It's not that maybe they shoulddrain the pool or put up some
sort of boundary.
Hell, maybe they should build amore sturdy balcony so people
don't trip and fall when they'reon LSD and crack their head and
poo.
No, no, no.
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She's like, dang, I'm gettingtoo thick.
I was out of shape.
Let me get out here and drinklemonade and work out in my
denim.
She spent a considerable amountof time on camera this episode
on a stationary bike.
Like, damn, y'all.
I'm I was I was passing out inParis.
It was hot, it was hard to walk.
I did relate to her.
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You don't realize how how muchyou don't move around.
Okay, if you're an athleticperson, I'm not talking to you.
Shout out to my homegirl wholikes to listen and go on long
walks.
I'm not talking to you.
You're probably gonna be fine ifyou go walking in Paris and New
York.
But that is the quickest way torealize like, oh, I'm not moving
like I thought I was moving.
When you are walking around acity, especially a city you're
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not familiar with, oh my god,your feet hurt, your shins hurt.
It takes two weeks to recover.
I remember being in San Diegoand we were at this conference.
Now, I it visually, I thought myhotel was like a block away from
the opening doors.
Baby, no, it was hot and I wasnot dressed appropriately.
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I learned real fast that theseI'm not trying to be cute.
If I'm walking on vacation, letme I put on tennis shoes and
either way, Ellie's like, Ilisten, your girl done got
thick, your girl done got out ofstate, let me ride this bike.
She tries to give Lucy a littlebit of advice, basically saying,
go get your husband.
Like, y'all don't even reallyhave a problem.
I agree, Ellie.
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But also, she's starting to missher little Gwen baby.
She takes it surprisingly well.
I don't know what reaction Ithought she would have to Sue
Ellen leaving, but it almostfeels like she felt like it was
inevitable.
And then I remembered, yeah, shedon't really like JR that much
either.
Her son or not, she's like, Imean, hell.
I get it.
I almost love Jock.
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I totally understand why womenwant to run away from people
named John Ewing.
I get it.
And leave John Ewing, aka J Avraagain, or John Ross Ewing.
She did.
So Ellen is in San Angelo tryingto live her best life.
Now, at the top of the show, sheis freshly back from the funeral
of Kristen.
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She brings the baby, immediatelyhands him off to the maids at
the sacred cross.
Dusty is there, ready to meether.
Dusty's looking really good.
He's he's only using a cane now.
He doesn't have those forestgump crutches.
He's able to move around alittle bit, and apparently other
things are moving around.
This is why this is the grownfolks portion of this episode.
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I'm still gonna keep it cleanand cute just in case some of my
nieces and nephews arelistening.
But you read between the lines,okay?
Suelen hugs him.
He's like, How's your mama?
She's my mama blames me.
She can't accept that Kristen isgone.
Sue Wellen's mother, excuse me,Sue Ellen's pimp says that it's
Suelen's fault that Kristen wasdead.
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Now, if you had just stayed withyour miserable husband, your
sister wouldn't have gone overthere high and tripped and fell
and drowned in the pool.
Okay, Ma, if you say so.
If you hadn't trained yourdaughter to hook up with her
brother-in-law, she wouldn'thave gotten high and went over
there and tripped and fell andfell into the pool.
But Sue Ellen's like, yeah, Ijust feel bad because that's my
baby sister, and I feel like Icould have helped her.
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She's as she's talking about it,she gets emotional.
She's like, Hold me, Dusty, holdme.
He does hold her.
Now, mind you, I'm watchingthis.
He's the one who starts nibblingand dibbling at her neck.
And I mean, she's afull-blooded, she's a
red-blooded woman.
What is she gonna do?
She starts responding, he startsresponding, they start kissing
and making out, and then heabruptly stops.
I'm a little confused.
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Maybe okay.
Maybe mentally he's all there,but he still says, you know,
that I I've got, I, you know.
Unfortunately, there's not muchI can do about it.
She immediately startsapologizing.
Oh my god, Dusty, I'm so sosorry.
I'm so sorry, my darling.
I just I I didn't mean to hegoes no, please don't apologize.
There's just nothing I can doabout it.
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Read between the lines.
Maybe there's nothing.
I mean, I think you can dosomething for her.
You feel me?
But it it it it raises a deeperquestion.
Obviously, they have affection,obviously they have love,
obviously, she doesn't reallycare that that part of her life
may not be open anymore.
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But he definitely does.
He doesn't seem insecure aboutit, he's just like, oh my gosh,
I don't know.
But I mean, everything else isstarting to work.
Maybe that'll work too.
Now, when they go to dinner, asin dinner in the house, they
don't go out to eat.
Sue Ellen is sitting quietly atthe table while Dusty and Daddy
Dusty discuss business.
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And it's a little bit toofamiliar.
It's like, dang, I've seen thisbefore.
Are you back in the samesituation?
No, she's not, because this timethere's actually love.
Love makes things a lot morebearable.
So she decides it's about timeto go put the baby to bed.
She says, Well, Dusty, darling,after I put John Ross to bed, do
you want to go into St.
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Angel?
Maybe we can just drive aroundand listen to music.
Maybe we can go to a movie.
Here's where things start to getweird.
Daddy Dusty immediately says,Well, we go to bed really early
around this time.
We only hang out, we only stayup late on weekends.
Matter of fact, we go to bedsuper early and we wake up as
soon as the sun rises.
Number one, when nobody'stalking to you, Daddy Dusty.
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Number two, that's a full-grownman.
He's he's fine.
He'll be if he wants to wake upat four in the morning and hang
out until 11, he's gonna dothat.
Number three, she's been in yourhouse for a few weeks.
She knows what time people doand don't go to bed.
And number four, sir, find yousome business.
Daddy is giving me, he's neverreally given me the creeps.
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He's still not necessarily holdon.
Let me be let me be clear on it.
He's a good looking man.
First off, I think that everytime I see him, tall, powerful,
but gentle.
I understand you are concernedabout your son.
Matter of fact, Dusty says, SueEllen, if you want to go to the
movies, that's what we're gonnado.
And she goes, No, no, no, Ithink I'll just go to bed.
She's not trying to, she don'twant to, she doesn't want any
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smoke.
This is not her house.
She is very used to living undersomeone else's rules.
So she just sort of goesupstairs, like, okay, I guess
I'll go to bed.
When she does, Daddy Dusty tellsDusty, son, you don't want to
push yourself too hard.
