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creator and star of Living on a Prairie Here with
your favorite prairie bitch. That's right, it's Alison Aringram and
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are you, guys?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Good? Good, good? So you just got some great news.
So what's going on with you?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
How does it work?

Speaker 3 (01:38):
I know, this is so crazy. So back in June
I had auditioned for a play here in this in
New York City called House of McQueen. And you know,
you never hype yourself up about these things. You just
try and do your good work and leave it in
the room and that's it. You never expect anything, just

(02:00):
you know, just doing good work. Except that the casting
director saw me before the audition and was like, I
can't wait to see you in this audition, Like you
were the first person I thought of when I read
the script, like this is your role, and I was like,
oh my gosh, okay, and fast forward to I didn't
get it and instead and of course like of course,

(02:21):
it's so typical, And they actually ended up casting a
very well known sort of Tony nominated, very very revered
Broadway actor. So I was like, okay, they cast it
that way, I get it. And I didn't even book Actually,
a friend of mine booked her understudy, so and I
was like, oh, I'm not going to get it. I'm
glad that she got it because she's great and.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
And then I get an email just out of the
blue saying, Hey, can you come in to be the
meter replacement for the understudy for this show? So that's
what I'm doing now, and it's it came out of
I mean, it just sort of dropped into my lap.
I'm actually kind of psyched about it too, because I

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didn't have to go through any kind of really arduous
rehearsal process. Just plug me in and get her done.
And so who knows. I don't know. It's an open
and run, but I have no idea how much longer
it's gonna go.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
But it's so it's open.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
It's open. It's already opened. It opened in the beginning
of September. And it's about it's about the famous fashion
designer Alexander McLean. It's his life story. Oh that's good,
that fact and what's really cool is that they've renovated
a mansion down at Hudson Yards into this new theater
to do this specific show. It's very cool. So anyway,

(03:46):
talk to me in another week and we'll see interest.
I'm sleeping at all.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, no, good for congratulations, Good for you.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Thanks, thanks. They know that November twenty second is the
podcast recording. I have a car out for that. So
don't you worry people. We will be doing the live
podcast in November no matter what.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Yeah, I mean, I'm excited. We've I booked my hotel
in Manhattan and uh and so that's exciting. And we're
well I'm assuming that you know, I'm assuming that tickets
are on sale. But the time people see this, I
mean I would h we will let We'll be letting
you know where you can get tickets. And then shortly
after that we've gone, Yeah, very good. We've got our

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little house in the poredecast reunion at Strathon Park and
Seamy Valley, and but just keep.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Going and growing and getting these events.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
It is such a crazy It is hours and hours
a day of dealing with the various things that go
on with this. This is not uh no, one just
shows up. There's there's a lot that goes into this,
and so I I think we're I think we're crafting
something that's really goo going to be fun. And I think,

(05:01):
you know, we've never done a holiday specifically for the house.
I think Little House Christmases are Little House Christmas episodes
are so charming, and so I think we're attempting to
tap into that.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
It's really smart, all kinds of stuff. We're going to
arrange the thing in the parking and Christmas ornaments and.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
You know, Southern thanks to you, Elison, one of Southern
California's best Santas is.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Going to to the North Pole.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
What am I saying? I mean to.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
The North It is the time different.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
To get yes Santa on the line to commit.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
During well it's ten days before Christmas. So he's you know,
he's still got a little time.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
You know, he's overseen the elves. But I have an
in you know, in personal friends.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
He loves Nelly. What can you say?

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
He's always a poll for Nelly, but presents.

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Speaker 3 (06:09):
Everything's going to be in the show.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Check it out. So let's let's get into this.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, y'all, this is a doozy of
an episode. I kind of love it. Here we go.
Coming up today, the food gets faster and Walnut Grove.
But does it get better? That's the pressing question we
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and ubn go. Welcome, you're at the Little House fiftieth
Anniversary podcast, y'all, Dean.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yes, today's today's episode Yes See an eighth episode ten
Wave of the Future. Wave of the Future premiered on
December seventh, nineteen eighty one, written by Jerry Taylor. Yes,
Parl Harbor Day, written by Jerry Taylor and directed by
Maury Dexter.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, he was like a D.

Speaker 4 (07:22):
He was like second.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
He was he was the first a D. He was
a second. No, he was a first, he was never
the second. Was the first. He was a first.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
We rotated that's remember read rummage.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah and read now read was a second.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, he had the thankless job.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh I think that's the second ADS is the hardest
second job. Yeah, the second AD is that bridge between
the cast and production and one of the hardest jobs
on any second.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Yell the people all day, Hey, walk you talking to clipboard?

Speaker 1 (07:56):
You're late?

Speaker 4 (07:57):
Listen, where is the king? But har's supposed to being
first day.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Well, they have to the ultimate negotiator. They are. They
are the you know, they are that bridge and they
are I think the people who take on that job
are psychologically have to be so sound and so calm
and together. It's sort of like being a you know,
working on a submarine or something, and you've got to
be so stable emotionally to do that job.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yeah, there's a certain dinner posssion. You must have to
do certain jobs.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yes, if the actor goes missing, the actor doesn't come
back for lunch, act or anything, where's the actor?

