Sterling Holobyte
01-09-2009, 11:48 AM
Some questions and observations on this episode, "Goodbye Mrs. Wilder", where Laura quits teaching at the school and Mrs. Oleson teaches.
Why did Nels abstain when voting on the new curriculum? He had voted against Harriet before, and I don't think this issue would have been as important to Mrs. Oleson if it didn't get passed, so you wouldn't think that he would have been afraid to vote against Harriet and create a stalemate.
Why was Mrs. Oleson cooking supper while studying her french? Nels comes in and complains that supper is not done yet. I thought Nels did the cooking, for one thing, because Harriet was a terrible cook.
The guy who played the bouncer "Harlon" when the family lived in Winoka plays a father in this episode who is at odds with Mrs. Oleson for showing paintings of nude women to the students.
I wouldn't have thought Harlon would care too much about something like that, given the trouble-making guy he was before, but maybe that beating that Jonathan Garvey gave him, as well as losing his job to Jonathan, taught him a lesson and he decided to try to live a better life, and he wanted that for his kids as well.
(Yes, I know that he probably wasn't playing the same character, but I like to think that he was;) )
Where were the kids while Ma and Pa were having supper over at Laura's house? Starving at home?
Almonzo makes a nice continuity joke when he mentions that he liked Laura's cinnamon chicken(from a much earlier episode when they first knew each other and laura cooked up that extra hot batch of it for him and Nellie) better than the cold lemon chicken that she made in this ep.
Laura sends new student Ralph(Harlon's kid;)) into the corner after she says she saw him out of the corner of her eye pull Willie's hair. But Laura had her back almost completely toward the two of them while she wrote on the blackboard, besides the fact that she was so close to them with her back turned, so apparently Laura can also see out of the back of her head.
Why did Nels abstain when voting on the new curriculum? He had voted against Harriet before, and I don't think this issue would have been as important to Mrs. Oleson if it didn't get passed, so you wouldn't think that he would have been afraid to vote against Harriet and create a stalemate.
Why was Mrs. Oleson cooking supper while studying her french? Nels comes in and complains that supper is not done yet. I thought Nels did the cooking, for one thing, because Harriet was a terrible cook.
The guy who played the bouncer "Harlon" when the family lived in Winoka plays a father in this episode who is at odds with Mrs. Oleson for showing paintings of nude women to the students.
I wouldn't have thought Harlon would care too much about something like that, given the trouble-making guy he was before, but maybe that beating that Jonathan Garvey gave him, as well as losing his job to Jonathan, taught him a lesson and he decided to try to live a better life, and he wanted that for his kids as well.
(Yes, I know that he probably wasn't playing the same character, but I like to think that he was;) )
Where were the kids while Ma and Pa were having supper over at Laura's house? Starving at home?
Almonzo makes a nice continuity joke when he mentions that he liked Laura's cinnamon chicken(from a much earlier episode when they first knew each other and laura cooked up that extra hot batch of it for him and Nellie) better than the cold lemon chicken that she made in this ep.
Laura sends new student Ralph(Harlon's kid;)) into the corner after she says she saw him out of the corner of her eye pull Willie's hair. But Laura had her back almost completely toward the two of them while she wrote on the blackboard, besides the fact that she was so close to them with her back turned, so apparently Laura can also see out of the back of her head.