Day 8
This is the episode where the 3 Gallander brothers come to town and get run out on a rail. But minus the rail.
The episode begins at the new Gallander homestead, with the brothers getting ready for a day in town. After a short period of conversation, they all leave. Bubba goes to school where he abruptly gets off to a bad start by pushing Willie off the seat for making fun of his name. Later that day, he hits Mary and shoves Laura. His older brothers, John and George, go to the Olsen mercantile where they purchase $15 worth of goods, which they charge, but promise to pay back with a bank draft on Friday. Then they go to the lumbermill, where they order a wagonload of wood, with the same promise of payment as they used at the Olen's. Because they want to build right away, they are given a wagonload that was originally intended for a man who doesn't need to build for two weeks. However, they promptly sell it to that same man for $3 less. Later, on Friday, their paycheck hasn't come in yet, and their excuse is because of the rain. When they aren't in Church on Sunday, Reverend Alden pays them a visit, and they feed him a load o' lies saying that their ma is sick, and that was why they had to sell the lumber. The next day, Caroline is walking to town with eggs when she is grabbed and manhandled by the two oldest brothers. This makes Pa mad, of course, and he goes and beats up the two brothers, except that they beat him up badly. He busts 3 ribs. The reverend does not approve at ALL of that.Only when he finds out that HE has been wronged by the Gallanders does he actually get physical with them, and they didn't offend him NEARLY as much as they offended Charles. In the end, the all the schoolgirls (and Willie) except for Nellie (who is sweet on Bubba) beat up Bubba, and he and his brothers all three get run out of town on Sunday.
Doc Baker looks grim:YES
Pa broke a bone: YES (ribs, even! I wonder if Pa has any ribs that haven't been broken?)
Somebody cries: YES ( Laura, Caroline)
Pa cries: YES
Runaway Wagon: YES (with an unconscious Pa in it!)
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Are you alright?)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: YES YES YES YES!!!!
Reality
Check: A big boy like Bubba would never get away with physically and intentionally hurting litteler girls like he did.
Crackpot theology: YES (Rev. Alden justifies the Gallender's behavior by saying: When faced with violence, they reacted with violence! Because he says that them manhandling his wife was just not enough motivation for Pa to go and beat up the Gallanders. But them lying to him [the Rev.] was enough motivation for HIM to get physical.)
Quote of the episode:
"I'll take a plow handle and when I get through, those boys will be too sore to wear their hats." ~Mr. Edwards, offering to deal with the boys after Pa is beat up. His offer is rudely rejected.
My Personal Feelings:
This is a very very special episode. ALL THE TROPES HAPPENED!!!!! Oh my gosh I can't believe it!!!! YAY!!!! Finally. We had one where NONE happened and now we have one where ALL happened. I am ecstatic!
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Season 3 - episode 7
HAPPY (late) NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
day 7
This is the episode where Laura adopts a troublesome goat and he keeps being very troublesome to all of the townspeople.
The beginning of this episode is a billy goat in a field chewing hay. You then see the goat's owner, a man named Luke, feeding a horse in his barn. Shortly he bends over and the goat charges him and puts him through the wall of the barn. Laura has been working for this man's wife since Monday, and a slightly confused Luke is about to pay her (While his wife fetches his rifle to shoot the goat), but he finds that he only has one cent less than what he owes her. Laura proposes that she take the troublesome goat instead, since he is going to be killed, and he doesn't seem too mean to her. Suddenly, Luke changes his tune, and starts singing (not literally) the goat's praises, saying that he's not so mean, and he's really taken to Laura ("like a hornworm to a tomato, and that's a lot of tooken!" as he puts it), and he's the last of his kind, and would she really save him from death like that? Laura takes him home, naming him Fred, and her family is not too thrilled. Charles, who has spent all day harvesting rushes to sell to a man named Jenks, makes the awful mistake of bending down in front of Fred, and, just as Ma was about to tell him about Fred, he came flying out of the barn, butted by Fred. That night he tells Laura that Fred has to go because of the extensive damage that he had done to the barn, unless she can think of a reason to keep him. The next morning Fred has eaten lots of the rushes that Pa worked so hard to harvest. While Laura, Mary, and Fred set off to town, Pa sets off to gather more rushes. Before school, Laura convinces Willie Olsen of how wonderful goats are, including the delicious cheese that they make, and Willie buys Fred on the spot. Fred, who is tied to a post in the Olsen yard, eats the wash AND butts Mrs. Olsen who falls in the mud (YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY HA HA HA). After nobody will take Fred including Mr. Edwards, who gets butted, Carl and Laura put him in Mr. Edwards' secret thinking spot (it's a still), where he promptly gets drunk. They take him to the doctor, who gets butted, then to Reverend Alden, who gets.... guess what... butted! Then they decide they have to let him go. He runs off and gets in the wagon of the cheater Jenks, and eats all the rushes, so Jenks comes to Pa and pays him $12 to harvest more rushes. Ma, Mary, and Laura all agree that that is a good reason to keep Fred, so Laura goes out to find him. After five minutes of searching, she gives up in hopeless defeat, until she hears the bleat of a goat. She chases down Fred and tries to take him home, but is surprised when he runs away. Then (to slow jazz stripper music) she discovers that he has a whole herd of Nanny goats now. She leaves him to that and goes on with life.