Speaker 2 (08:33):
And they're on it.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
There is exactly and so they're constantly going, got.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
So, But Maury was never a second. Let's talk about
the future.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
We love freaking more re dection, more dexter with a
little next or well. Well. On this episode, Katherine McGregor seduced.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
By the modern dining when.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Slick talking major Guffey, Yes it's from Disney, mister Lorie Main,
hustling with a smile. He was narrated Pooh Pooh corner
and didn't we eat the pool? He arrives to sell
Harriet Olson on the glory of franchising seriously and missus
Sullivan's offering a futuristic menu of chicken fried steak, pan

(09:21):
fried steaks, pan.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Fried steak, beef stew, and roasted chicken.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's it. Rougers in three flavors progress through, for there's
only three things now. Harriet Day's days by the dollar signs,
of course, dies head first to the restaurant business only
discovered that fast food is still work, which means yes.
Carolin Ingles to the rescue. Carolyn and Hester's support Hester
with this episode. They end up change to the kitchet
sweating over endless box of stew, while Harriet practices being

(09:48):
Walda Grove's answers to Ray Kroc, yes, here's me score
he thinks he has it's a disaster choker room. Back
at the Ingles homestead, Carolyn's absence leaves the family the
mercy of It's cooking, and even worse, Albert's cooking and
little James is cooking.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
It's all bad.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Because the James and Cassandra and Nancy.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
Era crime against humanity bad and it's only worse than
Albert's cooked.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
The Wave of the Future. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
In the end, well, Missus Sullivan's collapses, orders restored through
when Nails and Charles open Olsen's. Charles actually saves Missus
Olson's as Charles rescue this Missus.

Speaker 4 (10:29):
This episode, it's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
The Wave of the Future looks shiny, but nothing beats
the honest comfort of home and home cooked.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Neils. Well, let's face it, though, he saves Missus Olsen
just so that he can get his wife home. We'll
get to that. We'll get to this.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Everybody's so sick of it.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Now.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I know you both have weird issues with this episode.
I have to tell you, I have always really loved
this episode.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
So tell us why you really love this episode.

Speaker 4 (10:58):
It's really dumb.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Well, you know when when you're a kid and you're
like you get the references right, and whenever there's like
a modern like they drop in some modern stuff into
the prairie, it's like, oh, I get it, I get
the joke, I get the reference, I get it.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's because we were calling this a big jump to Shark.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
No, we love it. I loved it. I loved it,
and then before I rewatched it, I thought, well, maybe
I really liked it because I was a kid and
it was fun because I was a kid. And then
when I rewatched it yesterday, I was like, no, I
really enjoyed this episode. Really, it's funny. It's again classic
Missus Olsen doing her brilliance, like you can't go wrong

(11:38):
when it's a Missus Olsen centric episode. And I don't know,
I just think it's it's it's fun, it's not deep.
There's nothing happening, but we need a break on the
prairie from the drug.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
And Pauw has there's two Yes, this is why we
want to marry Paul moments.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
There's two Paw the guy in the prairie twice what you.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
So? You know? For me, it starts off with with
the drunk spokeswoman who's going to be in the picture
and there is this word play scene that she does.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
About it's high comedy.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
It's just the without I love the without the bottle. Yeah, yeah,
I just found myself enormously annoyed by this coming right
off the top.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Scene.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
It's comedy with a K. Don't yes, just go with it. Listen,
they let exactly, They let you know right up front.
This is a comedic episode. Yes what it just go
along for the ride.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
This is gonna say a con artistry and it's gonna
be goofy. And that is that woman is Margaret Wheeler
and she r I m dB is eight thousand pages long.
As you might guess.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
She's in everything in the world.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
And she worked all the way up into the nineteen nineties,
really right up until her passing at age ninety two.
And you're looking, I'm looking, going, oh she died in
she ninety two? Wait, this is what years did this
woman work up to the day before? Did she just
like dad with her boots on? This girl and she's hysterical.
She was also in a yeah there. It is a

(13:24):
crazy movie that I loved one hundred years ago in
the seventies. Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate?

Speaker 4 (13:30):
Have you remember this movie?

Speaker 1 (13:32):
He was an early comedy about computers when it was
old cards. And it's about a bunch of crazy old
ladies who started dating.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
Service, a computer dating service.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
And they make up their cat fishing before there was
cat fishing. They create a mythical perfect girl in the
computer cards. It's the dark twist because it's the seventies.
Is their perfect girl attracts a guy who is a
serial killer and is dangerous and now what do these
old ladies did? So it's old ladies catfishing, draw Cereal coming.

(14:03):
She's in that, he's in. This woman is in everything,
and she's brilliant and plays crazy, drunken fake. She's she's
the the the aunt, Jemima, the you know, the Betty Crocker,
the fake.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Right.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Okay, so Dean is Dean is immediately irritated. I'm just
going okay, it's a comedy with the k episode. Let's know, Alison,
how did you feel when this episode started?

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Were you like My first reaction is, well, I'm I'm
not there anymore because I've left to go. I know,
I'm busy being a hooker and Fantasy Island. I'm off
with the love boat. I'm like, I'm gone, I've veiled
and haven't come back from a visit. In season nine,
Hey Nancy kid, love you, You're on your ound. You

(14:50):
do it.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
He's so good.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
She stole my.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
She did the bad piano playing bit that was I
guess it's your snap. She's wearing my wig. I'm a
little if she's wearing my wig. She did take the
week very odd, but I did think was especially the
famous ending.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
I know what wha wha.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
I went, really, really really, we're gonna go that we're
gonna jump a shark?

Speaker 4 (15:15):
That hard?

Speaker 1 (15:16):
So I thought it was now having watched it, Catherine
so brilliant this and like I said, there's some Charles moments. Okay,
this is a way better. There's a couple of things
where Caroline does a couple of things where I went, no, no, no,
out of character.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Well, her absolute support for working on Twist to.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
Do this and working on Sunday, not having a problem with.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Not once as a special favor. She was working seven
days a week on Sunday. Paul I had to tell
her with the Lord's Day.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, that's that. That was the one I will say
that was the one thing in this episode that I
was like, way, wait, the seven thing. Yeah, because the
history of the whole old series, her whole thing about never.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Sundays eleven years, she has been flipping out on people
about what do you mean you're working on Sunday. Yeah,
slipping out.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
Yeah no, no, no, no, no, can't do that.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Okay, okay, right, let's take it back.