And he goes, I know, Dad, Iknow.
I understand you being ahelicopter parent.
I understand you looking out forhis best interest, but also
riding around, listening tomusic, having romantic time is
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perfectly natural.
I can't understand how he isokay with her living there,
moving her son in on there,defending them as he does later
on the show.
But you feel like romantic timeis off the table?
Also, I do not appreciate himtelling her that his son was
impotent.
That should have been Dusty'sconversation.
And let me tell you something,we're gonna figure this out.
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They're gonna figure it out oneway or another.
Speaking of trying to figure outstuff, J.
Ara cannot.
He has met his match.
These daggone sacred costs, St.
Angelo people are not to beeffed with.
Matter of fact, the PI that hehired keeps coming up
empty-handed.
Sir, I had a telescope, I hitout in a car, I army crawled, I
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tried to tap the phone in thefridge.
Nothing.
These people are, I mean,they're stacked.
They got guns on top of guns,they're vigilant, they're
diligent, they're crafty.
They are JR.
That's one of those things,though.
It's when your reputationprecedes you, that can be a good
or a bad thing.
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It might make you a little bitmore predictable.
So I suppose Dusty and hisfamily have reverse engineered
this.
Like, okay, if I was gonnakidnap a kid, how would I do it?
And they basically covered allof their bases.
JR can't take this crap anymore.
He's like, you know what, dude,you're fired.
I need a doer, dirtier dude toget my kid back.
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Plus, Jock threatened him,allegedly on the phone.
In no uncertain terms, you getthat boy back on this ranch.
JR seeks some counsel and hestarts to think.
He thinks long and he thinkshard.
Oh he's like, How do I show upand steal my kid back so my dad
doesn't beat my ass?
And also, how do I keep fromgetting shot again?
He gets shot again.
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This will be the third time infive seasons.
We can't have that.
So he does something 10 timesmore brilliant than I would have
ever thought.
He's like, I don't need to sneakover there, I need to show up
normally.
What I need is a bulletproofvest, i.e., my mama.
Let me just hide up under herskirt.
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So he goes to Ellie, who is onthat bike trying to get
summertime fine, and he says,Mama, don't you miss your
grandson?
I sure do miss that baby.
Well, why don't you go see him?
Oh, yeah.
Do you think Sue Ellen will letme go see him?
Yeah, for sure.
She's always liked you, youalways liked her.
Yeah.
This is an interesting point.
I love that Sue Ellen, althoughshe's escaped or she's ran away.
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She has had visitors in the formof Pam and now miss Ellie.
She was like, Yeah, y'all comeon through if you want to come
through.
So Ellie does just that.
She goes and she plays with thebaby.
Oh my god, he's so big, he's socute.
Whoop de woop.
Did you miss Granny?
John Ross is eating his fruit.
Y'all know how you feel.
If y'all don't, if you want tohave a peaceful conversation,
yeah, but we have some grapes,some mangoes, some something.
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While she's going on and onabout how precious baby John
Ross Ewing III is, John RossEwing Jr.
comes hopping out the helicopterand Sue Ellen jerks back like, I
know you've lying.
You old bag.
I can't believe so.
She storms over to JR.
How dare you have your old mamacall and lie to me?
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My mama doesn't lie to anybody.
And if I just jumped on theairport, she didn't know I was
coming.
And that is what Ellie says.
She says the same thing.
I didn't know he was cominguntil he jumped on the
helicopter with me.
And this is before cell phones,so okay, you gotta pass this one
time.
Well, just because Ellie is heredoesn't mean the armed cowboys
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aren't as well.
They're locked and loaded, readyto aim at JR at the drop of a
dime.
Right about this time, Daddy,Dusty and Daddy Dusty come out
the house to make sureeverything is everything.
Daddy Dusty introduces himselfto Ellie, very cordial.
I hate that we're meeting underthese circumstances, but I sure
have enjoyed having yourgrandson here.
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Precious, precious baby.
She says, I know, but he's aEwing.
My husband feels like he belongson South Fork.
He goes, I understand that he isa Ewing, but I feel like he
belongs here.
He belongs with his mama.
Matter of fact, let's let these.
This ain't got nothing to dowith you.
It don't have nothing to do withme.
Let's let Sue Ellen and JR workthis whole thing out.
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In other words, let's just becool.
I like you.
I I don't want to have todisrespect you, so please keep
it cute.
She's like, Yeah, I'm here formy grandson.
I don't really care about allthe other stuff.
Well, JR is not this beautifulknight in shining armor.
He had a whole plan.
Ellie, as he likes to call her,is the Trojan horse.
So as they're saying theirgoodbyes, she's holding the
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baby.
Um, no, they set him down for asecond and he takes off running.
Correction, correction.
JR is playing with the baby.
Ellie has him too.
JR pulls a softball out of Godknows where and says, Hey boy,
go fetch.
Throws it so the baby puppy canrun.
John Ross runs right out of thegate.
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Ellie goes to scoop him up, notreally thinking anything of it.
One final little squeezy poobefore I go put, you know,
before I get back in ahelicopter.
As they get outside of thislittle iron gate, JR says, Mama,
now here's a time.
You're gonna jump in that plane.
They're not gonna shoot an oldlady, but they will shoot me.
So go think, I'll shoot a babyand an old lady.
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Get in that plane, get in thehelicopter.
She's like, What?
But you know what she does.
She does start inching towards aplane.
Now Suelen sees this and freaksthe F out.
Miss Ellie, please, Miss Ellie,please don't take her, please
don't take her.
Eventually, Ellie comes to hersenses and says, You know what?
The baby does belong onSouthworth, but not this way.
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She turns around and hands thebaby back, and Sue Ellen's like,
Thank you, thank you.
She would have got open-handedslab.
Take her down.
Jeremiah, Hezekiah, Jededai.
Y'all shoot the send Ellie toSwiss cheese.
She tried to get that my baby,or at the very least, rough
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around.
Handcuffs.
Going to San Angelo County,lady.
JR was like, Mama, you had onejob.
Damn.
Now I gotta figure out anotherway to be sleazy.
End scene.
Oh no, not bad.
Not super great, but not bad.
Listen, the bit players aregonna have to step it up a
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little bit.
Lucy is not interesting enough.
Mitch is definitely notinteresting enough.
Afton is Cliff is doing hispart.
