Unintentionally funny scenes

[Top Jimmy]

I thought of another one - when Sue Ellen clocks the greedy nurse in the sanitarium and then steals a car and drives away drinking a bottle of booze. Even though she and the baby could have been killed, the scene is made hilarious by the corny music playing in the background and Sue Ellen chugging down the liquor while swerving all over the road.

 

[Barbara Fan]

Another one I sniggered at was JR and Callys wedding when Tommy McKay goes onto the veranda ( i think, not a season i watch much) "doing anger" and i thought he was going to burst out of his shirt and turn green like the Incredible Hulk. It was so cheesy.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

2 words: roller disco!

(Cliff Barnes, as the sign in the first photo says, is the best!)

 

[Laurie Marr]

Some of the characters’ major health scares produced some dodgy acting: Jock’s heart attack and Sue Ellen’s drunk tank flip out spring to mind.

 

[Michelle Stevens]

Another one I sniggered at was JR and Callys wedding when Tommy McKay goes onto the veranda ( i think, not a season i watch much) "doing anger" and i thought he was going to burst out of his shirt and turn green like the Incredible Hulk. It was so cheesy.

I forgot that one. Indeed, that was funny. :laughing: The McKay's sure had rage issues.

 

[Miss Texas 1967]

There's a scene where Afton and Cliff go to get ice cream and then Cliff's falls on the ground as he goes to lick it. I don't know if it's adlibbed or whether it was scripted but Cliff says "I don't like pistachio anymore" in a funny little whine.

 

[Kenny Coyote]

One that I was watching with some friends made them both laugh a lot and for a long time - I'd seen it before so while I thought it was funny too, I had already heard the line in question and was expecting it: It's one of the episodes where Sue Ellen is just starting her lingerie venture and she's talking to a man who was either a consultant, the supplier of models, or something like that. Sue Ellen is telling him that she has a groundbreaking concept for her line of lingerie that she thinks will really catch on with women. She says (and this is where the uncontrollable laughter started): My product is going to appeal to women because it feels them - "They're trash with class." The man looks impressed and repeats: "Trash, but with class"! He sounds like Sue Ellen has just invented something of the magnitude of the Nike "Just Do It" slogan.

I guess none of us could quit see the incredible appeal of telling women that they're trash, but it's OK, because they're "trash with class"!

 

[Laurie Marr]

Marilee is pushed into the pool by Jamie and prompts the following concerned inquiry from JR:

“Did it go up your nose, honey?”

 

[Barbara Fan]

Jock’s heart attack

oh that was very dodgy acting, clasp your chest and cross your eyes!!

Sue Ellen’s drunk tank flip out

I thought she was auditioning for a part in Michael jacksons Thriller video

 

[Jon Ewing Jr.]

I forgot that one. Indeed, that was funny. :laughing: The McKay's sure had rage issues.

I know its storming and all but how in the world did that carrying on not wake everyone up.......

 

[Lastkidpicked]

We see stock footage of downtown Las Vegas followed by Bobby and Pam in the atrium of a hotel that's clearly in Dallas (you can see the Reunion Tower through the windows), as the theme plays on. It's as unintentionally funny as it is glorious!

And this is one of the things that the writers could never have predicted. Back in 1979, you would watch Dallas one time on Friday night. And it was great! But when the episode was over, it was over. Imagine telling the producers back then, "40 years from now, a group of fans will keep this show alive. They will watch it on their computers, and even be able to freeze frames of they want to".

They would have thought you were crazy!

I really enjoy posts like Guzzler pointing out, "Hey, if you watch that episode that takes place in Las Vegas, you will see the Dallas skyline in the background" If you are a behind-the-scenes person like me, then you love little moments like that.

If you think about it, if the producers thought at the time that CBS would play an episode one time and then nobody would see it again, it is amazing that this didn't happen much more often!

 

[Jock's Ghost]

When Sue Ellen reveals that it's Kristin who shot JR. From Linda's delivery of the line "And when I was showwwering, you hid the gun in the closet," to her angrily grabbing the phone from JR and saying she wasn't going to go to jail for Kristin, it was too funny.

