JR gets back Ewing 6

Betting that this well was going to make him a very rich man, Cliff asked Sue Ellen to marry him. Her loving request to for a little time to think things over led him to believe that there was a very good chance that she'd accept.
Cliff was completely flabbergasted when JR walked into his office one day, grinning from ear to ear, and announced that he had tricked Cliff into buying a dry hole. When Cliff cited the geological reports, JR said they were fake. Cliff was stunned and redoubled drilling efforts for a short while, but then finally accepted the fact that he had been swindled out of $4,500,000.
He was now frantic because the loss of $4,000,000 could put Wentworth Tool & Die out of business and, not knowing where to turn, he went to Sue Ellen to borrow the money to pay back the company. She blew up and threw him out, along with his proposal of marriage. Then JR showed up and offered to buy Barnes-Wentworth #1 back from Cliff for $4,000,000, which he could in turn pay back to Wentworth Tool & Die. Cliff had no choice but to sell the field, although it was worth much, much more. He had lost all of his own money and his mother's respect. Regardless of the fact that he paid back the money he had borrowed from Wentworth Tool & Die, Rebecca fired him.

[@chandlerwhite8302]

The way JR just comes in and takes over his office, sitting down at his desk and waving the check at him. Classic JR.

[@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv]

Lol. I love how he upped the offer to compensate for his embezzlements and his rort of his mother.

[@marklefkowitz4385]

​​@@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv Rort? Huh?

[@anb7408]

“You have succeeded in becoming the perfect FAILURE!” My all time favorite JR quote! 😂

[@vornamenachname5589]

Mine is: " sometimes you're the windshield and sometimes you're the bug"

[@overcomerbtboj]

@@vornamenachname5589🤣😂🤣

[@JTDyer21]

Talked to some younger people and they have no clue about JR or Dallas. So very thankful I grew up in the 80s, when tv was actually worth watching.

[@michellewaldrop801]

John Dyer me too

[@michellewaldrop801]

John Dyer shows suck nowadays

[@NJHS92]

i was born in 92 one year after the show was finished but i just bought the seasons on dvd in 2005 and then downloaded the rest and watched them endlessly, i still watch it from time to time, so juyst because it doesnt air anymore doesnt mean its gone forever

[@lloydkline7245]

I have watch a current tv show like twenties years ago the humor is different in current tv series too

[@a.b.s_productions]

John Dyer I was born 2 years before Dallas ended and got into the show when it was on “SoapNet” back in 2003/2004 and brought season 1-4 on DVD. This show really does hold up the test of time.

[@yaktown1985]

R.I.P to the tv legendary actors Ken & Larry. Damn I am so glad I was alive to witness your works. I will sorely miss both of you! Farewell my friends!

[@johndyslin798]

Steve W and somehow Ken Kercheval didn’t make the cut in the Emmys In Memoriam. Shameful

[@lloydkline6946]

Love cliff Barnes vs j.r Ewing, and j.r. Ewing vs Jeremy wendel too

[@njdxnjdx]

Well you will be dead soon too

[@toddmaniatoddmania9844]

I love how J.R. always gives a thorough summary of someone’s failures! He goes right down a long list!

[@DG-sf9ei]

😂😂😂😂 He was a master at putting someone in their place after they've been thrown an anchor while drowning.

[@doncooper384]

@@DG-sf9eiyelp and he knows he have defeated you or took all your money or your business 😂JR was a master at the Game and could turn the tables on you JR had away of breaking you coming after him

[@doncooper384]

@@DG-sf9eiyelp and he knows he have defeated you or took all your money or your business 😂JR was a master at the Game and could turn the tables on you JR had away of breaking you coming after him

[@seanlove2000]

"millionaire time, that's what it was" The look on his face cracks me up every time.

[@james5460]

How Larry Hagman managed to play that straight without going over into parody is an amazing feat of acting.

[@delavalmilker]

That cherubic half-smile that JR has whenever he's about to lower the boom on somebody.

