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You didn't dream how they made it by any chance, did you?
Sarah
Moderator Emerita
Well sort of. I mean if Katherine has it, we’ll all be ok!!!!
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
Telly Talk Champion
She'll probably hold the world to ransom before she gives the formula up!
That woman has a mean streak!
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
Telly Talk Champion
Sarah
Moderator Emerita
No, not when you're social distancing at two metres.
You can still blow them a kiss.
At least she’s affectionate and loving. And JR and Sue Ellen don’t need to social distance. Blow a kiss?? Em no. Tongues all the way!!!
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
Telly Talk Champion
At least she’s affectionate and loving. And JR and Sue Ellen don’t need to social distance. Blow a kiss?? Em no. Tongues all the way!!!
I agree about tongues all the way however because of the guidelines the Ewing's shouldn't be kissing anyone!
For goodness sake, look at Miss Ellie she lot Wes Parmalee french kiss her!
Now if she didn't believe Wes was really Jock, that wouldn't have happened!
Bet she enjoyed it!
Brian Kinney
Telly Talk Addict
January
In Beijing, China, Cliff Barnes and wife Afton meet with daughter Pamela-Rebecca who’s been named CEO of international pharmaceutical company ‘Wentworth Barnes Today’. While having dinner in Pamela-Rebecca’s favorite Chinese restaurant Cliff is proud that she was able to learn the language he knew only from cherished food boxes. But Pamela-Rebecca has a bigger surprise for them when she announces a surprise dinner guest. A woman they all know – is that really her? Alive? And while Afton and Cliff watch in disbelief who’s walking slowly towards them, they realize she is wearing a mask as everyone around them is. Some people cough endlessly and Pamela-Rebecca shouts they have to leave or they could be infected. Moments later they all board Cliff’s private plane to return to the States.
March
In Southfork’s living room J.R. and Bobby talk about Miss Ellie and Clayton while watching news on CNN. They think they’re much safer in Europe than in Texas, hiking in Switzerland with Ray and Jenna who are probably glad that their kids Lucas and Charlie live in New Zealand with auntie Donna and Meg. J.R. is surprised to be still alive because he developed a dating app for senior citizens with his former secretary Sly which they promoted around Texas’s elderly homes where he didn't care for the virus. So, he said. But J.R. nevertheless bought thousands of masks back in February from the Chinese market. Bobby has moral concerns when he finds out about it, and starts to give them away for free to 'Dallas Memorial Hospital' and on a street corner downtown to help poor people. When his wife Ann joins him, she recognizes a familiar looking woman in a dangerous looking dead-end street: Sue-Ellen! The respected Mayor of Dallas is there to film a commercial because she’s now running for Governor. Her campaign manager and director Dusty wants to shoot the ad without a mask but Sue-Ellen insists to do it safe. “Do I have to remind you all that the 1980’s already taught us that? SAFE!” Christopher and John Ross decide to lockdown their 'Ewing Energy' offices.
April
Sue-Ellen’s political opponent Harris Ryland doesn’t mind embracing and handshaking everyone at Dora Mae’s 'Oil Barons Club' while telling customers and a TV crew “the flu isn’t real. It’s a hoax created by crazy liberals who also want us to believe that crooked psycho Katherine Wentworth isn’t dead!” Dora Mae closes her club right after that event because half of her staff is showing suspicious symptoms. When the Ewings watch Harris’s speech on their mobile phones at Southfork they’re shocked. Ann is so sad she decides to watch Supergirl instead where a villain who resembles her former husband is terrorizing the world with a guy who looks ten years older than the woman who plays his mother and who is also looking strangely familiar. Ann starts to feel really sick. Even weirder: Supergirl works for a young media tycoon who is the spitting image of that Barnes daughter that she once saw, many years ago when Christopher was still a teen and had an awkward tryst with her or was it John Ross?
