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~Tropical Punch 19~ · 02-24-2003, 03:36 PM

Have you noticed any bloopers in the show? i remember one...

Okay there was an epsidoe in the later seasons that was about Laura and Almonzo babysitting Almonzo's brothers 2 boys whow ere extremely wild. Well, then like 2 years later Roayl comes to visit and does not have 2 boys but a 10 year old daughter. (Jenny) What's up with that? that always bugged me.

Cashodeen · 02-25-2003, 06:27 AM

You are so right. Wasn't that annoying? It was clear that season 9 was detached from the rest of the series. In the first episode when we see Royal with his two boys, his wife tells him that they are going to have another child. Are we suppose to think that is Jenny? My, how time flies! In no time she is about 10 years old!

And probably the biggest controversy in the whole series: The 2-part episode in season 9 where Albert recovers from morphine abuse, Laura's narration at the end tells that Albert later comes back to Walnut Grove as Dr. Ingalls. Then after the series ended they make a 2 hour special called, "Look Back To Yesterday," where Albert is diagnosed with a blood disease the doctor says is fatal. UH, those writers! Do they like to undermine the viewers' intelligence or do they simply not care they make such errors. Or maybe they just forget, or different writers come in and don't know. Whatever the reason, it stinks.

jayman75 · 02-25-2003, 04:32 PM

With all these problems, I think the Golden Girls writers worked on LHOTP!! Too many family mixups...

hughpuppies · 03-29-2004, 08:01 AM

If you remember the episode where they watch Royals 2 boys, near the end right before Royal(who was played by a different guy then the one who came to live and died) They were on a wooded raft like on a river and water splashing all around and Royals wife says soemthing then he says what you mean and she says were going to have another one meaning a baby.

So it was not 2 years later well in real life it was, but guess it was supposed to be 10 years later after the birth of the 3rd child when Royal comes to visit. If it was supposed to be 10 years later then how come no one in Walnut Grove aged?

~Tropical Punch 19~ · 05-31-2004, 07:04 PM

There is another blopper. It is the episode where Laura starts writing her books. If you look at real documents, Rose was the one who convinced her mother to write books about her childhood. Rose did most of the editing, and this was when Laura was older. I guess in that episode they wanted to get the point across that Laura did write books, and now that I remember at the end of the episode she doesn't end up publishing the book. The narration says she did years later. Even still Laura didn't come up with this idea on her own.

phoebe7165 · 06-01-2004, 10:15 PM

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Originally posted by jayman75
With all these problems, I think the Golden Girls writers worked on LHOTP!! Too many family mixups...

Then after Golden Girls, those same writers came to work on Friends!!

Jack1000 · 01-04-2005, 03:13 AM

A Few Bloopers That Come To Mind:

1.) Laura in seperate episodes narrating how Albert became a doctor but in a later episode he died of lukemia. (or some blood disease) Albert was a complete fictional character who never existed in the books.

2.) In the football game ("Winoka Warriers episode") doesn't Albert throw a forward pass to win the game? Laura than narrates something like...."The record books show the first forward pass was thrown in 1881, but I know that I saw this happen in 1877 because I was there." Hard to believe. Albert was a fictional charactor, so what was this "football game that she saw?"

3.) The biggest (and funniest one) is when Adam and the pregnent woman are in that stagecoach accident. Mary, (who is blind) has to go and get help! Adam's legs are pinned under the coach and Mary says. "I'll leave the canteen here for you and Marge!" (LOL!) Adam couldn't move, how could he get to the canteen?

4.) In the episode with the fireworks explosion when all the characters are in Winoka, Laura says, "If I had a rememberence book, I would write down that this was the happiest day of my life. Not because of the fireworks, but because we were going home." Laura wouldn't have had a rememberence book to reflect on that time (at least not very well) because when she and Mary came to Walnut Grove, it was established that they couldn't read or write. (See, Episode 1, "Country Girls")

Jack

Karen64 · 02-01-2006, 12:00 AM

OK, technically not bloopers, but some shots that could have been better:

In "Harvest of Friends", where Charles falls out of the tree, it didn't look like an accidental fall; looks like he just dove out intentionally!

The episode where Albert is meeting his real father in the courthouse and pretends to be blind...(the script should have showed him grabbing a cane or even an umbrella off someone's desk to as a "prop")..was his real father supposed to believe a blind boy found his way up the stairs and to the right office all by himself?

And the one Jack mentioned--the one where Mary leaves the canteen for Adam and the pregnant woman--if the woman needed a drink, how could Adam take it to her, or how could she go get it from Adam--they were both pinned in the wreck, separated from each other!

Love the show; most of the time it was written very well, but I now that I'm watching it as an adult, there are some things that strike me as silly!

Sterling Holobyte · 02-01-2006, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Karen64

The episode where Albert is meeting his real father in the courthouse and pretends to be blind...(the script should have showed him grabbing a cane or even an umbrella off someone's desk to as a "prop")..was his real father supposed to believe a blind boy found his way up the stairs and to the right office all by himself?

Well, I can kind of believe that one. His father didn't seem like the brightest guy around.
Although, as crafty a fellow as Albert was back then, it's hard to believe that he came from that guy.

