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eleri · 06-22-2016, 07:06 PM

In A-Camping We Will Go, Jack is exhausted, but Lana keeps bothering him. If it was me, I would have bitten her head off. Exhaustion usually makes me irritable. I can keep an even temper if someone is bothering me unintentionally, but if I tell someone that I'm tired and they ignore that, I'm not going to be nice.

Did Lana have some hold on Jack that I missed, so that he couldn't tell her off?

JackJanetChrissy · 06-22-2016, 08:20 PM

I think Jack is so bewildered by Lana's constant advances that he's always sort of unsure of how to act. Also, I think Jack didn't want to hurt her feelings, even when he was tired. I mean, she REALLLY liked him. And Jack is a nice, polite kind of person.

JackJanetChrissy · 06-22-2016, 08:22 PM

I also think that Jack could have gotten with Lana if he'd let go of his hang-up of her being older. Sometimes it seems like she really gets to him, and he resists only because he thinks "what would other people think," which is totally bogus since he went for an older lady in "The Older Woman" in Season 3.

eleri · 06-22-2016, 10:34 PM

Actually, in one of Lana's earlier episodes, Furley makes it clear that if he thought that Jack was a rival for Lana's affections, he would throw him out. That's why Jack won't consider her as an option. He's worried about what Furley would think, not what people in general would think.

JackJanetChrissy · 06-23-2016, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by eleri

Actually, in one of Lana's earlier episodes, Furley makes it clear that if he thought that Jack was a rival for Lana's affections, he would throw him out. That's why Jack won't consider her as an option. He's worried about what Furley would think, not what people in general would think.

I don't recall that. In fact, Furley is so clueless that in "Snow Job" he says to Jack, "She seems to have taken a motherly interest in you." Furley thinks Jack is gay, so why would Furley see him as competition? Also, RF takes Lana's insults as compliments.

I think Jack is afraid of what others would think. That was set up in "Love Thy Neighbor," the first Lana episode, where Jack went to great lengths to hide his "date" with Lana from the girls.

JackJanetChrissy · 06-23-2016, 08:56 AM

Also, Jack dates girls right under Furley's nose, why would dating Lana be any different? Furley would be none the wiser.

JSP · 06-26-2016, 10:56 PM

It would have been funnier to have a foul-mouthed elderly lady chase Jack rather than a sexy cougar like Lana. It made no sense for Jack to resist Lana because I don't even think she was looking for a serious relationship, just some fun. But the reason why Lana was even there was ABC forced Anne Wedgeworth onto the show. Not like the producers would have hired her, that was a network decision, and understandably she didn't last because they didn't know how to write the Lana character. She just wasn't needed and it wasn't Anne's fault.

JackJanetChrissy · 06-27-2016, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by JSP

It would have been funnier to have a foul-mouthed elderly lady chase Jack rather than a sexy cougar like Lana.

That would have been funny!

Anna Karenina · 07-24-2016, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by JackJanetChrissy

I think Jack is so bewildered by Lana's constant advances that he's always sort of unsure of how to act. Also, I think Jack didn't want to hurt her feelings, even when he was tired. I mean, she REALLLY liked him. And Jack is a nice, polite kind of person.

Horny Jack would have been all over that kind of aggressive behavior. Greedy Gretchen comes to mind. John Ritter said it never made sense that Jack would be so resistant, that she was an attractive woman throwing herself at him and she was written out because Jack's lack of interest in her rang false. (paraphrasing here)

Lana treated Furley like dirt so I personally had no use for the character and her shrewish behavior. The actress Ann Wedgeworth was way too talented for this one dimensional part. She said the other ladies were jealous of her role on the show and that is when she got canned.

She ended up playing Jessica Lange's mother in Sweet Dreams and was very effective as a character completely opposite to this one.

06-22-2016, 07:06 PM	#1
eleri Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jun 27, 2011 Posts: 56	Why was Jack so nice to Lana? In A-Camping We Will Go, Jack is exhausted, but Lana keeps bothering him. If it was me, I would have bitten her head off. Exhaustion usually makes me irritable. I can keep an even temper if someone is bothering me unintentionally, but if I tell someone that I'm tired and they ignore that, I'm not going to be nice. Did Lana have some hold on Jack that I missed, so that he couldn't tell her off?

06-26-2016, 10:56 PM	#7
JSP Member Senior Member Join Date: Aug 19, 2003 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 2,735	It would have been funnier to have a foul-mouthed elderly lady chase Jack rather than a sexy cougar like Lana. It made no sense for Jack to resist Lana because I don't even think she was looking for a serious relationship, just some fun. But the reason why Lana was even there was ABC forced Anne Wedgeworth onto the show. Not like the producers would have hired her, that was a network decision, and understandably she didn't last because they didn't know how to write the Lana character. She just wasn't needed and it wasn't Anne's fault.
	Last edited by JSP; 06-27-2016 at 01:15 AM.

06-22-2016, 08:20 PM	#2
JackJanetChrissy Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 18, 2014 Posts: 1,005	I think Jack is so bewildered by Lana's constant advances that he's always sort of unsure of how to act. Also, I think Jack didn't want to hurt her feelings, even when he was tired. I mean, she REALLLY liked him. And Jack is a nice, polite kind of person.

06-22-2016, 08:22 PM	#3
JackJanetChrissy Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 18, 2014 Posts: 1,005	I also think that Jack could have gotten with Lana if he'd let go of his hang-up of her being older. Sometimes it seems like she really gets to him, and he resists only because he thinks "what would other people think," which is totally bogus since he went for an older lady in "The Older Woman" in Season 3.

06-22-2016, 10:34 PM	#4
eleri Member Occasional Poster Join Date: Jun 27, 2011 Posts: 56	Actually, in one of Lana's earlier episodes, Furley makes it clear that if he thought that Jack was a rival for Lana's affections, he would throw him out. That's why Jack won't consider her as an option. He's worried about what Furley would think, not what people in general would think.

06-23-2016, 08:56 AM	#6
JackJanetChrissy Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jun 18, 2014 Posts: 1,005	Also, Jack dates girls right under Furley's nose, why would dating Lana be any different? Furley would be none the wiser.