Doc Baker looks grim:YES
Pa broke a bone: NO
Somebody cries: YES ( Laura)
Pa cries: NO
Crop failure: NO
Runaway Wagon: NO
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Fred didn't mean to!)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO (but he did do smiley sarcasm to a big fat jerk, so that's close enough)
Reality Check: All those people getting butted by a goat with enough force to go through a wall would be a lot more sore than they were portrayed to be. Also, Nanny goats + Billy goats does not equal women + men, so the stripper music when Fred is with the nannies is a bit.... strange.
Mr. Olsen bullies Mrs. Olsen into behaving like a human being: NO (The goat does bully her, just not into acting like a human being)
Carrie can't act: YES (sorry, Lidnsay Sidney Greenbush, but saying 'I.... LIKE.... Fred...' when you are supposed to be talking normally is just plain not-acting.)-:. )
All the people who got butted:
Luke
Pa
Mrs. Olsen (HA HA HA)
Mr. Edwards
Doc Baker
Rev. Alden
Jenks (tackled)
Quote of the Episode:
"That was quite a fiery sermon the reverend gave. I thought he was going to preach on 'love all creatures, great and small'" ~Ma.
My personal feelings about this episode:
One of the. Funniest. Episodes. Ever. I seriously love this one. I am only dissapointed that the goat didn't trample Mrs. Olsen after butting her. That would have made this my favorite episode by far.
day 7
This is the episode where Laura adopts a troublesome goat and he keeps being very troublesome to all of the townspeople.
The beginning of this episode is a billy goat in a field chewing hay. You then see the goat's owner, a man named Luke, feeding a horse in his barn. Shortly he bends over and the goat charges him and puts him through the wall of the barn. Laura has been working for this man's wife since Monday, and a slightly confused Luke is about to pay her (While his wife fetches his rifle to shoot the goat), but he finds that he only has one cent less than what he owes her. Laura proposes that she take the troublesome goat instead, since he is going to be killed, and he doesn't seem too mean to her. Suddenly, Luke changes his tune, and starts singing (not literally) the goat's praises, saying that he's not so mean, and he's really taken to Laura ("like a hornworm to a tomato, and that's a lot of tooken!" as he puts it), and he's the last of his kind, and would she really save him from death like that? Laura takes him home, naming him Fred, and her family is not too thrilled. Charles, who has spent all day harvesting rushes to sell to a man named Jenks, makes the awful mistake of bending down in front of Fred, and, just as Ma was about to tell him about Fred, he came flying out of the barn, butted by Fred. That night he tells Laura that Fred has to go because of the extensive damage that he had done to the barn, unless she can think of a reason to keep him. The next morning Fred has eaten lots of the rushes that Pa worked so hard to harvest. While Laura, Mary, and Fred set off to town, Pa sets off to gather more rushes. Before school, Laura convinces Willie Olsen of how wonderful goats are, including the delicious cheese that they make, and Willie buys Fred on the spot. Fred, who is tied to a post in the Olsen yard, eats the wash AND butts Mrs. Olsen who falls in the mud (YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY HA HA HA). After nobody will take Fred including Mr. Edwards, who gets butted, Carl and Laura put him in Mr. Edwards' secret thinking spot (it's a still), where he promptly gets drunk. They take him to the doctor, who gets butted, then to Reverend Alden, who gets.... guess what... butted! Then they decide they have to let him go. He runs off and gets in the wagon of the cheater Jenks, and eats all the rushes, so Jenks comes to Pa and pays him $12 to harvest more rushes. Ma, Mary, and Laura all agree that that is a good reason to keep Fred, so Laura goes out to find him. After five minutes of searching, she gives up in hopeless defeat, until she hears the bleat of a goat. She chases down Fred and tries to take him home, but is surprised when he runs away. Then (to slow jazz stripper music) she discovers that he has a whole herd of Nanny goats now. She leaves him to that and goes on with life.
