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On 8/14/2020 at 5:35 PM, MollyMelrose said:

Watching these videos and reading these comments/remembering the glory days of the TWOP thread - (dear Lord, Schlong of Healing!!!) - well, it's been wonderful!!!! 

If someone has the link to the Wayback Machine's Little House thread, and it's OK to share it, I would be forever grateful!!

I spent forever trying to find the TWoP thread! I gave up a year ago & then I found this site so I started looking for it again.
 

After searching a while, I FINALLY came up with it! 😃It’s not divided into different thread headings—just one LONG—like, literally1803 pages long!—thread under the heading “Little House on the Prairie: Pa, Ma and the MimeThat Raped Sylvia” (surprised it’s not  spelled “Thylvia”...🤣) I’m just grateful it was saved! ❤️

Not sure if it’s okay to post links here, but—-whatever. 😛Here it is—enjoy! 
 

https://web.archive.org/web/20140330095600/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/topic/1870765-little-house-on-the-prairie-pa-ma-and-that-mime-that-raped-sylvia/

 

If the link disappears, maybe I can email it to you. 😊

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I do find it quite funny that Charles was the only one walking around without a shirt on.

Michael Landon" Hey put your shirt on! Only I can be shirtless!"

 

Director-"Michael why did you take your shirt off for this scene? All you are doing is walking from the house to the barn"

Michael" Well I figured people would think "oh he must be tanning"

Director-"Tanning while working in the barn?

Michael" Alright your fired, I'll direct this scene!"

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10 hours ago, jason88cubs said:

I do find it quite funny that Charles was the only one walking around without a shirt on.

Michael Landon" Hey put your shirt on! Only I can be shirtless!"

 

Director-"Michael why did you take your shirt off for this scene? All you are doing is walking from the house to the barn"

Michael" Well I figured people would think "oh he must be tanning"

Director-"Tanning while working in the barn?

Michael" Alright your fired, I'll direct this scene!"

That's funny and probably very true! lol He did have a very healthy ego and did love writing in those scenes. He never really had anyone compete with him that was considered a "hunk" either. I still feel he didn't want any scenes with Chris the handyman which is why they never met. : )   That would have been way too distracting for me. lol

This is the only pic of them together and of course, Mike is showing off a little chest here.

 

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In the Big Inning, when Jebidah is pitching, we have Doc baker hitting and Mr Edwards catching.

 

Jebidah throws the ball and nails Edwards in the head cuz the ball was SO FAST

 

Doc Baker didnt even check on MR Edwards lol. He just started screaming "I didnt even see it! He threw it so fast! He might've killed him!!!"

and totally ignored Mr Edwards  laying there hurt

 

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On 8/17/2020 at 6:22 PM, CountryGirl said:

Only three episodes where he actually got beat up come to mind.

One where's he's beat up by the older two of the three Galander brothers for trying to take some of Ma's farm fresh eggs, touching her "soft, real soft" skin in the process.

The second was when Harlan and that pornstache guy who worked for Mr. Standish attacked him after he confronted them for hitting on Mary, who was en route to her 16th birthday party.

The third was actually the "I Remember, I Remember" episode where Ma recalls a young Charles being jumped by rival Harold Watson and his buddies to try to keep him from taking Caroline to the dance.

There is the time he fell out of a tree trying to rescue a kite in the "A Harvest of Friends" episode. Cue the bandages around his waist with his chest, nips and all, on full display. So I guess the tree kicked his butt.

Then he got cold-cocked by the giant millstone in the "Back to School" two-parter. 

Of course, we never saw him with a head injury ala Andy and his ridiculous swath of cloth around his head in "Barn Burner." But we couldn't have his Samson-esque locks covered up. 

Back to this theme: I watched "Quarantine" today. Charles gets his ass-kicked by the 3 guys guarding the town and is sent floating away on his rowboat. In true Charles tradition, he comes back and saves the day. 

I watched "Plague" yesterday, and it was a much better disease-related episode, IMO. The guy who played that kid's father was a terrible actor, but totally creepy when he was sitting with his dead body under the tree! 

