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* GreenEyedMonster: He pressures Kathy to sing on his show, but when she starts becoming more popular than him, cracks in his sanity appear....
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** DomesticAbuser:....and poor Kathy is on the receiving end.
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ParentalAbandonment: Oh Lilimae -- ''both'' your kids?
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* TakingYouWithMe: At the zenith of his madness, he decides that Kathy and he must die together as one, and so kidnaps her, taking her to an abandoned building downton -- with Lilimae in hot pursuit.
** KilledOffForReal: He dies after slipping backwards off the roof, following an ''astronomic'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Lilimae.
-->'''Lilimae''': “Don’t call me mother, I’m NOT your mother! You’re NOT my son! How could I have given birth to anyone as cold and cruel as you!!”
* SexIsEvilAndIAmHorny
* TakingYouWithMe: At the zenith of his madness, he decides that Kathy and he must die together as one, and so kidnaps her, taking her to an abandoned building downton -- with Lilimae in hot pursuit.
** KilledOffForReal: He dies after slipping backwards off the roof, following an ''astronomic'' TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Lilimae.
-->'''Lilimae''': “Don’t call me mother, I’m NOT your mother! You’re NOT my son! How could I have given birth to anyone as cold and cruel as you!!”
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!!Karen Fairgate Mackenzie (née Cooper) [-(Michelle Lee)-]
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->''"I don't want to look at the world through rose-colored glasses, I want the world to BE rose-colored! I want people to be nice. People should be nice. Nice should be the norm."''
A native New-Yorker, Karen got on with everybody in the neighbourhood, except for her sister in law, Abby. She always saw through her conniving, manipulating ways, even when Sid didn’t! However, it was Valene, her next door neighbour, who was to be her closest and dearest friend. Karen was arguably the main character of the series.
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->''"I don't want to look at the world through rose-colored glasses, I want the world to BE rose-colored! I want people to be nice. People should be nice. Nice should be the norm."''
A native New-Yorker, Karen got on with everybody in the neighbourhood, except for her sister in law, Abby. She always saw through her conniving, manipulating ways, even when Sid didn’t! However, it was Valene, her next door neighbour, who was to be her closest and dearest friend. Karen was arguably the main character of the series.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Abandoned by his mother, and raised by a firebrand preacher.
* DeepSouth: Of the scary, religious zealot variety.
* DrunkWithPower: When he first arrives at Knots, he is sweet-natured and naive (much like his half-sister, Val). But as soon as his preaching spot on local cable sends his popularity sky-rocketing, he becomes controlling, aggressive and eventually psychotic.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Joshua stepped into Val and Lilimae’s life as he tries to find out about his mother (Lilimae’s sister). What he didn’t realize was that LILIMAE was his real mother, who had abandoned him as a baby because she failed at being a good mother to him.
* TheFundamentalist
* HeyItsThatGuy: Alec Baldwin's first major role.
* MommyIssues
* ObscructiveZealot
* ParentalAbandonment
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!!Karen Fairgate Mackenzie (née Cooper) [-(Michelle Lee)-]
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->''"I don't want to look at the world through rose-colored glasses, I want the world to BE rose-colored! I want people to be nice. People should be nice. Nice should be the norm."''
A native New-Yorker, Karen got on with everybody in the neighbourhood, except for her sister in law, Abby. She always saw through her conniving, manipulating ways, even when Sid didn’t! However, it was Valene, her next door neighbour, who was to be her closest and dearest friend. Karen was arguably the main character of the series.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Abandoned by his mother, and raised by a firebrand preacher.
* DeepSouth: Of the scary, religious zealot variety.
* DrunkWithPower: When he first arrives at Knots, he is sweet-natured and naive (much like his half-sister, Val). But as soon as his preaching spot on local cable sends his popularity sky-rocketing, he becomes controlling, aggressive and eventually psychotic.
* FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo: Joshua stepped into Val and Lilimae’s life as he tries to find out about his mother (Lilimae’s sister). What he didn’t realize was that LILIMAE was his real mother, who had abandoned him as a baby because she failed at being a good mother to him.
* TheFundamentalist
* HeyItsThatGuy: Alec Baldwin's first major role.