Speaker 5 (16:15):
Okay, So right in the beginning, I was going to say,
right in the beginning, you have it, you have This
was the biggest extra call ever on the Little House
You Can.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
You have one restaurant scene after another packed to the brim.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Where are them?

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Know exactly where are these are they coming from?

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Some of them were regular extras. You've seen them across
the street.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
You're seeing them in the back of church.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
There are more people in the restaurant than there are
in the church on Sunday morning.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
We have had a lot of people who stayed with it,
and I went, oh yeah, I'm Marry Zaka.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
And then crew members.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
There were so many crew members in that restaurant and
oh oh that's funny right with electricians that it's cool,
and so so was. Everybody got to play. There was
all the crew members, family's crew members and our regular actor.
Once again, Little House, that weird family thing. Even we
call in all the extras, but we also just threw
the crew at tables. Off you go, and yeah that

(17:15):
was what we would do. So yes, so we go Dan,
pat customer is there? The man Dan Dan, the man,
and he had He is a fabulous resume.

Speaker 4 (17:29):
Look him up on IMDb.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
He was in all the way, he was in loose shoes,
he was in a bunch of weird stuff. He was
a weird character actor and then boom appeared. Suddenly shows
up in the little House in the prairie as the
guy who gets hit with raw chicken bread thrown at him.
Now he's in this because he's disgruntled customer.

Speaker 4 (17:48):
That was his gig.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Nice guy, still kicking living a burbank.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
We'll have to you know, Dan is a professor.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
He's a college professor health sciences.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
He's a health science professor, but really good snarky customer too.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, he wrote an actual he wrote a textbook, an
entire textbook on on health and science and the body.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
He wrote a whole frigates book.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Well you've you've he's been to appearances, You've done chicken
bits with him, rubber chicken bits audiences. Dan's player, He'll
he'll go along.

Speaker 4 (18:23):
He's a right cook.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
But he's as smart as a with that man. His
textbook's amazing. I one of my friends from France said
I want his book, and he said it's a textbook.

Speaker 4 (18:31):
I don't care how much will give you, any amount
of money, I.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Want the damn my god. Okay, so we have an
irrationally packed restaurants. Who are these people? Where did they
come from? Don't know restaurants.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
So they're packed, and so let's get it right away.
We're going to meet Major Guffy.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yes, right away.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
I mean, and Caroline and hester Sue are overwhere. And
I think one of the things that one of the
things that missus Olsen me, she's always can be rude,
but it's interesting to me that well, like it's just
the first of this for her in this episode where
there's just a complete obtuse lack of awareness about what

(19:20):
about what is going on in the space, that the
place is a mob scene, and she's demanding to be
served right now. She wants to order right now, and
everybody's yelling at Hester Sue for the lemon meringue pie,
for the coffee, for the tea, for the whatever it is.
It's the rudest group of customers you'll ever see anywhere.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
You're a horrible.

Speaker 4 (19:47):
And the fact is she's already pulled Hester No, I
want this.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
We need to eat that you need to bring us
this because we don't have anymore.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yes, exactly, And she's annoyed that we don't have anymore
the bread and it's the bread and whitefish, right, I
mean it's the.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
Bread, red and white fishes. Maybe go farm to table
because clearly someone went fishing and brought back fish. Yeah, okay,
so we.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Need major Guffy who is who is? Right away? You
know that you're dealing with someone who, as a performer,
is operating on a completely different level. This is a
guy and the wonderful character guy here out of the
old British Comedyally look at his resume, that's what he.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Got British comedy.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
You're like, yeah, he's great.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
It's so random that he's like a British general. It's
so random. But again comedy with a K. We need
a British general in this episode.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yes, who served? Who was the who was the supply
officer in the Civil War and some of the Civil wars?
Great balance not the timing of that works.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Meaning it's so funny, like you were in the war
and he was like, yeah, we never really, Yeah I
wasn't in the war, but I think that I helped
win the war.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
But he is lying about that too, because he lies.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
I sort of inclined to I sort of inclined.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Now.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
I didn't question that he was telling the truth about
that because he because he clearly he knew what he
was talking.

Speaker 4 (21:18):
About, right, and that and he could have as a
supply person.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
To the army, that's where he learned that.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
But he projected.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
I think he stole from them too, because I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Right a master of flim Flanner doesn't doesn't mean he
didn't know what he was talking about. But this guy
was selling all the time. Yes, always, he was abc
always be closing. Yes, yes, oh my.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
God, straight out of Glenn Garry Glen so efficiency efficiency,
Efficiency is.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
The word less work, more money.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yes, Greece is not the word in this case. Efficiency
is the word efficient money. Yeah. And and so he
calls it these he wants. Well, he's selling missus Olsen
on the idea of you can change the restaurant so
that you only have three meals, three dishes. Everyone will

(22:15):
know exactly what they can get every single time they
come here. And this is how it's going to be
from now on. This is the trend. It's the wave
of the future.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
But you have to buy our dishes and our aprons,
and you have tailed ugly tailor cloths for the supplies.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
It's a scam. It's a scam, except missus Olsen doesn't
read the contract.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
That the greatest.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Nels bore out here saying, shouldn't we talk about this?

Speaker 3 (22:49):
She's so easily let you say you'll make money, or
you'll make more money, or you'll become rich. She's done,
it's over. Who cares about details?

Speaker 4 (23:02):
Have you read the contract?

Speaker 1 (23:04):
And she says, just.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Its just a formality.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
It's just a formality that the moral of this whole
show is the contract. Contract. Even after she signed it,
she doesn't like flip through it and go, oh hey
look at the nothing nothing.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
Neils is reading it.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
I mean, look what this is. I mean what we
see in this episode. And you know, we could we
could go through the episode scene by scene, but I
don't know that that's really necessary.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
I mean it's deep.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
It's not that deep. No, this is franchising one oh one.
I mean this is you know, this is building the
franchise business with phase one, phase two, phase three, each
one she is less prepared to deal with than the
last one.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
And flipping out.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Okay, the chairs. This is how awful there And it's
kind of also the show is about the horribleness of
many change in fast food and their cynical attitude. Now
we have these tools, why the stools, there's no back,
so we don't want them to.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Get com We don't want them to be comfort turnover.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Wait, restaurants do that?