Teresa, the lovable cleaning woman, cook, phone operator, and gardener of the Ewings introduces John Ross and Christopher to Elena and Drew, her niece and nephew. They decide to socially distance and stay on the ranch for the next days or weeks and wait what happens. Bobby warns J.R. not to invite any mistresses, they could be super-spreaders. Too late because Anita Smithfield, J.R.’s lawyer – and nurse for special needs - is already there to set up a new last will. Their master plan: to erase the memory of son and grand-son James-Richard and Jimmy Beaumont (for appearing in a Reality-TV show with "swim instructor" Peter Richards and cougar Michelle who's having affairs with all three of them - so tacky that it resulted in dismayed Vanessa's fatal heart-attack and more viewers for Netflix than Tiger King).
May
As Mayor of Dallas Sue-Ellen welcomes ‘Wentworth Barnes Today’- CEO Pamela-Rebecca who introduces her to China's new ambassador to the United States: the honorable Katherine Wentworth! For the first time since Reagan was President Sue-Ellen feels tempted to drink again but her office is alcohol-free. They tell their story: Katherine was hiding in China when Pamela-Rebecca studied pharmacy and Mandarin in Beijing, they met by coincidence or accident (you never know with Katherine) and became Insta-friends.
As unlikely as it sounds but when Pamela-Rebecca surprised Cliff in January with that special family reunion, Katherine and her brother reconciled over Gong bao ji ding (chicken, peanuts and chilli) – the last dinner they had with their mother. Katherine helped Pamela-Rebecca’s business in China to dominate the world market with hydroxychloroquine, a cure for malaria which they planned to sell overpriced to countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Little did they know that an unfit President would help them to make even more profit. Good news: By April they sold everything to the government and with that money and the help of straw man Jeremy Wendell (under alias name Casey Denault because nobody remembers him) they slowly bought all shares of 'Ewing Energy' - the stocks were falling since Christopher's and John Ross's lockdown. WHY? They came up with the plan when Pamela-Rebecca confessed to Katherine about a threesome she once had with Christopher and John Ross nobody knows of. She never got over it because they denied her more of it but nevertheless had more than she wished for: an STD and a broken heart. Hopeless romantic Katherine however hoped that Bobby asks for her money to help them out in re-buying the share capital. Bad news: Afton left Cliff after they returned to the States from China and escaped with the next plane to Germany in an attempt to revive her lounge singer "career" (it came to a halt with clubs closing but at least she's okay). Cliff himself tragically died a day later in a hotel when he fell into a needle filled with hydroxychloroquine. Nothing about it was suspicious the authorities ruled within ten minutes after they met his convincingly mourning sister whose story was confirmed by the staff, all with Chinese ancestors... After hearing so much drama from the Barnes-Wentworth women Sue-Ellen understandably wonders “Why are you telling me that? Don’t you have a hair stylist to listen to you?” Ouch – hit and sunk.
The British-Texan Beaumonts, TV stars turned activists for the Black Lives Matter movement think they know how it feels to be Black: it means the doors at Southfork are closed for them too. They team up with another of J.R.’s forgotten kids after they contact Cally, still a friend of James. Notorious oversize-model/ party-animal/ influencer Lucy is also excluded from Southfork – she decides to stay in Houston where ex-husband Mitch works in a hospital. Lucy helps as a volunteer in a cafeteria and Mitch is so impressed that he proposes to her again. They re-marry by Pentecost in a Zoom ceremony attended by his sister Afton and Lucy’s parents Val and Gary. Also visible on screen: two much younger people, finishing always each other's sentences, probably twins, whose faces are blurred due to bad connections (or copyright issues). If you think how boring wait 'til this paragraph ends. That same day Elena Ramos, Harris Ryland and Ann Ewing all die from complications with Covid-19. And despite Elena’s sudden death mother Carmen decides to stay at Southfork to stand in for sister Teresa when the long-serving maid of the Ewings feels terribly ill, coughing and sneezing...
