Polly is a whack a doodle chick

[Tankeryanker]

Someone needs to tell Chip she is looking for a way out of her house.
Chip needs to make her stand on her own two feet before anybody decides if she loves him or not.

[CosmicCharlie]

Ya but cute babes can do most anything and get away with it ...

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Tankeryanker

Someone needs to tell Chip she is looking for a way out of her house.
Chip needs to make her stand on her own two feet before anybody decides if she loves him or not.

When Chip talked to Steve, asking for his notarized permission to marry her, Steve told him that about Polly.

Then Steve told him to go and talk to Tom Williams, Polly's dad. He then found out Tom had had them followed. That cemented the wedding. And we find out later that Polly had had the same talk with her mother, who had also given permission.

So the bottom line is Polly's jerk of a father drove them to marriage. And Steve was right--she wanted out of there.

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by stevea

When Chip talked to Steve, asking for his notarized permission to marry her, Steve told him that about Polly.

Then Steve told him to go and talk to Tom Williams, Polly's dad. He then found out Tom had had them followed. That cemented the wedding. And we find out later that Polly had had the same talk with her mother, who had also given permission.

So the bottom line is Polly's jerk of a father drove them to marriage. And Steve was right--she wanted out of there.

You are right. Steve did try to say something. Did he say anything like wait until you two graduate and see how Polly feels? She needed to live in the dorms by herself for a while.

Chip was rescuing Polly, but that didn't make it love, and Polly was allowing herself to get rescued and that isn't love. Chip didn't see it for what it really was.

We don't know how that all turned out since the show ended. Mike and Rob's love stories were healthier with more mature adults all around.

[biffbronson]

Disapproval involving a son-in-law, either existing or potential, was a repeated M3S theme.

In Season 9, Ray Wong disapproved of his son-in-law Henry's appearance, and also thought he was wacky to believe he could somehow step right into an advanced position like the one Steve held at the plant. This was resolved when Ray's twin grandsons were born.

In Season 11, Tom Williams seems to be against any potential son-in-law, being so overprotective of Pauline (Polly) as to go to the extreme of hiring a P.I. to follow the couple. It's Polly's mom whose action permits things to proceed, as far as marriage goes.

(Also, back in Season 5, Mike made a bumbling poor impression on future father-in-law Professor Morrison (Sally's dad) when they met.)

By contrast, in Season 10, Barbara's mother Mrs. Vincent so approved of Steve as a potential son-in-law that she did a little matchmaking trick to get them home together...!

[stevea]

Originally Posted by biffbronson

Disapproval involving a son-in-law, either existing or potential, was a repeated M3S theme.

In Season 9, Ray Wong disapproved of his son-in-law Henry's appearance, and also thought he was wacky to believe he could somehow step right into an advanced position like the one Steve held at the plant. This was resolved when Ray's twin grandsons were born.

In Season 11, Tom Williams seems to be against any potential son-in-law, being so overprotective of Pauline (Polly) as to go to the extreme of hiring a P.I. to follow the couple. It's Polly's mom whose action permits things to proceed, as far as marriage goes.

(Also, back in Season 5, Mike made a bumbling poor impression on future father-in-law Professor Morrison (Sally's dad) when they met.)

By contrast, in Season 10, Barbara's mother Mrs. Vincent so approved of Steve as a potential son-in-law that she did a little matchmaking trick to get them home together...!

Mrs. Vincent was one of Eleanor Audley's better roles. Most parts for her were snobby women; she probably relished the change, and showed she could be likable.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Tankeryanker

You are right. Steve did try to say something. Did he say anything like wait until you two graduate and see how Polly feels? She needed to live in the dorms by herself for a while.

Chip was rescuing Polly, but that didn't make it love, and Polly was allowing herself to get rescued and that isn't love. Chip didn't see it for what it really was.

We don't know how that all turned out since the show ended. Mike and Rob's love stories were healthier with more mature adults all around.

Steve probably did say something to that effect. But he was late to the game recognizing what might happen; Barbara took Polly's eagerness seriously.

I think Chip did fall in love with Polly before they eloped. Remember the lunch they had at the university, on the grass. He told her he wanted to watch out for her; protect her, or words to that effect. She then said she thought he loved her and he agreed.

