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Hello, Hello, Hello bonnet heads, Welcome again. Thank you for
joining us. I'm Pamela Bob, your host and creator at
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prairie bitch. That's right. Alison Aringram, Hello, hell mean so mean,

(02:55):
but Pace is mean and but she's really nice and
real life you guys.

Speaker 6 (03:03):
I like to say that she's always in on the joke,
on the joke.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
And that's you know him, my hashtag imaginary boyfriend. That's right.
Dean Butler, Hello, Dean but Hey, everybody. Well, news has
been out for a little while now, but we thought
we'd want we wanted to address it, which is the
announcement that Netflix was going to be doing officially.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
I want to say Reboots has handled that very very well. Y,
So let's talk about it because there's a lot of
stuff going on out there that that perhaps.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Needs to be addressed. So they the articles all said
it was a reboot. It's not a reboot.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Do you guys want to explain what's happened? Everyone needs
to like cool their bloomers is what y'all need to do.
It is not a reboot, It is not a sequel.
It is not a copy. It's gonna, you know.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
How like a readaptation. Right, they're going back.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
They're talking about going back to the books when Laura
is like a little tiny thing back in But you
know what it is. You have how many Star Treks
are there? How many Star Treks? And then in Star
Wars and in the Superhero movies you have the multiverse.
You have the multiverse you have? Is it canon? Is
it canon? Yes, there's the comic book. This is canon.
It is part of the lour Ingleswelder multiverse. That there

(04:25):
are many incarnations and it's all about how many times
have they remade Dracula? Do we know? I mean Dracula?
How many Christmas Carols? Dickens of Christmas Carol? How many?
How many? And they're fine. Some of them are better
than others. People have their favorite, but we do get well.

Speaker 6 (04:39):
I think ourdget our Gidget one Christmas the Christmas Curl
was the best adaptation.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oh my god, Yeah, I like that, mister mcgook cartoon.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yes, wonderful.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
So it's not it's not a read a reboot.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
They're not.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
It's not gonna be the same thing. And remember how
many characters on our show were created for the show,
and we're not in the books for real life Albert
Adam hot blind Teacher, that's not happening. So they're going back.
They're going back to this whole other thing, and it's
the book, and it's probably it's probably gonna start like
Big Woods. I'm not sure, but that's like this, that's
what they're going back.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Actually, it's probably gonna be darker and grittier, I would
imagine if it's final West Historic actual historic, factual time.
I'm sure it's going to be very, very different. I
just will say because I I understand as a fan,
we are very attached to you guys, and we are
very attached to the show. We're very attached to Michael Landon,

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and so it does sometimes when someone says a reboot,
it's kind of like, why would you mess with perfection? Right,
like stop, these are our this is our family, like
this is we don't want something like why would you
do something new? And this is the best And so
so I understand, and the the articles were it was
a misrepresentation because they kept saying, well, just.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
People magazine just ran. I didn't talk to them. I
actually did not do an interview they just lifted from
other interviews, and I go, I guess they could do that.
Oh well, but I did talk to them guys, and
it said the call then.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
The front did you do remind?

Speaker 1 (06:25):
I did remind.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
I didn't remind magazine.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
I love their commercials. They're always I see their commercials.
I'm link now, I'm in it. Great article, very thorough,
but they lifted pieces and I think one of the
times that there was we even one saying oh, none
of us were asked to be in it, And I'm like, well, know,
who the heck would we play Laura's grandma? What the
it's They're going back to another time part of her
life now, you know, as it wears on and they

(06:49):
get to like little town on the prairie. He there's
whole bunch of people in that who could do cameos.
Who knows. But no, we're not in it, in it
because they're not. It's not about us, it's about the
little girl. So it's gonna be other things, and I'm
fine with that. My friend Bill Funt put it very
well on Facebook. He said, I don't care what they
do if they do little house ice capades, as long

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as no one gets hurt and someone gets paid.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
Well, Bill Fund, the son of the late Alan Funt
of Candid Camera fame. I mean it's interesting. Yeah, this
is this is an industry comment. Of course, he just
wants to see. Bill wants to see more stuff happen, right,
which is of course good for everybody.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
He says, as long as nobody gets hurt and people
are having a good time and some more actors work
and have a job, he says, so what whose it's
hurt it It'll be fine, It'll be great. It'll be
very creative, and I think it will. All the people
involved are really really good. It's all top top top
people are on it. And the sense I've gotten, even
from people who are, as we know, creating it, are

(07:54):
that we don't want to try to recreate the other
show because we actually like the other shall we like
the Epadia We're not. We're not, so we're not full
of with it at all. To not full of with
that at all?

Speaker 5 (08:06):
Yeah. In my sense, Allison, uh and Pamela.

Speaker 6 (08:09):
Is that the television has changed, audiences have changed, sensibilities
have changed. It's inevitably going to have a different vibe
about it because the expectations of people. If you want
young people to watch, it's going to be it's just
going to be different. And how it's going to be
different we don't know yet, but inevitably it will be

(08:33):
different and people will have choices to make. And I
and I think we have to celebrate the creative expression.
It's wonderful for the little house property. It's it's wonderful
for the books that they are going to get a
fresh book.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
This is very this is very important.

Speaker 6 (08:50):
And I think Allison, as you've said many times, the
pop the well used phrase a rising tide lifts all boats.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
Yes, and everyone is good here.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
And as you know, are are the folks that you know,
friendly Family Productions, as they say, we are absolutely protective
of lour Ingles Wilder and her image and the brand
what it all means. So they are super sticklers for
being good and wholesome and you know, like what Laura wants.
So then nothing weird's gonna happen. It's gonna be completely fine.

Speaker 5 (09:21):
Yeah, yeah, all right, yeah, we've covered that.