* MommyIssues
* ObscructiveZealot
* ParentalAbandonment
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!!Karen Fairgate Mackenzie (née Cooper) [-(Michelle Lee)-]
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->''"I don't want to look at the world through rose-colored glasses, I want the world to BE rose-colored! I want people to be nice. People should be nice. Nice should be the norm."''
A native New-Yorker, Karen got on with everybody in the neighbourhood, except for her sister in law, Abby. She always saw through her conniving, manipulating ways, even when Sid didn’t! However, it was Valene, her next door neighbour, who was to be her closest and dearest friend. Karen was arguably the main character of the series.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Gary is a fundamentally good guy, but his drinking and womanizing ways will have you yelling this at the screen.
* DespairEventHorizon / NotHerself: After the abduction of her twins sends her over the edge and into schizophrenic state, she takes on the personality of one of her own literary creations, "Verna Ellers", a diner waitress back in Tennessee.
* HotMom
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* BettyAndVeronica: She's the Betty to Abby's Veronica in the battle for Gary.
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* DeepSouth: A mild example, but she still qualifies in her capacity as a poor (but beautiful) teenage bride (andmother) mother), hailing from out deep out in the Tennessee Pine country.country.
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* DeepSouth: A mild example, but she still qualifies in her capacity as a poor (but beautiful) teenage bride (and
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* SpiritedCompetitor: She will always rise to the challenge in support of issues she holds dear (female empowerment, environmentalism, conscientious town-planning, etc)
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* BettyAndVeronica: She's the Veronica to Val's Betty in the battle for Gary.
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* CoolAunt: Eric and Diana (especially) she her as such.
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* LivingEmotionalCrutch: For Gary, although he definitely takes her for granted.
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** PimpedOutDress
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* IcyBlueEyes: Donna Mills' ''amazing'' blue eyes are perfect for flashing a wicked grin or dirty look — whichever is required.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Started an affair with Richard Avery within hours of arriving on the cul de sac, broke up Gary and Val's marriage, slept with Greg Sumner (and eventually married him) and was never afraid to use her sex-appeal to get what she wanted.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The three main women fill these roles perfectly: Karen is The Wife, the wiser, calmer aspect -- someone around whom one could build a home life. Abby is The Seductress — sexually experienced and independent. Val is the "Child" (who does not have to be a child literally) and is innocent, perhaps to the point of naïveté.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The three main women fill these roles perfectly: Karen is The Wife, the wiser, calmer aspect -- someone around whom one could build a home life. Abby is The Seductress — sexually experienced and independent. Val is the "Child" (who does not have to be a child literally) and is innocent, perhaps to the point of naïveté.
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->''"Well, I'm not saying we're having an affair and I'm not saying I'm not. I am saying that I can have him any time I want him."''
Sid's sister, and the neighborhood troublemaker. After divorcing her first husband, Abby decided to move to Knots Landing where she began working as a bookkeeper at Knots Landing Motors. She engaged in affairs with Richard, and later Gary, destroying his marriage to Val. Abby then married Gary herself (mainly to get his inheritance) but they divorced a couple of years later. Although Abby adored her brother Sid, Abby and Karen rarely got along.
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* EightiesHair: Holy ''shit''.
* BeautyIsBad
** EvilIsSexy
* BigBrotherWorship: Adored her old brother Sid.
* BlondesAreEvil
* DistaffCounterpart: She was written as a "female JR" for the series.
* TheEighties: She is the very personification of the "greed is good", glamorous decade.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeShadow: Lampshaded by her own daughter:
-->'''Abby''': Olivia, something terrible has happened.
-->'''Olivia''': What, did you run out of eye-makeup?
* TheFashionista
* FemmeFatale
* ManipulativeBitch
* MsFanservice
* ReallyGetsAround:
* TheVamp
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->''"Well, I'm not saying we're having an affair and I'm not saying I'm not. I am saying that I can have him any time I want him."''
Sid's sister, and the neighborhood troublemaker. After divorcing her first husband, Abby decided to move to Knots Landing where she began working as a bookkeeper at Knots Landing Motors. She engaged in affairs with Richard, and later Gary, destroying his marriage to Val. Abby then married Gary herself (mainly to get his inheritance) but they divorced a couple of years later. Although Abby adored her brother Sid, Abby and Karen rarely got along.