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Oh my god, I turnover for an isolated tiny town.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Turnover.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Where where are the people coming from? People in sleepy
I found out about this awesome restaurant and they're traveling
all day and all night to get there.

Speaker 2 (24:30):
You have chick.

Speaker 1 (24:34):
Now you're going to be like you said, very you know,
I don't know multi level marketing. Am We're gonna You're
going to be in charge. We're going to open more
and you have to over find the peoples. There'll be
your down line because you know it is.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Pyramids marketing, amory, herbal life.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
And it was very culty.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
She believe because we Neil said this isn't working.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Yes, but he's wonderful.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
It's missus Sullivan.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
She joined the college.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
She enjoyed a multi level marketing and had lost her mind.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
And when he says.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
We'll open others and and then he says, we'll have
these all through hero Township.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Now I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
In my seven years with a group of farms and
small villages near Walnut Grove, we're talking what three hundred
people max. Hero Township is this big? That's what all
the groove was called before the technicality there there are
not three restaurants possible.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Well, what we what we saw here is is a
big demonstration of the vortex. Yes, big Bord text demonstration.
It's like maybe they just they pulled people out of
the board.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Text to have thet and we saw everyone.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Did you see Ruthie.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Ruth Yes, Ruth Foster.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
Foster again, look this woman up. Do you remember before
not Spike Jones with the Spike Jones orchestra, way back
in the cocktails for two.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
Bank, good Bing.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Regular on the Spike Jones.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
She was and she was there.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
I have an autographic picture from her years ago, in
her little skirt with musical notes on it and her
cute little outfit with her pistols. She was the girl
standing to when they go cocktails for too ding Bing Bank.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
She'd fired a pistol.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
She was a kid with the pistols in the spike.
She was it.

Speaker 4 (26:25):
She was the girl.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
She was in absolutely.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
And she was a dancer, and she was hot as
all get out. Ruthy Foster was.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Ruthy was really fun. She was ruth Foster was a
very fun person. And what I think, what I always
think about Ruthie is that she so appreciated the opportunity
to be there. Ruthi was a survivor and she was
she was going to find a way to make a
check every day. Ruthie was going to frame the cash

(26:57):
register every day and that got under five person, the
stand in. Whatever she needed to do, Ruthie was going
to do. And she had a nice life because yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, she was b team. She was the stand in
for the lighting, and she was an extra. And then
she was missus Foster the postmistress suddenly is that right?
And then she's in the restaurant and she danced, and
even in her eighties, there's that thing Follies is it
down in Palm Springs where the elderly women had a
whole dance theater and everything.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
She was in that.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Because she could still she could still do it overhead.
She also was famous for said ring the Castro. She
would take home the food from parties. She had tupperware
in her purse at all times, and when there were
really great letters to excuse me, and she would and
no shame other people be like me. She brought tupperwear

(27:49):
in her purse and put me in it and did
not care who knew, and would take it. And as
my father would tease me, like, you know, eat like
an actor. He'd say, no, no, no, are you gonna be run?

Speaker 4 (28:00):
Bring the tupperware people, see Jesus. But she did didn't care.
Ruthie fopware. She's taking that.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Steak on free food? Are you kidding? Done?

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Yeah. So, so we saw all kinds of familiar face.
I mean there was so there was the act Ernie
who's the you know, the sort of the the deaf
man who you know, can't understand anything that anyone is saying.
I guess I found that annoying to I mean, it's
just like that. But but it is what it is.

(28:32):
It serves you roll with, I know.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
And the weird old guy who keeps coming back says, no,
I love it even when it's all gone to hell,
and this is wonderful.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's the same.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
By the tractor.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I haven't he hasn't tasted anything in five years.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
No idea anything, taking a horrible farming.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
People.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Okay, yeah, all right, yeah, so you can read the contract.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
We need to We need a total.

Speaker 4 (29:04):
Cu When Catherine goes into the trance because a lot
she's doing, and then she goes miss Sullivan, Sullivan.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
She's really gone, and it's just it's so brilliant, and
it just gets like Worst Wars and over and over again.
Nel's keeps saying, but what about the.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah, no, exactly, let's talk about I mean, this all
happens very quickly. I mean, these things, this character major Guffy,
it's sort of this classic flim flam where things now look,
she signed the contract. She signed the contract, so but
but stuff just starts to happen, you know, the box

(29:43):
of stuff comes in, and then there's the sign, but
she doesn't want to sign. She's realized she's bought the sign.
I hate this color green. You you signed the contract.
I I just let's talk about Glory Maine from it.
I mean, I just I plugged some things in here.

(30:04):
I mean, this guy late in his career in the
Pirates of the Caribbean, the curse of the Black Pearl
and credited narration in early promos for the movie. He
was in the Return to Snowy River in nineteen eighty
eight Time Bandits The Great Mouse Detective, where the voice
of he was the voice of Doctor Dawson, Basil's loyal

(30:26):
companion a role sometimes well compared to Doctor Watson in
Sherlock Holmes and Television. Maine was best known to American
audience as the evuncular host and narrator of the Disney
channels Welcome to Pooh Corner. He just had that. He
did have that, And I think he did a lot

(30:46):
of narration of audio books for Disney in his you know,
in his sort of early early on in the in
the audiobook rend, the audiobook Time, obviously the Little House appearance.
He appeared on Heart to Heart Murder. She wrote the
soap opera Santa Barbara.