Speaker 6 (09:24):
Let's let's Pandela, let's step let's throw to the title
and let's start this show.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
Here we go from the studios of ubn GOO and
Bob California, even though we're all in our homes today,
but still Tony shout out, ubn go whooo this hey
little This is the Little House on the Prairie. Fiftieth
Anniversary podcast. All right, today we are doing well.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Do you want to announce it? Dean?

Speaker 5 (10:05):
What where you going today? Yes?

Speaker 6 (10:09):
So this is our we're evolving our roles and how
we do this, so yes, I will, I will tell
us the episode. So this today another season one episode,
episode five, Mister Edward's Homecoming, premiered on October second, nineteen
seventy four, Written by Joel Murcott and directed by Michael

(10:29):
Landon Allison.

Speaker 5 (10:31):
The synopsis please.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
My synopsis synopsis here, ah, yes, season one, episode five.
And you know, if you're on the streaming thing, they
count the pilot as wanted. It throws the whole count off.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
So.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
Click five. It's four. It's because it was Harvest and
friends and country girls and.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Then okay, see I got I.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Drove bats looking at that is it.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
Is episode four? Four.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's number four, mister.

Speaker 6 (11:02):
Which means that, which means that the plague that we
talked about was actually episode seventeen.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yes, it's so confusing I don't.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Okay. So while in man Cato, which is apparently not
Big Sky Ranch but somewhere on the paramount Law and
lovely use of the B tank. The B tank we
saw the water and the little butter that's like, oh
that the B tech goes all the way up to
the little doc. How nice pretend and pretend lake. So,
while in man Cato, Charles is surprised to find Isaiah Edwards,

(11:31):
the mountain man befriended by the Ingles family, back on
their journey from to Minnesota from Kansas. The two men
returned to Wallygrove together to find young Laura sick in
bed and worried. Mister Edwards promises to stay until she recovers,
but mister edwards deep concern for Laura stems for a
devastating personal loss, and he cannot forgive the one he

(11:53):
holds responsible will be the Ingles friendship and a budding
room that's with Misress Gray Snyder helped mister Edwards come
to terms with his past. Will he leave well THEO
Crow for good?

Speaker 3 (12:05):
See this is why she reads the synopsis, because it
doesn't get.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Any better than traumatic traumatic.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Okay, so this was this was Joel, who's Joel Murcott?
Never heard of the guy after that?

Speaker 5 (12:16):
Right?

Speaker 4 (12:17):
No?

Speaker 5 (12:17):
And he it's the only episode of the Little House
he wrote. His Joel Murcott was an older gentleman at
the way. He wasn't old.

Speaker 6 (12:24):
He died at the age of sixty three, he asked,
relatively young. Uh this he wrote this four years before
he passed. But Joel's career was really more in the
fifties and sixties. So, and I think it's interesting that
it speaks to how.

Speaker 5 (12:40):
Quickly once the pilot was purchased as a series.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
How fast this had to turn in order to get episodes, right.
I mean, imagine that you from a standing start, you
share this in March, it is picked up and you
have to build this whole.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Whole world.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
So what was the time frame do you know? From
from when they were picked up to when they started
filming the the series?

Speaker 5 (13:07):
They had really fast we were there. It had would
have had to have started May.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Or it was aired in March, and it started in May.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
I got the part and the wardrobe fitting was the
next week, and it was like it was just it
was like remember the word fitting, wad fit, And it
was like light. It was days it was in May.
It was in mid May. I got the part and
this were and it was like it went so fast.
It was like next thing I knew, I got the part,
and it was like boom. It was really fast.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
The pilot aired in March, in March, and then you
started marning in May and.

Speaker 5 (13:40):
In September, Scember, just January.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
They knew, they know.

Speaker 5 (13:47):
And it but they had to create all of this.
This was and what happened. But this was the nature
of series pickups for everybody.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Do you think they had written episodes already just to
have to be at already?

Speaker 1 (14:00):
Michael might.

Speaker 5 (14:02):
I don't know. Might that I have no information about that.
He may have.

Speaker 6 (14:10):
Look he maybe Michael had tons of relationships from Bonanza.
I mean, he could have reached out to people and
just sort of casually sort of talked about this.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
But it's so interesting. The difference in the quality or
in the tone of.

Speaker 6 (14:25):
The writing is so different in this episode that we're
talking about now, mister Edwards Homecoming from other episodes that
we've seen.

Speaker 5 (14:34):
The music is very different. It's early in the series.
It's there's a different vibe. The show is still seeking itself.

Speaker 6 (14:45):
Shows inevitably do yeah, yeah, I know, I think the
look I think look, Harvest of Friends came out of
the box.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
That was that had to have been thought about. Yeah,
that was just felt like a fully girl.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
It's in the book. He might have written that. They
might have written that because they well they have all
of a sudden the complete that was the complete script
I was reading at the audition. It was every single one. Oh,
I wrote that early, and so there were things they
clearly have thought it because they did. I mean it
was it wasn't like read these two pages. Here's the
entirest every senior in so yeah, they they they were,

(15:22):
They had started early. He knew there was he had
a list even if he had written it. It was like,
I want to come into that one. I want to
do that.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
You know, we thought I liked I really like this episode.
This is the first appearance of mister Edwards.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
In the series.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Is exciting and I'm sure the fans were very happy
to see him. And again they had to wait for
episodes to to see if mister Edwards's be coming back.
And there he is, mister Victor French and all of
his brilliance. I mean, god, what a brilliant after this guy.
Every time I see him, I just it's just a
reminder of how brilliant and whole he is as as an.