[@MrThegov1020]

jr flashing that bank check to cliff barnes like a boss

[@ksbaxter]

"You have succeeded in becoming...the perfect failure." Owned!!! GO JR!!!

[@mrsandygibb7342]

Jr is da man. ARG 4EVER!!!!

[@phx4closureman]

*LOVE THAT PAUSE!!!!*

[@lloydkline1518]

❤️ cliff barnes vs j.r ewing battles

[@lloydkline1518]

Millionaire / cliff barnes :: j.r ewing

[@lloydkline1518]

J.r ewing used to owned cliff barnes ; 1980s

[@oscaru5342]

$4 million dollars and NO sense! What a beautiful shot! 🤣

[@pettyofficer30]

I have here a cashiers check for 4.000.000 and no cents... JR is the MAN!

[@billysikes1374]

Poverty builds character lol

[@mikepetitti]

Larry Hagman is underappreciated in his talent. He was hysterical in "I Dream of Jeanie" and was superb and perfect as J.R. in "Dallas." Incredible range with amazing dramatic and comedic timing.

[@october65-h6e]

2:01..Cliffs facial expression and how JR turning the check and then let it drop before Cliff can grap it...PRICELESS😁😂

[@carbiify]

"Because of my high regards, for your lovely mother"-----That's got to hurt. JR, was a true winner.

[@1AstralKing]

JR was Trump before Trump.

[@lloydkline6946]

@@1AstralKing have you seen the commercial donald trump polish an very old j.r ewing 👞 shoes

[@viqarkagzi3922]

J.R. Knows how to kick a person down when they are ready down is it necessary I think not.

[@RaginRonic]

@@1AstralKing Too bad the real Trump turned out to be the biggest domestic terrorist in U.S. history, far surpassing Timothy McVeigh(trying to outlaw the Democratic Party and make liberal thinking and action a federal crime in the U.S.), and the biggest international terrorist since Osama Bin Laden(the execution of Qasem Soleimani in Iran without Congresssional permission), which should have completely voided all of Trump's social, political, and economic rights from that time forward. Yet, we live in a world where he's not sitting in a prison cell. That's the ReTrumpliKKKunt Party of America for you, I guess. Sad this Canadian has to point this out, but, well....meh. =P

[@wonjubhoy]

He didn't mean it. He called her a whore in front of Pam.

[@aowens9192]

JR was the ABSOLUTE best!!!! I miss him so :(

[@lloydkline3265]

Watching Dallas on TV with j.r Ewing and cliff barnes was better than going to the movies, j.r.ewing and sue Ellen Ewing too

[@SteveHolsten]

@@lloydkline3265 Oh yes; every Friday night all through the glorious '80s!

[@lloydkline1518]

❤️. J.r ewing & cliff battles

[@leebeardshall7668]

Yes best villan ever.

[@quitwhining1]

Four million dollars and "NO SENSE." Good old JR, he certainly knew how to savor his victories.

[@derekmathews1818]

+quitwhining1, LOL, he's four million dollars richer, and still as dumb as a mule. Doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

[@derekmathews1818]

+Matt Beeman, it really is.

[@LakeLivingPA]

It was definitely a play on words intended to tell Cliff he had no sense.

[@marvinpumphrey2431]

JR GOT HIM GOOD LOL

[@lloydkline7245]

quitwhining1 jr jr Ewing was a great talker love hearing him talk to cliff barnes

[@TippiGordon]

This is like music. No matter how many times I see it, Larry Hagman's performance here is just magnetic each and every time. And no slight to Ken Kercheval here, either; his wounded, shell-shocked Cliff is terrific.

[@kantwinnada]

I spent a lot of Friday nights with these two. They sure are missed

[@lloydkline1518]

❤️j.r ewing vs cliff barnes battles

[@lloydkline1518]

Tv greatest rivaly "; cliff barnes & j.r ewing

[@doncooper384]

@@lloydkline1518Cliff wasn’t much of a Battle for JR he always defeated Cliff and breaks him JR had millionaires company and their money in his pocket trying to take him on classic JR😂Bobby use to Laugh when JR was breaking them Rich folks and taking all they money

[@pupchu81]

"You expected a big gusher. Oh yeah, millionare time, thats what it was."

