Dallas - JR Slaps Sue Ellen

[@Charlottemadeleinec]

"I've been just as faithful to our marriage vows as you have." LOL Sue Ellen is the best, such a lady.

[@golddust8912]

"I've been just as faithful to our marriage vows as you have, darlin'." LOVE HER!

[@robertscott8344]

So that means she hasn't been which can easily tell jr the truth cause he hasn't never been.

[@raymawalters4994]

Nobody could get under JR's skin like Sue Ellen and I enjoyed it everytime she she did it.

[@astaciamckinnis3969]

Hell yeah

[@EagleArrow]

👍 and Pam.

[@edwardmalone5257]

You're right. Nobody like Sue Ellen. In subsequent years, Clayton would do it, but not like Sue Ellen.

[@tanny4u2]

Omg exactly, she had his number 😂😂

[@scotterwin9445]

What are you gonna tell the boys at the club? LOL

[@iamcasihart]

I fucking LOVE Sue Ellen!!! NO ONE could go up against JR the way that she could. I remember watching Dallas with my Mom when I was very young. (Knots Landing, Falcon Crest and Dynasty, too)...They don't make night time soaps like Dallas anymore!

[@llee8825]

This scene was proof at how great and talented Linda Gray is an actress.

[@jaylore6516]

Amazing scene by one of primetime's legendary couples. 'Dallas' was the diamond standard for nighttime serials.

[@thinkthensend9228]

Any scene with Sue Ellen is a scene to be seen.

[@chuckles1972]

I love how Sue Ellen use to punk JR.

[@tanedasmith9370]

He got out that chair so quick, I was in shock😳😳😳😳😳😂😂😂😂

[@material___]

I love the way she effortlessly emasculated him.

[@robertscott8344]

Talked him down to bitterness of she's been feeling for those years trying too conceive and all he's been doing to her is neglecting.

[@peacethroughstrength172]

Give me a break, nobody does that to ole J.R. now! Savor the flavor, they don't last against him haha. Great show

[@TheScottAllenKennedy]

Sue Ellen's reaction to the slap is the very best She was an absolute HOOT! I Loved the way she accentuated and enunciated certain words, to drive the stake further into JRs "heart". Sue Ellen rules!

[@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748]

TheScottAllenKennedy, while J.R. 🤤 drools in his Western Cowboy 🤠 boots.🤣 👢

[@PFCD]

Powerful performances by two great actors who really had chemistry. I believed every word each of them said just as if it wasn't acting!

[@teddygianni1371]

Wow, how times have changed. They couldn't get away with this scene today. A pregnant woman drinking and a husband slapping her?

[@carolynargabright8132]

Thank Heavens for DVD's, and other forms of watching these old shows, where a Man was allowed to act like a man, without him being labeled chauvinistic

[@GeorgeFreeman55]

Yes it's terrible that a pregnant woman should drink.

[@ronyeahright9536]

yeah, today she would be snorting heroin

[@cjh661]

@@ronyeahright9536 🤣🤣🤣

[@erikandrus4387]

@@GeorgeFreeman55 it wasn't uncommon then that she would have a sip of Champagne if she was pregnant. This is just the calm before the storm that overtakes Sue Ellen from alcoholism. She drank throughout all that pregnancy and was even warned by her obstetrician about fetal alcohol poisoning.

[@snoops71]

"Dallas" was a mess- one of the BEST of all time! I still love it.

[@stell29]

I love the way JR says "I'll do anything I want too"

[@JWDrama1980]

One of my favorite scenes from Dallas

[@alstonboy4315]

Rest in peace, Larry Hagman!!

[@DMJ9012]

One of the best scenes this show has produced. "Don't you ever do that again" "I'll do whatever I want" And the score... Superb 👌

[@hotgritz4sho]

DMJ9012 JR was a vicious bastard who cared very little about his wife. Sue Ellen was more of a possession to him & he treated Pam & Donna & Valene & Lucy horribly! He had little respect for women. He deserved all the misery he got through the years and more.

[@MsTexas73]

@@hotgritz4sho Right. JR learned a very hard lesson over the years. In the end though he realized the mistake he made regarding Sue Ellen and her value for sure.