Speaker 5 (16:00):
Actor, really wonderful well.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
And when we had his kids on, they talked about
he played so many villains and he's so excited to
now be Like when we first see him, he's in
a saloon in like a hard Western bar, drunk out
of his mind, in a total blackout, doesn't even recognize
Charles has to go Tingles, so tingles, he doesn't recognize him.
He's completely out of it and fight and he's punching
people in the face. He's playing the heavy the guy

(16:23):
he used to play in the westerns, and Charles says, no, no,
come with me, come with you and takes him away
to become everybody's childhood favorite character. Who I think that's.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
That's also so great is that he has the ability
to do all of those things, and this episode shows
all of the things that he does. He does the boy,
he does the drama, he does the vulnerable, he does
the hard ass like he does all of it and
so perfectly.

Speaker 5 (16:51):
I just always said about Victory could make you laugh,
he could make you cry.

Speaker 6 (16:54):
He's scared and you know, in just in a matter
of seconds, he could turn that quickly.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
You know what I loved about that opening scene too,
where he's drunken, he's in the saloon and Charles is
seeing him the handheld camera. I I through the crowd
and it's the sort of wobbly handheld shot and it
was so effective because it makes you feel sort of
the grittiness of this place and the grittiness of mister

(17:23):
Edsward's not doing so great in here. But I wonder what, like,
we don't see that very much in the house on
the perier, that handheld camera anywhere?

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Dean, weren't we one of the first shows to use
the steady cam? Didn't like the inventor of the steady
cam show out Yes?

Speaker 5 (17:40):
Who did? Yes?

Speaker 6 (17:41):
He came for a Theile football episode and Garrett Brown,
who's like a six ' five gazelle running down the
field with this huge torque Panavision, big camp Panavision camera
loaded on this thing. You had to be an absolute
beast to run this thing.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
We are.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
Our camera person who ultimately used the steady cam was
a guy named Mike Minardis, who is a pretty beefy
guy and he could he his back could handle the
torque of this thing. I mean you're putting, you know,
you're putting seventy eighty ninety pounds out in front.

Speaker 5 (18:24):
Of you on this thing, and it's all on your.

Speaker 6 (18:26):
Lower back and you're really strapped into this unit. But
that was as you're making the point. That shot looked
like that was a shot following Charles into just.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
At and it just set up the environment, the atmosphere
so well.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
And no digitals. When we say handt held, it's more.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Like, right, yeah, yeah, hence the wabble, right exactly.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
No, Well, look we had.

Speaker 6 (18:52):
You know, you have great camera operators. I don't know
who would have been the operator. I can't see, for example,
I can't see Kenny Hunter with that ambibition camera on,
So I don't know who that operator would.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Have been somebody.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
But that was a very nice.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
Handhu, really nice.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
But yeah, it's so they go from the hard he
like goes to Western Land and pulls him out into
very Land.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Totally, totally, totally okay. So then he brings Edwards home
with him and everyone's very happy to see him except
Laura is sick. Do we know what's wrong with Laura?

Speaker 5 (19:30):
She has.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
Again no antibiotics.

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Laura. Yeah, in our last episode we talked about she
had she had a toothache.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
Now she's got in this episode, which is earlier, she
has tonsilitis.

Speaker 5 (19:50):
I mean, so opportunities for Doc Baker.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, yeah, he's getting all the chickens that Doc Baker and.

Speaker 1 (19:59):
They met a catered with licorice.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
Well, and also obviously it gave opportunity for mister the
keyth The purpose of it, of course in the story
was to give mister Edwards a reason to react because
of his heartbreak that he experienced earlier.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Right, So mister Edwards sort of blows up at Paw
because Laura is sick and he doesn't think that he's
taking it as seriously as he should, and it's just
sort of WHOA, what's happening here? And then they have
a very tender scene in the barn. And there's so
many things about this scene that struck me. The first
one is, you know, pause, He's like, sorry, I blew

(20:35):
up with you. You know, some stuff happened, and Pau's like,
you don't need to tell me anything, Like, don't don't
even worry of it. You don't need to tell me anything.
You don't want to say, and he says, no, I
want to tell you.

Speaker 5 (20:46):
I need to.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
And that's such a you know, establishes the such the
close connection that those two men have and will have
until he's not on the show for four years. But
then he comes back, then comes back. We won't talk
about that right now. And then the other thing is

(21:09):
it is classic Pa in this scene in the best
possible way, which is he is standing there, he is
receiving the information. You see the emotion welling up in him,
but he's keeping it at bay, but he's fighting through
the tears. And then he just gives him like this
little pat on the head before leaving, and that small

(21:33):
kind gesture without having to say anything on top of
it is so quintessential Charles Ingalls aka Michael Landon in
this show.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
And I think.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
It's really special too because it's two men showing two
alpha men right like these are strong macho guy right
And to show such tenderness and physical between men, I
think is mind blowing and so important for men to

(22:06):
see and to be able to feel it. We deny
men these things, how we didn't. Men are not allowed
to show emotion, right, They're not allowed to show physical
touch and just a small gesture of just you know,
patting his head through such a holding back tears is beautiful.

