2023: The Year of Little House (part 2)
The continuing saga of a family rewatch of one of the most popular television shows of the 1980s. People have seriously memory-holed this very problematic show. Read my first post on this experience here.
February 2023
First rule of Little House on the Prairie: you will be punished for any happiness you experience. Finally expecting a baby after two miscarriages? Your husband will fall off the roof and die. Get a good crop for the first time in your life? Your barn will burn down. Daughter gets a high paying job running errands for mysterious strangers? One of them is freaking Jesse James and a posse is after him. No one is allowed to be happy. Ever.
February 2023
This episode of Little House where Nellie Oleson elopes with a barefoot pig farmer is the most deranged hour of television ever. I love it.
March 2023
Look, I put up with a lot of terrible television in this house, but Eliza's new obsession with Dance Moms may be the end of me. The fact I was relieved that Tracy insisted we change it over to Little House on the Prairie shows the severity of the situation.
Update: Charles was told he inherited a fortune from an uncle and the family immediately began spending more than they had.
May 2023
This week's misery guest stars on Little House on the Prairie portray poor "German" immigrants who find fame when Mrs. Oleson calls them illiterate peasants in the new Walnut Grove scandal sheet.
Now time for Charles to defend them from the church pulpit for some reason. He's not even wearing a tie! How is this permitted?
July 2023
In a stunning sequel to "Nellie Oleson pretends to be paralyzed to get gifts," Little House presents "Special Guest Star Boy pretends to be blind to prevent his parents from divorcing."
August 2023
Status update: Tracy & Eliza have slowly made their way up to Season 5 of Little House, and I've watched about half the episodes with them. I cannot adequately explain my relationship to this show, except perhaps to say I am looking forward to the upcoming episode where the entire Ingalls family gets anthrax.
September 2023
These farmers on Little House knew their sheep had anthrax and literally said, those poor people at the Blind School will definitely buy this mutton if we sell it to them cheap. Star Wars doesn't have villains this cartoonishly evil.
December 2023
Just when I was having Big Feelings (tm) about this episode of Little House where Albert asks to be officially adopted by the Ingalls family, Albert fakes being blind so his birth dad can't use him as an unpaid farm hand. There is no bottom to this show.