Donna Culver and Mitch need toget over the fact that they're
with wealthy people and justembrace it.
Especially Dr.
Mitch.
I'm having a real, real hardtime believing that he can
continue on with this.
Well, I don't care about shutup.
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If you didn't care about money,you would have been a
missionary.
The best development so far isthat the people at the Southern
Cross, pardon me, I thinkearlier I called it the Sacred
Cross.
People at the Southern Cross arenot effing around.
Daddy Dusty has already said,you are not in Dallas anymore,
baby.
Round here we run things.
Tings don't run we.
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Alright, guys, that's it.
That's all for this episode.
Join me next time as we jumpback into an exciting,
hopefully, episode of Dynastyseason five, episode three.
Remember to reach out to me.
You have thoughts on this?
Is Mitch too pretentious?
Is Donna Culver boring?
Is Pam the exact same characterthrough and through five
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episodes D.
Excuse me, five seasons D.
Is Ellie secretly trifling?
Is Daddy Dusty a little bitcreepy?
He's a little too comfortable atthe very least, right?
Right?
You can send me a text if youcheck the show notes on your
mobile device, or you can sendme an email at soapfloorpodcast
at gmail.com.
That's S-O-A-P-L-O-R-E,P-O-D-C-A-S T at gmail.com.
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All right, y'all.
In the meantime, in betweentime, if you have a sibling or
very good friend who has a majoraccomplishment you want to
celebrate, do not sing them asad, soppy, boozy, booby, blues
type of song.
Play them some with some tempo.
Stay hydrated, stay moisturized,mind your own business, and keep
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all of your drama on TV.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls,
welcome or welcome back toSoapflore, the official
gathering place for newbies,novices, and OG diehard fans of
the golden age of primetime.
I'm your host, Jeff Toby andReviewing one of the Stopia's
Sudden Crimet Storylines of1981.
We are back in Dallas and we'vegot so much to talk about.
So whether you're doing it inour three minutes, sit back and
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Tell the kids it's time to playoutside or out of sight.
Tobey, no questions,suggestions, or concerns for the
next 25 to 35 minutes.
Everyone else in the archivalneeds to be told to be quiet or
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys andgirls, so this is so full.
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Welcome and welcome back toanother fun field edition of
Soapboar.
How y'all doing today?
You good?
I hope you feel good.
We got some things to discuss.
It has hit me like a ton ofbricks that Dallas has been
playing in my face for five fullseasons, and I'm tired of it.
We're jumping into season five,episode three today.
(01:19):
So go ahead and pour yourself upsomething bubbly and bright as
we discuss showdown at SanAngelo.
My goodness, how very rude ofme.
Where are my manners?
How y'all doing?
Good?
Anybody put anybody in achokehold lately?
This shopping during theholidays is not for me.
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I learned that a long time ago.
Thank God for Amazon and otherdeliveries.
I can't do it.
I can't be in line for 45minutes over stuff I don't
really want to buy.
I can't do it.
But what I can do is settle inand catch up on some shows I've
been wanting to watch and startmy Christmas movie playlist.
Funny enough, none of my moviesare on Hallmark.
(02:02):
As a matter of fact, very few ofthem are Christmas related, with
the exception of Home Alone andThis Christmas and Maybe Die
Hard.
And of course, the the divas ofthe 80s has been slipped into
there this year.
But most of my shows have been,I don't know.
I like to go a little bit morenostalgic.
I like to watch things I hadn'tseen in a while.
So for me, that is Drop DeadGorgeous, which was darn near
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impossible to find.
These aren't Christmas movies,but they they make me feel good.
We ain't worried about thattoday, y'all.
We got to talk about this theshowdown at San Angelo.
I never know when do you at orin.
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It seems like if you're in atown, that's what it would be
called if San Angelo was like apoint.
I get whatever.
Neither here nor there.
We're of course we're gonnastart out with the bitty bit
players today.
I don't want to call thesestories brittle, but they need
come on now.
We're gonna need to add a littlesomething to this.
Just a little bit.
Bit player number one is now thenumber one side piece in all of
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Dallas.
That's right.
The death of bad girl Kristenhas left yet another opening in
the troubled young woman whofall for the wrong men type of
situation.
And that goes to none other thanafter she is singing over lunch
specials.
People are either chugging downmojitos or sucking up jello.
But either way, she is singingher little heart out every day,
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all day, in this dark littlelounge.
Something caught my eye thisepisode that I hadn't really
noticed before.
You know, they have a b-rollwhere they, you know, they show
the outside of Ewing Oil, theoutside of the ranch, etc.
This particular restaurant looksexactly like the restaurant in
that movie Sideways.
You ever seen that?
With what's it, Giamatti?
I can't, Paul Giamatti and thatother guy.
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Excellent film.
I might throw that in myChristmas watch list as well.
But the the restaurant that theykeep meeting up at, where he
ends up sleeping with that girlbecause he's a former soap opera
star.
Yeah, it looks exactly like thelounge that Afton frequents.
She is giving, I almost calltheir girl CGI.
I gotta remember it's CG likeFiji, giving CG a run for her
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money, and she ain't even got nosprinkles.
Sprinkles?
What do they call them?
Sequence.
So picture this.
It is probably 3 p.m.
The place is hopping.
It is wall to wall, and Afton issinging her little country and
western heart out.
Woo, woo, woo, woo, woo.
It's a special occasion becauseher big brother Mitch has
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graduated from med school andhe's brought all of his med
school nerds, they're sippingdrinks.
Some of them are looking orsitting very uncomfortably,
facing the opposite direction ofAfton and looking over their
shoulder and trying to drink.
That's a lot going on.
Why you don't just put thatchair around?
I don't really don't know.
She's singing like she isCleopatra and Whitney Houston
all together.
And all of Mitch's friends werelike, Wow, you didn't tell us
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that she was such a star.
Your sister's really beautiful,and man, she's got a wonderful
voice.
Woo-woo-woo-woo-woo.
She's killing it, y'all.
She stops her set just for asecond to pay homage to her big
brother.
Ladies and gentlemen, my bigbrother Mitch has just graduated
from medical school.
Can we give it up for Mitch?
Clap, clap, clap, clap.
Yes.
Mitch is now a doctor.
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Shout out to you, Dr.
Mitch.
She then proceeds to follow upwith a song about broken hearts.
My man left me for beddy boobs.
She gave them boobs and lots ofboobs.
She's a beer broad in broaddaylight.