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I saw the first part of "Little Girl Lost" yesterday and I was cheering on Jack for having his own "Lassie" moment. Rather than Timmy in the well it was Carrie in - what??  A mine shaft?  I didn't finish watching the episode.  One thing: when Laura got into the wagon they left Jack behind.  I guess he had to go on home on by himself. 
Jack always has held a special place in my heart because I had a dog that looked a little bit like him when I was a kid.  

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11 hours ago, Lisa418722 said:

I saw the first part of "Little Girl Lost" yesterday and I was cheering on Jack for having his own "Lassie" moment. Rather than Timmy in the well it was Carrie in - what??  A mine shaft?  I didn't finish watching the episode.  One thing: when Laura got into the wagon they left Jack behind.  I guess he had to go on home on by himself. 
Jack always has held a special place in my heart because I had a dog that looked a little bit like him when I was a kid.  

I know dogs weren't spoiled like today but just wearing them out until they died, made me sad. All that walking at a senior age was cruel. Minding the house is fine but hundreds of miles? He was small enough to get in the back, but then I'm in 2020 and grew up when dogs were "pets".

Regarding Plague, I thought it was the best of those type of shows and liked seeing the "home schooling" and other references we see today.  I did find the boys father had a certain look that fit that "sad" part he always played but showing how he broke after losing his wife and son in such a small amount of time didn't bother me. They had Mary singing and partly comatose but Mr Boulton knew his son was dead which is why he told Charles to stop when he started to say something. He just wasn't ready yet to take it all in. I can't even imagine such sadness being absorbed.

 

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Ah, it’s the Charles gets green hair episode. It was nice to see him get laughed at by Caroline and the congregation since he was usually the one guffawing at everyone else’s expense. 

ETA: Adding pics from the episode. Shocking that ML allowed himself to look anything other than sexy.

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Of course, he did have his shirt off because OF COURSE HE DID so Caroline could rinse his luscious locks of hair.

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Jesse James offered Mary 25 cents a day to run errands and Charles talked him down to 10 cents a day. If I were Mary, I’d be pissed. She was saving for a dress but the extra money could have been saved. You just know they’ll need to dip into any savings one day. 

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4 hours ago, Snow Apple said:

Jesse James offered Mary 25 cents a day to run errands and Charles talked him down to 10 cents a day. If I were Mary, I’d be pissed. She was saving for a dress but the extra money could have been saved. You just know they’ll need to dip into any savings one day. 

Mrs Whipple paid her pretty well from my memories of a couple of shows where she sewed and sewed to help out or for Christmas gifts. She got dollars then! I would have been miffed too.

They rarely had any savings and if they did, it went on something unexpected. They didn't have money for toys or store luxuries. I don't remember seeing many toys like a wagon (that would have been useful if Charles made it even with wooden wheels) or blocks etc.  When they had some savings, Mary got kicked by the horse and we know the rest. Even the bonus Charles made almost killing himself had to go to a second operation because she got an infection. Laura and Albert had a LOT of money from the honey, more than I ever saw Charles count, and ended up giving that to Mary to get an award for Adam. So what happens....the coach goes off the road and they almost die (and Charles knew the wheel wasn't good before she left) A wonderful, caring thought to do it, proud of them, but an award, a piece of paper when 50+ dollars could do so much good even if they still bought some toys for themselves. 

Charles worked at the mill and sold crops when they weren't destroyed and they still had a hard time. He hunted for food, they had eggs, vegetables, etc. They needed spices and fabric and tobacco and farming tools but still, how sad to live off the land and still be so poor. I've said before to just have one episode when they really have a nice day and there's no scraping for a tablet or shoes, would be nice. Everyone else seemed to do okay. I loved the perseverance but it got to be such a pattern even watching "The Inheritance" the first time, you had to know it goes downhill by 30 min in.

