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[Presea]

1. JR destroys Cliff with the dryhole scheme (season 5 dvd) and gloats about it to him.
2. JR threatens Pam that all hell will break loose if she marries Bobby again (season 7 dvd).
3. JR playing with John Ross at the kiddie park. (Just the fact that they actually had a monkey in this scene was awesome).
4. JR visits Walt Driscoll in prison and refuses to pay his bail.
5. JR gets "arrested" in Cuba. ("I am JR Ewing!!" Yeah, like they really cared about that. Lol!)
6. JR puts down Dusty for being impotent at the stadium. (It was mean, but effective.)
7. JR talks with Alan Beam outside while they enjoy some crummy hamburgers.
8. JR threatens Kristin: "Now is the time to be afraid."
9. JR attempts to rescue Sue Ellen and John Ross when Southfork is on fire.
10. JR talks with Sly about her betrayal (season 7 dvd), and offers her a double agent role.

 

[Presea]

Fantastic that means we can vote for Katherine!! Presea will be chuffed thank you again. Am I allowed to be cheeky and say that anyone who votes a Jenna scene among their favourite will get a slap from Pam? Lol ;-)

Yeah, I already have my favorite scenes for Katherine picked out! It's gonna be a blast when we get to it!

 

[Toni]

1- JR almost wins EO but Bobby eventually becomes the winner and agrees to share it (Check & Mate)

2- JR defends himself at the first voting at SF (Waterloo at SF)

3- JR looks at Jock's medal and then up to the sky (The Search)

4- JR remembers meeting Sue Ellen at the contest (Those Eyes)

5- JR holds jr for the first time (Paternity Suit)

6- JR threatens Kristin (A House Divided)

7- JR lies to Jock & Bobby about the Asian fields (Same ep.)

8- JR is put in jail in Cuba (Cuba Libre)

9- JR shaves his son (TNT)

10- JR reunites with Sue Ellen at the Ball (TNT)

 

[Ome]

After a week of wheeling and dealing

Throw in lots of sex & booze

And here are the results.​

1. Holding John Ross for the first time = 45

2. Threatens Wendell over Jock’s painting = 23

3. Destroying Cliff Barnes = 22

4. Tells Pam not to get back with Bobby = 18

5. What slut will you be sleeping with? = 17

6. Returns home telling Ellie they couldn’t find Jock, looks up to the sky = 16

7. Crying at Sue Ellen’s bedside = 13

8. Telling Kristin, time to be scared = 12

9. Lies to Jock’s face = 11

10. Pam slaps JR after Gerald / "Are you tryin' to flatter me or insult me? I can't make out which." / JR almost wins EO but Bobby eventually becomes the winner and agrees to share it = 10

11. Blue Sheets / Cries over Bobby in Swan Song / "Corn Crude... or Crude Porn or... Corn Pone" / JR says to Bobby who could feel sorry for that girl / JR defends himself at the first voting at SF / JR sweet talks Sue Ellen in JR Returns and tells her she's the only woman he's ever loved / JR puts down Dusty for being impotent at the stadium. / JR leaves to meet BD Calhoun and tells Sue Ellen he loves her / When he questions how many weeks pregnant SE is at end of episode and she slaps him / Arrested in Cuba = 9

12. New Beginnings - 'And you had something else. You looked like a lady / Pam says to jr 'see you at the office partner' / JR tries to rope Mama into baby-stealing / John Ross and that close shave / If that baby turns out not to be mine I'll give you the quickest divorce in Texas history and you can walk the streets for dimes' / Shows John Ross his office / Many yellow roses for Sue Ellen / Playing with John Ross in park = 8

13. Drunk & grief stricken over his Daddy / jr announces bobby and Jenna's engagement to Everyone in front of Pam / JR tells Bobby that family is important and that he's willing to put up with Pam back in the house if it makes Bobby happy / JR opens up about his feelings for Sue Ellen - in front of Mandy / JR and Sue Ellen on the bed at the end of Rodeo / JR leaves the asylum giving his fellow inmates well thought out gifts / JR visits Walt Driscoll in prison and refuses to pay his bail / JR remembers meeting Sue Ellen at the contest = 7

14. JR setting up Kristin at the condo in front of the whole family at dinner / jr visits Pam to confess his dislike of her and then says to get back together with bobby / JR compliments Val on her tuna sandwich / The things JR says to Cliff after he makes his speech after winning Oil Man Baron Of The Year / JR is back to his old self at the ball and leaves his walker to go sweet talk Sue Ellen / When he threatens Wes Parmalee "If you ever come near my son again.. / when he puts cliff down, your a small little man barnes / JR slaps Jeb Ames and says "Don't you ever threaten my brother, or any other Ewing" = 6

15. JR has his copy of Capricorn Crude autographed by the author / JR tells his father they didn't lose anything on the South East Asian Oil Deal since he sold off the deal to their friends / When JR reveals he set up Peter and tells Sue Ellen to save Peter "I want you back in my room and back in my bed... I expect to find you in my bed tonight, I'll probably be late, wait up for me" = 5