June
J.R. Ewing is also dead due to Covid-19 but local and international news reports focus on an old lady named Lady Jessica. Jessica self-sacrificingly crocheted masks for her inmates in an asylum but didn’t wore one herself because, as she said in 15 seconds for TikTok, “it diminishes my dramatic facial expressions”. Her last words became a viral sensation and another reminder that anyone needs to wear masks. Especially the crazy ones who think they shouldn't.
Ann’s never-seen-before daughter Emma arrives for the Ewing’s double funeral from the horse stalls where she and John Ross secretly started to date weeks ago. Before Emma sets her plan in motion to marry John Ross, soon-to-be heir of his father's fortune and only sex-symbol with Ewing DNA that ever graced Southfork’s patio (young Jock from The Early Years aside), Sue-Ellen tells Emma a tragic story about her sister Kristin - whose son Christopher is overhearing the talk and now discovers for the first time that his "aunt" is actually his real aunt. Emma thinks she can do a Kristin without a dive into the pool but doesn't tell. And Sue-Ellen shares another secret with Emma: Carmen never married the father of her children. “So, Teresa is a Ramos? She has a last name that was never mentioned?” “Yes, as we never mention the name of J.R.’s kid with that country girl. Or that I can’t tell Bobby about meeting the ambassador of insanity a month ago.”
Meanwhile Christopher is having an affair with hunky Drew which infuriates devout Catholic Carmen so much that Teresa has a speedy recovery and asks her sister to leave. Uber driver Nicolás Treviño ignores all restrictions and chauffeurs Carmen to Mexico where Emma's grandmother Judith Ryland hires them as a stripper (Nicolás not Carmen!) and cook - a cover-up for Judith's drug lord ventures in their spin-off Crime Scene Acapulco.
July
In Bobby’s office at Southfork lawyer Anita informs the Ewings about J.R.’s last will. They all think it’s not that exciting. J.R. doesn’t own any part of Southfork, yes, a load of money but who cares? Indeed, everything is inherited by his sons John Ross Ewing and Cassidy Harper! And there the surprise heir comes through the door but wait - it’s a she! “Hi, I’m Cassidy Harper Ewing! Born in 1988 as a boy but years later I transitioned into this fabulous young woman”.
Cassie tells her family that she visited Miss Ellie a year ago in Geneva and got a new document including who will continue the legacy of owning Southfork should grandma die one day. In that moment James appears via Skype on Cassie’s iPhone gleefully telling the other Ewings that he knows "what is coming and it changes everything". While the Ewings nervously expect in tension and ecstatically edited close-ups what Cassie is about to read Teresa storms into the room to announce shocking news from Europe. “Ray and Jenna didn’t want to alarm you prematurely but Miss Ellie and Mr. Farlow are not safe in Switzerland. They were instead stuck somewhere in the Alps yesterday and it’s been confirmed,... I’m so sorry to tell you…they died in an avalanche in front of a car tunnel.” For a moment no one said another word. But it lasted not long enough.
August
At Southfork construction workers with masks expand the mansion for more space... but will there be ever enough? Or is there again the sound of terrible coughing and then an ambulance’s siren?
In Beijing, China, Cliff Barnes and wife Afton meet with daughter Pamela-Rebecca who’s been named CEO of international pharmaceutical company ‘Wentworth Barnes Today’. While having dinner in Pamela-Rebecca’s favorite Chinese restaurant Cliff is proud that she was able to learn the language he knew only from cherished food boxes. But Pamela-Rebecca has a bigger surprise for them when she announces a surprise dinner guest. A woman they all know – is that really her? Alive? And while Afton and Cliff watch in disbelief who’s walking slowly towards them, they realize she is wearing a mask as everyone around them is. Some people cough endlessly and Pamela-Rebecca shouts they have to leave or they could be infected. Moments later they all board Cliff’s private plane to return to the States.