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Sipping my beard through all ofmy tears.
Girl, that ain't no.
Come on, now we're here tocelebrate.
In my mind, this is the momentthat whoever was working on rap
was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is our time to shine.
The whole world was collectivelywatching the number one show on
television at the time,probably.
I'm not really sure about seasonfive, but everybody's watching
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the show.
Girl, you do not follow up.
But congratulations, big brotherDr.
Dr.
Mitch, with the beer and boobsand tears and lube.
And I'm lonely again.
This is how rap music in my mindgot its start.
We need something jumping, baby.
Give him a proper send-off.
Don't in between tears andbeers.
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Shout out to my big brotherMitch, the doctor.
The classic case.
A great talent, but the wrongvibe.
You're not bringing what weneed, baby girl.
She does take a few minutes totell him he's stupid for leaving
his super hot, super rich wife,but I mean, what's new?
Speaking of right look, wrongvibe, ah, Ray's really not doing
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it for Donna anymore.
She didn't sign up for this.
She was married to an older,wealthy gentleman.
He had the money, he had thebrains, he was savvy at
business, he was savvy inpolitics.
She's already lived that life.
The only thing that kept herwarm while her ex-husband's body
was growing cold was the factthat one day, as soon as the man
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was buried and the checkcleared, she was gonna get
herself a young, strapping, dumbcowboy.
She was long gone in the dayswhere I sit at the foot of a man
telling me about business andstuff.
I don't want to hear all that.
I want I want somebody thatsmells like dirt and livestock.
So she picks who?
Good old-fashioned Ray.
She wants the Ray who broke upwith her because she used too
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many smart girl words.
And she had too many monies forhim.
She wants the biddy bidi biditype of Ray, not the money,
money, money Ray.
I mean, she's she's giving himdirty looks the whole episode.
So Ellie comes home.
We'll get to Ellie here in asecond.
They're in the kitchen makingone of the most hideous pots of
chili I've ever seen in my life.
Ray comes in fully dressed.
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He's got on like pants and ashirt and a sports coat.
The freaking audacity.
No doo-doo on his boots.
He is fresh to death.
He is a business man.
He walks in and he slaps her onher butt and she's on, she
almost vomits.
I can't believe this fooltouched me.
How dare you! Just soft hands,no calluses, no nothing.
She's struggling with this.
And I'm struggling to believeit.
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This is what I'm saying.
Dallas, this is where you wereplaying in my face.
By all intents and purposes,yes, Ray is a traditional
cowboy, but he's not just acowboy, he runs the freaking
ranch.
Is that all the different fromwhat we would call maybe like a
project manager today?
Is it so hard to believe that aman who spent every day of his
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life since he was 15 years oldmanaging or working on a ranch,
learning the ins and outs,learning to buy cattle, buy
feed, pay people, hire people,onboard people, create
relationships, find uh buyersand sellers and make repairs.
Is this so hard to believe thatif someone said, Hey, would you
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help me sell homes, is it hardto believe it?
It's not to me.
I don't feel like it's that bigof a leap.
But for whatever reason, Donnacan't stand it.
She's like, this fool don't wearjeans anymore.
He smells like Irish Spring.
I can't stand this.
Ellie, for no other reason thanyou know, being old and hateful
sometimes.
She's dry hating from thekitchen.
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She sees the way Donna recoiledwhen he popped her on her booty
or lack thereof.
No shade.
It's the 70s, 80s.
They didn't have booties backthen.
She says, Hey Donna, how do youlike that businessman of yours
now?
Well, I liked him better when hewas a cowboy.
And Ray's like, Dang, can't acan a brother come up?
Damn.
Still a cowboy.
I just, I mean, I got a littlemore money now.
Ellie is like, is it really acome up?
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Miss ma'am, miss ma'am, makeyour bland chili and mind your
business.
Never mind the fact thateverybody's in your house.
But girl, which one do you want?
I know what it is.
She's still mad that it ain'tGary the loser in her kitchen.
She's like, I'm I know I said Iaccepted you, but I still got to
draw hate from time to time.
But wouldn't she also the onewho was like, He, you love the
land.
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I love that you love the dirtand all that.
Girl, money trumps dirt everysingle time.
Sort of a weird hill to die onwhen you think about Donna
Culver and Mitch, especiallyconsidering their backgrounds.
Yeah, maybe Donna didn't comefrom a lot of money, maybe she
did, I don't know.
Mitch, now that he's graduated,he can't very well hang his hat
on.
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Oh, I'm here for the poverty.
Sir, no, you're not.
You would have been a missionarysomewhere in foreign fields if
that was the case.
You would have you'd have been apriest or something if you
insisted on not having themoney.
The problem here is Donna Culverand Mitch Bet Not Have No Money,
Mitch.
They're in love with theaesthetic.
You see, they both want a dumbblonde.
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You want a dumb country blonde,an impoverished one, preferably.
And the moment you found outthat they are wealthy, wealthy,
it was a problem.
Hey, here's some advice for you.
Here's some advice for all ofyou.
If you want a poor, dumb blonde,hang out in poor, dumb blonde
places.
Mitch met this girl at SouthernMethodist University.
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That is a private school.
Who do you think goes to privateschools?
Tell you who don't, poor girls.
Tiffany from the trailer parkdid not make it to SMU unless
she had boobs and brains and$70,000 in student loan debt.
Donna Culver don't hang aroundthe wealthiest family in Dallas
and think that the guy who runsthe whole thing ain't gonna have
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a little pocket change.
They're dumb blonde haters.
They're dumb blonde fetishizersand money shamers.
Shame on you.
Maybe I'm being too hard onthem, maybe not.
There is that old saying, moremoney, more problems.
But one person who happens tohave plenty of money and plenty
of problems that don't have todo with money is none other than
Miss Rebecca JG Wentworth 877Cash Down.
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Rebecca's problem is that shehated being poor and she hated
being married to a poor dude whowas also drunk, was not really
conducive to the life she sawherself in.
So she said, you know what?
Let me drop this five-year-oldboy and I'm gonna go ahead and
push out this, my jump offsbaby.
I'm gonna leave the kids with adrunk, and then I'm gonna go
make them something of myself inHouston.
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And that's what she did.
And when her husband died there,she is wealthy.
But the thing is now she feels alittle bit guilty.
Now she's gotta figure out thesebig grown children, cultivate a
relationship, and and try tosalvage what is left of the
family she left behind.