[@anb740]

First he sits down in Cliff’s chair, then he “accidentally” drops the check before Cliff can grab it. That’s just mean! LOL!!!

[@justinscrivner5457]

I know I saw that too! A total diss to Cliff. Never loved a bad guy like I do J.R.

[@realazduffman]

No, that is alpha male!

[@lloydkline6946]

It now j.r ewing offices & chair

[@anb740]

AZDuffman Or in the case of these two, smart vs. dumb. JR took pleasure in making good use of Cliff’s stupidity!

[@doncooper384]

@@realazduffmanit was JR Ewing office and the Company Cliff was no match for JR

[@rondasmith5188]

LOL! Poverty builds character!!!!

[@laurenceamspoker6739]

Sounds like something Jock would have said

[@ChrisCrossApplesauc1]

I like it when JR mentioned my hometown. He told Cliff, "The only property you own is a dry hole north of Lubbock." I do so like it when the pop culture refers to my old stomping grounds in one form or another.

[@lubbockhigh44]

Love hearing my hometown of Lubbock is mentioned in good ways lol

[@brianvivickers3712]

It was always nice to see JR kick Cliff’s butt.

[@lloydkline6946]

I love cliff Barnes, however, and j.r Ewing

[@lloydkline6946]

J.r ewing was greatest winner 🏆 in tv series history

[@natskivna]

"You have succeeded in becoming the perfect failure!" LOL J.R. knew how to really stick it to Cliff Barnes.

[@lloydkline1518]

J.r ewing used to owned cliff barnes ; whip cliff barne like own him

[@rustynail2783]

I've watched this scene dozens of times but this was the first time I noticed JR drop the check just as Cliff reached for it.

[@johnmanning4097]

Okay see now I have to go back and watch it again didn't notice that

[@pep590]

JR even has the nerve to sit in Cliffs own office chair.

[@derekmathews1818]

+pepjrp, that's the audacity that JR Ewing has about him. JR was cocky, and he had a right to be cocky. He kept beating Cliff Barnes every time.

[@jimslancio]

Not only that, at 2:19, Cliff handed J.R. the signed deed, and J.R. tossed the cashier's check forward, out of Cliff's hand, where it probably fell on the floor, forcing Cliff to bend down and pick it up.

[@roybuford7538]

pep well that's what bosses like J.R. does

[@ardithbard857]

That's an OG move

[@rinconcreekbbquers3089]

My hero got to love him.

[@brav0wing]

The way J.R. drops the cheque is so, so funny and cold at the same time. The look on Cliff's face, priceless.

[@jetuber]

I've always wondered if that bit of business was written in the script or improvised on the set. Brilliant either way.

[@holmesgirl3673]

@@jetuber ....Maybe picked it up from when Steve Kanaly did it in the scene where Ray signs over the voting shares at the jail & he drops the contract on the floor as JR reached for it.

[@pgangsta357]

JR said……4 million dollars…..and NO CENTS 😂😂😂😂 I’m weak

[@monkeyboy4746]

No sense, haha.

[@septiawoman2911]

Well J.R., you're back in the saddle. Just love JR's devious laugh!

[@TheodoreRizzo]

“You expected a gusher to become millionaire and all you got is a dry hole north of Lubbock” 😂😂 rubbing it at his face 😂😂😂 perfect villain JR Ewin

[@brianvivickers3712]

I liked the way JR flashed that check to Cliff, while Cliff is deciding whether or not to sign the deed, giving JR back Ewing 6. JR was a fool. Lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@skyblueerik]

I love how Jr just sits down in Cliff's chair.😅

[@ewokander]

Poor, poor Cliff. J.R.'s eternal enemy but always being defeated by that Devil with a smile. Classic Dallas, classic show!!!

[@zooeyhall]

I always got a kick out of how JR would smile cherubically whenever he was about to nail someone.

