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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 200953" data-attributes="member: 22">And the Winner Is ... (DALLAS, 02 Mar 84) v Anniversary (DALLAS, 19 Feb 82)<img src="https://dallasdecoder.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/critique-dallas-episode-153-and-the-winner-is-e280a6-2-copy.jpg?w=584" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> <img src="https://dallasdecoder.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/critique-dallas-episode-95-anniversary-1-copy.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> And the Winner Is ... includes one of my favourite ever scenes from the Krebbs marriage. It might also be the most KNOTSian scene in all of DALLAS. Ray and Donna return home from Maryland, having learned about Edgar Randolph’s past during the previous episode. While Ray is appalled by what they’ve found out and refuses to discuss it, Donna alternately pleads and argues with him to show some Edgar some compassion. (Donna: “Tell me somethin’. Have you ever done anything in your life that you were ashamed of?” Ray: “Sure.” Donna: “‘Sure, sure.’ Looky here, I don’t mean just ‘sure, sure, sure,’ I mean did you ever do anything that you were really ashamed of, that nobody ever found out? … Wouldn’t you hope that I would be understanding, that I would be forgiving?”) It’s a little surprising to hear such a morally intransigent character as Donna asking for tolerance, but that's part of what's so interesting about the scene.Of course, it’s all tied into the offshore oil lease auction storyline where JR suckers Cliff into overbidding for Gold Canyon 340. While Edgar Randolph totally convinces as a man tormented by his own dark past, Cliff makes for an amusingly jittery nervous wreck. The scene where JR goads him into going ahead with the high-risk deal by calling his daddy a loser at the Oil Baron’s Club feels almost cartoon-like, but it works.Two years earlier in Anniversary, Ray gives good self-loathing after JR arranges for Donna to walk in on him and Bonnie in bed together. “She has no choice but to leave me now,” he mutters, swigging from a bottle.Both episodes feature an older woman/younger man scenario. In And the Winner, Peter Richards resorts to modelling sunglasses with Lucy at Southfork just to be near Sue Ellen, but she coldly rejects him. In Anniversary, Mitch refuses to sleep with Evelyn Michaelson so she invites Lucy to lunch and pretends they’re having an affair. Lucy is so upset she winds up in bed with weirdo Roger.In the same ep, Bobby buys Pam an aerobics business solely to distract her from Christopher’s adoption hearing. This has always felt a bit random, but it does provide a stepping stone in Pam’s evolution from a mere employee of The Store to the quasi-business executive she is when Cliff begs her to come in on the offshore deal with him two years later.And the winner is ... And the Winner Is ...BONUS BEATS:[MEDIA=youtube]fGS8qc_EGXM[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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