Nasty Boy

How did we love to hate J.R.? Let us count the ways:
1978-79: When Jock has a heart attack, son J.R. keeps no bedside vigil with the other Ewings. Instead, he is out making deals on the assumption that his daddy will die. (Daddy lives.)
1980-81: Disgruntled after revolutionaries cause the nationalization of an Asian oil field, J.R. incites a successful coup.
1980-81: When Marilee Stone complains about J.R.'s business practices, saying they drove her husband, Seth, to suicide, J.R. replies: ''I didn't ask you here to nitpick.''
1982-83: After a temporary victory in the fight for Ewing Oil, J.R. tells outsmarted brother Bobby: ''Your assets are frozen in the middle of Canada, Bob. You took the high road, and I took the low road, but I got the company before you.''
1986-87: In yet another Saddam Hussein-style approach to international relations, J.R. hires a mercenary to blow up oil fields in the Middle East.