[@michaelmuldowney8]

I love how JR says “Four Million Dollars and NO cents” - clearly saying it so it sounds like “No Sense”

[@Muffin192213]

He drops the check on the desk, and walks out and doesn't close the door behind him for a little extra rub in Cliffs face. Gotta love JR.

[@anb740]

And that’s after sitting down in Cliff’s own chair!

[@Muffin192213]

@@anb740 yup.

[@michaelpayne8000]

Team JR, I loved the way he destroyed so many people that tried to pull a fast one on him..❤️😁👏

[@stellertonybeller1972]

4 million dollars and No Cents lol ....... every line was a insult to cliff

[@Bodhi716]

Freeze frame at 2:44. The look on JR's face is classic. LOL.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Funny how he flips that check as if it were a blinking neon sign.

[@hansenfiet2539]

“Four million dollars and no SENSE!” But hey, “poverty builds character!” 😂😂😂😂

[@robhawk6463]

Cliff is such a putz. JR is the man. Great character portrayal.

[@joelsims98]

JR wasn’t evil. Dude was just straight up ruthless.

[@RJ1999x]

Got to admire that

[@marcuswilliams6840]

An evil person would have nightmares about J.R!

[@daviddemarco8327]

R.I.P, Ken Kercheval. :-(

[@dressshoeguy]

Agreed but i can see a feud between him and JR brewing in heaven.

[@opinionday0079]

I wonder how much was direction and how much was Larry Hagman coming up with little golden touches ... like sitting in the chair and talking about Cliff's mother and the poverty builds character bit.

[@oubrioko]

The way that JR casually walks into Cliff's office, sits behind Cliff's desk, and teasingly flips the check while subtly rocking back-and-forth in Cliff's chair, is a demonstration of complete domination and humiliation of your opponent.

[@LeopoldoNotarianni-rk9vv]

Indeed

[@hickoryhound]

Me neither. Watching Dallas growing up taught me a lot about life. Sure it is exaggerated and embellished, but the issues dealt with on Dallas are some that each of us can relate to.

[@bloqk16]

A lesson I learned from JR, as he was notorious with doing this: Stock proxies . . . in that I will never authorize someone to be my proxy when it comes to representing me with corporate stock matters . . . as I'd be clueless with what nefarious actions the proxy holder would do with my voting shares.

[@emailmbishop]

The only property you own is a dry hole north of Lubbock.

[@Bengalsfan55568]

Millionaire time...lol

[@tsilvers31]

eiok.xm wwwopp.ooeuliu

[@DG-sf9ei]

Hilarious how this show always made a heel out of Cliff and Digger Barnes😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Koldeman]

LOL, he drops the check on the desk when Cliff reaches out for it. Just total ownage! GO JR!!!!

[@antonioantonio447]

Jr told him poverty builds character too funny watching this in 2021

[@MsBrooklyn62]

The best revenge JR got on Barnes was from the grave-Epic!

[@17donhol]

I forget what did he do to Cliff from the grave ???

[@anb740]

@@17donhol Set him up and got him arrested for JR’s “murder.” JR said it was going to be his masterpiece, and it was! He even got Barnes’ daughter to help in the plan. The fact that Cliff ordered the bombing of that oil rig with his pregnant daughter on it helped. JR got the last revenge.....from his grave.

[@cynthiasmith4130]

Yes, The 80's, was the best time in my life!!! Dallas, I would make sure I would be home by, 9:00 pm...... ❤❤❤... 💯💯💯....👍👍👍....

[@robeastwood5112]

Have the box set on dvd so I get to watch ol JR whenever I want. Larry created the best bad guy in tv show history....a joy to watch him work on this show

[@cathyrigby9438]

J.R. Ewing and Cliff Barnes had that RAREST of gifts - being funny WITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO BE!!!

[@keyopronin4134]

Damn, JR. slapped the shit outta Cliff, "Poverty builds Character".