March
In Southfork’s living room J.R. and Bobby talk about Miss Ellie and Clayton while watching news on CNN. They think they’re much safer in Europe than in Texas, hiking in Switzerland with Ray and Jenna who are probably glad that their kids Lucas and Charlie live in New Zealand with auntie Donna and Meg. J.R. is surprised to be still alive because he developed a dating app for senior citizens with his former secretary Sly which they promoted around Texas’s elderly homes where he didn't care for the virus. So, he said. But J.R. nevertheless bought thousands of masks back in February from the Chinese market. Bobby has moral concerns when he finds out about it, and starts to give them away for free to 'Dallas Memorial Hospital' and on a street corner downtown to help poor people. When his wife Ann joins him, she recognizes a familiar looking woman in a dangerous looking dead-end street: Sue-Ellen! The respected Mayor of Dallas is there to film a commercial because she’s now running for Governor. Her campaign manager and director Dusty wants to shoot the ad without a mask but Sue-Ellen insists to do it safe. “Do I have to remind you all that the 1980’s already taught us that? SAFE!” Christopher and John Ross decide to lockdown their 'Ewing Energy' offices.
April
Sue-Ellen’s political opponent Harris Ryland doesn’t mind embracing and handshaking everyone at Dora Mae’s 'Oil Barons Club' while telling customers and a TV crew “the flu isn’t real. It’s a hoax created by crazy liberals who also want us to believe that crooked psycho Katherine Wentworth isn’t dead!” Dora Mae closes her club right after that event because half of her staff is showing suspicious symptoms. When the Ewings watch Harris’s speech on their mobile phones at Southfork they’re shocked. Ann is so sad she decides to watch Supergirl instead where a villain who resembles her former husband is terrorizing the world with a guy who looks ten years older than the woman who plays his mother and who is also looking strangely familiar. Ann starts to feel really sick. Even weirder: Supergirl works for a young media tycoon who is the spitting image of that Barnes daughter that she once saw, many years ago when Christopher was still a teen and had an awkward tryst with her or was it John Ross?
Teresa, the lovable cleaning woman, cook, phone operator, and gardener of the Ewings introduces John Ross and Christopher to Elena and Drew, her niece and nephew. They decide to socially distance and stay on the ranch for the next days or weeks and wait what happens. Bobby warns J.R. not to invite any mistresses, they could be super-spreaders. Too late because Anita Smithfield, J.R.’s lawyer – and nurse for special needs - is already there to set up a new last will. Their master plan: to erase the memory of son and grand-son James-Richard and Jimmy Beaumont (for appearing in a Reality-TV show with "swim instructor" Peter Richards and cougar Michelle who's having affairs with all three of them - so tacky that it resulted in dismayed Vanessa's fatal heart-attack and more viewers for Netflix than Tiger King).
May
As Mayor of Dallas Sue-Ellen welcomes ‘Wentworth Barnes Today’- CEO Pamela-Rebecca who introduces her to China's new ambassador to the United States: the honorable Katherine Wentworth! For the first time since Reagan was President Sue-Ellen feels tempted to drink again but her office is alcohol-free. They tell their story: Katherine was hiding in China when Pamela-Rebecca studied pharmacy and Mandarin in Beijing, they met by coincidence or accident (you never know with Katherine) and became Insta-friends.
