I’ll be all the fiftysomething character actors who played the parents of young children.
Let’s be “Little House”
by Anonymous | reply 234 | June 3, 2023 2:20 AM |
I’ll be Melissa Gilbert’s yellow teeth
by Anonymous | reply 1 | December 9, 2022 9:39 PM |
I'm the real Laura Ingalls Wilder, turning over in her grave.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | December 9, 2022 9:39 PM |
I'm also the 'will they, won't they?' scenario all the gaylings scripted in their minds when Pa and beardy shared the screen.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | December 9, 2022 9:48 PM |
I'm the baby battering ram.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | December 9, 2022 9:49 PM |
I'm Albert's period appropriate smack addiction.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | December 9, 2022 9:50 PM |
I'm the clown rapist.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | December 9, 2022 9:50 PM |
I’m Mary and I’m faking being blind for sympathy
by Anonymous | reply 9 | December 9, 2022 9:52 PM |
I'm Ma, home alone and hot knifing the pus outta my septic leg.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | December 9, 2022 9:52 PM |
I'm Harriet Oleson, despite being married and mother to some kids, I will inspire lesbians everywhere with my shrewish ways, parsimonious nature and penchant for plaid clothing.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | December 9, 2022 9:56 PM |
I'm the wheelchair Nelly didn't need
by Anonymous | reply 12 | December 9, 2022 9:59 PM |
R8 I wanted to be the clown rapist!
Ok, I’ll be Laura’s fantasies about the gold she found.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | December 9, 2022 9:59 PM |
I’m baby Carrie.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | December 9, 2022 10:04 PM |
I'm the crossover episode with the Jeffersons. The shock on Albert's face when he didn't get to meet the President.
And all ma's clean bed sheets went missing!
What an episode!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | December 9, 2022 10:09 PM |
R2. The real LIW would be joyful about the money made off her racist renditions of Native Americans and the Republican-Lubertarian values her books spread.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | December 9, 2022 10:09 PM |
Thanks R16. Anything else you're planning to cancel?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | December 9, 2022 10:12 PM |
I’m Pa’s beloved, pre-Albert infant son. I died because Laura wished me dead. Bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | December 9, 2022 10:16 PM |
I'm the rats who got into the cornmeal and started a typhus outbreak.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | December 9, 2022 10:20 PM |
I’m all the dried cum spent behind the schoolhouse.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | December 9, 2022 10:21 PM |
I'm the real Little Cunt on the Prairie, Melissa Sue Anderson.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | December 9, 2022 10:24 PM |
I’m Olga, played by 70s child star and future RHOBH Kim Richards, gimping around on uneven legs until Pa cobbles a special shoe for her.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | December 9, 2022 10:35 PM |
I’m Alicia, Mr Edwards’ adopted daughter played by Kim Richards’ little sister Kyle, also a future RHOBH star.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | December 9, 2022 10:43 PM |
I'm big bear Merlin Olsen. Is that a tacky flower arrangement behind your back or just a really colorful mussy?
by Anonymous | reply 25 | December 9, 2022 10:56 PM |
I'm Rose Wilder Lane, Laura's daughter, who made Laura's scribbled notes in pencil full of spelling and grammatical errors into something that could be published.
I also did it so my loser parents wouldn't starve to death in their later years. Everything my father Almanzo touched turned to dust.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | December 9, 2022 11:03 PM |
I’m country girls!
by Anonymous | reply 27 | December 9, 2022 11:42 PM |
I love running down hills wearing ugly clothes
by Anonymous | reply 28 | December 9, 2022 11:44 PM |
Country cunts
by Anonymous | reply 29 | December 9, 2022 11:45 PM |
I'm Miss Beadle, happily letting the children leave school early for Christmas, and unaware the blizzard will bring their DOOM.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | December 9, 2022 11:47 PM |
I'm Percivel, Nellies husband. You all know why.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | December 9, 2022 11:48 PM |
I'm the fleshlight Pa fashioned from a butternut squash. I'm used on the nights when Ma hasn't passed out from exhaustion and refuses to remove her girdle.
Pa is off to the woodshed to squash his nuts to butter!
by Anonymous | reply 32 | December 9, 2022 11:49 PM |
I'm Mary, freaking out hysterically when Albert comes to say he's sorry for killing my baby (accidentally).
by Anonymous | reply 33 | December 9, 2022 11:49 PM |
I'm all the whores in Mankato!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | December 9, 2022 11:50 PM |
R17. No, I’m good. For now.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | December 9, 2022 11:53 PM |
I am the mystery as to why Dataloungers always assume Melissa Sue Anderson was the biggest cunt on the set when I've not said a bad word ever to the press about Melissa Gilbert, who has loudly and constantly and nastily complained about me for a full FORTY YEARS over things I did when i was thirteen, like stay away from her and not tell her about what it's like to have your period.