16. Marrying Sue Ellen the 2nd time / When Pam, in a black dress, slaps him for making a comment about her and mark and jr says 'damn I hate that woman' / JR talks with Alan Beam outside while they enjoy some crummy hamburgers / When he tells Lucy she should get Mitch to make her a new face - one without a mouth! = 4

17. Battle for Ewing Oil begins / When Pam, in the white dress, says 'you louse' at the 86-87 BBQ and slaps him again / JR laughs himself silly on learning Gary is moving to California / JR and Bobby compete for their father's approval to run Ewing Oil / Has Cliff arrested / you are nothing but a drunk a tramp and an unfit mother / Cliff thinks that he has got one over on JR when he lets him know he has a claim to Ewing 23 so JR shuts down the oil well = 3

18. JR visits Pam at her house to try and convince her to sell him Bobby's shares of Ewing oil / JR attempts to rescue Sue Ellen and John Ross when Southfork is on fire / JR is out celebrating with his family and finds out that James is his son / Miss Ellie pays JR a visit / Gloating to Cliff about how he bought him a dud piece of land = 2

19. When we realized JR was going to be a great villain! / The cliffhanger of 80-81 season where Pam, jr and sue Ellen are by the staircase and are trying to take john Ross away from him / JR meets Dusty at The Cotton Bowl / JR talks with Sly about her betrayal and offers her a double agent role / Even though he wasn't there, the letter he wrote to Sue Ellen / Pam agrees to sell her share of Ewing Oil to JR and JR speaks to Jock's portrait "It's taken a long time and a lot of hard work but finally it's all mine" / JR reunites with Sue Ellen at the Ball = 1

 

[Ome]

Up next

Favourite scenes with Jenna Wade

Totals next weekend​

 

[Victoriafan3]

All for the 'wrong' reasons you understand

1. Jenna wakes up with with gun in her hand after shooting Naldo

2. Jenna gets sent down

3. Pam tells Jenna she (pam) is a hard act to follow after the mechanical bull

4. Not that I ever saw it or cared but when she left Dallas for good

5. Katherine kills Jenna or did I just dream that? ;-)

 

[Ome]

Katherine kills Jenna or did I just dream that? ;-)

 

[Mel O'Drama]

1. “We both know that men like Bobby don’t grow on trees.”
Francine [S2 - Sue Ellen’s Choice]




2. “I really would understand if things weren’t the same any more.”
Prissy [S7 - Swan Song]




3. “Tonight’s just as good a time as any, I suppose.”
Morgan [S1 - Old Acquaintance]




4. "Ugh. Naldo!!"
Prissy [S7 - Odd Man Out]




5. The frosty ladies’ room scene with Pam, Sue Ellen, Afton and Katherine
Prissy [S6 - The Oil Baron’s Ball]




6. The park scene
Morgan [S1 - Old Acquaintance]




7. “Just like old times - except then you didn’t have to go home.”
Francine [S2 - Jenna’s Return]




8. Jenna tells Bobby to dance with Pam for old times' sake and then glares on.
Prissy [S6]




9. “You know I always get hungry.”
Morgan [S1 - Old Acquaintance]

 

[Tullamore]

Clearly the vote here will be when she leaves lol
Not me: I will add 2 unpopular ones; when she and Jack begin to get cosy (remember a fire side scene of think)

And when she actually hooked up with Ray and even though Charlie was unpopular I quite liked when she played up and this added a neat realism to the show.

 

[Angela Channing]

Sadly, I'll have to sit out this round. I quite liked Jenna at first but Prissy Presley's lame acting ruined the character for me to the extent that I can't think of a single scene she was in that I found particularly memorable (or perhaps more accurately, that I want to remember).

 

[Karin]

Thank you @Ome for giving Jenna her moment in the spotlight.

This is my Jenna list:


1. Jenna tells Pam that she knows now that Bobby was going to marry Pam before he died...


2. The nursery room scene where Jenna confesses her true feelings to Bobby. He doesn't feel the same and it's just heartbreaking.


3. Jenna and Ray comes home from their honeymoon and finds Charlie making out with Randy!


4. Bobby proposes to Jenna.


5. Jenna and Charlie discusses the baby and Jenna lets Charlie know that she loves her more than anyone else.


6. Jenna and Bobby flirts in the morning after the Oil baron's ball and we meet Charlie.


7. The ladies room scene at the oil barons' ball


8. Jenna confesses to Donna that she's afraid that she might have killed Naldo. She doesn't remember.


9. Jenna remembers what happened on the night of Lucy's wedding and realizes she would have lost Bobby even if he hadn't died.