As unlikely as it sounds but when Pamela-Rebecca surprised Cliff in January with that special family reunion, Katherine and her brother reconciled over Gong bao ji ding (chicken, peanuts and chilli) – the last dinner they had with their mother. Katherine helped Pamela-Rebecca’s business in China to dominate the world market with hydroxychloroquine, a cure for malaria which they planned to sell overpriced to countries in Africa, Asia and South America. Little did they know that an unfit President would help them to make even more profit. Good news: By April they sold everything to the government and with that money and the help of straw man Jeremy Wendell (under alias name Casey Denault because nobody remembers him) they slowly bought all shares of 'Ewing Energy' - the stocks were falling since Christopher's and John Ross's lockdown. WHY? They came up with the plan when Pamela-Rebecca confessed to Katherine about a threesome she once had with Christopher and John Ross nobody knows of. She never got over it because they denied her more of it but nevertheless had more than she wished for: an STD and a broken heart. Hopeless romantic Katherine however hoped that Bobby asks for her money to help them out in re-buying the share capital. Bad news: Afton left Cliff after they returned to the States from China and escaped with the next plane to Germany in an attempt to revive her lounge singer "career" (it came to a halt with clubs closing but at least she's okay). Cliff himself tragically died a day later in a hotel when he fell into a needle filled with hydroxychloroquine. Nothing about it was suspicious the authorities ruled within ten minutes after they met his convincingly mourning sister whose story was confirmed by the staff, all with Chinese ancestors... After hearing so much drama from the Barnes-Wentworth women Sue-Ellen understandably wonders “Why are you telling me that? Don’t you have a hair stylist to listen to you?” Ouch – hit and sunk.
The British-Texan Beaumonts, TV stars turned activists for the Black Lives Matter movement think they know how it feels to be Black: it means the doors at Southfork are closed for them too. They team up with another of J.R.’s forgotten kids after they contact Cally, still a friend of James. Notorious oversize-model/ party-animal/ influencer Lucy is also excluded from Southfork – she decides to stay in Houston where ex-husband Mitch works in a hospital. Lucy helps as a volunteer in a cafeteria and Mitch is so impressed that he proposes to her again. They re-marry by Pentecost in a Zoom ceremony attended by his sister Afton and Lucy’s parents Val and Gary. Also visible on screen: two much younger people, finishing always each other's sentences, probably twins, whose faces are blurred due to bad connections (or copyright issues). If you think how boring wait 'til this paragraph ends. That same day Elena Ramos, Harris Ryland and Ann Ewing all die from complications with Covid-19. And despite Elena’s sudden death mother Carmen decides to stay at Southfork to stand in for sister Teresa when the long-serving maid of the Ewings feels terribly ill, coughing and sneezing...
June
J.R. Ewing is also dead due to Covid-19 but local and international news reports focus on an old lady named Lady Jessica. Jessica self-sacrificingly crocheted masks for her inmates in an asylum but didn’t wore one herself because, as she said in 15 seconds for TikTok, “it diminishes my dramatic facial expressions”. Her last words became a viral sensation and another reminder that anyone needs to wear masks. Especially the crazy ones who think they shouldn't.
Ann’s never-seen-before daughter Emma arrives for the Ewing’s double funeral from the horse stalls where she and John Ross secretly started to date weeks ago. Before Emma sets her plan in motion to marry John Ross, soon-to-be heir of his father's fortune and only sex-symbol with Ewing DNA that ever graced Southfork’s patio (young Jock from The Early Years aside), Sue-Ellen tells Emma a tragic story about her sister Kristin - whose son Christopher is overhearing the talk and now discovers for the first time that his "aunt" is actually his real aunt. Emma thinks she can do a Kristin without a dive into the pool but doesn't tell. And Sue-Ellen shares another secret with Emma: Carmen never married the father of her children. “So, Teresa is a Ramos? She has a last name that was never mentioned?” “Yes, as we never mention the name of J.R.’s kid with that country girl. Or that I can’t tell Bobby about meeting the ambassador of insanity a month ago.”
Meanwhile Christopher is having an affair with hunky Drew which infuriates devout Catholic Carmen so much that Teresa has a speedy recovery and asks her sister to leave. Uber driver Nicolás Treviño ignores all restrictions and chauffeurs Carmen to Mexico where Emma's grandmother Judith Ryland hires them as a stripper (Nicolás not Carmen!) and cook - a cover-up for Judith's drug lord ventures in their spin-off Crime Scene Acapulco.
