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Last Updated: February 21, 1998

• I can't stand the ending to this episode. Everyone has met at the hotel to celebrate Mary's birthday. Laura gives Mary a braille birthday card. Mary reads it aloud. I don't remember exactly what the card said, partially because the acting was so bad. I thought I was going to throw up. It was terribly over dramatized. I don't know what the director was thinking, if at all.
  Contributed by Beth N, November 11, 1997.
• Alternative:  I disagree!! This was a family that was able to show emotion. The emotional side was genuinely portrayed in these close family settings. I think that this was a very special scene. I could watch over and over...and not gag even once.
  Contributed by David D, January 27, 1998.

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• I thought it was funny that in this episode Andy says "My father don't know nothing about football" when in fact Merlin Oleson (who played Andy's father) used to play professional football!!!
  Contributed by HYPER, July 1, 1997.

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• Harriet makes vicious claims against Albert and Charles saying that Albert may have been Charles' illegitimateson. Who knows, maybe she is correct. Albert looks alot like the younger version of Charles we have seen in JOURNEY IN THE SPRING and I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. :) (Matthew Laborteaux plays both Albert and young Charles).
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, April 26, 1997.
  Corrected by Rachel L, August 29, 1997.

• Take a close look at the Pen & Plow building in this episode. Compare that to the bank building in "Little Lou". They are the same building! I guess the citizens of Walnut Grove found a way to turn it back into a bank!
  Contributed by Hiphats, July 1, 1997.

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• Charles does not enforce his two year rule with 16-year-old Mary and Adam as he did with John Jr. or Laura. I guess he really aproves of Adam.
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, April 26, 1997.
  Mary is 16 in this episode, not 15 as I [Alex Trenta] had originally stated in my nitpick. Thanks Rodney.
  Correction by Rodney, June 30, 1997.
• Maybe [Charles] feels because Mary is blind, her age didn't matter.
  Contributed by Michele J, August 6, 1997.
• Also, Mary was now a teacher (he commented to his daugheters- when you are a teacher, you are an adult). She was also no longer living in her father's house (teaching with Adam at the Blind School). He may have felt didn't have as much of a say.
  Contributed by Debbie W, October 13, 1997.
• Adam was only a few years older than Mary and Almanzo was 10 years older than Laura. I think that's why Laura had to wait to get married and Mary didn't.
  Contributed by Erin, February 13, 1998.

• I find it funny that when Adam asks Charles and Caroline which one of their children gave them the most trouble they said Mary. Mary!!!! Wasn't she Little Miss Good Girl? Caroline went on to say that she (Mary) was the fastset runner. Throughout the series it mentions time and time again that Laura is the fastest runner, at school, when playing games and so on. Mary did get into trouble once in a while - starting the barn on fire, believing both Ma and Pa cheated on eachother and so on, but I would say that Laura was the most difficult to raise. Ma and Pa even mention Carrie, who never has a storyline unless she has fallen in a well, as difficult at times, but never mention Laura. I just find it funny since Laura gets into trouble in almost every episode.
  Contributed by Lori A, January 2, 1998.

• Mrs. Olsen shows Charles and Caroline a clock to give to Mary and Adam as a wedding gift. Hello, they're blind and couldn't see it anyway.
  Contributed by TMTSoapop, January 14, 1998.

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• Wasn't going into the bording house and claiming to be poor sick children against the principle that Albert and Andy were old enough to be treated like MEN? Men don't claim to be poor sick kids.
  Contributed by Alex Trenta, April 26, 1997.

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• As Laura and the other students are taking the first BIG test she looks over at Andy to see if he is cheating. When she looks over the black board behind him is clean, but when the camera is at a new angle, focusing on Andy, the black board has a list of names and numbers! Must be they taped the scene in two parts.
• Also when Albert gets named as the top scorer it shows him clapping for himself and looking behind his seat where Andy sits - this is exactly the same clip as when Andy was names top scorer on an early test. I think the edit people reused that clip.
• Finally, I noticed that Alice Garvey had Laura pass out the test papers before the test and there were no questions written on the board. my question, did Alice hand write each test paper for all of the students? Usually when there is a test we can see the questions on the blackboard or it is given orally - not this time. I don't think she had carbon copy paper or a copier machine. Earlier in the episode she was complianing about never having enough time in the day - no wonder if you have to hand write fifteen end of the term exams!
  All three contributed by Lori A, January 5, 1998.

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• On the way back to Walnut Grove with the blind children they camped out for the night during a rain storm. Joe K. and Pa are having a conversation and you see Sampson in the backgroud covering himself with a blanket. When Joe walks over to Sampson the blanket is gone and then as they begin to talk the blanket is up to the boy's chin. Also during this journey Harriet and Hester Sue sleep in the wagons while all of the blind children sleeep outside, even during a rain strom, doesn't that seem odd? If it is because they are women then why would Mary who is a woman and blind sleep outside.
  Contributed by Lori L, July 10, 1997.