Honestly, everyone in Hollywood knows what a shrieking cunt Melissa Gilbert is. And yet you always bitch and bitch about Missy Sue instead.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | December 9, 2022 11:55 PM |
I'm disease and quarantine.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | December 9, 2022 11:56 PM |
I’m the knife Caroline puts in the fire, making the viewers think she’s going to amputate her infected leg…
by Anonymous | reply 38 | December 10, 2022 12:03 AM |
I’m the chip on Mary’s shoulder
by Anonymous | reply 39 | December 10, 2022 12:16 AM |
I'm Mrs. Oleson's head that Mr. Oleson did not cut off with a sword but Laura and Carl thought that he did.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | December 10, 2022 12:25 AM |
I'm Ol' Dan Tucker, and I'm too late to get my supper.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | December 10, 2022 12:25 AM |
[quote]Melissa Gilbert, who has loudly and constantly and nastily complained about me for a full FORTY YEARS over things I did when i was thirteen, like stay away from her and not tell her about what it's like to have your period.
It's not just Melissa; Alison Arngrim has stories too, as do Ike Eisenmann and Radames Pera.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | December 10, 2022 12:43 AM |
And that baby doesn't exactly remember the show fondly.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | December 10, 2022 12:51 AM |
Nells and Almonso were secret lovers
by Anonymous | reply 44 | December 10, 2022 1:56 AM |
Something I never thought I would say - but just went down the Radames Pera rabbit hole. I never knew he was young "Grasshopper" on Kung Fu.
I also discovered that Landon was going to put the blind story on hold indefinitely and have Mary marry Pera's John. Landon certainly did not follow the books, but hard to imagine he would just completely ignore Mary's blindness. I know people married younger then, but thought it was a bit odd how young Landon had Mary get married. She was about 14 or 15 when they were toying with having her marry John and about 16 when pairing her with Linwood's Adam who was in his twenties. Plus, they really could have just focused on her adjusting to her blindness for a while instead of having her adjust enough to be able to be a teacher within one episode.
Obviously, Laura was going to get involved with Almanzo at some point, but it was still odd how Landon did it. Laura was about 15 but acting like she was twelve running around in braids chasing someone also well into his 20's. Again, I know the age difference was probably accurate, but was always a bit odd watching the young actresses who were still clearly girls play opposite actors who would be arrested if they were with them in real life.
The whole show is kind of an interesting look into Landon's psyche.
I am Landon's desire to see the teenage actresses playing my daughters have romantic scenes with adult men even when in Mary's case, it was not really necessary to the show.
I am also the really close friend who is a guest star in an episode who is never mentioned again.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | December 10, 2022 3:59 AM |
I'm Percival Dalton, Walnut Grove's 1st ever AIDS case!
Doc Baker has no clue how to treat me.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | December 10, 2022 4:03 AM |
Has there ever been an objective biography of Landon? He seems like one of the more twisted cases in Hollywood. For Hollywood.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | December 10, 2022 4:15 AM |
I'm calico.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | December 10, 2022 4:18 AM |
I'm dead Albert Ingalls as opposed to the one who comes back to Walnut Grove as Dr. Albert Ingall's
by Anonymous | reply 49 | December 10, 2022 4:20 AM |
Ingalls*
by Anonymous | reply 50 | December 10, 2022 4:21 AM |
I'm the shitbra that Melissa Gilbert was terrorized with whenever she flubbed her lines.
Many years later Melissa would use me on her own children.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | December 10, 2022 4:22 AM |
I'm Annabelle, Nels estranged, obese sister in the traveling circus.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | December 10, 2022 4:24 AM |
I’m the lemon verbena cologne Miss Beadle wears.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | December 10, 2022 4:25 AM |
R36, read Allison (Nellie) book, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch. The real bitch was Miss Mary,
by Anonymous | reply 54 | December 10, 2022 4:27 AM |
I'm Nellie's vast doll collection, the Ingalls girls play with horse turds.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | December 10, 2022 5:11 AM |
Karen Grassle (Ma) didn't mince words when reflecting on Michael Landon's on-set antics back then.
It wasn’t long before the rest of the cast and crew discovered the reason behind his boastful claims: The married actor was having sex with most of the cast members under the age of 18 . He was acting like a horny teenager even though he was pushing 50 years old. His libido was certainly off the rails says Grassle. He never even tried to fuck me. Not even once during all of the years we worked together. I was just old seafood to him. Melissa Gilbert didn’t get any either. That kind of made the harsh reality of being rejected because of my age easier to swallow. Mike didn’t like Gilbert’s gray teeth. He said they were a real wood killer.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | December 10, 2022 11:30 AM |
So he didn't need the butternut squash fleshlight then R56?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | December 10, 2022 11:31 AM |
r57 no and he didn't need karen grassle either. she was just old seafood.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | December 10, 2022 11:38 AM |
I'm the "other" schoolhouse for "special" kids. Although I'm never shown, those kids had to go somewhere when their issue-of-the-week plotlines wrapped up.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | December 10, 2022 11:39 AM |
r 59 shannon d. went there
by Anonymous | reply 60 | December 10, 2022 11:43 AM |
I'm Elissa, Carrie's imaginary friend. We're both kind of feeble-minded.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | December 10, 2022 11:52 AM |
I'm Manly and John's trip to San Francisco.
