Dallas (TV series)

Dallas was a long-running primetime television soap opera about the Ewings, a wealthy Texas oil family. It aired on the CBS network from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991. It was broadcast around the world, and is probably the most famous and successful American soap opera outside of the U.S.

References

• In the Family Guy episode "DaBoom" (1999), the Y2K virus changes civilization for the worse. At the end of the episode, Pam wakes up and tells Bobby, who is in the shower, that she just dreamt about the strangest episode of Family Guy. They pause, then ask, "What's Family Guy?"
• On the TV series Father Ted, a character named Tom wears a shirt that says "I shot JR".
• Introducing Saturday Night Live's 1986-1987 season, Madonna, who hosted the first episode of the dismally rated 1985-1986 season, read a statement from NBC that claimed the previous season of SNL was "all a dream, a horrible, horrible dream." Coincidentally, on another ill-fated SNL season (1980-1981), Charlene Tilton hosted an episode (which Larry Hagman had turned down) centered around the "shooting" of Charles Rocket, a parody of the Who Shot J.R. story arc, in which Rocket says "I'd like to know who the fuck did it." For his use of the profanity, he was fired.
• On That 70's Show when Donna is caught drinking, Eric notes that she was "like Sue Ellen on Dallas"
• A couple of scenes on The Simpsons episode entitles "who shot Mr. Burns? Part 2" Smithers dream at the start of the show is similar to Pam waking up and realizing Bobby's death was all a dream. Also Smithers thinking he shot Burns because he was drunk and he had a fired weapon on him similar to Sue Ellen during the Who Shot JR? mystery.