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42 minutes ago, debraran said:

 

They rarely had any savings and if they did, it went on something unexpected. They didn't have money for toys or store luxuries. I don't remember seeing many toys like a wagon (that would have been useful if Charles made it even with wooden wheels) or blocks etc.  When they had some savings, Mary got kicked by the horse and we know the rest. Even the bonus Charles made almost killing himself had to go to a second operation because she got an infection. Laura and Albert had a LOT of money from the honey, more than I ever saw Charles count, and ended up giving that to Mary to get an award for Adam. So what happens....the coach goes off the road and they almost die (and Charles knew the wheel wasn't good before she left) A wonderful, caring thought to do it, proud of them, but an award, a piece of paper when 50+ dollars could do so much good even if they still bought some toys for themselves. 

Charles worked at the mill and sold crops when they weren't destroyed and they still had a hard time. He hunted for food, they had eggs, vegetables, etc. They needed spices and fabric and tobacco and farming tools but still, how sad to live off the land and still be so poor. I've said before to just have one episode when they really have a nice day and there's no scraping for a tablet or shoes, would be nice. Everyone else seemed to do okay. I loved the perseverance but it got to be such a pattern even watching "The Inheritance" the first time, you had to know it goes downhill by 30 min in.

And *everyone* had a nicer and bigger house than they did, even the Garveys and Edwardses, who were both farmers like Charles who worked at the mill. Andy Garvey had his own bedroom, with a door, while the Ingalls just kept packing kids of all shapes and sizes into the loft.

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The Ingallses also had the "guesthouse" soddy, which appeared almost cavernous in many episodes.  In reality, those things were supposed to be tiny.  

Where did Miss Beadle live?  Did she live above the post office?  Is that where Doc Baker also lived??

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30 minutes ago, BigBingerBro said:

The Ingallses also had the "guesthouse" soddy, which appeared almost cavernous in many episodes.  In reality, those things were supposed to be tiny.  

 

I'm surprised that Albert never attempted to move into the soddy, like Greg Brady moving into the attic.

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14 minutes ago, jird said:

I'm surprised that Albert never attempted to move into the soddy, like Greg Brady moving into the attic.

Well, he did live in the literal dog house he built for Bandit. For a night anyway.

I don't blame Bandit for wanting nothing to do with it. He was probably afraid Albert would smoke a pipe in there and burn his dog house down, with him inside, and no Alice to put him out of his misery. 

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1 hour ago, BigBingerBro said:

The Ingallses also had the "guesthouse" soddy, which appeared almost cavernous in many episodes.  In reality, those things were supposed to be tiny.  

Where did Miss Beadle live?  Did she live above the post office?  Is that where Doc Baker also lived??

When they visited her, Ms Beadle seemed to be there, in that room above post office . I thought Doc Baker was in his same office building, it was around the back that he lived. It seemed to be just a nice bedroom when Charles visited Miss Beadle when he was telling her about board meeting on her teaching ability. I don't know how she ate without stove.

The soddy didn't have heat but yeah, during the summer and warmer months, I'd sleep there to get away from my snoring sister. Even the loft in the barn could be made comfy if heat wasn't needed. (but Mary already tried to burn down the barn)

I saw 1800 wagons for kids at an auction online, couldn't you picture Laura taking Carrie on it pick berries? ; )image.png.ab479823bfd0e5067a5ac1d49512dfa9.png

What also made me laugh, besides everyone in Walnut Grove doing better than Ingall's did, even widows without much money, was that if they REALLY needed something, the reverend would say "they would all dig deep". The last time I heard that was when Charles again bought things without money in Inheritance show and the church organ was so needed. I don't know if we ever saw it, but Rev Alden said, "You could work off your debt to Oleson's and he's sure the town would dig deep to pay for organ. In 1833 I read, it cost 800 dollars approximately for an organ (17.000 today) How deep were those pockets, did they have treasure hidden in their root cellars?

I also heard in same show, Alice saying they'd borrow from the bank if needed. She acted like that was a common thing "to tide them over". I don't recall a bank there at the time but didn't sound like a safe thing to do if you couldn't pay them back. I never heard anyone say that again though.

 

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So it's "The Spring Dance" episode aka Laura pretends to like Willie to make another boy jealous and Grace does the same with poor ol' Doc L'Orange to snare Old Dan Tucker Edwards. That had to be a little weird for MG and JG, considering they were siblings (though not blood-related) in RL.

We also get the story of Caroline doing that back in the day to turn Charles' head. Which isn't how it played out in a later season. So much for "I Remember, I Remember."

