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Last Updated: April 12, 1998

The Ingalls family moves to Walnut Grove, build a farm and buy seed so they can plant their first crop. But Pa could not afford to buy this seed so he says he will pay the guy later. To pay for the seeds Pa takes another job at the Feed and Seed fixing the sign and roof and stacking sacks of grain. After coming home after a hard days work, the Ingalls decide to go on a picnic. Pa, while flying a kite, gets it stuck in a big tree. Pa shouts that he will get it and climbs the tree. While reaching out to get the kite, he slips out of the tree and breaks his ribs. With broken ribs, Pa can not plow the field or go back to work. Realizing that if Pa does not complete the work at the Feed and Seed, the Ingalls will lose everything. Pa goes back to the Feed and Seed, and Laura and Mary watch him.When Pa is dragging a sack he collapses, so Laura and Mary continue dragging over the sack that Pa dropped when he collapsed. The other men in the Town see what Laura and Mary are doing, and come over to help. They also plow Pa's land, and Laura comments that Pa had planted the best harvest of all, "A Harvest of Friends."

• How could Charles have even lifted those heavy sacks with broken ribs?  I think that those would only make it worse.
  Contributed by Mark R, November 15, 1997.

• This isn't really a ntipick, but TBS shows this episode and "Country Girls" out of order. They just started showing them from the beginning, and already they are getting them out of order.
  Contributed by Catherine, December 19, 1997.

• In this episode, Laura says she wrote something down in her "Remembrance Book". But, in the very next episode "Country Girls" Laura says "if I had a Remembrance Book..."
  Contributed by Rebecca, December 21, 1997.

• As I seem to recall from "On the Banks of Plum Creek" the Ingalls family did not build their farm until they had been in Walnut Grove for several months. They moved into a dugout in the fall and built the farmhouse in the spring.
  Contributed by Megan L, January 4, 1998.

• The last thing I'd care to do after a day of heaving sacks of grain is to fly a kite. Doesn't Pa ever get tired?
  Contributed by Grant C, January 31, 1998.

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When Laura and Mary go to school for the first time Laura meets Nellie Olsen.  In this show Nellie and Laura become true enemys.

• Well, personally my nitpick was that it was much too hot that week, but for those of you at home, notice how the pace of the show changes drastically half way through. Michael Landon fired the director in the middle of the week and took over. I like Michael's speed better, but hey you guys vote on it.
  Contributed by Alison Arngrim (Nellie), August 28, 1997.

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When Pa's crop gets ruined by an unexpected hail storm,  Pa walks 100 miles and finds a job at a railroad camp working with a sledge hammer, wedge, and dynamite.

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When Mr.Edwards for the first time comes to Walnut Grove, the Ingalls family persuades him to stay.  Here he meets Grace Snider and begins to fall in love with her.

• I was dissappointed that he had to fall in love with someone. The books show him as an eccentric bachelor.
  Contributed by Grant C, January 31, 1998.

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When a new boy named Johnny Johnson moves to Walnut Grove, Laura`s eyes are glued to him.  One of her first crushes.  Johnny likes Laura only as a friend, but has his eyes on Mary.   This causes jealousy between Mary and Laura.

• Is that kid ugly or what?! For Laura's first crush, they could have picked someone cuter! (I remember thinking that when I first saw the episode, and I was in first grade.) Jonah in the fool's gold one--now he's cute. Also, why was Mary so rude to him? Caroline taught her better than that.
  Contributed by MR. & MRS. J. Pochop, October 12, 1997.

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• I don't see how they could have possibly have pulled that trick off. Amy Hearn being dead and all. And remember when Caroline went up to see if she was ready to make her entrance? Well how did she get into the house without anyone noticing??
  Contributed by Mark R, November 15, 1997.

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Nellie has a party and invites all the girls in her class.  Nellie shows off all her pretty things.  Laura twisted her ankle at the party because Nellie pushes her when she tries to touch Nellie's doll.  There was also a girl there named Olga.  One of her legs were shorter then the other and she limps when she walks.  The next weekend, Mary and Laura have a party of their own and invite all the girls, including Nellie and Olga. They play games and Laura gets back at Nellie by pushing her in the creek.  Pa makes a special shoe for Olga, allowing her to run around and play like a regular girl.

• When Mary goes to get Laura at the creek near the beginning of the episode, Mary's hair is hanging down and parted down the middle. When they walk into the house, Mary's hair is pulled back in a barrett.
  Contributed by HYPER, June 19, 1997.

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When Miss Beadle breaks her leg by falling off the wagon, Ma takes over as teacher for the school.  Here Ma meets what the children call, "Dumb Able."  Ma and the school children work together teach Able to read.