Those early years with Sue Ellen, she always looked like she was chewing a piece of meat when she talked.... and the great reveal with Kristin was greatness.....

"It was YOU Kristin! YOU shoot JR!"

 

[Jock's Ghost]

All the little shortcuts the producers use to save money is fun when they goof. A really good one most would likely not have noticed at the time, but since I've been binge watching just a few weeks apart, I noticed today when Bobby is shot. The footage of the police arriving at the Ewing Oil, the crowds and the shot of the body being put in the ambulance is Larry Hagman from when of course, JR was shot. It's a hard to catch, but if you look closely you see Larry's small head, versus Patricks' giant helmet hair. Cheapskates!

 

[Sarah]

Some of these comments are horrible.

I think there’s unintentionally funny and then there is just cruel. Why rip the back out of our Dallas stars and people we love? Just odd and unnecessary in my opinion. Some of it is funny don’t get me wrong but some of it is just ugh. We go to meet these people and this is a leading Dallas fan site. I’m cringing to think what some of the stars would think if they knew what you’re really thinking!

As we’ve said before, one thing slagging off a character but completely tearing a hard working actors performance apart is hurtful to say the least. Wow.

 

[Sarah]

All the little shortcuts the producers use to save money is fun when they goof. A really good one most would likely not have noticed at the time, but since I've been binge watching just a few weeks apart, I noticed today when Bobby is shot. The footage of the police arriving at the Ewing Oil, the crowds and the shot of the body being put in the ambulance is Larry Hagman from when of course, JR was shot. It's a hard to catch, but if you look closely you see Larry's small head, versus Patricks' giant helmet hair. Cheapskates!

Larry was in England when that was ‘shot’ so he wasn’t on the stretcher either.

 

[Lastkidpicked]

I think there’s unintentionally funny and then there is just cruel

I agree and apologize if things got off track.

If you look through my posts, you'll see that because of my job, I'm driving through and around Dallas every day. It is enjoyable to go through the day thinking,

"This is where Ewing 23 would be"
"This is where Sly and Phyllis would have parked at the office"
"This is the gas station in the opening scenes of the very first episode. Hard to believe it was a dirt parking lot back then, and Bobby would have swerved to avoid a mud hole on the way out"

So, since I drive past the locations on a daily basis, Dallas (and our friends here on this site) are on my mind quite a bit. And it makes if fun to point out things that are funny when you look back at them. Certainly nothing but good and enjoyable thoughts that are fun to come here and post about.

When I do have time to watch Dallas clips, it is fun to watch the actors enjoying their time together. In fact, my last post was:

I love when Patrick Duffy and Larry Hagman are clearly enjoying their scenes together. And our example of Understated humor is when Bobby strongarms J.R. into buying Travis Boyd's company.

J.R. angrily signs the paperwork and says, "I don't like doing business this way." Bobby replies, "I'll consider your delicate sensibilities some other time, all right?"

Ha! It's fun watching those two banter like this.

To put a finer point on it-- I am fortunate to live and work here and the show pops into my mind quite often, and I would only want observers of this site to know that we appreciate the wonderful show they created.

 

[Chris2]

Some of these comments are horrible.

I think there’s unintentionally funny and then there is just cruel.

I think you have a pretty low bar for horrible and cruel. I don’t see any comments in here that rise to that level. There is some acting in Dallas that is less than stellar. The critics were much more pointed about this back in the day than we’re being here. And actors have pretty thick skins - they don’t survive long in the business if they don’t. Saying that Jock’s heart attack was dodgy/hammy or that George Kennedy was wooden isn’t inappropriate. I‘m not interested in a “fan site” where we’re not allowed to critique the performances - that’s part of the show.

 

[Jock's Ghost]

Cruel? Nah. No one has yet heard my unbridled hatred for S8 Lucy and her dumb ass waitress time waister.