Dan has a shocking personal revelation. Especially given the year he was born. It has to do with the immortal “Little House on the Prairie”.
And so now seems an appropriate time to re-link to this classic post, written by my good friend Betsy.
Enjoy. I still read that piece and guffaw randomly with laughter. And she sent it to me with NO WARNING, like … she just took down notes, wrote out her thoughts, and emailed it to me. I had no preparation for the comedy. The comedy ASSAULTED me.
OK, I gotta ask: why on God’s Green Earth did they BLOW UP THE FREAKIN’ TOWN to end the series. That is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard of and cannot possibly make any sense.
I have no idea. I think my favorite sentence in Betsy’s essay is her admission:
“Perhaps I never understood this show.”
HAHAHA
Are you sitting down?
Ok. ::deep breath::
I’ve never seen it either. (Seeing clips of it on other shows doesn’t count. We’re talking entire first-run episodes, right?)
I knew about it, of course. I read the books about 100 times each. My aunt got them for me one year for my birthday — the whole set, boxed and in hardcover. My mom still has them at her house, I think.
But, if I remember correctly, it showed on Wednesday nights, right? 7:00 Central/8:00 Eastern? Then I have a defense: church.
Not that you’d know it from my tales of drunken escapades, but I was brought up in a conservative Christian home. Barring extreme physical injury and/or sickness, my butt was in a pew at 9:30 Sunday morning, 6:00 Sunday night, and 7:00 Wednesday night.
I also never got to see The Wonderful World of Disney, I was in college before I ever saw The Wizard of Oz in its entirety, all because they started at 6:00 on Sunday nights.
A little window into my warped psyche. . .
Oh, the Wonderful World of Disney!
Even just imagining that little Tinkerbell swoop over the castle at the beginning of the show gives me a thrill of excitement!
I LOVED Little House … although I do not remember the time-slot. I eventually stopped watching it when the show seemed to want to handle every single issue in our MODERN day society. I liked it better when I got to peek into that other earlier world.
Also, I dug the bonnets.
“dug” as in past tense? Just checking.
I tried (but not REAL hard) to find out when it originally showed, but to no avail.
It MUST have been on Wednesdays because I can’t imagine my 10-year-old self NOT watching it. Unless it was on opposite Happy Days, ’cause you know I loved me some Potsie and some bratty chick in pigtails wasn’t keeping me from my “dren.”
peteb:
I’m wearing a bonnet right now.
//I’m wearing a bonnet right now.//
*pictures Sheila typing away in bonnet*
Got to be worth another vote.
..and there has to be a Laura Ingalls blog out there somewhere.
Yep, I never saw it either. I was an extra in a TV movie with Melissa Sue Anderson, though. Does that count?
No.
Sheila- How strange! I just referenced this post in the teacher’s room yesterday. It looks as if they are going to shut down South Road School next year due to budget cuts. Everyone is up in arms- the kids all want to hold a bake sale to try to save it. All quite heartbreaking, actually. There was this solemn, depressed, quiet vibe in the teacher’s room,and every once in a while, someone would feebly attempt to suggest something we could do about it. So, I suggested we could just blow up the town, like they did on LHOTP. Which led to this blog reference. Thankfully, no one felt as if blowing up anything in SK would help matters, so rest assured,that is totally not gonna happen.
Little House on the Praire could be seen every Monday night from 8 to 9pm EST. I know this because until I hit high school, it was the only night I was allowed to stay up until 9.
Sheila – if I search very hard I could probably find the bonnet Mary B. made for me.
THANK you, Betsy. I, too, believed that it was on Monday nights. And I KNOW Happy Days was on Mondays at 8 and Laverene and Shirley was on at 8:30. By the way,Kelli was asking for you. Call me!
THANK you, Betsy. I, too, believed that it was on Monday nights. And I KNOW Happy Days was on Mondays at 8 and Laverene and Shirley was on at 8:30. By the way,Kelli was asking for you. Call me!
Really? Monday? Well, that just shot my defense all to hell.
I can’t imagine what else I was watching. I am perplexed now. Must go investigate. . .
oops- I didn’t mean to be so demanding about the phone call-ha ha!!
http://www.geocities.com/favoritetvclassics_maude/70sratingsschedules.html
It WAS on Mondays, starting in 1976. When I, apparently, was watching Rhoda and Phyllis.
I guess the life of a little girl in the 1870s Kansas was boring compared to swinging single chicks in 1970s NYC. :)