So Rebecca's biggest problem,Rebecca the Rolling Stone, that
is, as in Papa was a RollingStone, mama was, is that her
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kids don't seem to care abouteach other.
So Pam.
Pam is walking around, damn nearcatatonic.
Her whole personality hasflipped.
All she cares about is the baby.
Baby this, baby that, baby this,baby.
I can't believe I can have nobaby, baby, baby, baby, baby.
Rebecca's like, I know this isrough.
I know you're going somethinggoing through stuff, but I mean,
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what about Cliff?
You're not talking to Cliffabout this?
Pam says, Listen, I used to takecare of Cliff.
I used to run in behind him.
I don't have time for that rightnow.
I need a baby.
I need a baby now.
I need a B A B why?
I need a B A B Y.
I need a Bambino.
I need a small person.
I need an egg.
I need I need a little toddler.
Something.
I don't care about that fool.
He he can care about himself.
I'm caring about this baby.
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Rebecca's dismayed.
She can't believe it.
This this is what my childrenhave come to.
This is what they care aboutnow.
One's obsessed with a baby,one's obsessed with power.
This just can't be.
It's almost as if they didn'thave a tender touch from a
mother.
Let me let me take it easy onher.
So Pam is all but resolved tozone the F out until somebody
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puts a freshly born fetus,preferably nine months old, in
her arms.
Bobby has clocked the fact thatPam is catatonic and he said,
Hey darling, I know you don'twant to have a baby.
Why don't we go ahead and adoptone?
And she's like, Oh my god,that's the best idea ever.
So instead of going to anadoption agency, it's almost as
if they go to like health andhuman services.
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It's some building and it'slike, it says something about
the elderly and food.
They go to like a to to thestate, basically.
This is a very not so subtle PSAto America, slipped into one of
America's best televisionprograms at the time.
So Bobby and Pam are sitting inthis lady's office, and Bobby's
pissed.
He's like, What do you meanthere's a shortage of babies?
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The woman all but looks at thecamera and says, Yes, that's
right.
With access to abortions andbirth controls and single
mothers having the audacity toraise children by themselves,
we're we have a shortage ofbabies.
Now I'm not trying to be funnywhen it comes to that, but also
why would they go to the statethey're rich?
Again, Donna Culver or Mitch meta rich girl at a rich school.
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Rich people don't go to poorplaces.
Well, maybe they would.
They maybe they did because theythought it probably would be
easier and they could save acouple bucks.
But come on now, you're notfinna tell me this is a dead end
for you.
No way.
Anyway, the woman continues tosay, you know what?
I'm sorry, there's just a shortof a baby's.
We don't have any.
It sucks.
Pam continues to be catatonic.
Her personality, albeit a littlebit extreme, the more I thought
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about it, I'm like, no, Dallas,you're playing in my face.
She actually always acts likethat.
She always looks a little bitdazed and confused.
She's just babbling a little bitmore.
It's not the fact that she'scatatonic.
That's weird, it's the fact thatshe's talking so much about the
exact same thing.
Even as I say that, that's noteven true.
Is Pam one-dimensional?
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Did it take me five seasons torealize that Pamela Ewing is
completely one-dimensional?
She threw me off with the RickJames mullet that one time.
She almost had an affair, butit's either me and Bobby's
marriage is on the rocks becauseone of us is spending too much
time working.
Andor a family problem, usuallyhers.
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Or his.
Either way, it's got Rebecca JGWentworth and a Tizzy.
She can't figure out, you know,what do I do?
What do I do to help?
So she invites Cliff over for ahome-cooked meal.
This is her extending the olivebranch.
This is her opportunity toreconnect with her firstborn
child, to get to know him.
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He gets to know her.
He likes her for a change.
And I think it's thief.
She actually likes him too.
She's concerned that he is sortof spiraling because he lost his
job.
She can immediately see thathe's brilliant.
He's smart.
No reason a man like him shouldbe without work.
Although she does think he's alittle bit too obsessed with the
ewing, she can totally see that.
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Okay, there are there areobviously some hurdles that you
need to hop over, and it'syou're gonna need a little bit
of help.
She also has a side missionhere.
She wants to get Cliff good andthick.
He's a little too skinny for herliking.
So she's gonna make sure she'smaking a pound cake and extra
spaghetti and all these carbs.
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She's gonna make sure he's goodand thick by summer.
He's gonna be real fine.
She wants that thing singingwhen he walks away.
She wants people flipping theirhead back to be like, dang.
She wants Cliff to have a dunk.
Forgive me.
I've lost the mission here.
What was I talking about?
Oh yes.
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Yes.
Cliff being smart and whatnot.
So with their little dinner, shesays, Cliff, baby, I'm concerned
that you and your sister aren'tconcerned with each other.
He's like, I mean, we care, butI mean, this is what we do.
We're siblings.
Rebecca says, Well, you know,she can have a baby.
I don't know if she'll ever getover this.
Now, mind you, Cliff has beenthrough her through two
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different kid losses at thispoint.
He is being a little bit toocasual for my liking, but his
thing is that he says, She gotover you coming back from the
dead, so like I'm sure she'll befine if she didn't have a kid.
She'll be fine.
She always does this.
Pam always mad about something.
I guess that sat asides Rebeccafor a minute.
She goes, Well, here's anotherthing.
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See, I have this company.
He's like, Oh, word?
I didn't know you had a company,Ma.
She's like, Yeah, I inheritedit.
The thing is, it's run by thesetrustees.
I don't really know a lot aboutbusiness.
I was thinking maybe you couldrun my company.
Mind you, she asked him.
I'd like the record to reflectone more time that he has not
asked her for anything.
I do not like the narrative Pamis trying to paint.
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He even says, Mom, I don't knowanything about business.
I don't have any businesses.
She goes, but you your businesssavvy.
You understand checks andbalances and accounting.
I mean, you're a lawyer, itcan't be that hard.
I tend to agree.
It's probably not superdifficult.
So Cliff agrees to attend one ofher board meetings.
Now, why this woman hasliterally 20 men on her board,
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I'm sure I don't know.
It is some sort of um supplycompany.
So they supply all of the partsfor oil wells.
And as Cliff looks over therecords, he sees that they
actually haven't made any money.
And the chairman or the head ofthe board, whoever he is, he is
very proud of the fact that theytheir profits look exactly the
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same over the last X amount ofyears.