"Meanwhile, John and Almanzo head off to San Francisco on a business trip, and the danger and bustle of the big city present an exasperating string of events that these two country men are not prepared for."
by Anonymous | reply 62 | December 10, 2022 11:59 AM |
I'm Ma's brown eggs that Mrs. Oleson says aren't worth the same price as white eggs.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | December 10, 2022 12:00 PM |
Which led to the crossover episode with The Jeffersons. ^^^^^
by Anonymous | reply 64 | December 10, 2022 12:02 PM |
I’m Adam Charles Holbrook Kendall, Jr., dead infant son of Mary and Adam.
After perusing this thread, I’ve joined forces with dozens of other dead babies, typhoid victims, murdered clowns, fat shamed circus performers, and bullied schoolchildren in a class action lawsuit against the town of Walnut Grove. We will be represented by Keyrock, Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | December 10, 2022 1:02 PM |
I’m the penny candy in the general store.
What is this hygiene of which you speak?
by Anonymous | reply 66 | December 10, 2022 1:12 PM |
Lol r66 😆
by Anonymous | reply 67 | December 10, 2022 1:18 PM |
I'm Pa Ingalls's shirtless scenes that showed off his manly pecs that made my little house on the prairie go full walnut grove.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | December 10, 2022 1:21 PM |
R14- LOL
That's such a snarky( datalounge) thing to say-
and I approve!
by Anonymous | reply 69 | December 10, 2022 1:27 PM |
R52- They never explain how Annabelle picked up that New York accent.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | December 10, 2022 1:29 PM |
Nels gets fed up and finally admits Annabelle is his sister
by Anonymous | reply 71 | December 10, 2022 1:34 PM |
I’m one of the many willowy farm twinks that populate hero township. Do you like my new shag cut?
by Anonymous | reply 72 | December 10, 2022 1:48 PM |
When I was little I’d start crying when it came on. I hated it.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | December 10, 2022 4:26 PM |
I had no idea "Hero Township" referred to an actual place. I always thought it was 19th century speak for "our town" or something like that.
Walnut Grove is located in North Hero Township, Minnesota.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | December 10, 2022 10:12 PM |
I told you I saw something nasty in the wood shed.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | December 10, 2022 10:18 PM |
I'm Miss Peel, the backwoods lady preacher who calls out Mary as a Jezebel! Jezebel!
by Anonymous | reply 76 | December 10, 2022 10:25 PM |
I'm Zaldamo
by Anonymous | reply 77 | December 11, 2022 8:00 PM |
I bet harriett forced Nancy to eat her pussy
by Anonymous | reply 78 | December 11, 2022 8:41 PM |
I’m Adam’s regained sight, and. I’m prancing, prancing, prancing merrily through the woods
by Anonymous | reply 79 | December 11, 2022 8:49 PM |
Carrie forced Lamanzo to get her pregnant
by Anonymous | reply 80 | December 11, 2022 9:03 PM |
Why were townsfolk constantly adopting children?
Cheap labor?
by Anonymous | reply 81 | December 11, 2022 9:06 PM |
I'm the Lake Kezia Monster.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | December 11, 2022 10:08 PM |
I'm cinnamon chicken.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | December 12, 2022 9:49 AM |
I'm Dumb Abel. I look like I'm 40, but I was really underage when I played the part, unlike many child actors.
Pa Ingalls used to take my dad when he was younger and working on the Ponderosa Ranch. I bet he was counting the days until I turned 18 so he could work on the next generation.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | December 12, 2022 12:51 PM |
I’m Hester Sue, the token black woman. Charles secretly likes some dark meat on occasion.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | December 12, 2022 1:46 PM |
I'm Nellie's black wig, purchased for the Walnut Grove School's production of Little Women. I'm a leftover from Jan's identity episode of The Brady Bunch.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | December 12, 2022 4:02 PM |
I’m Michael Landon’s ego.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | December 12, 2022 4:18 PM |
Did anyone watch that other show he was on Highway to Heaven? I was really disappointed
by Anonymous | reply 88 | December 12, 2022 6:12 PM |
R88 no I didn’t watch that shit
by Anonymous | reply 89 | December 12, 2022 6:14 PM |
I'm Lou, the jailed midget, who rescued Nancy (OG to Baby Jessica) from the well.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | December 12, 2022 8:19 PM |
Highway To Heaven was just as fun and campy as Little House but with an extreme weird bent and increasingly more bizarre and out there episodes as the show.
Any given episode would focus on Jonathan (Landon's angel character) becoming a bloodthirsty werewolf to some fat chick driving all over town buying dozens of donuts but lying and saying they were for her sorority sisters (that fat bitch won't in no sorority) to a very young Mark-Paul Gosselaar dressing up as a Nazi and mauling his father down with an uzi!
by Anonymous | reply 91 | December 12, 2022 9:09 PM |
Damn it sounds like maybe I gave up on Highway to Heaven too soon
by Anonymous | reply 92 | December 13, 2022 12:20 AM |
I am the deadly winters. Every single fucking winter...deadly.
