Duh :smack: Sorry I though I had read all the posts.
Must have gotten a little over zeslous to post about that.
I liked the episode with the time traveling space ninjas. Especially when they built a holodeck disco and brought back the 1970s.
Which is a darn good reason why you don’t live on the prairie! :dubious:
But you know the sad part? Little House on the Prarie was still more historically accurate than Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
In the past, I have always held a grudge against my father for preferring to watch the “FBI” over “Star Trek”.
But then again, he refused to ever watch “Little House on the Prairie”.
I guess we are even. 
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure Jane Seymour has a restraining order on historical accuracy. They’re not allowed to be in the same film or television production at the same time.
Yes. Everything except the wandering-into-the-lake bit. She was trying to find her locket that had been dropped or thrown into the lake, and I think her braid got caught on a submerged branch or something. But yes, she did get brain damage and have to learn to walk and talk again.
And reading that Clown Rape link reminded me of something else that bugged about this show: the way disputes were so often settled with slapstick. Caroline pushes dough into Mrs. Oleson’s face: something that the real Caroline Ingalls would never[sup]x100[/sup] have done. But that stuff was always happening: food throwing, water throwing, people being pushed into water or mud…I don’t know if it was supposed to be funny, or if we were supposed to cheer, but IMO, it did not make the Ingalls look good.
I remember an episode where Pa and the girls were off camping or something ('cause, ya know, pioneers liked nothing better than going off and roughing it on the weekends) and Ma had some kind of festering wound on her leg and she was at home all alone and people came and took her pies and she couldn’t get their attention…anyway, the image that seared itself into my brain was of Ma holding a boiling rag on the end of a stick, and then slapping it down over the wound.
I have seen the clown rape episode, now that I’ve read the plot synopsis. I just mercifully blocked it out of my mind.
Oh gosh Marlitharn …I remember that episode. Wasn’t Caroline going to (almost) cut off her own leg because it got gangrenous?? Ack! :eek:
And the clown rape episode had me completely unglued. A bit stark for a family show. Didn’t her creepy father make her bind her breasts down??
The thing that annoyed the caca out of me was that Carrie kid! When she was young and cute they mercifully didn’t give her many lines - knowing full well that she was about as clever as a box of rocks…but later on they let her talk more. Egads that girl could not act!
I think she got bit by a snake. There was a whole scene about her reading that passage in the Bible, “If thy right eye offendeth thee, cut it out” or something, and miraculously, according to Doc Baker, she cut her leg at the exact right moment to save her life. :rolleyes:
I thought she scraped her leg on some rusty barbed wire. Wow, first Bunny and then Caroline; maybe they should switch to some safer fencing material!
The way I remember it, she was going to cut her leg, but someone showed up at the last minute and stoped her and got her medical attention.
I just looked it up on EpGuides.com .
It’s episode 39, from the second season, “A Matter Of Faith.” (Yes, I’m a dork, shut up)
According to their episode synopsis, she scratched her leg on a nail.
That’s all they have.
That was another one that traumatized me. She delirious with fever and misinterpreting what she was reading in the Bible, and she was going to cut off her leg. And then someone showed up at the last minute and kept her from doing it, right?
That was what they made us think she was going to do. Instead, she cut out the infection. When Pa arrived she was unconscious, but according to Doc Baker, cutting out the infection when she did she saved her life.
“Country Girls” was on last night. I almost cried when Laura gave her recitation about Ma. iamasucker.
Question: I saw the ‘clown rape’ episode, but don’t remember much about the perpetrator. So, looking at the link provided, was he even dressed as a clown or a mime instead? And how in the freak, if so, was there one way the hell out in nowhere??? I mean, if he was with a traveling circus or whatnot, wouldn’t he be just a plain old variety and nothing so decadent?
I thought it was just a mask he wore.
In reality, would Nellie have been as nasty and as spoiled as she was? I can’t imagine her father letting her get away with acting so snobby just because her family owned a store. Were a lot of men hen-pecked back then?
Well, since I’m not sure “henpecked” is a term that was invented AFTER most people left the farm and moved to the city, I’m thinking there were plenty of men that fit the description back when people could regularly observe hens pecking things AND affect the common lexicon. Plus, nothing in human nature has changed since, well, pretty much ever.
Dammit, now I have to go and read the books again. Dammit.
Remember the one where Mr. Edwards has to babysit the girls, and he ends up fixing them rattlesnake for dinner? Then, so Carrie doesn’t run off while he re-shingles the roof, he nails her dress down to the roof?
According to this page, it’s not Albert that has leukemia, but a friend of his.
Remember Mr. Olsen’s sister being the fat lady at the circus?
Ah, thanks ivylass. But I’m still a wee bit confused. Would it be like that though? Wasn’t it too sophisticated?
[ Ok, sorry for the possible nitpicking here. But mimes!! :eek: ]
Not so sure about that. Remember, a little earlier than this (and possibly still going on in Europe at this point) there were wet nurses. A wet nurse had to have had a child recently, and the usual practice, IIRC, was for the wet nurse to nurse only the employer’s child, not her own. Her own child often died as a result. Some women even killed their own children to be able to be wet nurses.
Not every mother was or is that attached to her baby. I’ve heard this was particularly true in the days of high infant mortality.
Silly ouryL, you don’t watch the FBI, the FBI watches you.