Your top Jock lines.

[Guzzler’s Frightening Hair]

DALLAS was always ambitious.

I was just going to say “Horatio Alger and Ghandi” thinking the former is like the embodiment of the “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” American Dream, but then decided to look it up and he’s a writer and his characters generally made it to “comfortable middle class” (the American version of middle class, meaning basically ‘homeowner who’s not living paycheck to paycheck’ and not like a British “haven’t been knighted yet and didn’t grow up in a castle” version). So I tried to shoehorn Rockefeller in there for ‘massive oil wealth’.

(It’s this sort of timeless, boundless, extra-manly ambition that sets DALLAS, which is really a gritty Western they’d never show at the Gardens restaurant, apart from the other supersoaps like DYNASTY and that one with Valene and the guy from Kojak and the other ones with wineries and/or aliens.)

 

[DallasFanForever]

Tough to choose my favorite Jock line but I’ve always been partial to “What do you mean close?” Sometimes with Jock it was his expression in delivering the line that made it so memorable for me.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Basically, everything that Jock said was gold!