Speaker 6 (31:03):
Do you remember It's like it was sort of a fun, uh,
sort of a fun soap opera NBC did for a
for a period of time.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
But you look at his IMDb, there are a lot
of credits. This guy had a gift for sort of
clever wordplay with dialogue and he just made it poetry
as he's as he's talking about the weary traveler who's tired.

Speaker 6 (31:31):
And it was he did a wonderful job with all that,
and of course Catherine being totally seduced by all of this, she's.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Going to be a general.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Yes, love that.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
And then when he drops the bomb, when she tries
to get out of it, and he's like, no, did
you not read article twelve, paragraph three.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
You can't leave, You can't quit. Only we we make
all the policy. Well, we don't want to be open Sunday. No,
we make all the policy decisions. And you will do this,
and you will do this, and you can't.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
See or will sue you for every amy you've got, And.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
She's like, missis And then Toy goes, there's no missus Sullivan.
Shocking real, the country's run by men. He goes, as
it should be. I shouldn't have.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Given a woman. I'm waiting for Pamela to react to that.
This is at the very end. Well, there is no
missus Sullivan. The company's run entirely by men. Me right
in your face.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
And tells her he shouldn't have chosen her because he
shouldn't let a woman run anything right right out.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
But in every scene in the restaurant, at every stage
of this, it is packed. There is never a downtime.
Interesting both hester Sue and Caroline give me. Caroline just
as like breezy as she's doing.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
She's a little tired, clearly, but she's breezy. She's like nothing,
nothing gets her down. And Hester Sue, I guess she
has one screaming moment when she's understandable.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Treated badly by people ordering from her.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
And the thing about Carolyn being so easy breeze is
that anyone who has worked in the food service industry
would not feel easy breezy by a packed restaurant, relentlessly
packed restaurant. And she's the only cook in the kitchen.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Like no way now here grow seven days a week.
Oh no, we're breaking character. Carol's working on Sunday. But
this leads us to the why she married Paul. The
other I know you said hottest moment on the prairie
and others, this I thought.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
Was second hottest.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
What massage I mean?

Speaker 1 (33:34):
I mean, can I marry him? The house?

Speaker 3 (33:37):
I literally have it in my notes. I said, Okay,
first of all, Paul giving a foot massage?

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Yes, please, that's literally verbatim, and he's getting he's going on, he's.

Speaker 4 (33:49):
Really doing a good job.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
I was like, I fine, I'll wear the dresses, I'll
milk the cows and make biscuits. I guess I will
foot massage. There's a foot massage involved in this story.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
So, yeah, this is phase one, correct of the franchise.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yes, then what happened happens in phase two? The advertising
where where they've got a due paid advertising and a
fifty mile radius fifty that's a few mile radius, and
the farms fifty miles.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
There's a farm. There's a farm, there's that's there's nobody and.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
No, no, no, I'm sorry. Phase two is breakfast through supper. Yes,
that's what it is, all.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Day, all there, and there's only two breakfasts and instead
where are all these people coming?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Where are they coming from?

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Who the hell's coming in for breakfast?

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Breakfast?

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Then but then Nels has had it. Nels has had it,
and he's coming. And then Charles, who is wigging out
because mom's never home and it's really hard on them
and she's sad and she's trying, he's trying to help her.
She's miserable, but also he and the kids are cooking
and they suck at it. He comes up with a
plan that toenails, but to actually technically save missus Olsen

(35:07):
from her own stupid well.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Before there's a big before that. This This is one
of those things that this is interesting. Again, Michael's serving
a story, but this this is sort of in that
same category for me as the decision too to blow

(35:31):
up Walnut Grove when you can't work it out. It's
there's a so he is doing a thing where he
is he is the father, He's got these children at home.
Anybody who complains about the food is going to cook
the next night. And what does Pod do? He sets

(35:52):
out to make the most unedible and can think.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
About weaponized incompetence.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
This is called weaponized incidence.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
And there's people who do this. There are husbands to go, honey.

Speaker 1 (36:03):
I did the dishes I broke for them, weaponized in
competence to do it so bad.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I have a cousin who could never make a bed
because he didn't want he just didn't want to make
the bed, and so he made the bed badly, and
they never made him and they never made him fix it.
That is really annoying to me.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
Yes, it's evil. It's so bad. It is a bad
thing weaponized in competence.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
No, I get why it's funny. It's again comedy with
the k It's a funny mum. But there's also a
message there. There's a kind of a message there that's
like that if you don't want to do something, just
make it so awful for people that they that they
won't ask you to do it again. Instead of getting better,

(36:51):
make it worse.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
And Kis know that this is the test, so they
say that they love it, but.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Really exactly they don't want to cook, so they're.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Yes, they're losing weight of the drastic rae.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
That was That was funny to me. Michael's reaction when
I think someone asked for seconds and he's He's just
like shy, anyone.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Is asking funny man. I'm sorry, but we don't always
fra these comedic episodes because the drama is so intense.
I mean, I've talked about this a million times. When
when you know Hallmark has the the week before Christmas,
it's the twenty four to seven Little House in the
Prairie And I had the flu two years ago and

(37:40):
so I was in bed. I was like, oh, this
is perfect. I'm just gonna watch every single episode, and
I wanted to off myself by like.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Day two, one after another, breathing.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
Room between episodes. It was just like one after the other,
and you realize, like geez, Louise, these are dark, deep episodes,
and so when there is a comedic one, it's just like, oh,
it's a breather. It is such a breather. So anyway,
I embraced this episode as silly as interesting.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
I mean, this is written by Jerry Taylor, and I
think I think Jerry Taylor wrote several episodes for us,
but this feels in those kinds of moments with that
humor that feels extensively rewritten by Michael Is that is
his humor in the pockets.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
I vote Michael, But also.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Might we add the dinner that Pause made is has asparagus.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Asparagus, tornatoes, and mushrooms, and.