Speaker 6 (22:27):
One of those early examples of the wokeness of the
yes super which I think is so misused, but it's
but yeah, but this.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Was very yeah, a very very there's a very modern
take in this too, because Charles also throughout this episode,
you'll watch a theme where everybody's buttoned in and Caroline
scheming to but Charles keeps minding his own. But Charles
keeps saying, it's none of my business and try to
like leave people alone and let them have their space.
None of my business. He keeps saying to him, it's okay,

(22:58):
you don't have to tell me.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Now.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
A lot of TV, even modern TV, tell me, tell me,
what does the matter with you? Tell me because we
need to move the plot along and like make a
no came in. You don't have to tell it's cool,
it's your story to tell or not. You know, I'm cool,
I understand you may not like he's saying, if you
do not feel comfortable, it is like super modern, super
modern to take that. And then he says, okay, now
I feel comfortable, safe with you. So now I am

(23:20):
going to tell you this terrible story that I beatiasty.
What this is like someone with a degree in psychology
from like twenty twenty two talking, not someone in nineteen
seventy four, let alone eighteen seventy four. This is amazing
that Charles says, no, it's okay, it's fine, you don't
have I think me too, don't want to. That's who does.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
That, Charles Ngels apparently does it. And also what is
the news. The news is that mister Edwards had a
wife and a daughter who reminded him very much of Laura,
who died horribly isa sic. And they died again of.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
A disease that now they could do nothing about them.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
Showing the bone ability of the time and the.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
People just exactly and then and basically he has PTSD.
Mister Edwards has PTSD. Over it, his family die under
horrible circumstances.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
And then seeing Laura slightly ill was just a huge
trigger for that. Yeah, PTSD, baby, that's that will do it.
So then the family convinced mister Edwards to please stay
in Walnut Grove. They all love him. He feels very
loved and wanted, so he decides maybe I'll give it
a try, and.

Speaker 5 (24:29):
Then Act one ends.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
What does it end to?

Speaker 5 (24:32):
It? Yeah? Is plotting?

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Wait what are they eating? They are eating?

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Is this the first? It's both because sometimes they the
Bible and sometimes they popcorn. This time they had the
popcorn and the Bible.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
RISC episode is episode four, so it's like it.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Might be the first, the first popcord, the first pop port.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
And such and such a sweet and really a wonderful
energy with Karen as she's sitting there, she's so focused
on putting mister Edwards with great with the with the
widow Snyder that she's not even listening to what Pau sang.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Really she's a little I wonder, who is it in
the books that they eat popcorn as a snack at night?
Or is this just a concept on the show?

Speaker 5 (25:28):
Books? Are books are? No? Sorry? Popcorn is a very
common treat.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
They did eat it? Yeah, well, al Manso is all
about popcorn in Farber Boy popcorn, popcorn and popcorn, so
it was a thing. But I don't in the books,
they don't.

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Frustration popcorn eating popcorn?

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Okay, Because I was just wondering, like, this has got
to be in the books. Otherwise. Some dude on the
writing cast of Little House in the Prairie was like,
popcorn brilliant.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Yes, yeah, Lord didn't say. And then mom Pap made
a batch popcorn and went into the bedroom. That no,
that's not in the books. But they did eat popcorn.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
They did. Yes, Okay. Now, now mister Edwards meets mister Hanson,
gets hooked up with a job. He's set right, and
then he looks at Grace Edward.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Beautiful is the who.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Works at the post office.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
It is just her first appearance to the beautiful Bunny Bartlet.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
I think it is, and she is beautiful. I just
kept looking at her, like what, she's so striking? It's
not she's a striking beauty. I think. I think she's gorgeous.

Speaker 5 (26:32):
She's not a I don't think she's She's not a.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Not at all hands she is, I think, and I
think still pretty now she's kicking, still really stunning she is.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
I got some of that at the fiftieth anniversary. I
mean it wasn't directed at me, but I saw it
directed at others, for better or for worse. At the CME, She'll.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Tell you tell you, She'll hell yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
And she wrote a book. I talked with her about
her book on one of the panels. So she has
a book about her memoir, memoir. But I just think
she's so attractive in an unconventional way. But beautiful, beautiful, yes, yes.

Speaker 6 (27:15):
Oh, no question, no question. So but I love that
she sees. So they they immediately are watching each other.
They that's established right away, uh, that they are watching
each other. And then we get to watch mister Edwards
fish out the bottle of whatever this is, the the

(27:37):
h the jug, the recipe, whatever it is that's and
we find out it's empty.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
She doesn't see that, but we find that it's empty.
He fills it with.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
Water, and we're off and running with this morality judgment
there that the widow Snyder got.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
The entire episode.

Speaker 6 (27:55):
Yes, yes, yes, totally, yeah, that's that's.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
Even ever and al did yes, yes yet and they
think she's the trouble spot because hysterically when she finally comes,
oh I'm so sorry, Oh my god, it's waters, I'm
so sorry, I'm so sorry.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
And then of course she goes to drink it, and
that just ass.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Mister Answer comes on the noon and goes, what, well,
what and.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
He thinks she's drinking now, so everyone's judgmental.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
About Victor has the best line. He has the best line.
I didn't know she drank. Oh well, you know how
it is. It's it's the quiet one.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
So is the quiet one?

Speaker 1 (28:26):
You gonna watch like her? I died laughing, I die.
Love is brilliant. The way he did it do.

Speaker 6 (28:34):
Yeah, no, it's And what I thought was one of
the scenes I thought was interesting.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
It's sort of a it's sort of.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
An outrageous thing to do. But she comes across the bridge,
referencing it now and she goes to find the bottle.

Speaker 5 (28:51):
Right, so who does that?

Speaker 3 (28:53):
I too the nerve.

Speaker 6 (28:54):
Who goes and opens up the bottle to sip it,
to confirm her worst her worst sense of who this man?

Speaker 3 (29:03):
This guy.

Speaker 6 (29:05):
Knows she's she's pushing herself into his business.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
Now. I guess they're you know, they're.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
You know, they're pushing the fact that there's mutual interest
here in each other. But I thought that was sort
of a ballsy thing to do, to just go in
and pick up the bottle and open it.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
Well, it's a very Karen move. Let's let's face it,
it's Karen move. Karen as in let me speak to
the manager.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
She is, she's totally being the Karen because she's like, well,
are you a member of the family, can you pick
up them?