And Cliff's like, I ain't nogenius or nothing, but I thought
businesses wanted to increasetheir profits.
Now, this is where you couldtell that the rest of the board
ain't really feeling the chairguy.
Because they're like silentlynodding, they're dry snitching a
little bit.
Like, yes, please continue, Mr.
Cliff.
Please continue and elaborate onprofits, please.
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Cliff puts it to him like thisYou sell oil crap.
This is the oil mecca ofAmerica.
Why the heck aren't peoplefighting, beating down your door
to get your parts?
It's a good point.
I also don't own manybusinesses, but I do know that
in 1849, during the gold rush,the people who made the most
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money were the people whosupplied the shovels and the
dynamite and the pans and stuff.
Or those cool people on the EastCoast who I'm high key
fascinated with, those peoplewho hunted whales like in
regular boats.
I can't even imagine.
They made more the people whosold them like the nets and all
that.
It's always the suppliers forthe people who have the dream
make the most money.
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And he's right, like even toThis day who do um they call it
a hotshot.
So say you have like a duallytruck and there's rigs that are
digging out in the middle ofnowhere.
It could be really expensive toget things shipped, and then
plus it's you got to coordinatethings that don't really have an
address.
So hotshots are people withtrucks who'll put 10 or 11 pipes
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in their bed and drive it out toyou and make a ton of money.
You're always gonna make itbringing little things like
fittings and nuts and bolts andstuff like that.
So it would appear that Cliffhas a new job, at least for the
time being, with his mother.
I think that's the least shecould do for abandoning them oh
so long ago.
Gotta talk about the elephant inthe room.
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Jim Davis, aka Jock Ewing.
Now, for the last what uh sixepisodes or so, Jock and Ellie
have been enjoying a secondhoneymoon in lovely powdery.
It is time for them to comehome.
Since IRL, Jim Davis, is gone.
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The producers, the writers, andthe cast have to work around
this.
I suppose when this happens on ashow, you have two choices.
You either recast as quickly aspossible and hope by the next
season or so people tend toforget.
I think that's easier said thandone when someone just quits a
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show versus when they pass awayin real life.
You got to be a little bit moredelicate with it.
So in this episode, Jock is justout of sight.
He's super duper busy.
They're keeping him booked andbusy in places that make it
difficult for him to come homeeasily.
So he's not just out shopping,he's not just at the doctor,
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he's God knows where.
So let's rewind back to thebeginning of the show.
Ellie arrives at the airport,and Donna, Bobby, and Ray show
up to greet her.
Hugs and kisses.
Oh, mama, where's daddy?
When we were in New York, DavidCulver intercepted our flight.
I don't know how he knew we wereflying in New York, but he took
Jock to Washington, D.C.
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to talk to the government aboutsomething.
Jock's gonna call us tonight andfill us in.
The family's like, oh, okay,cool.
So Ellie goes, Well, where iseverybody?
Where is Pam?
Where is JR?
Pam's at home being catatonic,and JR is out running amok.
He's got a lot on his plate.
He has met his match.
Fast forward to dinner, wherethey're eating that hideous
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chili that Ellie prepared.
Phone rings, and it is Jock, andshe's oh yes, okay.
Oh, oh, okay, cool.
JR?
Yeah, he's right here.
You can talk to JR.
Passes the phone to JR.
He goes into the dining room totell the whole family that Jock
has been selected.
He's basically the oil avengers.
Him, Punk Anderson, a coupleother people have been sought
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out by Los Estados Unidos tohead down to South America to
teach South Americans how to tapinto these untapped oil wells.
They're gonna teach SouthAmerica how to drill.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Not terrible, but it, you knowwhat I'm saying?
It gives him a place to be.
It keeps him completely out ofsight.
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There is absolutely no timelinewith this sort of passion, this
passion, this sort of project.
And plus he's working for theU.S.
government, so it's supersecret.
Probably not going to know wherehe is most of the time.
That's how we're handling Jockat this time.
Now, just because Jock is out ofsight, don't mean he's out of
mind.
And it certainly don't mean helikes what's going on back in
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Dallas.
Now let's rewind just a littlebit more.
Let's say you're an elderlycouple who almost broke up,
cussed each other out, got backtogether all over to Chala
Swamp.
Wouldn't you feel kind of funnyif you go on a second honeymoon
and not only does your grandsonget kidnapped 1.5 times, but a
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whole girl who pumped lead intoyour son ends up dead in your
pool that everybody swims inlike nothing happened.
And your daughter-in-law hasfallen in love with the guy who
came back from the dead and ranaway.
They don't care.
Ellie's like, okay, cool, let'seat chili.
Matter of fact, Ellie has biggerfish to fry.
Actually, she's not gonna frythat fish this time.
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She's gonna bake it because ifParis taught her nothing, it's
not that her family's incomplete shambles and that they
are ruthless and weirdlycriminal.
It's not that maybe they shoulddrain the pool or put up some
sort of boundary.
Hell, maybe they should build amore sturdy balcony so people
don't trip and fall when they'reon LSD and crack their head and
poo.
No, no, no.
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She's like, dang, I'm gettingtoo thick.
I was out of shape.
Let me get out here and drinklemonade and work out in my
denim.
She spent a considerable amountof time on camera this episode
on a stationary bike.
Like, damn, y'all.
I'm I was I was passing out inParis.
It was hot, it was hard to walk.
I did relate to her.
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You don't realize how how muchyou don't move around.
Okay, if you're an athleticperson, I'm not talking to you.
Shout out to my homegirl wholikes to listen and go on long
walks.
I'm not talking to you.
You're probably gonna be fine ifyou go walking in Paris and New
York.
But that is the quickest way torealize like, oh, I'm not moving
like I thought I was moving.
When you are walking around acity, especially a city you're
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not familiar with, oh my god,your feet hurt, your shins hurt.
It takes two weeks to recover.
I remember being in San Diegoand we were at this conference.
Now, I it visually, I thought myhotel was like a block away from
the opening doors.
Baby, no, it was hot and I wasnot dressed appropriately.
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I learned real fast that theseI'm not trying to be cute.
If I'm walking on vacation, letme I put on tennis shoes and
either way, Ellie's like, Ilisten, your girl done got
thick, your girl done got out ofstate, let me ride this bike.
She tries to give Lucy a littlebit of advice, basically saying,
go get your husband.
Like, y'all don't even reallyhave a problem.