[CosmicCharlie]

Google says:
"Whackadoodle" is a made-up word that combines "whack" (meaning crazy or eccentric) with "doodle" (a term often used to describe something whimsical or nonsensical). Therefore, "It's whackadoodle time" suggests that the situation or context is becoming or already is eccentric, absurd, or amusingly nonsensical.

She may be all that & then some ... but I like her !
To me she's a feminine, sensitive good person and her heart reflects that !
I don't think she has any evil or selfish intentions - she just has to work out the issues her dad is at least somewhat responsible for. Her mom should have been more assertive toward correcting the fathers ill disposition +-

[stevea]

Originally Posted by CosmicCharlie

Google says:
"Whackadoodle" is a made-up word that combines "whack" (meaning crazy or eccentric) with "doodle" (a term often used to describe something whimsical or nonsensical). Therefore, "It's whackadoodle time" suggests that the situation or context is becoming or already is eccentric, absurd, or amusingly nonsensical.

She may be all that & then some ... but I like her !
To me she's a feminine, sensitive good person and her heart reflects that !
I don't think she has any evil or selfish intentions - she just has to work out the issues her dad is at least somewhat responsible for. Her mom should have been more assertive toward correcting the fathers ill disposition +-

Agree! I like her. Sure she wanted to get away from an overbearing jerk of a father, but she also loved Chip.

This whole story arc is one of my favorites in the whole series. It's very well written (by head writer George Tibbles).

[CosmicCharlie]

She has the 60's look I grew up with and still admire & seek (lol)

In 1964, Troup was working as a television background extra appearing (uncredited) in some fourth season black-and-white episodes of My Three Sons in classroom scenes featuring co-star Don Grady. She later worked as an uncredited extra in classroom scenes on Gidget (1965).[citation needed]

She appeared, uncredited, as a club patron in the James Darren film For Those Who Think Young(1964). She also appeared, uncredited, as a teen party guest in the Bob Hope film I'll Take Sweden (1965). In 1966, she made her film debut as part of the all-girl ensemble in Columbia Films' The Trouble with Angels where she is prominent in the graduation scene. In December 1966 (at age 21), she was cast as Sister Bertrille and had begun filming the pilot for The Flying Nun when she was dropped after the studio's first choice Sally Field finally agreed to accept the role.[citation needed]

In 1968, she played the role of Leslie Hayden in Danger Island, the cliffhanger serial that was featured on the Banana Splits Adventure Hour children's program on Saturday mornings.[3]

She appeared on Family Affair in 1970 in the episode "Desert Isle: Manhattan Style". She was subsequently offered the role of Polly Williams Douglas, wife of Chip Douglas on My Three Sons, a role she played for two years (1970–72). In the Season 4 episode of The Partridge Family entitled "Hate Thy Neighbor" (1973), she appeared as Donna Stevens, the daughter of the new family who move next door to the Partridges.[citation needed]

She then appeared often on popular dramas Emergency! (in which her stepmother and father co-starred), Marcus Welby, M.D., Cannon, S.W.A.T. and Adam-12 (3/18/1975). From 1987 to 1990, she portrayed "Barbara" on the CBS show Knots Landing. In more recent years, Troup has appeared in guest roles on Strong Medicine, The West Wing, and Cold Case.[4]

On June 19, 2010, Troup appeared with her My Three Sons co-stars at a 50th anniversary celebration of the classic series at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills.[5][6]

Troup's acting experience included making commercials.[7] Among the products that she promoted were Kool-Aid, cheese-flled Combos, and Aim toothpaste. She often made commercials while her children were in school and said, "My kids don't even know I'm working."[8]

[stevea]

Around 1984 or 1985 she also appeared in a final-season episode of Diff'rent Strokes. A few years older by then, of course.

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by CosmicCharlie

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I don't think she has any evil or selfish intentions - she just has to work out the issues her dad is at least somewhat responsible for.

and many times, when we do finally work through our home life, we are not nearly in love as we thought we were. Thats all I am saying.

We all need to get away from those who raised us to develop our own thoughts and our own ideas and possibly say that their way isn't the way we are going to do things.

Young marriage usually fails for just those reasons. We are escaping home instead of really seeing the other person for who they really are. My ex and I did that. We hated our home life so we might as well love each other and soldier on.

[CosmicCharlie]

See New Poll on Chip & Polly's Marriage ! (LOL)