Seriously, why the fuck did these people choose to live in hellholes (iceholes) like these dumb bitches did their entire lives? Go WEST wasn't a gentle suggestion. Dumbfucks. They could have put their tootsies up in California and wanted for little. But no. They got off on the shit weather and being poor. Kinky, and not in a good way.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | December 13, 2022 1:06 AM |
Christ R84. That is one old looking 17 year old
by Anonymous | reply 94 | December 13, 2022 2:03 AM |
I’m the anthrax
by Anonymous | reply 95 | December 13, 2022 2:14 AM |
Was Michael Landon high all the time?
by Anonymous | reply 96 | December 13, 2022 2:24 AM |
R91- WRONG 😑
Highway To Heaven was a syrupy sappy show with NONE of the charm of Little House On The Prairie.
I’m the first queen 👸 on this thread who’s not too lazy to write ✍️ out the full name of the show.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | December 13, 2022 3:34 AM |
I'm Doc Baker who is using that new experimental technique to treat women with hysteria. Thank the Lord Mrs. Oleson hasn't asked for the treatment yet. However, I think a DLer on this thread could use the treatment.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | December 13, 2022 3:59 AM |
Verbatim what I was going to say, R84. Poor guy was going bald at 17. I seriously thought he was in his 30s
by Anonymous | reply 99 | December 13, 2022 5:52 AM |
Sorry, meant for R94
by Anonymous | reply 100 | December 13, 2022 5:53 AM |
[84] & [93] The old looking 17 year old is Dan Blocker’s son Dirk.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | December 13, 2022 1:02 PM |
I prefer Beta Blocker's son Cock.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | December 13, 2022 1:59 PM |
I’m Carrie in her little bed, 2ft. away from the big bed where Pa lies on top of Ma. I’ve seen things.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | December 13, 2022 2:25 PM |
R105- She was more or less just a prop on the show. No story lines ever really revolved around Carry- at least nothing that viewers ever cared about.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 13, 2022 2:48 PM |
[quote] Why were townsfolk constantly adopting children?
I know you were probably joking. But there is a history of this.
I found a bunch of ancestors in Iowa when I did my family tree research. When I did, I learned that there was a history of orphan children from big cities like NYC being put on a train and sent to Iowa and the like. Often, families would take a child if the train stopped at their town's train whistle stop.
My family wasn't among the orphans but it was fascinating to read about it. This would have been roughly the era when Little House took place.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 13, 2022 3:01 PM |
Carrie was molested
by Anonymous | reply 109 | December 13, 2022 3:29 PM |
Carrie was retarded
by Anonymous | reply 110 | December 13, 2022 3:59 PM |
And she didn't get any smarter when she moved to New York.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | December 13, 2022 4:49 PM |
I'm the spinoff Michael Landon should have created --of all characters it was about Carrie. The real Carrie Ingalls had a functioning brain and could speak in complete sentences. She was a career gal when such people were rare. She worked in the newspaper industry. She also had her own homestead claim and was an amateur photographer. She eventually married in her 40s and became a stepmother to her husband's two children.
Her life was a lot more interesting than Laura's...who married a loser just like her father.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 14, 2022 1:10 AM |
I'm G-G-G-G-Gid-d-d-d-eon.
A year later, I would go on to shoot my eye old as Ralphie.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | December 14, 2022 1:21 AM |
I’m the lack of modern conveniences
by Anonymous | reply 114 | December 14, 2022 1:52 AM |
I'm Willie and I'm always running to or from the OUTHOUSE.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | December 14, 2022 2:33 AM |
r112 Interesting article. Good for her.
But god that entire family looked like a miserable fucking bunch.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 14, 2022 4:19 AM |
I’m Pa’s fiddle, the only source of music and entertainment in the house. I am only played by Pa because he never taught the kids how to play.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | December 14, 2022 4:29 AM |
I’m Adam Kendall Jr, the flaming-est tot in Walnut Grove
by Anonymous | reply 118 | December 14, 2022 5:42 AM |
R112, and Carrie's husband was one of the Mt. Rushmore sculptors.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 14, 2022 11:56 AM |
The Fuck! Where's the Carrie Ingals biopic?
by Anonymous | reply 120 | December 14, 2022 12:07 PM |
R119 she had a fascinating life
by Anonymous | reply 121 | December 14, 2022 12:50 PM |
I want a true Little House series.
Ma & Pa constantly on the run trying to stay one step ahead of the creditors. Manly being a lazy bum while barely literate Laura attempts to teach children. Carrie being the intelligent, accomplished one....
by Anonymous | reply 122 | December 14, 2022 12:55 PM |
The REAL Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 and lived until 1957. She lived until the age of 90. Life was so primitive in 1877- anywhere in the world. By 1957 there had been profound technological changes- in her lifetime.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | December 14, 2022 1:13 PM |
I am Pa's hairdo. Everybody else's hair got a brush or two before filming, but only my hair is long, wavey and luscious. You know, exactly what you would expect from a poor farmer in the 19th century.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | December 14, 2022 1:37 PM |
R124- But it is what you would expect from Network television ca. 1975.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | December 14, 2022 1:42 PM |
R122 That would be interesting but I think her estate has probably drifted into that sort of hyper Trumper Americana, where any attempt to revisit would be met with screams of "WOKE!"