[@hotgritz4sho]

@@MsTexas73 I’ve always thought they should’ve written a prequel to “Dallas: The Early Years,” or just simply “Ewing.” Here we could explore all the dynamics between JR & Bobby and Cliff and the twisted relationships between Jock and his sons including JR, Bobby, Gary, and even Ray!

[@FischerFan]

I love Sue Ellen's fashion in this clip. She's dressed like the perfect date!

[@coreyleandra]

Sue Ellen owned jr

[@derekmathews1818]

One of the very few times that Sue Ellen owned JR.

[@Boophooh]

Derek Mathews True, but she did...

[@Delicious1922]

I will FOREVER love Sue Ellen!!!

[@Nerdbabe91]

Yessssssss

[@airkuna]

U LESBIAN

[@MrCraigblaze]

Old Dallas....love it!

[@MsTexas73]

She didn't have to...she slapped him straight in the face with her WORDS! he was SPEECHLESS.

[@rosemarylopez8493]

That's right!

[@GBPackFan62]

"Chances are this little bastard ahm carryin' is yours!" 😂

[@RamonaHaygood]

Loved this show.

[@phx4closureman]

3:07 "Like I say, J.R..... " 😆😆😆😆 LOVE that Silky SMOOTH Texas accent of hers!!

[@alanslevin8223]

It was a fabulous Texas accent from a un-natural Texan. The only natural Texan in the show was Fortworth born Larry Martin Hagman. Did you know it was Linda Greys legs in the seduction scene in the Graduate?

[@jennhunt1996]

"I'll do anything I want to". Haha! JR was such a bad ass.

[@bklyngirlNY1]

Handle it, Sue Ellen. That's my girl. She gets right up in JR's space and don't take ISH from him.

[@noeliafernando2803]

Best scene ever. 🤣🤣🤣

[@MondoBeno]

Definitely. 80's prime-time soaps were the best. Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest; they were all well-written and had great actors.

[@tombaringer633]

Sue Ellen's voice sounds young and fresh here guess it was all that booze that made her sound like a rusty liquor cabinet in latter seasons.

[@EagleArrow]

"Something wrong here!"🤣 He is trying to calculate. Her hair looks good here before the big Hollywood hair trying to compete with Dynasty. This is what made Dallas!

[@hoagie1978]

Yes. Pam's hair was nice too in season 1 before she got that shag.

[@EagleArrow]

@@hoagie1978 The perm!🤣 Pam got the perm. Miss. Ellie had to say, "nice new hair style Pam.".

[@hoagie1978]

@@EagleArrow She got kind of a shaggy perm around 1979. In 1981 she got the Rick James Super Freak Perm that Miss Ellie had to compliment when she came down the stairs. Victoria Principal was in commercials for Jhirmack hair products for years. They may have contributed to those "Hair-Don'ts"

[@EagleArrow]

@@hoagie1978 🤣 Rick James...yep...that's what it looked like. I didn't watch to much tv growing up...the era...so I don't recall her in commercials or knew she sang a hit with Andy Gibb. I recall the song, just never knew she sang it with him. Now the hairdos make sense. I don't think Barbara liked her perm...Sue Ellen's hair was chopped off after season 5. She did not look good in short hair.

[@fionabeswick7155]

Love those 70s clothes. Look what happens later, when the 70s becomes the 80s and fashion commits suicide.Should bring back 70s style: wearable and rational and feminine all at once. No Spanx or waist trainers...not even any bras....looked great.

[@fionabeswick7155]

and now the 70s is back! People are going around dressed like Wonder Woman! (as Diana Prince, I mean). Its a pity they arent as incredibly slim as Wonder Woman but it still looks ace. And nobody is that slim now anyway, not even skinny people!.

[@justina249]

I was born in 82 so missed all of that. But what was the deal about the bell bottoms? I thought they were so dorky looking

[@edwarda2033]

Sue Ellen: Stranger things have happened JR: not to me they haven’t.

[@hardren101]

Dallas....one of the all time best shows of the late 70's and 80's. kinda ran outta gas with the death of jock and by s6 they were pretty much dead in the water. but until s5 they were the greatest. larry hagman was under rated as an actor...he was one of the all time greats!!!! I dream of jeanie did not do him justice.

[@MrBradv65]

Great scene from one of the best couples written for television.

[@barihope]

They were one of the worst couples ever. Toxic and terrible. Sorry. Did love dallas though.