Doc Baker looks grim:YES
Pa broke a bone: NO
Somebody cries: YES ( Laura)
Pa cries: NO
Crop failure: NO
Runaway Wagon: NO
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Fred didn't mean to!)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO (but he did do smiley sarcasm to a big fat jerk, so that's close enough)
Reality Check: All those people getting butted by a goat with enough force to go through a wall would be a lot more sore than they were portrayed to be. Also, Nanny goats + Billy goats does not equal women + men, so the stripper music when Fred is with the nannies is a bit.... strange.
Mr. Olsen bullies Mrs. Olsen into behaving like a human being: NO (The goat does bully her, just not into acting like a human being)
Carrie can't act: YES (sorry, Lidnsay Sidney Greenbush, but saying 'I.... LIKE.... Fred...' when you are supposed to be talking normally is just plain not-acting.)-:. )
All the people who got butted:
Luke
Pa
Mrs. Olsen (HA HA HA)
Mr. Edwards
Doc Baker
Rev. Alden
Jenks (tackled)
Quote of the Episode:
"That was quite a fiery sermon the reverend gave. I thought he was going to preach on 'love all creatures, great and small'" ~Ma.
My personal feelings about this episode:
One of the. Funniest. Episodes. Ever. I seriously love this one. I am only dissapointed that the goat didn't trample Mrs. Olsen after butting her. That would have made this my favorite episode by far.
Monday, December 31, 2012
Season 3 episode 6: Journey in the spring
day 6
This is the episode where Charles brings his Pa back to their house in Walnut Grove after Charles' Ma dies.
This one's a 2-parter, so the synopsis will be rather long.
The episode begins with Lansford Ingalls (Charles' pa) and Charles' Ma Laura receiving a letter from Charles Ingalls, inviting them to come and stay in Walnut Grove with them. That day Charles' Ma passes away. When Charles Ingalls receives that letter, he decides to go and get his pa. After a couple days of persuading, and one suicide attempt on the part of Mr. Ingalls, Sr., Lansford is finally convinced by Charles to come back to Walnut Grove. When he meets Laura Ingalls Jr, he is elated to discover that she is just like his wife was. Later, however, sadness strikes. While Laura is showing off her horse to her grandfather, she charges him through a barbed wire fence. Bunny has to be shot, which breaks Laura's heart, not only because she loved Bunny, but because Lansford had promised that Bunny would be well again and that Charles would not hurt Bunny. Bitterness stays between Laura and her Pa until the next day, when the family returns from a picnic to find that Lansford (who had decided to stay home so that he would not get between Laura and her Pa) has run off. The next day, after a hard night of searching, they awaken to find that Laura and their Christmas money (upwards of 4 dollars) were gone. Laura has gone to the Springfield train station to try and find her grandpa, who had been found lying by the railroad tracks after trying to get into a boxcar on a freight train the night before. When Lansford refuses to go back to Walnut Grove, Laura starts to buy a ticket to Boston, but is stopped by her grandfather, who finally agrees to go to her house and stay until Winter is over.
Doc Baker looks grim: NO
Pa broke a bone: NO
Somebody cries: YES ( Laura x2, Lansford)
Pa cries:YES (x 6, because his ma died)
Crop failure: NO (but Charles wrote about 'unless we have crop failure' to his Pa, so IT IS COMING.)
Runaway Wagon: NO
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Please don't shoot bunny!)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO
Reality Check: NO
Mr. Olsen bullies Mrs. Olsen into behaving like a human being: NO
Unexplained absence of a main character: NO
My personal feelings about this episode:
This is a very sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad SAD SAD SAD SAD episode for me as a horse lover. I have loved these things since I was two, and I cried my guts out when Bunny died. I had to have my mom hold my hand and hide the screen. YES I KNOW I AM A TOTAL BABY AND YOU KNOW WHAT I DON'T CARE. (-:
This is the episode where Charles brings his Pa back to their house in Walnut Grove after Charles' Ma dies.