They probably want to keep the Ingalls Wilder legacy right where it is/was.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | December 14, 2022 2:15 PM |
It's amazing she lived to 90 as she was diabetic, but not diagnosed until age 89.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | December 14, 2022 2:27 PM |
There's an interesting book called Pioneer Girl: an annotated autobiography.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | December 14, 2022 2:31 PM |
[Quote]Why were townsfolk constantly adopting children? Cheap labor?
Marilla and Matthew in "Anne of Green Gables" wanted to adopt a boy to help with the farm work, so that was probably a factor for some.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | December 14, 2022 2:42 PM |
[quote] Joan Collin's wig collection
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | December 14, 2022 2:47 PM |
Fuck Joan Collins and her tatty-assed clumps of hair you dare call a wig.
Why my luxurious hairpieces are both chic and always camera ready!
by Anonymous | reply 131 | December 14, 2022 3:02 PM |
I'm Michael Landon and his buddies, sitting on the sidelines between takes, saying horribly misogynistic things about women.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | December 14, 2022 3:10 PM |
I'm the same Michael Landon a few hours later, grateful that one of those awful cunts I talked about earlier was willing to slobber all over my fat cock.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | December 14, 2022 3:17 PM |
I'm the same Michael Landon a few days later showing up on the red carpet with my wife, pretending to be the most wholesome man in America .
by Anonymous | reply 134 | December 14, 2022 3:37 PM |
We used carrots as sex toys
by Anonymous | reply 135 | December 14, 2022 3:52 PM |
R135- I've used carrots in the past as sex toys.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | December 14, 2022 3:58 PM |
Hi almanzo r136
by Anonymous | reply 137 | December 14, 2022 4:01 PM |
Didn't Michael threaten to write one of them out if they didn't stop making demands?
by Anonymous | reply 138 | December 14, 2022 4:03 PM |
I'm the peeping Toms who caused Ellen's death. We got off scott-free
by Anonymous | reply 139 | December 14, 2022 4:48 PM |
[quote]I've used carrots in the past as sex toys.
Thanks for sharing, Freaketta.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | December 14, 2022 6:34 PM |
Little Carrie on the prairie couldn't act and had a bush that was pretty hairy.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | December 21, 2022 8:17 PM |
I'm the redhead from Days of Our Lives who tempts Nels when he becomes a traveling salesman.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | December 21, 2022 8:25 PM |
Half pint has a best friend on todays episode on Cozi. It’s a 60 yr old man she goes fishing with every time the two of them can find time to meet by the stream deep in the woods. Why would a 10 yr old girl spend that much time alone with an adult man?
by Anonymous | reply 143 | March 12, 2023 6:51 PM |
Who in the hell would want to live in a dusty ass place like Walnut Grove? It was a shithole!
by Anonymous | reply 144 | March 12, 2023 7:15 PM |
And where was the walnut grove? Did we ever see so much as a single walnut tree?
I wasn't by money back!
by Anonymous | reply 145 | March 12, 2023 7:29 PM |
If you're a fan of the books I recommend The Wilder Life by Wendy McLure. She does a year long pilgrimage to all the sites and she's really funny.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | March 12, 2023 7:43 PM |
R146 Does she acknowledge what a farce the whole thing was and how it was really ridiculous?
by Anonymous | reply 147 | March 12, 2023 8:15 PM |
"Pioneer Girl" by Beth/Bich Minh Nguyen also centers around the Ingalls Wilder mythos. Recommended.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | March 12, 2023 9:57 PM |
A bit a r147. It's a lot about the fandom and how these little towns depend on them
by Anonymous | reply 149 | March 12, 2023 10:16 PM |
i’m Bunny (the horse)
by Anonymous | reply 150 | March 12, 2023 11:36 PM |
He raped me
by Anonymous | reply 151 | May 14, 2023 8:27 PM |
Worst characters on TV
Mary was a mean ass bitch and blind
Laura was a do-gooder but in reality she was a bitch
Nellie - self explanatory
Harriett - self explanatory
by Anonymous | reply 152 | May 14, 2023 8:32 PM |
Nellie and Harriet were two of the BEST characters ever on TV, R152. Put on this dunce cap and go stand in the corner!
by Anonymous | reply 153 | May 15, 2023 12:26 AM |
No thanks they were all prairie bitches
by Anonymous | reply 154 | May 15, 2023 12:29 AM |
[Quote] He never even tried to fuck me. Not even once during all of the years we worked together. I was just old seafood to him. Melissa Gilbert didn’t get any either
Grassle spoke her mind about Landon, didn’t she?
by Anonymous | reply 155 | May 15, 2023 10:01 PM |
Grassle knew all of the gossip on the set and was obviously into every member of the cast’s shit.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | May 21, 2023 4:09 PM |
Michael Landon never wore underwear on Bonanza either. This set photo shows little Joe wasn't little at all!
by Anonymous | reply 157 | May 21, 2023 4:19 PM |
Karen Grassle said she was old seafood to Landon and Melissa Gilbert didn't get any either. That leaves Melissa Sue Anderson and the actress who played Miss Beadle possibly taking a roll in the hay with Pa Ingalls. I don't think Alison Arngrim got any either.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | May 21, 2023 4:21 PM |
R158 what about Shannon Dorety?
by Anonymous | reply 159 | May 21, 2023 4:23 PM |
R158 Melissa Sue always had a chip on her shoulder.
by Anonymous | reply 160 | May 21, 2023 4:24 PM |
That ugly little bitch who played the show’s klutz- Carrie always seemed like she would bring you bad luck if you spent time around her.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | May 21, 2023 4:25 PM |
Charlotte Stewart (Miss Beadle) said Landon was flirtatious with her during her audition, but she thought it wouldn't be a good idea to sleep with someone who would be her boss. She still was hired anyway.