Speaker 3 (38:43):
They hash feeding these kids that this is the most
unappetizing meal. But they've ever had something as raw as.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Household infamous baby Grace of the pepper and the oatmeal.
They've never did anything from Ball in this one. As
soon as he comes near.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
She just goes, uh, yeah, it's really.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Practically a baby.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
So yeah, no, it's uh is an interesting thing, and
of course what it gets him to, what it gets
him to is a decision. I mean we should, actually
we should, we should take a little bit.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Break because there's azzy that happens next. Okay, we'll be
right back.

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Speaker 3 (40:17):
Okay, we're back. I'm already talking about this, you know,
and it's just like God, before.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
We before we broke we didn't talk about the scene
where things are all coming off the rails and Caroline
has decided that it's just too much. Yes, it's just
too much. And and we watch missus Olsen gravel in
a you know, in a wonderful just like desperate groveling style,

(40:44):
and what she does, which is so out of care
although it touches Caroline's goodness, but she is in other circumstances.
You just know that wouldn't mind seeing missus Olsen get
what's coming to her, but she can't bear to see
missus Olson lose everything. This doesn't go well, and that's

(41:06):
sort of that becomes the yin and the yet or
that it eliminates that yang and opens the door for
pot and knells to have to do something and can't
fix those.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Through the whole garment she does, Okay, I know when
it is offering more money, you know something has gotten terribly.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Wrong and it doesn't work, and.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
I'll give you a piece of a piece of the
action and no, and then she cried and at one
point she totally does my nelly fake cry when I
like need a horse, and she just does the door
and lays it on and then like work.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
She heartstrings and she just breaks down cries and Carolyn,
Carolyn does you can't watch this?

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Is said because this reminded me of something that happened
to me, sort of the sort of in reverse of
what happened in the scene, which was I was working
at a like a bar, like a cutlash restaurant in
a hotel. This is I was in my twenties and
they fired me. And I was so distraught because it
was very unfair. It was a very unfair firing. And

(42:12):
I was so distraught that I, you know, they brought
me into a separate you know, the whoever the head
managers were. They brought me into a room they told me,
and I cried so hard, like like inconsolably hard, like
like the ugly cry, the like where you can't even

(42:34):
control it cry not. They were like so shocked by
it that they sort of left the room, left me
alone for a minute. So and then they came back
and they said, never mind, you're not fired. It's fine
to stay, just stay. Because I was so upset about it.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
I mean, I guess they they would look at that
and say, anybody who wants this job that badly is
that devastating. We need to keep this person around.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Oh my god, I.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Mean so terribly wrong. This is going to be a lawsuit.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
She's like, I mean they were, and I was shocked
by my reaction, Like the whole thing was just so shocking. Ps.
It ended really terribly, but anyway, it was not a
job worth keeping. But anyway, this just reminded me of
that in the in the room. Also here here what
happens next?

Speaker 2 (43:24):
All right? So well, pause cooking and its smells. He's
it's so terrible. He can't even put it in his mouth.
It's so bad.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
Yes, it's to the damn restaurant. And then that sabotage.
She lets them run loose, And when did they become
When did James and Albert and little Cassana become brats
because the animals wild?

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Well, no, I love the scene when it's okay, So
this follows right on on, you know, pause cooking and
it's terrible, And then he has comes home and she's
exhausted and pause dreaming about the meal that she's going
to make for him, that the turkey and the with
all the trimmings, and not just one pie, but two pies,

(44:06):
and she's out she's she's gone. She can't mean she'd
love to do it for him, she just can't keep
her eyes open.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
And you know, that's what I like to Thanksgiving roast turkey,
cranberry sauce, and two pies pumpkin and Marriott made the
best mince by.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
And the story moves on the next day with Guffy
there in the restaurant congratulating Harriet, ready to move on
to Phase three, building franchises and supervising franchises.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Apply up yep.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
Line it's you've gone to hell.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
And Harriet at this point doesn't matter how much more
money she's going to make. At this point, she is
totally flipped out. Yes, but she can't and he whips
out the contract. Who cares and tells her that she
has to do this and she wants two names by
next week.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
I mean that what a big time getting to getting
two people? That is totally yes, that is it. Don't
fall for it. People in this nowhere and on the door.
Here's my favorite part. Their home. Missus. Harriet is exhausted

(45:20):
and she's complaining and whining to Nils, like I'm just
too tired. Can you please go over to the restaurant
and help, and he's like no, no, no, and and
he starts storming out, and she goes, Nails, where are
you going? And he goes, insane, are you going?

Speaker 1 (45:38):
Neil? Right away, Mill goes on strike early, Neils goes, no,
you got it yourself into it.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
I'm not playing this one.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
I'm out.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
I'm such a good Line's a good line.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
He's been the voice of he's been the one voice
of Sandy throughout this whole things.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Well, and then what's so Then what's so funny is
that he goes, no, insane, I'm going and say he leaves,
and then she goes. She storms off to go to
the restaurant. And as she's storming off, she says, I've
never seen someone so lazy before. About him.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Too many.

Speaker 4 (46:11):
Oh my god. Yeah. But then the solution.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Charles has a plan exactly and then the plan the
plan is going has.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Always been a good cook that has that something is true,
that is true some other episodes true, he's.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
Book yes, and so rose turkey and there's that turkey.
There's a turkey.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
He's doing it, and boy boy, the prop men were
in full absolutely that day.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
Here is the one line that I was like wah wah, okay, okay.
So Charles says to Nell, are you tired of working
all day and cooking all night? And he's like yeah,
and he's like me too, We're gonna do something about it.
And I was like, you mean, you're gonna get your
wife to work all day and all night for you.

(47:01):
But like, it's just replacing it with the woman back
at home, Like you're not, the only thing you're doing
is making her do it back at home. It's not
like we're actually, I.