Cashodeen · 02-01-2006, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Jack1000

A Few Bloopers That Come To Mind:

1.) Laura in seperate episodes narrating how Albert became a doctor but in a later episode he died of lukemia. (or some blood disease) Albert was a complete fictional character who never existed in the books.

I mentioned that one, silly! Just teasin'--It is so annoying to me it is definitely worth mentioning more than once!

And just something to add, it most definitely was another blood disease, like you mentioned, and not leukemia. The doctor did not give the blood disease a name, and he would have for leukemia since it was diagnosable by then. Even Dr. Baker could diagnose it in their schoolmate, Dillon, years earlier. (My guess is that it was aplastic anemia--recognizable at this time but not yet given its name, which fits the doctor's statements. And also! ...Sometimes a temporary problem in the blood, that can go away on its own will appear to look like aplastic anemia. So if Albert had that temporary problem, he could have recovered completely and Laura's quote that he later became a doctor could be true. He never did actually die in "Look Back..." That's just my kooky wish anyways.

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Originally Posted by Jack1000

4.) In the episode with the fireworks explosion when all the characters are in Winoka, Laura says, "If I had a rememberence book, I would write down that this was the happiest day of my life. Not because of the fireworks, but because we were going home." Laura wouldn't have had a rememberence book to reflect on that time (at least not very well) because when she and Mary came to Walnut Grove, it was established that they couldn't read or write. (See, Episode 1, "Country Girls")

Why couldn't Laura have a rememberence book for writing about the fireworks? She could write by then. Laura makes the rememberence book reference a lot. The one time I know it doesn't make since is when she mentions it for when they move to Walnut Grove, even though it was then that she couldn't write yet. And in "Country Girls" Mary tells Miss Beatle that she can read. It's only Laura that couldn't.

Brenda Brown · 02-01-2006, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by hughpuppies

If you remember the episode where they watch Royals 2 boys, near the end right before Royal(who was played by a different guy then the one who came to live and died) They were on a wooded raft like on a river and water splashing all around and Royals wife says soemthing then he says what you mean and she says were going to have another one meaning a baby.

So it was not 2 years later well in real life it was, but guess it was supposed to be 10 years later after the birth of the 3rd child when Royal comes to visit. If it was supposed to be 10 years later then how come no one in Walnut Grove aged?

Probably Michael Landon didn't realize the show would live on forever in syndication, and viewers like us would be able to scrutinize the episodes.

Cashodeen · 02-07-2006, 10:06 PM

On today's TVLand episode, where the women revolt against property rights, Laura's narration at the end was cheesy and pretty much inaccruate. She said that her mother said women one day would have the right to vote, but she didn't think so. But women in Wyoming were allowed to vote in all elections in 1869. Miss Beatle even mentioned it seasons before. Technically a blooper, since one state allowed it.

Sterling Holobyte · 06-29-2006, 11:06 AM

I don't know if this is a blooper, but I thought I would put it here anyway.

In the Creeper episode, which I just saw today, I noticed that Nellie and Willie were sitting on the left side of the school(From Miss Beatle's perspective), right behind Laura and Mary(or in this case, Andy Garvey), instead of the right side where they always sit.
Now, I realize that in that scene, Nellie was supposed to see that Laura and Andy are reading penny dreadfuls and not their MacGuffy's like they are supposed to be reading, and then she snitches on them. But couldn't she have seen that from across the aisle? That would have been a bit more plausible than moving them across the aisle when they never, ever sat before.
...Or have they? I seem to remember them(Nellie and Willie) always sitting on the right side of the room. But was there ever a time when they did sit on the other side, other than this episode?

02-24-2003, 03:36 PM	#1
~Tropical Punch 19~ Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 19, 2001 Location: I'm a fly on Clay's wall Posts: 1,961	bloopers Have you noticed any bloopers in the show? i remember one... Okay there was an epsidoe in the later seasons that was about Laura and Almonzo babysitting Almonzo's brothers 2 boys whow ere extremely wild. Well, then like 2 years later Roayl comes to visit and does not have 2 boys but a 10 year old daughter. (Jenny) What's up with that? that always bugged me.