July
In Bobby’s office at Southfork lawyer Anita informs the Ewings about J.R.’s last will. They all think it’s not that exciting. J.R. doesn’t own any part of Southfork, yes, a load of money but who cares? Indeed, everything is inherited by his sons John Ross Ewing and Cassidy Harper! And there the surprise heir comes through the door but wait - it’s a she! “Hi, I’m Cassidy Harper Ewing! Born in 1988 as a boy but years later I transitioned into this fabulous young woman”.
Cassie tells her family that she visited Miss Ellie a year ago in Geneva and got a new document including who will continue the legacy of owning Southfork should grandma die one day. In that moment James appears via Skype on Cassie’s iPhone gleefully telling the other Ewings that he knows "what is coming and it changes everything". While the Ewings nervously expect in tension and ecstatically edited close-ups what Cassie is about to read Teresa storms into the room to announce shocking news from Europe. “Ray and Jenna didn’t want to alarm you prematurely but Miss Ellie and Mr. Farlow are not safe in Switzerland. They were instead stuck somewhere in the Alps yesterday and it’s been confirmed,... I’m so sorry to tell you…they died in an avalanche in front of a car tunnel.” For a moment no one said another word. But it lasted not long enough.
August
At Southfork construction workers with masks expand the mansion for more space... but will there be ever enough? Or is there again the sound of terrible coughing and then an ambulance’s siren?
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Angela Channing
Telly Talk Veteran
They would get their drug pushing doctor, Harlan Danvers, to give Ellie a sedative.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
Telly Talk Champion
That was Harlan's answer for everything.
He gave Pam a sedative after Bobby saved her from wanting to commit suicide off the top of a building.
He gave Jenna a sedative after she went loopy following Bobby's death.
I think he even sedated Miss Ellie at one point too prior to her mastectomy.
Are there any others?
Billy Wall
Telly Talk Dream Maker
That was Harlan's answer for everything.
He gave Pam a sedative after Bobby saved her from wanting to commit suicide off the top of a building.
He gave Jenna a sedative after she went loopy following Bobby's death.
I think he even sedated Miss Ellie at one point too prior to her mastectomy.
Are there any others?
Sue Ellen? Or did they just throw her in the sanitarium when JR got tired of her? Lol
I brought this up a few days ago. Dallas had a habit of giving the women of the show sedatives. Lol
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
Telly Talk Champion
The biggest quack is this guy.
He was an Executive Story Consultant on the Cyntax Dallas & responsible for giving Cidre the storyline a Ramos Will Die which she of course altered to suit her own ends.
A pity he never sedated JR, that would've been worth watching!
CeeCee72
Telly Talk Star
Seriously...
When I was a kid (late 79s, early 80s) my mother suffered from migraines. The town doctor came by once a week to give her a shot. And when she was having "hormonal and emotional" issues, he would stop by with a sedative.
Happened in real life, not just on Dallas.
When I was a kid (late 79s, early 80s) my mother suffered from migraines. The town doctor came by once a week to give her a shot. And when she was having "hormonal and emotional" issues, he would stop by with a sedative.
Happened in real life, not just on Dallas.
Pound68
Telly Talk Member
This is hilarious. So true on Afton too. She was always making astute observations and completely ignored by everyone. Why did Cliff want useless shopgirl Pam in the office with him? Afton was probably a secret business genius!
Pound68
Telly Talk Member
Well the Ewings were all used to being under the same roof and Southfork is pretty big so it wouldn't be too awful for them. Assuming the help would all quarantine in their own homes, the best part would be watching them do all of the housework. JR making beds, Bobby doing laundry, Pam unsuccessfully trying to homeschool the kids cause math is hard for her. Suellen would attempt to cook and Miss Ellie would be an awesome ranch hand. Ray and Donna would be all teed off cause they couldn't just drop in every day for free breakfast.