Speaker 3 (29:38):
She is, she's she's being the Karen right now. And
then she apologizes for it. But yeah, she was. She
was carrening out. Let's face it very busy. Yeah, Karen's
were totally I mean, I mean, missus Olsen was the
original Karen she had. But yeah, she just was carrying
out a little bit. But you know, he's a new
guy in the town. I guess she was trying to

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protect everybody from a potential alcoholic or is someone who
maybe drank a little bit.

Speaker 8 (30:07):
Lost her Maybe maybe let's you know what, let's throw
her that bone.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Let's give her that backstory that she.

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Could have had PTSD, that he died in some terrible accident.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
He mixed it, you guys, we fixed it.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
And then Reverend Alden does the temperance lecture at church
and strong drink, strong drink and look what it's done
to people.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
He was being very very pereachy during his like him.
I know, it's weird. You every once in a while
you get these moments from Reverend Alden. We were like,
this is very judgy, very very judgy, which he usually
is not, but once in a blue moon it's like
and then I love how Afterwards she was like, I
thought it went a little long. How was the service?

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I went a little long? So, yeah, everyone thinks she's
a drunk. She's not a drunk. And Carolyn in the
meantime is playing matchmaker, right, So she asked mister Edwards
to please pick up the Ingles' is Maile, yes, and she's.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
Plotting we always pick up the mail.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
Oh and I also, I need to say, mister Edwards
also before this brings Laura some lemon verbina, and perhaps
this is the second lemon verbina appearance in Little House
on the Periy, the first one being Yes, Country Girls,
And now we're back with the lemon verbino, which is
just a theme throughout the entire series.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
But the busy body, Caroline, busybody, busy body getting into
business and is shid there with aw schnyder. Let me
go see. But that's the running thing is that Charles
keeps going, I don't why why why don't you just
leave them alone? And shes to like each other? What what? Why? No,
you don't have to tell me No, I don't want
to know. No, why are you bothering these people? He's

(31:54):
just totally try and wind it so just through the
whole episode and no one will stop.

Speaker 6 (32:00):
And I think Karen Grassley not being the Karen, but
Karen Rastly is just beautiful in those scenes where she's
just like open and imagining and this could be wonderful
and these two people could.

Speaker 5 (32:15):
Be happy together. And she's just like thinking in this
very constructive way about how to make people's lives better.

Speaker 6 (32:25):
And I think she's beautiful, really beautiful as she does
it so, and it's wonderful that Charles he's just laying
back watching all this happen and being the guy.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Speaking of making people's lives better. When we go back
home to mon Paw, there's Paw shirtless and is one of.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
The first harvest of friends. Is the first shirtless Paw
because of the tree accident. This is like the second
super duper and it's one of his better poses. There's
that shot where he's by the fence and she's behind
the best that's like a still photo that people like
put up when they go Charlot's Paw. It's that's that's
the one.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
It's it's an interesting show. Yeah, the suspenders are on
the suspenderless and then the sort of black and white
sort of tweety herring boney trousers. He's it's a good look.
But uh yeah, it was like, oh they're oh, there's
paw now and now ladies and children Jesse Charles all right, yea.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
With Kahala Hilton.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Yeah, yeah, just the little.

Speaker 5 (33:29):
Taste from Yeah and.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Edwards because the bag sings Old Dan Tucker. We're all
happy at this point.

Speaker 6 (33:35):
Right now we'd heard him sing Old Dan Tucker in
the pilot, so that was established. And then but he
and then he gets the little dancing in there too.
They're establishing this sweet.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
And it is also so lovable.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
The with at the mill, he does Old Dan Tucker
and goes oh, which is the thing that Victor his
son does, has over. He does the big oh and
holds the note. He just a beautiful impression of that
was and then.

Speaker 5 (34:02):
It goes right with to Laura's right.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
That was a great cut. Was Victor French Junior already
acting as his body double at this point young until later?
How old was he at this point? Do you know?
Was he a teenager younger than a teenager kid.

Speaker 5 (34:24):
Yeah, pretty young, pretty young guy at that.

Speaker 6 (34:27):
Okay, I don't remember him being Victor standing until season
when he came back in season six.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Then yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, she was really on.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Yeah, that's when we saw we met young Victor for
the first time.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
That is so cool. I mean, just how cool is that?
All Right, we're going to take a quick break and
when we come back, we will continue our recap. Welcome
to a Recap Season two. We'll be right back.

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House fiftieth anniversary podcast. Now wat tobout the fact that
it's a different writer and there's this real, like almost
childish approach to romance. These grown people's like, God, what
are you twelve? The way they're pursuing this is crazy,
But it's funny.

Speaker 5 (35:52):
It's ish.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Yeah, no, it.

Speaker 6 (35:56):
Works, but it's very on the nose. It's going right
at it, you know. And and I think it's just
it just feels different than the way Michael would have written.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
You know. That's that's that's my only that's the only way.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
I think.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
It's interesting that you that that, that you have that
strong of a reaction towards it, because for me, for
me with this episode, I thought it had all the
sort of Michael Landony elements in it, and I didn't
sense that it was really different. Also, I thought, like

(36:32):
a little kid watching it, it was awesome.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
It made sense. And that's the thing. It's not over
limature in many of the romances where it's Laura and
a boy and Laura thinks the boy likes Mary or whatever,
they do all this stuff of Oh, I'll write a
letter to myself and make her job because and in fact,
literally Laura comes to with the story of how at
school that somebody passed a note and the whole thing

(36:55):
made and made this girl jealous, right, it was the
whole thing about she pretended to get a note written
it to herself to make some chelse. And this very
grown man goes, that's a good idea.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
Because the eight year old send at.

