S01.E18: Plague

[Tara Ariano]

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With the sudden intensity of a prairie storm, typhus is unleashed on an unsuspecting Walnut Grove.

[scowl]

The image of those rats stayed with me well into adulthood.

[Primetimer]

Tainted cornmeal threatens to take down all of Walnut Grove.

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[jima]

[Lady Iris]

^^^ I'd give that a thousand likes if I could jima!!!

Kim, you sounded like you really sunk your teeth into this one and enjoyed the heck out of PLAGUE! Awesome job and thank you.  I was giggling the entire way through bec epidemics on the prairie are always a hoot and a half.

And yes!!! I love that you're planning ahead to the Mime!

Edited July 18, 2017 by Lady Iris

[Kerfuffler]

I really thought this was going to be the one where Laura goes blind for like 5 seconds, but now I remember that's from some kind of tainted meat, not rat-infested cornmeal. 

How did no one notice all those rats before? They weren't being discreet. And what, no repercussions for Mr. Peterson? 

[sistermagpie]

3 hours ago, Kerfuffler said:

I really thought this was going to be the one where Laura goes blind for like 5 seconds, but now I remember that's from some kind of tainted meat, not rat-infested cornmeal. 

Yeah, I think that was anthrax that gave her that moment. Bad sheep iirc. You can bet I thought of exactly that when there were those anthrax terrorist scares after 9/11.

[Kim]

On 7/19/2017 at 6:39 PM, Kerfuffler said:

And what, no repercussions for Mr. Peterson? 

I think he ded. He definitely got sick and we never saw him again, so...keep a sharp eye on those gravestones during recess.

[Your Aunt Tilly]

I really thought this was going to be the one where Laura goes blind for like 5 seconds, but now I remember that's from some kind of tainted meat, not rat-infested cornmeal. 

How did no one notice all those rats before? They weren't being discreet. And what, no repercussions for Mr. Peterson? 

I am pretty sure (and I could be imagining this since it's been about 8 years since I've seen the entire series) that the man holding his dead son under the tree ("He dead!") telling Charles to tell Miss Beadle that it's too nice a day to be in school is also holding a dead son ("He dead too!") under a tree talking about the nice weather in the Anthrax from the Cheap Mutton (Priced so Low We're Practically Giving it Away!) episode.

[Selina K]

The rats on the cornmeal and the fire at the school for the blind are the images seared in my consciousness from this show. Thanks wholesome family television! I think those rats may also have led me to do some in depth research and on overseas class on the history of the Black Death when I was in college.

[LtBroccoli]

On 7/24/2017 at 11:08 AM, Your Aunt Tilly said:

I am pretty sure (and I could be imagining this since it's been about 8 years since I've seen the entire series) that the man holding his dead son under the tree ("He dead!") telling Charles to tell Miss Beadle that it's too nice a day to be in school is also holding a dead son ("He dead too!") under a tree talking about the nice weather in the Anthrax from the Cheap Mutton (Priced so Low We're Practically Giving it Away!) episode.

I just watched that one!  Yes, it's the same guy and when he carried a son into the makeshift hospital with anthrax I knew the kid wouldn't make it, because this actor must be typecast as Intensely Grieving Father or something. Instead of going mad under a tree though he attacks the guy who was selling the mutton (who had already died).