• La srta. Beadle debe abandonar momentaneamnte sus tareas en la escuela, y Má Caroline la suplanta. Debe luchar con las intromisiones de la Sra. Oleson, pero será gratifcada merced a la ayuda que le brinda a un estudiante.
  Contributed by Jimmy, November 11, 1997.
  Anyone care to translate this for me? - Alex

• How could Caroline have taught Abel MacKay to read that fast? From what I could see he only learned two words when they were doing that reading exercise with the paper.
  Contributed by Mark R, November 15, 1997.

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• Has anyone noticed that the title for "The Raccoon" was actually spelled "The Racoon"?
  Contributed by Eddie, June 3, 1997.

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• In this episode Mr. Hanson has a son. Where is he in the rest of the episodes and were is his wife, is he married?
  Contributed by Debbi E, August 21, 1997.
• Answer:  Mr Hanson never married and I don't think that that boy was his son. Just someone he patted on the head when all the children revealed that they had helped Tinker Jones with the bell. But I think that Mr. Hanson had a girlfriend once, because in the episode where Carrie falls down the well, he will not listen to the man who says that they should dig a path to the well, because he stole some woman named Lucy away from Mr. Hanson many years ago.
  Answered by Radcliffe, December 26, 1997.

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When there is going to be special award to the student who does the best on an upcoming special exam, Mary studies really hard to win it.  She borrows an expensive book from Miss Beadle, and stays up late each night studying.  One night, while Mary was studying late, the light kept Laura awake, so Mary takes a lantern and studies in the barn.  Mary soon falls asleep and kicks the lantern over and catches the barn on fire.  Ma comes racing out, and with the help of Laura and Mary, puts the fire out before the barn is destroyed.  Ma, angry at Mary, tells her she cannot take part in the special exam, and Mary quietly accepts this.  The next day, while cleaning the barn, Mary discovers the book was destroyed in the fire, and works at the Mercantile so that she can buy a new book.  Eventually, Mary earns enough money to replace the book and admits to Miss Beadle she can not take part in the exam.

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When Ma has a baby boy, Charles Jr, Laura gets jealous because Pa pays more attention to the baby. When the baby gets sick and Ma and Pa ask the girls to pray, Laura does not give the extra prayer.  When the baby dies,  Laura sees how unhappy Pa is, and she runs away to the mountains to be closer to God.  She prays that God would exchange her life for Charles Jr so Pa can be happy again.  In the mean time, Pa gets very worried and fears he will now lose two children instead of one. He and Mr. Edwards search the country looking for Laura as Pa gets weaker.  Laura is visited by a stranger who tells her that God has choosen that Laura should stay with her Pa, and that he will take good care of Charles Jr. Eventually Pa finds Laura, and they all go home happy!

• I have more of a question, rather than a nitpick about this episode. When Charles and Caroline return home after the baby dies at the hospital, where is the body? I wonder if we were supposed to think they buried the child before they returned home, but then in "A Most Precious Gift" there is a scene with Caroline praying at the child's grave". Was the body in the back of the wagon or something? They never showed a funeral.
  Contributed by Kimberly, June 30, 1997.
  Additional: That is a very good question, I never thought about that. I guess we are suppose to think they buried the body. I guess it was bad editting on the producer's part.
  Additional by Debbi E, August 21, 1997.
  Additional: I agree whatever happened to Charles Jr.'s body?
  Additional by Donna W, October 4, 1997.

• If this is the show I am thinking of, where laura runs away... there are NO mountians of the size she ran away to anywhere NEAR Walnut Grove.... she would have had to run between 300 and 400 miles.
  Contributed by Beth, September 17, 1997.
• Additional:  I agree, I've been to Walnut Grove and believe me, there isn't much of anything that's interesting to look at, much less mountains.
  Contributed by Nancy N, January 2, 1998.

• I found it strange that Caroline and Charles did not rush in to be with their son when they heard the prognosis. I believe they would have wanted spend their last moments with him.
  Contributed by Julie R, December 30, 1997.

• Charles Jr., in real life is burried along the road near Troy, Minnesota. He died on the way from the Ingalls' move from Walnut Grove to Charles' brother, Peter's, home near Wabasha Minnesota. Almonzo's brother, Royal Wilder is burried in Spring Valley, Minnesota. In the TV show, when Royal Wilder dies in "Times are Changin'", They show Royal's grave just in front of Charles Jr.'s grave, though, as pointed out earlier, the baby's body was never brought back to Walnut Grove with Charles and Caroline.
  Contributed by Lora J, January 12, 1998.

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• From my knowledge, Bunny apears in three more episodes (The Race, Bunny, Journey in the Spring), two of which are played out of order and make the story slightly confusing.
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, May 24, 1997.

