Humorous Little House on the Prairie Episodes
Just a list of the episodes I found (and still find) very funny to watch. These have me in stitches when/every time I watch them.
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- 1974–198350mTV-PG7.6 (324)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael LandonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertKezia doesn't believe in paying property taxes, and it isn't long before Mrs. Oleson decides to foreclose on the property and purchase it for herself as the family's vacation home. Nels objects to the purchase, knowing she had acquired it unfairly and that Kezia would have no place to go, but Mrs. Oleson responds by moving herself and Nellie and Willie to the lakeside property. Mrs. Oleson, in a show of pity, hires Kezia to be their servant and forces her to live in the shack. Laura, Albert and Andy watch from afar and are disgusted at how cruelly the three Olesons are treating their friend Kezia, and also aware that Mrs. Oleson used underhanded means to buy the property. One night, after hearing Caroline read a story about monsters, Albert comes up with an idea to concoct a monster to drive the Olesons off the property. Working with Kezia, the children set their plans in motion, but Mrs. Oleson, Nellie and Willie are too smart for any tricks and harden their resolve to stay on "their" property. Eventually, Laura, Andy and Albert bring out the heavy artillery: creating a Loch Ness monster out of paper maché. When they hatch their plans, Mrs. Oleson and her children are convinced that the (non-existant) monster poses a real threat to their safety and they beat it. Nels celebrates the success of Laura's plan with Kezia and the others, and it isn't long before Kezia's ownership in her property is restored ... with the promise she will pay her property taxes, no matter what she thinks.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertDivorce looms when Nels and his dog storm away from Harriet and the mercantile after the Olesons quarrel over the price of eggs. But the situation only gets more muddled when the townsfolk try to help them reconcile, prompting Harriet to pack her bags and causing some to wonder, a little wistfully, if Walnut Grove wouldn't be more peaceful if the volatile woman left town for good.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertTo save him from Farmer Parsons shotgun, Laura takes a cantankerous billy goat in trade for doing chores for Mrs. Parsons, names him Fred, and finds, much to her dismay, that mischievous Fred's constant companion is trouble.
- 1974–198350mTV-PG7.5 (312)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertJunior detectives Andy and Laura take tips from fictional sleuth Farnsdale Fremont of Scotland Yard to track down the mysterious Walnut Grove chicken thief, ruffling a few feathers of their own along the way.Funny to me in spots poor Charles trying to keep ahead of sleuths his daughter Laura and her best friend Andy Garvey in this. The worst was yet to come with the green paint all over his head and the minister saying he selected Psalms 23 some time before he saw Charles' hair - oh oh lol.
- DirectorMichael LandonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertHolding himself responsible for a farmer friend's death and unable to face the man's seven-months-pregnant widow, disheartened Doc Baker leaves his Walnut Grove practice in the hands of a self-absorbed Philadelphia physician and decides to raise corn.Though a serious episode, I selected this because of Katharine MacGregor's character - Mrs. Oleson being drunk on Dr. Logan's "secret recipe" and singing herself to falling backward in her chair lol.
- 1974–198350mTV-PG8.3 (360)TV EpisodeDirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertAdam & Luke Simms move to Walnut Grove. Luke falls in love with Nellie. Nellie likes him but he doesn't like to wear shoes and he wears overalls without a shirt over his long underwear, so Harriet thinks he is beneath her and demands that Nellie stop seeing them. Luke gets Mary to help him pick out a ring for Nellie's birthday and Nellie thinks Luke was playing with her affections. Nellie cries to Miss Beadle and Miss Beadle goes to Mr. Simms to tell him that she won't have that kind of treatment in her school. Mr. Simms explains the situation and Miss Beadle starts to fall in love with Adam Simms. Luke and Nellie decide that they are going to elope. They get married and go to the hotel. That is where Harriet, Nels, Adam, and Ms. Beadle find them. They take them back to the Justice of the Peace and have him un-marry Luke and Nellie, but while they are there, Adam Simms and Eva Beadle get married.Luke Simms - Nellie's new boyfriend - is really hilarous in spots: especially during suppertime at the Oleson's. You have to watch it if you're in the mood for funny episodes! lol.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertCharles Ingalls and Jonathan Garvey are trying to win a contract for a freight operation. So, it means they will be making good money but they will be on the road for usually two weeks at a time, and usually with only an overnight layover. Caroline feels that this new job is her rival. Jimmy Hill is Laura's friend. They go frogging together and Laura falls in the creek, and Jimmy pulls her out, and for the first time, we see Laura liking a boy because she is a girl. The next day, Laura decides to wear her hair down because it makes her look more grown up and she wears her Sunday pinafore over her school dress and her Sunday hair ribbons. Of course, this means she can't play games at recess. Samantha Higgins is a new girl at school and since she is wearing overalls, has her hair braided and is considered tomboyish, Jimmy Hill invites her to play ball with them. Laura considers her a rival.Very funny instances in this - both with Jonathan Garvey and Charles Ingalls (you have to see it) and with Laura's hurrying to "grow up" as it were. The only criticism I have is she makes reference to this time of her life when she's married to Almanzo but she gets the name of the boy wrong in this particular episode. Do the writers think we Little House fans are unintelligent? (If I find the episode, I'll either add it here or make a separate list). She calls him "Jeremy Dodds" in the later episode, but his name in this "Rivals" episode is Jimmy Hill!!!
