Which is your favorite Dallas episode or moment?

[Ladies Of Southfork]

The arrival of Cally Harper Ewing at Southfork! I absolutely love this moment! This may quite possibly be my favorite scene. When she barges in on dinner at Southfork and announces she is JR's wife, the whole room went into shock. Miss Ellie's face is priceless! She is so stunned, her mouth is dropped open and no words are coming out. Every time they would show her she had the same stunned expression. It was hilarious! Truth be told, everyone nailed this scene! All the while JR is denying the marriage is real.

Sorry for the terrible pictures. But, their expressions were just too funny.

This is that scene:

 

[DallasFanForever]

The arrival of Cally Harper Ewing at Southfork! I absolutely love this moment! This may quite possibly be my favorite scene. When she barges in on dinner at Southfork and announces she is JR's wife, the whole room went into shock. Miss Ellie's face is priceless! She is so stunned, her mouth is dropped open and no words are coming out. Every time they would show her she had the same stunned expression. It was hilarious! Truth be told, everyone nailed this scene! All the while JR is denying the marriage is real.

Miss Ellie saying “Are you hungry child?” to Cally always makes me laugh. Poor J.R., you’d think he would’ve learned to keep the Southfork gates closed by now.

 

[southfork88]

Definitely a funny scene, but Dallas wasn't a sitcom. Worst season ever, the following ones were a tad more interesting.

 

[LMLDallas78]

Certainly none of the above. What on earth was Larry thinking of allowing that story and choosing CP for the role. Cringe.

I can only imagine he was wanting to live out some real life fantasy.

Silly stupid storyline that made a mockery of Dallas and JR's character and was only the start of what rubbish was to follow.

Dallas wasn't a sitcom.

Unfortunately that's what it to turned into. Bringing in a bit of light humour (that wasn't needed) and what we got was...... well it's not printable on here.

As for my favourite episode or moment, I think we can all guess!

 

[Barbara Fan]

Welcome to the forum @Ladies Of Southfork

But for me

The arrival of Cally On Dallas, let alone SF, was the realisation that Dallas was totally dumbing down and was starting to resemble a show that had little bearing on the Dallas I loved from 1978..
I couldnt stand her character, her acting, the voice, and how she got an Actors card I will never know. Also JR with a girl young enough to be his grandaughter was just iccky and made him look and old pervert.
Kim Cryder I could accept as similar ages. It was all so wrong and she was a huge nail in the "Dallas is dying" coffin

I hated Hailleyville, Cally and all that went with it, certainly something i fwd on VHS tape and later on DVD

But it would be a dull world of we all liked the same!!

 

[LMLDallas78]

Also JR with a girl young enough to be his grandaughter was just iccky and made him look and old pervert.

You're so right. I wanted to put dirty old man.

Nothing wrong in age gap relationships but this looked perverse.

 

[Ladies Of Southfork]

I couldnt stand her character, her acting, the voice, and how she got an Actors card I will never know. Also JR with a girl young enough to be his grandaughter was just iccky and made him look and old pervert.

Let me clarify. I hated Cally's character. I agree completely with you on that. It was her first appearance at Southfork that I found absolutely hilarious. It was that specific scene that makes me laugh every time. Specifically because the reactions of everyone in the room was exactly how it would play out in real life. People would be so shocked they would be stunned to silence.

 

[Kaleid]

I don't know if it was my absolute favorite moment, but one that stands out to me is the last 2 minutes of the 'Winds of Vengeance' episode, which features very little dialog, but communicates so much, simply through the glances and facial expressions of the characters. The looks Sue Ellen and JR give each other speak volumes, and there's a nice moment where Bobby and Pam are headed upstairs and Bobby notices Pam shooting daggers at Ray, and he changes his demeanor toward him, realizing that whatever just went down, Ray was partly responsible for it.

It was a nice bit where the writers let the moment organically play out rather than beat the audience over the head with the characters overexplaining the events and the upcoming fallout.

 

[Lastkidpicked]

I don't know if it was my absolute favorite moment, but one that stands out to me is the last 2 minutes of the 'Winds of Vengeance' episode, which features very little dialog, but communicates so much, simply through the glances and facial expressions of the characters.

It was a nice bit where the writers let the moment organically play out rather than beat the audience over the head with the characters overexplaining the events and the upcoming fallout.

This is a good example of why the early seasons were much better than the last seasons. The writers trusted the audience to pick up on these subtle tones.

 

[LMLDallas78]

The looks Sue Ellen and JR give each other speak volumes

Love love love that scene. JR trying to hand Sue Ellen her coat and she shrugs it off. She had already been through a humiliating mental rape and now JR wants to cover her up.

As you say their silence and the looks they give each other said it all. Then Ray has the look from her as he should.

Bobby and Pam are headed upstairs

Was a little sad that these two just went upstairs, but then no one went to Sue Ellen to support her before JR did.
I agree about the overexplaining but Sue Ellen crouching down in her swimming costume shouldn't have been ignored.