Fair enough. But considering how Mary had basically a psychotic break after the baby died, I’d say that she, specifically, was that attached to her baby.
what i hated most about the show (other than it’s existence) was the retreading of the same plotline in every show…
an evil, morbidly obese town “Boss” in a white suit kept trying to steal the family farm, the only way they could stop the boss was for Pa and Albert would have to jump in their big orange Dodge Charger and jump over a conveniently located creek/hill/haybale/police cruiser while sounding their custom horn that played the first few notes of “Dixie” and yelling YEEEHAAA!!
Mary wearing shortie-shorts and driving a white Jeep CJ-5 was just strange too, didn’t think the blind were permitted to drive, they took far too many creative liberties with that show…
The impression I got from the one with Caroline’s leg infection was that she WAS trying to cut it off, but maybe she cut it and it hurt so bad, or whatever, that she passed out and didn’t finish the job, but it gave the stuff in there a chance to get out.
Thank heaven I live in an age with antibiotics!
So was it Albert’s friend that Charles took to the seashore so he could see the ocean before he died? That one is really bugging me.
I remember the Fat Lady episode-made me cry. Remember the one about the girl who had one leg shorter than the other? I think she also had a speech impediment (I might be confusing my “Crisis of the Week” there). And of course, all the kids made fun of her until Charles made her a special wooden lift for her shoe and then she played baseball and impressed them all. Or something.
And her father didn’t want the built-up shoe, because that was contrary to God’s will. :rolleyes:
I swear, the way they twisted themselves into plot contrivances it’s a wonder they weren’t all mistaken for pretzels.
No, Olga didn’t have a speech impediment, I think she just had an accent because she was from Sweden. BTW, the same little girl who played her was also the little girl from Nanny and the Professor.
Kim Richards, and her sister Kyle played the little girl who, along with her brothers, was conveniently adopted by Mr. French and his wife.
Don’t ask my why I remember this shit.
MR. EDWARDS. Mr. Edwards.
I’m think I’m mixing up Mr. French from Family Affair and the fact that Mr. Edwards was played by Victor French.
It’s Mr. Edwards, you freaking moron. :smack:
I’m so glad I’m not the only who does that - and I never watched Family Affair.
That episode was a complete rip-off of a Bonanza episode centered around (who else?) Michael Landon. From here:
It even ends the exact same way with Joe passing out before he can cut off his hand (which was truly swollen and gross-looking) and the family returning home just in time to save him.
Pa crying.
Anyone crying.
All that damn violin music whenever someone was crying.
Carrie’s lack of screen time.
James and Cassandra.
Tragedy piled upon tragedy piled upon tragedy. And more crying.
The rape episode.
Albert’s addiction and withdrawal episode.
I guess he’d be horrified, because I get my right shoes built up about 3/4 of an inch because my right leg is shorter than my left. Sorry, God, it’s a lot more comfortable this way! I pick up my new sneaker from the shoe repair place tomorrow. Yay.
I think one of the most annoying things about this show for me is the hair. The horrible, awful, 70s hair. The clothes were all wrong, too, but the hair was worse.
I really hated how they didn’t follow the books. I know they were only based on the books and that I mentioned my pet peeve before, but I think they could have done better.
As far as basing the books on the show, the main things that I remember not liking about the show were Albert being in it and Laura being friends with Eliza Jane (Almanzo’s sister). IIRC, Laura couldn’t stand Lazy Lousy Eliza Jane because she bullied Carrie (I think that was in the Little Town on the Praire book, but it’s been a long time so I can’t recall) .
Also, Laura ended up pitying Nelly because her father had lost the store or something. I believe that was in These Happy Golden Years . That’s not a big deal, but I think a previous doper asked something about Nelly.
As far as the tv show is concerned, they were all over the place. They liked to emotionally manipulate their audience. Beside the instances mentioned above, I think they had an episode where Carrie fell in a well and almost died, some guy building a railroad was blown up by TNT, etc.
One of the few funny moments that sticks out in my mind was when Mrs. Olsen thought she was dying from the vapors, but merely had gas. 
Oh, and another weird moment that sticks out was the whole town blowing up everything in Walnut Grove except the church because they didn’t want a big company taking it. The show/series ends with the townspeople singing “Onward Christain Soldiers”. IR, I think Michael Landon didn’t want anyone using it. So, he blew it up.
Was Grace ever in the show? I know Carrie got short-changed a lot, but Grace was almost non-existant.
I just have to say that the existence of this thread is cracking me up. When I saw that TVLandon was showing episodes of Little House, I figured that the Little House thread on Television Without Pity would jump up a few notches. I was shocked to see that it had become the #1 thread in the drama section. But that was nothing compared to the shock I felt seeing a Little House thread as the very first thread in Cafe Society. Yes, I know it’s basically an anti-Little House thread, but as someone over at TWoP said, Michael Landon must have done something right if people are still watching, remembering, and discussing his show thirty years later.
Grace was in the show. I remember her, but the show ended before she was even talking, I think.
As cheesy as it was, it was still better than the Waltons. I fucking hated John-Boy.
No way. The Waltons was sappy, but it was nowhere near as overwrought, anachronistic, or as melodramatic at LHOTP.
Although it approached it at times. The episode where the young woman who miscarried her baby stalked Mary Ellen and kidnapped her newborn comes close…
LHotP drives me bonkers with all that, but at least it’s not BORING, which was the cardinal sin of The Waltons. Things got wackytastic on the Prairie! It’s much harder to have hilarious reminiscing over the exploits of John-Boy and company. Note the dearth of 3-page threads on that show. I can’t even remember the plot of a single *Waltons *episode.