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2 hours ago, debraran said:

They rarely had any savings and if they did, it went on something unexpected. They didn't have money for toys or store luxuries. I don't remember seeing many toys like a wagon (that would have been useful if Charles made it even with wooden wheels) or blocks etc.  When they had some savings, Mary got kicked by the horse and we know the rest. Even the bonus Charles made almost killing himself had to go to a second operation because she got an infection. Laura and Albert had a LOT of money from the honey, more than I ever saw Charles count, and ended up giving that to Mary to get an award for Adam. So what happens....the coach goes off the road and they almost die (and Charles knew the wheel wasn't good before she left) A wonderful, caring thought to do it, proud of them, but an award, a piece of paper when 50+ dollars could do so much good even if they still bought some toys for themselves. 

Charles worked at the mill and sold crops when they weren't destroyed and they still had a hard time. He hunted for food, they had eggs, vegetables, etc. They needed spices and fabric and tobacco and farming tools but still, how sad to live off the land and still be so poor.

 

1 hour ago, jird said:

And *everyone* had a nicer and bigger house than they did, even the Garveys and Edwardses, who were both farmers like Charles who worked at the mill. Andy Garvey had his own bedroom, with a door, while the Ingalls just kept packing kids of all shapes and sizes into the loft.

The Ingalls' poverty is one of my biggest complaints. Why did they have to be depicted as so damn poor in comparison to every other farming family in the area? There was the episode where Charles walked miles with the soles of his shoes literally falling apart and he tied them closed with string. How bad was he with money that he couldn't even afford to repair his shoes? And every damn time a calamity befell the family, they never had the money to cover the unexpected expense and then Mr. Cash-on-a-Barrel would go hat-in-hand asking someone for a loan. He was a terrible farmer and even worse with money. I don't know how or why Caroline put up with his crap decisions that made all their lives unnecessarily more stressful & difficult.

And that farmhouse, God, that crappy farmhouse. Although, it was a major improvement over the hovel Charles built in the pilot. Why didn't he ever add on to that sad little house? He was a carpenter ffs, the least he could have done was add some walls to his & Caroline's "bedroom" so Carrie and the girls in the loft wouldn't have to see & hear their parents' nocturnal activities. And when Albert moved in, he should have added a partition to the loft to give Laura some privacy as she got older; that sheet pulled across the loft was not it, Charles. Don't even get me started on that front room that functioned as the sitting room, dining room, kitchen, and even blind Mary's bedroom. Even the backwoods creepy family that Mary lived with in "Whisper Country" had a bigger farmhouse that also allowed for privacy. I should rewatch the series finale just so I can relive the joy of watching the Ingalls farmhouse get blown to pieces, because I really do hate it that much.

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Up next is the one with the attempted puppy drowning...my heart can't take this.

I mean, seriously, show...just disturbing and I know, sadly, this kind of thing goes on to this very day, but I don't need to see it on my TV.

And it would be the one episode where Mary wears braids.

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38 minutes ago, bunnyblue said:

 

The Ingalls' poverty is one of my biggest complaints. Why did they have to be depicted as so damn poor in comparison to every other farming family in the area? There was the episode where Charles walked miles with the soles of his shoes literally falling apart and he tied them closed with string. How bad was he with money that he couldn't even afford to repair his shoes? And every damn time a calamity befell the family, they never had the money to cover the unexpected expense and then Mr. Cash-on-a-Barrel would go hat-in-hand asking someone for a loan. He was a terrible farmer and even worse with money. I don't know how or why Caroline put up with his crap decisions that made all their lives unnecessarily more stressful & difficult.

And that farmhouse, God, that crappy farmhouse. Although, it was a major improvement over the hovel Charles built in the pilot. Why didn't he ever add on to that sad little house? He was a carpenter ffs, the least he could have done was add some walls to his & Caroline's "bedroom" so Carrie and the girls in the loft wouldn't have to see & hear their parents' nocturnal activities. And when Albert moved in, he should have added a partition to the loft to give Laura some privacy as she got older; that sheet pulled across the loft was not it, Charles. Don't even get me started on that front room that functioned as the sitting room, dining room, kitchen, and even blind Mary's bedroom. Even the backwoods creepy family that Mary lived with in "Whisper Country" had a bigger farmhouse that also allowed for privacy. I should rewatch the series finale just so I can relive the joy of watching the Ingalls farmhouse get blown to pieces, because I really do hate it that much.

