Gingham, lunch pails, and disaster.
This is especially for 
just_cyd, ericainohio, and cinnamonduff. So, you know, everyone.
I know you all are fans of the Little House on the Prairie books, but surely you've also seen the TV show, even if you're not exactly a fan of it. Much like M.A.S.H., it was nearly impossible to escape viewing back in the day. The following link is fantastic look back at the Little House television series and how it holds up over time.
Little Crazy on the Prairie
Highlights:
"Superficially we think of Little House as a family-friendly show about the olden days, but what we remember deep down are bizarre, searing visions of masked rapists, sputum-drooling morphine addicts, and Shannon Doherty in pigtail braids."
"Alison Arngrim’s performance as Nellie combines Little Bo Peep drag with scathing mean girl realness, and all of her scenes play like they’re being directed by John Waters."
"...the inherent primitiveness of the nineteenth-century setting provides plenty of unvaccinated fun and gives the show a great excuse to have terrible things happen every week: epidemics, blizzards, countless dead babies, the horse that kicks Mary, stagecoach wrecks, the kidnappings (multiple kidnappings)..."
just_cyd, ericainohio, and cinnamonduff. So, you know, everyone. I know you all are fans of the Little House on the Prairie books, but surely you've also seen the TV show, even if you're not exactly a fan of it. Much like M.A.S.H., it was nearly impossible to escape viewing back in the day. The following link is fantastic look back at the Little House television series and how it holds up over time.
Little Crazy on the Prairie
Highlights:
"Superficially we think of Little House as a family-friendly show about the olden days, but what we remember deep down are bizarre, searing visions of masked rapists, sputum-drooling morphine addicts, and Shannon Doherty in pigtail braids."
"Alison Arngrim’s performance as Nellie combines Little Bo Peep drag with scathing mean girl realness, and all of her scenes play like they’re being directed by John Waters."
"...the inherent primitiveness of the nineteenth-century setting provides plenty of unvaccinated fun and gives the show a great excuse to have terrible things happen every week: epidemics, blizzards, countless dead babies, the horse that kicks Mary, stagecoach wrecks, the kidnappings (multiple kidnappings)..."