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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 228986" data-attributes="member: 22">Call Waiting (KNOTS, 04 Feb 93) v Cally on a Hot Tin Roof (DALLAS, 08 Dec 89)   In ‘The Call of the Wild’, John Ross questioned why his father would choose to hunt animals when you can buy food from a store. Similarly in ‘Cally on a Hot Tin Roof’, JR scoffs at his new wife for creating her own vegetable garden. “You ever hear of a supermarket?” he asks, before driving over it.Likewise in ‘Call Waiting’, Greg Sumner drives over an elderly couple’s flower garden — while on a steamroller. But whereas JR’s behaviour is deliberately cruel, Greg’s is a well-intentioned but ultimately cack-handed attempt to Do the Right Thing, which pretty much sums up KNOTS’ stab at addressing the aftermath of the LA riots. Every time a black character appears on screen in this episode, it’s impossible to overlook the fact that they are a supporting player in a story that supposedly represents their lives. The harder KNOTS tries to show otherwise, the clearer it becomes that while black lives matter, they don’t matter anywhere near as much as the lives of the regular cast (which, in the absence of the Williamses, is exclusively white once again).Anne Matheson, or Sumner as she is now, is the standout player in this ep. She doesn’t pretend to care about the LA riots story; she just resents how much of Greg’s time it’s taking up. Her honest indifference is refreshing. But while she’s as enjoyably shallow as ever, there’s also an underlying poignancy about her. This is the ep where she smashes a mirror after looking at her own reflection. (It’s the first time anyone on KNOTS has done that since Annie Fairgate in the first episode. This creates a combined total of fourteen years’ bad luck, i.e., the entire length of the series.) Anne then consults a plastic surgeon before spending the afternoon getting drunk in Nick’s restaurant. She and the perky but troubled Vanessa make an enjoyably odd combination (“I really admire you,” says Vanessa. “That admiration is the basis of our friendship,” Anne replies), especially when Vanessa comes over all X-FILES and warns her to trust no-one.‘Cally on a Hot Tin Roof’ is driven by the repercussions of a lie Michelle told Cally in the previous episode. Believing JR and Michelle have slept together, Cally makes JR believe she’s slept with Alex Barton. This causes JR to threaten Michelle (and deliver the memorable line, “It'll be a chilly morning in Hell before I let a money-hungry bitch like you into my bed!”), coerce Alex into leaving the country by framing him as a predatory pervert, sleep with Diana Farrington for real and then gloat about his infidelity to Cally. It’s then that he trashes her garden. Before exiting the show, Alex convinces him that he and Cally didn’t have sex after all. JR rushes back to Southfork, but it’s too late — Cally’s taken an overdose!Elsewhere in the ep, April takes one look at Bobby with Kay Lloyd and turns into a drunken, tearful, jealous mess. It’s not that Sheree J Wilson is bad in these scenes (and better "Drunk and Angry April" than “Wacky Funster April”), it’s just that her outburst seems to come out of nowhere. In fairness, it subsequently emerges that her problem isn’t so much Kay as her own insecurities about her relationship with Bobby, and the fact that while he may be the love of her life, she isn’t necessarily the love of his. And if she is gonna end the season as the next Mrs Bobby Ewing, then I guess it's preferable for the writers to address the Victoria Principal-shaped elephant in the room rather than skim over it.Oh, and let's not forget Trump’s second wife Marla Maples smiling vacantly as a West Star PR exec.[MEDIA=youtube]JUVkeO8sZnM[/MEDIA]And the winner is ... Cally on a Hot Tin RoofBONUS BEATS:[MEDIA=youtube]Sr2GYsynCFg[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?