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* EightiesHair: Holy ''shit''.
* BeautyIsBad
** EvilIsSexy
* BigBrotherWorship: Adored her old brother Sid.
* BlondesAreEvil
* DistaffCounterpart: She was written as a "female JR" for the series.
* TheEighties: She is the very personification of the "greed is good", glamorous decade.
* ExcessiveEvilEyeShadow: Lampshaded by her own daughter:
-->'''Abby''': Olivia, something terrible has happened.
-->'''Olivia''': What, did you run out of eye-makeup?
* TheFashionista
* FemmeFatale
* ManipulativeBitch
* MsFanservice
* ReallyGetsAround:
* TheVamp
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* UnexpectedInheritance: After his father (Jock Ewing) died, he inherited $10 million, and shacked up with Abby.
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* CrossOver: Just the once, in series 1.
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Valene's mother and aspiring mother. Though they'd been estranged for many years, after Lilimae virtually abandoned Valene as a teenager in her quest to become a country music singer. While she was on tour, her daughter, Valene, comes looking for her in search of help. She was being pursued by oil tycoon J.R. Ewing, who wants to take her baby, Lucy, but singer, Lilimae refuses to let her in, saying that if the producer discovers that reappeared in Valene's life during Season 1. In Season 3, she is a grandmother, her career will be ruined. Val frantically tries to hide the baby, but J.R. eventually gets a hold of her, causing Val to be resentful of her mother as the series begins....moved in with Valene and Gary, remaining in Knots Landing until Season 7.
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->''"Would you just do what you know and I know has to be done?"''
Karen's first husband, and the owner of Knots Landing Motors. Hard working, fair and at times stubborn, Sid was the emotional rock of the show during the first two seasons. Sid was killed when his car was sabotaged by shady mafioso thugs.
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->''"Would you just do what you know and I know has to be done?"''
Karen's first husband, and the owner of Knots Landing Motors. Hard working, fair and at times stubborn, Sid was the emotional rock of the show during the first two seasons. Sid was killed when his car was sabotaged by shady mafioso thugs.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Implied -- it was always suggested Sid was something of a {{Badass}} in his younger years, and a prize-fighter.
* HonorBeforeReason
* KilledOffForReal: He was killed after his car was sabotaged.
* MayDecemberRomance: Always looked far more mature than Karen.
* NiceGuy
* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex Wife]]: His FemmeFatale ex-wife turns up in series 1, determined to win him back.
* SacrificialLion: After mafia thugs blackmail his dealership into accepting stolen parts, he volunteers to work with the police (despite the obvious danger) in a stinger operation to bring them to justice.....which ultimately leads to his death, when a mafia plant at his dealership sabotages his brakes.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Implied -- it was always suggested Sid was something of a {{Badass}} in his younger years, and a prize-fighter.
* HonorBeforeReason
* KilledOffForReal: He was killed after his car was sabotaged.
* MayDecemberRomance: Always looked far more mature than Karen.
* NiceGuy
* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex Wife]]: His FemmeFatale ex-wife turns up in series 1, determined to win him back.
* SacrificialLion: After mafia thugs blackmail his dealership into accepting stolen parts, he volunteers to work with the police (despite the obvious danger) in a stinger operation to bring them to justice.....which ultimately leads to his death, when a mafia plant at his dealership sabotages his brakes.
* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules
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A native New-Yorker, Karen got on with everybody in the neighbourhood, except for her sister in law, Abby. She always saw through her conniving, manipulating ways, even when Sid didn’t! However, it was Valene, her next door neighbour, who was to be her closest and dearest friend. Karen was arguably the main character of the series.
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* WidowWoman: Briefly, following the death of her first husband, Sid.
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* WomenAreWiser
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!!Karen Fairgate Mackenzie (née Cooper) [-(Michelle Lee)-]
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->''"I don't want to look at the world through rose-colored glasses, I want the world to BE rose-colored! I want people to be nice. People should be nice. Nice should be the norm."''
Karen got on with everybody in the neighbourhood, except for her sister in law, Abby. She always saw through her conniving, manipulating ways, even when Sid didn’t! However, it was Valene, her next door neighbour, who was to be her closest and dearest friend. Karen was arguably the main character of the series.
