Dallas Scenes That Didn't Make Sense

[James from London]

Pam thought it was better to keep Jimmy and Lucy apart so she specifically didn't want him wearing anything to impress Lucy. Pam cared about Lucy and was trying to help her, but though she'd make a terrible girlfriend for Jimmy. That's why he had to wear the boring shirt. Pam knew Lucy went through men like Kleenex and didn't want Jimmy to end up as just another one of many.

I'm pretty sure Pam was helping Jimmy land Lucy. She gave him the thumbs up for "acting like a hayseed and all" saying, "Lucy does not respond to 'cool'", cool presumably being the Roger Hurley type. She knew Lucy would be more intrigued if she had to work a little harder to get Jimmy, and so it proved.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Similarly, often JR or Bobby would arrive in the office, seemingly for a full day's work, and maybe only spend five or ten minutes. That would be good work if you could get it!

Swami

Pam in the Barnes Wentworth days was even worse. Did she even do anything? She had a big office by Cliff’s and it seemed she’d just pop in there occasionally maybe once a week.

 

[Willie Oleson]

Bobby is going to run in and save Cliff from being shot except he can't outrun the bullets, so he's not going to get there in time

Wrong again, they were close to the gunfire but they were not in it. The men from Southfork were shooting at the kidnappers, not Cliff (although they only cared about Bobby's safety) and the kidnappers (except for the one who was shot) were shooting back at the Southfork men hiding in the fields.
There was danger, to which Cliff failed to react - hence Bobby's reaction, but there was no gunfire at that particular part of the road.

I think we've covered all technical details now.

 

[Kenny Coyote]

Wrong again

Again? That would imply there was a first time.

 

[Billy Wall]

Pam in the Barnes Wentworth days was even worse. Did she even do anything? She had a big office by Cliff’s and it seemed she’d just pop in there occasionally maybe once a week.

Cliff called her out on that at least once. Lol

 

[Kenny Coyote]

Pam in the Barnes Wentworth days was even worse. Did she even do anything? She had a big office by Cliff’s and it seemed she’d just pop in there occasionally maybe once a week.

They can't show her or anyone in the show in the office a lot of the time because there wouldn't be any entertainment value in it. They only show them in the office when there is something they have going on that's fun to watch, like JR's office meeting with Wally Hampton. Wally was hilarious in that meeting, but that's just a tiny fraction of what JR's whole day would be like. Instead of wasting TV time showing JR do paperwork, they get across the idea that he works a lot of hours by having him leave for work early and get home from work late. He didn't even like to take vacations.

Pam's function at Barnes Wentworth was to financially prop up his company by loaning him money for deals she approved. That's not a job that's paid on an hourly basis. If a deal came up that Cliff wanted her to loan him money for, she'd look at the information and either OK it or not.

To me, something that didn't make sense isn't something they don't show. It's something they do show that has no rationality to it.

 

[Swami]

Pam in the Barnes Wentworth days was even worse. Did she even do anything? She had a big office by Cliff’s and it seemed she’d just pop in there occasionally maybe once a week.

There must have been a bit of foresight there, the ultimate in hotdesking!

Swami

 

[Kenny Coyote]

And as we know he did it again when April was shot, and he had to make much more effort to try to save her.

I can't believe that anyone would find those situation to be similar. April was his wife. You're comparing a man risking his life to save his wife to a man risking his life to save a man who wants to see his family down and out? For April, Bobby would have shielded her with his body and taken a bullet for her. He's certainly not gonna do that for Cliff, so what is it that Bob could do for Cliff that Cliff couldn't do for himself?

 

[Willie Oleson]

so what is it that Bob could do for Cliff that Cliff couldn't do for himself?

 

[Herofan]

Similarly, often JR or Bobby would arrive in the office, seemingly for a full day's work, and maybe only spend five or ten minutes. That would be good work if you could get it!

Swami

I recall that as well. That would be a great gig wouldn’t it?

 

[Swami]

I recall that as well. That would be a great gig wouldn’t it?

Money for old rope, as they say!

Swami

 

[southfork88]

Bobby was a true hero for most of the seasons, only in the final ones and in the new TNT version he tends to be a coward, sometimes grudging ...

 

[Swami]

Bobby was a true hero for most of the seasons, only in the final ones and in the new TNT version he tends to be a coward, sometimes grudging ...

I don't necessarily think that he is cowardly in the TNT series, but he does seems to just moan a fair bit.

Swami

 

[Kenny Coyote]

I don't necessarily think that he is cowardly in the TNT series, but he does seems to just moan a fair bit.

Swami

The Bobby that caved into Elena's extortion attempt was a shell of the Bobby that walked right into the McKay's house and whipped Tommy McKay right in front of his sister.

 

[Swami]

The Bobby that caved into Elena's extortion attempt was a shell of the Bobby that walked right into the McKay's house and whipped Tommy McKay right in front of his sister.

Or dressed up as "The Milk Tray Man" during the range war and tied up all of McKay's hired thugs.

Swam

 

[Seaviewer]

"they say you can never go back." Who are they?

He's presumably referring to the expression "You can't go home again" from the title of the Thomas Wolfe novel.

 

[Jimmy Todd]

Some scenes that didn't make sense to me were the ones where Katherine made blatantly hostile comments to Cliff and Afton, and Pam never seemed to notice. She was completely oblivious to Katherine. Yes, Katherine was her sister, but she really didn't know her having only met her a couple of years before.

 

[southfork88]

Pam loved Cliff despite some deplorable actions and was quite affectionate even with Jock Ewing, Digger Barnes' nemesis. She loved the concept of family and Katherine was, after all, her stepsister ... unfortunately !

 

[Kenny Coyote]

Some scenes that didn't make sense to me were the ones where Katherine made blatantly hostile comments to Cliff and Afton, and Pam never seemed to notice. She was completely oblivious to Katherine. Yes, Katherine was her sister, but she really didn't know her having only met her a couple of years before.

Pam was equally oblivious to the kind of man Cliff had become. Pam's idea of what kind of man Cliff was just didn't match with reality.

 

[Swami]

Pam was equally oblivious to the kind of man Cliff had become. Pam's idea of what kind of man Cliff was just didn't match with reality.

Yes, she couldn't even see that when Digger was on his death bed, Cliff was far more concerned in framing Jock than he was in the welfare of his own father.

Swami