I agree with your post. However, you'll be disappointed with the finale because the whole town got blown up....except for the church and that darn farmhouse.

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1 hour ago, jason88cubs said:

I just love that no matter how poor they got their was no way Charles was gonna sell that fiddle, even if he only played it once a month!

Well he did sell it to buy Mary a bonnet for her 16th birthday. That was a nail-biting 60 seconds til Ma bought it back again.

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3 hours ago, bunnyblue said:

The Ingalls' poverty is one of my biggest complaints. Why did they have to be depicted as so damn poor in comparison to every other farming family in the area? There was the episode where Charles walked miles with the soles of his shoes literally falling apart and he tied them closed with string. How bad was he with money that he couldn't even afford to repair his shoes? And every damn time a calamity befell the family, they never had the money to cover the unexpected expense and then Mr. Cash-on-a-Barrel would go hat-in-hand asking someone for a loan. He was a terrible farmer and even worse with money. I don't know how or why Caroline put up with his crap decisions that made all their lives unnecessarily more stressful & difficult.

And that farmhouse, God, that crappy farmhouse. Although, it was a major improvement over the hovel Charles built in the pilot. Why didn't he ever add on to that sad little house? He was a carpenter ffs, the least he could have done was add some walls to his & Caroline's "bedroom" so Carrie and the girls in the loft wouldn't have to see & hear their parents' nocturnal activities. And when Albert moved in, he should have added a partition to the loft to give Laura some privacy as she got older; that sheet pulled across the loft was not it, Charles. Don't even get me started on that front room that functioned as the sitting room, dining room, kitchen, and even blind Mary's bedroom. Even the backwoods creepy family that Mary lived with in "Whisper Country" had a bigger farmhouse that also allowed for privacy. I should rewatch the series finale just so I can relive the joy of watching the Ingalls farmhouse get blown to pieces, because I really do hate it that much.

I always thought that if Pa spent less time butting his nose into everyone-else-in-town's business he could have been a more successful farmer.

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16 minutes ago, absolutelyido said:

I always thought that if Pa spent less time butting his nose into everyone-else-in-town's business he could have been a more successful farmer.

it's like their was a Bat signal for Charles.

 

Anytime their was trouble, here comes CHARLES!

 

"I haven't been able to put food on the table for a week but there's 3 orphans that need a home? I'll take them!"

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5 hours ago, bunnyblue said:

 

The Ingalls' poverty is one of my biggest complaints. Why did they have to be depicted as so damn poor in comparison to every other farming family in the area? There was the episode where Charles walked miles with the soles of his shoes literally falling apart and he tied them closed with string. How bad was he with money that he couldn't even afford to repair his shoes? And every damn time a calamity befell the family, they never had the money to cover the unexpected expense and then Mr. Cash-on-a-Barrel would go hat-in-hand asking someone for a loan. He was a terrible farmer and even worse with money. I don't know how or why Caroline put up with his crap decisions that made all their lives unnecessarily more stressful & difficult.

And that farmhouse, God, that crappy farmhouse. Although, it was a major improvement over the hovel Charles built in the pilot. Why didn't he ever add on to that sad little house? He was a carpenter ffs, the least he could have done was add some walls to his & Caroline's "bedroom" so Carrie and the girls in the loft wouldn't have to see & hear their parents' nocturnal activities. And when Albert moved in, he should have added a partition to the loft to give Laura some privacy as she got older; that sheet pulled across the loft was not it, Charles. Don't even get me started on that front room that functioned as the sitting room, dining room, kitchen, and even blind Mary's bedroom. Even the backwoods creepy family that Mary lived with in "Whisper Country" had a bigger farmhouse that also allowed for privacy. I should rewatch the series finale just so I can relive the joy of watching the Ingalls farmhouse get blown to pieces, because I really do hate it that much.