* EightiesHair: Less so, however than Abby, Val and Kathy.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Of the cul de sac's three original wives, Karen's the brunette, Val
* BrainyBrunette
* DrugsAreBad: She got hooked on prescription pills when her daughter, Diana, run off and married the devious Chip Roberts, AKA Tony Fenice.
* HotMom
* LargeHam: Early on in the series
* PlatonicLifePartners: With best friend Val.
* SoapboxSadie: She presents a positive, likeable example.
* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The three main women fill these roles perfectly: Karen is The Wife, the wiser, calmer aspect -- someone around whom one could build a home life. Abby is The Seductress — sexually experienced and independent. Val is the "Child" (who does not have to be a child literally) and is innocent, perhaps to the point of naïveté.
* WideEyedIdealist
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->''"Look at me! I don't take up much room, but I seem to be getting in everybody's way."''
Gary and Val's daughter, Lucy grew up hating JR after he separated her from her parents when she was a baby, driving them out of Texas and threatening to kill Valene if she ever returned for her child. She appeared as a guest star in series 1, and is then only infrequently mentioned after that.
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* BrattyTeenageDaughter
* DumbBlonde: At times.
* ParentalAbandonment: For most of her childhood both her parents were out of her life.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Her father, Gary, was the protagonist of ''KnotsLanding''. She never followed him to California, and [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome disappeared from that show altogether]]. After Dallas' "[[AllJustADream Dream]] [[{{retcon}} Season]]" resulted in the two storylines splitting, she was never mentioned there.
* UpperClassTwit: Female example.
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->''[looking at a hair product] "Contains no lye. Well, I should hope not. Ask me no question I'll tell you no lye."''
Valene's mother and aspiring country music singer. While she was on tour, her daughter, Valene, comes looking for her in search of help. She was being pursued by oil tycoon J.R. Ewing, who wants to take her baby, Lucy, but Lilimae refuses to let her in, saying that if the producer discovers that she is a grandmother, her career will be ruined. Val frantically tries to hide the baby, but J.R. eventually gets a hold of her, causing Val to be resentful of her mother as the series begins....
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* CloudCuckoolander: In her capacity as a fairly wacky, old Southern woman.
* CoolOldLady
* CountryMusic: Her speciality.
* CountryMouse
* DeepSouth: A mild example, but she still qualifies.
* MamaBear Once she and Val have made peace with their past, lord help anyone who messes with Val.
* NeverMessWithGranny
* ParentalAbandonment: Shortly after the birth of her daughter, Valene, Lilimae abandons bother her and her husband to pursue a singing career.
* SelfServingMemory: She seems convinced that she could've made it as a big country music star.
* SmallNameBigEgo: When it comes to her musical ability.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: She becomes famous as a novelist in the early seasons, and her debut work "Capricorn Crude" is a thinly-veiled reference to Ewing family.
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* WriteWhoYouKnow: She becomes famous as a novelist in the early seasons, and her debut work "Capricorn Crude" is a thinly-veiled reference to the Ewing family.family, her in-laws.
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* CainAndAbel: JR and him.
* TroubledButCute
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* WeakWilled
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Of the cul de sac's three original wives, Karen's the brunette, Val the blonde and Laura the redhead.
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* NotHerself: One of her main story arcs revolved around the baby-snatching of her twins. The mental trauma of this incident caused her to take on the persona of "Verna Ellers", a diner waitress back in Tennessee.
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* NotHerself: One After the abduction of her main story arcs revolved around twins sends her over the baby-snatching of her twins. The mental trauma of this incident caused her to take edge and into schizophrenic state, she takes on the persona personality of "Verna Ellers", a diner waitress back in Tennessee. Tennessee.
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* ThePollyannaThePollyanna: Poor Val — despite all that life throws at her, as Karen says, she's like "the little engine who could".
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: She names one of her twins Bobby, in honor of her late brother-in-law.
* SomeoneToRememberHimBy: She names one of her twins Bobby, in honor of her late brother-in-law.