10. Jenna tells Bobby why his name is on Charlie's birth certificate even though he is not Charlie's father.

 

[Karin]

Then here's a couple of more that are just below my list and won't be counted:


11. Jenna sets Bobby free when she is in prison and tells him not to wait for her.


12. Bobby and Jenna remembers their High School days after the Oil Baron's Ball


13. Bobby and Jenna bring the kids to the waterland.


14. Jenna tells Charlie Naldo is her father.


15. Jenna talks to Bobby at his grave


16. Jenna consoles Charlie about Bobby's death. "It's not fair!"


17. They find Charlie after she ran away from home. She's upset because Bobby's not her father.


18. Jenna and Bobby kiss in front of everyone at the rodeo


19. Jenna tells Bobby they shouldn't be rushing into marriage.


20. Jenna is arrested and Bobby hears about Charlie's kidnapping.

 

[Karin]

21. Jenna tells Bobby to dance with Pam for old times sake and then looks on jealously.







@Ome don't count 11-21 on my list. Just thought I'd post a few extra scenes to give some ideas to other fans who might have a hard time to remember Jenna scenes.

 

[Toni]

My Top Ten:

1- Jenna / Francine tells Pam that she also wants some Bobster (Sue Ellen´s Choice)
2- Jenna / Morgan admits to Pam and Bobby that Charlie is NOT his daughter (Old Acquaintance)
3- Jenna / Presley attacks poor Pam at the OBB in front of Sue Ellen, Afton and (meow) Katherine, who later calls her a witch (The Oil Barons´Ball)
4- Jenna tells Bobby they should post-pone their wedding (Swan Song)
5- Jenna tells Bobby to forget her when she is put in jail (Terms of Estrangement)
6- Jenna cries in jail while reading a letter from CharlieSkank (Deeds and Misdeeds)
7- Jenna is found next to Naldo´s corpse (Odd Man Out)
8- Jenna brags about winning Pam at the Rodeo (The Buck Stops Here)
9- Jenna sees through Katherine when she tries to buy her off (Morning After)
10- Jenna talks about Bobby´s love for emeralds - how fun it was, wasn´t it? (Blame It on Bogotá)
11- Jenna dies in an awful car accident (well, it happened in my fanfic "Ewing Empire", but wouldn´t it have been great? Yes, I know I´m wicked...)

 

[Victoriafan3]

Oh Karin that's an awful lot of Jenna in one place. I might need dr Elby to get me through the trauma of seeing so much of her

 

[Mel O'Drama]

Jenna wakes up with with gun in her hand after shooting Naldo

Jenna is found next to Naldo´s corpse

I've edited my choices to include this one. It's got a special association.

This was the final scene the BBC showed before pulling Dallas off the air for months due to a bidding war with ITV. I was really looking forward to the next episode, but then a voiceover announced that Dallas would be back "later in the year".

For some time I believed this episode was an official season finale, so it felt (and still feels) more important to me than it would have done otherwise.

 

[Ome]

It's got a special association.

This was always going to be my number one and would feature in a top ten of all scenes because it totally knocked me for six when it aired. I have no memory of there been a break between episodes, which makes me wonder why its ranked so highly on my memories from the show.

I never liked Jenna because I knew she was the one person who could keep Bobby & Pam apart, but when this happened everything changed. I was really upset that she had been framed with what seemed an eternity before she was eventually vindicated.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

I have no memory of there been a break between episodes

It was quite a big deal at the time and I think made the news.

And of course because we fell behind, there were oodles of spoilers in the tabloids while it was off the air. Bobby's death in particular was common knowledge way ahead of time. I remember seeing a News Of The World spread with photos of Bobby getting run over in the driveway months before it finally aired here.

I found this about it:

In January 1985, the company made a deal with international distributors for US production company Lorimar to purchase the UK broadcasting rights for US drama Dallas, at that time transmitted on BBC1. This broke a gentlemen's agreement between the two sides not to poach each other's imported shows. Thames paid £55,000 a show compared to the £29,000 of the BBC. The deal brought condemnation from the BBC and from other ITV stations, who feared the BBC would poach their imports, pushing up prices. The BBC delayed transmission of the episodes of Dallas that they already had, planning to broadcast them at the same time Thames broadcast their new purchases. Ultimately, pressure from several ITV companies (especially Yorkshire Television) to the IBA, forced Thames to sell the series back to the BBC at a loss. Bryan Cowgill, the managing director of Thames left the company as he believed his position was untenable since the board were unwilling to support his plans to buy the series. In October, Thames paid the BBC, via the IBA, £300,000 in compensation to make up the short fall in additional cost for new episodes of Dallas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Television



(Sorry about the red text in the quote. It wasn't showing as highlighted in the text box and I must've missed a couple when editing them out).

 

[JROG]

I'm really horrible at coming up with lists like these, but when I think of Jenna, the one scene that immediately comes to mind is her waking up on the floor of the hotel room. That's probably one of my faves of the entire show.

 

[Maryann]

My favorite scenes of Jenna my least favorite character are :

1. When Bobby dumps her played by PP and tells her he asked Pam to marry him.

2. When the jury found her wrongfully guilty of killing Naldo.

3. Nursery room scene where Jenna confessed to Bobby she still loves him even though she is married to Ray and Bobby tells her he will not be coming around anymore (even with Pam gone he doesn't want her or feels the same way).