This one's a 2-parter, so the synopsis will be rather long.
The episode begins with Lansford Ingalls (Charles' pa) and Charles' Ma Laura receiving a letter from Charles Ingalls, inviting them to come and stay in Walnut Grove with them. That day Charles' Ma passes away. When Charles Ingalls receives that letter, he decides to go and get his pa. After a couple days of persuading, and one suicide attempt on the part of Mr. Ingalls, Sr., Lansford is finally convinced by Charles to come back to Walnut Grove. When he meets Laura Ingalls Jr, he is elated to discover that she is just like his wife was. Later, however, sadness strikes. While Laura is showing off her horse to her grandfather, she charges him through a barbed wire fence. Bunny has to be shot, which breaks Laura's heart, not only because she loved Bunny, but because Lansford had promised that Bunny would be well again and that Charles would not hurt Bunny. Bitterness stays between Laura and her Pa until the next day, when the family returns from a picnic to find that Lansford (who had decided to stay home so that he would not get between Laura and her Pa) has run off. The next day, after a hard night of searching, they awaken to find that Laura and their Christmas money (upwards of 4 dollars) were gone. Laura has gone to the Springfield train station to try and find her grandpa, who had been found lying by the railroad tracks after trying to get into a boxcar on a freight train the night before. When Lansford refuses to go back to Walnut Grove, Laura starts to buy a ticket to Boston, but is stopped by her grandfather, who finally agrees to go to her house and stay until Winter is over.
Doc Baker looks grim: NO
Pa broke a bone: NO
Somebody cries: YES ( Laura x2, Lansford)
Pa cries:YES (x 6, because his ma died)
Crop failure: NO (but Charles wrote about 'unless we have crop failure' to his Pa, so IT IS COMING.)
Runaway Wagon: NO
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Please don't shoot bunny!)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO
Reality Check: NO
Mr. Olsen bullies Mrs. Olsen into behaving like a human being: NO
Unexplained absence of a main character: NO
My personal feelings about this episode:
This is a very sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad sad SAD SAD SAD SAD episode for me as a horse lover. I have loved these things since I was two, and I cried my guts out when Bunny died. I had to have my mom hold my hand and hide the screen. YES I KNOW I AM A TOTAL BABY AND YOU KNOW WHAT I DON'T CARE. (-:
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Season 3 episode 5: The Monster Of Walnut Grove
Day 5
This is the Halloween special.
The episode begins with Laura telling the story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman to her little sister Carrie. The two oldest girls leave for soaping the Olsen's windows right after that. Laura goes around the corner from Mary in order too get to windows without soap already on them. While she is away from her sister, Laura sees Mr. Olsen and hears Mrs. Olsen fighting over the budget and whether the sword that Mr. Olsen had bought was real or not. In his anger, Mr. Olsen appears to chop off Mrs. Olsen's head with his sword. When Laura tells Mary, her Ma, and her Pa, none of them believe her. She decides to walk to school with her friend Carl, whom she is distressed to find does not believe her, either. Throughout a series of circumstances, Carl, Laura, Willie, and Nellie are all briefly (but extremely - They think they saw Mr. Olsen carry away the body in a black bag [ he was carrying off a new dummy]) convinced that Mrs. Olsen is dead. Then Nellie and Willie find out the truth - that Mr. Olsen cut the head off a dress maker's dummy - and decide to use it to their advantage. Willie tells Carl and Laura that he heard his father digging in his cellar and that he found an apron covered in blood (really, it was red sauce) in his kitchen. He asks them to come to his house to go in the cellar with him, where Nellie is waiting to play a ghost. The trick goes very well for Nellie and Willie, in fact, it went even better than they imagined, for Carl and Laura, coming out of the cellar, saw a rather haunting Mrs. Olsen standing outside the house looking in. Later, after having the truth told to them by a rather startled Mr. Olsen, they drop the dressmaker's dummy's head down into the cellar with Nellie and Willie, which frightens them both very much. The closing shot is of the Headless Horseman galloping through Walnut Grove.
This was a very boring episode for the Trope Tracker (literally, NOTHING ON IT HAPPENED), and, other than the whole ghosts-are-fake and Mr.Olsen-is-way-too-nice kinds of things, there wasn't really a thing for Reality Check. Sigh.
Quote Of The Episode:
"I'm afraid of feet" Carrie Ingalls.