Speaker 6 (37:07):
Work to school's considering it. You know, it's like you
see him thinking about oh.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
And it's he.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
And these very small children and have related this and
even mont pov. God, that's a terrible idea. You shouldn't
be doing that in Sunday school. And while you're passing
us to Sunday school, and these kids are going, yes,
this is how romance works. And he's like, well, I'd
better get on that letter and perfume it.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
And I'm like, which makes it even better.

Speaker 6 (37:34):
He can't, he can't write a letter, so he needs
Laura to write the letters for him.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
It's they're a little secret.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Let me just say one thing.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
You know, this is the tiniest little thing. I don't
even know I noticed, but it struck me as so funny.
When they were having the conversation with Mary and Laura,
like how is Sunday school? And this this all comes
out that you know, she wrote this letter and he
got jealous and then he was like, I mean, you know,
not about what's happening with you personally, like what did
you learn in Sunday school? And she just goes, oh,
we learned about Jesus. Like really, that's that's the answer.

(38:06):
That's a very blanketed general. I would assume you were
learning about Jesus in Sunday school, but really no more
detail than that. Okay, cool, we're learning about Jesus, and I'm.

Speaker 5 (38:16):
Sure in the answer that kids give at home we.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Learned about Jesus.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
Question.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
It struck me as so funny.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
That's a schoolard soap opera. That's what happens.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
Eh Jesus. But this yes, okay, So so mister Edwards
actually does go through with this fake letter to make
yeh kid has to write it because.

Speaker 5 (38:45):
Yes, because it's yeah, very very simple writing.

Speaker 6 (38:48):
And he goes and he goes to the side of
the road and he which is sort of interesting because
the mail truck's going by and there is this wonderful,
quirky actor named.

Speaker 5 (38:58):
Sunshine who that was?

Speaker 1 (38:59):
Okay, got that guy in the in.

Speaker 6 (39:01):
The seat with Jack Lily, who's driving? Who's driving the
carriage or the who were they?

Speaker 5 (39:08):
And they have this a little sit. Sorry.

Speaker 6 (39:10):
So Jack Lily was one of our wranglers. His son
Clay Lily is also a wrangler. His son Clay Lily
could very well end up being the lead wrangler on
the reboot.

Speaker 5 (39:21):
Oh wow, that that has that conversation.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
Is, Oh my god, that'd be great.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Which would be sort of cool amazing.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
Yeah, but Sunshine Parker, where I know Sunshine Parker from
is a what there's a wonderful scene in a movie?

Speaker 3 (39:41):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Oh God, I'm sorry I should have looked this up.
He's a very quirky.

Speaker 1 (39:48):
Am I imd being while you're.

Speaker 6 (39:50):
Guy and he has this diicetle exchange about why are
you mailing this here?

Speaker 5 (39:55):
You're sending it here and back and forth.

Speaker 6 (39:57):
The other fun thing about that little moment is the
wagon pulls away. Now the shot is looking up at
Sunshine Parker and they pull away, so the point of
view is looking up the hill. The wagon goes down
the hill when you mister Edwards goes on walking up
the hill.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
When they cut back to the wagon. The wagon is
going up the hill. So Michael cheated the point of
view there.

Speaker 6 (40:25):
He moved the camera to the other side of the road,
ripped the point of view and had because he didn't
want to flip the whole company.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
He just wanted he just he tweaked it. So the
wagon that was.

Speaker 6 (40:36):
Going down the hill is instantly going up the hill
away from them.

Speaker 5 (40:41):
Both parties are going up a hill.

Speaker 6 (40:44):
Yeah, So Michael did this all the time with the camera.
He was not afraid because I'm sure there was the
whole unit sitting there in front of the little house
and their whole village was there to move all that
would have been that could have taken hours to move
all that. So he simply moved the camera to the
other side of the road and had the wagon go

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the other way, and they look back at each other.
And the point of view is all work but the
and so the geography works, but the actual geography up
up is a little odd.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
And Sunshine Perker was extremely prolific character actor. He's in
everything he was later in Tremor's with Charlotte Stewart or
Miss Beetle Charlette. He's in everything. He was in road House,
He was in Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He was in Peewee's
Big Adventure.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
He was in I'm seeing him with John Cusack and
say anything, not say anything, but.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Maybe the one he was Okay, he was in Little
Little House. He did five episodes. He did five episodes
of Little House in the Prairie. Sunshine was five. Was
he in Sure Thing? Let me see Cannery Rio? Oh,
I think I remember any which way you can the
Clint Easwood movie. Okay, okay, let me see he was
due to hazard he was in and of course where

(41:59):
did he start? What's his first job?

Speaker 6 (42:01):
Is?

Speaker 1 (42:01):
First a Bonanza? Bonanza, Bonanza, three episodes of Bonanza. So
he was he discovered him on Bonanza and that, and
then he was in everything you could possibly.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Be in Bonanza.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
All roads lead to Bonanza. I Love these People's Helltown,
We're Wolf, We're Wolf, Double Revenge, road House, sund and
Love It Large. No, apparently I'm not seeing him with
that Adventures of Briscoe County Junior. It looks like the
last thing he did was Love Street. That's what it says.

(42:33):
The heck who was that?

Speaker 2 (42:34):
That was?

Speaker 1 (42:35):
I don't even know this one, all right?

Speaker 6 (42:36):
But do you see him in the short when you
go back to like eighty something, he is in the
sure Thing.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Right, I'm not seeing the sure Thing. I am not.

Speaker 6 (42:46):
I'm seeing him with John Cusack and a bar and
they're talking about now they're having a drunken conversation in
a bar.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
That's and he may have. But which movie is it?
So now you've you've got me me looking here? Who
do you want him to see?

