"We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time"
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The comedy hinges on the line “Remember me Major Nelson,” a shamelessly performative callback that treats identity as a costume you can slip on at the door. It also signals the pre-social-media era of celebrity: fame wasn’t an algorithm, it was a live-action hustle, dependent on face-to-face recognition, a good story, and the confidence to act like you belong. Larry’s pitch - “me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas” - is half charm, half soft intimidation. It’s a reminder that cultural power works best when it arrives smiling.
There’s subtext in the “hippie van,” too: a whiff of counterculture parked next to a series famous for oil money, status games, and polished swagger. That contrast makes the anecdote pop. These guys are simultaneously inside the machine (they’re building a network juggernaut) and play-acting as scruffy outsiders rolling through town.
“It would work every time” lands like a punchline, but it’s also a small, candid thesis about access: the right name, said the right way, turns a crowded room into your room.
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Kanaly, Steve. (2026, January 17). We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/wed-go-out-in-larrys-hippie-van-and-drive-out-all-65504/
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Kanaly, Steve. "We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/wed-go-out-in-larrys-hippie-van-and-drive-out-all-65504/.
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"We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/wed-go-out-in-larrys-hippie-van-and-drive-out-all-65504/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