My Personal Feelings about this episode
Well, my feelings about this episode now are way different than my feelings about it when I watched it for the first time in the ER when I was six. Then I was scared out of my skin. Especially in the nightmare scenes. Really, I was terrified by this episode. But now, on the other hand, I kind of laugh at this episode. Their attempt at making this a short movie that would scare a ten-year-old is kind of weak, and it makes me laugh. I am sorry if anybody who reads this is genuinely scared by this episode.
This is the Halloween special.
The episode begins with Laura telling the story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman to her little sister Carrie. The two oldest girls leave for soaping the Olsen's windows right after that. Laura goes around the corner from Mary in order too get to windows without soap already on them. While she is away from her sister, Laura sees Mr. Olsen and hears Mrs. Olsen fighting over the budget and whether the sword that Mr. Olsen had bought was real or not. In his anger, Mr. Olsen appears to chop off Mrs. Olsen's head with his sword. When Laura tells Mary, her Ma, and her Pa, none of them believe her. She decides to walk to school with her friend Carl, whom she is distressed to find does not believe her, either. Throughout a series of circumstances, Carl, Laura, Willie, and Nellie are all briefly (but extremely - They think they saw Mr. Olsen carry away the body in a black bag [ he was carrying off a new dummy]) convinced that Mrs. Olsen is dead. Then Nellie and Willie find out the truth - that Mr. Olsen cut the head off a dress maker's dummy - and decide to use it to their advantage. Willie tells Carl and Laura that he heard his father digging in his cellar and that he found an apron covered in blood (really, it was red sauce) in his kitchen. He asks them to come to his house to go in the cellar with him, where Nellie is waiting to play a ghost. The trick goes very well for Nellie and Willie, in fact, it went even better than they imagined, for Carl and Laura, coming out of the cellar, saw a rather haunting Mrs. Olsen standing outside the house looking in. Later, after having the truth told to them by a rather startled Mr. Olsen, they drop the dressmaker's dummy's head down into the cellar with Nellie and Willie, which frightens them both very much. The closing shot is of the Headless Horseman galloping through Walnut Grove.
This was a very boring episode for the Trope Tracker (literally, NOTHING ON IT HAPPENED), and, other than the whole ghosts-are-fake and Mr.Olsen-is-way-too-nice kinds of things, there wasn't really a thing for Reality Check. Sigh.
Quote Of The Episode:
"I'm afraid of feet" Carrie Ingalls.
My Personal Feelings about this episode
Well, my feelings about this episode now are way different than my feelings about it when I watched it for the first time in the ER when I was six. Then I was scared out of my skin. Especially in the nightmare scenes. Really, I was terrified by this episode. But now, on the other hand, I kind of laugh at this episode. Their attempt at making this a short movie that would scare a ten-year-old is kind of weak, and it makes me laugh. I am sorry if anybody who reads this is genuinely scared by this episode.
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Season 3 episode 4 -- The Race
Day 4
This is the one where Laura and Nellie race in the 3rd annual Hero Township horse Race.
This episode begins with Laura's horse Bunny throwing a shoe while she is exercising him for the Big Race in two weeks. When she goes to get him re-shod she finds out that - even at Mr. Dorlfer's lowest price - it would cost an amount of money that she could not possibly afford, because her family can't even afford to get their own children's shoes. The next day, however, Laura asks Mr. Dorfler if she can work for him to pay it off. While she is working, Nellie and Willie come in chanting 'Laura smells like a dirty horse' but she deals with that by covering them both in poopy straw. After a breakdown at her dinner table, Nellie says that she wants a new horse. So her disgustingly doting mother goes to Minneapolis to buy her a thoroughbred horse. After a very inexperienced test ride, she picks a very pretty bay horse, named Sparks. There is a lot of drama about how Nellie will lose because of her extra weight, so Willie is going to race, but Willie eats 6 candied apples so Nellie has to race, but Bunny just ran a long ways very fast, so Nellie will win, but Bunny is a natural-born competitor, so Laura will win.... In the end, Bunny wins the race, but Laura gives Mrs. Olsen the cup back, so Nels makes Mrs. Olsen give them new shoes.
LHOP Trope Tracker
Doc Baker looks grim: NO
Pa broke a bone: NO
Somebody cries: YES ( Laura, Mrs. Olsen, Nellie)
Pa cries:YES (When Laura wins the race
Crop failure: NO
Runaway Wagon: NO
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Bunny can't possibly race!)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO (Laura came very close to punching Nellie)
Reality Check: Only about one in a million horses could possibly run about five miles going maximum speed and then sprint two miles and win a race without ever getting passed by a well-exercised Thoroughbred, even if his load is 5 lbs lighter.