[@KoTM25681]

J.R. laid the pimp hand down....

[@Msprissyish85]

JR and Sue Ellen were my favorite characters on Dallas.

[@TTUHSL]

Shows how unrepentant JR is here! He's the father of John Ross, and he won't own up to it. And the fact that he won't apologize to Sue Ellen for the slap makes him a reprobate!

[@reneexuereb8485]

Sue Ellen was such a lush in the early years. She really overcame many of her personal defects and JR’s abuse.

[@DarlingNikki2]

It's a real shame Linda Gray never earned an Emmy for her fantastic performance as Sue Ellen, particularly her downward spiral into abject drunkeness (watching her stumbling around downtown Dallas sloshed out of her mind scared me as a kid) and relentless climb out of it (I loved it when she got back at JR by using probably his second most hated nemesis Jeremy Wendell). She was a true gift to TV back then and played against Larry Hagman amazingly.

[@didierlabossiere4726]

With all the women he’s slept with, he’s judging HER??

[@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748]

Didier Labossiere, an unfortunate 😕 to be brutal honest here, yes.

[@EagleArrow]

I loved watching Sue Ellen and JR, but Miss Ellie was the true bomb. Class, grace, honesty and strength without games. She ruled all the men.

[@ksbaxter]

"I'll do anything I want to." Loved how the way says it. One lesson I learned. Don't mess with JR Ewing. =)

[@5annent]

Jr rarely get fighting physical mad , sue ellen knew how to push his buttons) can't believe I still like this old show) I hear ~40yrs) &I'm a Blk dude lol)

[@MsDaytime]

How have times changed.. notice that she's pregnant and drinking.. and JR slapping a pregnant lady would never fly in this day and time. lol

[@elgrigorio1]

Well TV shows emulate life, and unfortunately these things happen. There is no need to censor anything.

[@barihope]

For me slapping someone never flies at any time. Jr n sue Ellen were a toxic disaster n among the worst dallas or primetime couple. Sorry. Loved the show otherwise though.

[@MelodyMaker151]

My girl Sue Ellen for the win! 😂

[@nellyluscious]

Wow!! The best slap tooken!! lol

[@karentarkington236]

Ha...how 'bout that line as faithful as u...dang!..thangs that make u go hmmm. They were made for each other.

[@aped]

They just don't make shows like this anymore. TV is so crappy nowadays.

[@phx4closureman]

1:47 JRs eyes batting and LIGHT SPEED trying to figure out how Sue Ellen got pregnant after 7 years of trying.. 🤤🤤🤤

[@justina249]

They hardly ever had sex and then the affair with cliff and she winds up pregnant that would be suspicious

[@rogerrousco2921]

In the early days Jr. Was not adverse to using force, even being a thug paying to dispatch others. He even once threw a punch at Bobby when he accused Pam of helping Sue Ellen get John Ross. He slapped Jeb etc. But he knew place and time. Loved those early days

[@hoagie1978]

J.R. also tried to set Pam up several times and caused her to miscarry when she fell from the hayloft.

[@TheEwing69]

Season 1, when Sue Ellen still had a southern accent, lol Great scene.

[@laminage]

On the Soap Opera Guiding Light that was also something that happened. For example Reva played by Kim Zimmer had a Southern Accent since she was from Tulsa, OK., Olivia Spencer played by Crystal Chappel had a Mediteranean Accent since she lived on The Fictitious Island of San Cristobel, and Jessica Leccia who played Natalia had a Latin Accent but in 2009 it disappeared.

[@a.b.sproductionsllc]

laminage Reva Shayne’s southern or midwestern accent was annoying in the early years.

[@PungiFungi]

I wondered when Linda Gray dropped it. I also found it odd that Cliff Barnes have a southern drawl but Pam never had an accent.

[@Minister2You]

JR forgot, a married woman do not have illegitimate kids, even if it is not the husband's. The ultimate payback for a cheating husband..have him raise some one else's kid!

[@lindagurrera685]

How did he figure it out so quickly?

[@susan5048]

Since when does a pregnant woman drink ?........

[@valiumland]

@Yangedd It's "our connubial rights with anything approaching regularity." Did you type that with your feet?

[@Rosannasfriend]

two things a pregnant woman shouldn't do, drink and get slapped. JR was disgusting, but Sue Ellen was also wrong to drink.

