A wonderful and unique episode in my opinion. Buddy Ebsen and Hope Summers make a great couple portraying a very realistic older married couple of over 30 years. Well established financially topped off with a Hog wallow farm. Here comes the middle aged viper widow in search of financial security and decides to land her scheming ways on gullible Ebsen. The Mrs. instincts are on go ahead as she automatically figures out what's going on. I just assumed this episode would probably end with Buddy discovering the viper's plans to use him in order to live the good life and run the Mrs' off or Ebsen finds the woman in an intimate position with another man. But i didn't see this one coming when Hope Summers literally torches the entire house just to prove her point at the expense of what her and her husband had worked hard for 5 years to achieve. My mouth dropped when she casually walked over to what appeared to be the only piece of furniture she salvaged, a few kitchen table chairs and some pots and pans and offering Matt and Chester some "hole beans". This is an episode you can show a 35-45 year old married couple that are having marital issues and are in need of some enlightening inspiration. Great non shoot em up episode.
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