Mr. Olsen bullies Mrs. Olsen into behaving like a human being: YES
Unexplained absence of a main character: NO
Quote Of The Episode:
OK, Willie and Nellie have just walked into the barn chanting 'Laura Smells Like A Dirty Horse'. Laura pitches hay onto them. Laura:
"Don't We All?"
My Personal Thoughts About this Episode:
Um... I like this episode because it has horses in it... and also, Mrs. Olsen gets bullied out of being a bully, but it is a little tiny bit crazy... There is a recurring thing on this show where once there is a streak of things being nice, they are all the way nice. Like in the race, Bunny never gets passed, even though he just ran a five-mile stretch at top speed about half an hour ago (That sort of thing would be good in real life, but it never hardly ever happens).
This is the one where Laura and Nellie race in the 3rd annual Hero Township horse Race.
This episode begins with Laura's horse Bunny throwing a shoe while she is exercising him for the Big Race in two weeks. When she goes to get him re-shod she finds out that - even at Mr. Dorlfer's lowest price - it would cost an amount of money that she could not possibly afford, because her family can't even afford to get their own children's shoes. The next day, however, Laura asks Mr. Dorfler if she can work for him to pay it off. While she is working, Nellie and Willie come in chanting 'Laura smells like a dirty horse' but she deals with that by covering them both in poopy straw. After a breakdown at her dinner table, Nellie says that she wants a new horse. So her disgustingly doting mother goes to Minneapolis to buy her a thoroughbred horse. After a very inexperienced test ride, she picks a very pretty bay horse, named Sparks. There is a lot of drama about how Nellie will lose because of her extra weight, so Willie is going to race, but Willie eats 6 candied apples so Nellie has to race, but Bunny just ran a long ways very fast, so Nellie will win, but Bunny is a natural-born competitor, so Laura will win.... In the end, Bunny wins the race, but Laura gives Mrs. Olsen the cup back, so Nels makes Mrs. Olsen give them new shoes.
LHOP Trope Tracker
Doc Baker looks grim: NO
Pa broke a bone: NO
Somebody cries: YES ( Laura, Mrs. Olsen, Nellie)
Pa cries:YES (When Laura wins the race
Crop failure: NO
Runaway Wagon: NO
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Bunny can't possibly race!)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO (Laura came very close to punching Nellie)
Reality Check: Only about one in a million horses could possibly run about five miles going maximum speed and then sprint two miles and win a race without ever getting passed by a well-exercised Thoroughbred, even if his load is 5 lbs lighter.
Mr. Olsen bullies Mrs. Olsen into behaving like a human being: YES
Unexplained absence of a main character: NO
Quote Of The Episode:
OK, Willie and Nellie have just walked into the barn chanting 'Laura Smells Like A Dirty Horse'. Laura pitches hay onto them. Laura:
"Don't We All?"
My Personal Thoughts About this Episode:
Um... I like this episode because it has horses in it... and also, Mrs. Olsen gets bullied out of being a bully, but it is a little tiny bit crazy... There is a recurring thing on this show where once there is a streak of things being nice, they are all the way nice. Like in the race, Bunny never gets passed, even though he just ran a five-mile stretch at top speed about half an hour ago (That sort of thing would be good in real life, but it never hardly ever happens).
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.
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.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Season 3 episode 2 -- I'll Ride the Wind
Day 2
This is the episode where John Jr. (Grace & Isaiah Edwards' adopted son) engages himself to a thirteen year old and receives a college scholarship.
OK, so this episode starts out with John Jr. and Mr. Edwards in a field pitching hay. He meets Mary and finds out that he has been offered a scholarship at the University in Chicago. Claiming that he is now a man, he asks 13-year-old Mary to marry him, and she accepts. When he goes to visit Mary, her Pa keeps trying to get a 'talk' with him, but John always gets off to talk to Mary. Because Mary is upset that Johnny will be gone for 4 years although he comforts her that they will still see each other twice a year, he makes the decision to not accept the scholarship, which makes Mrs. Edwards very mad, but Mr. Edwards (and, at first, Mary) very happy. Soon they start construction on their house. One day, a sobbing Mary has the realization that John would be much happier at the University, and after another bout of sobbing, she bids him farewell on the train platform.