[@fionabeswick7155]

A glass of champagne isnt going to make any difference. Its just policing pregnant women for nothing.

[@erikandrus4387]

+Rosannasfriend In this scene, Sue Ellen wasn't a full fledged alcoholic...yet...Every affair J.R. had, Sue Ellen was humiliated over and she drank more and more to offset the hurt and probably the hormones from her pregnancy. What we see here is a customary toast to pregnancy rather common in the 70's and still is...However, in the story, this was just a warning shot. To be honest, the writers never were taken to task over the potential of fetal alcohol poisoning on the child which would have caused physical or mental problems that may last a lifetime.

[@sheairbutters107]

This was the 70s and the link between alcohol and birth defects hadn't fully been established yet. As for the slap, it's dramatics.

[@a.b.s_productions]

J.R slapped Sue Ellen sober. 2:25

[@edwardmalone5257]

She acted all arrogant with J.R., but months later, she was an alcoholic escaping a sanitarian and giving birth to a premature baby. As Bobby said, "You can't play games with J.R.; he's too good at them."

[@jasonmichael3676]

Nobody ever knew for sure who the real father was on Dallas.

[@carolynargabright8132]

Until the end of the third season.

[@stephaniebibb9102]

She should have taken him to the Maury Povich show, JR Ewing, you are NOT the father!

[@northfloridatrans]

CHANCES R IT'S YOURS!!!!! WORK BYTCH!!!!!!

[@MsTexas73]

Back in the 70s...it was considered "ok" to have wine while preggie...even today a woman can have a glass.

[@bwill613]

Usually it's JR that recieves the end of a punch or a slap, but rare to see him slap someone like Sue Ellen or punch Cliff in later seasons.

[@realazduffman]

I knew that was coming!

[@jephsteph]

I love that scene! I think that was the only time JR ever slapped Sue Ellen during the series.

[@airkuna]

No. 3 more times!

[@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748]

That man had been smacked and a punched by a many others, now that's how awful that J.R. Ewing was. 😂 🤚🏼

[@robinquinc329]

@jennhunt1996 Yes, I do realize that he was only a tv villain! But whether it was real or fiction, when a man stoops to hit a woman shows how little he is.And you are right, he is a punk ,an asshole, a selfish SOB and a bastard. And I too know how to separate fiction from reality. And I am not trying to school you. Just stating my opinion as you are yours. Nice t o hear someone else's viewpoint though. Thanks.

[@mistyhustad7121]

I don't think it's any way a defense, but I think a lot of men might have lost their temper had their wife just informed them she was carrying another man's baby, especially in such a smug way. I actually think cheating and getting pregnant are worse than him losing his temper one time over the fact that she did it. However, he's a much worse cheater than she is so I didn't feel bad for him, but if you were simply comparing who was worse in this one situation it was clearly her. As much of an SOB as he was I never once saw JR hit her before this, and I never once saw him hit her after this. If this was the only example of how he treated her I actually wouldn't think little of him that being said while I don't think he is a wife beater he clearly abused her throughout their marriage.

[@keithrieck5363]

Just remember the two reunion episodes of Dallas and the final seasons of the remake of Dallas JR. Still had Sue Ellen doing whatever he wanted without her knowing.

[@tonybrown8127]

He jumped out of that chair so fast i was compelled to sit down immediately! Pimp hand is strong on ole JR!

[@gretchenwaldvogel7805]

I miss this show. It was the best, on tv.

[@mslong24k5]

I love that show.

[@laurenceamspoker782]

Gotta love those gas fireplaces at southfork

[@joel8583]

Oh no he did not!!

[@BTURNER1961]

The slap that counted was not described in the title.

[@SaxonC]

It could have been Ray’s kid too! lol

[@jrpc2000]

True. She had a one-night stand with him. The child would have been a Ewing anyway.

[@EagleArrow]

Yeah and the test results could ping a Ewing...as Ray is a Ewing. Only if Ray slipped when J.R. used to insult Ray.

[@jrpc2000]

@@EagleArrow Correct.

[@MrCraigblaze]

@hardren101 Do you work for TNT?

[@PungiFungi]

This storyline inspired one of the funniest panels in the Mad Magazine Dallas parody: JD (JR): Sullen, I don't want you goin' around cast doubts about me bein' the father of our baby? Why, do you know what people are CALLIN' me...? Sullen (Sue Ellen): The same thing they're callin' the baby, I imagine!

