Adam went to college in England-the actor was pissed off that the TV show made no political comment. Dan Blocker died of a heart attack. There was a Father Son conversation with Ben and Little Joe on the shore of Lake Tahoe. “I guess that big heart finally gave out.”
He carried around that damn broken sword!
“Why the hell are you carrying around a broken sword?”
“I was dishonorably discharged from the US Army.”
“Well, fuck you!”
Outstanding, Sir!
Out fucking standing!
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Oh, what a giveaway! :smack:
Because there wouldn’t be a TV show if he did. Hmmm, I sense a fundamental problem with the series premise.
Same question (and answer) applies to what the Boy Named Sue didn’t just change his name. Aside from a bad name, his daddy left him with a shortage of brains, too.
Probably more than half the characters on Deadwood were dicks, and even most of the “good guys” could be pretty unpleasant.
I respect your judgment, and I’ll admit I doubt I could have done the same, but Jake was a friend of their youth who’d made many wrong turns since their Ranger days.
•He hit Laurie.
•He went off gambling, leaving Laurie unprotected, though he knew Blue Duck was in the area.
• When Blue Duck kidnapped Laurie, Jake didn’t go after her.
• He took up with the most brutal of outlaws. True, he was once again trying to escape punishment for the unlucky shot that killed a man, but he stuck with the Suggs brothers even after they’d murdered and burned several people. Jake was always a weak. self-centered man who did what was easiest for Jake. (When McCrae tells him they got Laurie back from Blue Duck, Jake can’t even recall who she is.) Call said Jake had crossed a line, and he had, but riding with the Suggs brothers was only the last line.
Call doesn’t order the hangings alone. Nor does he do it coldly. It’s Gus who says, “Ride with an outlaw, die with him. I admit it’s a harsh code. But you rode on the other side long enough to know how it works.”
It’s Call you says, “I’m sorry it’s us, Jake–I wish it had fallen to someone else.”
Sorry to go on at such length, and I didn’t mean to jack the thread. McMurtry has been one of my favorite writers since I was 17. It says a lot that the scene is sympathetic to Gus, to Call, to Newt, and to Jake, who’s crossed a line he didn’t even recognize.
Damn, that’s a good book.
[after the Indians bring in a large force of white naked women] "Dammit, Tonto, I told you to bring a posse! A posse!"
“Kemo Sabe, tribe say you wear that mask 'cause you ashamed of our relationship.”
Over Macho Grande?
No, I don’t think I’ll ever get over Macho Grande.
Tonto, not realizing that the Lone Ranger had disguised himself as a pool table…
The Lone Ranger, coming on to a showgirl after a few drinks: “I’m lonely, ma’am. Really lonely.” 
Too bad nobody turned Brokeback Mountain into a mini-series. That was a tale about a couple of dicks.
Little Joe Cartwright also had a wife who was killed by some gang members that broke into their cabin, terrorized her, and set the cabin on fire after killing her.
No wonder those Cartwright men couldn’t get wives. I’ve also thought Adam started using his mother’s birth name of McIntyre, and fathered a line that lead to Trapper John MD. It does explain the remarkable resemblance to the two. Don’t they look like the same person?
She wouldn’t eat her mushrooms either.
Doesn’t work. Adam’s mother’s name was Elizabeth Stoddard.
…proceeds to rack his balls. 
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Lone Ranger, disguised as an outhouse seat, gets more ass than he can handle.
Well. somewhere in her family tree there was a McIntyre!
“Tonto, take the garbage to the dump, to the dump, to the dump, dump, dump.”
When the Nevada authorities caught on to Little Joe, he went on the lam, changed his name, and headed for Minnesota.