Little House on the Prairie : Little Lou

He was the midget trying to find work in Walnut Grove to support his mother and baby, but of course, Mrs. Oleson had to be discriminatory and throw a wrench in that. She refused to hire him at the Mercantile and threated the banker to close her account if he hired him as a teller. It would seem she should have learned her lesson long ago about discrimination, but always deemed it necessary to frown upon someone who didn't meet up to her "normal" standards.

I always thought she was at her most vicious in this episode. John Carter confronted her about her malicious views about Lou, but his gentle manner and soft spoken attitude wasn't enough to hammer home his point. She thought she got away with it until Lou rescued Nancy after she fell into that hole.

Yeah, she cries and begs for his forgiveness afterwards, but after all her experiences with knowing how wrong it was to fault people who aren't perfect, she should have known better. She'd practically bow and fawn over anybody who was rich like the first banker to move to town or that perfectly perfect "Mr.. Montague", but her haughty attitude towards people she felt were 'inferior', got annoying after awhile. Just a point.



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This was the first full episode of Little House I watched through. Back in the day, Little House came on Hallmark before M*A*S*H, so I thought I'd check out LH, and it did NOT disappoint.
John fills Charles' shoes nicely, and indeed Mrs. Oleson was at her nastiest.

Good point too. I wonder if Little Lou aired before or after the one with Nel's sister who was in the circus. Either way, she was a pretty nasty person most times.

no. Nell's sister was a Charles episode.

you didn't notice them dragging the blind children to the show and telling them to smile and pretend they are having fun???

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

They always have a character in every television show, and films, mostly a secondary character to be a bigot, snob, and all around spoiler, to gain sympathy from the audience to a under represented character, like in this case a dwarf. I think in actuality, a person might feel contempt perhaps for someone like this, but, they would never make threats to a banker. This was one of the first shows to go all PC, even before the word was invented, but, now almost every show on TV is this way.

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This was one of the first shows to go all PC

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Nice balancing act considering the TV series used the so-called "n-word."

'Huuutch!' - Starsky

I don't know if it was said other than this but I remember Solomon saying it. [Willis from Diff'rent strokes] They did refer to themselves as the enn word. negro was still okay in the 70's.

and now they use it like the 90's version of "Bro".



Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.