She did sleep with Victor French (Mr. Edwards) at some point though and said he was a good lover.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | May 21, 2023 4:29 PM |
Charlotte Stewart used to finger her pussy in between scenes under her school desk.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | May 21, 2023 8:48 PM |
Charlotte Stewart was fuck buddies with Jim Morrison.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | May 22, 2023 12:42 AM |
I detest that show. Even as a small child of 3 or 4 yrs old I’d throw a major tantrum if it came on tv. My mom knew to turn the channel fast.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | May 22, 2023 9:55 PM |
Okay, my eyesight is going. I read that as “Charlotte Stewart was fuck buddies with Jinx Monsoon…”
by Anonymous | reply 166 | May 23, 2023 12:28 AM |
Both statements are true R166. There was more than one student banging Miss Beadle’s erasers after class, if you catch my drift.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | May 23, 2023 12:33 AM |
Imagine having fucked both Jim Morrison and Victor French in your life.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | May 24, 2023 11:10 PM |
My parents have carpet!
by Anonymous | reply 169 | May 24, 2023 11:15 PM |
I’m Nellin Olesen a true American icon. The rapper Nelly chose his name in honor of me and my life’s work.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | May 24, 2023 11:16 PM |
I’m the extreme lack of glamour. Ankle length calico and high necklines make everyone look like a schoolmarm.
by Anonymous | reply 171 | May 25, 2023 2:23 AM |
I’m Carrie’s foot that flies into the air when I fall down the hill during the opening credits.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | May 25, 2023 3:11 AM |
Tasteful friends, you too can live in affordable Walnut Grove. Walk Pa’s path along Plum Creek and commune with your kindred spirit of Nellie Oleson.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | May 25, 2023 7:02 AM |
BUMP!
And not just a cold hell, this place was/is known for temperature shattering cold. I don't get it either.
by Anonymous | reply 174 | May 25, 2023 7:46 AM |
I'll be Shannen Doherty's bangs!
by Anonymous | reply 175 | May 25, 2023 11:11 AM |
I will be her incredibly distracting crooked face.that only got worse as the years went on.
I should feel bad about this, shouldn't I?
by Anonymous | reply 176 | May 25, 2023 11:34 AM |
Did Landon fuck her?
by Anonymous | reply 178 | May 25, 2023 2:55 PM |
That tv show set must have been ass.
Can you imagine wearing those hot & ugly costumes for what, nine seasons?
by Anonymous | reply 179 | May 25, 2023 3:15 PM |
^^^^^
It was a lovely show. I adore it.
by Anonymous | reply 180 | May 26, 2023 7:56 PM |
That’s nice r180. Nobody gives a shit.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | May 26, 2023 7:58 PM |
You do, because you posted on the thread.
by Anonymous | reply 182 | May 26, 2023 8:02 PM |
I used to flick my bean every Monday night when it was on despite the odor
by Anonymous | reply 183 | May 26, 2023 8:16 PM |
LHOTP is still relevant 50 years later
by Anonymous | reply 184 | May 26, 2023 10:01 PM |
R112, well, hey... I had no idea that a) Carrie was a real person (Landon futzed with many facts), that b) Carrie lived such an interesting life, and that c) Mary was sent to live with Carrie so late in life. Taking in Mary is quite generous of Carrie's husband... I wonder if Mary could contribute in some way financially.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | May 26, 2023 10:21 PM |
Mary was BLIND!
by Anonymous | reply 186 | May 26, 2023 10:22 PM |
The PBS documentary about pa being a loser was interesting
by Anonymous | reply 187 | May 26, 2023 10:44 PM |
Pa was also a child molester
by Anonymous | reply 188 | May 26, 2023 10:59 PM |
Michael Landon or the real pa?
by Anonymous | reply 189 | May 26, 2023 11:55 PM |
Both but not with Gilbert or Grassle
by Anonymous | reply 190 | May 27, 2023 12:01 AM |
I’m Carrie wiping out in the opening credits. Stop laughing. It’s not “cute”. It fucking hurt. Fuck you all.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | May 27, 2023 1:04 AM |
Did pa molest Nellie?
by Anonymous | reply 192 | May 27, 2023 3:12 AM |
I wonder if Nancy was a real character too.
by Anonymous | reply 193 | May 27, 2023 6:30 AM |
Nancy was a twat
by Anonymous | reply 194 | May 27, 2023 9:54 AM |
I'm Jack -the very cute dog
by Anonymous | reply 195 | May 27, 2023 1:51 PM |
The only thing I liked about Nancy was when she wrote a report for school called “why Jesus loves me more than most”
by Anonymous | reply 196 | May 27, 2023 6:13 PM |
😂😂😂 I don't remember that particular episode R196, but that was just like Nancy.
