4. It Was All A Dream And Bobby Didn't Die Dallas
The ultimate cop-out ending, Dallas has become famous for just one moment. One failure to leave a character dead has out-done the likes of Eastenders ludicrously resurrecting Dirty Den before firing him a couple of years later and entered pop culture history for all the wrong reasons. We know it was the 80's, but come on. Patrick Duffy, better known to TV fans as Bobby Ewing, decided he wanted to leave Dallas in 1984 despite being a huge character on the show. The writers honoured that wish and then some; they killed him off in a car accident and there was no going back for Bobby. Until the Season 9 finale however, when Pam wakes up and hears someone in the shower; she goes to the bathroom, and finds Bobby: the camera zooms in on his face. How could he be back? That's impossible! It's then that Pam tells us she's just had the most peculiar dream; she's dreamt all of Season 9. Now we can pick up where we were before Bobby left, and no one will ever question his death, or find it annoying that they watched a whole season of Dallas for nothing, right? The writers must've thought that was an ingenious way to resurrect Bobby, but it smacked of desperation and laughable ridiculousness.