Never thought of how it seemed like no one else really struggle dbut the Ingalls

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6 hours ago, Snow Apple said:

However, you'll be disappointed with the finale because the whole town got blown up....except for the church and that darn farmhouse.

Noooooo!! I could've sworn the Ingalls farmhouse was blow to smithereens. WTH made their home so special that it wasn't blown up along with the rest of the town? Boooo!!

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6 hours ago, bunnyblue said:

Noooooo!! I could've sworn the Ingalls farmhouse was blow to smithereens. WTH made their home so special that it wasn't blown up along with the rest of the town? Boooo!!

Mr Carter took it to his "real" barn but no one ever saw it again. Maybe at an auction one day? Stan Ivar isn't on social media really from what I heard and didn't do a lot of acting. They put up a replica for fans until the fires burned it one day along with a lot of the old set and area around it.

Yes the orphans were always around. He was a good carpenter and could make a shoe but never seemed to be able to save money no matter how many extra jobs he had. Mr Edwards had 3 kids and they seemed fine. We joke about the mean city people always shown but what is it with his neighbors? Every time there's a meeting, they all seem ignorant, racist or loud. When the Sanderson's were orphaned, Charles couldn't take them but it didn't stop them from taking 2 later. He didn't even think of taking Alicia to keep her closer to her brother's. My question is why were all the potential parents so mean or lacking empathy? When you think about it, there were 3 families with Walnut Grove that were nice.  : ) For Pete's sake Nels and Harriet would have been better than the family James and Cassandra went too but I never could warm up to them. The whining and running away and stealing. It was really too much and I'll never understand why Michael did that. Did he really think crowding a tiny home with so many kids would be "cute"? '

I watched the one about the boy pretending to be blind yesterday making dinner, not a fav but his home was huge! I think I didn't like it because there was no real reason his parents were divorcing and no way I saw his mom was to support them with money being sent from his dad on occasion. I also thought it was boring to resuse the hit on the head blindness more than once. It seemed like a filler episode and a cute way to have the actor do cartwheels for a few scenes. lol

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12 hours ago, jason88cubs said:

it's like their was a Bat signal for Charles.

 

Anytime their was trouble, here comes CHARLES!

 

"I haven't been able to put food on the table for a week but there's 3 orphans that need a home? I'll take them!"

But I will not add onto the house to make room for them, even though I spend all my spare time building things and I work at/own a lumber mill!

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I think Charles took in James/Cassandra as it was late in S7 and since he never gave Carrie anything to do besides fall down a well, run to the outhouse, and shriek "Alyssa, Alyssa" and Grace never got to leave her high chair, he had to trot out the tired trope of bring in a new kid (in this case, two of 'em) to try and keep the circling-the-drain show on a while longer with varying degrees of success. Nancy was another attempt at this and S9 was all about kids no one gave a crap about - Jeb, Jason, Nancy, and Jennie. 

See also: The Brady Bunch (Cousin Oliver), Family Ties (Andy), Growing Pains (Chrissy and whomever Leonardo DiCaprio played), The Cosby Show (Olivia), Different Strokes (Sam), The Facts of Life (Andy), and, next to Cousin Oliver, the worst (IMO) example of this, Scrappy from Scooby Doo. More like a Scooby Don't. 

16 minutes ago, jird said:

But I will not add onto the house to make room for them, even though I spend all my spare time building things and I work at/own a lumber mill!

And yet Almanzo added on the extra room for Royal and Jenny in less than a few weeks. 

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Michael usually had good instincts but whether he tired of the show or his outside life in the tabloids interfered with it, he missed the mark a lot toward the end in what people wanted. I think most of us would have loved to have Alison stay with Percival (he was well then) and the hilarious stories that could have come with that. Garvey was just boring but nothing against the real person, his character was just awful.  To move to the city after demonizing it so much seemed "off" and his excuse of not wanting Laura to keep running to Pa, he said in interview, well that wouldn't happen unless they wrote it that way. Willie would have been comic relief to some degree too after he was married. Everything was overkill, Albert a drug addict, fine, but why kill him off? Jason's coma was when I tuned out back in the day, I thought, this is crazy, crazier than Charles in that beard. 😁I know Melissa said any time the ratings dipped, he did something over the top, but ratings do that, you have a good formula, you stay with it. They pushed the cancellation when he changed it.