She made Nellie look like a saint by comparison, and Nellie was quite despicable herself.
by Anonymous | reply 197 | May 27, 2023 6:49 PM |
R197 who rattled your cage?
by Anonymous | reply 198 | May 27, 2023 8:29 PM |
Pa was a loser moving his family from one place to another an unbelievable number of times before finally settling in De Smet, South Dakota where he died and got the biggest gravestone of course. Selfish to the end.
by Anonymous | reply 199 | May 27, 2023 9:10 PM |
A lot of bitches
by Anonymous | reply 200 | May 27, 2023 9:22 PM |
Why did he finally stay in South Dakota? Is it very beautiful?
by Anonymous | reply 201 | May 27, 2023 9:58 PM |
South Dakota, beautiful? LOL!
Charles Ingalls stayed in DeSmet because he repeatedly failed to establish himself as a provider for his family across Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas and Iowa ... he finally managed to eke out a subsistence in DeSmet, and it was increasingly less easy to pick up stakes again especially given he and Caroline had a blind adult daughter in their care.
The LIW bio "Prairie Fires" paints what seems like an honest portrait of the family, deconstructing all the mythos around them driven by Laura's books and the show. Walnut Grove MN was not the warm, close-knit community portrayed by Landon -- in fact it was a transient town with a lot of unsavory types, and the family, especially Laura, did not like it there.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | May 28, 2023 12:41 AM |
Mrs. Oleson R198
She was responsible for Nellie and Nancy having those Karen personalities.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | May 29, 2023 3:23 PM |
I'm the 1979 TV movie "Little House Years" -- no one remembers me or gives a shit.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | May 29, 2023 3:36 PM |
I'm the weird out of tune instrument bleating just before Carrie Carrie falls down in the opening credits. They kept my weird honk in the soundtrack for years.
by Anonymous | reply 205 | May 29, 2023 3:39 PM |
I'm Merle Olson. Tired as fuck of people calling me Merle Oberon.
by Anonymous | reply 206 | May 29, 2023 3:42 PM |
R205 they even kept me around on the VHS releases!
by Anonymous | reply 207 | May 29, 2023 3:49 PM |
I'm The Waltons. We were for the folks who couldn't abide the prurience and controversy of Little House.
by Anonymous | reply 208 | May 29, 2023 8:35 PM |
R202 ‘Prairie Fires’ is a fascinating read because touches on the historical and economic context of the times and doesn’t sugar-coat the Ingalls family. Life was harsh. Pa Ingalls was in the last wave of true frontier settlers, and his family suffered from a series of his bad decisions, bad timing and bad luck. So many dodgy things like illegally settling on Osage land in Kansas to sneaking out of Iowa in the middle of the night due to debts. Pa was constantly in debt, so much so that property had to be later put in Ma’s name. They seemed really susceptible to ‘get rich quick’ kind of schemes. At one point in De Smet well past their prime, he proposed going to Oregon, but Ma put finally her foot down. She had enough and would rather stay in hard bleakness South Dakota than fail yet again. I’m retrospect, they should have really stayed in the Wisconsin Big Woods near Pepin Lake. Their life was the most stable there and had an extended family support.
Laura and Manly followed in the same footsteps with financial ruin in their first year of marriage and then falling for some scheme to move to the Florida panhandle that lasted only for a year. It look them years to recover enough to get their shit together and finally settle in the Missouri Ozarks. The property had to be put in Laura’s name because Manly likely still had outstanding debts. The TV show especially was a fairy tale version, and Laura wasn’t always a very nice person in real life. Fun fact. Despite having five children, Pa has no living descendants. His only grandchild to make it adulthood was Rose (died 1968) who had one stillborn child. Their line has physically died out, but we still talk about them thanks to Half Pint.
by Anonymous | reply 209 | June 1, 2023 6:58 AM |
In what ways was Laura not a very nice person, R209?
by Anonymous | reply 210 | June 1, 2023 7:47 AM |
R210 She was complex and not as always noble as portrayed in the show. Much of the insight comes from her own daughter Rose. Once Laura chillingly accused a young Rose of taking their hidden stash of money on the road to Missouri when in fact it had fallen down a crack in a desk. They found it three days later. It traumatised Rose for life and Laura refused to speak about it afterwards. There were other stories like how there was a family literally starving after the Panic of 1893, and Laura got angry with Manly when he gave them some salted meat.
As a child Laura was resentful of (before blind) Mary because the elder sister got more attention for her looks and piety. Laura also took pleasure in the failings of her sister in law Eliza Jane, although EJ was supposedly full of herself, including when Eliza Jane became almost destitute.. There’s countless stories of Laura throwing barbs in the book.
They were all racists like most people then. They moved into MN not long after the Dakota War of 1862 that ultimately led to the mass killing or removal of most Native Americans in the state. This mentality carried over to their move to Dakota Territory. Laura and Manly also moved to Mansfield, MO which was a ‘sundown town’.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | June 1, 2023 2:01 PM |
What happened to Almanzo's family? From the book Farmer Boy, his family sounded pretty loaded. Did they fall apart too?