LHOP (sadly not Little House Of Pancakes) Trope Tracker for This Episode:
Generic Neighbor House used: NO
Doc Baker tries to heal dog: NO (in fact most of the townspeople weren't even there, and I kind of missed them. All except the Olsens. Whom I never miss.)
Pa broke a bone: NO (surprisingly, because there was house building going on)
Somebody cries: YES (Mary [x2] MEGA monologue cries)
Pa cries: NO
Crop failure: NO (But they were planting a crop, so you know crop failure is coming!)
Runaway Wagon: NO
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Mary, for once)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO (But it looked like it might go that way with J.Jr.!)
Thing that TOTALLY would not fly today that miraculously flew in the 70s: YES (Thirteen-year-old girl [Mary] gets engaged to a fifteen-year-old boy and the parents are fine and happy. SO CREEPY!!!!)
Unexplained absence of a main character: NO
Quote Of The Episode:
"Well, boy, she's here, she's yours, and you can go to work on her tomorrow!" ~ Mr. Edwards, talking about land, with his fifteen-year-old son and his (son's) thirteen-year-old fiancee in a strong embrace.
My Personal Thoughts About This Episode:
This is one of the creepiest episodes of all time. Wait. There are seven or eight more seasons to go. Maybe I shouldn't say that yet. But anyway, it's especially creepy for me, as a thirteen year old girl, to think of all the fifteen-year-old boys in my acquaintance and picturing myself setting up house with any one of them... ughhhhh! This is what happens when producers want a show to have a certain story, when the show has no proper fitting characters for that story (Because this episode would have been kind of touching if Mary had been 16 or 18). The result can be very very creepy or very random.
This is the episode where John Jr. (Grace & Isaiah Edwards' adopted son) engages himself to a thirteen year old and receives a college scholarship.
OK, so this episode starts out with John Jr. and Mr. Edwards in a field pitching hay. He meets Mary and finds out that he has been offered a scholarship at the University in Chicago. Claiming that he is now a man, he asks 13-year-old Mary to marry him, and she accepts. When he goes to visit Mary, her Pa keeps trying to get a 'talk' with him, but John always gets off to talk to Mary. Because Mary is upset that Johnny will be gone for 4 years although he comforts her that they will still see each other twice a year, he makes the decision to not accept the scholarship, which makes Mrs. Edwards very mad, but Mr. Edwards (and, at first, Mary) very happy. Soon they start construction on their house. One day, a sobbing Mary has the realization that John would be much happier at the University, and after another bout of sobbing, she bids him farewell on the train platform.
LHOP (sadly not Little House Of Pancakes) Trope Tracker for This Episode:
Generic Neighbor House used: NO
Doc Baker tries to heal dog: NO (in fact most of the townspeople weren't even there, and I kind of missed them. All except the Olsens. Whom I never miss.)
Pa broke a bone: NO (surprisingly, because there was house building going on)
Somebody cries: YES (Mary [x2] MEGA monologue cries)
Pa cries: NO
Crop failure: NO (But they were planting a crop, so you know crop failure is coming!)
Runaway Wagon: NO
"Oh, Pa!": YES (Mary, for once)
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO (But it looked like it might go that way with J.Jr.!)
Thing that TOTALLY would not fly today that miraculously flew in the 70s: YES (Thirteen-year-old girl [Mary] gets engaged to a fifteen-year-old boy and the parents are fine and happy. SO CREEPY!!!!)
Unexplained absence of a main character: NO
Quote Of The Episode:
"Well, boy, she's here, she's yours, and you can go to work on her tomorrow!" ~ Mr. Edwards, talking about land, with his fifteen-year-old son and his (son's) thirteen-year-old fiancee in a strong embrace.
My Personal Thoughts About This Episode:
This is one of the creepiest episodes of all time. Wait. There are seven or eight more seasons to go. Maybe I shouldn't say that yet. But anyway, it's especially creepy for me, as a thirteen year old girl, to think of all the fifteen-year-old boys in my acquaintance and picturing myself setting up house with any one of them... ughhhhh! This is what happens when producers want a show to have a certain story, when the show has no proper fitting characters for that story (Because this episode would have been kind of touching if Mary had been 16 or 18). The result can be very very creepy or very random.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Season 3 episode 1: The Collection
(I am starting with Season 3 because I got it for Christmas yesterday and I haven't watched it in a while, whereas I watch season one all the time. I will finish the series from here and circle back and do the less-ridiculous first two at the end.)
