TIVO is, of course, quite useful for soccer games as well although there are rather frequent replays on the various outlets at the WWL. I’ll be rooting for Gunners ‘cuase it would really be a shame for them to finish the season empty handed and at this point the CL looks better than the Prem. They are finally healthy and I like their chances if they can pull it out against Liverpool today.

Also, there’s a channel called SoapNet which shows Dallas every day M-F, and like TNN used to do they simply show all 13 seasons in sequence and then go back to episode 1 and start over again. It’s tivo-tastic, although the season DVDs are better: no commercials, so each episode is 40 minutes flat.

Actually, I never was into Dallas when it was in it’s original run when i was a kid- saw it 0 times. I had a roommate in college- none other than Solon- who watched/taped the daily reruns on TNN religiously, and after a couple of years of making fun of him I gave in one day and watched one, and that was all she wrote. The yin/yang of it is there are several people that have made fun of me about Dallas who have never seen it, and I have sat them down and had them watch the 1st episode ever, “Digger’s Daughter”, and every single one of them 1) stopped making fun of me and 2) got hooked to some degree.

I’ve almost got Swindle hooked- right now he’s like a young impressionable teenager to whom I have given his first 3 crack rocks for free, and he’s getting hooked and coming back for more.

re: The Arsenal, thanks. I have no idea how it will turn out tomorrow, but knowing that they have to score a goal helps in a way- they know exactly what they have to do. I wouldn’t surprised to see yet another 1-1 and it go to penalties {where of course Arsenal will lose}. Fingers crossed…

It was always a struggle circa 1980, 1981 or so to get my parents to let me stay up to watch it. Loved it loved it loved. Virtually every episode a classic. It did degrade somewhat meaningfully in the last few years. A little too repetative.

I sure hope Arsenal prevail Mercyside tomorrow. The Prem is looking a little iffy though the Man U slip up should help.

Agreed, but then everything about the first 5-6 seasons was infinitely better than the last 6 or 7, most of all Jim Davis as Jock.

At least when Ray was revealed to be a Ewing it significantly added to the “holy shit!” factor of the whole show to learn that in addition to being a 33 year old ranch foreman who was committing what is legally considered stat rape on his boss’ granddaughter, now he had also been doing the aforementioned with his step-niece as well, and that Lucy was fucking her step-uncle instead of going to high school when she was 16, in addition to drinking and rocking a little drug habit.

That’s some pretty out there shit NOW, let alone 1978.

Tell Ty Webb we all said hello.

Ya think Hagman hit Barbara Eden his personal “genie”. Oh yeah, add another to the list.

Nice Gettysburg reference. Longstreet was more known as a defensive coordinator, hence the defeat.

But I will stand my my assertion that Dallas is the best TV show in history {certainly the first 6-7 years, with Jock, before the stupidity of the dream season followed by the show’s long slow decline}, and that bar none J.R. Ewing is the greatest TV character of all time.

And that’s not even touching on the amazing awesomeness that is Larry {5 bottles of champagne a day on the set} Hagman.

Okiedomer- Redman proves once again that he is baked 24/7, as Sue Ellen is probably the least attractive piece of ass of any non minor character in the whole run of the show. Linda Gray did a great acting job as Sue Ellen, but most all the other women on Dallas were significantly hotter {Pam, Lucy, Afton Cooper, Jenna Wade, Callie, even Julie Gray, Holly Harwood, Sly, Mandy Winger, Merilee Stone, Mr. Eugene’s hot ass wife, etc, etc} to the point that the fact that she was a former Miss Texas {which is how she met J.R.} was a bit laughable.

FYI- Over the 357 episodes of Dallas, Ultimate Dallas has J.R. bedding 29-30 different women, but I’m pretty sure that the real number is much higher. They are leaving out things like when Jock/Sue Ellen call J.R. on a “business trip” to inform him that at last Sue Ellen is pregnant, and he is talking on the phone at a party with an escort all over him, then tells Sue Ellen that he is stuck and won’t be able to fly home until morning- he totally hit that but they didn’t count it because it wasn’t revealed directly- there are many such additional conquests in the run of the show, I’d put his tally at closer to 50 in 357 episodes.

http://www.ultimatedallas.com/news/database3.htm

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