[@SaxonC]

I loved how people used to compare Alexis Colby to JR Ewing when there wasn't any comparison. Alexis was no match for JR

[@derrickjackson6737]

Gary he know not to fuck with JR fuck him every time

[@MrBigblackdaddy]

+Derrick Jackson I agree

[@derrickjackson6737]

+Gary Jackson I'm big Dallas fan old and new don't fuck with the Ewings

[@PlanetBlake]

Saxon C: None the less, JR and Alexis would have been fun to watch. First JR would have bedded her, then eventually they would have become at enemies after he did her dirty. She'd get revenge, but eventually JR would find a way to blackmail her and run her out of town.

[@brianvivickers3712]

Saxon C: That would have been a prime time match, JR vs. Alexis.

[@sheldonirving3938]

J.R. Ewing is definately the man

[@derekmathews1818]

CLASSIC! I love this scene. Finally Cliff, you have succeeded at becoming the perfect failure LOL! You need some money Cliff, and you don't have two cents to your name, and everything.

[@bgraham928]

Note how at 2:01 JR flashes that check back and forth. He certainly knew how to win.

[@murchuan8782]

You have 4 million dollars and no cents... or is it sense ?... brilliant put down...

[@anb7408]

And deliberately dropped the check on the desk right before Cliff could grab it! 😂

[@ebed-ifemcgriff1686]

Poverty brings character! Wow, he destroyed you with that one Cliff. Savage J.R. R.I.P. Larry and Ken 🙏🙏

[@davekroeger9571]

I loved JR.

[@garyjackson9641]

Poverty builds character,I like that quote.

[@rhondathompson6942]

RIP KEN I MISS JR AND CLIFF THEY BOTH ARE WITH GOD NOW

[@bigpaulie806]

If I was Cliff I would have just taken Jr's charity of a few million here and there. There's no way he could ever outsmart him

[@stevemiller1203]

There was no better villain than J.R., but kind of a lovable villain

[@blackbraziltoday3316]

@2:51...That toothless grin. I swear it's the Grinch in human form!

[@colinjennings3661]

Brilliant Larry Hagman. JR was the ultimate Tv villain

[@pourisaif7687]

„Millionaire time!“ 😂

[@curtisx.732]

No notary for the deed? I'm sure all states require that for filing a real property document. 🤣🤣

[@oscaru5342]

Not back then...

[@garygrant.5311]

Think of cliff going into a bank and cashing a 4 million dollar check the face on the bank teller would be priceless ha ha ha ha

[@MondoBeno]

I always admired JR. He was the ultimate manipulating backstabber.

[@deb310red]

J.R. outfoxed Cliff Barnes every time.

[@jdb316]

+deb310red Not at the end of the original series. In the third to last episode of the final season, Cliff got control of Ewing Oil.

[@htbee773]

+jdb316 only because JR Sold it to him! ... So that he could take over Westar, which was a set up!.....

[@jasonraczkowski6001]

+htbee773 but then cliff sold to west star and then bobby bought it

[@lloydkline1518]

J.r Ewing had cliff Barnes game strategy in his back pocket

[@doncooper384]

@@jdb316But JR Got it Back 😂

[@markmickney1134]

Who would have ever thought that a guy who played a bumbling character in I Dream of Jeannie would go on to play one of tv greatest villains

[@justinep3675]

JR could have got it for 3 million. He just paid an additional million to torture Cliff. Lol

[@danielcorreard3746]

this show is one of my all time favorite shows great show must see tv on friday nights.

[@kevineaddy1248]

Poverty builds character,classic line

[@timitbiscuit3620]

My top two Darth Vader and JR. All time!

[@alanslevin8102]

In an earlier scene JR says I told I was going to destroy you if you didn't stop seeing Sue Ellen, I did, you just don't know it yet.

[@derrickjackson6737]

Alan Slevin got Sue Ellen back and remarry he fuck cliff good no Grease

[@j.rbrooks300]

@@derrickjackson6737 J.R. always gets what he wants.