This is the one where:
Caleb Hotchkiss (Johnny Cash) attempts to rip off Walnut Grove by posing as a preacher and collecting 'donations for Gray's Corners'.
This show is over thirty years old and I am going to spoil the heck out of it. If you can even call that spoiling.
Caleb finds Reverend Alden sick in a wagon speeding down the road (Classic Little House moment). He later finds out that Rev. Alden was on his way to Walnut Grove to collect donations for the people of Gray's Corners who had recently suffered a very large fire and crop failure, and he volunteers to collect instead, but his intentions are to steal from everybody in the town for his own personal gain. He takes the Reverend's clothes, hat, and engraved watch. Later in the episode, after Caleb is pretty much reformed by his own (at first forced) kindness to and praying for other people, his greatly pressured wife (played by June Carter Cash, Johnny's real wife) reveals his scheme to the Reverend. In the end, Caleb is reformed in front of the entire congregation, and the donations go to the place for which they were originally intended.
LHOP (sadly not Little House Of Pancakes) Trope Tracker for This Episode:
Generic Neighbor House used: YES (Peabody sisters)
Doc Baker tries to heal dog: YES (Edwards' pup)
Guest Star sings: YES (But I'm glad, 'cause it's Johnny Cash)
Pa broke a bone: NO (surprisingly)
Somebody cries: YES (Mrs. Hotchkiss)
Pa cries: NO
Crop failure: YES
Runaway Wagon: YES
"Villain" reformed by kindness: YES
"Oh, Pa!": NO
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO
Comforting crackpot theology: YES. (Caleb tells Alicia that her dog will go to heaven, but only after they bury him.)
Thing that TOTALLY would not fly today that miraculously flew in the 70s: YES (Preteen girl [Mary] gets on a horse w/ total stranger to take him to her house [STRANGER DANGER!])
Unexplained absence of a main character: NO
My actual feelings about this episode:
This is a hard one for me to pick on. It actually gets me a little choked up, to watch this and think about Johnny Cash's song 'Hurt'. (If you haven't seen its video, now is the time. It's embedded below.)
NOW YOU ARE ALL CRYING BWA HA HA HA.
This is the one where:
Caleb Hotchkiss (Johnny Cash) attempts to rip off Walnut Grove by posing as a preacher and collecting 'donations for Gray's Corners'.
This show is over thirty years old and I am going to spoil the heck out of it. If you can even call that spoiling.
Caleb finds Reverend Alden sick in a wagon speeding down the road (Classic Little House moment). He later finds out that Rev. Alden was on his way to Walnut Grove to collect donations for the people of Gray's Corners who had recently suffered a very large fire and crop failure, and he volunteers to collect instead, but his intentions are to steal from everybody in the town for his own personal gain. He takes the Reverend's clothes, hat, and engraved watch. Later in the episode, after Caleb is pretty much reformed by his own (at first forced) kindness to and praying for other people, his greatly pressured wife (played by June Carter Cash, Johnny's real wife) reveals his scheme to the Reverend. In the end, Caleb is reformed in front of the entire congregation, and the donations go to the place for which they were originally intended.
LHOP (sadly not Little House Of Pancakes) Trope Tracker for This Episode:
Generic Neighbor House used: YES (Peabody sisters)
Doc Baker tries to heal dog: YES (Edwards' pup)
Guest Star sings: YES (But I'm glad, 'cause it's Johnny Cash)
Pa broke a bone: NO (surprisingly)
Somebody cries: YES (Mrs. Hotchkiss)
Pa cries: NO
Crop failure: YES
Runaway Wagon: YES
"Villain" reformed by kindness: YES
"Oh, Pa!": NO
Pa punches someone; someone punches Pa: NO
Comforting crackpot theology: YES. (Caleb tells Alicia that her dog will go to heaven, but only after they bury him.)
Thing that TOTALLY would not fly today that miraculously flew in the 70s: YES (Preteen girl [Mary] gets on a horse w/ total stranger to take him to her house [STRANGER DANGER!])
Unexplained absence of a main character: NO
My actual feelings about this episode:
This is a hard one for me to pick on. It actually gets me a little choked up, to watch this and think about Johnny Cash's song 'Hurt'. (If you haven't seen its video, now is the time. It's embedded below.)
NOW YOU ARE ALL CRYING BWA HA HA HA.
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