Speaker 1 (47:13):
Don't know, have to cook three different things.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
Yeah, sure, it's just my woman can be at home
doing that for me.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
That's There was a similar similar, a similar exchange in
the the in Laws where we were running the freight business.
And yeah, you know the lie about who got to sleepy?
I first, Yes, yes you know, al Manzo, you know

(47:42):
the impressional, impressionable newlywed, says me. But that be lying.
We can't say that someone that we did it exactly
the same time. But what would you prefer lying or
having to make dinner for our wives? I mean, well, again,
I get Michael's human were there, but that's sort.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Of a tough message, I know, And I'm sure it
is of the period. I mean that's what it was.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
No, I get that too, but it would.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
They wouldn't have no, I mean Carolyn, yes, she was.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
She was working that hard to save Harriet from herself,
which is really pretty You know, that does speak to
Caroline's enormously strong, underlying goodness that she's prepared to sacrifice
herself so that Harriet, who is just has been horrible
to her for years, he's not going to lose everything.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Caroline needs a lesson in boundaries. She needs some boundaries
that it needs to know well.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
And so then we then we have the moment where
the couple, again we've never seen before, comes back from
their vacation wherever it is that they were, and he
wants lemon rank by and there is no lemon meringue pie.
We'll go to the restaurant across the street.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Streets, what restaurant across the street? What the hell are
you even talking about? And again, how can there be
two restaurants. There's eighty seven people in the whole.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
Down exactly, And so you know, she goes across there
are welcomed, Here's Olsen's restaurant. It's like, oh my god. Yeah,
and he's where the play playing the violin, not playing
at all.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
He's the strolling violinist badly again with the finger and going,
oh my god, Charles and bad violin plank the worst.
But okay, that's my house, and I know how much
furniture was in that living room in parlor.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (49:43):
We had a huge dining table and all that dining
room furniture took up the whole room. And we had massive, large, huge,
fancy like queen and like you know, tea blah blah.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
Fancy cherry wood.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Yeah, furniture in that room and it's all caught. They
moved it and when asked, CHARSI, oh, we moved it upstairs.
You took it all the way to put where Willie's bedroom.
Where the hell did you put where? Yikes?

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Yes, the magic of television MAGI.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
Emptied out the entire mercantile and now they.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Fall tables and they also have a million extras.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Jam to the part.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
They have more people than we're in the restaurant and
it's only two and a half.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Yes, so the yeah, So she's Harriet's distraught over this,
this betrayal, and she doesn't realize that this is really good,
a good thing. And then uh, and then Charles magically
comes up with a copy of the contract and shares
it with Caroline, who reads which he doesn't play this open.

(50:52):
It's the clause. It's you know, paragraph something, clause twelve,
paragraph whatever that. Do you think it'll work? Trust me?

Speaker 3 (51:01):
And here we go because now that trashed law.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yes, Ham, he's got.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
Ham as well as turkey. Right, Charles has found a loophole.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Charles found a loophole in missus Sullivan's contract, which is
so it's all a receipts. I guess what the loophole is.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
It's up to them, right, you have to money. And
that's the thing is if you don't bring in because
that's why he should in the phase three more, you
clearly have a minimum.

Speaker 4 (51:29):
That you have to hit. She's been raking it in.
He's been taking his guts and cleaning up. And it's
what's kind of funny, is we go with it?

Speaker 1 (51:35):
It's missus Sullivan has all this so it's company.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
I was like, or is he a con artist?

Speaker 1 (51:40):
And it's just him with a wagon full of aprons
and dishes and he goes thing the down and tells
him his bullshit story and takes his cut from their
money and leave. I don't know. I don't know, because
he's really cold that it could be anything. But the
deal is you hit a certain minimum or they're going
to dump you.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Because they're in.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
You got to bring it in. You're having more restaurants,
so they're not going to keep a rest strong line
if you don't over so many days, keep your minimum.
If you stop hitting your minimum, you're out. And she
can't hit her minimum because competition is open across the street.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
It's brilliant.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Up the contract and everybody is just and then one
of my favorite Nells and Harriet scene it scenes. I
just love this moment. I used it in a piece
of bonus content that I made about the show years ago,
That moment when Harriet realizes that Nells really did save

(52:31):
the day. Oh Nells, you're wonderful. I know, I know.
It was a lovely moment between the two of them,
and I think in so many ways the only reason
that the only thing that made Harriet redeemable was Nells.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Of course, they really did love each other.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
If he could love this woman, we can forgive her
for every obnoxious, appalling thing that she does because he really.

Speaker 1 (53:00):
Loves her, and it was president was in several episodes
like we went why why and I love her? He's
told Charles every time, no, but I really do love her.
I know she's completely creative, but I love her.

Speaker 4 (53:12):
He loves her. Why he loves her?

Speaker 1 (53:16):
So it all, it all goes to Helena Handcart. She's
saved weirdly by Charles and Nelson their crazy restaurant, which
is and then when you go, no, we're closing, what
do you mean you're closing?

Speaker 4 (53:24):
We don't have to do it anymore? That was the
whole points silly.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
It's like, what was that?

Speaker 1 (53:28):
And the guy leaves and they're like, oh, thank god,
get back to Caroline.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
Yes, we have.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
At home once and.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Then and in the big moment, so who wants to
talk about the big moment? Which is really the funny
talk about it?

Speaker 3 (53:42):
And there's again doing this episode, Alison was like Colonel
Sanders the Glanders episode.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
David Rose, this episode, you want to think that when
the when the major major chears up the contract, David
Rose starts playing taps yes and and Bob fell off
the couch.

Speaker 4 (53:59):
It's great taps at the hysteric.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
Dude we hear the funny music, something funny is gonna happen.
Smart stage coach pulls up and this guy gets out
and immediately hold on it.

Speaker 4 (54:11):
Goes because it's Colonel Sanders.

Speaker 2 (54:14):
He's got the be.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
They never says Colonel Sanders in the credits is his
bearded man.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
Liability issue.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
So they couldn't have said that.

