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Last Updated: April 12, 1998

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Mary's sight goes blurry and she has to get glasses.  She is teased by the children at school and called "Four Eyes."  They tell her that she looks just like Miss Beadle, meant as an insult, while her parents tell her she looks just like Miss Beadle, meant as a compliment. Mary, not wanting to look like Miss Beadle and become a spinstress and live her life alone, decided to hide her glasses and be "normal." She tells her parents she has lost them and her grades start to slip, but the kids have stopped teasing her. Mary is fine with this arrangment until she accidently sees Miss Beadle passionately kissing her beau. Realizing that men can love women who are smart and wear glasses, Mary recovers her glasses, admits to hiding them, and her grades improves. She now wants to be just like Miss Beadle.

• Correct me if I am wrong, but is this the first episode we findout that Miss Beadle also wears glasses? Kind of convient that this whole episode revoles around Mary not wanting to be just like Miss Beadle because she wears glasses.
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, April 12, 1998.

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• When Laura goes with Pa to Mancado to look for Miss Lily, she goes to an old theater and meets a man who tells her that Miss Lily is dead, but as she is walking in, she passes a sign for a theater showing. The sign said "Abandoned Daughters". If I remember correctly, isn't that the show that Ma and Pa went to in "Ma's Holiday" back in the 1st season which was at a different theater?
  Contributed by Kristen S, December 13, 1997.

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• This is one of my favourite episodes: Mrs. Oleson trys so hard to be friends, Laura and Nellie go for a river trip, Charles gets his own advice put against himself ("you can get along with anyone if you try"), and the cool "scratchy" music that plays for Miss Beadle.
• When Laura and Nellie return from their river ride, they come to meet their parents coming out of a field quite a ways away from the river. Why? If they had gone so far down the river, wouldn't they have gotten easily lost trying to find their way back? Wouldn't it been better to walk along the river when returning to camp so they won't get lost?
• I find it odd that no one but Mary recognizes the poison ivy that Willie picks up. And then Mrs. Oleson and the others wonder why only SHE and WILLIE get poison ivy. Could it possibly the "one of a kind LEAF" that Willie got? Not even Miss Beadle recognized it when she was judging the collections.
• Miss Beadle's defination of homework is funny. The episode starts with her telling the class she wants them to enjoy their holiday and that she won't be assigning ANY homework. The class appropiately claps and cheers. THEN immediately following this she says she expects the class to finish their leaf ASSIGNMENT. Where I come from, assignments I do away from school (and over holidays) is called "Homework!"
  All contributed by Alex Trenta, December 22, 1997.

• Mary is wearing a plastic headband for most of this episode.
  Contributed by Jen N, January 30, 1998.

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• This episode starts with Julia Sanderson's second son as Henry Sanderson, and then suddenly he becomes Carl Sanderson.
  Contributed by Jennifer Slegg, April 26, 1997.

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• While riding home from the fishing pond, Mr. Sprague relates a story to Laura about a time when he rescued his boat. Laura and Mr. Sprague then part ways. At the dinner table later, Laura knows a lot more detail about the incident than Mr. Sprague told her.
  Contributed by Steve C, February 5, 1998.

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• Fools gold is very tiny and light and floats gently down in water. Its also very hard to separate from sand. I know because as a child growing up next to a river, my siblings and I tried the same thing. So how did two small children collect such a huge pile of "pure fools gold" in such a short time using a screen door. Any screen fine enough to trap the "gold" would have trapped the sand also. Pam G.
  Contributed by Pamela G, September 18, 1997.

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• There is a scene in this episode where Mary and Laura are fishing and discussing whether to tell Pa that they spent the Sunday School money on medicine bottles instead of a Bible for the Reverend Alden. Pa comes along and joins them and then Mary and Laura leave, but as they're walking away they're wearing different clothes than they were wearing while they were fishing.
  Contributed by Jennifer M, November 8, 1997.

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• This episode makes references to both the telephone and the phonograph invented by Thomas Edison, and takes place in 1871. However, the telephone was invented in 1876 and was not legally recognized until 1893, while the phonograph was not invented till 1877. So where did this talking machine come from?
  Contributed by Alex Trenta and Hiphats, December 13, 1997.

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• There is a scene where Mary and Laura leave school and then Laura runs back to tell Miss Beadle the reason that Mary won't be in the competition. Mary and Laura are wearing different clothes when they're walking home than they had in town and then when Laura goes back to town she is wearing the original dress she had when she left school.
  Contributed by Kama and Jennifer H, November 7, 1997.

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• I have one complaint about this episode. I saw a "Bonanza" episode last week in which Little Joe's leg was smashed by a horse. He too was home alone, and his leg also got infected. I bet you can just guess what he tried to do? That right, Little Joe was going to "cut it off" too. This does not sound familiar does it?
  Contributed by J. Kharget, October 12, 1997.

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• This is one of several episodes using tracked music from earlier episodes. For example, the final sequence was tracked with music from "The Camp-Out".
  Contributed by Hiphats, July 1, 1997.

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• Did anyone else notice that the man who played Murphy in this episode later returns to play Irv Hartwig in the "Sylvia" episodes? Just curious.
  Contributed by Jam, September 5, 1997.

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• At the end of the show we hear Laura telling us how Ma believed special dishes were for special people, not special occasions. And, she said, a family all together is the "most special people" of all, so from then on they only used that beautiful china. Of course, we never see that china again.
  Contributed by Nicole H & Sarah M, July 31, 1997. Editted August 2, 1997.

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• This episode, obviously, takes place in 1876. However, since the cast members age a bit in the stories that are set in 1876 (according to the LHOTP timeline), this episode is no longer considered story canon (that is, part of the overall flow of the series storyline).
  Contributed by Hiphats, August 30, 1997.

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• In this episode, they make a point that it was 12 years since the civil war. However, in "Aftermath" during season four, it was only 11 years.
  Contributed by TMTSoapop, January 14, 1998.

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