• Harriet travels to Winoka to join Charles and Joe when they bring the blind school to Walnut Groove. While talking to Jonathon, Nels mentions that since Harriet has been away Nelly has been doing the cooking and that she is not a good cook (serving burnt offerings). My question is Why is Nelly cooking? If Nels can cook, why is he eating her brunt food? Harriet was supposed to be a bad cook and Nels was the main cook of the family so why would he stop cooking when Harriet left when she didn't do the cooking?
  Contributed by Lori L, July 11, 1997.

• It was said that Mr. Hanson's old house was donated for the blind school. The house was burned to the ground in "May we make them Proud." However, Mrs. Olsen was cleaning the house to sell in "Welcome to Olsenville"
  Contributed by TMTSoapop, December 25, 1998.

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• I noticed that part of the time Lindsay Greenbush was playing Alissa and the other part of the show, Sidney Greenbush was playing her. They seemed to be taking turns. I'm not sure which twin is which, but I can tell the difference in this episode because their teeth looke quite a bit different and because the one with the bigger space between her front teeth has a softer voice. Hehehe. By the way, note that the twins first names are not Lindsay and Sidney. Those are their middle names. Their first names are Rachel and Robin. I'm not sure which first names go with which middle name though.
  Contributed by HYPER, July 1, 1997.
  Correction: According to one book that included information about Little House on the Prairie and many other popular television shows the twins that played Carrie were Rachel Lindsay and Sidney Robin Greenbush.
  Correction by Jennifer R, July 7, 1997.
  Additional: This is in addition to the comments on the Greenbush twins' names. Alison Arngrim told me that the reason that they used Lindsay and Sidney, instead of Rachel and Robin, for the show, is that their mother felt that if they were out in public and people starting looking at them and whispering "Isn't that Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush?", all she would have to do is say "Rachel, Robin, come here" or something, and people would just think "Oh, that must not be them." That way the little girls wouldn't get mobbed.
  Additional by Rachel L, July 27, 1997.

• Carrie is saying her prayers. "God bless Ma and Pa, and Mary and Adam, and Laura and Grace, and Bandit!" What about poor Albert? Doesn't she want God to bless him too? And when she is telling Jack that everyone misses him, she mentions Ma twice. She must have really missed Jack!
  Contributed by Jimmy H, August 28, 1997.

• Does anyone notice that the old man that plays St. Peter is the same man that was in an earlier episode called "Haunted House". He was the old man that lived in the house that Laura took a dare to go in.
  Contributed by Rhonda C, September 7, 1997.

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• In the beginning of this episode Albert can barely wittle a whistle, yet by the time Issac dies he can finish crafting a coffin without the use of nails. How much time passes from the time when he starts working with Issac and the old man's death? Albert was supposed to be a smart boy, but could he learn a new trade in such a short amount of time (two months??) when he is only ten years old.
  Contributed by Lori L, July 11, 1997.

• In "Blind Journey," Mrs. Olsen is prejudice towards all the Black children and their teacher. At the end of the episode, after getting to know the kids, she learns that it doesn't matter what race a person belongs to; everyone's the same on the inside. In "The Craftsman," Mrs. Olsen is prejudice to Jewish people. Didn't she learn anything from "Blind Journey"?
  Contributed by Dave B, July 14, 1997.

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• Anyone noticed that the boy in this episode that pretends to be blind played in a later episode called "Rage" as a different boy. He played the boy who's girlfriend got shot by her father because her father didn't want her to see the boy.
  Contributed by HYPER, July 1, 1997.

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• I found it very interesting that Laura had a peanut butter sandwich to give to Ned, since peanut butter wasn't introduced until 1890, when Laura was 23 years old!
  Contributed by Rachel L, August 29, 1997.

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• If you were accused of burning a barn, would you want the best friend of the man whose barn you burned to be the jury foreman? I don't care how upstanding he is, that is definitely a conflict of interest. And I think his objection to Joe was legitimate, not because of his color, but because Joe was the reason Mr. Laramie did what he did in the first place. Putting Joe on the jury was also a conflict of interest (although it did make a good plot twist).
  Contributed by Rachel L, July 18, 1997.

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• Why was the same girl who played Alicia (Kyle Richards) the girl on here? Did they think we wouldn't notice?
  Contributed by James M, September 17, 1997.

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• Although she got her sight back by the end of this episode, you can say that Laura DID lose her sight!! So there were 2 Ingalls (at least according to the show, not the book) who lost their sight.
  Contributed by HYPER, July 1, 1997.

• The man who loses his son to anthrax in this episode is played by the same guy who lost his wife and son to typhus in "The Plague" in the first season. Poor guy had a bad string of luck.
  Contributed by Jennifer M, November 8, 1997.

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• Many episodes, especially those in the seventh season, use tracked (or re-used) music from earlier episodes. The final sequence in this episode has been tracked with music from the finale to "The Lord Is My Shephard". I guess David Rose must have saved himself and the NBC Orchestra some work.
  Contributed by Hiphats, July 1, 1997.

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