- 1974–198350mTV-PG8.0 (315)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael LandonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertCaroline talks to Mary and Mary convinces Charles that he should not have to stay in Winoka if he is unhappy. So, the Ingalls decide they are going back to Walnut Grove. They invite Albert to go back with them. The children at the blind school give them a horseshoe to hang over their door and sing them home with the song about a horseshoe over the door. The Garveys and the Olsens go home, too.I chose this one because of the antics of drunkard/gambler Toby No who we will not see the last of after this one lol.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertWhile their fathers secretly trail them, young Albert Ingalls and Andy Garvey set off to prove their mettle as men by accepting a challenge to live by their wits during a week-long, overland walk from Walnut Grove to Sleepy Eye and back.To me, a lot of funny in this episode. The boys wanted to be treated like men: how old are they 11? lol. The fathers follow them on their journey unbeknownst to their sons, and the poor dads forgot to bring money and they end up not doing as well as their boys, unfortunately. It's both funny and not so funny in a way. Charles really is upset at his best friend Jonathan in this one "You owe me a hat" and "Shovels is by the door" he mocks his benefactor's words to Jonathan. I suppose a person shouldn't laugh, but one can't help seeing the hilarity in the tale.
- DirectorMichael LandonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertCharles and Jonathan are picking up a freight delivery for Mr. Olesen when they bump into Toby Noe, an old friend from Winoka. Charles convinces him to come visit them in Walnut Grove. Toby comes to visit. He goes to church with the Ingalls the next day and when he's greeting people at the door, Rev. Alden tells Charles they need to have a meeting to find someone who can play their new organ instead of Harriet. Toby can play, so he agrees to play that very morning. Unfortunately, he's a spirited player and Miss Amanda Cooper fusses at Rev. Alden for that 'un-church-like' music. Toby finds her spirited and it's love at first sight. He tries everything to make her like him. At the same time, Laura is trying with Albert's help to get Jason, a boy at school, to like her. Unfortunately, Laura and Toby both go to the annual barn dance alone, but they both end up with the partner they want.At last, the other Toby Noe episode! We see him again, this time hiding under a box trying to get away from the train manager who wants to be paid for Toby's sneaking a ride on his train! Charles takes him in, he eats him out of house and home, and Toby is in love with Amanda who has no use for drunks who don't work>lol. Lots of funny in this one if you like that sort of thing! (I am not finished adding episodes to this list, so if you happen to be reading, I hope to add more later on).
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertCharles and Almanzo both encounter unexpected obstacles when each challenges the other to find the fastest freight route between Walnut Grove and Sleepy Eye.So funny when Cavendish the old man calls Charles "Mr. Smart Brain" hahaha!
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsMichael LandonKaren GrassleMelissa GilbertCaroline Ingalls joins in protest with the rest of the Walnut Grove women to try to convince Charles and the other men to sign a petition addressing the injustice of a law that transfers a woman's property rights to her husband after marriage.There are snippets of hilarity in this episode - you just have to see for yourself. My favourite laugh out loud is the part where Charles is so desperate to get little Grace to stop crying that he offers her something to consume that he normally wouldn't think of giving her!