• Didn't Pa Ingalls buy the stove also by making wagon wheels for Mr. Oleson? So why did Laura have to give up bunny?
  Contributed by Karnella, July 21, 1997.
  Answer: Charles actually hadn't bought the stove from Nels.....He had offered to buy it, but Nels said that it had already been sold.....Nels just didn't tell Charles that it was to Laura.
  Answered by Christi, August 23, 1997.

• It is Christmas time and there is snow on the ground, but all the trees have green leaves and the grass in the background scenes, and around the homes in town is very green also.
  Contributed by Kandie, October 4, 1997.

• In the scene when the Ingalls are all shopping at the store, the music skips about a LOT. I wonder if this was overlooked in the editing, or if they meant it to be really choppy... hmmm...
  Contributed by Rebecca, December 15, 1997.

• In the Christmas episode it shows Laura trading or selling bunny to Nellie for an old stove. Well why does Bunny show up in other episodes after that one? Does she buy her back or something?
  Contributed by Dina G, December 15, 1997.
• Answer:  Bunny is a pretty popular horse. In this episode, Laura does indeed trade her horse for the stove. In "Bunny," we find that Nellie has been mistreating the horse, causing the horse to throw her. Nellie then pretends that her injuries are very bad and tricks Laura into doing her homework and chores. When Nels finds out how Nellie has been treating both Laura and the horse, he gives it back to Laura. Bunny is seen again in "The Race" in which Laura races against Nellie on a different horse, and in "Jounrey in the Spring" in which the horse gets injured and Charles has to put it down.
  Answer by Alex Trenta, December 22, 1997.

• Notice the obvious blanket made to look like snow that is draped over the wood pile in various shots of the house. It never even drifted!!!
  Contributed by Lora J, January 12, 1998.

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• Near the end of this episode, Harriet, Nellie and Willie are shown having a delicious dinner. Since Nels has been away from home for several days at the time and Harriet is later shown as being totally incapable in the kitchen, who cooked the dinner? Nellie couldn't before she met Percival and Willie was much too young at the time.
  Contributed by Mishka, June 13, 1997.
• Additional:  Yes, but do you notice that both Nellie and Willie ask if they can be excused from the table and there reason was because they weren't hungry. The dinner was probably so bad that they couldn't eat it!
  Additional by Mark R, November 15, 1997.

• I have a theory about the great cooking debate. We who cook don't make all things equally well and not necessarily a great number of meals. For example, I can prepare various types of meals involving pasta or chicken pretty well but I'm not too good at other things. This would explain why Harriet can occasionally make the good meal.
  Contributed by Michael G, November 29, 1997.

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When the rats get into the cornmeal they spread typhus to the townspeople.  The school house is converted to a hospital where Dr. Baker, Edwards, and Pa tend the sick while the rest of the town was isolated to prevent the spread of the plague. Many people continued to get sick and eventually die as the plague kept spreading because they could not find the connection. Eventually Charles and Dr. Baker realize the cornmeal is the connection, and to get rid of the rats and fleas they burned the building where the cornmeal was stored, rats and all.

• Ever notice that when the town has their yearly plague episode, tons of people die, yet Charles and Dr. Baker never get sick? They should make a vaccine out of Dr. Baker's blood as he survives every epidemic that hits Walnut Grove and the surrounding communities.
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, April 12, 1998.

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• Near the end where Mr. O'Hara is telling Laura that he didn't "make Jack well", when it shows Laura from the front both her braids are in front of her shoulders and when it shows her from the back, she has one braid in front and one in back. It keeps flipping back and forth between those two cuts. Then later during that same conversation between Laura and O'Hara, when you see her from the front, she only has one braid in front but its the opposite braid from what you see when it shows her from the back
  Contributed by HYPER, June 19, 1997.
• Additional:  The braid thing has bugged me for a long time! Doesn't anyone actually watch the shows before they air them?
  Contributed by Arnel S, February 13, 1998.

• O'Hara seems to be talking in a Scottish accent half the time as apposed to his Irish heritage.
  Contributed by Humorbear, October 23, 1997.

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• At the very end of this episode when Pa, Ma, Graham, and the girls run ouside to meet Graham's father, Mary is wearing a different outfit than she had on while she was inside.
  Contributed by Jennifer M, November 8, 1997.

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Johnny Johnson leaves home and travels with Mr.Edwards to a near by town.  Eventually a saloon girl convinces him to go home.

• The player piano in the saloon where Mr. Edwards and Johnny enter is a product that didn't exist at that time. Not till a least 1905, almost a jump of 30 years.
  Contributed by Derek and Tony, June 7, 1997.

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Last Updated: April 12, 1998.

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