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* TheThreeFacesOfEve: The three main women fill these roles perfectly: Karen is The Wife, the wiser, calmer aspect -- someone around whom one could build a home life. Abby is The Seductress — sexually experienced and independent. Val is the "Child" (who does not have to be a child literally) and is innocent, perhaps to the point of naïveté.
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->'''Lucy Ewing''': ''Daddy, I was just telling mamma that, since neither of you got married again, you both must still be carrying torches.''
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->'''Lucy Ewing''': ''Daddy, ''"Daddy, I was just telling mamma that, since neither of you got married again, you both must still be carrying torches.''
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->''"All my life, I'd wanted to see the ocean. Even when I was little, I knew that the ocean would probably be the biggest and the most beautiful and most powerful thing I'd ever see. I thought just by being close to it, it would just make me better; make me think clearer and feel deeper and just know more."''
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* ParentalAbandonment: When Valene was 5 years old, her mother Lillimae left to pursue her music career, leaving Valene to be looked after by her father.
** ParentalIssues: This causes a tense atmosphere for many years, and it took along time for Val to make peace with her mother.
** ParentalIssues: This causes a tense atmosphere for many years, and it took along time for Val to make peace with her mother.
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!!Garrison Arthur "Gary" Ewing [-(Ted Shackleford)-]
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->'''Lucy Ewing''': ''Daddy, I was just telling mamma that, since neither of you got married again, you both must still be carrying torches.''
->'''Gary Ewing''': ''Oh, you see, if I carried a torch I'd have blown myself up a dozen times from all the alcohol on my breath.''
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Gary was the second son of oil baron Jock Ewing and his wife Miss Ellie Ewing. He was often considered the black sheep of the family, as he would become an alcoholic, and was never treated as an equal by his father and elder brother J.R. However, Gary was loved by his mother and younger brother Bobby. As Jock was not with Miss Ellie during her pregnancy with Gary, she tended to view him as more hers than Jock's and he became her favorite son, while the relationship between Jock and Gary was always distant. Gary was married (three times) to Valene Ewing, and the couple's on-off relationship lead much of his story arc throughout the series.
* TheAlcoholic (usually recovering)
* BlackSheep
* TheBusCameBack: Returned to the Dallas/Knots universe in 2013 for JR's funeral.
* {{Jerkass}}: When drunk.
* MiddleChildSyndrome
* ReallyGetsAround: Slept with most of the main women in the cast - Karen is just about the only exception.
* RequiredSpinoffCrossover: He became far more famous for this series, than Dallas.
* TheUnfavorite (of Jock, he's actually Miss Ellie's favorite)
!!Valene Ewing (née Clements) [-(Joan Van Ark)-]
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Valene is a sweet, naive woman, originally from a poor Tennessee family. Her storyline in the first season of Dallas focuses on the rebuilding of her former marriage to estranged ex-husband Gary. When Valene arrives in Texas to find her daughter, Lucy Ewing, she is brought back into the drama of the Ewing family. Upon arrival, she is reunited with Gary with whom she slowly falls back in love. Once Dallas became a hit, series creator David Jacobs decided to transplant the couple to Knots Landing, which would feature Valene and Gary prominently.
* EightiesHair: Her hair was usually quite feminine and pretty in the early seasons -- but come the late eighties, she began sporting an astonishing fe-mullet.
* TheBusCameBack: Returned to the Dallas/Knots universe in 2013, around the time of JR'S funeral.
* CountryMouse
* FanserviceWithASmile: Was working as a waitress when Gary first met her.
* FanNickname: "Poor Val".
* FishOutOfWater: The upscale Ewings, especially J.R, dislike the idea of a "poor, trashy girl" from Tennessee like Val raising Lucy.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: One of the sweetest characters in the series, if at times tragically naive.
* NaiveNewcomer
* NiceGirl
* NotHerself: One of her main story arcs revolved around the baby-snatching of her twins. The mental trauma of this incident caused her to take on the persona of "Verna Ellers", a diner waitress back in Tennessee.
* ThePollyanna
* TeenPregnancy: She gave birth to Lucy Ewing when she was just 15.
* TheWoobie
* WriteWhoYouKnow: She becomes famous as a novelist in the early seasons, and her debut work "Capricorn Crude" is a thinly-veiled reference to Ewing family.