Speaker 5 (43:04):
But maybe I'm.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Kusnack with Cusack? Was he with? Okay? But the Sunshine
Parker And I'm trying to find like, surely, surely he
was in something. It's one of those six degrees of separation.
What was he in? Dun duh? Yes, wait, he was
in Roadhouse. I think it's Roadhouse.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Well that's not what that's that's not that's not what
I'm thinking.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Of, but it's but it's because John Cusack. I don't
think it was in Roadhouse.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
But anyway, anyway, he's in everything. He's freaking everything in everything.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
I bet they're listeners who know exactly the movie.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
They will they will tell us.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
You tell us, you, guys, because Dean's going to be
living in agony.

Speaker 1 (43:50):
Why awake at night, every moment, what what six degrees
of separation? Where is Sunshine Parker and John Cusack? Because
they did something together and we just don't know which
thing it was.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
These are the probing things. Yes, these are this is priority. Okay,
let's move on though, so that the letter happens. She does.
She smells a lemon verbina on the letter. She does
get she does get jealous.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
It actually sort of kind of works.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
It totally worse.

Speaker 6 (44:18):
I love that the way he sits and read and
we cut to the letter in its blank paper, and
his reactions to what he's reading are so wonderful.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
And you know he's got.

Speaker 6 (44:29):
Something in his head that he's playing, and he just
he just chuckles and cocks his head, and it's very
it's very He sits right in front of her to
read this letter to make her jealous, very like like
a like a ten year old.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Cut there being Actually these are grown people. They are
being very childish about this romance. They're being super childish.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Great, So then Grace goes over to the Ingles house
with them. They all have dinner, they have pike, They
have a great time. They dis some fiddle music, some
pop playing very fake phony fiddle music.

Speaker 6 (45:03):
Now, interestingly, I love that because earlier on they he
plays the fiddle there and he's playing it like the violin.

Speaker 5 (45:11):
You know, the fiddle is a very specific sounds.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
You're playing multiple strings in the fiddle style.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
David Rose, who obviously has to write all this, does
not and and someone in.

Speaker 6 (45:23):
The studio is playing it for Charles, Uh, did not
always write the things that the fiddle player played in
the fiddles.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
That's what I was wondering too, Like did was the
was the fiddle music being played on set? So that
he knew what? Okay? So that's why.

Speaker 5 (45:41):
It's it's always.

Speaker 3 (45:43):
Play That's what I mean. So he so he's just
faking it badly.

Speaker 5 (45:50):
He's faking it badly because his.

Speaker 3 (45:52):
Figgers aren't even moving when the notes are changing. It's
like Michael landon.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
Please, he just didn't have time.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Your fingers when the notes changed. Dean Butler think I
don't really play the piano.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Nelly plays the piano in several sines no tracts, But
yes you don't. They didn't zoom in on my hands.
But I put my fingers in the right places. I
at least look like I was playing exactly.

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Yeah, I was playing chopsticks. Okay, so we've seen him
play bad fiddle. We'll see him play bad fiddle again
nine years and then part of the Yes, sure, that's
how we'll label it. It's part of the charm.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
It was an easter egg for people to.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
That fiddle friend, Chip Males. There are many more. Let's
see who like. Let's look at the braces, braces. We
could spot braces a mile away. I love all these things.
It makes me giddy with happiness. Okay, but then dun
dun't duh. Tragedy strikes when they Grace and Edwards have
a conversation about God, like you do. It oftentimes breaks

(47:11):
up relationships. Yes, and he's like, I don't believe.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
In God, like flat out, he's flat out, but I don't.
Do you believe in God?

Speaker 3 (47:18):
No?

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Nope?

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Yeah, And she cannot handle that at all, which is
I'm sure historically and for these kinds of people, I'm
sure that was quite accurate. Actually yeah, yeah, like you're
a you're a heathen, right, I mean you're.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
It's an existential Yes, in a small town eighteen seventy four,
a widow woman of her place in society, and that no,
there was no way, You're just like, yeah, I'm an atheist.
Ha no no no no no no no no no no,
not a thing.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
So that breaks them up. She's very disturbed by this.
And then he's like, I'm out, I'm leaving, and.

Speaker 5 (47:54):
I'm leaving right, I'm laving.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
And yeah, and his reason, his reasoning for not believing
in God, by the way, is because he said, how
if you if God is real, why would he let
why would he let my daughter and my wife die?
I mean, and I think I think reasonable sure is
that he still have this day.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
He's mad. And even Caroline even when he says to Carolyn,
how could that happen? She doesn't say oh yeah that
She even stops goes, well, you know, good point. I
don't know. We don't know why these things. It's horrible.
But she even she's like, well, you know, yeah, that'll
do it. That'll do it to you.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
Yeah. And then Carolyn has a conversation with him.

Speaker 6 (48:34):
I mean, what you're saying, what do you think that?

Speaker 5 (48:39):
That's an interesting take?

Speaker 1 (48:44):
I know, it's weird. I've never heard anyone like come
up with that one. That's a that's a.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
And in a way, that's someone who really believes in God,
believe in God.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
He's enraged a God. But what of course he's actually doing,
especially when we watch how he's treated himself in the
drinking and the no companionship and being a loner and
then this whole romance he's about to give up. He's
punishing himself, right, He's been punishing himself in his life
and making his life miserable every single day since he

(49:14):
lost his family. He clearly has wound up punishing himself,
cut in his nose, off spite his face the whole time.
And this may be kind of like sort of ringing
a bell in there when she says punishing God, like or.

Speaker 8 (49:25):
Maybe Alison that is so that is such a great
revelation about that, because I hadn't thought of it in
those terms, and now that I have, it makes perfect sense.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
Well, can he lives?

Speaker 3 (49:38):
We? Can he live? Yeah? No? And but also that
that what she said to him would resonate in that
from that perspective, because somewhere.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
Is hen doy we go punishing God. I'm not punishing God.
I'm oh oh. And he'd have to go think about it,
wouldn't he?