Speaker 1 (54:26):
If she was huge by the eighties, absolutely huge, and
it was Get Chicken.

Speaker 4 (54:31):
He's got the thing.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
It's like ha ha ha, it's him, and he's like,
oh hello, and she's very instorted to what is going
to go? Well, I'm starting a shade of restaurants Yark
York Yark, and we're just it's brilliant because they're only
going to serve one thing.

Speaker 4 (54:45):
And she's like, one, what's bad enough with the three?

Speaker 2 (54:47):
One?

Speaker 4 (54:48):
What fried chicken? Oh so melted goes on about the
fat of fried chicken, and she goes, oh, we just
did a chap with three meals.

Speaker 3 (54:54):
It was terrible. One thing.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
People are gonna drive all the way out to a
restaurant that only serves one thing and fried chicken that
we all know. And then he's like oh wow, like
you're really missing out and then the best part when
she said he says, well, time will tell, Time will tell,
will tell tell.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
And then David Rose plays the music with music with.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Chickens in the track and music.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
As Colonel Sanders tried away the wagon and the musk
of goes wow wow wa ha. Yes, that was CARDL Sanders.
And then Nelson was like, what was all that about?

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Hey, this idiot had an idea resaur there is there
one thing fried.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Who would eat that they didn't hould running gag on
the course fast food has taken over the world? Will
that ends well? And that man bearded man, don't take
her A bearded man, A man named John A.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
Roberts. And as far as anyone knows, this is his
one acting credit.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
WHOA did a nice job job?

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Did he work as a Colonel Sanders impersonator at parties
or something? I don't know.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
There's no he dedicated, showed up, did this and fell
off the earth. I have no idea where this guy is.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
I thought he did a nice job.

Speaker 4 (56:18):
He was brilliant.

Speaker 3 (56:21):
And again, watching this as a viewer, I loved the
Colonel Sanders.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
I thought it was so funny.

Speaker 3 (56:29):
Disclever and whenever there's like a modern twist on the
prairie of like a wink wink you like that. Loved it.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Many people don't like it. I thought the first time
I threw something at the TV, oh stop it, oh stop,
Oh you forget your that is the dumbest thing.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
Woo jump shark.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Oh my god, how lame. Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (56:50):
I thought it was the dumbest thing ever.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
I assure you, that is not the jump the shark moment.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
So I mean, as I what is the jump the
shark moment? What do you or there are other moments.

Speaker 3 (57:03):
You're saying it and other things EPH like not just irredeemable. Yeah,
this one is surely not the orangutan anything. You Know's
That's what.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
I loved about at the end, and I didn't. I
thought the end was terrific. What I liked to seeing
Harriet's humor informed by her experience of having gone through this,
you know, this missus Sullivan restaurant three meals thing, and
how hard this was and to think that, oh my god,

(57:41):
it was crushing to do just three meals one meal.
You gotta be I mean, that was a reasonable reaction,
totally to have. And the audience had seen what she
lived through, and she was genuinely relieved that she was not.
She was never going to step into that situation.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
She would Harry learns an actual lesson.

Speaker 3 (58:04):
Oh my god, I learned a few episodes where Harriet.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
Actually learns and oh yeah, absolutely, this is okay the moral.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
Yes, indeed, a contract, Read a contract.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
Always read the contract. Nobody what he tells you to.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
I just give him a I'm going to read this
and read the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (58:21):
You can read it fast. Read the damn If.

Speaker 3 (58:23):
You don't know what it means, get someone else to
read it.

Speaker 4 (58:26):
If the words scobbler, and.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
Then yes, fast food is a thing, but it is
just as much work to bang out fries in a
burger as it is to make the filet mignon. It
is still slaving over a hot stove, and you're still
going to have to work all day in the kitchen.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
That's the happy moral.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
It's episode. It's a great I'm just still going over
the chicken music I wanted as a ring tone.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
That was a nice cue, really like that.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
You yeah, every every now and then that David Rose.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Oh yeah, well every now and then, I mean, my god,
just yeah, he was so special. David Rose was so
special with what he.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
Crops to Miss Bolls and Alison Balsam at the dinner table.

Speaker 4 (59:15):
Nels hay Go in tower the door. I'm eating, Yes,
she's so good.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
Now.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
She did it very much her way.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
I'm eating now. I would have gone, i'm eating, you know,
but she did mean and I'm like, yeah, yeah, there's
the Nancy it was.

Speaker 4 (59:32):
It was lovely, lovely, and her playing is good.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
She's good because she was different than you.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
But it was the umbrella and intentionally, intentionally, very much,
very smart girl.

Speaker 3 (59:43):
Yeah yeah, yeah, Well, well, how are we any different
from that at the end of this episode than we
were when we first started.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
I'm curious see what people think about the episode.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
I like it. Finger licking good.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
Yeah, she's just talking about giving a foot massage.

Speaker 2 (01:00:05):
Okay, that's the highlight moment for you, the two of you. Yeah,
I know Catherine loves massages too.

Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
That's the takeaway from this episode, the husband, Just give
your wives a foot massage right now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
I probably don't do it often enough, but I do
do that. Man.

Speaker 3 (01:00:26):
Anyway, I think that's it. I mean, what more can
we say about this episode? Wave of the Future. All Right,
Allison's horror. Dean is taking a much needed tip of water,
coffee or whatever it is, and we're gonna just end
this now. I like this episode. And you know, my

(01:00:49):
dog just came in here. Hi baby, time to go, everybody,
Thank you for joining us. I loved this episode. I
hope you did too. Let us know what you think.
We are really interested. Check us out little house fifty
podcast dot com, little house fifty podcasts on socials. All
of our stuff is in the show notes as well.

(01:01:09):
And that's a wrap for today. Bob, get the wig.
Let's fly just like chickens.

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