02-01-2006, 12:00 AM	#8
Karen64 Comedy Fan Senior Member Join Date: Mar 24, 2001 Location: Kansas Posts: 1,412	OK, technically not bloopers, but some shots that could have been better: In "Harvest of Friends", where Charles falls out of the tree, it didn't look like an accidental fall; looks like he just dove out intentionally! The episode where Albert is meeting his real father in the courthouse and pretends to be blind...(the script should have showed him grabbing a cane or even an umbrella off someone's desk to as a "prop")..was his real father supposed to believe a blind boy found his way up the stairs and to the right office all by himself? And the one Jack mentioned--the one where Mary leaves the canteen for Adam and the pregnant woman--if the woman needed a drink, how could Adam take it to her, or how could she go get it from Adam--they were both pinned in the wreck, separated from each other! Love the show; most of the time it was written very well, but I now that I'm watching it as an adult, there are some things that strike me as silly!
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02-25-2003, 06:27 AM	#2
Cashodeen Hi. Forum Star Join Date: Aug 30, 2001 Posts: 11,363	You are so right. Wasn't that annoying? It was clear that season 9 was detached from the rest of the series. In the first episode when we see Royal with his two boys, his wife tells him that they are going to have another child. Are we suppose to think that is Jenny? My, how time flies! In no time she is about 10 years old! And probably the biggest controversy in the whole series: The 2-part episode in season 9 where Albert recovers from morphine abuse, Laura's narration at the end tells that Albert later comes back to Walnut Grove as Dr. Ingalls. Then after the series ended they make a 2 hour special called, "Look Back To Yesterday," where Albert is diagnosed with a blood disease the doctor says is fatal. UH, those writers! Do they like to undermine the viewers' intelligence or do they simply not care they make such errors. Or maybe they just forget, or different writers come in and don't know. Whatever the reason, it stinks.

02-25-2003, 04:32 PM	#3
jayman75 I Love the 80s! Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 27, 2000 Location: THE GREAT UNITED STATES Posts: 3,809	With all these problems, I think the Golden Girls writers worked on LHOTP!! Too many family mixups...

03-29-2004, 08:01 AM	#4
hughpuppies Melanie Bernhardt Forum Regular Join Date: Jan 13, 2004 Location: wished I was with the lady in the above picture Posts: 705	If you remember the episode where they watch Royals 2 boys, near the end right before Royal(who was played by a different guy then the one who came to live and died) They were on a wooded raft like on a river and water splashing all around and Royals wife says soemthing then he says what you mean and she says were going to have another one meaning a baby. So it was not 2 years later well in real life it was, but guess it was supposed to be 10 years later after the birth of the 3rd child when Royal comes to visit. If it was supposed to be 10 years later then how come no one in Walnut Grove aged?

05-31-2004, 07:04 PM	#5
~Tropical Punch 19~ Member Senior Member Join Date: Jul 19, 2001 Location: I'm a fly on Clay's wall Posts: 1,961	There is another blopper. It is the episode where Laura starts writing her books. If you look at real documents, Rose was the one who convinced her mother to write books about her childhood. Rose did most of the editing, and this was when Laura was older. I guess in that episode they wanted to get the point across that Laura did write books, and now that I remember at the end of the episode she doesn't end up publishing the book. The narration says she did years later. Even still Laura didn't come up with this idea on her own.

01-04-2005, 03:13 AM	#7
Jack1000 Member Senior Member Join Date: Dec 05, 2001 Posts: 2,055	A Few Bloopers That Come To Mind: 1.) Laura in seperate episodes narrating how Albert became a doctor but in a later episode he died of lukemia. (or some blood disease) Albert was a complete fictional character who never existed in the books. 2.) In the football game ("Winoka Warriers episode") doesn't Albert throw a forward pass to win the game? Laura than narrates something like...."The record books show the first forward pass was thrown in 1881, but I know that I saw this happen in 1877 because I was there." Hard to believe. Albert was a fictional charactor, so what was this "football game that she saw?" 3.) The biggest (and funniest one) is when Adam and the pregnent woman are in that stagecoach accident. Mary, (who is blind) has to go and get help! Adam's legs are pinned under the coach and Mary says. "I'll leave the canteen here for you and Marge!" (LOL!) Adam couldn't move, how could he get to the canteen? 4.) In the episode with the fireworks explosion when all the characters are in Winoka, Laura says, "If I had a rememberence book, I would write down that this was the happiest day of my life. Not because of the fireworks, but because we were going home." Laura wouldn't have had a rememberence book to reflect on that time (at least not very well) because when she and Mary came to Walnut Grove, it was established that they couldn't read or write. (See, Episode 1, "Country Girls") Jack

02-07-2006, 10:06 PM	#12
Cashodeen Hi. Forum Star Join Date: Aug 30, 2001 Posts: 11,363	On today's TVLand episode, where the women revolt against property rights, Laura's narration at the end was cheesy and pretty much inaccruate. She said that her mother said women one day would have the right to vote, but she didn't think so. But women in Wyoming were allowed to vote in all elections in 1869. Miss Beatle even mentioned it seasons before. Technically a blooper, since one state allowed it.

06-29-2006, 11:06 AM	#13
Sterling Holobyte Harper House Senior Member Join Date: Nov 07, 2002 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,896	I don't know if this is a blooper, but I thought I would put it here anyway. In the Creeper episode, which I just saw today, I noticed that Nellie and Willie were sitting on the left side of the school(From Miss Beatle's perspective), right behind Laura and Mary(or in this case, Andy Garvey), instead of the right side where they always sit. Now, I realize that in that scene, Nellie was supposed to see that Laura and Andy are reading penny dreadfuls and not their MacGuffy's like they are supposed to be reading, and then she snitches on them. But couldn't she have seen that from across the aisle? That would have been a bit more plausible than moving them across the aisle when they never, ever sat before. ...Or have they? I seem to remember them(Nellie and Willie) always sitting on the right side of the room. But was there ever a time when they did sit on the other side, other than this episode?