[@17donhol]

He brings in a bottle of oil and says theres more oil in this container than that field ur drilling in...LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣

[@derrickjackson6737]

Rip Larry and Ken gone not forgotten

[@victorforeman7056]

Poverty builds character lol, great line

[@wolf99000]

They just dont make bad guys like JR anymore one that you hate but deep down you root for also

[@zl1vette427]

The writing in the early years of DALLAS was spectacular. They had great writers, like Connie Marchetta. Really wove stories together very well.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

JR was fabulous 🏆😄

[@blackbraziltoday3316]

"The perfect failure". Who wrote that line? Damn! Having perfection in being a failure. Poor Barnes...😢

[@TheMARCVISION]

What I have is four million dollars and no cents which is urs!!!! Lol

[@MadAngel209]

1:19: Cliff Barnes' facial expressions said it all. He's probably saying to himself, "Damn, can I ever beat this guy?"

[@stephenm6100]

rip ken kerchaval🥃🥃

[@avindraramnarine9532]

Just realized what was said to Cliff. Four million dollars with no sense. And it's all yours.

[@mattturner5026]

Badass JR 😃

[@SteveHolsten]

"Cliff, you have just succeeded at becoming the perfect failure" LMFAO!!!!

[@SCOTT265B]

Don't mess with Ole J.R. It won't end well Cliff. Their is an old saying; you can't cheat an honest man.

[@esrarramjan3787]

JR had what we now call "Swag".......

[@blackguardian76th]

"I DON'T BELIEVE IT! I JUST DON'T BELIEVE IT!!l 😆😆😆

[@celsovascao]

What matters is that in the very end Cliff defeated J.R., and even took Ewing Oil. The good finally defeated the evil. Oh, by the way, sometimes the good needs to use evil methods in order to accomplish its goals. Even "Saint Bobby" knew that. Anyway, Hagman was a hell of actor. R.I.P.

[@kdizzle79]

But remember, J.R. got his revenge in the reunion movies

[@ashleighelizabeth5916]

Cliff was far from good. He started out as a public employee who used and abused his position to witch hunt the Ewings and Ewing Oil because of a bunch of garbage his daddy told him that turned out to be nothing but bullcrap. Along the way he had an affair with a married woman who happened to be the wife of the focus of all his resentment and revenge for no better reason than to try and hurt his sworn enemies. He was handed the leadership of Wentworth T&D by his long lost mother (who btw completely ignored the birthright of the daughter she raised) and he promptly embezzled $4 million dollars from the company. The only reason he even had that piece of Ewing Oil property to replace that money was because he colluded with the corrupt Vaughn Leeland and others to take advantage of JR during a messy custody battle he was having with Sue Ellen. JR was dirty, JR was cruel, to say that JR was corrupt weakens the word, and JR was nasty but to claim that Cliff was good is completely laughable. And JR was not completely evil either, he did exhibit the capacity to show genuine love and affection for his parents and for his son and even in his own twisted way for Sue Ellen. He was by no means an ideal husband or man but then Sue Ellen was anything but an ideal wife and mother and Barns was just vile. I never thought much of Cliff but after he treated Afton like complete dirt when she was there for him no matter what I couldn't stand him. I'm glad that the new series for all it's flaws finally corrected the biggest flaw from the end of Dallas. Having JR lose Ewing Oil to Cliff Barnes was about the dumbest things I've ever seen written into a TV show. Ewing Oil wasn't just a name or a company it was a legacy from Jock, and no other company would have ever tempted JR to throw that away no matter how large it was. And Barnes would never have been smart enough to take it from him anyway.

[@bmasters1981]

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 "Having JR lose Ewing Oil to Cliff Barnes was about the dumbest things I've ever seen written into a TV show. Ewing Oil wasn't just a name or a company it was a legacy from Jock, and no other company would have ever tempted JR to throw that away no matter how large it was. And Barnes would never have been smart enough to take it from him anyway." Why would Ewing Oil be owned by someone whose name wasn't even Ewing?

[@dirdib69]

Ken reminds me greatly of Canadian actor Brian Downey - Stanley Tweedle of Lexx fame.

[@markbrown4039]

Four million dollars and no sense...yeah, describes Cliff to a tee.

[@morgan8757]

one of my favorite jr moments