Who would you want in the elevator?

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I misunderstood the question this morning thinking that you asked us which two characters we'd like to be stuck in an elevator with! :rlol:

me, too! Dallas being a mildly salacious show of its time, my mind went here:

(hence my initial response earlier in the thread)

 

[Top Jimmy]

Like others have said, JR and Pam and JR and Miss Ellie would be great and compelling.
Others that would have been fun to watch:

Sue Ellen and Kristin
Afton and Katherine
Lucy and Kristin

 

[Sarah]

Sue Ellen. Especially at that point in time. Give them time to knock their heads together about what they were doing and get back together. Saving me and the rest of the planet a lot of heartache!

 

[Jon Ewing Jr.]

Personally I would have loved to have been stuck in a elevator with Michelle Stevens.

 

[Billy Wall]

Clayton and JR would have been intriguing.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Clayton and JR would have been intriguing.

early Clayton before he was watered down to almost nothing towards the end. He started as a total badass, but with class!

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Personally I would have loved to have been stuck in a elevator with Michelle Stevens.

she could ‘buy my company’ any day!

 

[Jon Ewing Jr.]

Actually Ray Krebbs and JR would have been good also. I know they raised some hell early on.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

Actually Ray Krebbs and JR would have been good also. I know they raised some hell early on.

man... without a hail mary phone shot ala the southfork fire fight, JR might have been in in serious trouble if he said the wrong thing!

 

[stevew]

JR and Pam

Miss Ellie and Cliff

agree re Jock and Gary but i wouldnt envy Gary

Jock and Digger or Cliff

Teresa and Raoul x

I don’t know, I think at an older age for Jock and a lot of pent up anger, I think Gary might have this one. He’d know all the buttons to push (no elevator pun intended) and I think if swung on he might not be able to pull himself back. I think Gary and Jock would have been one hell of a reckoning.

“And you can write me out of the will, old man! All it’ll ever get me is money grubbing bitches, so keep it. Better yet, shove it up your ass! That’s right. I said it. You’re nothing but a piece of shit, flimflam man who stole his best friend’s oil find and his girl. You hated me because I was more a Southworth and reminded you every day that Ewing’s are nothing more than thieves and carpetbaggers. You were born trash and will died trash and all the money in the world will never change who you are!” - think Jock would take a poke at him then? Cause I think Gary might hold his own.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I don’t know, I think at an older age for Jock and a lot of pent up anger, I think Gary might have this one. He’d know all the buttons to push (no elevator pun intended) and I think if swung on he might not be able to pull himself back. I think Gary and Jock would have been one hell of a reckoning.

“And you can write me out of the will, old man! All it’ll ever get me is money grubbing bitches, so keep it. Better yet, shove it up your ass! That’s right. I said it. You’re nothing but a piece of shit, flimflam man who stole his best friend’s oil find and his girl. You hated me because I was more a Southworth and reminded you every day that Ewing’s are nothing more than thieves and carpetbaggers. You were born trash and will died trash and all the money in the world will never change who you are!” - think Jock would take a poke at him then? Cause I think Gary might hold his own.

Ted Shackleford's Gary would certainly have a chance - you could tell he was quite a good athlete and Jock was decades past his prime - and I might favor him in a gentleman's match where they square up and play by the rules. He'd better not screw around, though, because as the old boxing wisdom goes and old Tom Owens found out, power is the last thing to go, and Jock certainly knew how to throw and take a punch and likely knew a ton of street-fighting tricks that Gary never would have learned. If he started off on that speech above without being fully poised for action, he might find himself looking up at the elevator lights before he got halfway through.

even without coming to blows, it'd be amazing, though, like an intense one-act play! Imagine more 'art' and less 'soap' than regular Dallas. Jim Davis wasn't the best at just kind of 'filler dialogue', but he could do intense pretty well (like the 'real power' scene with Bobby), as well as a certain type of sentimental, as with Ray in 'Fourth Son'.

 

[stevew]

Ted Shackleford's Gary would certainly have a chance - you could tell he was quite a good athlete and Jock was decades past his prime - and I might favor him in a gentleman's match where they square up and play by the rules. He'd better not screw around, though, because as the old boxing wisdom goes and old Tom Owens found out, power is the last thing to go, and Jock certainly knew how to throw and take a punch and likely knew a ton of street-fighting tricks that Gary never would have learned. If he started off on that speech above without being fully poised for action, he might find himself looking up at the elevator lights before he got halfway through.

even without coming to blows, it'd be amazing, though, like an intense one-act play! Imagine more 'art' and less 'soap' than regular Dallas. Jim Davis wasn't the best at just kind of 'filler dialogue', but he could do intense pretty well (like the 'real power' scene with Bobby), as well as a certain type of sentimental, as with Ray in 'Fourth Son'.

I also think that the pent up anger in Gary would go a long ways to giving back what ever physical assault he took, but I agree if Jock got in a good one from the start it could end right there. And yes count have been great art. Every word revealing something we didn’t know. “When have you ever been a real man? Certainly not when your momma died all alone!” There could be issued brought up, one sided from Gary, that no punch from Jock could return as much pain as dealt. That would have been incredible to see - a deep dive into Jock and Gary as characters.

Jock could say, “What did you ever do? What you want to know. Just like my dad, you were a little fa . . .”

“What? What were you gonna say?”

“Never mind.”

“What about Grandpa Ewing?”

A scene where the audience sits mouth open.

 

[DallasFanForever]

I think J.R. and Digger could’ve been interesting

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I think J.R. and Digger could’ve been interesting

or Jock and Digger! As great as the episode was, their initial encounter on the porch or veranda or whatever it was in Barbecue was a bit of a letdown. Jock giving it to him verbally by the bar was a pretty spectacular scene, though..

 

[Billy Wall]

I think it would be more powerful between two characters that don’t quite understand the other. We all know about Jock and Digger. Jock and Cliff or Digger and JR would be much more interesting.

 

[DallasFanForever]

Another one I thought of is Pam and Jenna. Has anyone mentioned this one yet?

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I think it would be more powerful between two characters that don’t quite understand the other. We all know about Jock and Digger. Jock and Cliff or Digger and JR would be much more interesting.

generally agree, but maybe the problem all along was that Jock and Digger were too stubborn to understand each other fully? Yeah, thinking more, I’m not seeing it working

 

[DallasFanForever]

generally agree, but maybe the problem all along was that Jock and Digger were too stubborn to understand each other fully? Yeah, thinking more, I’m not seeing it working

I guess Jock and Digger wouldn’t have come out of that elevator understanding the other any better but I still would’ve liked to have seen it for entertainment purposes alone. I can see them getting drunk and talking about the old days and maybe having a laugh or two before they went right back to arguing again.

Katherine and Angelica could’ve been fun just for the hats and clothes alone.

 

[stevew]

generally agree, but maybe the problem all along was that Jock and Digger were too stubborn to understand each other fully? Yeah, thinking more, I’m not seeing it working

Maybe a more life threatening situation between these two.

 

[Taylor Bennett Jr.]

I guess Jock and Digger wouldn’t have come out of that elevator understanding the other any better but I still would’ve liked to have seen it for entertainment purposes alone. I can see them getting drunk and talking about the old days and maybe having a laugh or two before they went right back to arguing again.

Katherine and Angelica could’ve been fun just for the hats and clothes alone.

I’m not sure those two could even *fit* in one elevator car with those outfits!