I agree, Ellie.
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But also, she's starting to missher little Gwen baby.
She takes it surprisingly well.
I don't know what reaction Ithought she would have to Sue
Ellen leaving, but it almostfeels like she felt like it was
inevitable.
And then I remembered, yeah, shedon't really like JR that much
either.
Her son or not, she's like, Imean, hell.
I get it.
I almost love Jock.
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I totally understand why womenwant to run away from people
named John Ewing.
I get it.
And leave John Ewing, aka J Avraagain, or John Ross Ewing.
She did.
So Ellen is in San Angelo tryingto live her best life.
Now, at the top of the show, sheis freshly back from the funeral
of Kristen.
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She brings the baby, immediatelyhands him off to the maids at
the sacred cross.
Dusty is there, ready to meether.
Dusty's looking really good.
He's he's only using a cane now.
He doesn't have those forestgump crutches.
He's able to move around alittle bit, and apparently other
things are moving around.
This is why this is the grownfolks portion of this episode.
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I'm still gonna keep it cleanand cute just in case some of my
nieces and nephews arelistening.
But you read between the lines,okay?
Suelen hugs him.
He's like, How's your mama?
She's my mama blames me.
She can't accept that Kristen isgone.
Sue Wellen's mother, excuse me,Sue Ellen's pimp says that it's
Suelen's fault that Kristen wasdead.
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Now, if you had just stayed withyour miserable husband, your
sister wouldn't have gone overthere high and tripped and fell
and drowned in the pool.
Okay, Ma, if you say so.
If you hadn't trained yourdaughter to hook up with her
brother-in-law, she wouldn'thave gotten high and went over
there and tripped and fell andfell into the pool.
But Sue Ellen's like, yeah, Ijust feel bad because that's my
baby sister, and I feel like Icould have helped her.
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She's as she's talking about it,she gets emotional.
She's like, Hold me, Dusty, holdme.
He does hold her.
Now, mind you, I'm watchingthis.
He's the one who starts nibblingand dibbling at her neck.
And I mean, she's afull-blooded, she's a
red-blooded woman.
What is she gonna do?
She starts responding, he startsresponding, they start kissing
and making out, and then heabruptly stops.
I'm a little confused.
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Maybe okay.
Maybe mentally he's all there,but he still says, you know,
that I I've got, I, you know.
Unfortunately, there's not muchI can do about it.
She immediately startsapologizing.
Oh my god, Dusty, I'm so sosorry.
I'm so sorry, my darling.
I just I I didn't mean to hegoes no, please don't apologize.
There's just nothing I can doabout it.
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Read between the lines.
Maybe there's nothing.
I mean, I think you can dosomething for her.
You feel me?
But it it it it raises a deeperquestion.
Obviously, they have affection,obviously they have love,
obviously, she doesn't reallycare that that part of her life
may not be open anymore.
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But he definitely does.
He doesn't seem insecure aboutit, he's just like, oh my gosh,
I don't know.
But I mean, everything else isstarting to work.
Maybe that'll work too.
Now, when they go to dinner, asin dinner in the house, they
don't go out to eat.
Sue Ellen is sitting quietly atthe table while Dusty and Daddy
Dusty discuss business.
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And it's a little bit toofamiliar.
It's like, dang, I've seen thisbefore.
Are you back in the samesituation?
No, she's not, because this timethere's actually love.
Love makes things a lot morebearable.
So she decides it's about timeto go put the baby to bed.
She says, Well, Dusty, darling,after I put John Ross to bed, do
you want to go into St.
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Angel?
Maybe we can just drive aroundand listen to music.
Maybe we can go to a movie.
Here's where things start to getweird.
Daddy Dusty immediately says,Well, we go to bed really early
around this time.
We only hang out, we only stayup late on weekends.
Matter of fact, we go to bedsuper early and we wake up as
soon as the sun rises.
Number one, when nobody'stalking to you, Daddy Dusty.
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Number two, that's a full-grownman.
He's he's fine.
He'll be if he wants to wake upat four in the morning and hang
out until 11, he's gonna dothat.
Number three, she's been in yourhouse for a few weeks.
She knows what time people doand don't go to bed.
And number four, sir, find yousome business.
Daddy is giving me, he's neverreally given me the creeps.
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He's still not necessarily holdon.
Let me be let me be clear on it.
He's a good looking man.
First off, I think that everytime I see him, tall, powerful,
but gentle.
I understand you are concernedabout your son.
Matter of fact, Dusty says, SueEllen, if you want to go to the
movies, that's what we're gonnado.
And she goes, No, no, no, Ithink I'll just go to bed.
She's not trying to, she don'twant to, she doesn't want any
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smoke.
This is not her house.
She is very used to living undersomeone else's rules.
So she just sort of goesupstairs, like, okay, I guess
I'll go to bed.
When she does, Daddy Dusty tellsDusty, son, you don't want to
push yourself too hard.
And he goes, I know, Dad, Iknow.
I understand you being ahelicopter parent.
I understand you looking out forhis best interest, but also
riding around, listening tomusic, having romantic time is
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perfectly natural.
I can't understand how he isokay with her living there,
moving her son in on there,defending them as he does later
on the show.
But you feel like romantic timeis off the table?
Also, I do not appreciate himtelling her that his son was
impotent.
That should have been Dusty'sconversation.
And let me tell you something,we're gonna figure this out.
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They're gonna figure it out oneway or another.
Speaking of trying to figure outstuff, J.
Ara cannot.
He has met his match.
These daggone sacred costs, St.
Angelo people are not to beeffed with.
Matter of fact, the PI that hehired keeps coming up
empty-handed.
Sir, I had a telescope, I hitout in a car, I army crawled, I
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tried to tap the phone in thefridge.
Nothing.
These people are, I mean,they're stacked.
They got guns on top of guns,they're vigilant, they're
diligent, they're crafty.
They are JR.
That's one of those things,though.
It's when your reputationprecedes you, that can be a good
or a bad thing.
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It might make you a little bitmore predictable.
So I suppose Dusty and hisfamily have reverse engineered
this.
Like, okay, if I was gonnakidnap a kid, how would I do it?
And they basically covered allof their bases.
JR can't take this crap anymore.
He's like, you know what, dude,you're fired.
I need a doer, dirtier dude toget my kid back.
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Plus, Jock threatened him,allegedly on the phone.