He tried to stick to the books for his biological children but Grace could have aged faster and been a good actress. It's hard when you pick a child young as they did with Carrie to know how well they would do later, but she could have handled a bit more than they gave her. When she was in class, just let her answer a question now and then.  When they had the show where Caroline was having trouble getting all 5 of them dressed and out of the house, Laura was very cold. I wanted to say, Hey, can you take two and lessen the load? lol  I mean really, they had the smallest house and the most kids.  They needed the blind school or even Laura's house. She had one child, they should have switched. : )

How did they do the beds? Carrie and Cassandra in Laura/Mary's old bed and was James/Albert squished in the other end of the loft? Grace finally in Carrie's bed and not the barn?

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I'm watching a weird one I've never seen - "Be My Friend." I'm half paying attention and half working, but something about a message in a bottle, and a pregnant girl? 

ETA: There's a baby! And fire! No babies on fire, though. 

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Babies & fire.
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4 hours ago, CountryGirl said:

 

See also: The Brady Bunch (Cousin Oliver), Family Ties (Andy), Growing Pains (Chrissy and whomever Leonardo DiCaprio played), The Cosby Show (Olivia), Different Strokes (Sam), The Facts of Life (Andy), and, next to Cousin Oliver, the worst (IMO) example of this, Scrappy from Scooby Doo. More like a Scooby Don't. 

And yet Almanzo added on the extra room for Royal and Jenny in less than a few weeks. 

the fact you cited Scrappy Doo makes you my people. Original Scooby Doo forever!! #noScrappy

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1 hour ago, Superclam said:

I'm watching a weird one I've never seen - "Be My Friend." I'm half paying attention and half working, but something about a message in a bottle, and a pregnant girl? 

ETA: There's a baby! And fire! No babies on fire, though. 

I just watched this too and kept wondering why there so many crazy and creepy fathers of teenage girls on this show?!

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5 minutes ago, Snow Apple said:

I just watched this too and kept wondering why there so many crazy and creepy fathers of teenage girls on this show?!

Yes, that was another theme I noticed. I can think of this guy and Sylvia's father off the top of my head, and probably a few others if I tried. 

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4 hours ago, CountryGirl said:

I think Charles took in James/Cassandra as it was late in S7 and since he never gave Carrie anything to do besides fall down a well, run to the outhouse, and shriek "Alyssa, Alyssa" and Grace never got to leave her high chair, he had to trot out the tired trope of bring in a new kid (in this case, two of 'em) to try and keep the circling-the-drain show on a while longer with varying degrees of success. Nancy was another attempt at this and S9 was all about kids no one gave a crap about - Jeb, Jason, Nancy, and Jennie. 

See also: The Brady Bunch (Cousin Oliver), Family Ties (Andy), Growing Pains (Chrissy and whomever Leonardo DiCaprio played), The Cosby Show (Olivia), Different Strokes (Sam), The Facts of Life (Andy), and, next to Cousin Oliver, the worst (IMO) example of this, Scrappy from Scooby Doo. More like a Scooby Don't. 

A trope so prevalent it has a name: https://www.theloop.ca/the-highs-and-lows-of-cousin-oliver-syndrome-tvs-most-shameless-ploy-for-ratings/.

I don't know if Cousin Oliver was the first, but he's the first that comes to mind for me. And yes, the less said about Scrappy the better. 

34 minutes ago, RedbirdNelly said:

the fact you cited Scrappy Doo makes you my people. Original Scooby Doo forever!! #noScrappy

If I ever met anyone who liked Scrappy not only would I not be friends with that person, but I would question their sanity, and their very humanity.  

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2 hours ago, Superclam said:

Yes, that was another theme I noticed. I can think of this guy and Sylvia's father off the top of my head, and probably a few others if I tried. 