Speaker 5 (49:57):
Yep? And we don't and we do we We don't
really know.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
He doesn't say, oh my god, he may I'm punishing myself.
But you see that he has.

Speaker 5 (50:07):
That usually house, you see.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
He does not.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
You see that he thinks about thinking about it though
you definitely see him.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
That it hits him, and that clearly there's something is
jarred that he has to go think about this one.
And then he changes his mind because somehow he got it.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Yeah, he gets it. And so the next thing we
see is mister Edwards in a very dashing outfit. By
the way, I think he looks so adorable in this
wardrobe choice. Where that stuff in the I know where where?

Speaker 1 (50:45):
I think he went down to the mercantile because he
had to go shopping. He had to go shopping because
he never had.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
All I know is he's in a sensible tweed jacket
and a sensible button down shirt and he so charming.
He just looks adorable. And her expression when she sees
him too is also adorable.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
And singing bringing in the sheets again. And I noticed
that in the other one we did, We're bringing in
the cheese was now bringing in the shees. We had
four hymns that were in main circulation on our shol
bringing in the shees. All were Christian soldiers ring the
bells of Heaven and take it to the Lord and prayer.
Those were the four.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
But the top two we're bringing in the Definitely, she's more.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Christian soldiers, over and over and overdone. Here's the only problem.

Speaker 3 (51:34):
This Jewish girl was singing those songs growing up.

Speaker 6 (51:36):
You can often hear Miles mid the first assistant director,
singing out louder than anybody else.

Speaker 1 (51:44):
She was like our pitch fight. He would blow the
pitch pep and go and follow me for the people
could say.

Speaker 6 (51:49):
And yeah, this deep, great, deep, rough voice, and he
is just singing out loud, loud.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
But probleming more depression that they're nothing more depressing than
singing a cappella in a church or you know, like
some sort of religious ceremony without any kind of piano
organ anything.

Speaker 6 (52:11):
David finds what the good noted and he comes in
and we dropped.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
But we had you shoulders without anything companiment.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Maybe Ruthie. We had a couple of people could really
sing and they would step to the front of the church. Okay,
boys and girls, she's got the lyrics in front of me,
and they blow the pitch pipe and go come with
us into all you can't sing, just listen real hard,
and they do it, and then we'd all just gotta
follow the problem. Bringing in the Sheave, who's written in
and released as a hymn in eighteen seventy four. It
would have been brand new. It would have been like,

(52:43):
I don't know, Top of the Pops, top ten new hymns.
They were singing a brand new hymn that had literally
trussed him out that week, which seems a little odd.
Did you know that?

Speaker 5 (52:57):
Did you?

Speaker 1 (52:58):
I had a lot to do when I was sitting
in church. I did time on my hands. So I'm
sitting as they're setting the shots, and I got the
Bible of the handle in front of me. Go well,
then to do here? And I memorized all the back
verses of bringing in the sheaves and Onward Christian Soldiers.
When I was fourteen, I could sing all all the verses,
going all the way back up homeward Christian Soldiers and

(53:18):
bringing in the sheaves. I can't remember the now, but
I did. I memorize them all because I better to do.
But I is in eighteen seventy four, which is kind
of strange. Oh it is, it is the sure Thing.
It was like he's cowboy Sunshinese cable. It was his
part was so small. I'm going through his credits and
it's like not even there. And then I had to
go to the credits for Sure Thing and like, you

(53:39):
know what, dive a rabbit hole to find him.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
But he's God. We found that. It was driving me.
This episode really came to a full full circle conclusion
with John Cusack, who knew.

Speaker 6 (53:53):
And they shot the Interestingly, they shot the all the
exteriors of the sure Thing at my alma mater universe.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
So you're kidding.

Speaker 5 (54:02):
Bubbling for an East Coast college really.

Speaker 6 (54:06):
Yes, in the in the quad and then in an
old Southwest hall was his was his dormitory.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Wow, there's a thing for him.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Love excellent, excellent.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
That it would lead to sure Thing.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
It's he started on Banana with Michael and he later
wound up in Tremors with his vetles, So Sunshine was everywhere.
He's like, the truth line.

Speaker 3 (54:32):
Is a great it's a great movie.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
Yeah, it's a great movie.

Speaker 3 (54:36):
All right, everybody. I feel very content that we've ended.

Speaker 5 (54:39):
On that thing to it's a great sure.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
Is Okay, guys, we need to wrap things up. But
I'm crazy. I loved this episode. I know maybe it's
a little childish and a little silly, but I think
it's a.

Speaker 5 (54:53):
Dormable I'd like your point of view. I mean, I
get it.

Speaker 6 (54:56):
It's we have to realize that he's this is being
it's being done for people of all ages. But Michael
would never want to leave kids behind in this, So
there's a common now, and then adults can watch it
and say, oh, yeah, this is how this got to
all this gets started this sweet innocent sort. Well he's

(55:18):
not innocent, but there's a childlike quality mister Edwards which.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Comes dated in yours.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:25):
And also there's enough drama that drops in that the adults,
I mean, the kids are drawn into that too, they
really are, but there's enough drama in it that it's
not just all all what you know, the the trigger word,
fluffy family friendly stuff. We hate that because.

Speaker 5 (55:45):
So I'm reassessing this. It's brilliant.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
It's it's almost as good as a sure thing. Anyway, everyone,
thank you for thank you for tuning in. We'll see
you next week. Please join us on our socials, Little
House fifty podcast and our website, Little Housepitty podcast dot com.
Like and subscribe. Join us on Patreon if you're not on,
We do really fun discussions and other stuff up there,

(56:08):
so please join the fun with us there and we
will see you next time. Bob go get the wig.
Let's fly people, y

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