In no uncertain terms, you getthat boy back on this ranch.
JR seeks some counsel and hestarts to think.
He thinks long and he thinkshard.
Oh he's like, How do I show upand steal my kid back so my dad
doesn't beat my ass?
And also, how do I keep fromgetting shot again?
He gets shot again.
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This will be the third time infive seasons.
We can't have that.
So he does something 10 timesmore brilliant than I would have
ever thought.
He's like, I don't need to sneakover there, I need to show up
normally.
What I need is a bulletproofvest, i.e., my mama.
Let me just hide up under herskirt.
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So he goes to Ellie, who is onthat bike trying to get
summertime fine, and he says,Mama, don't you miss your
grandson?
I sure do miss that baby.
Well, why don't you go see him?
Oh, yeah.
Do you think Sue Ellen will letme go see him?
Yeah, for sure.
She's always liked you, youalways liked her.
Yeah.
This is an interesting point.
I love that Sue Ellen, althoughshe's escaped or she's ran away.
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She has had visitors in the formof Pam and now miss Ellie.
She was like, Yeah, y'all comeon through if you want to come
through.
So Ellie does just that.
She goes and she plays with thebaby.
Oh my god, he's so big, he's socute.
Whoop de woop.
Did you miss Granny?
John Ross is eating his fruit.
Y'all know how you feel.
If y'all don't, if you want tohave a peaceful conversation,
yeah, but we have some grapes,some mangoes, some something.
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While she's going on and onabout how precious baby John
Ross Ewing III is, John RossEwing Jr.
comes hopping out the helicopterand Sue Ellen jerks back like, I
know you've lying.
You old bag.
I can't believe so.
She storms over to JR.
How dare you have your old mamacall and lie to me?
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My mama doesn't lie to anybody.
And if I just jumped on theairport, she didn't know I was
coming.
And that is what Ellie says.
She says the same thing.
I didn't know he was cominguntil he jumped on the
helicopter with me.
And this is before cell phones,so okay, you gotta pass this one
time.
Well, just because Ellie is heredoesn't mean the armed cowboys
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aren't as well.
They're locked and loaded, readyto aim at JR at the drop of a
dime.
Right about this time, Daddy,Dusty and Daddy Dusty come out
the house to make sureeverything is everything.
Daddy Dusty introduces himselfto Ellie, very cordial.
I hate that we're meeting underthese circumstances, but I sure
have enjoyed having yourgrandson here.
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Precious, precious baby.
She says, I know, but he's aEwing.
My husband feels like he belongson South Fork.
He goes, I understand that he isa Ewing, but I feel like he
belongs here.
He belongs with his mama.
Matter of fact, let's let these.
This ain't got nothing to dowith you.
It don't have nothing to do withme.
Let's let Sue Ellen and JR workthis whole thing out.
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In other words, let's just becool.
I like you.
I I don't want to have todisrespect you, so please keep
it cute.
She's like, Yeah, I'm here formy grandson.
I don't really care about allthe other stuff.
Well, JR is not this beautifulknight in shining armor.
He had a whole plan.
Ellie, as he likes to call her,is the Trojan horse.
So as they're saying theirgoodbyes, she's holding the
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baby.
Um, no, they set him down for asecond and he takes off running.
Correction, correction.
JR is playing with the baby.
Ellie has him too.
JR pulls a softball out of Godknows where and says, Hey boy,
go fetch.
Throws it so the baby puppy canrun.
John Ross runs right out of thegate.
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Ellie goes to scoop him up, notreally thinking anything of it.
One final little squeezy poobefore I go put, you know,
before I get back in ahelicopter.
As they get outside of thislittle iron gate, JR says, Mama,
now here's a time.
You're gonna jump in that plane.
They're not gonna shoot an oldlady, but they will shoot me.
So go think, I'll shoot a babyand an old lady.
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Get in that plane, get in thehelicopter.
She's like, What?
But you know what she does.
She does start inching towards aplane.
Now Suelen sees this and freaksthe F out.
Miss Ellie, please, Miss Ellie,please don't take her, please
don't take her.
Eventually, Ellie comes to hersenses and says, You know what?
The baby does belong onSouthworth, but not this way.
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She turns around and hands thebaby back, and Sue Ellen's like,
Thank you, thank you.
She would have got open-handedslab.
Take her down.
Jeremiah, Hezekiah, Jededai.
Y'all shoot the send Ellie toSwiss cheese.
She tried to get that my baby,or at the very least, rough
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around.
Handcuffs.
Going to San Angelo County,lady.
JR was like, Mama, you had onejob.
Damn.
Now I gotta figure out anotherway to be sleazy.
End scene.
Oh no, not bad.
Not super great, but not bad.
Listen, the bit players aregonna have to step it up a
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little bit.
Lucy is not interesting enough.
Mitch is definitely notinteresting enough.
Afton is Cliff is doing hispart.
Donna Culver and Mitch need toget over the fact that they're
with wealthy people and justembrace it.
Especially Dr.
Mitch.
I'm having a real, real hardtime believing that he can
continue on with this.
Well, I don't care about shutup.
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If you didn't care about money,you would have been a
missionary.
The best development so far isthat the people at the Southern
Cross, pardon me, I thinkearlier I called it the Sacred
Cross.
People at the Southern Cross arenot effing around.
Daddy Dusty has already said,you are not in Dallas anymore,
baby.
Round here we run things.
Tings don't run we.
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Alright, guys, that's it.
That's all for this episode.
Join me next time as we jumpback into an exciting,
hopefully, episode of Dynastyseason five, episode three.
Remember to reach out to me.
You have thoughts on this?
Is Mitch too pretentious?
Is Donna Culver boring?
Is Pam the exact same characterthrough and through five
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episodes D.
Excuse me, five seasons D.
Is Ellie secretly trifling?
Is Daddy Dusty a little bitcreepy?
He's a little too comfortable atthe very least, right?
Right?
You can send me a text if youcheck the show notes on your
mobile device, or you can sendme an email at soapfloorpodcast
at gmail.com.
That's S-O-A-P-L-O-R-E,P-O-D-C-A-S T at gmail.com.
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All right, y'all.
In the meantime, in betweentime, if you have a sibling or
very good friend who has a majoraccomplishment you want to
celebrate, do not sing them asad, soppy, boozy, booby, blues
type of song.
Play them some with some tempo.
Stay hydrated, stay moisturized,mind your own business, and keep
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