Laura and Nellie butt heads when they engage in a series of dirty tricks over romantic interest, the handsome Almanzo Wilder.Laura and Nellie butt heads when they engage in a series of dirty tricks over romantic interest, the handsome Almanzo Wilder.Laura and Nellie butt heads when they engage in a series of dirty tricks over romantic interest, the handsome Almanzo Wilder.
- Mary Ingalls Kendall
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- Carrie Ingalls
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- Carrie Ingalls
- (as Lindsay Sidney Greenbush)
- Andrew 'Andy' Garvey
- (as Patrick Laborteaux)
- Albert Quinn Ingalls
- (as Matthew Laborteaux)
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- (uncredited)
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- (uncredited)
- Grace Ingalls
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaIn both the DVD Commentary and Season Six DVD interview, Alison Arngrim said the scene where Laura and Nellie get into the fight was filmed in a farmer's real pasture. She said when Melissa shoved the mud in her face, it was not acting, but Melissa's own idea. Alison said: "You really don't want to know what I swallowed that day."
- GoofsLaura is told by Ms. Wilder that there is no certain age one has to be to take the test for a teaching certificate. However, in Laura Ingalls Wilder: Part I (Season 7 Episode 1) Ms. Wilder is speaking with the superintendent of schools and he says the age one needs to be to take the teaching certificate exam is 16. Laura was the best student who was the closest to the required age of 16 so an exception was made as her 16th birthday was in two weeks and a substitute teacher was needed in another town.
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[Harriet and Nellie enter the Ingalls' house. Nellie is totally convered with mud, from head to tow, as a result of the brawl with Laura. Caroline bursts out laughing; Charles and Jonathan laugh too]
Harriet Oleson: [enraged] You think this is funny, do you? Ugh! Your Laura did this!
Caroline Ingalls: What?
Nellie Oleson: She attacked me! Tried to kill me!
Caroline Ingalls: Why?
Nellie Oleson: [lies] Because... I saw her and Almanzo Wilder kissing! And I told her I would tell.
Charles Ingalls: You... saw them... kissing?
Nellie Oleson: She's with him now! They rode off in his buckboard!
Charles Ingalls: [scowls] They... they rode off in a buckboard, huh?
Nellie Oleson: Toward his place!
Charles Ingalls: Jonathan, I need a ride.
[Charles and Jonathan walk out]
Caroline Ingalls: [worried] Charles, don't do anything in haste!
Charles Ingalls: Haste? Oh no Caroline, I'm not going to do anything in haste! I'm going to take all the time in the world while I beat Almanzo Wilder within an inch of his life!
For starters: Just a dozen episodes ago we saw the Ingalls parents send their daughter Mary away to study with the two recently-moved-in strangers, who'd turn out to be the notorious outlaws James Brothers. But in this one, Charles makes a big deal of how the other daughter, Laura, can be found in the Wilder home with Almanzo, making him use his fists.
It seems like they have provided the characters with flexible values, precautions and instincts depending on what story they were willing to push.
This one is good because it's not tragic or heavily moody like some previous ones, but quite well-pacad and fun overall, which I believe serves best the main aim of the series.
And significant also because it tells us what exactly has made Laura welcome Beth, the name shortened version of her middle name Elizabeth, in the first place - because in the following seasons one might get confused as to why it's only Almanzo Wilder who calls her so.
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