Yes, but Charles comes and saves the day, and the girl and her boyfriend live happily ever after.  Yes, some creepy dads of a lot of kids. Olga's dad was a bit rigid and ignorant. Poor Graham's dad drank, Laraby was a jerk and had kids, really anyone that attended a meeting in Walnut Grove was kind of dense except for Charles and Mr Edwards. The only nice dad was Willie's brides father he acted stern but then kidded with him. I kept expecting him to turn around and show red eyes or something. lol  The rich dad of Nel's nephew had to be taught by Charle's how to father a child and I'm grateful they didn't have to adopt him too. (was adorable though)  He also had to straighten out the wayward grandson of that elderly couple who's father beat him, that had the typical cry/hug ending but yes, I see the pattern of why maybe he didn't have too much time for his family or making money. Even Adam's father sucked. I bet Chris could have added the kitchen, another room and showed Carrie more attention than they did in one week. 😉I understand fully why she loved her "Uncle Chris" He talked to her, played with her and made her a toy while building a kitchen.

 

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There's also the dad in Rage who shot his wife and daughter. He went crazy and thought Laura and Jenny were his wife and daughter, and Rose was his daughter's baby. Dads on this show sure fear their daughters having babies out of wedlock to the point of insanity.

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3 hours ago, debraran said:

The rich dad of Nel's nephew had to be taught by Charle's how to father a child and I'm grateful they didn't have to adopt him too. (was adorable though)  He also had to straighten out the wayward grandson of that elderly couple who's father beat him, that had the typical cry/hug ending

With the way Charles was always taking in troubled young boys and teaching them responsibility via farm work, I'm surprised he didn't take advantage of the free child labor and have them help him build additions to the tiny farmhouse. 

6 hours ago, Superclam said:

I'm watching a weird one I've never seen - "Be My Friend." I'm half paying attention and half working, but something about a message in a bottle, and a pregnant girl? 

 

5 hours ago, Snow Apple said:

I just watched this too and kept wondering why there so many crazy and creepy fathers of teenage girls on this show?!

That episode was really uncomfortable to watch, and for about half the episode I was sure the girl's father was going to end up being her baby's father. Even without any incest going on, there was so much wrong with this one: teenage girl gives birth out in the woods and then goes home to her creepy father to make him dinner; religious zealot father burns the house down with him and his daughter in it; crazy father is left babbling in the rubble of his burnt out home; 11 year old Laura pretends to be the abandoned baby's mother; clearly traumatized teenage girl goes off with her teenage boyfriend to raise the baby she abandoned in the woods. I can't believe this was considered a family friendly show in the 1970's. 

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The episode where caroline almost cuts her leg off

Never could figure out why Charles, in the preachers horse carriage thing stopped at his fence and ran to his hhouse when he could have just rode the horse up

 

at least he didnt take his short off and run

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I watched the Winoka episode where Albert is introduced and I was totally grossed out by Laura & Albert making eyes at each other. No doubt ML already planned on making Albert a part of the Ingalls family, so why the hell did he have 12 year old Laura checking out 10 year old Albert?? Ewwwww. Admittedly, the flirting only lasted for 1 (long) scene and they became friends pretty quickly, but I'm baffled as to why the show had the future siblings interact like that during their initial meeting. 

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7 hours ago, bunnyblue said:

I watched the Winoka episode where Albert is introduced and I was totally grossed out by Laura & Albert making eyes at each other. No doubt ML already planned on making Albert a part of the Ingalls family, so why the hell did he have 12 year old Laura checking out 10 year old Albert?? Ewwwww. Admittedly, the flirting only lasted for 1 (long) scene and they became friends pretty quickly, but I'm baffled as to why the show had the future siblings interact like that during their initial meeting. 

And sleeping together. "you keep that sheet up Albert! No peeking" Really..

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13 hours ago, debraran said:

And sleeping together. "you keep that sheet up Albert! No peeking" Really..

And then his reply: "there's nothing to peek at". Implying he's been staring at her flat chest. These 2 rivaled Greg & Marcia Brady with the incesty vibes.

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20 minutes ago, Snow Apple said:

Are Laura and Nellie the same age, or is Nellie older? 

She finished school first, so I assume she's older.  Plus AA is older than MG for whatever that's worth.

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