Season 3 episode 3 - Bunny

Day 3

This is the episode where Nellie mistreats Bunny and gets in an accident and over exaggerates her pain. Or rather, her not pain.

In the beginning of this episode Laura picks an apple and gives it to Nellie's horse, Bunny (it used to be Laura's). Later, Nellie is riding Bunny and mistreating him badly, so bunny takes off running. He goes under a branch that whacks Nellie in the face, causing her to fall off of the horse and have a bloody nose and a small concussion. She pretends to be paralyzed in her legs. Her mother orders the horse to be shot, so Laura steals him to her house. To make up for what she thought was her part in the accident, she does all of Nellie's homework for her, sacrificing her own grades. After school one day, eleven-year-old Laura makes a "date" with 12-year-old Jason, whom Nellie and Laura have fought over for a long time. Nellie witnesses this and tells Laura that she will hate anybody who ever ever 'shines up to' Jason, so Laura doesn't show up to go fishing with Jason, which makes him mad (oh, the horrible suspense! Will they make up, or will they forever be crushed souls who used to be friends? [for the words 'boyfriend and girlfriend' are far to strong for this])  Later, when Mrs. Olsen is thanking Mr. Ingalls for the wheelchair he fixed for Nellie, she sees that Laura has Bunny in her barn. Laura makes a run for it - straight to the Olsen house, where she witnesses Nellie standing up, and takes her for a ride in her wheelchair up to the top of a hill over a pond. When she sees mrs. Olsen go by on the road below, she pushes Nellie down the hill into the pond, forcing her to stand up. Mrs. Olsen faints and falls on her head, and Laura gets Bunny back.

LHOP Trope Tracker

Doc Baker looks grim: Yes
Pa broke a bone: NO
Somebody cries: YES ( Laura [x2], Mrs. Olsen)
Pa cries: NO (Almost, though. He almost cried of laughter when Mrs. Olsen fainted and fell on her head.)
Crop failure: NO
 Runaway Wagon: NO
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Please don't make me go in there!)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO (Laura came close to punching Nellie)
Reality Check: Laura could have seriously injured Mrs. Olsen or Nellie (I wouldn't have cared. I would have laughed. But.) and she got in zero trouble. 
Unexplained absence of a main character: NO

Quote of The Episode:
Laura Ingalls: "Would I ever lie to you, Nellie?" Yes. Yes she would.

My Personal Feelings about this episode:
HA HA HA HA HA!!!! This is one of the FUNNIEST EPISODES EVER. But I do have mixed emotions about it because I first saw it years ago when I was about six in the Emergency Room waiting room at ten o'clock at night when my dad needed stitches in his wrist. But it still makes me laugh SO MUCH!! It must have been so satisfying to Laura to push that chair down the hill.... Excuse me, I have to go laugh, and I don't want to shatter the computer screen.