[@MsTexas73]

Yes, Dusty knocked her out to get her out of the bar.

[@ryianni40]

My best show ever.j.r always done it for me.x

[@MRLouieRS]

Hey he slapped her! I'm sure the writers/producers were fired as well as Larry Hagman for portraying such a monster!

[@jennhunt1996]

@robinquinc329 Oh, I agree with you. A man should never hit a woman. That's pretty much a non-debatable issue. I'm just taking this scene for what it is, though. And that's soapy goodness. LOL!! Nice chatting with you ;-)

[@fwdthinker]

A few years later she would have slapped his ass back - LOL! But it really didn't matter, though, because in a way she DID slap him back. But she did it in the way that only a woman can do it to a man.

[@JohnBoy918]

Act Of aired in 1978, NOT 79. It aired in November

[@superfirmino5785]

JohnBoy918 It was season 2, so it was 1979.

[@MsTexas73]

I have a friend who is almost due now...and her doc told her oneglass of wine is not going to do harm...now to drink hard liquor...and also to get drunk...of course that's a no no.

[@chuckles1972]

Sue Ellen always pinks Jr. And has the last word in there fights.

[@justina249]

First off why do you offer your pregnant wife a drink?

[@edwarda2033]

Even today, a pregnant having a glass of wine here and there isn’t the end of the world.

[@michellewaldrop801]

JR You are the father

[@divaprincess03]

I guess the effects of alcohol during pregnancy were unknown back then???? Maybe not at the forefront...🤔🤔🤔

[@timriggins70]

Not at the forefront.

[@aphillyate1]

Only an episode or two before this, Sue Ellen walloped JR when he snidely called her "Miss Texas" during her meltdowns over Cliff Barnes.

[@poosaypirate]

My mother used to watch this show and it musta took her two weeks to get off the high she was on after Sue Ellen finally got the slap she was asking for the whole show.! it was like the highpoint of the 80s or something. what a joy!!! well, RIP mom and RIP JR. and watch out my mom slaps back ;-)

[@gemmaaboagye8951]

Never hit a woman is not excuse .sue Ellen should slap him back

[@hardren101]

....i take that back....the show is coming to cable and i think they have enough fans to make it a hit as cable show require less viewers to be considered a hit and i think they will get atleast 5 million viewers each week...esp if the writing is any good.

[@1234lavallee1]

We have to remember that this was the 80's with different habits concerning what you could do while pregnant...the occassional drink wasn't considered a bad thing...actually to some degree still isn't...only when anything to excess does it become a problem but as long as the mother is healthy and takes care of herself things should go ok.

[@winogirlll]

Today we encourage pregnant women to get a flu shot that has mercury in it but tell them not to smoke, eat fish because of mercury or ever have a drink. Such BS!

[@jasonraczkowski6001]

this was actually 1978

[@superfirmino5785]

Jason Raczkowski It was 1979

[@waltlee]

I agree they don't make nightime soaps like they used to,not that there aren't some good ones out there still,Revenge comes to mind,but on occassion Sue Ellen could develope a backbone,the pregnancy was just the thing she needed,as it turns out,it was JR's

[@oledocfarmer]

“Ima preggers,,,,,let’s have a drink!”

[@lindagurrera685]

Sorry she played this wrong she should have convinced him it was his so he could never stop trusting her and carry on it was proven his in the end but he never forgave her for cliff

[@Georgian1717]

Sue Ellen was the best.

[@Supported-Characters]

Maury could settle this real quick. Paternity and lie detector. JR would fail lie detector of course.

[@cobaltmidnightoilamp6748]

Sus, I LOVED 😍 that one, I could see Sue Ellen, Cliff, and J.R. on Maury. And all hell would cut loose @ J.R.'s polygraph test results, and Steve Wilkos would be FUMING @ J.R. 😤n his show. Steve Wilkos: "GET.....OFF..... MY... ......STAGE!!😤😡

[@shacks29]

One glass of wine might be ok but we all know what happend to Sue Ellen later ;)

[@TTUHSL]

JR seldom is seen drinking alone unless there's a problem.

[@shahroseshoji3685]

I guess in those days they didn't know how harmful alcohol is to the developing fetus.