I know large parts of the books were more fiction than fact, so trying to keep that in mind.
by Anonymous | reply 212 | June 1, 2023 2:16 PM |
Yeah, Laura wasn’t nice. Their fam wasn’t all noble and Christ like either. They were assholes.
by Anonymous | reply 213 | June 1, 2023 5:12 PM |
It was soap opera tv set back in the late 1800s that’s all. The prairie life. No big whoop.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | June 1, 2023 5:23 PM |
Grassle wasn’t really all taken in by Gilbert or Landon. She wasn’t very bright but knew a snow job when she saw one.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | June 1, 2023 5:28 PM |
Lol I just asked my mom what her thoughts are on Grassle. She thought I was asking for her thoughts on asshole? Lol
by Anonymous | reply 216 | June 1, 2023 5:35 PM |
Oh god she’s teaching families sign language out in the prairie
by Anonymous | reply 217 | June 1, 2023 7:24 PM |
If I saw her braided head signing I’d show her my idea of sign language- my middle finger
by Anonymous | reply 218 | June 1, 2023 7:25 PM |
Why did Karen Grassle‘s career go straight down the shitter?
by Anonymous | reply 219 | June 1, 2023 11:58 PM |
r212, I believe Eliza Jane convinced her aging parents to move to Louisiana and invest in farming there. They lost it all and died broke.
Eliza Jane married and had a son when she was in her 40s. I think her son reproduced, so she could have living descendants.
by Anonymous | reply 220 | June 2, 2023 2:18 AM |
R220 Seriously? What idiots. In the book (again for what that was worth) they had it so good, and the father seemed to rule with a fair but firm hand. Interesting they/he would listen to a female back in those days. Where did you find this? I want to learn more.
Why the harsher part(s) of the south is another question why not California? "Manly" and Laura got hornswaggled into swampland in Florida on top of it. How dreadful.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | June 2, 2023 2:31 AM |
I'm the cracked porcelain doll and the matching dresses ma made with the fabric she traded for eggs.
by Anonymous | reply 222 | June 2, 2023 2:37 AM |
I'm toilet water.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | June 2, 2023 2:42 AM |
r221, this is one mention of it, but I know I read a more detailed account somewhere else.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | June 2, 2023 2:56 AM |
I am the shared bath. Pa takes one first so he gets the clean hot bathwater, then (in the same bathwater) Ma, then Mary, then Laura, and then Carrie. The water is black with dirt after Pa.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | June 2, 2023 2:59 AM |
Here’s the info from “Prairie Fire’ about Almonzo’s parents and their move to Louisiana. I think there were six or seven children in the Wilder family. Google says Almanzo’s mother died in 1905 in Louisiana, so she must have stayed after her husband died in 1899. Both Eliza Jane and the youngest Perley Day Wilder were there. Perley had lots of children, so the Wilders did better than the Ingalls in that regard. Info from Find a Grave that links to the whole family.
“Almanzo’s parents, James and Angeline, and his oldest sibling, Laura, spent that summer with them, stopping in Mansfield on their way south. They had sold their farm in Minnesota and were moving to Crowley, Louisiana, to live with Eliza Jane, who had had lasted only a year or so at her government job. In 1893, at the age of forty-two, she had married Thomas Jefferson Thayer, a widower in his sixties with five grown children and a modest fortune gleaned from his Spring Valley grain elevator. The couple promptly moved to Louisiana and went into rice farming there. Perhaps against his better judgment, the sober and conservative James Wilder had been persuaded to invest much of his wealth—the profits of long years of farming and the proceeds from sales of his Minnesota properties—in the Thayers’ rice farming schemes, which collapsed with the first bad harvest. Eighty-five, thin and frail, the elder Wilder realized that most of his investment would be lost. But he had done what he could for Almanzo, buying the Mansfield home that he and Laura were renting and presenting the deed to his son just before leaving town. He died several months later.”
by Anonymous | reply 226 | June 2, 2023 6:37 AM |
Half pint was kind of a bad luck charm.
by Anonymous | reply 227 | June 2, 2023 10:57 AM |
Wow, the REAL Caroline Ingalls was born in 1839. When she died in 1924 she was 84 or 85 years old.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | June 2, 2023 12:37 PM |
I’m those matching cornflower blue Sunday dresses Ma made.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | June 2, 2023 7:16 PM |
“ I'm the weird out of tune instrument bleating just before Carrie Carrie falls down in the opening credits. They kept my weird honk in the soundtrack for years.”
What was that? It always bothered me.
by Anonymous | reply 230 | June 2, 2023 9:49 PM |
R230 - Gabriel's horn, Rose.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | June 2, 2023 9:51 PM |
I’m the battery operated flashlights goof
by Anonymous | reply 232 | June 3, 2023 12:05 AM |
I’m r207, captured in the reflection of the television screen from which he was faithfully recording his VHS tapes to his iPhone.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | June 3, 2023 12:08 AM |
R224- In real life it seems she was not a nice person but on the tv show she was quite a pleasant gawky person.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | June 3, 2023 2:20 AM |